skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
HN gets rid of political stuff explicitly.

I honestly think this is a good thing as virtually every other online forum devolves into emotionally driven politically charged clickbait content.
You can get entire PCs way more powerful than any generation of Pi, with more connectivity/port options, for roughly the price of a pi + case, on eBay. It’s long been true that if you don’t need or want some of the particular characteristics or features of a Pi (compact size + GPIO, say), they’re not a great purchase.
True, but I'm not convinced that modern network gear will become outdated. It is fast enough in general so it is hard to think of why everyone should rush to wifi-next anymore.
Prototyping and/or projects involving interpreters (real-time user interactions) where minimizing computing time isn't top priority (vs. situations wher dynamic typing would slow things down such as massive numeric computations required to generate weather model and/or gaming graphics).

Dynamic typing also lends it's self to portability at cost of translating between representation formats.

Xml/json/html are examples, where data is represented in portable string format with additional data (metadata) to indicate what type the string data represents when translated into native hardware format.

Comma delimited file can be manipulated like a database via unix commmand line tools / awk. For small files, not an issue. For larger data sets, fixed-data types offered by databases provide for processing/storage efficiencies.

Spreadsheets, kinda stradle the processing middle ground, where don't really care about data type until want to do something with the spreadsheet cell(s).
>a large enough corpus of whale speech

To add, large enough here is also a potentially shifting target. LLMs exhibit extreme positive transfer of language competency. So 5B tokens of Korean will take Korean competency much further if trained alongside 50B tokens of English than if alone.
I bet every Jewish comedian will reach for "The causal link is a Jewish mother tearing through self-esteem like a grizzly bear tears trough a tree" type joke.

They would have a point. Circumcision can be indicator for causal reason associate with circumcision.
The original quote was about regexps, not NAT. But I have no idea whether JWZ invented it or was took it from ELR.
All: if you're going to comment, please take a moment to be sure that you're up on the site guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) and that the comment you're about to post will be strictly within them. Note, for example:

"Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."

As this is probably the most divisive topic that exists right now, the comments should be as thoughtful and substantive as commenters can make them. At a minimum, that means no flamebait, no name-calling, and no snark. Thank you.
Background: Unix (SCO and XENIX) and later Linux user and sysadmin (Slackware in '92), long-time Windows sysadmin for the "day job" (since NT 3.51).

> I think the worst part is the lack of incentive to actually learn about the OS, or how to use it, let alone holistic best practices for system administration.

Funnily, this is how I feel about Linux-based OS's. Being that there's only a single "distribution" of Windows I can be confident that time I spend learning about various "contrivances" Microsoft devices (service management, configuration storage, etc) are going to apply to any Windows machine I work on.

OTOH, every Unix and Linux distro has its own set of contrivances for configuration, service management (though systemd being rammed down everybody's throats has in some ways changed this), filesystem hierarchy, etc. I pushed for RHEL for "day job" deployments, for years, because I knew there would be stability in the product that was similar to Windows. (Debian is a close second.) Otherwise, Linux distros feel like the wild west.

Knowledge about the underlying architecture of NT going all the way back to the original 3.1 release still applies. The OS has been updated, for sure, but there's a strong lineage and adherence to design principles going all the way back to the start.

People who use any technology w/o understanding it are infuriating.

> Both are often driven by incessant manual tweaking, until one day it finally works...

Again, that's how I see a lot of Linux shops. I don't think Windows makes it any easier to have immature sysadmin practices.

My Windows environments are deployed from unattended installs, configured by Group Policy, and manual tweaking on individual VMs is highly discouraged. If I were deploying Linux at scale I'd be using configuration management tools there the same way.
Goomics has the key.

https://goomics.net/366/
what would you prefer? Would WSJ or other paywalled sites make you happy?

Don't make me start submitting aol links.
I think they mean freight trucks and Ubers would just park in the bike lane. Now Ubers have to drop people off in the street and the freights have to use the loading zones which might be halfway down the block.

I also feel like I mistook the signs to say "SF Bike Coalition" posters (sfbcoalition) instead of small business. It doesn't feel intentional, but it does feel weird.
Ok, looked back at some stuff I read, and yes we are talking about half-lives of a couple of years at most. Disappointing, but thank you :)
I wasn't making a qualitative comparison of the harms, merely responding to the question of what kinds of laws and enforcement mechanisms will be used to stop AI pornification of people.

Simply put, I don't think we'll see anything we haven't seen before, because this isn't a new thing that hasn't been done before- only the means of production (using AI) is new.
I don't think the analogy to generative models holds. The possession and consumption of meth and CSAM _drive_ production of meth and CSAM; it's a supply and demand market. So simply possessing it harms others as well.

A generative model is different. You can produce as much content with it as you want, hallucinated out of thin air. The production of said content doesn't have externalities, other than electricity usage, if the content isn't distributed.
Agreed, I’d be interested to see how many times apple or other podcast apps (overcast etc.) have ‘shut down’ code base without us noticing
Yes.

I was born in Ireland, my wife was born in the US. We had our eldest son in San Francisco a few years ago (he’s in elementary school). My wife gave birth at UCSF, a world class hospital in a liberal city, in the land of personal freedom.

We did not want our son circumcised but hospital staff couldn’t seem to comprehend this. Six separate people attempted to schedule a circumcision, one saying (condescendingly) “well, you know it is safer that we do it now than you waiting for later”. One person asked us twice, the second time asking if we had changed our mind.

Either they were on some kind of commission for extra services, or they genuinely couldn’t grok that we didn’t want our son cut. It was a very strange experience.
> Also this should resolve race issues once and for all which is fun to think about.

I doubt it. One of the root causes of “race” issues is humans using prior probabilities. Unless that changes, then the priors will simply move on from being skin tone based. I would suggest they already have for some portions of the population.
No one is immune to all propaganda, even the most clever people.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38572076
I'm not from the US but intuitive haven't most laws not been challenged and heard by the Supreme Court?
This is the effective altruism / utilitarianism insanity. If we only thought about "what the best use of $2 million is" we would still be living in huts.
> Just an auto generated parser and interpreter

I guess you mean one of the parser-generators or PEG libraries to auto-generate the parser. I'm not aware of tools for auto-generating interpreters. Can you point to one/some if there are? Thanks.
This was a great lightning bulb moment for me. Yeah, detached bikelanes seem semi incompatible with parkets.

Not being doored or having my bike lane taken over us probably the base of my heirarchy of needs. Not having a RL game of pedestrian frogger is also on the list.
Not quite true: Identical twins/triplets/etc, can reuse the same cure.
NetBIOS needs to go away. It made sense when computers were linked up in a token ring setup. There are way better and more modern/secure methods of service discovery.
Paul’s tweets have a tone and subtext that speak louder than the literal text.

As an imperfect analogy, see “all lives matter” or similarly controversial statements that, taken literally, appear harmless.
Yeah potatoes will fill your stomach and better than starving but they aren't really healthy food. Eat them in moderation, and prefer sweet potatoes/yams.
If you want numbers and research like content, that is available as well.

"Measuring Complexity of Object Oriented Programs"

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-540-69848-7_...
By the time Google shuts down Bard, will it be legally considered murder?
> Pro-Palestinian views outrank Pro-Israeli online by around 36 to 1 on TikTok and 8 to 1 on other online platforms.

> If anything the skew within the platforms is to prioritize pro-palestinian views.

That platforms prioritize one over the other is just one possible explanation. An alternative explanation is that more people already have those views. And it's dishonest to present one explanation and omit the other.

Nothing inflames people like injustice.
One of things I struggle with is on certain issues like Ukraine and Israel libertarian folks I normally (largely) agree with seem to hold inexplicable views which seem to border on religious rather than practical. It makes me then wonder about everything else how can the two topics seemingly have different grades of reason versus so much of everything else.
The NYC bike lane hardening program is much bigger than that.[1]

[1] https://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/pr2022/begins-work-to-hard...
> The company hardcoded algorithms that would report failures of parts that work correctly (like a compressor), if it detected that train has been repaired by another company (based on location readings), and stop the train from running

This isn't correct by my understanding - there's actually two separate things here:

- The company made their trains stop functioning after spending 10 days at competing maintenance locations, based on GPS

- In one firmware, they hardcoded to pretend a compressor failure a few days after the next scheduled maintenance for the train
I think that people can probably go after anyone marketing such tools:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38522650
Show HN: LLM-driven Tamagotchi built with JavaScript and local model
Hi HN!

This is a local-ready LLM-generated and LLM-driven tamagotchi with thoughts and feelings. 100% Javascript and costs $0 to run.

- Try here https://github.com/ykhli/AI-tamago

This is a personal project I've been hacking on and off for a few months - all ASCII art animation generated from chatgpt.

I have been fascinated by how LLMs transformed app logic, so I thought: what’s the simplest game I could build after ai town? A tamagotchi comes to mind - and it’s a perfect study of how to work with LLMs as a programmer. Some interesting things that stood out while building this:

- it’s really hard to version control the app logic when you have prompts that return somewhat unpredictable things in the app. Sure, we can put guardrails round the returned result, but there are always corner cases that don’t quite work. Sometimes the JSON output doesn’t return all the required fields, and once in a while it returns empty strings as part of values…

- I love that LLMs sometimes outputs crazy things for the tamagotchi. Here are some examples:
- It somehow became self aware? “I haven't had any food that I liked in a while and I've been cooped up in this virtual environment for a while now.”
- It got confused and thought it fed ME: “I had a good day! I played with my owner and fed them tamago (which they love)” …
This is when bugs are actually features :)

Would love to hear your thoughts!
After harvesting the ozone layer using airships that produce eardrum-splitting noise for decades, the aliens achieved a communication breakthrough and were finally able to communicate to the pesky humans: “Please stop attacking our airships. They are very convenient for us.”
In regions where malaria was endemic, this mutation was selected for, as malaria kills children.
This article seems like a breathless rant. He didn't even take the time to explain what I interpret to be the meaning of his incendiary title, which is that DNA companies who get hacked should be dissolved, or punitively fined to the extent that they can no longer function. Because, of course, you can't literally kill a company. I don't support the death penalty for flesh and blood people, but I'd be fine with it for corporations in certain cases. I'm not sure I agree that it should always happen in the case of a hack; the risk of an intrusion can never be eliminated, only mitigated, so a blanket "off with their heads" rule for any hack seems rather blunt and unnecessary: you'd guillotine any theoretical responsible companies who happened to be targeted by determined actors. Case by case executions perhaps?
The article is talking about the r-process, so it’s still supernovas (either core-collapse or more likely neutron star collision) that would have forged these elements. Ancient or not, a stably burning star isn’t going to synthetize nuclei heavier than iron in non-negligible quantities.
Can you explain how your questions relate to each other? I don't understand #2.

Re public info: Do you mean via birth certificates?
It’s obviously true that criticism of Israel isn’t inherently antisemitic.

But that’s also a convenient excuse used by people who are actually antisemitic.

Both of these things can be true at once.
Time matters for every endeavor because in the end we're all dead. Every single thing I've done at a company, time mattered. Paying customers churn. Competitors come to market with features. Employees get recruited away.

All of this happens as time goes by without you doing anything.
Finding a proof is a search in a large space, akin to searching from abstractions to concretions. LLMs don’t do anything like this, and so you’re looking at the planning problem again. It’s not clear to me how framing this particular problem as a language problem is helpful in any case.
Good recommendations. I recently switched from osmand to Organic maps [0]. FairEmail is also great. (I bought the Pro version). [1]. I also recommend AntennaPod (Podcasts), andOTP (2FA), KOReader (e-book reader), BinaryEye (QR codes etc) and Xtra (Twitch TV viewer).

[0] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/app.organicmaps/
[1] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/eu.faircode.email/
Sometimes I feel like Google bends the laws of physics by shutting down more products than they launch.
Please don't cross into attacking someone else on HN. This topic is extremely inflammatory, so you can be sure that the other person will feel your comment as many times more aggressive than you intended it.

Needless to say this goes equally for both sides of the argument.
Has anyone successfully downloaded an OPML file? I've yet to find the right page/button to do that...
This is one is also good: unisonofficial.com
On the other hand, you can still get pretty good bandwidth out of the lowly cat5. You usually don't have 100m runs.

Over my lifetime I think 10 -> 100 -> 1000 -> 2.5 maybe 10 is usually doable.

arguably not as good as fiber, which has been reused in steps of orders of magnitude each tech jump.
Guessing the mega-recalls of lettuce during the past few years were forgotten:

"In any case, there is no problem with this," an article published by the university in 2017 says.

"Human waste is as effective a fertilizer as is animal waste. Spreading human sewage on fields that grow crops doesn't sound appealing, but it is safer than you might think."
Yeah, I think container-based dev envs (devpods / codespaces and the like) are going to make more and more sense for a lot of companies, with "tighter feedback loop for interacting with prod-like env" as the primary reason.
While the discussion has been on wiring and ethernet, I would argue making a digital twin scan for a new home construction before dry-wall goes up is one of the best small money investments I made for the ongoing upkeep of my home. No argument on all smart future proofing ideas for new construction (redundant wire drops, chase pull-wire pipes in 2-3 parts of the house, pre-wiring roof soffets for cameras, etc ...), but it has been priceless to be able to show service folks for big and small jobs ... an X-RAY of my home's studs, wiring and plumbing. I've been able to avert mistakes (protective plate for gas line sitting behind here), plan with the right assumptions (didn't realize there was a horizontal support board between those studs) and visualize possible remodel options (that exhaust duct could easily be re-routed to go out this wall instead). While digital twin scans are more and more common in commercial facility locations to document equipment for repair and insurance purposes - it's amazing to me that this still has not caught on with residential builders as a nice upsell option for trivial effort/cost. The digital twin should live with the deed and be handed over when the house changes owners. Every friend and service person I've shown it to - has commented - "wish I had that for my house".
23andme is a public company and seems to already be headed towards bankruptcy. Their share price has fallen by 93% since going public, and they’re burning something like $400m per year on $240m of revenue. I wonder if this incident will be the nail in the coffin.
At what point do people give up investing anything into Google's ecosystem?

How do they plan on gaining any market share in AI space? I think subconsciously I avoided Bard because I had little faith anything beyond search or email will live more than a couple years.
>The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) noted in a recent blog post that if the US were to focus a significant chunk of its efforts on creating a better digital infrastructure instead of “fixing” our physical infrastructure, it would result in “superior longer-term economic growth, competitiveness, national security, and environmental benefits.”

Presumptive industry lobby says to spend money on what they make money on.

I don't like the phrasing that we need to make better wifi signals in a home "instead" of replacing lead pipes or repairing bridges.

But yes, I wish homes were a bit more repairable, with chases as another commenter calls them. Currently in my apartment, I have an Ethernet cable running along 60ft of baseboard to wire my desktop to the router, with WiFi for the rest of the place.

(This is the time of year where I think of my idea that fridges and freezers should be built to draw in outside air, for climates where ambient is cold enough for fridges without additional processing).
Yeah I think that's right. I'm doing Advent of Code in Prolog at the moment and checking other people's solutions -- I've yet to see 2 Prolog solutions which are mostly the same. The admixture you described results in code that aligns very closely with the thinker, and less closely with a specific procedure. Its very weird to see.

Having said that -- once you get Prolog and use it for a while, your brain (at least my brain) wants to replace EVERYTHING with Prolog.
Does anyone who's more familiar with exactly how this works know if this could be applied or potentially applied to thalassemia? From what I understand those are also related to genetically-driven misshapen red blood cells.
Because genetics databases hold the info on how to craft a biological weapon that will affect you and only you.
If we had a health oracle, what would be the point of health insurance ? I think with a 100% health oracle, health inssurance will become more like group buys for negotiating better prices with health providers.
> If a university is not providing both they are failing everyone.

Why?

> A pure university education without considering is this degree useful in the real world is a disservice to education.

I think this line of thinking is a much bigger disservice to higher education. It was very tiresome as an undergraduate to be surrounded by people that thought this way - and detrimental to everyone's education.

"I'll never use this knowledge" is the single worst thing you can say as a student, and it needs to be beaten out of undergrads' heads. Not encouraged.
The median income in America is a little under $40000 per person[1], so that $2.2 million pretty much represents the entire financial income of the average American over a working lifetime (55-60 years).

So in essence, you'd be trading the equivalent of one person's entire lifetime of productivity in exchange for the first generation of a radical new medicine whose outcome is unknowable.

I don't think it's crass to err on the side of caution for such a scenario.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per_capita_personal_income_i...
For me, they're so different that it's hard to compare them. Obsidian is a great tool for linking, searching, querying, and visualizing sets of thoughts. It happens to have a text editor, but that's not the brilliant part about it. Obsidian's editor feels to me like a method to get data into the note database. Also, Electron.

iA Writer is a one the best text editors I've ever touched. It happens to have tools for linking and searching notes, but that's not the brilliant part. Writer's data management feels to me like methods to navigate around to the note I want to writing. Also, it's a "Mac-assed Mac app", looks and feels exactly like it belongs on my desktop, plays nicely with all other Mac apps, and couldn't be faster or more responsive if it were hand-coded in assembler.

If I want to store and search notes, I'd probably pick Obsidian (although I'm currently using Bear Notes for that). If I want the best writing environment I know of, I'll reach for iA Writer every time.
I responded with a little more detail to a sibling content, but if laws for banning CSAM and meth exist due to the negative externalities of possessing them - that's where I think this is different. If we see laws come about for regulating AI private-use content production, I suspect we'll see some unique court cases about it, premised around free speech / lack of harm.
I mean, I'm just making an educated guess based on how society has historically been quite good at changing its norms based on new technology. We didn't have cars, and then we did, and within a generation it became extremely normal and expected for people to drive. Digital cameras were a big deal when they were invented, but for people like me who grew up in the early 2000s, they have never felt that unusual because I've been exposed to videos of myself as a baby for as long as I can remember. When The Avengers was released, it caused a huge amount of hype and hubbub. Now, Marvel produces a dozen superhero movies a year and nobody cares anymore.

Do I think that society will transform its views on nude images overnight? No, obviously not. Do I think that every person in society will go with the flow and adopt new assumptions about nude images? Also no. But it seems entirely logical to me to imagine that once the average person notices "hey, I am being inundated with 1000x the number of fake nudes that I used to," they will eventually reach the conclusion that "I should start assuming all nudes are fake by default."
I mean murder is illegal and yet there are still murders. Ipso facto we should legalize murder forthwith! Checkmate pacifists!
I'm skeptical that hashtags are really a good way to measure these things. They seem rather arbitrary in some cases (particularly that second link). It seems like it would be pretty easy to selectively choose specific hashtags to give any impression you want.