skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's really just because the techniques we use now weren't developed then. I'd bet good money that a port of a modern spell checker would perform beautifully on an old 98 machine.

It's easy to confuse the bad performance of old software with the hardware it's on. But really a lot of the trouble is that the solutions we had to software problems back then are primitive and naive compared to the current state of the art. There's no reason that current software design practices can't massively improve older systems.

Hell, just try installing a modern Linux on an ancient PC, you'll see what I mean. Even considering that the hardware is physically slower, your experience is much, much closer to modern computing than 98 could ever hope to achieve.
Apple typically will be writing the protocols your product must talk.

While all other buyers just take your datasheet and have to implement whatever you have decided.
you clearly said "trade is positive sum" multiple times. you never qualified that only "some is" until now. pretty sure my comprehension is spot on.

and i'm not arguing anything. i'm asking a question. in which case, ironically, your reading comprehension missed that.
I don’t know where you got from my comments where trauma is good. I said quite clearly that trauma is terrible, actually?

What I did note is trauma exists, and trauma is nearly everywhere at some point unless someone goes through a lot of work protecting others from it. But also that it’s impossible to protect everyone from it all the time forever.

And that has costs that some have learned to bear better than others, and there are tools that can help if one is willing to engage with them.

It is possible to not be in pain, eventually.

That no one can be better after experiencing it depends a lot on what you mean by ‘better’. There are easier paths, of course.

A society without the people who can handle this won’t exist for long, so these
folks are important.

Society wise, I’ve known a lot of folks that society calls (justifiably, IMO) heros, and have had to trust my life to them and vice versa in situations that most people definitely, provably, can not handle. But that if not handled would cause far worse trauma to other innocent people.

And I’ve found the label appropriate. They and I have also experienced a lot of pain, and none are perfect.

I’ve held more dying men’s hands than anyone should have to. But it was important someone did it, and I was there. As to if that makes the trauma that got either of us there better, or worse, seems immaterial. It was. I feel honored to have been able to do it, and hope it provided them some peace.

I wish you and anyone else reading this the best of luck, regardless.
Where can you find those? I'm in the same situation as him, I've never heard of a 3d dataset better than objaverse XL.

Got a public dataset?
Someone arguing on the forums that EA cares too much about climate change supports your point, and someone arguing on the forums that EA doesn't care enough about climate change also supports your point? What exactly would they have to say to damage your point?
Isn't this being tracked by Check Point Research?

The guy who created the research firm is Gil Shwed. A jewish man born in Jerusalem.

This is not the type of commentary I expect from HN. Yikes.
> I hope the community really gets behind Snap or Flatpak

NO. No. No. No Snap. No flatpak. No rolling release distribution nightmares either. Standard LTS for me (with snap and flatpak disabled with an apt preferences file).
> LLMs seem capable of simulating human intuition, but not great at simulating real complex physics.

Diffusion models aren't LLMs (they may use something similar as their text encoder layer) and they simulate their training corpus, which usually isn't selected solely for physical fidelity, because that's not actually the single criteria for visual imagery outside of what is created by diffusion models.
Because the US got in bed with China because China was opposed to the Russians.

It's also why the US was down with Cambodia (they, together with China opposed Vietnam, who the US opposed because it decided to intervene in the losing side of a failed French colonial conflict.)
Because AI exists in the universe with outside forces and has the same risks as anything else for dissolution of its complex state ("life," if we are being generous): run out of energy (starve), extinction (Earth blows up) or dissassembly (i.e. a virus).

The biggest weakness of AI as a self-sustaining life form is the lack of resilience to something like a virus. Having something live forever is easy - reproduction and evolution are an answer to provide diversity and robustness to viruses. Like if COVID was 100% deadly it wouldn't have wiped out humanity because of natural immunity in some % of the population.

So if AI is to persist it would at least need to co-opt evolution as a survival strategy, or come up with something better.
Acoustic diffraction-resistant adaptive profile technology
Both profit and non-profit boards have members that have potential conflicts of interest all the time. So long as it’s not too egregious no one cares, especially not the IRS.
I don't think the board was big enough for starters. Of the folks on their, only one (Adam) had experience as a leader of a for profit venture. Helen probably lacks the leadership background to make any progress pushing her priorities.
"I've had a much worse time with hardware on windows than Linux these last couple of years."

And I want to emphasize and underline my point here that if Microsoft does just let Windows languish, we are going to gradually see this more and more every year. There won't be a big bang wakeup call. There will always be people who can say "But I haven't had a problem". What you won't be able to easily tell on the forums is that the ratios will slowly-but-surely shift, but again, with no big-bang wakeup.

I just bought a brand-new fully-AMD-based laptop for the family, stuck the latest Ubuntu on it, and almost everything works. The only thing that I've found that doesn't is that if I play a game and push it out the HDMI port, we get audio dropouts. It isn't everything on the HDMI port, we watched a lengthy YouTube video with no dropouts. But wifi, bluetooth, all the keyboard controls, battery, everything else I've seen is working.
> we have a right to know the details

We do. But not immediately.

> Indian gov can figure out they were wiretapped already

But not how. Given how shadily they’re behaving, I wouldn’t want to declassify sources and methods too hastily either. If the rewards from keeping those methods live outweigh the gains from disclosure, that’s a valid foreign policy call.

> but it was worth imposing the consequences of making the accusations public

From all accounts, it going public was an accident. Ottawa was forced by the media getting a whiff of it. Washington made grunts and groans when necessary.
The Wrong Kind of Readability
Excerpt:

In the Pragmatic Programmer, Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas tell us: “it’s critical that you write code that is readable and easy to reason about.” This seems uncontroversial; it is the rare point on which software engineers typically agree. Or do they?

In fact, developers disagree about what “readability” means. “Readability” can be given two contrary meanings that we will call imperative readability (or readability-i) and declarative-readability (or readability-d).
Did you know that import maps can be rendered client-side?
I can't see past the paywall, is it Grendel?
So how do retinal scans protect against Sybil attacks exactly?
Reflecting on 18 Years at Google
I don't get how effectiveness is a prerequisite. Be altruist, or not.

Sounds like ass-covering from people who are like 'I am ultimately rational and therefore must act with maximum effectiveness'. Ultimately rational as a perceived state within humans is a FEELING. You can take a bunch of ketamine and conclude that you possess that quality, and many people have done just that, some of 'em very wealthy and powerful.

Beats admitting the truth, I guess.
Your inability to understand the difference between a criminal trial and the other leadership practicing due diligence regarding claims of misconduct does not mean I'm "moving the goalposts". What I've suggested from the start is normal practice for any employee at a company accused of sexual misconduct–at least at companies that take ethical violations seriously. You think Apple wouldn't investigate something like this? Forget about it. Ostensibly, based on their complete lack of acknowledgement of such serious allegations that on their surface don't have reason to immediately reject as lacking credibility, this is not one of those organizations. Take it easy.
You can't get flops on a Hailo-8, they're fixed-point only. As much as these specialised inference chips are cool, we're a long way from just being able to drop them in where a GPU was. Not to mention the memory is hugely constrained. The Hailo chips I've worked with were all limited to 20MiB for the weights which is a squeeze even at 4-bit.
> There are 2 filesystems in Linux which are designed to deal with the weirdness of those devices

You forgot yaffs2 which was commonly used in the early days of android and runs on top of MTD
I wonder what Satya will say here; will the AI CEO position there just evaporate?
Can you define what you mean by denial and point to a specific example? You're still being hypothetical and vague with "you will be forced into denial" - I would flat out say that's obviously false.

Saying the risk of climate change wiping out humanity is less than the risk of nuclear war doing so is not climate denial.

It may be wrong, but it's not climate denial.
It is exciting to see Rust start to replace legacy C code in the Linux kernel. It is only the beginning, but everything seems to point to the start of a gradual migration.

Reading about Asahi Lina's experience doing GPU driver development was intriguing:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1577667445719912450.html

At $WORK we are converting a graphics processing application written in C to Rust and the experience has been similarly enlightening.

Learning Rust has been a process, but the dividends are real and exciting.
95 and prior were literally running on top of DOS. If you exited the Windows environment, you were left on a real DOS shell. 98 is when they changed to what you're describing, AFAIK
> even if such policy exists

Compare the number of journalists killed in combat for any past entire year globally, and journalists killed in the last 5 weeks in Gaza, the West Bank, and southern Lebanon.

Edit: I did mean "globally". Not compared to some single conflict. Compare to all journalists killed in combat, everywhere, for 2022, 2021, etc. As opposed to 6 weeks in small defined regions.
How do you know the "wokes" aren't the ones who were grinding for years?

I suspect OpenAI has an old guard that is disproportionately ideological about AI, and a much larger group of people who joined a rocket ship led by the guy who used to run YC.
> The U.S. co-producing nuclear submarines with Australia isn’t a military commitment?

I mean troop commitment. Will the US send a naval fleet to Australia if the latter is attacked?
What viewpoints would benefit the company that a woman can have that a man can't? I hear the talking point a lot, and it just doesn't make sense, unless it's a marketing firm or something.
Why do you use that instead of flake8, which also finds that?

(Not meant to be a pointed question; genuinely curious.)
> Hardware support

For this, you have to talk to the people you are buying your hardware from. They are getting your money, not linux. They are also supporting that hardware under Windows, not Microsoft. Tell them what your needs are, and vote with your wallet.

> codecs, media support

Funny; for years, I've been installing ffdshow (ffmpeg-based codecs) into Windows to have decent codec support in Windows; even today, many users still install VLC (or mpc, mpc-hc, mpv, mpv.net, or other clone) to get media playback without any issues.
Conflict of interest with what? The other board members? That's utterly irrelevant. Look up some big companies boards some day. You'll see.
"Preferred video quality" is set to HD720 by default, but you can change it to DASH and change "Preferred DASH video quality" to a higher rate.
You can't even represent `Json` in Python's type system because it would require a recursive type.

edit: I think this is actually a Python type annotation limitation but it's possible that's mypy, although I think in 99% of cases those are fine to conflate (I have used other Python type systems).
There is not enough actual news happening in the world to justify 24-hour news coverage. So the media has to make stuff up until they fill the time. But then once they do this, they're also somehow incapable of telling the difference between what they've made up and actual news.

And someone else's news is not necessarily my news. Horrible crimes happening on the other side of the country don't make it any more likely that there's going to be a horrible crime in my backyard. That's a local news story, but drives clicks and outrage, so now it's national/world news.
I wouldn't categorise Kafka as a database.
> - The locked-down proprietary Broadcom firmware

> - The quirky VideoCore GPU-based boot process (see first point)

I mention that regarding the Pi, but sometimes the opposite happens on other SBCs; there's some open / 'mainline' development that happens (usually community-driven), but at some point the manufacturer just stops caring about a board... and then it's crickets.

And you're left with hardware running outdated software or possibly someone's handcrafted distro that gets about 60% of the hardware working (hope it's the parts you need!).
As I alluded to, it’s their opinion, not mine. I don’t fully understand the differences myself. But they’re very passionate about this.
A few more:

https://github.com/modern-fortran/neural-fortran (disclaimer, I originally created this one)

https://github.com/BerkeleyLab/inference-engine

https://git.exeter.ac.uk/hepplestone/athena
Cult of personality and connection to the 1% of 1% given our tech fueled economy skews worker motives.

If you had such a chance to sit around while everyone else grew your potatoes, you would.
Mix this with yesterday's matmul approximation (maddness) in HW for a casual... three orders of magnitude speed increase?
Hah! It's self-documenting!

Nah, in a more serious note, to properly compare the impact of minification, I should remove the comments from the unminified (maxified?) version first. :)
Surprise: all languages have types.

Superior to TypeScript is neither a high bar, nor is this any kind of objective metric. I don't know why sum types are a blessing, also I don't know why pattern matching makes anything better.

I can name a lot of problems with Python, and I'm sure that libraries isn't the only one. For example, for no reason, Python has multiple unrelated mechanisms to manage program state (object, clojures, context managers). Or, here's another one: it has multiple public API for dealing with filesystem (i.e. os.path and pathlib), both of which are all sorts of bad, but just the fact that it has two, where one would do is bad.

It's not possible to make static typing ineffective. Static typing is a given, it happens in the virtue of you having a program. You may argue that it doesn't exist if unobserved in the same way how a tree that falls in the forest doesn't really fall if unnoticed. But, really, it's there, and it's there in every language. You cannot make it ineffective. It's like making centimeters ineffective -- I would struggle to imagine what that may possibly mean.
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Inflection: the no-drama AI company :D

Pi is great for a "personal" chat. I can't wait to use it with the new model.
There's another paper replacing attention with FF networks so just combine the two and you've got something.
Graham doesn't say Altman is smart. He says he's driven. They're not the same thing.

Quite frankly, every time I read one of Altman's essays I am seriously underwhelmed as far as smartness goes.
Today it comes across like somebody is holding a gun to your head (climate change and the even worse political problem it entails) and they are worried your shoes are untied.
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Enough of the the community is behind Flatpak that it's possible to run an immutable distro and get most of your apps as flatpaks without much trouble.

Snap is terrible; there is no reason to consider it. Mostly because there is only one app store allowed and it's really slow to launch apps.
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What do you think of this project? I will be glad if you contribute and star. Do you also have any suggestions?
Dynamic Typing is absolutely a feature of languages. Static Typing is, as well.

I was not confused by using these terms. I cannot imagine many people on HN were either.
The interested normie's guide to OpenAI drama
I was hoping to see "Best Practices for Time Travelers (2043)"
> His behaviour before this incident set this up for failure too, it’s a long built up pattern where Canada is losing its position as a diplomatic power player

I think the situation isn't as bad as it seems from the inside.

In defense of Trudeau: ask a number of people outside Canada to name any Canadian Prime Ministers, and I bet most of them will readily be able to name only Trudeau. I just looked at the Wikipedia list and I only recognized four names, one of them because I knew Justin Trudeau's dad had once been Prime Minister, and one of them because Nardwuar embarrassed him once. What I'm saying is, I don't think there's some golden age of Canadian global influence that Justin Trudeau has caused you to fall from, and if that's your measure, he's actually not doing too bad.

Regards,

Justin Trudeau
Nothing to write home about in 2024:

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> Pakistan alliance was a mistake, we should atone and cozy up to India

We shouldn’t be cozying up to anyone for the sake of it. And we should think twice about what we do with a state blundering its way into the extrajudicial killing club on our own soil.
EU Parliament adopts Right to Repair law with broad support
> Effective altruisme is a smoke screen term to make legislators and the public believe that tech companies have humanities best imterest at heart.

I think it's a smoke screen term to convince wealthy people they have humanity's best interest at heart—pretty trivially. I find it impossible to believe that anyone else believes this.
I wonder how much mail the example.com domain gets!
> But its roughly the same as single intercontinental business class flight.

And most people (even in first world countries) never go on a single one of those in their lives. Even most businesses never purchase one.
congratulations, you've just discovered the theory of computation
I would definitely disagree and I think you can look squarely at appliances like "Smart" TVs as an example of a more obvious future with the commoditization. It'll basically turn into fast-fashion. Drop a new console with the latest features and OS, stop supporting it, move on to the next one. Etc.

Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo have done in my opinion a great job in the gaming sphere by producing pretty good quality consoles at affordable prices. Certainly there is room for improvement, but this continued assault seeking to "commoditize" everything from iOS to Playstation just ensures that it turns to shit.

Commoditization isn't a moral good, neither is open-source.
Director Carl Erik Rinsch purportedly to make a movie about artificial humans. The article implies he has flaked out.
HN gets…weird…when it comes to India.

> 180 degree reversal

Got it, we should ditch India and give weapons to China.
I quite liked Pi to be honest, it was good to use as a journaling tool and to talk through life and issues when i used it. I just feel sometimes it's slightly generic with it's answers, but then all the LLM's have been when i have used them for this purpose.

It felt like a more personal AI, rather than using it to try and code or solve problems, it worked well as kinda a personal guide to talk through life with.

Maybe ChatGPT could be good at this with the right prompt and creating a GPT for it, but I am currently on the waitlist for ChatGPT plus and Pi is free, so a bump in performance might still be welcome.
I literally said it supports exhaustive pattern matching which adds a level of safety and flexibility superior to that of type script.

Many IDEs have real time type checking that highlights the errors so don't even have to run the external checker.

Even if you don't use IDEs running the type checker is measured in seconds. Not far off from linters that most people will also use for TS.

What you say about the libraries is true though. But you can always place a type "shell" around those libraries such that your code is type safe.

The other main problem with the libraries in python is that a lot of people who use python are data scientists who haven't figured out why types are so great. Those guys are the main ones holding the libraries back.
Define falling out. Also, what's India's track record of assassinations beyond Modi?

I think the cardinal sin here is not trying to extradite the person, or asking the host country for permission or assistance via some backchannel.
Honesty I don’t know what causes it. Driving assist stuff is great.

My Hyundai actually has great lane keep assist, emergency braking, cross traffic alert and braking, plus radar cruise. It will disengage lane keep and radar cruise if you don’t put your hands back on the wheel after alerts.

Maybe it’s because many buyers are younger? Or Tesla appears to be more techy and futuristic? Or maybe it is the weird approach to marketing musk is doing. It is a bit reckless imo.

I don’t really care if someone dies being an idiot and ignoring warnings. I do care if they slam into another driver that has no choice but to share the road with a Tesla.
> What are you...so we should stop...?

No. I'm not interested in arguing about the article's law. (Which sounds nice in theory - but may have loopholes a blind elephant could wander through, or other "but only in theory" defects. IANAL.)

Partly, I am mocking the "water from recently-noticed puddle is discovered to be wet" narrow-mindedness of the WP's story. Partly I'm laughing at the hypocrisies of the Democratic party. And partly I'm hinting that both public discussions and laws about such things should be more broadly framed. If it reached sufficient scale and severity, then discrimination by DC Comics fans against Marvel Comics fans would become a serious social problem, and whac-a-mole legislation is simply a poor approach.
Fair enough. All node_modules I've worked with this far has been huge. Including everything is definitely not an option.