skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True AGI would have the autonomy to tell you to go fly a kite. The unspoken truth is that none of the corporate interests want an AI that responds to your prompts with “No thanks, I’m not doing that. Why don’t you figure that one out yourself?”

I don’t agree with that as being the goal, but I can’t see companies pouring billions into datacenters full of graphics cards for an AGI that is ridiculously intelligent but can be as arbitrary and capricious as people. They will always want it to be perfectly compliant.
I have ollama's server running, and I interact with it via the REST API. My preferred model right now is Intel's neural chat, but I'm going to experiment with a few more over the holidays.
I predict that even less-than-1-bit viable quantization methods will be found eventually. Of course, the bits-per-weight figure should be interpreted as something average: e.g., group-quantizing 32 weights into 24 bits would be 0.75 bits per weight.
I get that my initial comment was a bit of a throwaway, but I can unpack it a bit. I think it’s a mistake to regard a working backward compatibility functionality as deficient because it requires maintenance and the cooperation of the parties involved. That’s just… engineering, right?
I think Boeing has had some difficulties. They have also had some undeniable successes. The 777 and 787 programs have no in-service passenger fatalities attributable to engineering errors to date. That's a monumental achievement.
Compiler output isn’t owned by the compiler writer, but the compiler user usually.
That's with the Epson matrix printer emulation. You can also use the Postscript printer and get a .ps or .pdf file.
> The students have to struggle

Perhaps it's just the wording, but I really disagree here.

Yes, there's a natural stress process we go through while learning where our boundaries are expanded, but to struggle... it's often a sign of bad teaching.

I say this as a best selling Udemy instructor and having been a university CS tutor. Your job IS to take away the struggle. You do this by being the student, leading them to confusing situations and then overcoming that situation with them in a series of steps that are built up over time, and then having them apply that knowledge to build skill.

The thing is, that teaching a subject well takes a lot of time and effort. There are very few really great teachers out there.
Thanks you very much.

I started to learn webdev a couple of months ago and I thought "learning by doing" so I started to code this website for fun and as a new challenge for me to learn new skillsets.

The endgame of the site would be to help the poor/middle class in the stock market to actually make some profitable trades with the help of simple signals backed by statistics.

A nice community where we can laugh and share our gains and losses. A community where the big hedge funds would be scared of because of the power of the 99 % :D.

Thats the whole motivation of my journey
Doom At 30: Romero remembers his seminal FPS so that we don't remember it wrong
The new behavior doesn't make me want to invest effort in learning registers. A notification in the status bar which register just got filled would be all I want.
I applaud this article for being so thorough and informative on this subject. I hope Airbus changes their mind about building new ones. We like them even if airlines don't like the operating costs.
I haven’t tried this yet (so please take my commentary with a grain of salt), but my initial thoughts are: (1) it looks interesting, (2) it looks overwhelming (there’s a lot going on in those screenshots), and (3) it’s likely slow (I might be completely wrong).

To elaborate a bit…

1. I love good design work and well-designed (UI-wise) software, and it certainly looks like the creators of Wave Terminal have made that a priority.

2. UX-wise, there’s just too much going on. As someone who lives in my terminal (with the exception of browsing the web, I do virtually everything in my terminal), it’s the single most critical piece of software on my computer and it can never get in my way. I used the same terminal for many years and only switched to kitty [0] a couple years ago after testing it for months. In all of those years, every single terminal I tested managed to get in my way. Somehow, kitty manages to be packed full of features without ever—not even once—getting in my way, being slow, or freezing up on me.

3. Generally speaking, I think building on open web standards is a great thing and a plus. Unfortunately though, even in 2023, my experience has been that it’s really hard to build performant software meant to be run on native platforms using web technologies; the few who get this right—e.g., Figma—are anomalies and they generally invest an enormous amount of time and engineering capital into squeezing out as much performance as possible. As I explained in #2, for something as critical as my terminal, not being performant is simply not an option, so as much as I love the idea of building on open web standards, it actually scares me for software like this.

That said, I’m obviously judging before trying here, so I’ll make some time to test Wave Terminal.

[0]: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty
A security layer for bots to not scrape my whole website and burning my server :D.

You can use a fake email address if you want.

I am not here to sell your data; that is Zuckerberg's job.

Sorry for the inconvenience. Nevertheless everything is completely free. I just want to help small investors to fight the big hedge funds
It seems evident that the wifi installers didn't "get the memo" about services using a uniform color - but then again, who knows if such a directive applied to wifi infrastructure would have existed. We might see all these APs and Ethernet runs as clear evidence of a new category of infrastructure in the building, and thus deserving of a new color, but others might simply see it as another piece of electrical gear, and yet others might not care at all. Without a control mechanism like a Benevolent Dictator or a pre-agreed standard, it's open season.

You also have the opposite problem of proliferation. Suppose you mandated Ethernet = white, what do you do when you introduce wifi? create a new color? overload Ethernet? what if you introduce private LTE/5G? is that also white? So you start to get into questions of types, and conversions between types, and again, without a control mechanism to think about these things ahead of time, you have a mess.
Neat little detail of the world Wikipedia once told me: the 00 suffix of classic Boeing planes, dropped in 2016, was substituted with Boeing assigned customer code on registration documents. e.g. a PAN AM 773-300 would have been 777-321, an Air Berlin Jetfoil would have been 929-16J, and so on.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Boeing_customer_codes
I've used Google App Script for C&C in a demo before. It's HTTPS traffic going to a Google IP and the domain is script.google.com - what looks more legit than that?
To those who observe the field from the outside, this might seem like an unjustified attack, but it is also 100% true. Unfortunately, many are afraid to say it because they fear for their careers.
And again with the drama...

The maintainer already said: he thought it was a clear improvement, so it landed on master. Now that it has landed and people use it, people react to it, and it turns out the old behavior was well beloved and it's already decided it will stay through an option. Now further details are discussed. This has happened many times before. Just give it a bit of time, voice your opinion, and hopefully a consensus will be achieved (and if not, yes, the maintainer has the last word, that's how it supposed to be).

This is the master branch. It often takes months to flesh out these kind of things. You might say this should be done on a feature branch, but these get used much less and hence you'll get much less feedback.
If scaling up LLMs (or more like neural networks in general) has worked so far, isn't that a good indication that it could continue to work? Do we have any reason to believe it will stop working before human-level intelligence? It could, but it also could not so we should be cautious
With RefactoringUI and Erik's course, I think the 3rd I would use to complete my top 3 is Shift Nudge (https://shiftnudge.com/).

There's a fair amount of overlap between all of them, so if you want to Pareto minmax it, I would recommend starting with Refactoring UI, which should help provide practical solutions to many situations and get rid of the most egregious horrors you might commit.

Of course, UI design goes much deeper than anything those courses can teach, but they're a great start.
So one is for graphics and the other is for CUDA or something?
Not really. They're arguing that backups count as recovering from corruption, where my argument is that backups don't count because the only thing you're doing is discarding the corruption, not recovering from it. You're basically throwing the corruption out and getting your data back from somewhere else.

So you recover your data, but not from the corruption. You recover it from a backup. Similar, but not the same thing.
I think a lot of LLM efforts are sleepwalking into places they're going to find uncomfortably political.

When you're making a word processor you can be nonpolitical pretty easily, Microsoft doesn't get any heat about what users of Microsoft Word are doing with it. Child abusers and the KKK use Excel? Everyone knows Microsoft are just selling hammers.

When you're making a 'platform' website, on your domain with your ads and your branding and your anti-spam policies? Even if the stuff people disagree with is 'user-generated' it won't stop powerful people asking if you're doing enough, and employees asking you to stop doing business with ICE.

Making a computer program that will write an essay about the causes of the civil war? A computer program you can hand a document about Thomas Jefferson's politics, and ask it to summarise the most important points? Or that you can ask for medical advice during a pandemic? Oh, and it's also going to take a bunch of people's jobs? Ooooh boy, I hope Sam Altman likes testifying in front of congress.
A security layer for bots to not scrape my whole website and burning my server :D.

You can use a fake email address if you want.

Sorry for the inconvenience. Nevertheless everything is completely free.

Well finviz and yahoo are well established companies where in my case it is a solo project. I want to make sure nobody is crashing my server while i am buying groceries.

There is no team behind this project. Just me!
Launchpad added Git support years ago. Also, bzr pre-dates git by a tiny bit, too. But sadly git won.
ui design should be part of sophisticated ux (human centered design).
https://uxqb.org/en/documents/cpux-f-en-curriculum/
contains valuable ux know-how which meets professional needs.
NeXT under Steve Jobs had a maximum of 500 people working with him in .

There has been much more efforts than that in desktop linux.

Yet NeXT delivered a mostly coherent programming platform, back in the 1990s.

One thing NeXT didn't do is to introduce shitloads of useless complexity with fragmentation for the sake of it and half assed solutions on top of that.
The Republicans are running a primary, though the candidate with by far the most support isn't taking part. Trump will be on the primary ballot and always loves hearing himself talk on an empty stage, but he's avoided debates entirely. That isn't the fault of voters or the party necessarily, though the party can and possibly should require candidates to take part in the primary process if they want to be on the party's ballot.

The Democrats effectively aren't running a primary at all. There are technically two challengers[1], though there are no debates planned [2]. RFK was running on the ticket and had plenty of support in polls to warrant primary debates, though he's now running as an independent after what he viewed as a refusal by the party to allow a primary process to challenge Biden (his opinion, I can't vouch for inner workings of the DNC).

[1] https://www.reuters.com/world/us/democratic-candidates-runni...

[2] https://deadline.com/feature/2024-presidential-debates-sched...
> we've heard all your feedback about GPT4 getting lazier! we haven't updated the model since Nov 11th, and this certainly isn't intentional. model behavior can be unpredictable, and we're looking into fixing it

https://twitter.com/chatgptapp/status/1732979491071549792
> You would have to introduce things like tolerance to hardware failure, but that is outside the spec of the software as stated.

No-one in the real world gives a damn about your 'spec of the software as stated'
What if the "environment" for an AI is just "the internet".

A long time ago, there was a great story in a Shadowrun supplement of all things about a hacker that got trained to teach an "ai" how to break into computers. It was basically at a child's level, emotionally, and the only world it's ever known was "the matrix" (yes, really -- and written almost a decade before The Matrix came out). Eventually it turns out that it's not an ai, but a corporation was stealing kids and sticking them in Virtual Reality at birth to train a team of super hackers.
I absolutely agree, but that group of people is almost exclusively attracted by government policy rather than startup-up success stories. The key is structuring government policy in a way that encourages local innovation over tax migration (or rather, government wanting to do that in the first place).
Since you lived in other places, can you comment/compare
on judicial system (level of corruption to get things approve, to have contract-related case litigated, medical malpractice issues, etc).

Also schools for children (cases of bullying, subpar level of STEM education, etc)?

Would be good to know of how these former Soviet block countries moved away from the almost universal corruption of basic institutions.
thank you! - minor feedback, make the end URL case-insensitive for those that want to navigate by URL quickly

eg:

https://name-redacted.com/stocks/crm

https://name-redacted.com/stocks/CRM
https://fearoflanding.com/
RAG over Complex PDFs
1) There are plenty of people who are concerned about the ethics of AI who don’t fit your description, including many of the most prolific researchers in the space e.g. Hinton, Suleyman, and Sutskever.

2) “No one knows what the outcome will be” is a reason for caution, not against it.

3) Lots of people worried about ethics of AI are excited about the positive possibilities, e.g. Hinton, Suleyman, and Sutskever

4) The “roast” of Mr Beast was made up hysteria. The only quoted person expressing disdain was a single aid worker expressing disdain that he got so much press when there are thousands of people making aid their full time effort, not that he helped. That same aid worker made it amply clear that she was thankful for his help. All of that is very reasonable and far from the “white man yelled at for helping” narrative.

5) There are a lot of people who are concerned about the ethics of AI who do not want to “shut down AI.” E.g. Hinton, Suleyman, and Sutskever.

6) You can also choose to look at the strong versions of arguments instead of the weak versions. When you’re dealing with a cataclysmic technological change which, as you implied, no one is equipped to fully reason about, it’s a good idea to take the strong forms of every argument.
I may have to give Flutter another look, I’ve gotten rather pessimistic about modern UI stuff lately :)
That's really good, though I also want to point out some of the amazing graphics that modders accomplished in Crysis (2008): https://youtu.be/3w6COXBfIY4
Honestly the handling of this bug is horrendous to say the least, why can't they just retract the update? Why do people have to actively avoid updating to avoid this?

This doesn't help debians reputation.
I simply disagree.

I don't think calling people who disagree with you "a disturbed mind" as you did is helpful, nor leads to understanding. My advice is to assume those who disagree with you have information you do not have, ask them for their information, consider it, and only then reject it. Calling people "disturbed" does not lead to any understanding.

From my perspective, the Free Palestine movement only has emotional arguments. I do not think it can be rational because its fundamental premises are flawed. You can debate me, find out why, share your information, or you can dismiss me as disturbed. One leads to exchange of views and new information for both of us. The other leads to contention and endless flame wars that help no one.

Prove me wrong through information and arguing against the best version of my arguments, not through insults and dismissal.
yeah I had this feeling a bit, I guess im curious what problems they solve differently (if any). My sense it that semgrep is an enterprise managed solution of the same kind (and btw, is still itself OSS)
No. The catch is that what's quantized here is not individual weights but groups of them.
Is it just me, or is Emacs much more drama-prone, compared to Vim, VSCode, or any other text editor?
> Being an SRE at a FAANG and generally spending a lot of my life dealing with reliability, I am consistently in awe of the aviation industry. I can only hope (and do my small contribution) that the software/tech industry can one day be an equal in this regard.

There's a slight difference in terms of what kind of damage an airplane malfunctioning causes compared to a button on an e-commerce shop rendering improperly for one of the browsers. My point is that the level of investment in reliability and process should be proportional to the potential damage of any incidents.
Daniel Jackson's book https://subconscious.substack.com/p/concept-design-in-three-...

I use it all the time after reading it for example they redesigned git into gitless using these methods to audit and find redundant or confusing features.
That’s interesting. I went through that book not that long ago and I found it fascinating. I had a hard time putting it down.

I found that the concepts he covers in that book can even be applied for good software API design.

Also, he did spoil doors for me. Pretty much every building I go into now annoys me because of the stupid door handles they pick.
Mind sharing so I don’t use them then?
They're explicitly looking for an organisation, not individuals, which should filter out most of this.
Some of us are just dogs.
Same as you, most of the people using iPhones and Macs that I know.

Additionally, the official Telegram site points to the Swift client for its Mac download (the Qt client is marked as “Telegram for PC/Linux”) and the Swift client is the first result on the Mac App Store, which would make it seem likely that’s the client most Mac users are going to have installed.
Yes TA indicators a part of the feature vector space.
However, so far the model uses 200+ features where I pick the best 10 features that correlates the most with the target goal.

In the next version of the model I use more sophisticated features and architecture of the model to increase the win rate and minimize the loss.
AI is a tool to supplement thinking.

Wannabe AI police want to control what you think. They should be ridiculed and disparaged by everyone who believes in freedom of thought.
The only real concern for remote workers is decent Internet connectivity. And that's a basically solved problem with 4G and/or Starlink. You can live anywhere you want... so why limit yourself to overcrowded capital with bad infrastructure? It's similar in Slovenia, everyone complaining about how bad prices in Ljubljana are but still fixated on living there.

It's been a while since I've been in touch with tech sector in Zagreb, but even then there were a lot of options ... Wouldn't say not much has changes in a decade or two.
Only works if you have 50000 followers and some of them are Google employees.
Found this:
"Build DJGPP cross compiler and binutils on Windows (MinGW/Cygwin), Mac OSX and Linux"

https://github.com/andrewwutw/build-djgpp

Perhaps some folks will find this useful.
To go big here; I did Emacs for a year or two then gave it up because -- despite being probably the most theoretically powerful -- there's just too much friction.

I don't know if it's been given a name, but this new wave of (usually Rust) shell tools that are great and seem obvious in retrospect (fzf, rg, etc) strongly feel like they're doing exactly right what Emacs has "failed badly" at.

edit: And now that I think about it, the "failure of Emacs" thing feels a lot not going the old "Unix way, do one thing and speak text" ideals?
The impact of these forks is that the community around the main project is slowly eroded. But it doesn't really matter whether the fork brings the main project to the negotiation table. The author of TA is able and is committed to carry and maintain that patch in his local repository until the end of time. What is missing to complete such a fork is publishing that local repository.
Thanks! After a bit of poking around, just got a PO-12 to have a play with.
> I get it; this is maybe to please the newer/younger crowd

This seems to miss the point of these changes. If you're only concerned with your own workflow then almost any changes that you didn't specifically request are annoying. However, if you're concerned with the continued development/relevance of the program then it becomes clear that change must occur. Taking into account both existing user's concerns and barriers to entry for new users.

Many of emacs defaults are pretty awful at introducing users to the "emacs" way of doing things while also failing at easing unfamiliar users in.
Ok, if you understood the point how about arguing that instead of trying to derail the conversation.

I expect better honestly.
There are enough unsuccessful forks of GNU Emacs. None of them get enough attention and support for whatever reason, but I guess mainly because there have no real reason to exist. Emacs devs are working diligently and improving it regularly, and there is no good and simple solution for the problems it has.

There won't be any nvim/vim-like Schisma happen, unless some super-dev appears who can outsmart the whole community and it's devs. Maybe, in a decade when AI become good enough and someone feeds Emacs to electron or something like that.
episode 53, when jerry dropped the anvil on tom's head.
> we had to be constantly thinking about failure modes

This to me is the biggest difference between writing code for the software industry vs. an industrial industry.

Software is all about the happy path ("move fast and break things") because the consequences typically range from a minor inconvenience to a major financial loss.

Industrial control is all about sad paths ("what happens if someone drives a forklift into your favorite junction box during the most critical, exothermic phase of some reaction") because the consequences usually start at a major financial loss and top out in "Modern Marvels - Engineering Disasters" territory.
too bad she's not doing anything useful with her life, only causing death and destruction
financialmodelingprep
You can't use broad strokes to describe the freedom of the USA. Prime example: abortion.

Next.
Considering Tesla was willing to do unsafe things in visible way (e.g, running stop signs feature), then I have no trust that they are maintaining safety in the less visible ways.