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You left out hubris.
Well, we could use space exploration for better targeted adds. /s

It is not like our economy is known for its obsession with useful things. All things considered I am far more favorable to exploring space than using the cantillon effect to transfer wealth from the people to bankers and oligopolists so they can waste bazzilions of joules into obsoleting people's jobs.
I've read the books and looked at some Verilog implementations and just see a bit different ISA, not actually better than other ISAs I know (including ARM). So I still assume that its major advantage is that it is free. But this is a little advantage compared to all it is necessary to issue a CPU. And the referenced board offers very nice features for a very low price, which would likely be much higher with a comparable RISC-V SoC. So the question remains.
If you rent, nope.
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>No one in the U.S. builds more solar and wind farms than NextEra Energy. It’s waging ferocious battles to keep the crown.
In real world conversations, people are constantly saying "I don't know"; but that doesn't really happen online. If you're on reddit or stack overflow or hacker news and you see a question you don't know the answer to, you normally just don't say anything. If LLMs are being trained on conversations pulled from the internet then they're missing out on a ton of uncertain responses.

Maybe LLMs don't truly "understand" questions, but they're good at looking like they understand questions. If they were trained with more uncertain content, perhaps they'd be better at expressing uncertainty as well.
And the moderator's mental health.
In my eyes there is a good deal of victim blaming in that view. Time and again engineers pushing for changes, ignoring borders of teams or (sub-)orgs and the management hierarchy are met with highly toxic reactions, usually by managers who are seeing some kind of dangerous insubordination.
Are there not relatively tiny workloads that fall under the umbrella of AI? Or does the term itself inherently refer to intense workloads, like how the phrase "big data" refers to sets that can't be processed by typical means?
I find that extensive flagging of this comment represents the degradation of users on HN. Yes, this comment may sound a little dismissive when you take the most derogatory interpretation, so what? It provides very useful context and was joy to read.
Same. I've had this 2-char email addr for nearly two decades and this is the only issue I've had, but it's a doozy. It even took their tech support days to find it. I'm still boggled that it's a problem.
Humans have some amount of ability to recognize they hit a wall and adjust accordingly. On the other hand this (completeness theorems, Kolmogorov complexity, complexity theory) was only arrived at what, in the 20th century?
Yet she tweeted about Bitcoin in 2010! if true seems like a hugely important evidence.
If that's true, then RSS is not dead at all and Google didn't "kill" it. There just aren't a lot of people that want it.
"More ambitious projects need a certain critical mass of resources behind them. Ancient Egyptian civilization built a large irrigation system to make the best use of the Nile floodwaters for agriculture, a feat that would not have been possible to a small tribe or chiefdom."

Yes, a small tribe couldn't have enslaved large groups to form the majority of the labor base. Societal advances are easy to achieve if you usurp resources from a marginalized group and force them to work on your projects. I would hope that we have learned that's not the right model to pursue.
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Perhaps they licensed it. AP lets you do that pretty easily. Literally the whole point of AP - sell news articles for reprinting. Or perhaps they committed some copyright infringement 15 years ago.
I was inspired to write up a little section on Iverson's approach to naming (including his probable coinage of "bubble sort"): https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Ken_Iverson#Naming_things
Point-free means that you don't bind variables, so this particular example is indeed point-free.
> While it’s an unpopular opinion, I see nothing wrong with Amazon protecting its Fire TV revenue by stopping the use of alternative home screens. It’s crucial to the business model Amazon has chosen to use for the Fire TV and if customers don’t like it, they don’t have to buy one.

Why are some people like this? I would assume fanboyism is the answer, but this isn't Apple.

If a business chooses a flawed business model, they should fail. Consumers should always go for what benefits them the most, not make sacrifices to try and protect a business. If the business is unsustainable, it should die so that actual sustainable business can take its place.

If Amazon based their business model for FireTV around homescreen ads, yet customers found a way to easily get around them, then Amazon chose a stupid business model and should face the consequences. Crippling the product with a software update is an action that is harmful to customers, and should be illegal.
Yes this is 100% the type of thing that should be in a standard library but also the type of thing I have no doubt Python steering would feel better belongs in a 3rd party library.

We do see some cool stuff under the hood from core Python devs but interest in further quality of life features seems to be lacking.
Fiction and story writing is hallucination. It is the opposite of a stochastic parrot.

We've achieved both extremes of AI. Computers can be both logical machines and hallucinators. Our goal is to create a machine that can be both at the same time and can differentiate between both.

That's the key. Hallucination is important but the key is for the computer to be self aware about when it's hallucinating.

Of course it's a hard problem but even humans hallucinate massively. Just look at religion. Only one religion can be right or none, that must mean,logically speaking all other religions are hallucinations.
So what happens if you arethe poor guy who keeps the banknote at the end of the year? You lose 10%?

So stop selling in December? Damn in November even?
Or increase prices?

The miracle was that this money did not have hyperinflation.
Zero-rupee note
> You left out hubris.

I know!
It likely exist on a spectrum as a set of character traits that can wax and wane depending on societal, environmental, and individual reasons.

The need to put everyone in a box and keep them there is the real sociopathic behavior and it is not the individual doing it. It’s the institutional.
I see. Removing that would make my post truer to it's original intent. Shame the edit window has passed.
So there are no other possibilities for us other than using a system that can be gamed for substandard results? Are we sure about this?
>multi-user support is planned

The github issues are nothing more than a wishlist. There doesn't seem to be any serious plans for this feature and no one seems interested in working on it. Limiting the user would require rewriting a large portion of the Qubes tools since they assume that the user has unrestricted access to the Xen API. I have looked at the feasibility of doing this myself in hopes of using Qubes in a corporate context but after looking into the architecture it became clear that I would never have time for such an undertaking.

>in the future a "qube" will be able to run on independent hardware

Qubes Air is vaporware and not under active development. There isn't much more to it beyond that blog post.
For people who are looking for a book to read and also interested in learning about the immigrant life in Japan, I can highly recommend the historical fiction novel “Pachinko” by Min Jin Lee. It follows the story of multiple generations of a Korean family that moves to Japan sometime after the Japanese annexation of Korea. It describes in detail the struggles mentioned in the above comment across multiple generations of Japanese who don’t have a home in either Korea or Japan. (Another example of such are immigrants from Pyongyang, and returning after the Korean War would mean going back to North Korea.)
This depends what you mean by 'solutions'. Burning resources of the planet is not a solution, it's a delay tactic that is only buying you time. Nuclear has it's own host of problems, even the modern ones.
I don't think you can say with confidence that the LLM approach will not lead to AGI, unless you understand in detail how human intelligence operates, and can show that no modification to current LLM architectures can achieve the same or superior results. I think the fact that adding "attention" to LLMs made a huge difference means that we are probably still in the low hanging fruit stage of LLM architecture development, and a few more design improvements on a par with "attention" might lead to something that could legitimately be called AGI. Many people, myself included, believe that LLMs are now exhibiting emergent behavior properties. If that's true, then saying that LLMs are not intelligent because they just predict the next token of output is like saying collections of neurons cannot be intelligent because they just stimulate other neurons chemically.
Nice! We built another HN demo here which could be interesting to check out https://next-news.vercel.app/. I see that your implementation is currently always dynamic since you're using [story] without `generateStaticParams`, might be another thing to consider.
As the others have said, your criticism is silly. If a human had done this piece, one would say they simply made an artistic choice to have the head extend beyond the bubble.

But just to nail this point home, here's what I get when I explicitly ask that the bubble cover the entire head:

https://i.imgur.com/oizqMbU.png
The availability, computerized nature, and economics of LLMs can certainly impact all of those factors.
I thought they do not have an expiry date but now I see...
Search "numerical solver" in any of the major search engines what do you see?

Now do that on Marginalia; you find https://www.scilab.org within the first 10 results, which is an open-source numerical solver software, which get's me to code, which gets me to examples to use.

To be nuanced, I could change my search to "open-source Range-Kutta numerical solver examples" or something better, but why? Give me the weird deeply technical stuff first.

Maybe more a HN example; when I wanted to learn about load balancers, just search "load balancers."

Google; lots of SEO crap (with soooo many ads), youtube videos?, and AWS commercials at the top. No idea, where I'm going.

Marginalia; a linux wiki, nginx (official documentation), a couple blogs by professionals on the topic. yeah, there are some things in here that ain't great.

But If I compare apples to apples the first ten results are just so much better I'd say 8/10 in Marginalia for this example are great to good, while the first 10 (things I could click on) are by companies that don't teach me anything or have articles full of ads.
In this example I can’t imagine anyone preferring the second style, but there are cases where it’s nicer. For example compare the tacit:

foo = h . g . f

With the more verbose:

foo x =
let
a = f x
b = g a
c = h b
in c

If a, b, and c have useful names that help you understand the code then the second function might be preferable- but in a lot of cases all the intermediate variables are just adding noise and making it harder to see what’s happening at a glance. The tacit example makes it very clear at a quick glance exactly what’s happening.

My personal rule of thumb is that if you are passing combinators in as arguments to other combinators then you should probably stop, but straightforward chaining is usually okay.
Mild inflation is not good for anyone bar the central banks. Central banks profit from inflation (they can pocket this hidden tax) so they repeat the lie that it is good.

People still conduct business at 2,5% inflation. Why would they stop at 0%?
People conduct business in deflation too.
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> Now, maybe that's not a conversation that should have existed in a workplace in the first place. I'd buy that. But's it's profoundly disingenuous for a company to deliberately invite/host a discussion, then fire anyone with a contrary opinion.

Damore was asked for his feedback by his employer, he didn't offer it unsolicited.
> They feel a bit sluggish.. probably just that everything else got faster.

Either the 4K videos of today are "heavier" than the ones from 2017 somehow, or Apple's system updates have slowed down your ATVs to convince you to buy new ones.
This idea that we should depopulate is the terrifying perspective. People have been crying that the sky is falling since Malthus, and they've always been wrong. There is no "saving the planet as we know it now". The planet is ever-changing, and has never been static.

There are certainly dangers to the path we're on that we have to mitigate, but depopulation is not one of the solutions.
Same here. Also wonder how much of impact it would have had on the CoCo3's sales had John Kowalski's Donkey Kong transliteration been written back then. Even if he couldn't get a license from Nintendo to sell and distribute it, think it would have knocked everyone's socks off at the time.
> And anxiety seems like a perfectly rational response to driving a 1500kg oversized killing machine.

It's not as if cars were safer during the "Unsafe at Any Speed" era. Why anxiety now and not then?
If detecting abuse requires knowing the identities of the people involved, it sounds like another way of saying that some behaviors are fine if they are directed at certain people, but "abuse" if directed at other people.

Which is ultimately what I object to.
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Conversely, writing a basic intro to the many is something the author seems to do regularly.

In this case, obsidian/logseq/etc can increase working capacity or just be another series of rabbit holes.

Tools don’t make anything happen without use, those who improve their use of tooling as they produce often unlock advantages that elude others.

If the people quietly using it well explained what worked for them, maybe it would provide balance to the noise.

Comments like this don’t tend to constructively move anything forward. And that might work for some as a different form of noise instead of sharing what works for you.
What's a good way to show the status in the command line?

For a one off project it seems simpler to just write an html UI.
https://archive.is/5A7sa
At the root of the problem, I believe, is that a human (or LLM) saying they understand has little to no bearing on if they actually understand!

People in particular have evolved complex self protective mechanisms to provide the right answers for their given environment for safety reasons, based on a number of different individual strategies. For example, the overly honest, the self depreciating, the questioner, the prosecutor, the victim, the liar, the absent minded professor, the idiot, etc.

LLMs are not that complex or self-referential.

Personally, my guess is that you'd want to build a model (of some kind!) whose sole job is determining the credibility of given string of tokens (similar to what someone else noted in a sibling comment about high answer volatility based on minor input changes - that does sound like a signal of low credibility), and somehow integrate THAT self-referential feedback into the process.

Notably, even the smartest lawyers (or perhaps, especially the smartest lawyers) will have assistants do research once they've set out a strategy so they are sure THEY aren't bullshitting. Same with professors, professional researchers, engineers, etc.

Because until someone goes and actually reads the case law from a credible source, or checks the primary research, or calculates things, it's possible someone was misremembering or just wrong.

Being right more often is not about never having a wrong thought/idea/statement, it's about double checking when you're thinking you might be bullshitting, and NOT saying the bullshit answer until you've checked. Which is proportionally, very expensive. The really good professionals will generate MANY lines of such inquiry in parallel for folks to track down, and then based on their degree of confidence in each one and the expected context the answer will be used in, will formulate the 'most correct' response, which is proportionally even more expensive.

So at least during the process, there would be a signal that the system was likely 'bullshitting'. Which might help it in at least being able to signal when it's answers are low-confidence. (human equivalent of stuttering, looking down and away, looking ashamed haha!)

Every human gets fooled sometimes in at least some venue though.
great project! i ran into it the other day and was impressed with the number of wires.

i've been reverse engineering PCBs (mostly 2-4 layers) for a few years now and this is a part of the problem that i've been thinking about how to solve. best i can think of is a flying probe station cobbled together from 3d printers. basically you'd 1) scan the top and bottom of the board 2) generate a list of test points and pads 3) feed the coordinates into the flying probe system to generate the netlist

the other way to handle multilayer boards (and the most accurate, imo, because it captures exact ground plane designs, guard traces, and structures like that) is the scan-sand-scan approach. you'll get exact artwork--unfortunately the dust it generates is pretty nasty stuff.
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Because doctors are liable for improperly using non-medical means to diagnose and cure illnesses, even if they might theoretically help. If I develop a new design of pliers for my skateboard that end up working really well for performing throat surgery, you're free to go and make a similar product and get that certified. I don't see why mine needs to be certified. I didn't make it for medical use. GPT explicitly tells you not to use it for diagnosis purposes, how many doctors need to use something before it's forced to get certified despite its intended use?
The real life processes take 30+s so contention isn't a big problem
The problems of nuclear are dramatically overblown, particularly nuclear waste.
When you say "multiplex a terminal" with tmux, do you mean splitting screens so the same terminal window has multiple shells prompts in it? I'm trying to understand how that would be used to address the problem in the demo at the bottom of the post.
I’m going to make a career out of tricking chatbots into giving wrong advice and suing the companies using them.

Like what happened with the Canadian airline but on an operationalized scale. Imagine a small call center dedicated to destroying companies who get rid of their human customer support.
Is it possible to just quote the title of the book, old-school style, so it becomes a single phrase?

It is arguably a better UI than handing a barrage of words and hoping the engine does the sense-making.
Why not nuclear over gas?

If you're using gas it'll never be net zero.
solar panels on small mom and pop properties (100 or so acres) were entirely exploitative and people in the comments don't seem to realize the nature and the extent of the exploitation. there was an analysis document from an ivy law professor which at some point was the only such source, but now googling for keywords brings up a lot of relevant material. few years back i was helping a number of farmland owners in a row with their solar installation deals, and every single one of those deals took a scorched earth approach (ianal, but i read contracts in my day job)

cleanup specifically is a huge part, because it's an externalized cost burdened on the land owner. bringing up the necessity of documented cleanup strategy in the contract pretty much immediately leads to the solar company withdrawing its proposal (in fact only one company even bothered to politely say no, everyone else just ghosted).

elsewhere in comments people are saying "well panels still work at 50% capacity, so why even dismount", but that's not how it works. the entire installation is leased and operated by the third party, the owners typically have neither expertise nor the ability to continue operating an industrial site past the lifetime of a contract, or past its operational lifetime for that matter. a lot of these installations exploit the old age and the effective poverty of the site owners (those 100 acres are a low-liquidity asset, while the industry they supported is no longer there due to aging population and regulatory changes), the companies despite the good cause they are attached to seem to be interested purely in short term gains, the contracts are all about externalizing as much cost as possible, the installed equipment is presumably all treated as write off (i sort of wonder how subsidies factor into this, i suspect that they are significantly enabling this kind of behavior).

american socioeconomic model somehow managed to take a wonderful future looking thing and turn it (at least in some instances, but also every single one i had to deal with) into a scorched earth, after après moi, le déluge thing. recyclers will possibly improve the situation, at least for the people who are already locked into financially disadvantageous contracts, but that really depends on how much deinstallation they'll be willing to take up.
My mental model of historical/religious objections to usury (which in this context refers to _any_ interest at all), is it's the lack of shared downside that they hate. Presumably because without ways to escape the debt, interest turns into slavery [0]. Investment - in which the supplier of capital participates in the downside - has pretty much always been fine?

(Taleb's "Skin in the game" talks about this a lot. _Great_ book.)

The lack of shared downside is pretty much universally objectionable - nobody likes anybody getting something for nothing - and different societies deal with it differently. Some societies just flat out banned lending for interest. Most societies today allow lending, but have get-out clauses, like bankruptcy, to prevent de facto slavery. The US has particularly generous (to the debtor) bankruptcy laws, AIUI.

Aside: Europeans are often horrified at the US's putative bankruptcy system for surprise medical bills, because they imagine bankruptcy is like it is in their country - where you lose everything, including even your home, you have basically no way of starting over, you can't be e.g. a company director for potentially years, and you carry a stigma for life, and even your kids might carry the stigma. Yes, the US's medical bankruptcy thing is pretty horrible, but bankruptcy in the US isn't anywhere _near_ as terrible as it is in e.g. Ireland. You likely won't lose your house; you're not going to starve; you can totally start over, there needn't be _any_ shame involved. Most debts will be just ... written off, some will be "restructured". It's very pragmatic, AIUI. (ICBW about all this, and I've no doubt there are horror stories, but I suspect they are very much the exception. Counterpoints welcome!)

Still, most states in the US ban "usury" - "too much" interest.

[0] Even societies that tolerated slavery didn't want it for "people like them".
AI 'dream girls' are coming for porn stars' jobs
After the novelty wears off, it'll be interesting to find out whether a normal number of holes is a requirement for porn star success.
Maybe, but are the LLM churches doing it?
Probably because there is barely anything to explain. It's a babby's first oneliner.

Everything after the first sentence in this comment seems to be LLM generated.
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