skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Molecules don't have innate solid or liquid properties, but they do operate as a solid or liquid, correct? It has nothing to do with them having a temperature of their own, and everything to do with how they are currently acting with their peers. IIUC.
Not quite seeing the distinction you're trying to make:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-laws-of-australia-will-tru...

https://www.buzzfeed.com/markdistefano/turnbull-war-on-maths

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2140747-laws-of-mathema...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/malcolm-turnbull-prime-mi...

https://gizmodo.com.au/2017/07/prime-minister-says-the-laws-...

https://itwire.com/government-tech-news/government-tech-poli...

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/07/australian-pm-calls-en...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2017/07/14/malcolm-tu...

Good enough for Diffie, good enough for me.
Crazy detailed, but also kinda random. For my home area, there are small creeks/brooks (??? in German "Bach") which are literally just half a meter wide and in the middle of a forest on the map, but others which are flowing right through settlements are not listed.
It is everything I ever wanted yet I wish it had never happened.
This isn't a debate. There's no debate moderator. There's no points. If you wanna schedule something formal send me some contact info, we'll put it on twitch, but either way debates don't prove anything.

This is an internet community. I'm trying not to be too much of a dickhead but I'll be damned if I can't call an idea stupid.

You said a silly thing. It's like saying "2 + 2 = 5" with no further explanation. Doesn't mean you're dumb. We all make mistakes.

But it's one mistake to type it and it's a second mistake to send it and think "hell yeah, people will read that and know what I mean".

And now you're coming back and doubling down with a "no you didn't understand me".

No, man. No, I did understand you. You're just making a claim that doesn't hold weight. You've offered no more proof of your claim than I have that... hmm lets think... "lightbulbs solved slavery".

Your argument is akin to me saying: "Lightbulb, invented 1879. Know what you saw a lot of in 1870 that you don't see any more? slavery. Know what you see a lot of now that they didn't have in 1870? That's right, lightbulbs ended slavery. My point was that there is now a global consensus that slavery and genocide are unacceptable, and this consensus did not exist in the pre-lightbulb era."

And like, both our theories are fun theories, but you haven't shown your work to convince anyone that your theory is correct. You're just vaguely gesturing at literally all of history and saying "see". Why even drop the "well, ackshually" in the first place if you don't want to do the work of arguing your case?
I guess the value in reporting it is that for most people, for us on HN as well, computing is considered accurate. You can trust the output if you trust the input and the program that processes the input. That is what we expect and value in computing - accuracy.

For LLMs that's not really the case anymore and it needs to be highlighted that "computers" no longer necessarily produce accurate output, to make sure not too much faith is put in what they produce.
I don't find the division into categories Information software, Manipulation software, and then supposedly Communication software = Information software + Manipulation software that helpful. For me, creating is developing a model of something and making it explicit; I don't see this adequately represented in any of these three categories.
Mother of all breaches: 26B records leak
this is great, i just wish there were solutions!
I personally (and i think many other students agree) rather to invest my study time only on problems which have solutions.
i think an approach like stackoverflow.com would be a nice idea, where anybody can ask question and then have the privilege to flag the correct answer.
or maybe a reference to the textbook which problem originally came from could be provided if you are planning to only create the problems yourself in the future.
Thanks, I'll test them out and apply the changes. It sounds like all 4 of the history env vars don't need to be exported.
The worst part of debates is that every time you make predictions that will surely be tested correct or incorrect, people find away to shift the goalposts in a stupefying way.

US: "EU, please up your NATO spending, US is spending 3% GDP while some of you are dragging your feet with 1%. Also please stop funding Putin via nat. gas."

EU: "No. That's ridiculous."

US: "Russia will invade Ukraine presumably killing thousands."

Sycophants: "No. That's ridiculous and would be awful. Fake news. Propaganda."

Russia invades Ukraine

EU: "Actually US it's your fault we don't have much defense."

Sycophants: "Actually US it's your fault, and if it's not, well it's not so bad, and if it's bad, well it's not our problem."
I'm not arguing which is better or worse, but tactile buttons + screens (non touch) do exist. Like how most cars were before touchscreens.

So a few tactile buttons/wheels/controls can handle those functions...
ML without math is like trying to play 5th Symphony without knowing notes, chords or any musical theory.
Took me a few hours but it was fascinating. I couldn't find it again easily.

https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/fruit-fly-brai...

https://oadoi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1007430
Linear Is Down
Where is the full text of the resolution? It doesn't seem to be linked from anywhere obvious.

Like I say, the closest analogy is Philip Morris: the product is inherently harmful.
> Either way, I think it’s on Meta to do some of the legwork to land third parties.

Oh absolutely. If Meta want a good film rental service on the Quest they'll have to either cut someone better terms on the 30% or pay for one themselves, but they've done neither. Apple are almost certainly doing some of those, and the most interesting Vision Pro launch is their own service which they paid for. Meta keep chasing metaverse experiences that are not ready for prime time instead of services that could be good now like collective film watching even if they are less exciting for internal slidedecks.
Looks awesome! Love the website. I signed up for the wait list.
The demo: AI so powerful it's a literal existential risk for humanity!

v1.0: You should be disbarred for using our product and assuming the output would make any sense whatsoever.
> I'm fed up with seemingly rational people who just can't comprehend that the AI hype is just sales talk.

The reason why you see rational people believe the AI hype is that AI is a lot better than you give it credit for. They are right.

> I had to convince a customer the other day we cannot write whole apps with ChatGPT. As far as I know, not a single example exists of a full app written by ChatGPT. It just can't be done

It can. When it first came out, I wanted a macOS menu bar app so that I could access ChatGPT conversations from the menu bar. I’d never written a macOS app before. I told it what I wanted, it wrote the whole thing in one go. There was one minor compile error (a type signature had changed from a previous version, if I remember correctly), which was a one-line fix. I iterated a couple of times, telling ChatGPT what improvements I wanted to make to the app. It did them.

Would I use it to build a complex app? No. But it is capable of building a whole app.
Thanks! Yes, but only opaque objects. Transparent objects would be hard to fit into the rendering order without order-independent transparency.

I did a version with stochastic alpha to coverage, which would work well alongside both opaque and transparent objects, but it made the splats look very grainy.
I mean, this is a technical analysis on the situation. How the Ammonium Nitrate was stored, why the way it was stored was suboptimal at best, how the explosion happened etc.

It doesn't mention corrupt leaders who ignored warnings about this situation, cypriot/russian businessmen who abandoned a ship, and as you mentioned, Hezbollah. But that's not the goal of this thing, isn't it.

You ask why, they explain how.
> (Or is that low hanging fruit, a cynical me guesses, requiring change to the lifestyles of rich western people?)

Likely this, plus the fossil fuel lobby (many of whom are not "western" but are very very rich), plus the leadership in several "developing" countries such as Russia, China and India hedging their energy bets.
The main point I tried to make, but apparently muddied through subpar writing, was that visionOS ultimately is an operating system more akin to iPadOS than macOS, which I think ultimately results in people being less able to deeply understand the inner workings and of the computer.

An iOS-like operating system aims to abstract away file systems, how software runs and leaves the user merely running apps.

You can use a code editor to write code on iOS or iPadOS, but you wouldn’t be able to run that software outside of that code editor on the device. You couldn’t use it to build an application binary / executable with it to be run directly on the device.

I did not aim to make any points about the development experience for building apps for the Vision Pro. Rather about the restrictive nature of the operating system when using the Vision Pro as a primary computing device.

As mentioned elsewhere, next time I’ll make the post more informative and less a quick “does anyone else feel this way too?”, as I see that this does not fit the standards of the HN audience.
Saw this firsthand when I worked at Nokia. It was consensus building taken to extreme levels, resulting in having 7 different UI toolkits and 4 developer platforms. Absolute hell, but very polite and conflict-free.
Software is political. It mediates countless human activities and thus establishes the routes on which we can feasibly act when computers are involved. Writing Free Software (i.e. freedom-respecting software) is a political act, and if it's done in service of furthering user autonomy it helps us to approximate the necessary goal of gaining power over computers instead of being subject to artifacts produced by programmers in service of their corporate goals.

The software artifacts themselves are only a part of the tools we have. Political representation also matters, e.g. through organizations such as the Free Software Foundation Europe, the Software Conservancy, or the EFF.

The downsides you mention in writing and maintaining Free Software are not restricted to this activity but to any activity that isn't easily exploited for financial gain. (Examples include mentoring people, cultivating and producing art, etc.) This doesn't say much about the activities in question but the systems we've collectively put into place that discourage desirable pro-social activities.
> The #1 thing that makes it ‘hard’ in real life is that nobody wants to make training and test sets.
Whatever tool they used, even if it’s microfiche or a roll of sheepskin, their eyes should have looked at the contents of the case they were citing, before they submitted it to a judge.

If I had to submit code to a judge that decided the life of a person, I’d be reading through my NPM dependencies file by file, if not line by line.
Yes it did. And this was the description ChatGPT put underneath it:

"Here's the illustration of a basic buck converter schematic. This diagram includes the input voltage source (Vin), the switch (transistor), diode, inductor (L), capacitor (C), output voltage (Vout), and the load (represented as a resistor). The connections between these components and the flow of current are also shown. This should help you understand the basic operation of a buck converter."

Which is a pretty good description of the components. However, it then gaslights me into believing this is somehow depicted in the picture Dall-E produced.
> Teslas are best selling cars in many places (e.g. Model Y is the best selling car in EU)

You made me look this up and this is slightly misleading. I couldn't find the full numbers for 2023, but I did find H1 2023.

Yes, Model Y is the best selling car in the EU, but for H1 2023 Tesla is barely the 16th best selling car brand in the EU. The other brands just sell a lot more models, on average.

> at the same time while Tesla maintains rather high margins compared to the industry standard.

I looked this up yesterday, Tesla has similar margins to BMW and Mercedes, because they sell upscale models, just like those. Tesla margins will drop once Tesla starts making cheaper models. For reference, cheaper models in Europe = cars costing 20k€. Not 40k€+ like the cars Tesla is selling right now.
A fine is appropriate. There's no reason to destroy someone's life because of this. There are numerous forms of disciplinary actions available that don't involve needlessly and permanently destroying a person's livelihood.
Viable for what?

Currently most fertilizer is made with hydrogen that's separated from methane and the CO2 vented.

It's about 2% of global emissions.

Ammonia and Methanol and other efuels for shipping and flight generally require hydrogen as a building block.

The Hydrogen Ladder diagram lays out the areas where Hydrogen is necessary and where better current alternative tech exists. It gets updated every so often as tech progresses but generally shouldn't see any major changes.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/hydrogen-ladder-version-50-mi...
Carbon was a possible successor, only time will tell
The wizard isn't working for me. Just keeps spinning.
I imagine after the first car was invented if somebody described our current situation with cars most people would be as sceptical as you are about this.

If the purpose of Government is to govern as per the will of the people, AI's ability will likely surpass Humans in this task certainly in my lifetime.

Talking about current gen AI is like talking about the Benz Patent-Motorwagen, We haven't reached the Ford Model T and we can't even imagine a Tesla Model X.
Has 'Aero Is Everything' Gone Too Far?
Motorway: Seamless High Speed BFT
Looked up the average commute in London workplaces. It's about 45 minutes so not far off. But it's largely train. Which is a bit less mentally tiring at least if you only have to do it a couple times a week and can avoid the absolute worst time. Mine's 30.

What I'm confused about with the hatred for office work amongst people who are mainly working in tech is that most tech companies pride themselves on good work culture. Even in non tech specific companies there are a lot who want to emulate that in their tech departments because it's famous and revered. So yes, I put in some effort and found a good company. I've never worked at FAANG or even a startup but I found companies that value tech culture enough to not micromanage their tech department. So of all the demographics of people to be moaning so much about their work culture I don't understand why it's tech people.

I would also point out that you should perhaps get more agitated about your labour laws because in other countries we have twice or thrice as much anual leave and live in less siloed communities and both of those are proven to increase longevity. Both having more holiday and going to the office when you aren't on holiday will probably make you healthier and happier. At the end of the day, I'm advocating for working practices that align with human nature and are good for our mental and physical health. The fact that you don't have that is a whole other legal and cultural problem that comes from having no labour movement in your country. Which is really sad. But that's the problem at the end of the day.
Civil forfeiture has turned into legalized robbery in the US. This is just an exceptionally egregious example, and you can see why people don't trust the FBI when things like this happen.
Max4Live is what got me into Ableton, it also got me out of Ableton...

As someone who had been using PureData for quite a while the idea of having that kind of development environment integrated into the DAW was super exciting, unfortunately the actual implementation leaves a lot to be desired; personally the final straw was when I realized that the Max process space was global to Ableton so that global variables would leak between devices (no sandboxing)... This may have been addressed in further releases as I was a very early adopter, but all of the other issues pointed out by the other posters still stand.

If you're looking for a platform agnostic alternative to Max4Live there is PlugData[0] which is a VST implementation of PureData -- the open-source origin of Max and created by the same authors.

And there is the Grid for Bitwig[1] which offers a modular graph based MIDI/DSP programming environment that runs at audio rate and is fully integrated into the DAW as a native solution! The Grid is somewhat limited as it isn't extensible, but it supports >95% of common use cases and is used internally to build Bitwig's native devices. Hopefully in the future Bitwig will extend it's open API surface to include building custom Grid modules -- in the meantime PlugData is perfectly acceptable patch for doing unusual logic calculations and doing left-field things like interfacing with robotics :)

[0] https://plugdata.org/
[1] https://www.bitwig.com/the-grid/
It's insanity. I can't even watch 1080p content from most streaming providers on my desktop. It's always capped to 720p on Chrome/Win11. And even when a service offers 4K, the bitrate is abysmal. Trying to watch Dune via HBOMax you can see color banding and blocking throughout the entire movie.
Alien civilisations were destroying entire stars for just being suspicious, and did it within a few decades of receiving information, which means (due to the speed of light limitation) that star destroying weapons were spread around the galaxy every few dozen light years. This means resources were extremely abundant, so it's absurd that a civilisation that can do this simply can't send a probe to every star to check for civilisations.
Whateher it was meant for it or otherwise, it is most definitely able to bypass middle-men via direct payments to a wallet address.

I come across various sites and services that have bitcoin addresses for donations or payments.
> Obviously, the efficiency of the cycle is lower when starting from air instead of from pure carbon dioxide, but the input energy is unlimited, as it comes from solar or wind energy.

What sort of energy inputs are required for a kg of CO2? If the process is so inefficient that e-fuels contain only a few percent of the energy inputs, then it's pretty unlikely to be a good use of electricity (even excess renewable energy).

That's the pivotal number. kWh per kg of CO2. It needs to be reasonable.

Ultimately only 0.04% of the air is CO2. You need to process a lot of air to extract large amounts of CO2.
This is simply wrong, because it is not a matter of cost. ChatGPT can be available for free and it would still not replace most jobs in its current state. Likewise the current state of vision-based self-driving is not good enough to replace even a single driver, even if the cars would be free. So certainly either software advances are needed OR increasing the training data or parameters will further improve the models (which is not necessarily the case).
what is Linear.app?
Getting 403
I've led a team building an LLM agent for customer service.

Our finding is that it's between 50% and 10% of the operational cost of a human for a case. This costing is based on the range of costs for offshore vs. nearshore workers and doesn't account for a lot of the overhead of a human powered service organisation (in the jargon this isn't fully loaded).

I believe that the real cost is about 20% if dev expenses are included - but that's just my view of where inbetween the bounds thing come to rest.

Now, that's not 100th. In terms of quality, there are things it can't do and despite our architecture (which is aimed at managing the deficiencies of LLM's) we still see some hallucinations creeping through. For example our encoder has problems with directionality as in it will write text like "average transaction value declined from $150 to $154 in october." We can catch (in our tests anyway) all the mistakes about the values, but the actual textual phrasing is hard to check - at the level where hard means I think that the value of the system doesn't justify it.

I think, from customer feedback, that this sort of thing will be ok for the apps we are building, but it is a real problem with this generation of models and it's not clear to me that it will be solved in the future (although like everyone else I was blindsided by the jump from GPT3 to 4 so who knows).
>For a server process the best reaction to a panic would mean abort and clean restart.

I suppose you could have a panic in one thread whilst others are still running fine. You may just want to shut those other threads down gracefully.
Sure, I understand that from the POV of making your code explicit. Personally I have always tended towards, for example:

var x string

when initializing empty (zero-value) vars, versus:

x := "hello"

when initializing variables that should hold an initial value.

To me as a Go programmer at least, this is more obvious and intuitive as to the intent of the declaration.
Lucky you! I tried learning with examples generated by ChatGPT and none of them worked at all. I then learned the basics of the API by reading this excellent tutorial: https://osm-queries.ldodds.com/tutorial/, and realised that, in hindsight, ChatGPT's answers weren't even close to being correct.
Yes, I love that thread. It helps me with brainstorming on new ideas.

Also, it's pretty nice to share with the small team I'm part of. We're currently working on custom client projects and we'd like to build our product. Seeing how people do it is a nice morale boost, especially for a team that lacks experience in building.
So even if GPT-4 "understands" what needs to be drawn (in the sense that the higher-level concepts and relations between them are embedded in its weights), it's difficult to get DALL-E to draw it correctly because DALL-E doesn't have that same "understanding". OpenAI will need to combine these models somehow, or train DALL-E so that it has the same conceptual understanding.
> The reason why you see rational people believe the AI hype is that AI is a lot better than you give it credit for. They are right.

I am sorry, but you are mistaken. There are no AI. The "AI" that is being mongered today is just a salespeople buzz word for Large Language Model technology, which is just that, a language model. It can be used to generate seemingly coherent text, but it can not reason.

> Would I use it to build a complex app? No. But it is capable of building a whole app.

It only works for you as you accept lowering the bar of that would pass as an "app".

I mean of course any kind of normal app. Say Microsoft Paint for example.

Show me ChatGPT able to create a full app like that based on business logic you prompted.
> I can imagine a situation where a seasoned C or C++ programmer ... make fun of it on the forums

Is this really a thing? Do C folks make fun of Rust?
So are the atomic accretions known as humans who have 'wants' part of 'pop science'? Free will? If not, our justice system needs massive reconsideration, an idea with which many people concur but (I would have thought) is unlikely to prevail.
> several formatters that are often pretty large (e.g. f32 and f64 would add at least 30 KB of binary …)

I know floats are full of scary corner cases, but… Assuming tens of bytes per an if statement, hundreds of corner cases just in formatting? Is it really that bad?
Every single lawyer references cases they never actually read in every filing.
Lawyers submitting fake briefs that they could be bothered to review destroys someone's life.

This would just mean they can't be a lawyer.