skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with you on the general principle. That said, software is kind of an odd duck in that huge amounts of valuable code are just given away for free to whomever wants it. How much would you pay for a shell? A better ls command? A mailserver? All of those require considerable effort to create, and yet people have made wonderful implementations of each of those and said here ya go, have it, enjoy!

I can understand the skepticism against a paid font. There are some pretty grand ones available for free to anyone who'd like to use them. In this case, it was worth the premium to me to pay anyway. I don't think someone's automatically a cheapskate for thinking I'm nuts to buy a license.
Parent was talking about wages in general, your chart is for the federal minimum wage.
From that link:

>I could not find anything in the way of a source on when, or under what circumstances, Tasha McCauley joined the Board.

I would add, "or why she's on the board or why anyone thought she was qualified to be on the board".

At least with Helen Toner the intent was likely just to add a token AI Safety academic to pacify "concerned" Congressmen.

I am kind of curious how Adam D'Angelo voted. If he voted against removing Sam that would make this even more of a farce.
Hacking a GoPro to Record Raw
> Since the minor can still be prosecuted,

Exactly my point! That's why it's important not to have a "child porn" expemption in the law for minors. They must be prosecuted. And selective prosecution is wrong.
Just a heads up, the word is 'tenet' (funny enough, in commercial real estate there is the concept of a 'core tenant' though -- i.e. the largest retailer in a shopping center).
Too bad.

If you want to communicate that point to me, turn off epilepsy mode on your site. Perhaps my life will be worse for never knowing the point the author is making. Fine. My life is also, definitely better for not tolerating this kind of cancer.js. There are a lot of good articles out there I can read instead of this one that don’t try to punch me in the eyeballs.
I suggest updating the title to say "British Columbia". (I thought it might be Baja California.)
Build efficient and affordable public transportation first, and without worrying about getting pushed onto the tracks. Japanese never banned cars, and people are predominantly using public transport. Switzerland never banned cars, and it pollutes far less than US. Also they accomplished that without letting >30mph e-bikers blasting through sidewalks.

It is sad a lot of western progressive totally forget about how western civilization was built. And resorting to “macro “ control strategies that never really worked.
I guess LLM's don't have the social pressure to avoid admitting errors. And those sort of interactions aren't common in text so they don't learn them strongly.

Also ChatGPT is trained specifically to be helpful and subservient.
> The vice angle is that when inflation increases faster than wage work, people switch from a longer term wage, to selling what they can negotiate spot prices for to keep up with inflation

This sounds a bit confusing. Does an increase of inflation mean the rate of price changes goes from 2% to 4% p.a. or is it an increase of prices?
Then, what does it mean that inflation increases faster than wage work? I can only imagine that it means that prices increase faster than productivity. But even this doesn't necessarily imply inflation. For economists, inflation has a specific meaning that's slightly different than what people usually think (e.g. [0]).

> Wiemar was the complete destruction of a social fabric under reparations and inflation, and the vice businesses that sprung up as people switched from regular wages to survive caused the social reaction that produced the second world war.

Hyperinflation of the Weimar Repulic did not directly cause WWII. Hyperinflation was in the early 1920ies. The final rise of the NSDAP and the election of Hitler as chancellor is attributed more to the misery of the Great Depression beginning at the end of the end of the 1920ies. Although, one can also argue that the overall instability of the Weimar Republic helped this party in gaining votes.

[0] https://www.clevelandfed.org/publications/economic-commentar...
Title is a bit overblown for the actual epiphany which is more about the necessity of programmers having a robust mental model of a system to be able to maintain, let alone improve the system. I don't see anything particularly unique to software in this thesis, as complex physical systems also have the same characteristic.

I also think this is way off base:

> It means that the code base we create is not the true product of our work. The real product is the mental theory of that code base which

This is manifestly not the case. The value of computers is that you can write code once, and the computer can execute it repeatedly ad infinitum. As a programmer, your mental theory of the code base has value to its owners, but it's not the product. The code base is also not the product. The product is whatever output is created and consumed by the relevant stakeholders.
> When we hear or read a word, our brain quickly generates a set of predictions about what word might come next, based on the context of the sentence

Yes a big part of it is prediction but the brain also does something else which LLMs by themselves completely eschew. The human brain imagines in pictures, creates and uses abstractions to refine understanding, studies things and produces new knowledge. When human brains study the goal to understand is different than LLMs.
> The fact that MSFT didn’t have a board seat was unusual before this. Now it just makes MSFT look like fools.

It is a 501(c)(3) even if they had all of the board members Open AI, Inc can not be run for MSFT benefit or for profit. A sympathetic board member might have tipped MSFT off about the firing ahead of time though.
Who is Jill Stein? Why should I care if she lost her Instagram account?
Yes, he should have.
Depleted uranium is actually the less radiative byproduct after using a centrifuge to skim the U-235 isotope. It’s 50% denser than lead and used on tanks.

Dirty bombs are more likely the ultra radioactive by products of fission. They might not kill much but the radionucleotide spread can render a city center uninhabitable for centuries!
He makes it pretty clear that his frustration was due to the overall brittle nature of code (change the wrong thing and the whole system breaks), not simply the learning process.

Unfortunately brittleness is baked into virtually every computer system and development process: it's all essentially predicated on a series of finicky text files (source code, config files, etc.), none of which have any inherent, enforced relationship to each other except when seen through the lens of an IDE, compiler or interpreter. The system as a whole doesn't enforce meaningful constraints, and when it does you often have nothing more to go on than a cryptic error message.

Unfortunately that has been the nature of software development for the past 70+ years. Some developers are creative, willing, and talented enough to deal with this realm. But it's not for everybody.
I wonder if Altman, Brockman, and company will join Elon or whether they will just start a new company?
Did perovskites managed to solve the problem with usage of lead?
"Google is an advertising company that uses technology to corner and dominate the ad market."

Facebook is a scrapbooking company that uses technology. Uber is a taxi company that uses technology. Amazon is a flea market that uses technology.

It is an old and boring trope.
Yet they need massive investment from Microsoft to accomplish that?

> restoration

Wouldn’t that mean that over the longterm they will just be outcompeted by the profit seeking entities. It’s not like OpenAI is self sustainable (or even can be if they chose the non-profit way)
It will be very ironic when their new startup gets dragged down by regulations due to them not having an AI license that sama pushed heavily in congress.
Put another way, as seen on X: "The AI industry would like to thank the board of OpenAI for giving all of us a chance to catch up"
The government should move to China if this is what they like. Aren’t we meant to be a free and democratic society?
OP here (happy to see this on HN!) - if you're interested in our work in this area, I hosted a webinar earlier this week where we walked through a new constraint programming based system (utilizing CP-SAT) for Postgres index selection that we're starting to roll out in pganalyze:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlNQTtfjlnI

Compared to the initial version, this updated version is both more configurable, as well as has better handling of competing objectives in index selection (write overhead vs query performance).

If you want to give this a try, and have pganalyze set up / want to try it out, feel free to send me a message (email in profile).
1Password, Google One. I'd never pay for blogs or magazines...
Musk was fired as CEO of X/PayPal.
OK. I have a bunch of ring cameras and cannot get them connected to Amazon anymore. The person that sold the house didn't leave the packaging, and the Amazon app does not allow connection to the temp wifi; you must scan the QR code or enter the serial number? I've never been able to get them reconnected since the Hurricane last year.

Can I somehow use these with Frigate? Is there a way to root these Ring cameras and use them?

I never liked the idea of paying a service fee, nor having Amazon pull the videos into their free neighborhood watch program.

Any suggestions on using them now?
I've been using a 3270 typeface, but I like this better! It's like what the 3270 face would look like if it had higher resolution available.
Just for a minute, then, let's think like engineers and not Starman Jones. Granted it was a test flight: so what were the objectives of the flight, how man y of them did it achieve, and how many were not? Get beyond calling it a success or failure and talk about what worked and what didn't.

> the fuel was much easier to work with

This is a technical detail where I hard disagree. The oxidizer was liquid oxygen, so that's the same. The fuels were either RP-1 or hydrogen. Methane is somewhere in between those two in difficulty. kept at -180 °C, compared to -253 °C for hydrogen, and LOX is LOX. In the Saturn V, sloshing of the RP-1 led to the Pogo Effect, but that was solved[1]. Granted it didn't involve the maneuvers of the Starship first stage, but in some ways it was worse, because it happened during full thrust at the end of the boost stage, not after separation. You can read a lot more about NASA's experience with pogo at [2], but it's worth noting that it continued to crop up as late as Apollo 13, when the 2nd stage center engine shut down early as a result.

Yes, SpaceX is doing some things new, but the engineering experience is definitely something from the 50s and 60s.

1. https://www.nasa.gov/history/50-years-ago-solving-the-pogo-e...
Isn't that Sid Meyer's Alpha Centauri?
FWIW, most of the empty Vancouver Specials are just awaiting permits -- either for demolition, or for the construction which will replace them. (Developers don't want to pay now to clear land they won't be able to build on until later, so they wait until they're close to approval for higher density housing before they demolish SFHs.)
The “software as theory” idea is helpful - thanks OP. Right now I’m dealing with some devilishly difficult GPU code, and I now understand that I’ve been working to reverse engineer the authors’ theory from their code. With much effort, I achieved a gratifying epiphany, and the code suddenly became clear! (Perhaps I developed a theory related to but not identical to that of the original authors.) Fortunately, I have an enlightened manager, and he was patient with the “theory building” process. Software degrades to garbage when a series of successive developers apply changes to it without a cogent theory. The process is self-reinforcing; the more degraded it becomes, the harder it is to develop a useful and accurate theory.
Popcorn Time is "just an app" too.
> On the contrary, they are low voltage (12V), which makes them more dangerous (because you need higher amps to carry the same amount of energy). To make them safe, you can install inverters closer to the panel, to raise the voltage to 110 or 220, making them much much safer.

Lets check a random common panel.

https://www.solar-electric.com/rec-solar-rec400aa-pure-alpha...

Voc: 48.8 Volts

And the original post was talking about cheap installs, so you would string several together to put it on an inverter. You hit high voltages very quickly. Even just 4 panels and you're up to almost 200V at full sun. It's more typical to put 8-12 panels on a string. The voltages hit dangerous levels very quickly.
Jobs was a liability when he was fired and arguably without being fired would have never matured. Formative experience if there ever was one.
thanks for this, my maths is a bit weak and I last did this sort of calculations in 2008.

I got around -79dbm for a phone at 200km, now I think thats probably a bit high. Even so even -90dbm is certainly something thats workable with
She's a presidential candidate for the Green party. One of the most well known non-Democrat/Republican politicians in the US.
I would venture to say that it is a near certainty that those researchers who left Google originally to work for OpenAI are going to be wanting to head right back there.
How many words of "frienship" did i send to Microsoft because of this key ? Nothing was worse when playing a DOS game in Win 95 or 98 than to press this key and be thrown out of the game or worse, to lock the machine.
Going off on a big tangent, but Jiang Zemin had made several failed assassination attempts on Xi Jinping, but he was still able to die of old age.
> There is no mechanistic model behind AI doom scenarios. There is no expert logically proposing a specific extinction scenario.

You don't seem actually familiar with doomer talking points. The classic metaphor is that you might not be able to say how specifically Magnus Carlson will beat you at chess if you start the game with him down a pawn while nonetheless knowing he probably will. Predicting

The main way doomers think ASI might kill everyone is mostly via the medium of communicating with people and convincing them to do things, mostly seemingly harmless or sensible things.

It's also worth noting that doomers are not (normally) concerned about LLMs (at least, any in the pipeline), they're concerned about:

* the fact we don't know how to ensure any intelligence we construct actually shares our goals in a manner that will persist outside the training domain (this actually also applies to humans funnily enough, you can try instilling values into them with school or parenting but despite them sharing our mind design they still do unintended things...). And indeed, optimization processes (such as evolution) have produced optimization processes (such as human cultures) that don't share the original one's "goals" (hence the invention of contraception and almost every developed country having below replacement fertility).

* the fact that recent history has had the smartest creature (the humans) taking almost complete control of the biosphere with the less intelligent creatures living or dying on the whims of the smarter ones.
Are you not considering climate change?
Some states create salary thresholds. For example, Illinois law states they won't enforce non-competes for anyone making less that $75k or non-solicitation for anyone below $45k. However, companies are still protected by non-disclosure agreements for important trade secrets.
Ilya Sutskever – "To have dinner with Elon Musk" [video]
I think he perhaps means the difference between your 10 years of building an understanding vs writing the entire thing yourself?
Wait until someone realizes what Starlink with cameras could do.
So the launch goals are to explode.
I'd love to know how necessary the donations to the non-profit still are now that the commercial venture has picked up. But MSFT might want to re-think their OpenAI integration efforts at this point.
Kyutai is a French AI research lab that will make everything open source
This reminds me of the Calculator Construction Set story. I like its example of a builder (engineer) working with a curator (boss), and solving the problem with toolmaking.

Engineer was building a calculator app, and got a little tired of the boss constantly requesting changes to the UI. There was no "UI builder" on this system so the engineer had to go back and adjust everything by hand, each time. Back and forth they went. Frustrating.

"In a flash of inspiration," as the story goes, the engineer parameterized all the UI stuff (line widths, etc.) into drop-down menus, so boss could fiddle with it instead of bothering him. The UI came together quickly thereafter.

https://www.macfolklore.org/Calculator_Construction_Set.html
The supply of chips is limited by foundry capacity, starting a new fabless chip designer would do nothing to fix that bottleneck. A new chip designer would also not be releasing a competitive product for at least 5 years, even if done by the most talented and experienced engineering team of the generation (rather than by a career bullshitter like Altman).

This would most likely have been a pure grift play, finding some stupid money and using his position at OpenAI to convince them to invest in a doomed proposition.
You're right, I missed that in haste. I do think it's still worthwhile to consider the minimum wage since it applies direct upward pressure on other hourly wages, and the question is "how many Americans are effectively broke." The purchasing power of the absolute average American doesn't really answer that question with growing wealth inequality.
skemmy by name, skemmy by nature. A new town too far, poor fucking place.
Making humanity’s current lives worse to fund some theoretical future good (enriching himself in the process) is some highly impressive rationalisation work.
Default gender male not how this works in practice. Instead, you define an extra “invalid” value for almost every scalar type, so invalid would be 0, male 1 and female 2. Effectively this makes (almost) every scalar type nullable. It is surprisingly useful, though, and I definitely appreciate this tradeoff most of the time.

(Sometimes your domain type really does have a suitable natural default value, and you just make that the zero value.)
A producer, yes, but not the film's director.
Neil,

Berkeley Mono is plain gorgeous. I bought it after five minutes of looking at the trial. Everything made so much sense when I saw the inspirations you listed - Eurostile, OCR-B and DIN 1451 all have a special place in my heart.

But what's more, your site in its entirety is a work of art, in form and function. So many details, from the one-click newsletter signup when logged in to the plain-English license intros. It makes me want to build a site for myself again, something I haven't done in over a decade.

To my own surprise I've even signed up for the newsletter, something I haven't done anywhere for even longer.

Needlessly to say, I am a fan.
> There are some nuance around this

Sorry, no. There is no nuance around this. It should 100% be an error by default. Same with case fall through.

> Recommend using fixed width integer types instead?

Well yes, in a perfect world they would just remove non-fixed sizes from the language. But that's never going to happen. As an intermediate step they can at least specify the sized of types that are de facto fixed.

> Anyway, aclang-tidy check is enough to enforce this.

Sigh. Well it's good that I don't have to deal with this attitude in Rust at least!
Sounds like the author didn't ever really progress beyond the learning stage. When I was starting out, I also tried things like Codecademy and CS50, but wasn't really learning anything from those. University courses provided enough structure and incentive for me to get through all the topics. At first, I agree, it is challenging. My first language was C++ and then we switched to C. It's tough to understand what you're doing wrong at first.

Then, over time, you start to get the hang of things and can read the docs and debug your own problems decently enough.

Once you start working professionally, coding becomes the easy part. Your days will be filled with design discussions -- trying to figure out how to fit new features into your existing system that was already designed and built without those features in mind. That's the hard part. After you've figured out your new designs, coding is the easy part.
Well, for starters it won the best paper award at ACM Symposium on Theoretical Computing.

Can you elaborate on which particular part you consider to be “word salad” as opposed to just unfamiliar?
Of course they can only achieve their mission with funding from for profit corporations and their actions have possibly jeopardized that
Every technical thing you know is informed by your practice in an area. There's a lot of roles where you don't even have to think about which algorithm is implemented behind your favorite sort method. If you work in a role like that for 10 years, bubble sort becomes "which one was that again"?

Engineering is about solving valuable problems. Solving some of those problems requires obsessive control over (and selection of) specific sorting algorithms, many do not.

Edit: it's also worth bearing in mind that many of the people who discovered these algorithms are famous in part for having thought them up. If data structures and algorithms were so obvious, nobody would know who many of these people were.
> But the point is for anyone experiencing or interacting with these games today, Quake is Quake. Nobody remembers 1, 2 or 3 - it's just Quake.

Quake 3 was unquestionably the pinnacle, the real beginning of esports, and enormously influential on shooter design to this day.
Corporate legal entities should have a mandatory vote of no confidence clause that gives employees the ability to unseat executives if they have a supermajority of votes.

That would make things more equitable perhaps. It’d at least be interesting
> write full sentences about themselves and the things they care about.

This is from 2012, when social media had not yet taken over the world.
Now we're drowning in a sea of verbiage from people writing about themselves.
Coming 'ultrasonic' revolution could change wireless earbuds forever
Fired as the CEO of X twice, the last time right before it became PayPal.
Professional designers mostly cut their teeth on physical objects and physical objects almost never have sharp corners.

This then got driven into the ground with the "Fisher-Price GUI" that is the norm on mobile because you can't do anything with precision since you don't have a mouse.

I would actually really like to see a UI with just rectangles. Really. It's okay, designers. Take a deep breath and say: "GUIs aren't bound by the physical". BeOS and MacOS used to be very rectangular. Give us a nice nostaligia wave of fad design with rectangles, please.

Animations and drop shadows are another thing I'd like to see disappear.
wow, a lot of work was put into this. And they seem to be using their own api key.
This seems a pedantic point. In the “not legal” sense I agree since that seems part of a real coup. But it certainly was a “surprise ousting of the current leadership”, which I mean when I say coup.
I would guess that you can do a LOT with VLC and a little bit of scripting ?
I have no doubt that anti-Muslim/Arab and anti-Jewish sentiment influence a lot of peoples' views, but you seem to be taking the view in this thread that it's appropriate to assume that's the case the first time you hear of anyone's views, to speculate it's the case that "most" American teens are influenced by those lines of thinking for some reason.