skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah because the government already has an enormous power that no private entities have, the monopoly on violence. They have enough power.
Because it would accomplish nothing. What's the point? It's not more simple and there are no benefits WRT reliability.

"I think this would be a benefit, because first you don't need userspace developers dig into the gory details of dirent metadata durability"

This is what libraries are for, not syscalls.

The problem here is you're mixing up two unrelated concepts: Durability and atomicity.
There's more difference between 2 points and 3 points than between 5 points and 8.

If you're looking to fill an arbitrary bucket, relative size matters most.
Almost. Please read the section named "Deprecations and backward compatibility breaks" at the bottom of the post.
The better question is rather - are these prepend prompt instructions needed. Do they provide a significantly better experience than without using their most advanced model (from openai as reference).
That’s… nothing special. If you don’t have Git integration in your IDE, you already have to do something like `git mv` or a `git add` and `git rm`. Nothing has changed in this new hypothetical world.
What do you mean? If my problem is that I have a big mole or skin tag on my body, or my nose looks weird, then surgery absolutely solves my problem.
Both governments and corporations have generally made our lives better.

Both governments and corporations kill people (look up annual tobacco deaths, for just one fun example).
>there is only one other entity capable of developing an AGI before the US Government.

Microsoft?
Agreed, I feel like it's a hold over from when games were shorter and they had to add tedium to artificially lengthen the game, and since people were used to it they just never removed the tedium.
Sure they would. I've be interested in Mirage and I don't believe that developers should have SSH access to systems.

I could see the value in a debug port or something, though. But giving full remote code execution is total overkill.
For those interested in this approach to creation, highly recommend a journey back to musique concrète and continue forwards through all the genres and subcultures it has branched into today. Exploration of noise, atonal sound, and all the various realms of sound art and not-music is an ear opening, often missed, experience.
Children are awake 12 hours per day, a 90 minute movie used to fit on a CD-ROM, 8 700MB CD-ROMs times 365 is 2TB per year. Alexander the Great became king aged 20, he seemed trained enough by then, so that's 400TB, 4e14 bytes of data.

Pretty unconvinced by this argument, it mostly hinges on the video stream size.
> Maybe you mean the regulatory aspect, not the technical?

Both... but also neither. I meant mostly the marketing aspect. Or for a better word, prestige aspect. People really hate crypto as online cash. Examples:

1. Patreon has held a poll about what new features to add [0]. Crypto was the only feature the creators actively voted against. Note that for creators, crypto means one more way to receive money.

2. My anecdote: I was in a discord group where one member commissioned a short animation from another. They're from different countries and the commissioner couldn't use paypal (for some reason) however. I suggested USDT and explained how to convert it from/to fiat.

They ended up using international wire transfer (fee: ~$30).

3. Any HN thread when you mention crypto.

[0]: https://news.patreon.com/articles/the-first-ever-patreon-cre...
With what? 8.2? 7.0? 5.4?

you're going to get a mix of yes and no depending on what you're trying to do. lots of things have been deprecated over the years.
I always put salt in my coworkers unattended drinks for the same reasons. It's their fault, really.
I was giving the major FE frameworks an honest try until they all started to move to server components. Blackpill moment. “Wait a minute…rendering HTML on the server…I THINK I’VE DONE THIS BEFORE (with a lot less boilerplate insanity)”
what does it do? can you suggest a prompt? i will include it :D
Fascinating.

> Genera is your whole environment; it encompasses what you normally think of as an operating system as well as everything else - system commands and all other activities. From where you look at it, there is no "top-level" controller or exec.
The Ambassador Pattern
2 fps on my machine
Should've kept going.
Cool! Purpose built, trained in science related content.

As a US taxpayer and as a Libertarian, I approve of this project!
Ain't Nobody Here but Us Chickens (2019)
The design isn't crashing their browser, the implementation of the design is. You could argue that the design is simply not implementable with current technology to serve the widest array of users (this is doubtful), and possibly Stripe's marketing team made a judgement that they just didn't care about that - but you seem to be laying quite a lot at a designer's door there. I would guess that they are prioritising standing out to a niche audience of developers with expensive laptops over casting a wide net, which would be reasonable for this kind of campaign. Perhaps what you dislike is the marketing campaign and it's goals, rather than the nebulous "bad design" of the page?

And, for the record, I clicked the link because it was at the top of HN and I was bored. How did it get to the top of HN? because a lot of people saw it and thought it was cool. If they took a more utilitarian approach, would that have happened? I guess we just don't know.
You need much better testing. And probably that 20 line function needs better documentation and may even benefit from being further broken out. I hope that it at least is a function that is 'pure', in other words that it does not reference any globals.
Almost half of Californians speak a non-English language at home
At first I didn’t understand where to click to try, but then it clicked itself.
I started using PHP for work back in the PHP 4 days when I started my career.
As I grew in my abilities, appreciation for more advanced OOP concepts, and stricter typing, so did PHP, we kind of evolved together over the years. However, I'd be hard pressed to choose PHP for a green field project today.

I wonder if I'd have just started off immediately using something like Java if I would have been as effective? Early PHP's sloppiness (paired with early javascript) gave me a lot of flexibility and allowed me to learn things more deeply.
10-kGPT: Creating an investing tool and learning LLMs
On mobile so the links were squished and I opened each link individually...I appreciate saving "Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope" for last :)
ENRON.
I think it’s due to the big sweeping claim being made. Most people, even American conservatives, know that climate change is real and will make their lives worse. That doesn’t mean everyone is free to change the built environment around them to suit a lower-polluting lifestyle but that’s not the same as saying that they wouldn’t make other choices if they thought it was practical for them.
I argue: "I can't make jokes anymore" means "I want to make sexist and racist jokes"

You argue: "Well technically a dog whistle is only audible to dogs so that means that you're a dog"

?? ok.
How is "load versus capacity" calculated?
Growth loop that's turning Skool.com into a mammoth community platform
Okay here's my initial feedback:

- You probably should do the different projects as tabs on the bottom instead of full-height side buttons, especially on Android where the horizontal space is sparse, and make the text editor full-screen.

- The other UI elements OTOH are way too small on android.

- The BG/FG sliders can be interacted with even while invisible.

- On Android, sliding space left/right which moves text normally, doesn't work.

- If you don't run the abbreviations snippet, subsequent examples fail.

- When you touch to move text cursor position, for a frame, a selection flashes

- Automatic indentation and highlighting Lua keywords at least would be cool to have.

- In the sweep trails example, set T to less, otherwise it looks like it's lagging.
and they are pretty close in the list to tinder assistant :D
Tesla turns on 10k-node Nvidia H100 Cluster
Nvidia is powering a mega Tesla supercomputer powered by 10,000 H100 GPUs
there can be an assistant-maker assistant which has all these examples and then we have an almost infinite supply
No doubt Sam Altman thinks this is the case - which, perhaps, is the entire point.
'Sorry, I am British'

Are you trying to be funny mate?

Sorry, couldn't help it.
> is it that difficult to write that one-liner yourself?

Wait so its just the same model but different prompts?
Quitting your job is not an obvious thing for many people. There are so many assumptions for how somebody should quit their job that are baked in to people's minds. I should stay an extra few months for the bonus, I should wait until I have another job. Or you could just... quit.
Show HN: Plume a "Linktree for Startup Fundraising"
Early stage fundraising can often be a repetitive cycle between investors and startups. Cold emails should be short yet captivating, decks may or may not be included and the investor will definitely need more information and a meeting before making an investment.

Plume aims to be a single URL that can be included in cold emails and acts as a gateway to the inner workings of the startup. On a single, short page, startups can include their pitch, demo videos, links to prototypes, intro videos to team members and calendar links to schedule a meeting.

From the beginning, an investor can now make a more educated decision about whether to persue the investment in less time. Startups can reuse the link to dramatically reduce the amount of time and effort required when fundraising.

The linked prototype page aims to give a feel of what such a Plume page may look like including a pitch, short video and introduction to me - the creator. My aim is for you to leave with a better feeling and understanding of the startup so you can make a better informed decision if the idea is viable or not.

This is really MVP stage at the moment but if you're a startup interested in creating your own Plume page or an investor who would like to start receiving Plume profiles please sign up to be notified when we open the beta.

Thanks and happy hacking,
Ewan
I don't see any fundamental reason why they should use things made/done by private companies. And not so long ago a lot less of the things were made by other than private companies.

One can probably see almost everything as competition with certain colored glasses. With scarce resources you do need some way of allocating them of course. But there are many other ways of allocation. E.g. hospitals (at least in sane system) allocate by need or urgency for care. To get a seat in a bus a lane on the highway or food from a cafeteria or breadline you queue. In national elections the voting power is allocated vote-per-person. In state funded organizations employees are sometimes hired based on the employees needs.

From each according to their ability to each according to their need is just a way of allocating resources. And a very typical way of doing so among e.g. families and friends and volunteer run organizations.
No value. This is just another AI thingy. It's not real information. It can return something, but it doesn't know which things are real.
I agree, but there's another side of the coin that's perhaps best demonstrated by "Climate-friendly" burger patties. We'll do anything to roleplay that we care instead of the hard things.

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2023/9/8/23863100/tyson-c...

That said, I don't think responsibility falls on Shopify here. But I did find myself nodding along with them as I find myself scrolling Amazon for "deals" on things I don't even want!
It doesn't seem blocked, it says "Not enough data" when you select it.
> they are able to generate data if needed.

If they can generate data they should use that instead of piping it through a million-dollar lossy compressor.
If you figure 25 years per generation, then it looks like the first Bugs Bunny cartoons are older than an 8 year old's great grandparents. Only one more generation to go until copyright expires! Of course any version someone will actually be able to obtain will be retouched with a renewed date. So maybe one day their grandkids will be able to freely share a copy from a VHS.
Also runs smooth on macos (M2) in firefox
I'm sorry for your loss, but I have to say that your post made me smile. How awesome that you and your brother got to enjoy dad at 101 being able to nerd out with video and high end displays.
That's wild - what's that stupid "feature" called? Not heard of that one!

My car also thinks I'm too stupid not to drive on busy roads with lots of parked cars and often thinks I'm about to slam in to a parked car. Like, did anybody test it in the UK? Our roads are narrow and full of parked cars!
A new graphical installer for Nix on macOS
The Auth Deco Manifesto
1. It is not rare, you perfectly know about it, and did not mitigate. That is in itself critical

2. That story has been told for 2 years now

3. Regardless, this happened

Everything points towards proton is spending increasing amounts on marketing without being able to serve even basic functionality such as providing a mail client for the phone market – something is off.
What on earth? POSIX sh is far more annoying to deal with than Bash. The only reason anyone puts up with it is to target the lowest common denominator. Horrible advice.
Amusing -- thanks for that
Unik was just a build tool that utilized other projects like Rump, Mirage, IncludeOS, etc. It's now dead since Solo pivoted a very long time ago to service mesh/api gateways.

The GoRump port they use was from us and then we realized we needed to code our own from the ground up for many reasons so we wrote https://nanos.org (runs as a go unikernel in GCP).
How about direct air capture, is that also greenwashing? Shopify is simply waiting for the capture plants to go online:

https://news.shopify.com/shopify-purchases-more-direct-air-c...
I've heard that the culture of some workplaces can even encourage this, as there is training value for developing good habits (though I haven't been at an organization like this myself).

The idea is that users are trained and regularly reminded to always lock their computers when they step away for cybersecurity. So, if they forget, their computer is relatively harmlessly messed with (like with changing the desktop background).

The consequences are then trivial, in contrast to potentially severe if a person left their computer unlocked with unvetted people coming in and out of the office during an event, or if they left their laptop unattended in a public area.
Ayahuasca can be a huge boon for processing grief. Sometimes you are mentally over it, but it is indeed still stuck in the body. Psychedelics can help what you cognitively know to percolate through the body.
Having 500 MS Office files on the desktop should be the real fireable offence!
*Pokeymans
The way I think about it is that as programmers we build the process for the kitchen. The software is designed around commodifying the repetitive work for non-programmer domain experts.

In my experience this was building a process for data scientists (math PhDs) to train and deploy ML models, and currently chemical engineers to build and deploy process simulations.

Data scientists and chemical engineers will have to excuse my comparing their work to flipping burgers :)
Because, it's not your account.
> Having an office doesn't make a company real or less likely to execute on the project

Having real employees vs sham ones does imply a lot about a business, even if it isn't a perfect signal.
Was it ever confirmed whether GPT-4 is a Mixture of Experts or not?
We did that in my office one April Fools' Day. Switched the wireless receivers on the mice of two coworkers whose desks were across from each other. It was a funny moment but of course they figured it out quickly!
I don't think I said that
Oh; I thought this had to do with schools curtailing or even banning trading Pokemon cards and playing the Pokemon TCG for various reasons, some more arbitrary than others.
and then make them talk with each other - put them in recursion for unlimited content :D
Dusty is Rusty’s Boot Liqueur alter ego.
I quite like the new colors. Not the ones for the roads, but the softer greens etc are just much easier on the eyes
>It absolutely does not mean that they can't tell you you're not allowed to drive.

Triple negative sentence = 'it does mean that they can tell you you're allowed to drive'?
I can't help but feel films like that just exist to plant the seed; to help people get used to the idea. Just like the 300 different cop shows and films that follow the same script of "I don't need a lawyer", "Sure officer, I'd love to help", "Yes, please come in and root around all my belongings, no problem"

I do admit however I have a vast collection of tinfoil hats
Happens to me as well. Now I just ignore a knock on the door (or rather, most any sound) if it happens just once as I'm waking up. It has been a hallucination every time.

Bonus: If someone is at my door at some ungodly hour, they might leave me alone.

It's pretty remarkable how real it sounds though, complete with being in the distance - just enough to make you think it came from somewhere else in the house (usually the front door) - it definitely takes a deliberate act of will to totally ignore it.

Since another commenter has mentioned a knock on a window (distinctly different sound), I wonder whether our brains just contextualize this to whatever is plausible.
> [The Queen] granted her charter to their corporation named Governor and Company of Merchants of London trading into the East Indies.[15] For a period of fifteen years, the charter awarded the company a monopoly[26] on English trade with all countries east of the Cape of Good Hope and west of the Straits of Magellan.[27] Any traders there without a licence from the company were liable to forfeiture of their ships and cargo (half of which would go to the Crown and half to the company), as well as imprisonment at the "royal pleasure".[28]

Government granted monopoly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company
I actually don't think corporations want it. In fact I think MS wants OpenAI to dumb ChatGPT down.

AGI is a major existential threat to companies, I mean we could use AGI to completely replace Microsoft, you wouldn't need companies anymore. All the wealth and power is in jeopardy.

Maybe companies are secretly gunning for "getting the first AGI", but I bet there is plenty of oversight and corporate governance going on too.
there is a link to telegram bot in readme
PhD student bioengineers potato plant to detect gamma radiation
PHP is so great. And there are many libraries that go far beyond just websites. What I miss are sole good libraries for NLP - especially for more languages than English.
Or do I just don't know them?
That's not at all in their comment. Their comment even says if they get caught with the override on.

Filing a report would be interesting, although I'm not sure feasible it would be to track and intercept every vehicle filing a report. Not to mention, the habitual offenders will just use old cars without the tech, or bypass it.
Lies

"We chose Ariane in the early 2000's for a combination of reliability (it was the only launch vehicle that met NASA's requirements for launching a mission like Webb) and for the value it brought via our international partnership."

https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/about/faqs/faq.html#whyAriane5
If you had a system that was (a) oriented towards achieving some goal and (b) understood the world it was operating in, then allowing someone to "pull the plug" would interfere with it achieving the goal it was trying to optimize towards.

There has been some attempts at researching the question of how to design a intelligent system that is "corrigible" = willing to allow humans to change the goal it is set to optimize. This is unfortunately still an open question where no great solutions have been found that seem to be reliable when faced with a highly intelligent and capable AI system.

If you are interested in reading more, a few relevant search terms are "Off-switch game" and "corrigibility".
Dozens of millions of dead people is chump change to any empire.
I've been in this "industry" for near 25 years. I'm in the US (though not American), but in that time I've rarely worked with Americans on my direct or adjacent teams (they're definitely a minority in tech, and I've worked from 12-person startups, to 300K-person giants). I've even worked for some of the body-shop-outsourcers you've referenced and have been the one providing the outsourcing. I understand this is anecdotal, but I have never seen any outsourcing or offshoring contract that didn't cause the quality of a product or service to go to shit. Quality isn't even usually quantified and defined in most offshoring contracts (at least ones where I've worked). The amount of downright fraud involved in the providers, where for example, we were supposed to provide service X for 5 years, but really we've just told the customer we did, and now we're going to retroactively go back 5 years and adjust some engineer's timesheets, is both common and staggering.
I have entirely migrated of your service and switched to another provider. This is also the recommendation I will give everybody else.

It is really bad for an email provider not to be able to provide a reliable "send email" functionality – something you openly admit and are almost proud of not supporting.
I do not, I just have owned a lot of titanium frames and parts over the years and just read obsessively about the subject. :)
Wow it would have been neat to talk to the kind 102 year old person who is buying this kind of hardware. I'd love to know what he thought about the progress of technology and how he felt it had impacted society.
Your 101 year old father was out shooting on an Ursa 12K? What a guy.
>There's still no better training for programming than the equivalent of master/journeyman/apprentice.

This is inseparable from the fact that programming is still a domain dominated by white males from upper middle-class families (and immigrants from countries with functional, non-boondoggle professional training and/or demoscene). DEI as a rainbow-wash goes away when organic mentorship of black kids and young women happens en masse.
I think simple phrases like “I’m omitting some of the facts here, but…” are helpful.

You may be interested in Sam Harris’s book Lying (I’m not a huge Harris fan, but it’s a solid book).
A universal framework describing the scrambling of quantum information
High-energy 'sun goddess' particle opens possibilities for new physics
Autonomous excavator constructs a 6-meter-high dry-stone wall
AI safety is a glorified proxy for runaway late stage capitalism. Large Cooperations aren't really distinguishable from superhuman AGI. It is just more socially acceptable to blame AI for the problems and ignore the fact we already face them all.
Is BFCM a well known acronym? I get that it’s about Black Friday but can’t figure out the CM and don’t see it written out anywhere
Singapore to deter crypto investors with tactics like those used on smokers
That string provides the roads.
After 30 seconds of furious googling: https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-fortran
That is just infinitely worse than calling write() on a file handle like a regular application.

The hypervisor + OS + application model is stupid. The hypervisor and OS are duplicative. If you can rewrite the application (as is needed for a unikernel design) there is no reason to use a hypervisor in your stack at all. You should just be running a OS directly on the bare metal with no hypervisor at all.

The only reason to prefer a unikernel is because you wrongly believe that hypervisors are a security boundary. Everything else about them is strictly inferior to a standard application on OS model.
I always wonder what happened to that launch commander (?) of the initial A5 launch that blew up, anyone know?