skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not familiar with the software, but generally, I get why he left to go do his own thing. I've made a few forks of a few projects over the years considering it.

I'm perpetually in the process of beating this dead horse, but FOSS would have so so many banging gold-standard user-facing apps if they enlisted the help of experienced UI or maybe UX designers and really worked to make them part of the community. To do their job right, they need to talk to the community to figure out what their needs are, and if maintainers shrug their shoulders while the few people who speak up are skeptically bikeshedding everything they say into oblivion, then we're also going to shrug our shoulders and walk away. That's what happened to me the several times I tried to contribute to various FOSS projects as a(n experienced, professional) designer rather than a(n experienced, professional, former) developer. Often, the response you get for merely intimating that something could work better if it was set up differently is like calling someone's kid ugly.

It would be like a team of civil engineers working on a restaurant design scoffing at an architect that specializes in restaurants offering to help make an effective kitchen layout. From the civil engineers' perspective, the architect's input is superfluous and would probably slow down progress. Meanwhile, everyone else that has to interact with that kitchen suffers.
I'm a little skeptical that Dual Channel at 551 kbps results in noticeably better quality than Joint Stereo at 328 kbps as opposed to just using more bits encoding redundant information. At least for most music - eg stuff that isn't intentionally playing around with different recorded tracks on left and right.
Yikes! Merged hither now. Thanks!
One doesn’t need arms and legs or any physical presence at all to do immense damage to society. Ransomware attacks cripple companies, hospitals, utilities, and governments on a regular basis. The US and Israel have demonstrated, in at least one instance, the ability to create computer viruses that can cause industrial hardware to physically destroy itself.

Our world has been so completely integrated with digital technology that if it were disrupted in a large scale fashion it could easily result in millions of deaths. No power, no internet, and people lose access to heating/cooling, clean water, hospitals can’t run, food production is disrupted, money can’t be accessed, medicine can’t be produced, communication is cut, shipping and transportation of what goods do exist grinds to a halt.

And that’s just in the world of malware, that doesn’t consider all the ways it could just inject enough discord into society that it doesn’t need to physically attack us, we will do it ourselves.
Also liked Fast.ai, although they sometimes use Fast libraries instead of PyTorch, it does focus mainly on PyTorch concepts.
There are dozens of us!!

I'm one of those dozens too, but sadly, "techies" are not that great at promoting the more open alternatives. Or even ad-blocking in general: just look at how hordes of HN users insist here that everyone who blocks ads is evil and how we have a moral obligation to watch advertising.
This is not accurate. Wiki has a pretty reasonable page on self driving cars here [1], but you can also look to what led Google to go for Waymo to begin with. [2]

Levandowski had already created a self driving motorcycle for a DARPA challenged in 2004. In 2008 Discovery contacted him for a show about it, but being unable to lend them the vehicle - he instead built a new self driving pizza delivery car for them. He asked Google if they wanted to participate in the show or get involved in self driving, but they were uninterested due to liability. After they show aired and went off without a hitch, they decided to get involved.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_self-driving_cars

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waymo#Pribot
I think the point was that the current transformer model paradigm will never be able to reach AGI, no matter how far you take it. It needs something fundamentally more to be able to do that. But maybe as you say, that something will be built on top of transformer technology.
German energy policy has made domestic heavy manufacturing uneconomic.
My understanding is that the AO system for GMT is going to pose quite a challenge. A big topic of ongoing research is dealing with “petaling” where the separate primary mirrors in phase due to the atmosphere.

For combining the projects, it does seem like that may be the only option funding wise, but it’s hard to imagine what the resulting observatory would look like. Maybe it would have to be a completely new design?
Are there really large solar PV installations that can’t curtail, continuously, all the way to zero? An MPPT ought to be able to operate arbitrarily far away from the maximum power point.

Or is there some other limitation that prevents this?
It was a vague dig at the propensity of ChatGPT, when asked to provide a list of facts, to interleave hallucinations and facts.
Related:

My encounter with Medley Interlisp - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34300806 - Jan 2023 (49 comments)

2022 Medley Interlisp Annual Report - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34100600 - Dec 2022 (11 comments)

Interlisp Online - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32621183 - Aug 2022 (9 comments)

Larry Masinter, the Medley Interlisp Project: Status and Plans - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25379238 - Dec 2020 (2 comments)

Interlisp project: Restore Interlisp-D to usability on modern OSes - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24075216 - Aug 2020 (24 comments)
Set periodic alarms on your watch or phone, 3-5 per day, same times every day. Every time it goes off, take a few minutes to look around you and try prove to yourself you're not dreaming. Note the stability and regularity of the world around you, and that where you are and what you're doing makes sense (hopefully).

The point is to establish a habit such that you end up repeating this habit even when you're dreaming. Often you won't realize you're dreaming when you do this while sleeping, but sometimes you will. This lucidity sometimes doesn't last long, but duration will get longer and frequency increases with practice.
> I’ll admit this article gave me some uncomfortable feelings over that fact.

Which part made you uncomfortable? Would it improve your comfort level if they started by cutting of your head?

> they at least need to provide multiple classes of Organ Donor

Places do have choices allowing donors to decide which organs, and you could make more specific wishes known in a personal directive. I'm not sure 'classes' makes sense though, as there's a lot of different variables that different people could think should be encoded in an organ donor class.
Google has still not recovered from the internal cultural disaster that was material design.
Yeah, I thought the same. I'm pleased to learn they just meant all killer no filler.
i bet it has interesting and insightful comments
Related ongoing thread:

The Revival of Medley/Interlisp - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38391112 - Nov 2023 (14 comments)
Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38379893
Some reasons to measure (2021)
Every Tom Dick and Harry has done that course and the collective inability of most to still understand ML suggests that the course isn’t great after all.
Keep in mind I ported a lot of glue code between Debian and MacOS ecosystems (and handling Apples interesting versions of CLI disk image mounting). When important people come into my office pissed they got misled by a sales clerk... I assure you no one is exaggerating the severity of the situation.

The fact is Win11 and MacOS share far more paradigms now (ignoring Win11 being almost unusable even on a PC)

And yes, ARM can be very nice when the graphics acceleration part also works. My point was one is going to have limited options from what they are used to on previous hardware (CAD, IDE, games, apps, etc.). The M1 and M3 cpubenchmark/passmark scores are respectable, if you luck out with a working port of your favorite program.

And yeah, I also sampled a GIGABYTE/AORUS RTX 3070 Laptop I booted up about 10 times this year, while it sucks in every metric I need (I rate it worse than an Asus EEE on build quality)... it is very quiet and the CUDA performance is respectable for a mobile demo unit (its only redeeming quality). Your friend may have a bad SSD brand cooking away, or its very possible something fell off (wish I was joking here).

BG3 is too scary for me to play, but it does look fun. =)
Photography, just like in the real world, but with lovingly-sculpted virtual worlds and (often) the ability to pose the actors in the scene as you wish. Dead End Thrills [0] is a master of this, both artistically and commercially, but much of his prior content seems to be down, which is a real shame.

[0]: https://deadendthrills.com/
Did your try using it?

Why? Some people prefer typed languages.
You can submit reference photo's to the site's webmaster! He's quite responsive to adding new bikes each year.
John Scalzi is a one (or three) hit wonder. The first three books of the "Old Man's War" series are the only books of his worth reading. Don't waste your time with Zoe's War, there isn't anything of substance in that book. The following books in the series just seem like Scalzi trying to milk the success of Old Man's War. There isn't anything new or interesting.
Don't remove the text from the icons. I have no idea what the proposed buttons do, and since the icons changed i can't even reference the bad design.

But i agree on the colors. It is just not nice to look at.
Thanks, big fan of your work too! :)
On the subject of nannies vs daycare, does the US have an equivalent of family-based daycare?[0] When I was a young kid, my brother and I spent six hours a week in family daycare, and it was much better than the big centres.

I don't remember hearing Americans talking about that style of childcare, and was wondering if it exists over there, because it's a good compromise between a nanny and a massive childcare centre. Maximum 7 kids at a time, 4 if they're under school age, usually looked after by a stay-at-home mum[1]. Ours were all nice.

[0] https://www.familydaycare.com.au/about

[1] I assume it's not always mums, but they make up the vast majority
Bosses thought they won the return-to-office wars, now facing legal battles
I would be able to speak to the allegedly “impractical” nature of Scheme if only I knew why Cisco hired Kent Dybvig, the principal developer of Chez Scheme.
I would also like to know why Beckman Coulter Life Sciences supported the development of Swish, an extension of Chez Scheme that provides Erlang-inspired message passing.

Gambit and Scheme have been used for health applications. Here's one paper on that subject, from 2013: https://ecem.ece.ubc.ca/~cpetersen/lambdanative_icfp13.pdf

I would mention the use of GNU Guile to build Guix, which has had considerable uptake. Guile has been used to build other Linux programs.

Admittedly, Scheme isn't widely used. But impractical? No!
Assuming they don't collude, that is.
The rabbit hole of why "mldr" (em length leader) is a thing vs. "hellip" (horizontal ellipsis) was pretty disappointing. I only decoded "mldr" and didn't find much in the way of an explanation for why both entities exist.

I assume there's some semantic reason in which each is appropriate. I don't know what it is and am curious though!
Overhead lines make great fiber bearers too... because people know to stay way away from them!
I once read that intelligence is compression (or similar). An abstract way of thinking about it, but if true, then AI is on the right track.
https://github.com/dmunozv04/iSponsorBlockTV might work
Jesus hallelujah. Two separate headlines simultaneously about horrendous human diseases on the brink of eradication. Please let it be true.
Coincidentally I was looking at the graphs on that site today. I think layoffs are slowing down, but the month between Thanksgiving and Christmas can be treacherous.
I think this opinion is unnecessarily cynical. The people who navigate to school tend to have one or two school per year. They learn the route by heart mostly. Schools are not interchangeable for the one attending them. On the other hand, I don't keep track of grocery stores, and I'm much more likely to look for them on a map (especially to plan where to stop by along the road). There are more likely explanations here than to immediately jumping to the cynical interpretation.
Moderator changed it :)
Did you program the Alto? It didn’t really have an OS — each app took over, like on a PC or Apple II.

You might be thinking of the Alto’s descendants, the D-Machines, like the Dandilion (Star) or the research machines the Dolphin and the ECL Dorado. Those machines ran complete environments on the bare iron (Smaltalk, Interlisp-D, and Cedar/Mesa) but those environments included full O/Ses.

The Smalltalk environment did initially run on the Alto, but Interlisp never did — too demanding.
> There is not any version of this issue that isn't a particularly morbid form of the trolley problem.

Do you believe withdrawing life support is murder? What about a doctor following a patients do-not-resuscitate order?

If an accident causes someone to be decapitated, is transplanting the heart from the headless corpse still murder? What if it wasn't an accident but a beheading; who committed the murder, the person that cut off the persons head, or the person that transplanted the heart (or was the victim murdered twice).
It is, in fact, extraordinarily difficult to format street names well, especially at ever-changing zoom levels. What would it look like if you look at the whole city with "all street names" enabled? If you can't actually show them all, how do you decide what streets to drop? What if there's a small but important street, or a street with a long name that doesn't fit? The edge cases are numerous.
>Scheme is an exotic sports car. Fast. Manual transmission. No radio.

>Emacs Lisp is a 1984 Subaru GL 4WD: "the car that's always in front of you."

>Common Lisp is Howl's Moving Castle.

Scheme is the intersection of all Lisps.

Common Lisp is the union of all Lisps.

https://wiki.c2.com/?NetworkExtensibleWindowSystem

https://www.donhopkins.com/home/catalog/lang/NeWS.html

>Basically, X and NeWS seem to form the right and left brain halves of windowing systems. X is basic, fast (or should be) and analytical, NeWS seems to be what you should be using if you want something more creative than boxes with chars and/or line drawings in them of a fairly fixed nature. Right now people seem to be responding to each on that atavistic level.

>X is a jeep wagoneer with all options including a tow ball if you can't fit it inside the cab, NeWS is a DeLorean turning magnificently on a stand in the main lobby of the Museum of Modern Art, the engine comes in kit form, diesel, gasoline, ethanol, any number of cylinders all available, actually the kit is just a big cube of steel, very high grade, and a textbook on modern engine design.

>The X11/NeWS merge might very well end up to be the "long-awaited" station wagon version of the DeLorean, with the jeep hanging off the back on a newly attached brushed stainless steel tow ball, just in case.

>-Barry Shein, Boston University, 6 Feb 1988, NeWS-makers@brillig.umd.edu
I think it's also worth looking at mikrotik. I run a HAP ac2 for travel which is small, has dual Wi-Fi radios, and enough power for good speeds on IPsec VPN. It also supports wireguard.

They also have a tiny, less powerful unit (mAP) that may fit with some travel use cases.
I’m unsure human intelligence is nondeterministic.
This wasn't obvious to me a while ago, but I've come around to it. To me the important thing is that it's not only compression, it's lossy compression.

Models (any kind) are basically an imperfect approximation of some system, and that definition is precisely what's identified here.

You can demonstrate it by assuming some sequential process that gets an "AI" like an LLM to generate as much content as it can[1], then train a new generation model on this content. Then use the new model to generate as much content as it can, train a third generation model, and so on.

LLM->generate->LLM'->generate'->LLM''->generate''->...->LLM'...'

Since each generation may not produce content with every possible token it has been trained on, it stands to probability that eventually some tokens, especially low probability tokens, will simply be left out of the generated content. The next model will therefore lose that token and it will never be part of the content it generates, and so on.

After enough generations of this process, you eventually end up with a model with a single, or no, tokens it can use to generate text.

The problem is that the models are trained on so much information that they're effectively models of the textual content of our civilization. If we hand off the reigns to these systems, they may work well for a while, and may even seem to be produce novel ideas (but which are secretly just old ideas in combinations we haven't seen before), but they'll also produce content which will inevitably be used to train later models. As the content these models produces starts to dominate the ratio of human-text:model-text, there will be less of a reason to preserve the human text and we'll end up with the scenario above.

Things may work well for a while, perhaps a long time, but even if we don't end up with models trained on one token, we will end up with fewer and fewer ideas-as-text represented within them. Civilization will stagnate, the singularity will not commence, and things will slowly regress.

Of course this all presumes research stops, and somehow LLMs become religion and we turn society over to them. Which of course isn't what's going to happen. Is it?
I dunno if safe drinking water is a great example. There are many success stories both of public and private provisioning.

It’s not rocket science. You need to:

1. Build, operate, and maintain wastewater treatment plants

2. Require everyone send their wastewater to a treatment plant

Vietnam has a neat loophole for 2. where if you simply generate too much wastewater for your zone’s plant to handle, you don’t have to send it to the plant. That’s more a policy decision with a side of administrative corruption that’s unrelated to who’s handling the infra.
"no place" is a bit much, don't you think? Global Warming is something to worry about, and EVs help, even if they're not perfect already.
> Bicycles don't have the minimum size problem GGP is talking about

Good point.

> Titanium is pretty much the perfect frame material[…]

Anecdotally -
I understand it’s tougher to work with at about every single step. I’ve seen too many cracked Ti bikes/parts to sign up, I think. I understand the lust though.
There is no progress there. The people saying these things are coming up with their plan (do nothing) and then generating a rationale to match. Humans have a great capacity to rationalize, they won't ever run out of excuses.
SR-71 and small? Are you sure?
It is overall better for society to block ads because ad-funded services have bad incentives, and so anything you can do to hurt the business model is a plus.

The specific act of not watching the ad is morally neutral, you can render content sent to your computer however you want or not at all.
> It does not overpay to use spacex (goes with lowest bidder between them an ULA)

If it was always going to the lowest bidder, SpaceX would beat ULA on price on most missions and ULA would likely no longer be viable. They make sure ULA wins enough contracts to remain viable, even if that costs more than giving them to SpaceX
Data Parallel Extensions for Python
Like in iCal format? You can get that here: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/9t07jqib63if4kecnd...
https://www.seeedstudio.com/Coral-USB-Accelerator-p-2899.htm...
That's like saying the cure for cancer is not getting cancer.
Hiring a virtual assistant a few years ago was one of my best ever decisions. She's worth every penny and I don’t even use her services as much as I ptobably could.
There are multiple issues with GitLab as a company. They pay their staff based on location and not the output of their work which is in direct contradiction of their values of "Results" and "Diversity, Inclusivity and Belonging".

And how the location factors are decided is not shared with the staff, just vague hand waving of industry averages. This again is again in contradiction with their "transparency" value.

I can point out a lot more things. They might be transparent, but are not above exploiting folks from weaker economies.
Also, it used to be that if you search "[street name] map" in Google Search a very helpful Google Maps image appears with the street nicely highlighted. At around the time of the Bard rollout they completely broke this functionality. Now it's returned only in a much inferior form not least because of the lack of street names. Some screenshots for comparison:

https://imgur.com/a/K4oAbZs
Show HN: Creating TodoMVC in Hyphen custom elements with ChatGPT
If language models and CNNs are already creating better compression algorithms than humans, aren't they then smarter than us?
Are you a national of a country currently at war and heavily sanctioned by almost every large economy in the world?
I don't particularly like the elision of street names myself, but is GPS on modern phones really often wrong? Perhaps it's more an issue in rural areas or super tightly packed areas like SF or New York? In LA, GPS is kind of crazily accurate, and other than routing choices that can seem strange, it seems to work perfectly.

Compasses on phones are definitely a crapshoot though.
These are quite common, and quite visible, in lower income neighborhoods in US cities.

Consider that anecdata at best, though.
The more you pay, the more valuable your data and attention becomes. You're paying for the privilege of segmenting yourself into the "has disposable income" market.
I don't know that I'd classify car engine production as 'heavy manufacturing'
"So far, AFAICT, the drive is to cut costs by saving the time the physician spends..."

In mental health a lot of providers don't even file on customer's insurance. Patient pays cash/charge and the patient is stuck with filing claims. Providers washed their hands of that dirty work.

During my last job (large firm large metropolitan city) employer subcontracted for covid testing erecting a large tent to handle 8 covid exams at once. Here's the procedure:

- you badge in; subcontractor used our hw/network.

- you them give them your name and DOB, which the PC already told them

- they write your name on specimen collection tube, and send you to bay X. The nurse at bay X sees you coming

- at the bay you are asked for your name and dob again. And you badge in again.

That level of duplication can only arise as a function of billing my then employer for extra non productive labor or fraud cya protection. Either way it's damn annoying.

At my last doc appointment I spent the first 20 mins answering THEIR BILLING questions: was my name xyz? Did my insurance change? Etc. No services have been rendered yet.

And despite all the IT for billing and PC displays displaying common sense health tips, there was no display of how long one would wait for the doc. It was a blind date: maybe they'd show; maybe you had better things to do.

In sum, whatever crappy IT health care has, it's to help them, not customers. God damn: they made the paper work hell they live in and, as I say, mental health care patients are stuck with the dirty work because they can't stand it anymore.

My wife spends 2hrs a week yelling at aetena. She's pretty sure they decline claims out of willful stupidity or nefarious greed. I would not be surprised to hear crappy AI involved.

I absolutely hate that business.

I was solicited multiple times for interviews by health insurance corps. I told them NFW. Their pay sucks. Their concept of quality improvement sucks. They suck.