skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My best guess is that you want a supervisor GPT-4 like LLM planning the task and a lower level on-prem LLM doing the tasks like driving from one location to another or grasping an item.

Sending every frame to GTP-4 right now is way too slow. But at Tesla FSD like model can drive from one location to another in a closed environment with perfection. All that is missing is training that style in a roomba/robot form and then having GTP-4 monitor and manage the tasks at a 10 or 20 second interval
Ha, cool, thank you for the info. I was half suspecting (and hoping) that someone would point out something like this. Game history knowledge increased.
That is great, every time I saw an ad with that stupid phrase it drive me insane. It was so stupid and clearly straight up lying and yet they acted so proud of it.

While we are at it can we stop confusing "Wifi" and "internet" in marketing? Somehow consumers seem to have forgotten that the 2 are distinct (likely thanks to most people probably don't use specific routers and instead they are the same). I want to scream anytime I see a post like "My wifi is down, is anyone else having issues?" on a local group and its like, I am almost sure you mean Internet is down but the distinction is very important.
You should be able to upscale and fine tune to recover performance, I suppose!

Clearly we should train a diffusion model to denoise the weights of LLM transformer models. Yo dawg.
We could choose, for instance, to restrict people to single terms. I don't think long term exposure to power is actually that helpful, and it creates brand names and political careers, none of which really seems to be that helpful.

I think restricting the presidency to 2 terms is actually quite positive, and I wish we had a similar system in Canada (although generally it works out to be more or less the same)
You should actually try it before coming to that conclusion.

The main difference between discord, zoom or any other flat viewing experience vs VR is immersion. Words don’t do it justice, you have to experience it yourself.
>the cost to society of trips by car is close to one euro per kilometre

I would like to understand what this means.

I don't have any idea if it's accurate or not but the implications make me think it requires some explanation.

If the true cost of travel by car is about one euro (currently $1.08?) per km, then - using ~4.7L / 100 km mileage of my car - by my arithmetic gas should cost on the order of 20 euros per liter to internalize the costs to society.

Some very brief research indicates to me that Danes price gas in DKK, but converted it's around 2 euros a liter.

So is Danish gas underpriced by as much as 10 times?
Hard to believe because I have seen the cron dumpster fire at so many companies. Random cronjobs running on random boxes ends up with mystery jobs whose existence often goes unnoticed as people leave the org and docs are out of date. Random accounts with different cron jobs, with no visibility from one account to another. Box failure leads to mystery jobs failing with no way to figure out what happened. No “advanced” features like retry and retry with exponential back off. No database with job history. No parallelism.

Every place I have worked cron turned into a dumpster fire.
Those are hardcoded.

dns.google is 8.8.8.8 and cloudflare-dns.com is 1.1.1.1. You can replace the names with those IPs in the curl commands if you want, the certificates are valid for the IPs too.
Arctic Adventure was my sibling's and my favorite game growing up, when we were gifted an old computer. I spent years in my early adulthood trying to track it down, and finally my sister remembered the name and I found it on archive.org: https://archive.org/details/msdos_Arctic_Adventure_1991
I always ask the systemd question to programmers. It’s fun to see how much technical knowledge or opinions people have. If you don’t know what it is, I get to see how you react to not knowing something.

It’s probably a little hard on those that don’t know. I’m not sure if they believe me when I say they aren’t expected to know.

Unfortunately, the question is quickly becoming dated. If you’re young and started with macOS and docker containers, you may never encounter it in your career. :)
Ah, the old,

>God is dead.

-Nietzsche

>Nietzsche is dead.

-God
I found it funny how Ars Technica (owned by Condé Nast) had some of the best reporting offering scathing criticism of Reddit (also owned by Condé Nast) while Steve Huffman was destroying the website by killing off the API and leaving volunteer moderators without the tools they need to deal with spam. I'm not sure how common this is, but it was refreshing to see journalists doing their job properly despite being faced with a massive conflict of interest.
I'm the author of the comment and yet I have never used ActiveRecord, which was coined by Martin Fowler 2 years after I was using iBATIS and was popularized by Ruby on Rails a year later. As the author of the comment, I can assure you the comment was not referring to ActiveRecord, a topic that was not mentioned either in the comment or in the original article.
Active record, with a space, not ActiveRecord. Not sure how you managed to jump all the way to Ruby on Rails.

Regardless, the ask was "Perhaps you could clarify what you were trying to say with respect to OOP?", not "Have you used (active record|ActiveRecord)?" Even if you somehow managed to not see the space, and didn't notice the capitalization, the response still doesn't logically follow.

Did you not read the comment?
Oh big deal, Weather is Happening has been saying that for at least 11 years: https://www.boston.com/news/weather/2022/02/09/weather-is-ha...
Comparing a government's debt to its GDP is like comparing a couple's debt to their employers' total revenues. The country's government doesn't own all its residents' property, and is usually unable take their income streams.

MMT says a lot of things, but people only seem to follow it when convenient.
"You want to know what will happen in the future, ask a crystal ball, not me. I'm an economist" - Richard Wolff
Remember that this bill will block anything that goes against the government by labelling them harmful to children.
The author sums up everything that is wrong with crypto in two sentences:

> I was getting excited about every new cryptography protocol, and economics too seemed to me to be part of that broader worldview: it's the mathematical tool for understanding and figuring out how to improve the social world.

No, it isn't. This kind of hubris is what hides what Crypto is, which is a game of greater fools and nothing more.
Oh, I'm OK with going slow! It doesn't have to be all that practical, I'm more curious about playing with toy approaches. Trying to populate a world model with few captioned still frames plus basic IMU/dead reckoning seems like a fun challenge ...

Reminds me of the recent HN post on jumping spider intelligence: They can do complex route planning, but need to stare for hours before they get going. This is probably more down to their tiny field of view on the front-facing good eyes, but still :-)
Yes, either that, or a relatively stable fiscal picture coupled with moderate economic growth. Keep the deficit low-ish, and keep posting the growth numbers that have marked most of the last decade, and the debt situation looks a lot more manageable after not all that long.
NameCheap is on the frontpage right now for very similar problems: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39203315
This guy doesn't believe what he's saying. The US has issued a lot of bonds in the world's reserve currency over many years. So what. Money is made of debt.
I like matrix as much as anyone else around here, and I would like to see it survive and prosper. That being said, if over 60% of the annual “expenses” of your nonprofit goes to “management” covering the salaries of four people who have other full time jobs, you really need to do a better job at managing finances.
The clue that this guy is a right-wing crank is that he blames the problem on "Congress extending the debt limit".

The root cause of the problem happens long before the meaningless semiannual debt limit ritual.

The root cause is that Congress approved more spending, while also approving tax cuts, so that the spending isn't funded by tax revenue.

The whole debt limit fiasco doesn't fix this fundamental problem. The debt limit nonsense is just coming along later, after all the spending and tax cut legislation has been signed into law, and threatening to default on the nation's obligations.

It's like trying to solve the problem of leaving the barn doors open and letting the horses escape by coming along after the horses are gone and threatening to burn down the barn.
The dollar is still backed by a heavy metal, it just switched from gold to plutonium.
I said YouTube isn't a net negative. Even then you have to think globally, what about children who grew up consuming AI generated abomination animations made with 0 oversight of even its greedy creators?

Netflix was the cause for current slate of tax writeoff cancellations (no Netflix no overinvestment by Warner etc and no clumsy Zaslav cleanup), terrible shows being greenlit, homogeneity of camerawork, casting, identity-politics pandering that nobody asked for, oversaturation of the market with streaming services that is almost as bad as cable etc. It's basically a cancer overgrowth, good short-term and terrible long-term. Binge-tv model is also not a good thing, in terms of how much time it takes up, how little it brings in terms of pleasure and validates our growing impatience. I could go on and on. Does anyone even remember Mank or The Killer? Imagine Poor Things being Netflix-only release. Nobody would even say a single peep about it outside of niche film twitter accounts.

Generally speaking, if you've read "Seeing Like a State", then you can apply the same logic to companies and the entire industries, or really any aspirations of "man". We crave control and fear uncertainty, so we make environments far more deterministic, which brings more short-term profit but ruins the environment (be it nature or film itself). Look at Disney, Iger created the superhero movie boom (by making it super deterministic and boring: every movie is part of a giant puzzle so that each piece brings money) but in the process killed Star vehicles, killed experimentation (by directors, actors), and now Scorsese and Coppola need to throw around their weight to reverse the course. Sure, A24 exists, but before this all movies were A24 movies essentially. Now a major star being in a horror movie is an "Event". (Who is even a star anymore? DiCaprio, Cruise? These people were around since 80s. You think Chris Evans will have the same longevity?) Yeah, there were similar periods of dominance (80s action movies) but they weren't so precisely fine-tuned and featured greater directorial freedom and less emphasis on being non-offensive.

I guarantee you none of you will quote Avengers (Ultron onwards) in next 20 years. People still quote Terminator 2 or Predator or Lethal Weapon, despite them also being brainless flicks (some not so brainless actually). Look at Dr Strange 2, they forced Raimi to stop being Raimi basically (the first movie has some good moments), and made him fall in line with the "agenda", because the plan™ is too important to compromise on. In reality the plan™ is the money perputuum mobile lol. Sure, these people were always greedy, but stochasticity of the system allowed for good stuff to pass through their Eyes of Sauron lmao.

Tbh I don't even know why I'm responding a "throwaway" account.
Hmmm. I already don't like it when we're collecting together "procedures and state".

One of the most poisonous things about the "class" whether that's in Java or C++ is that it looks as though this procedure called "chirp" and this state called "loudness" are snuggled up together in my Bird class, after all in my source code they are literally on adjacent lines!

Of course they're not, the actual mechanics are the same as in say Rust, where "chirp" lives in an impl block, while "loudness" is part of the actual data structure, or a language with full blown Uniform Method Call Syntax where the relevance of Bird to a "chirp" procedure is just spelled out wherever "chirp" is defined, not in the data structure of Bird itself.

I think the heart of OOP is the opacity, the fact that we (for some definition of we) aren't allowed to poke around in the state directly, and this article talks about that idea at length, critiquing people who build a whole bunch of getter and setter mechanics for what is, in practice, just Plain Old Data and not really an object at all. So I think I'd start there, not by adding procedures.

So, I think a Doodad which may have internal state but we can't touch it, is an Object, even if there seemingly aren't any procedures for Doodads at all. But a Thingy, which has six named integers and a string inside it, that's not an object in the OOP sense, that's just some data, even if I have a whole tonne of procedures for Thingys.

This also makes sense when I don't have total information. If you give me a Thingy, I can do things with that, regardless of whether you provide procedures, but if you give me a Doodad, I can't do anything with that unless you provide procedures. Maybe you have procedures, but I can't necessarily use them.
Yeah, the article raises more questions than it answers them.

> When designing this new, more reliable service, we decided to leverage many existing services to decrease the amount we had to build

This might explain building from scratch. Maybe the existing solutions had dependencies they didn't want to maintain and they opted for using the existing internal systems. It feels like that influenced all the rest.
Microfactories Could Be the Manufacturing Strategy of the Future [video]
The real black swan event was him coming up with the concept of black swan events. Everything else he's done has been increasingly ridiculous.
Some of my First Discoveries:

* Frankenstein + angel = Angelstein. (Then Angelstein + Baby = Angelina Jolie.)

* something + Something from Michael Jackson = Dangerous.

* Dangerous + Sherlock Holmes = Moriarty.

* Multiverse + White => Dark Multiverse + Law => Dark Law.

* Dark Law + us Constitution => Dark Constitution.

* Quark + Ocean -> Neutreno

* Thor + Guardian -> Heimdall

* Batman + vet => Batvet

* Avengers + Multiverse => Endgame + Dark Multiverse => Dark Engame

* Iron man + Star Lord -> Iron-lord

* Wandavision + Groot -> I Am Groot

* Cleanest + Terminator -> Cleaninator.

* A series of werepigeon, Space Pigeon, Mars Golem, Werehand, Icepigeon, Werechristmas Tree, Dust pigeon, Snow pigeon, Dust mosquito.

Some fun ones:

* us America + hole = Donut + hole => Doughnut

* Money Water -> Vodka + Casino => Roulette + Vodka -> Russian Roulette + Certainty -> Suicide.

* Toxic Waste + batman -> The Joker.

* Divorce + Ex-wife => Splitting headache.

* Lake + Batman -> Aquaman + Batman => Justice League

* Captain America + Thor -> Avengers

* Avengers + Justice League -> Superheroes + Galaxy -> Marvel + Galaxy -> Guardians of the Galaxy

* Guardians of the Galaxy + Guardian -> Groot

* Guardians of the galaxy + Nebula -> Gamora

* Guardians of the galaxy + Gamora -> Star Lord

* Time Travel + Iron Man -> Terminator.

* Government + Terminator -> Robocop.

* Terminator + Divorce -> Arnold Schwartzenegger.

Confusing ones:

* Darth vader + Toxic Waste => Superman?

* Pirate + Superman => Captain America
Money and fame corrupts, alcohol disinhibits that corruption.
I'm also Australian but I do not think our style of compulsory voting would be popular in the US, my understanding is the way elections are managed in the US suppresses the voter turnout.

For example in the US they have their elections on a Tuesday (in Australia it is a Saturday), this strikes me as suboptimal if you want the most people to vote then you should hold the election at a time that is convenient for the largest number of people, which is not in the middle of a regular working day.

Australia also has pre-polling (i.e. you can turn up to a polling station and vote before the nominated "election day") and Postal voting (both of which are to my understanding extremely controversial in the US).

I believe in the US you also need to register to vote and you have to take steps to maintain your registration. again that is an added barrier that creates more friction.

Australia also has Preferential voting, I do not believe US elections use this method.
Wing-nuts do love to spout off about the debt 8-)

Except of course when they're making astronomical increases in spending that benefits them. Such as increasing military budgets, tax cuts, and petro subsidy.

And of course, while the debt may not be a specific issue, eventually the _interest_ will be.

Capitalism has it's benefits, but there is no magical marketto always provide the right answers.

We need a serious reorg, and that will not happen prior to total destruction of the economy.

I'm not really a doomer, but those in power will absolutely not allow any systemic changes to occur, and we all will suffer the consequences... (inversly proportional to personal wealth of course)
Seems you’re playing with it quite a lot for somebody who’s described it as “literally unplayable”.
By the spec, yes. Some PDF readers will parse it anyway, some will not. In my experience depending on the renderer the xref table can be varying degrees of malformed before things go wrong. Edge's old PDF reader (the one before Acrobat and after PDFium) for example seemed to tolerate just about anything, falling back to the latest version of objects if the xref table was broken. There's also other mistakes you can make, like for example, the xref table requires carriage returns (each entry in the table is supposed to be an exact number of bytes) but some PDF readers will still interpret the xref table even if the carriage returns are missing.
>you are just describing the market dynamics of the previous human configuration, which of course are going to change along with the rest of this evolution.

The same SEO optimized spam that riddles Google search applies to games as well. These asset flips and large studios and mobile games will do all the same tricks, except now they can make 20 games a year or more instead of 5.

In short, it will be harder for an indie to stand out, and you as a gamer to find what you want to play. People already complain about steam being ridden with trash in their recommendations, this will accelerate it. You can call it "market dybanics" but it won't be one that benefits you nor me.

>How does it prevent you and I from making the music that speaks to us?

Put lack of talent, assumedly. Talent said spammers don't care about because they are just flooding the store and seeing what works, but talent what we would care about.

Art is also in general not easy to "make for ourselves". We don't know what kind of art per se that we would or wouldn't appreciate without external exposure. By definition our own art can't really challenge our own beliefs. So we want to share those ideas with others. And that's where the trouble begins.
This is a tech VC going up against season politicians.

Did you notice the article tries to mix up Tan’s letter with “antisemitic” letters also received? Those are irrelevant, but very politically savvy to try and equate the two.

Gary stepped on his own dick with this move. If you want to beat them, you need to play the game better than they do.
> There is plenty of talk, but little action

Because that's how you win elections. The voters want to spend less on the things they don't like and more on the things they do. When people say things like "reduce the deficit", "balance the budget", or something like that they don't actually mean it. All they want is to take money away from the other side. If they really wanted to reduce the national debt, they'd vote differently. And Washington knows it.
We recently interviewed some candidates and got them to complete an initial DevSkiller test. In the interview I asked each what tools they used to complete the DevSkiller test. All admitted to using ChatGPT or Copilot to complete the test. So now DevSkiller is really just a litmus test to determine whether they can be bothered completing the test in order to get interviewed.
Take a look at Zeihan's video where he shows in a graph how US debt level compares to other major economies. https://youtu.be/mcZPOuI-vcU?t=939. US is in the middle of the pack. US is going to be ok.

Also, watch until 20:38. You will see how screwed up some countries are when it comes to debt.
TikTok Gave Me Autism: The Politics of Self Diagnosis (2023) [video]
Yes, search for LLM caching and semantic searches. They must be using something like that.
tangent: I often have a hard time disambiguating the ">" in comparisons like yours:
(A) greater than (ie, Mixtral
superior to DeepSeek, w/ Codellama in between)
vs
(B) arrow/sequence (ie, start w/ Mixtral, progress to Codellama, finally land on DeepSeek as the culmination).

I'd love to hear of a less ambiguous way to represent these.
Comparing debt to GDP is very much mainstream economics, not MMT.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt-to-GDP_ratio

> is usually unable take their income streams

It takes a percentage of that, through taxes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_by_ta...
>The author claims there is expoititive harm to labor [...]. That is not at all obvious or provably true yet.

Not at all obvious? These models are trained on vast amounts of content, much of it copyrighted, and basically none of it licensed.
You know you're reading a good technical article when it measures pdf width in kilometers
That price reference from Comcast is only if they actually say "yes" to running fiber to you in the first place. It's not very cost efficient to run a single fiber, and at $300 a month they don't have a huge amount of wiggle room for construction cost.
Painless for who? It’s just a tax on savers in another form.
I mean I could absolutely believe that the US is in a death spiral, but from the national debt?!?!?

That's one of the dumbest things I've ever heard. I could believe it's from the instability of the political system, from the instability of the capitalist system, or from the effects of climate change. But national debt, please. This is just bullsh*t propaganda to enforce more austerity on the people.
“My major hobby is teasing people who take themselves and the quality of their knowledge too seriously.”

“But it remains the case that you know what is wrong with a lot more confidence than you know what is right.”

“Unlike a well-defined, precise game like Russian roulette, where the risks are visible to anyone capable of multiplying and dividing by six, one does not observe the barrel of reality.”

— three quotes by Nassim Taleb
Last I looked, Eve Online used radial menus in some places.
Downvotes, nice. Whatever helps you sleep at night.
Isn't he just saying it's inevitable from what's observable? E.g. approaching the point where servicing the debt itself becomes untenable?

There's nothing historical or predictive involved that I can see. If a group of people are telling you again and again, for decades, that "we're just not ever going to even slow down the pace we're wracking up unrepayable debt, no matter what", isn't it just a case of take them at their word, and extrapolate to the obvious?

Like, if a car is heading towards a cliff, with the driver loudly yelling out the window "I'm driving off this cliff!", can't we just take him at his word?
Can someone check its charging speed please, is it quicker than USB-C or lightning?
Inherently so, it is not.

But nice try to lower your buy in price.. ;)
Mission Local is not “fairly neutral”. They are very closely aligned with certain SF politicians and their “news” coverage shows that.

This article is anything but neutral (not that I don’t think Tan screwed up here).