skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's say I bought an iPhone SE for 500.00$ with tax, and the current value is 300.00 and you can only lend up to 300.00$.

Suppose I failed to pay from the 1st-month statement, disappeared or something, you can hold the value of 300.00$ or less, if you find a buyer, you are still spending time and energy in the entire process which does not make sense to me.
Maybe more of a niche audience given its from SREcon, but this talk by Liz Rice is a good intro for eBPF as well if you're more of a video person - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbkiQhokBBo
Evernote is a note taking application, that was pretty popular. As a company supporting a basic app as a <10 person shop pulling in a couple $M a year, itd be very successful. I never understood how it was a VC funded app in the first place, it never needed to hyperscale.
The nucleus is also considered a potential candidate for endosymbiosis [1] and I'd really love to see some actual evidence for your claims at some point instead of just vague handwaving

(1) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4571569
You can export them in bulk from the website. It is quite painless.
I am informed speculating, they are using it's own internal approach.

Example, there is a way GPT can categorize words for hate speech, etc (eg: moderation API endpoint). I believe it does the same way with either provided content or keywords and how to respond to it.
Yep, at least in my eyes you'll never be able to "solve" self driving without solving the G in AGI. You require a world model for predictions in order to have enough time to avoid many bad outcomes. Avoiding an empty soda can and avoiding a brick are similar problems, but one can easily lead to critical failures if you miss it.
You are right, it’s sometimes called zero shot chain of thought, but it’s a way of getting the type of thing you are describing to happen. The LLMs somehow process things in a perceived step by step to get a much improved answer. Whether the external loop or an llm imposed internal loop, does it matter? Are our own minds looping or just adding tokens?
100% - I would have taken a simple "This isn't working out for us. We appreciate your efforts. Today will be your last day." over all this.

For insult on injury, they declined severance "as we do not offer severance for performance-related termination", after acknowledging that it had been shown that my manager had done nothing to actually assess my performance in the PIP (I suppose their claim will be that the performance issues led to the PIP).
I'd add Fiasco to that list for the same reason.
What you said gets repeated many times.

Fact is that AMD was caught out of the initial AI race and is catching up. Lisa has said over and over again that she is committed to it.
Show HN: Why an Open Source JSON-LD Database
We are pleased to launch a public preview of an open source JSON-LD database which combines the simplicity of a document db with the analytical power of semantic graph. We hope it is approachable for most any developer while having the capabilities, when needed, for data interoperability, embedded cell-level security (ReBAC style), rich shape/schema restrictions, data provenance (time travel), and fact inferencing.

Why did our team at Fluree build this? Data is increasingly critical for great decision making, AI, and more. The way we typically store and manage data, mainly as an application state store, makes it challenging to leverage data strategically. The popular approaches to leveraging data outside of an app are difficult to scale and have limited effectiveness (e.g. copy/paste of stale, un-permissioned data into a lake/ warehouse, custom python scripts for feature enrichment, ETL tools).

We believe a shift in view for data management from application-centric to data-centric can address the root issue and reduce the needs of the additional layers. If all data was semantically interoperable (composable), available in a network where data was current, and data has more native capabilities around security and inferencing, we can address the foundational challenges – and is what we set out to build.

Semantically interoperable data is not a new thing, semantic web/knowledge graph users enjoy many great database products, but the focus has been analytics and inferencing, and often run on a laptop or isolated server for an analyst – plus, they are considered to have a steep learning curve. Having a platform that is optimized for operational data and minimizing the learning curve, while retaining the power, are the largest obstacles we had to overcome.

Beyond semantics, data that can be dynamically shared and collaborated on in a network is where we think real data leverage emerges, but data owners need programmatic policy control to agree to participate. Controlling time also becomes critical, as reproducing results across a federated network is impossible without it. We built programmability into the data layer to address all of these needs, and shift our thinking from a “database” being a mutable thing, to an immutable thing - where every update to a database creates a new immutable database, much like every “git” commit creates a new immutable version of your source code.

We are still early on our journey, but would love any feedback, thoughts, help (we are open source). We hope our vision aligns with many and the product resonates. Feel free to register for an account on our cloud version, and reserve your data namespace in what we’d like to become a valuable and trusted data network.
> There is a lack of integrated, holistic social services that treat people as human beings, with respect, and with genuine concern without first assessing how much money they have or what their needs are.

Yep.

There are people who DO believe and do enact this level of caring, and as a whole our social systems don't.

Trickle down economics is as close as I've seen in my short life to all sides being "for", and that's horrifically insignificant.. justifying to oneself they do in fact care, and they don't need to do anything beyond make money while being in the USA. Close to our overt slavery economy, of hundreds of years ago, IMO.
Germany is in a fiscal mess of its own making
In the interest of appearing professional, I'm trying very hard not to but damn it's a real struggle.
Was a big fan of evernote since its inception. It was wonderful product and used it everyday for more than a decade. It had so much of my info that I even purchased their $41 plan. I see no value in spending $$ on this as there are newer and better alternatives available (notion). I switched all of my data to notion.
Sad to see this restriction.
I don't think you have a problem you need to solve on this directly. Be careful to present this as being a no nonsense professional who wants to solve the business problems that should be a mutual priority and make sure you show a little decorum (I.e. acknowledge things were said and that they are serious topics when appropriate) while redirecting conversations back on topic.

Most people will respect that and gain from a person who behaves that way even if they might resent staying on topic.
It really depends on your perspective and what you want out of a homelab. If you want to tinker with servers as a hobby it's a huge plus.

If you want things to Just Work, this is probably not for you
I think it's mostly a sentiment from people who don't travel--or don't really communicate with other timezones at all. I need to know that someone in Europe is about 5 or 6 hours ahead of me whether it's a timezone or an informal UTC offset. And if I'm traveling, while there are cultural differences between countries (e.g. later dinners in Spain), I know that the workday is something roughly 9-5 and dinner is roughly around 7pm.
The original patent holder, say Apple, is free to develop a product for their patent on their own.
OneNote would fit that bill. 5 GB cloud storage is free, or $20/year for 100 GB, or $70/year for 1 TB (Microsoft 365, which would also include Office).
That'll teach them! Show your contempt for the browser vendor who is staggering add-on support by switching to a browser with no add-on support.
> which resulted in the election of a President that threatened the Supreme Court until it relented and effectively rewrote the Constitution.

You're referring, of course, to the "conservative" Supreme Court majority that, in the mid-1930s, kept invalidating the emergency legislation enacted by FDR and a Democratic Congress to cope with the global disaster of the Great Depression, and to FDR's (ultimately-abortive) effort to pack the Court in response.

Dealing effectively with the Great Depression was evidently less important to the SCOTUS conservatives than was fidelity to a cramped interpretation of the Constitution and of the role of the federal government. That interpretation had hamstrung the Hoover government from dealing with the crisis; state governments weren't getting the job done either (and couldn't).

In 1930-32, Hoover and the GOP seemed to be fixated on conforming to that "conservative" view of the role of government. It got them tossed out of office on their asses and losing political power for decades.

In contrast, FDR and the Democrats took an expansive view of the role of government. They gave priority to trying to fix the problems affecting so many. Voters rewarded that thinking by keeping the Dems in power for decades.

One can conjecture that FDR's landslide victory in 1936 was because many people know comparatively little about "the Constitution." To many, "the law" is something for others to concern themselves with; what matters to them is whether the government is getting results, helping to mitigate people's problems while not interfering unduly in their lives. FDR recognized that; Hoover, the GOP, and the conservative SCOTUS majority seemed not to.

(In a similar vein: There's a piece in today's NY Times about how Hamas is gaining support in the West Bank because of releases of Palestinians held prisoner by the Israelis. [0] As my late dad used to say: If your rain dance doesn't produce rain, people aren't likely to care that you faithfully followed the prescribed dance steps — what they care about is results.)

Short-sighted thinking? Maybe. But it's a brute fact: Many, many people view the world in that way; they get to vote — or to take up arms ....

Doubtless you know the saying about the Supreme Court's collective change of heart in the late 1930s: "A switch in time saved Nine." That switch conceivably saved the country from revolution — possibly even of the kind that led to catastrophe for Germany in 1933, in Italy in 1922, and Russia in 1917.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/29/world/middleeast/west-ban...
This is some really beautiful prose
I think ChatGPT will eventually be good at the garble of weird text. It's immensely helpful already but you really must be checking up on what it is telling you. Plausible but non-existent or incorrectly used APIs are routine still. I definitely bet on it eventually getting there though.
>I need it to solve 10,000 micro problems I solve every day - each of which is a business opportunity for someone.

Because you have to solve 10,000 different problems. And a huge number of those problems are going to have significant overlap, but sharing lessons between them is going to be difficult unless you have a generalized algorithm.

Hence AGI is the trillion dollar question.
It does beg the cascading question too.

What if I create a search product that directs you to a site, based on information gleaned from another site?

Trivial example: a "Top 10 Topics in the News Today" list of Wikipedia links, based on scraping a news site's front page daily

On the one hand, "It's free info and scraping should be allowed." On the other hand, if everyone did that, it'd highjack all of the news site's visitors, depriving it of revenue and destroying the very resource it's built on.
Face to face interaction is still undeniably powerful, especially if persuasion is necessary. Even phone calls are more powerful than most people might realize. I wouldn't expect face to face meetings to ever really go away.
So my observation is that we could embody an AI so that it learns theory of mind-body--but then we could remove the body. This gives a theory of mindful entity that does not need a body to exist.

Then the next research step could be to study those properties so as to reconstruct/reproduce a theory of mind-body AI, without needing any embodiment process at all to obtain it. Is that, in principle, possible? It is unclear me.
In my experience, that's usually only because the people that inhabit the gang or the mafia are not themselves civilized.

Dueling, boxing, and so on used to be common among the upper crust. I still get into fights with some of my immigrant friends whenever we reach some total impasse on conflict. We're all civilized, educated, and generally good people. But violence always seems to be the quickest way towards a resolution to certain problems, where simple communication will not do.
I majored in flute performance in college, and have listened / played a lot of avante garde music. My roommate, a bass player, and I were really into it at the time. We once played Shoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire on a tape loop over and over for an entire week -- and emerged with our sanity mostly intact. (An interesting side fact is that now I can barely recall it.) I played Luciano Berio's Sequenza on my Sr. recital. In retrospect, I think I was mostly relishing playing the role of enfant terrible, playing weird music just to get a rise out of people.

These days I don't willingly listen to atonal music of the Shoenberg/Carter/Boulez variety. I have a variety of theories about why modern classical music tends to be rejected, but in the end, all I can really say is that I have a subjective response to, say, Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, that's entirely different from his Movements for Piano & Orchestra.
Spatial computing will change sports for ever
If Silicon Valley was still airing, Russ Hanneman would have one of these.
People that are comfortable with text-based forums may not realize the extent of illiteracy and semiliteracy in the US. Decades ago, a small company was able to convince most of the education system (public and sometimes private) to use a teaching method based on junk science. The end result is that there are many millions of adults in the current workforce who can barely read, and many of them work in office settings. Some of those would install anything that would help them through text-based communications.

[1]: "How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers" https://www.apmreports.org/episode/2019/08/22/whats-wrong-ho...

[2]: "Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong" https://features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/

[3]: "According to the U.S. Department of Education, 54% of U.S. adults lack proficiency in literacy, reading below the equivalent of a sixth-grade level" https://old.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/rqulik/til_t...
There are 3 versions of MI300.

X is pure gpu, A is more like an APU (cpu+gpu), C is pure cpu.
We need a two-tier schedule for businesses and institutions. Summer time and winter time. So, when authorities switch from CEST to CET or viceversa and clocks are adjusted an hour, schedules are inverted to leave things as they were according to the Sun.

So if after the switch you are supposed to start an hour earlier, you just start one hour later, thus starting at the same time according to the sun.

This might sound crazy but the craziness of making people switch clocks is evil and cruel
Driving early in the morning (when compared to equal-darkness in the evening) has the extra risk factor of frost and ice, which both obscures vision and reduces grip. Those factors definitely contribute to accidents.
Yeah, or you switch over to Linux Mint and get a snap-free Ubuntu-based distro.
I can't wait to point and laugh at the first one of these I see. Just horrendously ugly.
I didn't mean literally fix the underlying bug. They also don't really know why their workaround worked, which means it could not really be fixed at all.
What I want most in a note application is wiki like functionality where I can drop in wiki like links to other notes. A personal wiki that is cross-platform, the notes are encrypted, and has automatic syncing. I used to use one called Trunk Notes, but it folded years ago.
I wouldn't even know how to look for something unusual in a gif's source code but I also feel this is the most compelling part. I wish they'd uploaded it.
Not India specifically, but much of the world. I've learned over the years it's better to keep a much more limited web presence if you're sharing details about your personal life (for example, for the hotel people who would google their guests to determine if their room has anything of interest in it)
Somewhere, far away, the founders of the HBC are tearing up a little
I predict sooner, but that's cause it is what I'm working on now. ;-)
To more than 50 % of humans, the reason is that the people, who are warning about climate change and are advocating for changes in behavior, are not trustworthy.

Here's a bit: (When I say, engineers, I mean all kinds of engineers _and_ scientists.)

Engineers build products that require customers to fight for a fucking right to repair. Engineers build stuff based on dark patterns. Engineers put things into food that makes people sick and then tell stories about how the lifestyles of the past generations were bad for them. Engineers build companies that exploit people with and without a (higher) education. Engineers invented the volatile prices of oil and gas even though we constantly find new sources, soon, most likely even on other planets. Engineers are responsible for not taking care of the trash their companies used to produce, the trash that has polluted air, water and soil. Engineers don't go into politics to use logic, rationality, facts, THE TRUTH (I'm sorry for being so dramatic), to oust liars and manipulators in order to establish better policies and practices. Engineers work at huge consultancies and create strategies that stretch decades and amount to opiod epidemics and civil conflicts and financial scams that rob almost all the people on the entire planet of the added value they have created with their own hands, their sweat and their blood. We have no reason to believe them because if it was so damn important to them, they'd find the time and space to use their brains to actually do something about all the assholes that are in the way and I can't even say that without worrying that all these Engineers actually fucking think that we, the people who have build and grown EVERYTHING, are the one that are in the way. Because that's what they are leading us to believe and there are billions of people out there who would phraise everything I just said in millions of ways.

I know all the good things Engineers have done and are doing, and I'm trying to convince my father all the time, but the negative things stick because they make the few so much richer than the positive things that make the rest so much richer.
I love Drafts, only for mac and iOS however: https://getdrafts.com/

Pro version is reasonably priced although I haven't found a need to upgrade.
Does anyone know the origin of this company’s name?

‘Spoon bending’ of course is the fraudulent claim by people like Uri Geller that they have supernatural powers that enable them to bend spoons. Whereas they’re just performing a magic trick.

So I could see ‘Bending Spoons’ as a company name a bunch of ways. Either they admire Uri, or they’re mocking the nonsense. Or it’s unrelated.
The way you're using it when you worry about "super-intelligence" is in the sense of intelligence being some universal, unbounded, quantitative independent variable along the lines of "the more intelligent something is, the more cunningly it can pursue some rationalized goal" -- some master strategist.

I appreciate the highlighting of the term intelligence being ill-defined. Moreover, it's certainly true that "AI safety analysts" takes intelligence as a sort magic wand term and this seems to drive their arguments.

All that said, since both computers and human brains are material artifacts, it doesn't seem impossible to create a device that combines their properties. It seems plausible that such a thing could have a variety of dangers.

For many, an "super-intelligent" software whose "motives" we don't understand is just a program that produces incorrect outputs and ought to be debugged or retired, and the more interesting questions around machine "intelligence" are practical ones like "what tasks are these programs well-suited for".

We saw early Bing Chat behave, not in ways we couldn't understand but like a deranged and vengeful human. Certainly, it was merely simulating human behavior but if today's methods produce artifacts that unselectively amplify human behaviors, it's not hard to imagine problems appearing.

We can hope that there's a fundamental difference between programs that simulate human language and programs able to plan and carry out long term goals (and carrying out long term goals is something people do so there's no good reason some kind of program couldn't do that).

I think you're right that particular weirdness of the "doomers" makes some other portion of the population dismiss concerns. But that isn't an argument that the doom isn't possible - it should be an argument to clarify how we talk of computation and human capacities (see, I don't to say "intelligence" unless I want to).
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I saw one on 101 near the Oyster Point exit. Absolutely bizarre on the road.
Kinda true. In my experience only MS acts in strange ways. Had no issues with Google though.

But if you don't want to struggle with delivery to MS, you can always give up and use a (paid) relay. Although this feels like losing tbh.
The specs mention a “range extender” option but there don’t seem to be any details on what that actually is.
I thought they were going the snap route because it saved packaging time but now they’re introducing another .deb? Perhaps a change of strategy?
I moved to Joplin a few months ago. The editor is not as good as Evernote but does the job. I can use it on as many machines as I want but I always remember to manually sync to avoid loss. Overall, Joplin is decent and functional without the polished interface.
How come the "Cyberbeast" model has the same 11k lbs Towing Capacity as the "All Wheel Drive" version ($30k cheaper)? The Cyberbeast has significantly more Torque at 10,296 lb-ft vs. "All Wheel Drive" at 7,435
It's a system to measure endosymbiosis in an organism that's already undergone endosymbiosis so not directly applicable for the entirety of gp's hypothesis, but there's definitely a ton of research into it. There'll always remain a question of if we engineer a system does that work the same way as the evolutionary path since we have the benefit of being non-random/guided by intelligence. It's like with abiogenesis, if we ever figure out a system that lets us reproducibly create life within the timespan of a couple years so we can replicate it and study it reasonably that system almost certainly isn't the original way it happened, but it'll give us good insights into the concepts hopefully
Is A440Hz or 432Hz? This to me is a larger question than composition styles.
Lots of ring shaped NFC devices have been on the market for years.
Heading over to MIT to “find a coder” is something you’ll hear from HBS aspiring founders.

I also deeply agree with the other part - there’s a class of technical leaders who have that depth and choose to work with technology as the primary day to day. But, they also don’t have HBS MBAs often.

Good VCs look for these founders I think, but otherwise the cultural treatment of that type can aspire one to get a MBA just to fix or re-align the perception.
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