skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They might need 4 separate alarm clocks in 3 different physical places in order to wake up on time every day

I don't know if I have ADHD, but I've always been terrible at getting out of bed.

It bugged me so much I ended up building an app[0] to force me to get up. If I didn't get up and scan my toothpaste barcode within a few mins of my alarm, I'd have to pay $10.

It also has cheat detection so I can't just turn off the phone to avoid getting up. Alarms are stored in the cloud and lock 1 hour before going off so they can't be changed.

Many of my users tell me they have ADHD so it seems likely I fall somewhere on the spectrum.

[0] Nuj Alarm Clock - https://nuj.app
Right, but obviously you can see the unknown unknown problem or Dunning-Krueger popping up when software developers who don’t know everything (unlike me, of course) start using it extensively without knowing the ways in which their prompt engineering is flawed.
TeX and Metafont have version numbers that are approaching pi and e respectively, so the sensible way is to read these as decimals.
Wow, the Energiewende caused lower econic growth... Strong claims require strong evidence, especially if the come with specific numbers.
nah its like WiFi but lower frequency. "sound"
They just need him on speed dial for that, not physically present breathing down their necks.
I understand this is a jaded take, but it's not wrong.

Open source entered a bubble because companies started requiring active open source contributions to staff+ engineering requirements. The model was never sustainable. A select few contribute to open source out of sheer passion, but the majority are/were using it as a career advancement mechanism or network effect.

The result is that major companies were able to advance their technology and profits rapidly off of people's free work. The result is better products, services, and tooling for everyone, but let's not kid ourselves about who benefits most from open source: large companies.
> What is stopping the LLM from fooling me in every field that I don't know anything about?

What's stopping any source from doing this? In the case of encyclopedias or news websites, I guess you could say reputation. But that's hardly reliable either.

So I guess that's my big pushback in regards to correctness complaints:

1) "Official" sources have always lied, or at least bent the truth, or at least pushed their subjective viewpoint. It has always been the readers job to think critically and cross-reference. On this point, LLM don't fundementally change anything, they just bring this long-running tension closer to our attention.

2) "LLM are inaccurate". Ok, inaccurate compared to what? Academic journals (see the reproducibility crisis), encylopedias (they tend to be accurate by nature of leaving out contentious facts), journalists (big laugh from me)?

I think outright hallucinations are a valid concern to bring up, but I would refer to my point about cross-referencing. However, I'd still point out that oftentimes a person might have read a perfectly factually accurate encyclopedia article but remembered hallucinations via motivated reasoning. Is the end result (what the person thinks and remembers) really different between LLM and traditional sources? This seems like more of a human problem than a LLM problem.

Do we have any factual evidance showing that people learning via LLM+traditional methods are actually less informed than people who learn from traditional methods alone? Right now, there's a lot of fear mongering and charged rhetoric, and not a lot of facts and studies. The burden of proof needs to fall on the people who want to regulate and restrict access to these models.

Finally, what I think this is really about is the continued transfer from the "industrial age" to the "information age". 100 years ago, your average person wasn't expected or really even able to "do their own research", and instead relied on top-down elite driven institutions to disseminate their version of the information. De-industrialization, then the internet, then social media, and now LLM are cracking this (now) outdated social order, and our old elites are understandably threatened.

I think this is another reason why we need to make this debate more rigorous and fact based: are LLM actually dangerous or is this just an example of elite preference?
Where is the COGS mentioned?
My sister isn't a technical person and doesn't care for technical stuff. She dailies an Ivy Bridge HP Laptop with Ubuntu and Google Chrome for the past 10 years.

The issues she's encountered that I know of are:

- Couldn't install some specific printer drivers

- Couldn't interoperate with docx files that everyone else seems to expect

And that's it from what she's told me.
It's network effects, all the way down.

Watch people's commentary here when talking about the good and bad of various technologies.

There's no 'bad' tech, just tech with lots of users. Or the tech is good because you can hire for it. Because it has lots of users. Or it has a rich ecosystem, because it has lots of users.

Read the advice given by those who tell you to get to market first instead of polishing the tech.

We're the users of that tech which went to market unpolished and gathered all the users.
> However, DeepMind considers Sparrow a research-based, proof-of-concept model that is not ready to be deployed, said Geoffrey Irving, a safety researcher at DeepMind and lead author of the paper introducing Sparrow.

> “We have not deployed the system because we think that it has a lot of biases and flaws of other types,” said Irving. “I think the question is, how do you weigh the communication advantages — like communicating with humans — against the disadvantages?

Seems less speculative than a company with more resources, more know-how, more talent, more training data, more compute, more product experience, more anything, somehow unable to ship a competing product. But that seems the common conclusion people draw.
I believe it's called "frost heaving."
I’m a worried about my IP being stolen, to be honest. I don’t have much of a moat besides the software which is quite solid, I think
This has nothing to do with discrimination, per the FCC.

Crappy time to be alive in the USA, where a private business can be forced by the federal government to do something against their will.
Only genocide after October 7, though. Genocide against Israelis is just fine.
What fun links; it’s comforting to see whimsy is still alive and well online.
> arbitrary raids,

SWATing

> detentions,

Japanese in WW2

> economic shutdowns,

Furloughs, GFC

> stolen intellectual property,

Lots of it during the Industrial Revolution ( looms come to mind )

> slavery,

Let's not forget the slavery

> and genocide

You killed a lot of Indians, yes, yes.

The US and China are different countries, in different stages of development.
This is why everyone should pick up every phone call they possibly can, and engage with whoever is on the other end.

If spammers had to deal with 75% of their calls getting answered, they couldn't find the 0.001% of the population that's just itching to get new car insurance or have their credit card interest rate lowered.
Well, now I am mostly sad about the great density of human talent I have apparently missed out on.

In my experience, there is a wild amount of finding absolutely nothing wrong with what is clearly going wrong and me having to prompt some variation of "so... what were you planning to do about that thing?" for something to happen.
TeX version number asymptotically approaches pi... each new version has another digit, this also makes versions comparable. Clearly this is the better way....
Interesting, I never had any euphoria. I wonder if the 10mg xr isn't enough for me, but it makes my blood pressure spike so I can't try higher
If you wanna go down that road, compel them to build the infrastructure where it was promised. Or issue a fine for the amount they were given, plus interest.

We don't need to play silly "affirmative action" games to keep them accountable.
It seems like in every python discussion I hear people complain about the GIL.

I’m happy people are working on removing the GIL, but As a professional python dev for about 5 years now I have literally never had a problem where the GIL was a limiter. Although I just make web apps so maybe I’m not the target audience.
While there is some truth in what you are saying, you have a common misunderstanding of the situation. Part of the reason the GIL has proved so difficult to remove is that it is actually a good solution. In fact, there have been multiple largely successful attempts to remove it over time over the entire range of aggressiveness from CPython changes to writing an entire JIT stack (PyPy), but it has never gone in to CPython because it would either ruin all existing 3rd party libraries that used C (which is a lot of them), it would diminish performance for an already-slow language, or as in the case of PyPy, it isn't even a "patch" so much as a new project.

Especially when you consider this over the whole of Python's lifespan, which very, very firmly includes many years in which multicore was simply not a thing, followed by some years where it was a thing but it didn't work very well anyhow at the OS level so who cares what Python does with it.

It is not as if back when it was put it the choice was either to use a GIL or to correctly write a multithreaded interpreter and fix all the 3rd party libraries at the time for exactly the same cost. The latter option was orders of magnitude more expensive, and harder then than it is now, with better tooling and more collective developer experience. The choice of not using a GIL, rather than being some sort of nirvana that we could just be in if they hadn't chosen poorly 15 years ago, could well have killed the language. We don't really know. I do know that a programming language that just sort of breaks every so often when you use threads and there's absolutely nothing you can do about it from the Python level is not a very appealing proposition and it's hard to know how badly this could have hurt the language.

And Python of all the languages now has a well-justified fear of breaking everything and demanding that everyone upgrade.

So, to put this in a nutshell, if you believe the GIL is simply bad and should never have been an option, you have a very immature understanding of software engineering, especially in the light of being the leader of a very very large community who will be impacted by your decisions. It may not have been the only choice, but it was a good one, and regardless of what decision was made 15 years ago there would be some consequence to deal with now. No programming language community can be expected to get everything right in 2003 that the people of 2023 will want any more than we can expect any current programming language to be the perfect programming language of 2043 right this second.
The early versions did not use integers, for what it's worth.
They sure did and there were no strings attached to that money. That's not their fault.

This would be a bizarre and circuitous way to attempt the recover from that mistake.
You must have cheap electricity where you live...
And the FCC is completely correct in this, for two reasons:

1. ISPs have been given various money to roll out to those communities in many if not most cases. Currently, noncompliance is cheaper than doing what they said they'd do and were paid to do; and

2. The "rational" thing you point to allows racism by proxy. I mean, look up redlining. Systemic discrimination (of various kinds, not just race) gets more abstract but the end goals remain the same.

But really the FCC is trying to put a bandaid on a gaping wound: national ISPs shouldn't exist. The only good broadband is municipal broadband. Any "good" broadband we have now just isn't terrible yet and/or the provider has cherrypicked coverage in much the way you suggest, leaving many under-served communities.
Cynically, because there are motivations behind MV3 that aren't related to privacy or security. I don't think it's tin-foil-hatting to assume Google has an internal plan to deal with ad blockers.

There's plenty of security/privacy issues that remain after MV3. It's somewhat telling that onBeforeRequest()'s synchronous blocking was the first thing MV3 went after.
Is this pandering or do these business leaders truly honor and respect President Xi? By all accounts he is a dictator and many of China's governmental policies run contradictory to Western values and morals. This is not to assume that America is perfect, or without its own problems, but the basic principals of free speech, elections, and assembly in China are without question deplorable.
Fix the whole US copyright and trademark system with laws. Minimum $10k fine for abuse of the DMCA. Treat it like the FCC already treats people who fraudulently broadcast other stations call signs, for instance. Get rid of these absurdly long copyright terms disney bribed the government for in the late 90s.
This sounds like it's saying that ISPs aren't following existing universal access rules where it's not profitable, so those rules are being restructured to look at things through the lens of race and "disparate impact" to see if maybe that'll help?
Sadly I am in the UK. I guess I could certify it with the FCC anyway, but my aim was to sell locally initially.
It still bamboozles me that tech journalism is acting as the PR arm of the government and failing a basic "misleading name" test. I can't wait for them to do apologetic retrospectives on the Patriot Act informing me that mass surveillance is, in fact, patriotic.
My uncle doesn't know the law the way a lawyer knows it either, but that doesn't stop him from trying to use it like someone who does ;)

If the claim is only "LLMs don't work like humans" and "LLMs make a lot of factual and logical errors", then that seems to be correct as far as it goes, but it doesn't go very far.
Generally any assets available are seized so they’ll have to successfully hide them from the court.
AFAIK, there is no Python language specification, therefore implementation details of CPython IMO is the language.
True, I think it's fair that these hangars are a bit more expensive, given they're clearly more niche (so no huge production runs are happening) and given the extra thickness you can clearly see just looking at them.
You're comparing selling finite physical goods to selling literal numbers. That's how insane copyright is. In order to have any impact, they have to associate it with absolute nonsense terms like high seas piracy. They have to equate it with stealing, robbery and theft. Otherwise it's exposed as the utterly victimless crime it is. You're reproducing the propaganda of a trillion dollar industry with immense lobbying power, an industry that literally buys laws.
If broadband was a real marketplace, companies could step in and service areas ignored by Big Telecom even if they might be slightly less profitable than rich areas. But as I'm quite sure everyone here knows, it's not.

"Here in reality, U.S. broadband is […] a failed market, dominated by a handful of politically powerful regional mono/duopolies, who hoover up untold billions in taxpayer subsidies for networks they routinely fail to fully deploy. All protected by layers upon layers of state and federal corruption policymakers like to pretend doesn’t exist."
Freight transport using electricity? Trains. Followed by trucks from Renault, Volvo, Scania...
> it seems like the best move would be to have far fewer nukes than everybody thinks you do.

I don't believe that this is possible if even one nation has a moderately competent intelligence agency. They may not have all the details, but if they have any economic data at all, their analysts can likely napkin-math to within 10% of the actual number. Any actual espionage would just further refine it.

Hell, that's why there's fluoride in the drinking water... just so some Soviet spy couldn't figure out how many we had from fluoride numbers alone.
I like the neon sign comment. Emacs is beautiful because it is raw simple and powerful. In architecture this is called brutalism. A lisp serves it well because it is in some sense the most brutalist high level language. JS on the other hand is anything but. In comparison to lisp it is Y2K
> morally wrong

That's a wild one
That the US has the most powerful
Military force in history was mentioned on a radio program that just happened to be on in the car yesterday and it made me realize how far the US has fallen from its founding ideas of not having a standing army. But what can be done? If not the US, some other power will come in to fill the void.
> Emergence is simply repeating patterns observed in aggregates

It is precisely the failure of repeating patterns to scale up in aggregates, and a counter-intuitive simplification as a complex system scales up.

> There is nothing that "emerges" in the physical universe

Here's one example: a tornado -- highly unpredictable, one moment we have one set of meteorological conditions, suddenly there is another, drastically different set of measurable conditions.

Please don't spew unsupported absolutes, especially trivially countered ones, this isn't the place for it.
> Expect to pay something around $2,500 to $5,000

Yeah, that's what's discouraging. For something that is effectively a hobby project, spending many thousands of dollars is too much of a risk, when you're not even sure people will buy the thing you created.
I want this for my HTPC, but cant justify the price. Happy to see other similar options mentioned here.
In businesses I've observed this behavior tends to surround dysfunctions in liability and understanding of liability organizationally and from business management.

If you make a purchasing decision, your ass is on the line when people ask why certain product/service isn't fulfilling some arbitrary business need. In theory, assuming the functionality is part of the advertised purchase, the liability of the thing you're paying for lies on that third party. You did your due diligence. If you chose some open source combination with in-house build, they're going to question why you didn't outsource some envisioned cheaper third party option (sometimes, this is a legitimate strategy, often from my experience it's not). So you default to big vendor big solution to protect yourself.

Apologies are made and blah blah, discussions about "what alternatives do/did we have" and you often end up landing on implementing some mixture of leveraging public domain software and in-house customization atop/leveraging it to solve the problem you were paying for. In the end, you end up doing what you probably knew was the correct path anyways: this vendor solution is questionable, it doesnt completely align with our business needs, and it's not going to get the actual need done. Conveying that to business leaders is often impossible though. So, to pass liability/responsibility and cover your ass with incompetent business leadership, you throw often thousands, tens, or hundreds of thousands away.

I've had this discussion so many times and sat in these meetings so many times it grows tiring. The fact is, sometimes a generic solution works for your business (Office for example is a pretty generic need and often aligns), often it really doesn't (some arbitrary more niche/custom thing you do? Maybe, good luck).
I'm from the EU, but once I switched to US-keyboard layouts everywhere, so many programming languages' syntactical choices suddenly made sense.
But those 3 google home smart displays are ugly, use watts of power and are spying on you.
No, you don’t. You do need it only if you want to pull 2.5gigs on one device.
I'm rooting for people like you to stick around and to be vocal about this. Not because I agree; in fact I couldn't disagree more. Having to deal with a person is annoying, error prone, and takes extra time. The electronic ordering systems are substantially faster to order, I can avoid the line, and all of the options available to me are quickly discoverable.

The best part is that most people tend to go towards the human ordering line if it is available so I can quickly get my stuff and leave in a fraction of the time. I don't understand why people wouldn't do the same, but until they catch on I am benefitting immensely.
I hear complaints about it a lot, and I've nearly been burned by that system myself. However, it protects the people in the chain from becoming homeless or obligated to a sale if their buyer/seller falls through for example.
The government is not allowed to mandate racial discrimination/affirmative action in the United States. There is fairly clear caselaw on this, including the recent decision prohibiting even remedial discrimination (i.e. affirmative action).

As for the subsidies, the way they work is, roughly, the government offers you a certain amount of money to build an area, and if you don't, they either give you an extension or fine you or take the money back or some mixture of the three. There's also been reverse auction type approaches, where the government takes bids for people to build out to an area and awards the subsidy to the lowest bidder. It's not like the government just cuts AT&T a $10 billion check and says go forth and build broadband where you see fit. If you have a problem with how the subsidies work, then redesign them.
Only if you change the license and you don't need to do that to charge for support, etc.
(11) Building a V8 engine out of plexiglass – part 1 [video]
see below - not an advocate for this, but in most states these are fairly mature competitive bid processes. $115m upfront payment and 20% royalty get you in the ballpark what a deal might look like.

https://www.cleveland.com/open/2023/04/texas-driller-offers-...
That what interconnected grids are there for... No need to stop an electricity grid at a border.
How is this sloppy engineering? And no of course there is no grand architect, orchestrating everything neatly form a central place of command, instead everything is an emergent process including the decisions made by the python team.

What are you even complaining about? What is your point?
ESLint-config-canonical: 1k rules ESLint rules
https://github.com/gajus/eslint-config-canonical

I will repost this every couple of years, as it now has been 8 years since I regularly update this config. For most projects, adopting this is going to be as simple as:

{
"extends": [
"canonical/auto"
]
}

and from that point magic happens. Everything that you do will be auto formatted, way more than what Prettier does (Prettier is also used as part of formatting).

The goal is to completely eliminate stylistic choices from the codebase by providing auto formatting for all of them, and also to prevent a ton of problematic code patterns.
Which country today can get you to build a conglomerate quickest?
If you were to start your first firm which would eventually become a conglomerate , which country would you start with ? The one which is least competitive & most rewarding
Who is paying? The buyer or the seller?
> The problem with Israeli-Hamas conflict isn't that the accurate information isn't available.

Yes, it is, because this...

> It is that too many people decided to side with either belligerent and are selectively accepting information.

... includes almost the entire American media and political establishment on the Israeli side, which keeps everything that isn't Israeli propaganda out of most formal information channels, and in other channels the only thing with enough juice to get through is Hamas-aligned propaganda.

> Because of the polarisation, you have to choose a lesser evil.

Nah, that's just the nature of the US electoral system. Partisan polarization is a distraction (well, its what makes the two choices substantially different, in contrast to the 1930s-1990s realignment period when political polarization was often quite high, but the salient divide was misaligned with the split between the major parties, so that the split was within each party rather than between the parties.)