skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am disappointed your comment did not have more responses because I'm very interested in deconstructing this argument I've heard over and over again. ("it just predicts the next words in the sentence").
While explanations of how GPT-style LLMs work involve a layering of structures which encode at the first levels some understanding of syntax, grammar etc. and then as the more levels of transformers are added, eventually some contextual and logical meanings are encoded.
I really want to see a developed conversation about this.

What are we humans even doing when zooming out? We're processing the current inputs to determine what best to do in the present, nearest future or even far future. Sometimes, in a more relaxed space (say a "brainstorming" meeting), we relax our prediction capabilities to the point our ideas come from a hallucination realm if no boundaries are imposed.
LLMs mimic these things in the spoken language space quite well.
>I wonder why Microsoft is choosing not to go where rest of OS folks hang out.

Is this rhetorical, or is it just your first time dealing with this awful company?
It this based on JIra as back end? I see a lot of same elements in design
I'm not sure if it could happen in humans, but apparently it has never been observed. This phenomena is called bilateral gynandromorphism and is where the entire body shows both male and female traits (along a bilateral split). You're probably thinking of hermaphrodites (e.g. she-males) which is where the animal only has reproductive organs of both sexes.
Even if the local spying somehow stopped and the billions spent on data centers were shut down, we have the 5 eyes and many eyes programs to reinforce it.

They have “legal” cover by some secret document. It’s easier to fool someone than tell them they were fooled.
Everything is built from something else. Not doing the fundamental science that leads to a product doesn't mean that the product itself isn't innovative. Apple's interface elements[0] and interactions[1] were no doubt derived from elsewhere too. Getting UI elements on a screen wasn't new. Cramming a capacative touchscreen into a phone was very new.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/bu...

[1] http://www.billbuxton.com/multitouchOverview.html
> Without commenting on autopilot performance, there are enough drivers who are worse.

To be fair, you really can’t compare the performance of drivers to Autopilot, without commenting on Autopilot performance.

Many people’s anxiety with it is exactly due to lack of confidence in Autopilot, and (relatively) more confidence in humans.

I’m not arguing which one is worse, I’m just saying you can’t make the comparison without commenting on the performance of both (by definition, required for making a comparison).
Denmark is a "high trust" society and people generally assume others are acting properly. It is a bit of a cornerstone of the culture. This is what got them into problems with the Banking sector. They didn't check that you were receiving, sending funds for reasons other than what you stated, so a lot of Europeans figured this out and abused the system. Now the reverse is true and the banks here are incredibly particular about what you do. This is the land where people leave their babies asleep in strollers outside of the cafes after all. Source -American in Copenhagen.
..duh?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38347701
The Big Lebouski defense.
The idea is that regardless of the truth/falsity of Tesla’s speech, the law is so broad that it impermissibly restricts lots of true speech.
Found it! Bill Mensch, not Chuck Peddle, and it's an IEEE Spectrum interview:

https://spectrum.ieee.org/q-a-with-co-creator-of-the-6502-pr...
Will Rust ever get Zig-style comptime support? Is that something that’s in the pipeline?
Apple was able to find a flaw in the system and patched it. Yay Apple?
Bill Mensch interview, IEEE Spectrum article:

https://spectrum.ieee.org/q-a-with-co-creator-of-the-6502-pr...
If you can't escape the VM, then where is the insecurity?

If someone is dumping privileged data into a VM that's insecure no matter what, why would you blame webasm?
https://archive.is/brXAt
I'm probably in the minority of the minority, but I don't want a touch screen in my car. Or even any big LCD screen in my car. I would prefer my car to be relatively dumb, and free of distractions where possible.
> it was that it should earn back the money it cost by running an autonomous taxi service during night and office hours

This was the exact moment i woke up from musk's spell.

Why would corporation create a money printing machine and sold it for pennies out of the goodness of their hearts?

His bullshit is no longer working on me and empty claims are clear as day.

Now that he is lacking new revolutionary ideas his bullshit is harder to hide behind next great thing he is 'working' on.
Ironically enough, I agree. I loathe trying to get information out of videos. To pick an example _completely at random_: trying to get information on how to do video editing stuff with DaVinci Resolve invariably leads to a video, which is guaranteed to increase my blood pressure at a time when I'm already annoyed.
>Sometimes it's acronyms with 12 different possible meaning, where 4 of them could apply to the given context...

Like AC or IPC?
Who is going to pay for development?
I think calling it the Hall of Fame/Shame is unjustified.

I certainly agree when we talk about hardware products, because having very short support periods for those just seems wasteful.

But it gets difficult when entering software, because it probably differs from user to user how fast they would like the software to evolve.
I can think of software that I want to be boring and work forever the way it does now without changing (except security bug fixes ..). So support periods are long and consist only of patch releases.
And then there is software where I am waiting eagerly for new features to be added and would like the maintainers/the company to focus their attention on it if possible, thus taking resources from the maintenance side of things and moving them to the feature-factory. So support periods may be short and major/minor release bumps happen frequently.

Having one of these products in the Hall of Fame and another rot in the Hall of Shame does not seem to add any informational value.
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> There have been major improvements to vehicle frames, roll safety, crumple zones, etc that all play a major role in that graph.

The people who decry the "nanny state" tend to oppose requirements for these, as well. You'll find plenty of people moaning about how they don't make cars like they used to, that bumpers require expensive replacement in low-speed impacts, that all this extra metal is expensive, etc.

> Indiscriminately slamming on the brakes without context is another.

I wouldn't call "when the driver door opens at speed" to be "indiscriminate". I don't doubt the sudden decceleration is a bit surprising (and it probably quickly trains you out of opening the door mid-drive), but if someone rear-ends you because of this that's clearly their fault for following too closely.
> It's a clickbait headline.

It is but this is part of the hype cycle, "leaders" in the space make proclamations, which in five years if they are correct makes them seen as visionaries.
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I built a sort of meta webapp for online collaboration. Began as a side project to mess around with WebRTC and browser apis. Now, I’ve got something like Zoom but with tools like terminal sharing, a whiteboard, and even GPT inside (everything e2ee).

Now it's my playground for new technologies and ideas.

https://oorja.io
Yeh 100%, pretty sure it's a standard Bosch system in fact.
I wanted to create a chorded keyboard mapping where you use only the 8 keys on the homerow, but mapped easily to Colemak. I figured out, I could do a key combination on one hand as a modifier to pick if I want to go up, down, toward the middle or toward the outside. The problem is some key combinations are very hard to do, so I wrote a Q program where I rated some finger combinations and made it pick the most ergonomic ones for the most common keys.

Anyway, I also wrote a Autohotkey program that converts qwerty keystrokes to my chorded keyboard layout. The problem is, I switched completely to Linux and now can't use my AH script :(

edit: to provide some context, I was inspired by the Ginny 10 key keyboards and the ASETNIOP keyboard layout:

Ginny keyboard : https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/hltqdt...

ASETNIOP : https://asetniop.com/
edit doesn't exist on 64-bit editions of Windows?

Maybe it's just been that long since I tried ... but ... really?

Why would MS have removed it?
We used to have (and still kind of have?) carrier billing for receiving assets such as ring tones but also paid web content via MMS for small money, even though the powers-that-be in the mobile space have worked hard to establish verticals and subscriptions without micro-transactions. Also "we" (as in "hackers") have now for I don't know how long seen greedy telcos as our natural enemy, embracing supposedly open TCP/IP-based protocols, and turning a blind eye towards new monopolies, even though telcos live in a highly regulated market while new monopolists do not.
I agree somewhat that there are repetitive themes in the Creative Act, but I still found it incredible. I approached it as a series of Zen Koans. You can just pick up the book and start almost anywhere. I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend it to anyone.
Better connection is not my experience.

In long trips, the car starts to loose the connection to the phone, even if connected by USB cable. Looks like a memory leak crashing the system. And no, I don't want to stop the car just to restart display of Google Maps on the car display: baby is sleeping, stopping is not an option.
Dropbox is sharing your files with AI partners without opt-in
so filming and live-streaming violence against elderly, children and women who hold no weapons is resistance fighting.
Now that the publicly available guidelines were exposed, they changed and Apple didn’t even send a notification to every journalist in the known universe. Time to gather the tin foil hats!
When you say Homeopathy, do you mean 10X dillutions, like opposes like, water memory etc? If not, what do you mean?
>full text tabs forever

Thanks, this is awesome!
The actual affirmative defense raised says:

> Specifically, the Complainant’s claim under Cal. Veh. Code § 24011.5 is barred
because the statute is facially invalid under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution and Article I, Section 2, of the California Constitution, as a substantial number of the statute’s applications impermissibly restrict constitutionally protected speech that is truthful and nonmisleading. The Complainant’s claims under Cal. Veh. Code § 24011.5, Cal. Civ. Code § 1770(a)(5), Cal. Code Regs. Title 13 § 260.00, and Cal. Veh. Code § 11713(a) are also barred because these statutes and regulations, as applied to Tesla in this proceeding, are unconstitutional under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution and Article I, Section 2, of the California Constitution, as they impermissibly restrict Tesla’s truthful and nonmisleading speech about its vehicles and their features.

Now, to be fair, you have to raise every defense you might want to raise at some point in the litigation in the answer to the complaint, so just because it's listed as an affirmative defense doesn't necessarily mean Tesla is actually going to use that defense. But given that it's the first affirmative defense raised, it does feel like Tesla is going to very strongly litigate this argument.

But this is commercial speech, plain and simple, and the First Amendment is widely agreed to permit these kind of restrictions on commercial speech. It's not even close; SCOTUS won't even bother hear to the case should Tesla be stupid enough to appeal it that far.
To the contrary, they've all been studied, which is how we know they aren't as effective as traditional medicine. Take acupuncture:

"As of 2021 many thousands of papers had been published on the efficacy of acupuncture for the treatment of various adult health conditions, but there was no robust evidence it was beneficial for anything, except shoulder pain and fibromyalgia.[17] For Science-Based Medicine, Steven Novella wrote that the overall pattern of evidence was reminiscent of that for homeopathy, compatible with the hypothesis that most, if not all, benefits were due to the placebo effect, and strongly suggestive that acupuncture had no beneficial therapeutic effects at all.[18]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acupuncture#Efficacy
strange might be a bug?
One in five young Americans thinks the Holocaust is a myth
“Our clients understand that a two- to three-minute ad load is more valuable than a nine-minute ad load,” says Mark Read, head of WPP, the world’s largest ad company and Groupm’s parent firm.

It's appropriate that even the chief of the purveyors of advertisements uses the same language ("load") that clinicians use for viral infections.
> They can care about privacy all they want but if they are legally required to hand something over what are they realistically going to do?

Right, so, why were they so free with the goods before this??
> They all seem to be based on this assumption that traditional farming/food production is antiquated and inefficient, and that what the industry needs is clever outsiders to come in and re-invent it with the latest technologies. And they all just seem to go nowhere.

You see the same in construction. All the real innovation is in more mundane stuff like flexible piping (as opposed to rigid), adhesives that dry quicker, insulation foam, laser levels, self-tapping screws. As opposed to prefab construction, construction robots, or VR glasses.
or ReVanced. it's a beautiful project. Also, I've been using AdNauseum (based on Ublock) over the last few months and love it.
The nice thing about this is that it does "everything" without you needing to worry about what you need to support:

From the site

> Steam (Valve) Origin (EA Games) Riot Games (League of Legends) Battle.net (Hearthstone, Starcraft 2, Overwatch) Frontier Launchpad (Elite Dangerous, Planet Coaster) Uplay (Ubisoft) Windows Updates

I remember Linus Tech Tips saying that Windows Updates were a surprisingly large fraction of their traffic as the reminded people to pre-download games but Microsoft can push updates at any time. This is why having this as a prepared package is nice. You don't have to worry too much about missing a service that will suck up your upstream, they have the most common ones pre-configured.
Ah okay - that makes sense. But still - I don't understand why if one of the options is "don't use it", an option I exercise almost every day of the year, there is a legal privacy claim. This isn't a system we'd consider access/participation in it to be mandatory, like healthcare or government.
People saying "it can't be done" are always interrupted by someone doing it, but not always very well.
NASA has stated they want to maintain a long term presence on the moon. If we take them at their word then we absolutely do need to be able to bring 100 tons to the surface of the moon.

Water, food, air, parts, habitats, ..etc. All of that adds up. Super Heavy lift capability and refueling will be vital to making those plans feasible.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38625652
Why make all these claims so adamantly then get so upset when someone asks you for basic evidence?
A twitch button clicker thing that also keeps a track of how much points it saves you from clicking yourself.

I generally try to inspect the code of any extensions in my browser, but found it's too much work to also do it for the upgrades.
The US Supreme Court says that corporations are people, and therefore every civil right that applies to humans applies to corporations. I suppose that will make things easier for aliens (if they ever move to Earth) to have the same civil/legal rights as humans. I guess replicants will all need to incorporate in order to avoid being slaves (to avoid a Bladerunner future).
There's probably some well established hand waving routine that's played whenever energy comes up. Perhaps there's some paper that starts with a ridiculously high first guess for energy demand and then goes through a list of reasons why it would not be quite as bad, concluding with some multiplied percentage of how it would be so much better than expected.

Certainly including the old "photovoltaics use a wider spectrum than plants, so if we take the best panels, re-emit the energy at a wavelength that matches the plant's chemistry we could get more from a given square unit of sunlight if everything else was free". Last five words conveniently omitted.
Years ago I bought an app on Steam (maybe it’s still there) named “4D toys” just to get a grasp of higher dimensional objects. I played with it for a few hours, moving and rotating objects in different dimensions. I can say I understand higher dimensions now, it’s akin to learning linked list, hashmap and tries for the first time.
If that functionality was around sooner we wouldn't have lost Antony Yelchin.
This case together with Meta's case that the FTC is unconstitutional shows a concerted effort from US big tech to do away with any type of US consumer protections. Truly, a country where corporations have more rights than its citizens.
That's not true. There are lot of forests and mountains. To get to nothing you have to go all the way to Ukraine. It is relatively featureless south and east of Kyiv.
Time to create biorobots.
As a counter-example, how many have heard of unpoly.com, another hypermedia-based framework but without the memes and shit-slinging?
There's lots of reasons that people find results in math beautiful, but to me there's some things that they seem to have in common, and it's similar to why people find songs beautiful -- surprise, inevitability, and relevance, and sometimes simplicity.

Statements that are obvious usually aren't interesting and aren't beautiful. (though there may be some like e^(i*pi) = 1 which are obvious consequences of the definition of the complex exponential function that people seem to like -- to me I think the definition of complex exponentiation is the beautiful part) The result in some sense should be counter-intuitive -- it had to have taken a spark of genius to see it.

Once you see it, it should seem confusing at first, but the proof of it should cause you to say "of course, this is the only way it could have been."

Finally, once you know about it, you immediately see useful consequences of it that open all new lanes of inquiry, or practical applications for it.

edit: I think also "simplicity" is a core part of it in that it distills a complex set of ideas to a concise statement -- e=mc^2, for example, or the example above.
It gets very similar performance, so maybe it is possible. But also when I fine-tune 3.5, its response quality is indistinguishable from when I use the base model.

All of this is to say: this shit is way harder than it needs to be. I'm not an ML engineer but I do know my data and how to get it. Why is it still so hard to specialize a model?
I don't think it's a serious statement, they're just taking it to a ridiculous extreme to demonstrate the point. Or maybe I completely misunderstood, who knows!
Oh weird, I just transitioned away from vmware. I can never recommend vmware to anyone ever again?

For the longest time I have been a vmware-only for baremetal. Hyper-V is ok and does the job. Virtualbox was ruined by oracle.

Oh well. Many many other virtualization platforms to choose from.

Is it time I learn Kubernetes?
Would love to rear that story
There was also a Cardinal like this in Pennsylvania a couple of years ago - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56189600
I'm sure the service manuals they provide to mechanics cover these.

Details vary from manufacturer to manufacturer, but they're quite common. https://lifehacker.com/hack-your-ride-cheat-codes-and-workar...
> This only makes sense in a repeatable game or across the industry, not for any individual experiment.

No, because in a large corporation there are a large number of investment projects going on. So a corporation can still treat these as "bets" and invest in those with maximal expected IRR
But plenty of people/companies in the target market of the simpler tools end up using Jira anyway.

This is like objecting to a fairly lightweight orchestration tool calling itself a 'Kubernetes alternative' - it is an alternative, it won't necessarily fulfil all needs of everyone using Kubernetes (resp. Jira), but it will for a lot of them, a lot of them don't need everything it's offering anyway. Of course they're going to use one of the most well-known players to paint the picture of what sort of thing the product is.
The EU's climate tech policies require increased creativity to succeed
Even on Apollo you can get confused because you can open an infinite amount of layers (subreddits, user profiles, posts) on top of each other. After a few of them it gets very cumbersome to get back to the front page because you have to swipe / press back until you get there.

There probably is a magic gesture which I don't know about.
Dedicated mp3 players might work well for this. I (no kids) have been using a Sansa Clip with Rockbox for 10 years. It checks all the boxes you mentioned. I fear for the day it dies.

I've heard that newer Sansas aren't compatible with Rockbox, and the ones that are sell for ~$50 secondhand.
Not totally sure on this...

Yea, I adblock the living hell out of my internet, so I am jaded, but I was at an older persons house with regular broadcast TV on and it was so much worse then I remember TV being when I was young.

The amount of actual show time seems to have dropped even further. The TV ads seem to be all gambling and drugs. It was pretty terrible.
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We understand it well enough to know that animals suffer, yet still commit on the order of a Holocaust per hour (in terms of number of lives)[0]. We have accepted that we don't care enough.

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/how-many-animals-get-slaughtered-...
Why do vertical farms use less water than greenhouses?

I can see why they'd use less water than outdoor farming - the water is lost to the atmosphere. But surely whatever mechanism a vertical farm uses for collecting and recycling water, a greenhouse could use too? Surely vertical farms are the same plants and growing methods in a greenhouse, but stacked?
I know this is a late comment, but I have to ask, what do you think the market opportunity is on this?

500 million? Billion? Billion plus?

I'm curious how big a business like this can grow, by estimation, based on someone else's platform like this.