skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Although the "fully automated" bit is quite a stretch at the moment. The end-to-end supply chain required to produce & sustain advanced machinery and AI is too complex, a far cry from "LOL let's buy some GPU and run chatbots".

It's ahead of us, and that's good because we're not ready for it yet either.

But how far ahead? Nobody knows. For all its flaws, ChatGPT's capabilities were the stuff of SciFi three years ago.

We might hit a dead end, or have an investment bubble followed by a collapse, either of which may lead to another AI winter and us doing nothing interesting in this sector for 20 years. Or someone might already have a method of learning as quickly and from as few examples as humans manage, and they're keeping quiet until they figure out how to be sure it's not the equivalent of a dark triad personality in a human.

If I was forced to gamble (which I kinda am by thinking about a mortgage for a new house), I don't think we'll get a complete AGI in less than 6 years at the fastest. My modal guess is 10 years, with a long tail.

Even when we finally get AGI, there's a roll-out period of unclear duration, because the speed of rollout depends in part on how much hardware is needed to run the AGI, but also on the human reaction to it: if it needs the equivalent of a supercomputer, this will definitely be a slow rollout; but it still won't be instant even if it's an app that runs on a smartphone — it's amazing how many people don't know what theirs can already do.
I love Supabase, commercial open source in general, and agree with lots of this post.

However this comment feels off:

> In software ideas are cheap. Value is almost always created in execution of ideas.

I've heard this phrase around things like "I have this cool idea for a startup - will you sign my NDA before I tell you about it?"

However, when you're open sourcing your software, you're not just providing an idea, but a significant portion of execution of that idea too.

Sure, code isn't the full execution - that expands to sales / marketing / support / etc.

However, the article is a little glib towards the value of the code, suggesting it's worthless without sales / marketing /etc. I don't think that's true.
That escalated quickly, if HR had a "file" on the other guy, what was the cause of firing?

Did your manager like the other guy more? Also why does it matter that the peer was a lesbian?
So you were able to recover and did not lost a months work of data? Your story just doesn’t make sense. Come on.
Ionic has raised $25M from external funding.[1]

[1]: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/ionic/company_financ...
I don't get No. 2 either. How are you supposed to get 2FA codes from a password manager? Does it mean use a manager that has an OTP code generating feature?
Extreme Value Theory (2009) [pdf]
You can edit the title of "a" submission when this happens.

My experience is that,
if a moderator hasn't touched it,
the title of a story remains editable
throughout the edit window of the first two hours.
It doesn't matter
what automatic changes were applied to the title on submission;
they are not reapplied when you edit.

I restore the original title
if HN's software changes it poorly.
When I look at /newest or even the front page,
it seems few submitters do.
Either they are unaware of the possibility,
or they think it isn't allowed.
(AFAICT, it is allowed as long as you don't use it to break the guidelines.
Here is a recent comment by dang saying you can do it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38993985.)
> (GPT-4 responds more normally)

"More normally" is far from normal here:

https://chat.openai.com/share/1b76780e-8d4e-442c-9590-d95c1c...
https://chat.openai.com/share/4cfb58cd-5e7c-4386-ac6e-d5f8fc...

Normal for GPT-4 is to follow such a simple instruction correctly. Like the following

https://chat.openai.com/share/b5bd3674-81ee-4102-965f-c62f15...
Published: Jan 08, 2023
Related: Why Many Cities Suck from Not Just Bikes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4kmDxcfR48
Foundationalusm assumes an internal logic to people’s belief systems that simply doesn’t hold up in practice.

People don’t decide the big questions to build up a belief system from the ground up. Instead they work from the middle of a web of beliefs. Arguably the true foundations of belief are things like object permanence which we discover as infants. Ie: Closing my eyes doesn’t make something go away.

Older kids ask questions like “what’s the point of life?” and get culturally appropriate responses from parents, religious leaders, TV or whatever. They don’t ask about things like materialisms vs dualisms vs idealisms until they are even older and have built up a complex web of interlocking beliefs.
Not for anarchists, anarchists are fine with voluntarily agreeing with an expert.
Get a Brother for your next one
I did look at error correction - it'd be cool to have e.g. a any 4 from 5 words scheme, but for all the schemes I know, you'd need a good few more words than that to make it work.

I actually have come round really to thinking that a fifth word is probably a better approach than the emoji, although the emoji is more fun. Problem with emojis is that not all of them are easy to describe, and I think audio/speech rather visual is the key here.

Each word for my word list is 12 bits of information, so for a check word, it could have 3 bits for error checking each of the location words. which would certainly let me highlight which word was wrong, and may even enable me to suggest words that might correct it.
It seems pretty clear to me that the author means "has meaning" means "is important".
Does bluesky even federate (or whatever they call it) yet?

Last i saw it still relied entirely on a single central relay.
It's a legal mess that doesn't work if your application isn't a website, and even then it's a problematic thing.

Honestly, for considerable portion of its use, it works mainly because nobody looks too closely or trieso actually enforce it.

The other considerable portion was/is bait&switch schemes involving dual licensing and having developers sign copyright transfer forms to parent org, which benefits from selling commercial license when someone runs afoul of compliance.
End of life care is going to obliterate generational wealth long before taxes, it doesn't even get taxed until you're over 13 million in the US. IMO, generational wealth should be taxed more as it's a huge source of sustaining inequality and trivial to avoid/plan around if you're rich.
I have a pilot friend who told me he wont fly (even as a passenger) on any Max. He flies Boeing 737s.

I’m not sure a pilot who has never flown the type is really any better positioned to judge this than anyone else, but I do think that if he feels that way, a whole lot of non-pilots do too. If you know pilots you know they are not a cautious lot generally. While they get a metric shit-ton of caution trained into them, there are a whole lot of cowboys in the flying world.
Fair examples!

Also, not to move the goal posts, but there has been a large economic shift since Q3 2022 with tech & finance belt tightening, inflation normalizing and generally slowing. So these things don't happen in a vacuum (which makes them hard to measure!).

For example my previous & current employer have done their first layoffs since pre-pandemic, and neither has anything to do with AI. They just overexpanded and need to shrink.
In the 1980s a friend of mine had a German radio which had a larger array of frequencies than that available in my country. It allowed us to listen to the police. Curious, but not interesting.

In the 90s my brother had a portable TV/Radio which we managed to tune into cellphone conversations.

Those were the days you could still telnet 25 to send emails with whatever sender you wanted. I used to send Christmas greetings from Santa to my colleagues at uni.
The Laffer curve almost must be true by definition:

1. If the tax rate is 0%, you will get zero tax revenue, by definition.
2. If the tax rate is 100%, presumably no one will generate (reportable) income, and you will again get 0% tax revenue.
3. Somewhere between there (the current tax rates, for example) you get revenue.

The above equals "the Laffer Curve".

The thing people get wrong is assuming that they know where the shape of the Laffer Curve, or just where the maximum of it is. I am not an economist, but I'm going to guess that economists disagree about the above, so people arguing in bars (or online) are guaranteed to be wrong.

All of which to say that the Laffer Curve is a thing, but it doesn't prove that 90% is too high, or 5% too low without drawing conclusions about its shape.
Can't wait for people to wreack havoc by shouting a kill word at the inevitable smart car everyone will have in the future.
That's really not the main point of the post, but you're right I should have been more precise.

Edit: updated in the top text now!
Proxy measures about things passengers consider “bad” are probably more useful than groundings alone. Compute some score based on things like:

1) Number of passenger fatalities as a result of a mechanical failure of the aircraft.

2) Number of passenger items ejected from the aircraft during flight.
They've popped up on here a few times lately, MO appears to be to buy apps, run them into subscriptions with dark patterns to make it hard to get out of, sack off all the staff and let the scammy money flood in.
??? might be https://pijul.org/ with its commutative awesomeness
Everything we do is open source, including the LDAP feature ("custom" consultancy aside, where the highly specific parts are often not public). Most extensions are free, some are paid (including the convenient LDAP app), but all are open source, including the paid ones. XWiki is not open core.

In particular, the core code for dealing with LDAP is there [1], open source and gratis, and the paid app that provides a nice UI for it is... paid but also open source under LGPL and the code is here: [2].

You can actually clone the code, strip the license management, compile it and install it on your own instance, but people usually just pay and they also get support.

It's pretty much like OSMAnd Plus, which is paid on the Google Store, but the actual source code is still free software.

So yes, we actually sell free software (and free ≠ gratis has its full meaning with us), and it turns out convenience makes it so that it works out.

Usually organizations big enough to want to use LDAP can usually fork off a few bucks and will be glad to support us.

Of course it would be nicer if it were free and it's always a delicate balance to decide what should be a paid app / feature, but at least it's always open source , with all the relevant rights to users it implies: the right to take the code, adapt it and/or go find someone else if they are not happy with us.

As someone convinced that free software is the right way to do software, I think this is a sane way to fund free software, and good to take.

It's also way easier to handle than donation for an organization that would like to send us money, it's easy to justify.

[1] https://github.com/xwiki-contrib/ldap/

[2] https://github.com/xwikisas/application-activedirectory/
oh qemu supports this alright, since 8.x

but good luck 1. having a cpu with it (can't wait for arm laptops and needing caniuse.org for my assembly code), and 2. figuring out how to use it
It's an interesting question...

Writing a Wayland compositor from scratch means writing the whole display server. Wlroots readme describes it as "about 60,000 lines of code you were going to write anyway".

For comparison my wm is <1k lines.

So they're not equivalent - writing a Wayland compositor from scratch is more like writing the whole X server first, before even starting the WM.

I could use wlroots or another compositor as a starting point. I did look at it, but I'm still on X, and have no compelling reason to switch. Yet, anyway, and that adds to the "cost" for me in terms of disruption.

Where I could translate TinyWM into a few dozen lines of Ruby in a couple of hours and switch to actually using it and build from there, and "just" suffer some nuisance that I can slowly chip away at when I have time, even getting a basic wlroots binding + minimal compositor running seemed like a far more complex project.

I'm itching to figure out how to eat my way further down the stack, but I can't justify spending time on it unless I see a viable way of doing it (relatively) piecemeal.

E.g. I can restart my wm without exiting my X session, and so without losing any open applications. That gets far more disruptive for replacing the X server (whether by another X server or a Wayland compositor), and also allows for a far faster cycle - I can spot a problem, fix it, restart the WM and keep working without having to close everything...

I think if I was to do a Waylabd compositor, a first step would be to put things like window management beyond an IPC boundary, just like with X.
> People are bad at conceptualising low probabilities.

Speaking of which - the probabilities are exactly the same for passengers as cabin crew and there is no compounding effect :p

Number of times you roll the dicey has no effect on probabilities and thus no impact on whether make sense.

I’m not doing this often this can swallow more risk is very human thinking
I don't do a hard filter up-front, but for longer flights, I'll definitely look at plane type and seating availability before I book if there are reasonable options (for comfort reasons).
based.
The device is nothing more than a quite powerful STM32 board with some interesting peripherals added and of course a very powerful firmware/software, which is what makes the difference. However, as everything is Open Source, it can be ported to a similarly designed, possibly different looking, device without the code that phones home, an it probably is what hackers should consider since the Flipper Zero has been banned in some places and being caught with it say in a airport could be enough for confiscation and/or interrogation.
Also, it is overpriced for what it contains; they could sell it at half the price and still make a significant profit. And frankly, as someone who is 100% on Ukraine's side against the barbaric Putin invasion, I'd rather use my money to buy some electronics from Ukrainian surplus shops on Ebay.
Okay. That’s fair and info I didn’t have.
Parsing all those XML specs at runtime seems really slow and wasteful, surely this there’s a better way, no?
I suspect the duct tape was there to act as an impediment and cause the person to make enough noise others would notice before anything could happen
I think you are missing the point.

The open source part, especially it being Postgres, makes it possible for me to move away if I choose to do so, while picking and choosing the parts I want to keep. This ability was crucial for me, I would not have used Supabase otherwise.

If you look at Firebase for example, there are countless stories of how difficult it is to move away.

Even if I won't self host Supabase, I can just take my schema, take my data, and put it elsewhere fairly easily as all the postgres extensions and everything is open source. I have the ability to move away from Supabase completely, and people have done this successfully before (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36004925).

Some people do actually self host btw, and supabase is adding more options like hosting on Fly.io.

Besides this there are other advantages:

- I run Supabase locally for testing (using their docker
images and CLI)

- We run Supabase in GH actions for automated testing and migrations

- I connect directly to the db, and use postgres tools for various things, backups, snapshots, db admin tasks.

- There are community clients for many different languages

Sure, it's also marketing, as these are all great benefits that really had a big impact on my decision to build on Supabase. Open source is more than just self hosting.
Really cool angle. I'm curious how Youtube ranks on the amount of human knowledge or described experience compared to the whole (publically available) web. It's got to be pretty substantial.
In the early days, I made the bad decision to buy an HP laptop. Must have been around 2001 or something. Worst laptop I ever owned.

After that, I never bought anything HP again. Said laptop went into the bin a year after I bought it because it wouldn't stop bluescreening.

I have a Brother laser printer and I am reasonably happy with that (as happy as you can be with a printer, I guess).
> People seem to get really salty when companies change their license further down the line to prevent this.

I think a lot of people get salty when a company changes their license to a source available license but still try to call it open source and free ride on the goodwill that open source software engenders.

Don't call a license open source if it isn't and reasonable people will be fine with it.
I'm Czech and while those two languages are close, "robota" is really forced work in Czech. What you called "robota" in Polish is called "práce" in Czech. In Czech, "Robota" is forced work and has bad connotations. See https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robota . It's interesting that this page doesn't have Polish translation.
Not sure what health care costs represent in a budget of elderlies, surely a lot. But not even a quarter of all this dept is to cover health care provided to retired contributors. Just look at the ratio the entire health sector represents.

Yes the system hasn't been balanced, but all that "money"- went into so many other things old generations have accumulated. Stock (at a decently valued purchased price, not the hyper bubbled dollar per share the stock markets trend at these days). Real Estate, and real estate and real estate.

A few % of the elderly sit on wealth worthy hundreds of millions, billions of dollars worth of property. Taking rents while workers indirectly pay that rent in everything they consume, not just to live somewhere.

Not paying the debt while still catering to eldery's health is an option. It would just deprive some of them from wealth they wouldn't even have time to spend in 100 life times in medical bills plus everything else.

The debt problem will likely be solved along with the property valuation non sense. Health care is, almost, a non issue in comparison.
GPT 2 and 3 used the p50K right? Then GPT-4 used cl100K
The large group of average people hold control under democracy, so if a small group of remarkable people want to see change, they have to appeal to the average person.
737 Max in general [1], but especially recently the Max 9 [2].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737_MAX_groundings

[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737_MAX#Alaska_Airlines...
I just want a normal car with buttons and knobs. New at <= $10,000. I dont need power windows. I dont need backup cameras. I dont need infotainment.

Tons of people I know buy beaters from 20+ years ago because thats all they can afford, but would rather buy a new cheapo thing if it existed.

There is a massive untapped market for cheap vehicles. nobody serving that market.
Congratulations, you've found a new insurance niche.
That’s just a rhetorical flourish, hardly clickbait.
fyi, there are some undocumented but public apis if anybody needs more data. you can see them if you visit certain nps websites.
So “robota” would cover a personal or job-related chore and “robotnik” is a person performing such a chore?
You have your facts wrong. BYD was the top seller in China in 2023: https://carnewschina.com/2024/01/10/top-selling-car-brands-i...
Yeah, see [1].

[1] https://github.com/openai/tiktoken/blob/main/tiktoken/model....
> "Thunder" and "welcome", of course, are words that a German is likely to mangle.

And "flash" as well, since German phonology doesn't distinguish between the vowels in "flash" and "flesh".
> If 'meaning' is a perceived relation from 'A' to 'B', then adding another perceived relation from 'C' to 'D' does not change that in any way.

I don't agree with this at all. Part of the properties of the connection between 'A' and 'B' are its relation to all the things that aren't connected. As soon as another two things are connected, the original connection indeed fundamentally changes. Every single time two new concepts are connected, every other connection in the world is transformed. Connections are meaningful because they denote the things that are connected, and indeed if every single connection is asserted, i.e. "everything means something", then there is no value in any connection.

It's much like saying how maths would break down if every proposition were true, since the value of maths is that some propositions are not true and that we can find which ones are and which ones aren't, although (without loss of generality) relative to some axioms.

> one could even be in communion with it in ones daily life ("actual fulfilment") by attending to a few common myths or stories or what-have-you. Alas, I would say this is just an illusion and while it might be legitimate to lament the loss of a comfortable state, you would just be fooling yourself by closing your eyes and going back to it at this point.

I'm a little perturbed by this, are you saying it's a naive illusion to derive fulfilment in your life via meaning? This seems almost like a fully nihilistic point of view. I don't see any evidence that we have passed this or should pass this. It is simply valuable to, for example, read a text and note how it connects to previously unspoken to aspects of being a human being, and receive a sense of awe and deep satisfaction from that. This is of course related to the author's central thesis, but I don't think you've given any reason for us to believe that this is gone or that this will ever be gone. That would imply that there is no longer any value in the story as a human cultural form, which is primarily something that we see ourselves in and thus connect to, and I see no evidence for this.

> It's certainly not a unique fault of this article but it would be nice if someone were to define their key terms, for once.

I hate to bring up this distinction but I think this is a continental vs. analytical philosophy thing. In analytical philosophy it is often as you describe: terms are clearly defined and manipulated. In so-called "continental philosophy" usually one just starts with a vague feeling of a term and tries to somehow draw some kind of elaboration of it from what it felt by us when we say it. Therefore it's not really possible to develop the terms a priori, the clarity of them is usually arrived at through the mental movements made in the essay.
Ask HN: Sonoma and iOS Apple Notification Sound – Disturbing?
Do you know the sound I'm talking about?

It's called "Rebound" ( at 15 seconds here: https://youtu.be/9zNVI-xA0gg?si=aawv_6lyDRlWhqi7&t=14 )

This sound is played via Apple Maps when I get in the car and it guesses my destination. I can't stand the sound, it is sort of a down note and a bit anxiety inducing for me.

Just me?
Hackaday links to this brief message on the website of Haier Europe:

https://corporate.haier-europe.com/press-release/hon-app-a-m...

It never ceases to amaze me how someone (or more likely some team) can write something like this and consider it an effective, or even just desirable, form of communication. The message is devoid of all signs of actual humans communicating.

It's all empty corp-speak.

Nothing about the reason this message was posted; no summary of what happened and what they perhaps did wrong. No explanation of how their actions came about. Even just “The API usage spiked; we freaked out and went straight to legal threats. We shouldn't have done that.” would feel less generic.
The original book on which this is all based is also excellent reading.
Just wanted to say this sounds like a fun project and you must have been pretty happy when it ended up working out!