skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
James Lighthill is sometimes criticized for commenting on a field in which he was not expert, so it adds context to look at why he was solicited for comment. At that time, fluid dynamics was one of the most prestigious technical fields in British academia, being very difficult, mathematical, and successful. Lighthill was the superstar of the field, so he was an obvious choice when the Science Research Council went looking for someone with status and technical chops to give a disinterested analysis of AI research. It is rather like how Richard Feynman was drafted to investigate the Challenger disaster.

TFA says ...Lighthill was no fool. And yet, he was very confidently and persuasively wrong about the potential for AI... I disagree, his report (which is short and readable) raises issues that are still pertinent. We currently have debate over whether GPT represents true intelligence and Lighthill's comments foreshadow those of current skeptics.

The author of TFA is clearly not a skeptic and accepts the views of John McCarthy. I have studied the debate between McCarthy and Hubert Dreyfus over the potential of AI, and I personally think that Dreyfus was right, current hype over ChatGPT notwuthstanding.
What dark patterns are you talking about w.r.t. iCloud storage?
Running a company is hardly an answer if you want to be free and live life.
hackernews, the safe space where you can be an asshole but if someone calls you an asshole YOU get moderated.

The byline should be "a safe space for heinous opinions".
Yes! As a French, I love breathing polluted air from German coal mines[1]; I will take that over any battle-tested reasonable alternative any day!

[1] https://www.euractiv.com/section/air-pollution/news/german-c...
That sounds like a good idea to me too. The drone itself could even potentially bring the person back to shore. :)
Even if that were true, who paid for all this? It's mother nature, who's in such a bad shape that we'll soon start paying the price for it again and all the workers that this system has and still is exploiting in other countries (directly through bad working conditions/unfair pay or indirectly through pollution where they live). Please look up 'capitalism externalities' for reference.
You are doing the weird thing where you think you are parsing reality differently and better than other people.

No one is arguing that all prescriptions are the best solution to all problems.
At my first real Engineering job, I used this paper to both understand and implement a PID control system. Then by using the Ziegler Nichols method of tuning, the system was controlled way better than anyone had expected. Since then I have used it a handful of times with minor tweaks and each time it feels like magic when things work well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziegler%E2%80%93Nichols_method
That's not how the average should be calculated.

It should be:

(Contract_1_yearly+...+Contract_n_yearly)/num_contracts

Anyhow the customer signed the deal (https://twitter.com/cioontherun/status/1761882689886433742), implying they were underpaying and had the capacity to pay the true rate.
I feel the same. The entire planet enacted a total reorganization of society in a matter of weeks! Oil is worthless if we aren't all consuming, governments can give generous payments to those who need it without nonsense about how we will pay for it, it was a frightening but honestly optimistic time, we had problems but they can be solved, its only a question of willpower.

Now we can see that vast quantities of people in the first world think not being able to go to Arbys is a human rights violation, and worse still the friendless losers who were pining to back into the office.

If sitting indoors is too much of a sacrifice for people, what happens when they need to make real changes to their lifestyles?
You're describing Citroen Ami.
I'm gonna play the devil's advocate, but it's not as crazy as it sounds. Like some other commenter noted, the "shock doctrine" for example is a very widely documented/theorized phenomenon and not a conspiracy theory.

> hunger

There's a huge agro-food industry that profits from hunger. Its profits depend on subsistence farming being impossible or illegal so that's what they do: outlaw peasant seeds (like in France), buy all land from the owners until the population can't feed itself and needs the supermarket to survive, arrange for economic structures that allow for massive foreign subsidies (eg. EU CAP) to compete with the few local farmers left...

> poverty, economic instability, and unemployment

Temp work is another major industry that can only flourish when better employment conditions are not available to the workers. For those who don't find work and/or caught in the judicial system for some reason, the prison industrial complex will make profit on their incarceration. Once incarcerated, some companies will employ prisoners without working rights and protections in quasi-slavery conditions, making a ton more money than if they needed proper salaries and safety conditions. To give an example, here in France prison labor is usually < 1€/hour compared to ~10€/hour minimum wage.

> drug addiction

European settlers in America used alcohol as a weapon against natives. Later, during the cold war, the CIA organized for crack cocaine to destroy black neighborhoods social tissue, while financing the "contras" fascist militias.

We could go on. I'm not saying reforming incentives is wrong, it's certainly part of the solution. But it would be very naive to think that alone is enough to change society because nobody would want to harm others. Fascists very much exist and very much want to harm others, not necessarily out of a profit motive but also sometimes out of pure hatred.
Wikipedia has all primary sources at the bottom linked.

You don't need to trust wikipedia. You should trust the sources linked.

Wikipedia is basically a group collaboration on fact aggregation.

Why should you believe a random blog or a blog from an oil company more than a open collaborative group project which works transparent (site history+talk feature)?

You shouldn't.
Making cement without baking the limestone, which itself releases carbon plus the burning of gas to make the heat, is possible and is being piloted now. We just lack the will to mandate these changes.
A cheap 30day SIM with 2GB pf data can be had for £5-7 in the UK, so it sounds pretty terrible to me.
Some serious ADHD apparent in this interview. Like what was that digression about North African countries writing in French? That really should have been edited out.
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wolfsrc.zip.zip, and cannot find wolfsrc.zip.ZIP, period.
What 100k-year-old footprints in Morocco tell us about early humans
This actually strengthens the argument about Apple being monopolistic IMHO. Clearly developers do want more freedom, and clearly they are still developing for iOS. As a developer you don't really have a choice. If you go exclusive to Android, you're missing a major, major piece of the market. I've been working in startups for 10 or so years now and every single one I've been at we had to support iOS because their market share is so high. There is no choice and no way around it for developers.

You can really see these mechanisms in action in open source where making a profit and other market forces aren't at play, so developers are able to choose based on what they want. There are tons of open source apps for Android, and many many fewer for iOS. Android tends to get most open source first, with an iOS port coming later.
But what if we use predicate-based typing? Then your "type" will be something like `(x) ↦ (0 < x < ∞)`, holding true only if the value matches it. Then, given the type function is pure, the hypothetical compiler may somehow optimize them out most of the production code that can be statically analyzed...
> “Populist anger” might be justified if people have a hard time paying their bills

I do agree that finding alternatives quickly is crucial. However, when all is said and done, our financial concerns and even our personal well-being don't matter as much in the grand scheme of things.
With all due respect, legislature will be passed whether you care about it or not and irrespective of what percentage of the population even knows what a lightning charger is or isn't. Besides the proprietary equipment, it was causing a sizable amount of electronic waste. I don't see what you're so angry about.
Again you have not given any source stating that Apple was going to switch to USB-C by itself. (even if they did 10 years from now the EU made them speed it up which is notable)
Here's a fun video analyzing the effectiveness of Goretex: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGEzJJYiROk
The fact that between them FAANG has some real businesses doesn’t render moot my point that Google and Meta are advertising companies while Netflix is a movie studio.
Is Bill Cosby an example of inequity?

I don't personally know much about the guy, but wasn't his problem the drugging of people and then taking advantage of them?

If that's correct, then that doesn't seem like a behaviour pattern that contributed to his success somehow. (?)
Oral immunotherapy is currently the baseline treatment for things like peanut allergies, and it works, but it requires daily dosing. Also, for adults that start doing it, it often leads to feeling like you have perpetual digestive discomfort. Many people decide the discomfort isn’t worth it and stick with avoidance, especially for things like nut allergies where avoidance is quite doable in the US.

The good news is that if you diagnose food allergies early and start someone on oral immunotherapy when they’re extremely young (<2 years old), the early evidence is that you can build up significant tolerance with basically no side effects. That’s the boat my child is in - we started them on peanut OIT at just over 1 year old, and the worst symptoms were a skin breakout or two, and today they’d probably be able to eat a couple peanuts with no reaction.

The downside is they have to continue their daily dose forever. There are some interesting alternatives coming into the market though.

Edit: they will still need to always keep epipens nearby, but at least now there’s no fear of anaphylaxis when someone nearby on the plane eats a bag of peanuts.
I think a real polymath would be an early bloomer and a late bloomer.

Wouldn't that be what makes them the most poly?

Why settle for less ;)
you'd be surprised to learn how some countries treat their national anthems.

if you watch cinema in India, you have to stand up for the national anthem before the movie starts lol. similar situation in Thailand iirc.
For such systems that are commonly used by many, it’s best to open source it. Don’t reinvent the wheel.
Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014 when they failed to keep their puppet government in place in Kiev. They currently occupy a substantial portion of Ukraine, and have committed many atrocities and war crimes, including kidnapping thousands of children to Russia.

Russia is the aggressor here, not Ukraine. Russia is the instigator, not CIA or anyone else.

If this article is true, I'm glad to hear the the CIA is trying to help Ukraine push back on the Russian aggression and terrorism.

Ukrainians are done with Russian overlords.
Calyx: Intermediate Language for Hardware Accelerators
Y'all may be interested in my HNTV script:

curl -s 'https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=youtube.com' \
| egrep -o 'https?://www.youtube.com[^"]+' \
| mpv --playlist=- \
--speed=1.5 \
--ytdl-format='bestvideo[height<=?720]+bestaudio/best'

[1] https://taylor.town/hntv
Don't say I didn't warn you
What makes you say that it's irrelevant unless it's a loss leader?

When BMW is gatekeeping features behind subscriptions, is that also irrelevant because they're a car company? We shouldn't just stop discussing it.
New Entity Component System for .NET – Currently Fastest C# ECS
We don't have a solution to the waste from fossil fuels either, so... We just ignore that.

Coal in particular results in incredible toxic waste. Even if it was inert (which it very much is not) you get enormous heaps of rock you dug the coal out of and those have to be stored forever. Typically people just leave it in a big pile as somebody else's problem until one day the wind blows and it collapses and kills a bunch of people. Oops.

But even for natural gas in the best case your waste is excess carbon dioxide, which renders your planet inhospitable so that's not great either.
Food and friends: Food is social life
The appeal of the Linux desktop for the majority of people is that it runs chrome or Firefox just fine and is pretty much secure if you do your updates. That's how the majority of people use their computers. The underlaying OS is irrelevant as long as its not actively nagging it's users.
You're looking at the graph that ends in 2050.

Estimates for 2100 (from Fig. 6)

================================

- High: 14.0B

- Med: 9.1B

- Low: 5.5B
Vimlike also works exceptionally well in Safari on Mac and iOS:

[1] https://www.jasminestudios.net/vimlike/
Borland C++ was extremely good: a C++ compiler, standard library, and IDE with debugger that fit in about five megabytes. With the cozy yellow-on-blue Borland colour scheme.
Chinese Chamber of Commerce Hawaii creates GoFundMe for chemical attack victim
I think a mix of the two is the sweet spot
It's a somewhat odd instruction set, but achieves the goal of code density by the register instructions being single byte (opcode + 4-bit register), and the odd pre/post-increment/decrement "load/store indirect" instructions which do things like acc = *reg++ useful for copy loops and push/pop operations.

It reminds me a bit of the Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) which also had a specialized decrement counter and loop instruction (CCS), presumably also just motivated by code size.

Similar to having SWEET16 to augment the 6502, the AGC also used a virtual machine/interpreter to gain additional code density.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer

https://borja.medium.com/a-glimpse-into-the-apollo-guidance-...
It's funny how people pick a random version and explain how it went downhill from there. If you combine these answers you get the idea that it went downhill ever since 95/98.

For me vista was the day I switched completely and haven't looked back.
Anyone who's read even a moderate amount of literature from history, old news filings, old political pamphlets and just about any amount of private and state propaganda from any era of history, or anyone who's read accounts of the things so many (possibly most) average people and many educated people believed throughout much of history would know how laughable it is to think that misinformation and disinformation (today's boogeymen) are anything new. Sure, AI lets them be grown to new scale, but even this has a saturation point. Proportionally i'd argue that in any case, the problem was no less, and probably worse in some ways even as near back as the recent past. Why? Because open access to honest and diverse information was much more restricted. It isn't so much today, though you need to sift, as anyone has always had to anyhow.

The modern notion in some circles that we should entrust "filtering" and even regulatory controls against this to governments and their helpers in the major tech companies is downright grotesque given the sources of so much of the most lethal misinformation and the outcomes of similar social control throughout history.
How to build an exchange
Presentation on how to build an exchange in Ruby
Buffett's Bet on Carbon Capture
They are going to need to use the stick with Apple for sure.

But they'd be better off fining Apple come to Jesus money. A figure so astronomical the board considers firing Tim Cook and Apple considers abandoning the EU market on their own accord.

Only just though. Enough for them to consider it but not do it.
I can vouch for that, Duolingo is a very good example, it creates that urge to complete the lesson so that we don't break that streak.

It also helped me in habit stacking, which led to better productivity too. routines help.
Gee, that's almost as bad as US prison and migrant labor. Someone ought to do something.
> The cohort Venn diagram is world travelers who can’t afford a global service? People who can pay for a flight but would rather watch an ad than pay for service?

At this point I laughed, as I don't have global service, yet have flown round the world in the last fortnight.

> And the value of that ad inventory of people unwilling to pay is?

Yeah, I'm never going to click on your ads. Don't build a business model on me!
Yes but this is a contrived example so it’s not going to be the best illustration of the difference. You’re literally executing methods on an object as a way to instruct the computer to perform specific steps.

The fact that you can read it as if it were a description of the outcome is a happy accident (a purely aesthetic one at that) that would not necessarily happen with another example.
It sounds like you spent 4 years building a product before you even knew if anyone would use it. That's a terrible idea, but a good learning experience.

I wouldn't give up (perhaps you need to give up on your current product though).

What you need to do is evaluate _why_ the product isn't selling. Who's the ideal customer? Can you get on a call with some of them and put it in their hands and get actual feedback? Figure out if you need to abandon the product or not. Stop building. Focus entirely on marketing and sales.

Next time, don't go so deep on the building phase until you have people handing you money.

For reference, I recently came up with a new product idea. I did some searching to figure out if any competition exists and I found none. That's horrifying. I almost immediately gave up the idea entirely on the spot.

However, I randomly met someone that was an ideal customer (while dropping my kids off at school) and they immediately said they would pay $200/month for that and asked when they could try it. Not only that, they said they knew 2-3 other people that would as well. I ended up meeting two other ideal customers that said the same thing and one even asked if they could invest in it.

I'm still not entirely sure-- but those are strong signals that people will put up money for it, but it doesn't mean they will. I am still nervous but decided to go ahead and build an mvp and see if the idea has legs.

What kind of signals are your ideal customers giving you?
> Hacker conferences hardly decide IT planning business decisions ...

Probably a case of "the thin edge of the wedge".

So in a few years time if/when Framework is more established, they might be an option for IT departments.
Multiple layers of these displays can show stuff in near 3d.
I'd take a nuanced half and half approach. I think the majority of who people think are just the generic "bad guys" is largely out of ignorance and/or naivete of surrounding circumstance. But I also do think there are people who are pretty fine with doing some sociopathic things to enrich themselves. The typical example is big pharma. Imagine tomorrow a magic genie offered a big pharma exec a cure to cancer, and he got to pick which form it took:

1) A one time pill that not only cured any existing cancers in a user, but also permanently prevented any further ones. And to make it even better, it also is somehow relatively simple meaning it could be easily cloned and made extremely and globally affordable.

2) A complex (enabling a defacto monopoly on production), lengthy, and expensive treatment program that is 100% effective at curing any 1 type of cancer - that must be repeated per cancer and per individual as they emerge.

I do genuinely think that all big pharma execs would choose #2. They'd probably rationalize it as something like 'Well I'm curing cancer, and now I'll ensure we have the funds to continue working to solve even more illnesses, and everybody wins." So I'm sure in their minds they aren't villains, but that's because humans are just really really good at cognitive dissonance.
You are right that degrowth is not a politically viable path to saving the climate.

Additionally, it is not effective unless you want to return to pre-industrial society.

What works is: Changing the source of the energy we consume. Solar is the cheapest source of energy now. Wind is good in some areas. Nuclear can be useful too.

The amazing thing is that solar is so cheap now, there is basically no way stopping it. We may still want to burn gas and oil in the off-hours, but it will be expensive and consumption will be much lower than today.
> I hold the fork in my right hand regardless of if my left is holding a knife or not.

Same, unless I'm cutting roast beef with a kitchen knife where the knife is the primary utensil.

I think I could easily do the cutting with fork-left/knife-right, but as soon as I imagine the actual placing food into my mouth, I want my right hand.
And people keep wondering why climate protesters are not asking things "nicely" anymore, and resort to blocking traffic and defacing paintings. They tried the nice way... they tried for many decades.
I use https://haxplore.com which has a very nice way to navigate the nested conversations in my opinion.
A TL;DR for sure but definitely but not apples to apples. A transit system is embedded with the cultural norms of the location so when applying cost once hast to wonder: What is the point of applying cost of a restaurant meal across the world or across states? Sure you can go there and save yourself a bundle but do you want to live there?
> So I don't care about it being "born in a box" or perceiving the world "through a pinhole." Because it isn't alive. It's a tool. It isn't sentient. It isn't thinking. It is an incredibly complex statistical system.

You have no idea what "sentient" or "thinking" mean mechanistically, so you literally cannot make this claim, nor can you demonstrate at this time that the human mind is not just an incredibly complex statistical system. This argument of yours is just a basic fallacy of ignorance, and unfortunately very common among people who are very certain that LLMs don't understand anything.

I'm not sure what you think your example proves, but humans can exhibit comparable confusions from comparable prompts (like from priming). In fact, one might say that priming shows some behaviours that are eerily similar to some LLM failure modes. The classic Surgeon's Dilemma riddle test for unconscious bias is a perfect example of human failures comparable to the bias in your own example.

Ultimately, you're guilty of exactly the same leap to conclusions that those hyping GPT and LLMs are doing, just in the opposite direction.
This is one of those cases where you don't know what you're talking about and you should stop speaking as if you're an authority here.

I love how you throw in bidding as if we're not talking about the government giving a monopoly in exchange for guarantees (it's considered a public good). This exchange of guarantees has made energy one of the most stable long term investments in a way that other investments just aren't. Gee, why would anyone take that deal?

Go educate yourself.

And go read up on Chesterton's Fence.