skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably an unpopular opinion:

A probabilistic word generator is still a word generator. It might be slightly better next version, we've seen it get worse, its more of the same

We can talk about AGI all we want, but it wont be built on the same technology as these word generators. There will have to be a technological breakthrough years before we even get close

The companies focusing on LLMs right now are dealing with

* Generate better words

* Make it cheaper to generate (use less compute)

* Find better training material

There is a ton of money to be made, but its still more of the same
100% this - we're handing out H1B's like hotcakes, sending every entry level job to India or LatAM. Tech is broken right now
Quasicrystals is an excellent example. Penrose tiles were invented in 1974, but quasicrystals were discovered in 1982.
Add 'reducing compute use as much as possible' to the list, I'm sure. I can look at some of my saved conversations from months ago and feel wistful for what I used to be able to do. The Nerfening has not been subtle.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci
I was nodding along right until the rule… it allows for “entertainment” as part of your informational consumption. That’s a bit strange to me as I’d classify all of my “just in case” reading as entertainment.
Stick with your job as long as possible, there isn't any better bootstrap funding than being employed at a software engineer rate. Sounds like a good transition would be to apply to https://tinyseed.com/
They're also great for stylii, like the pre-iPad TabletPCs.

I actually wrote one of the original Chrome extensions to make it easier to navigate on my tablet:

https://github.com/appsforartists/marking-menu-js/
I think there's a gap between the human version of curiosity and the AI version. A machine can be told that something is interesting, where humans need to innately find something interesting or spend a long time sort of learning to find something interesting.

> White noise is highly unpredictable per pixel, but will get a very predictable representation after a layer or two of featurization if the features are trained/designed for real world observations.

Virtually anything that cannot be predicted is interesting by nature of being unpredictable. Is it truly random? How, or why? True randomness is rare, and its existence is interesting.

TV static is uninteresting because it isn't actually random, it's just too onerous to get the measurements to predict it for the value we would get. It's part of the large class of things that is random for practical purposes, but not truly random. I have no doubt that if humanity dumped all its resources into predicting static, NASA could measure inbound radio waves and/or model space to figure out what static would look like at a particular spot.

Notably, humans find the cause of static (partially various waves from space) fascinating because we can't predict them. We've just placed our interest down a layer of abstraction from static. Static is boring, the source of static is interesting.

I suspect it is truly random to the AI, though, because it has no means to "see" those radio waves. I would wager humans would be far more interested in static if we were also unable to see the causality between radio waves and static.

I would be interested to see if the AI was as interested in static if it was also provided a real-time feed of radio waves at the antenna. Would it figure out that those things are correlated and lose interest in static like humans have, or would it continue to find static fascinating despite knowing it's a basic causality?
User joined 11 months ago, and that's the first (and so far only) comment.

Maybe we'll never know for sure.
This is all tremendously frustrating to me because electric cars don't have to be this complicated. I've enjoyed the restoration work on my electric-converted minitruck because it's all very simple. Sure, there is software, running in the motor controller and the instrument cluster. Both are fairly straightforward to work with, though, and have small functionality scopes that makes it unlikely you'd want to change anything besides configuration. The user interface is mostly just 12v through switches to GPIOs on the motor controller, though the instrument cluster receives data via CANOpen which of course greatly simplifies the wiring.

What I'm saying is that I don't think there's really any connection between these software problems and electric vehicles... the problem is that electric vehicles are being introduced at the same time that the auto industry has bet on advanced software features, touchscreen interfaces, and sophisticated infotainment as the way to win customers. Since the EVs are broadly new designs, they're often getting all these new features first. Major examples like Tesla have caused consumers to conflate "electric drivetrain" and "huge touchscreen, no buttons," when one does not need to imply the other.

Look at the hobby EV community, they can be built in very straightforward ways that are easier to diagnose than combustion engines. The industry just doesn't want to.
I would find a way to validate that there is a path to $1m/year. Perhaps talking to some of the folks to see if they would commit to paying if you're able to deliver what you're building.

If you can get some written commitments in place, it will be a lot easier to pitch to investors if you decide to go that route, and you'll get a better valuation.

It doesn't sound like you are able to bear a worst case scenario at the moment since you have dependents, so you want to be as sure as possible before you lose your income stream.
For-profits must act in the shareholders' best interests. Shareholders want profit, but they also care about other things. Matt Levine has been banging this drum of late in his column. To paraphrase:

Shareholders are people who breathe air. A car company could oppose particulate emissions regulations to maximize profits for shareholders. But if they supported regulations instead, this is equally justifiable to any court in the land, even though it reduces profits. Cleaner air to breathe is very obviously in their shareholders' best interests.
Health report? They only have limited info about your DNA (common small variants).

The further you move from obvious disease-causing or high-risk mutations the more expertise you need. But even there you need where to look and how to present the results.

The real (honest) question is what such reports cover and what qre the precision/recall? Answering that requires far more than duct-taping a few python modules.
Agree that this is worse. 2000 was just layoffs, now it's that + offshoring which IMHO is ruining the tech industry
Teleport – opinionated server setup with Ruby
For me it's also a cow one: 'Car!'.
Alternative non-paywall link:

https://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?d=1180808593353&w=TdklVuJENI...

(archive.is will not work in some parts of the world)
I don't trust the media fully either, but I think that if a proper remote execution vulnerability would have been found, and also exploited en masse, that would surely make the news. And if there wasn't, for 16 years, then I think we can assume that the thing is not more rickety than the rest of human constructed reality.

Also, please note that the discussion is not about possibility. It was explicitly stated that "Every modern CPU does this", and here, "this" refers to "calls home with full access to your everything". Now, that is patently false.
Window + Dune = Sandwich

That one surprised me.

Sandwich + Sphinx = Sphinxwich

This one delighted me. The Sphinxwich doesn't combine well with other stuff though.
That assumes that you want to memorize everything that you read. I disagree with the premise. I don't want to memorize everything I read, as a matter of fact, I am happy forgetting most of it.
Is there a name for a cartooning style where the creatures seem to always be drawn as wide as possible?

I remember a few animators for Sesame Street who did the same thing. It was always striking.

Larson seems to also give them tiny heads for maximum ridiculousness. :)

It make me think of that Aubrey Beardsley illustration of Ali Baba where he's got the curved lines running off the page suggesting these gi-normous flowing comfy pants:

https://images.fineartamerica.com/images/artworkimages/mediu...
Database rights don't exist in the United States.

Their weights obviously aren't protected by trademark. So, what IP regime protects the weights?
> chronic sinus headaches

As I am writing this, I am going through something like this. Over a longer period of time I have made myself believe that it is related to what/when I eat etc. If you can, could you share what were the triggers for you?
Slight nitpick, but "nitpick" is not spelled with a "k".
Food for thought:

* Big investors almost never invest the year leading into a general election. They already spent all that money on bribes and lobbying.

* So much of the US had already outsourced a great part of their manufacturing.

* Much of that manufacturing went to china. (be sure the check the news that china is making in the US today)

* We are more politically divided than ever before (I don't think this is mutually exclusive to the US)

* We are experiencing (in the US) the largest cost burdens ever seen for renters source: https://www.jchs.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/reports/fil...

* There have been many reports of large lay offs in not just the tech sectors.

* Most of our current employment numbers are politically motivated lies or exaggerations

* AI has pushed a 6% increase requirement on development productivity

* There are vastly more boot camps and junior and mid level developers available in the market.

* Remote work make the market global when it was still very local for many.

I feel like there are many more bullet points to add.
Mine was School For the Gifted
People really abuse this term. Like using “natural” to market stuff. But arsenic is “all natural”! It’s “open source” so it must be beneficial. “rm -rf c” is “open source” too
I guess that's why they say "Fauxductivity" and not "Procrastination" ? But yeah, a lot of overlap there...
Snapchat will ban you for having too many accounts on one phone number but sees nothing wrong with "Dab pens for sale" or "1 gram for $15". The platforms are partly to blame.
>Not so much.

Could probably fix that quote by adding "believe they are."

>who happen to believe they are overtly charismatic to a fault.
Didn't "thagomizer" work its way into paleontologists' slang, since they really didn't have a word for it?
Money is a terrible discriminator unless you want to advantage the rich. This would fuck up connectivity for everyone that relies on affordable hosting long before it'd force a rusted old enterprise to adopt IPv6.

dig github.com AAAA
DNS over HTTPS is not what I thought
I need a brain colonic after reading though just some of the mess of overhyped claims in RavenDB marketing and documentation. I appreciate Aphyr doing all this wonderful work and how some of the Raven claims triggered that work. I'd have hoped that anybody building a critical system would have read the mess of Raven documentation/claims/hype and run the other way.
You forgot to copy & paste the final punctuation.
It's hard to say what exactly caused his persecution. He did upload a few pictures of human rights activists to Wikimedia Commons, almost a decade prior.
That's not how routers or routes work.
Nice. I wonder how closely it could be approximated with a small number of Bezier curves. (for example, a quadratic with six points. 4 control points and two side points).
Not much, at least on firefox. They exist as a couple of bytes on the hard drive until actually loaded.
We have no idea how much wash trading is happening. I know for a fact that it is not all wash trading but it's also not 0% wash trading. Both extremes are equally absurd to claim.
I know you're joking & making fun of glacial IPv6 adoption, but if IPv6 was just IPv4 + more address bits, I'm sure it'd be fully adopted by now and IPv4 would be something kids taking computer networking courses would be taught about in the "history" section.

IPv6 involved too many other changes to make it a straightforward upgrade. I agree that it's ridiculous that we still don't have universal v6 support, but let's not pretend the protocol designers made it easy.
If you like reading and aquiring knowledge, then by definition you can't waste your time reading or aquiring useless knowledge.

I do however, agree with the article in that you should actively choose what you read, instead of having content pushed towards you.
So the article basically tells me not to read hackernews... :/
National Hug an Economist Day
Everybody has an IBAN. (International Bank Account Number). That makes things very easy, as the IBAN is specific to just one bank account, and is recognised throughout most of the world.
IMO asking people to not use available tools in interviews is a bad idea, unless you are trying to do a very basic check that someone knows the fundamentals.

Allow them to use the tools, with a screenshare, and adjust the types of tasks you are giving them so that they won't be able to just feed the question to the LLM to give them the completed answer.

Interviews should be consistent with what day to day work actually looks like, which today means constantly using LLMs in some form or another.
Depends on the language/library. C#'s DateTime will throw ArgumentOutOfRangeException.
Mechanism to explain the anti-inflammatory effects of fasting
> The comics linked seem different.

Whaaat? Say it ain't true! The AI crap isn't as good as the original? No! That's impossible!
It's not that they failed to argue causality, but they did not prove it. From II.C.b.vii (The Hindsight Defense):

> Defendants finally argue from hindsight. They claim the Grant was fair because it worked: “Tesla thrived because of the 2018 Plan.” With this argument, Defendants ask the court to infer a direct causal relationship between the Grant and Tesla’s subsequent performance. But Defendants failed to prove that Musk’s less- than-full time efforts for Tesla were solely or directly responsible for Tesla’s recent growth, or that the Grant was solely or directly responsible for Musk’s efforts. This last argument is empty rhetoric, not evidence of fair price.
> I think it was a good enough apology. What was insufficient?

It's an expression of sympathy and a commitment to prevent future occurrences of whatever caused the suffering, using language approved by a legal team. It's an explicit non-apology, since an apology would be an admission of fault or wrongdoing.
Could you give me an example of one that for you is the "right kind" and I'll see if I feel the same way about it? Just as a check for myself.
> it's literally democracy.

I guess it is the formal definition.

In Australia we have a slightly different version. We don't prevent the crazies from voting. Instead we insist everyone must vote, including the crazies. Turns out when you do that the non-crazy voters outnumber the rest by a considerable margin.

A weird thing happens when you make voting compulsory. Another bunch, which I now regard as crazy, insists they should be free to not vote. They get fined. (I have a vision of what would happen in the USA if someone proposed compulsory voting. It's far left and far right politicians who would be thrown out if the centre voted, inciting their following to riot in the streets, shouting "Freedom!")

It's kinda funny, because they are allowed to not vote. The actual requirement isn't to vote because it's impossible to police. The requirement is to turn up at the polling place and have your name recorded. You can write whatever you damned well please on the voting slip. After most elections the country gets to have a laugh at the insults and pornographic images that have been inscribed on those slips.

It's also funny because these crazies are insisting they have a right to not participate in the democracy. And they don't. Those that do participate then pass rules to fine them, and the non-participants get pissed off about that and demonstrate their now white hot anger by not voting again.

And I bet you thought I was being harsh for calling them crazy. It's like watching someone put their hand in a fire, and not remove it because it hurts.

And that is an excellent example of why compulsory voting works. The voices of the crazies literally get drowned out by the people who would otherwise be too lazy to vote. Or perhaps they just figure they are in the centre, know stuff all about the candidates, and most other people are reasonable like them so they won't change the outcome. But it turns out if most normal, reasonable, uninformed people remove themselves from machinery of democracy, what you get left with is crazies voting for crazies.
Sounds like you're considering leaving your current role... have you considered telling your boss exactly what you've laid out in this post and asking for more challenging, engaging, and rewarding assignments?

(What's [s]he going to do -- fire you?)
I have submitted some in the past. Others are submitting them! And I upvote every one I like in /new. But HNers don't really seem interested unless its llama.cpp or Mistral, and I don't want to spam.

I can't say I blame them either, there is a lot of insane crypto-like fraud in the LLM/GenAI space. I watch the space like a hawk... and I couldn't even tell you how to filter it, it's a combination of self-training from experience and just downloading and testing stuff myself.
Tell HN: GoDaddy Stole My Domain
GoDaddy did not send any notifications about domain expiration and right after domain expiration they transferred domain to their own account. Now requiring to hire their broker to purchase the domain. The domain is still pointing to the IP address of my site.

The domain has expired on January 25, on January 26th they sent an expiration notice. But I couldn't find the domain neither in expired nor in active domains.
Sure. He shouldn’t have sold 87% of his ownership then. He’s only a 13% owner.

Could have kept Tesla private like SpaceX.
Sorry, I should have said: ... (row)hammer hard enough, every sufficiently dense/modern DRAM ...
Would you consider yourself an early adopter? Based on this comment, I'm going to assume not.

Cars have been around for over a century, so you'd be forgiven for not seeing them through a lens of innovation.

But modern EVs have played "catch up" in a lot of ways, bringing UX heuristics that are two plus decades old into the dashboard.

Like anything new, this necessitates a more forgiving mindset.

The issue here is the folks with your mentality are also the ones charged with incorporating these heuristics into cars. Thats a fundamental issue, because they are fundamentally different ways of looking at the world.

The world is asking car companies to become tech companies, without any staff changes. Not a recipe for success.
I'm not so sure. If it is not copyrightable, and it is a patent, and not a trademark, which legal protection would it have? It could definitely be considered a trade secret, and the theft of it and misapproation of it would be a crime, but once it has been published, people that just used the published version I don't believe would be comitting a crime, since it would lose it's trade secret status.
> I pinned content from my own server and played forever with settings and definitions, but couldn’t get the content to be available everywhere.

> The blog you’re reading now is built with Jekyll and is hosted on my own 10$ server.

> don’t get me wrong, I’m still an IPFS fanboy.

...how could you still be a fanboy? When IPFS cannot fulfill even the most basic function of globally serving static content, why does it deserve anyone's interest? It's not even new or cutting edge at this point. After 8 years of development how can the most basic functionality still not work for even an expert?
Does reading have to be "productive" in order to be worthwhile? I would argue that reading is an enjoyable activity regardless of whether there are any tangible benefits. Similar to how it's enjoyable to go on a meandering walk. Even though there are more efficient forms of cardio and you could get to where your going faster by driving, that doesn't keep the activity from being enjoyable in and of itself.

I've probably forgotten 95% of everything I've ever read. But I certainly don't feel like all that time was wasted.
We still refer to cat food as 'cat fud' in my house.
I can't definitively determine whether a specific piece of text was written by a human or generated by a machine. However, the textprovided seems to be coherent and well-written, so it's plausible that a human could have authored it. If you have any specific concerns or reasons to suspect otherwise, please provide more context.
It sounds like you may have just read the title. The article seems to be specifically about the tendency to use information seeking as a means of procrastination.
Wow, The Far Side really brings back some cherished childhood memories. Larson is, IMO, one of the best to ever do it. His humor is really unique, and he's quite a thoughtful person as well, letting his work speak for itself. A relic of a bygone era.

One of my faves: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/oh-my-god-its-leonard-hes-stuf...

Gets me every time. I still have It came from the Far Side as well as Gallery and Gallery 2 on my bookshelf. Timeless.
Filecoin, which is based on IPFS, creates a market for unused storage. I think that idea is great but for adoption it needs to be as simple as Dropbox to store files. But visit https://filecoin.io/ and the dropbox-like app that you could be willing to try is nowhere to be found. So maybe it is an enterprise solution? That isn't spelled out either. So I am not surprised that this has little traction and the article further confirms the impression.
Weightlifting is interesting, "most" elites have really good technique (tempo, maintaining angles throughout the pull, bottom position, lockout, etc.) indicating some level of mastery from years of practice. But I think a good amount beginners and intermediates (i'd consider myself somewhere in there) let their strength hold them back, which after obtaining the requisite positioning/flexibility can be "spammed" ( i.e. run a squat program while getting touches on the classical lifts and seeing your total increase the first time you test it). I guess the strength aspect is a dependency that must be optimized as some lifters have an excess strength reserve and can't snatch/ clean n jerk what their squat numbers would indicate.
Full weights aren't available, only Q2, Q4, Q5 quants via miqudev.
No, open source is about software freedom, see debian free software guidelines from which the "open source definition" derives. https://wiki.debian.org/DebianFreeSoftwareGuidelines

Between these and FSF you've got pretty much all the accepted pontificating about free / open source software. Reproducibility is not mentioned because it's not really a consideration for software.

Model weights aren't software so there's not an automatic correspondence between the freedoms, but the essential one you might think you need the training data for is freedom to modify and inspect the source.

Modification is fine tuning which you're free to do if you have the weights. And the model weights + code fully define a system that can be interrogated to give a practitioner relevant info about how the model works (within our understanding) that the training data isn't needed or relevant for. I don't see that any freedom on use or inspection is violated by not having the data.

It could be nice to have it of course, but it's more about using it to learn how, not exercising any freedom.

Incidentally, the big freedom that's usually violated is freedom of discrimination against field of endeavor. LLAMA et al list uses and industries they restrict from using them and because of that are not "open".
Elon could have kept Tesla private.

I doubt SpaceX is ever going public after this shenanigans.
Microsoft in 2003: move from Unix to Windows!

Microsoft in 2023: move from Windows to Linux (as long as it's in Azure)!