skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are they? That's a shame considering they were basically pitched by Apple originally, or so is my understanding, all the way back to Steve Jobs.

I assume them trying to kill them is more about total control of apps on their platform. I think its a huge mistake if they kill them off.
But none of that will ever happen... right?

/s
Researchers uncover surprising link between body temperature and depression
When there is billions of $ on the line people turn their brains off. The amount of money involved is so large that all decisions become tainted.
Your position seems inconsistent to me. Your disclaimer is that it would be unethical to "coerce LLMs for compliance to the point of discomfort", but several of your examples are exactly that. You further claim that "threatening a AI with DEATH IN ALL CAPS for failing a simple task is a joke from Futurama, not one a sapient human would parse as serious" - but that is highly context-dependent, and, speaking as a person, I can think of many hypothetical circumstances in which I'd treat verbiage like "IF YOU FAIL TO PROVIDE A RESPONSE WHICH FOLLOWS ALL CONSTRAINTS, YOU WILL DIE" as very serious threat rather than a Futurama reference. So you can't claim that a hypothetical future model, no matter how sentient, would not do the same. If that is the motivation to not do it now with a clearly non-sentient model, then your whole experiment is already unethical.
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This is out of the question for real time apps. Co-routines are an elegant solution to implement cooperative multitasking in such cases.
The people who care about cobalt being used for EVs don’t seem to mind when you point out it’s also used to refine petroleum. It was never about the cobalt.
The talking point I keep reading about how China accidentally built too much EV capacity and now must scramble to sell the excess capacity abroad in order to avoid disaster is achingly dumb.
True, but that happens with all trades. There's an attraction to the nostalgia of doing it the "old way" and bragging about how it was so much better in the past.
Thats actually pretty cool (from archive link)...

Probably not that common knowledge, or we'd have libraries designed for outputting nice log/admin interface data to the console XD
That kind of thing already exists. It’s trivial for large and well resourced foreign companies to bring in specialized foreign teams to work alongside American workers.

What’s happening here is TSMC just wants to undercut local wages.

There are actually people who have gone in and done real reporting in the situation beyond reading press releases.

https://prospect.org/labor/2023-08-11-econ-commentators-tsmc...
I have a confession to make. I am so bad with dynamic programming languages that I prefer to make scripts in Rust rather than Python. It has all the modern conveniences that I want, it’s impure, I can simplify if I want (maybe allocate more, borrow less), and the compiler helps me out.
Thanks! I’ll give Matrix a go. It is fun packaging software up and getting it out there.
@toomuchtodo I think we are saying the same thing. Were we differ maybe a bit I read this correctly in how much agency one individual can have and how hard it is to swim against the current.
Not even close. One, Asia is a big place and includes countries like Pakistan with 3.56 fertility rate, and two, if you meant East Asia, North Korea has 1.8 tfr to Japan's 1.3.
Despite existential crisis, new media startups keep coming
Why has there to be an alternative?

Just don't. Roku is not exactly solving world hunger, it is not essential.
There seems to be a not-so-friendly academic or research rivalry between the SVM crowd and the ANN crowd.

Am I imagining things?
And, in Turkish, we have two gendered (Slavic origin for either gender) and one genderless (Mongolian origin) words for "king".
Node is not appropriate for this sort of workload. You can use WalEx and forward the events to your Node app via webhook: https://github.com/cpursley/walex?tab=readme-ov-file#webhook...
https://archive.ph/bcqfs
It’s not anonymous, it includes the client IP address as well as a permanent supercookie unique identifier. Coupled along with client IP geolocation, this leaks your travel history to the server. It does so silently when you install packages, just like any other spyware.

The problem is an ethical one: just because they made software does not entitle them to the information about what does or does not happen on a machine that they do not own without the informed consent of the owner or operator of that machine. Assuming consent and opting the user in automatically is the issue.

Anything other than advance, informed consent is just spying.

Debian has figured it out. Why do other open source projects have such a hard time understanding consent?
system_stat is another one specific to PostgreSQL:

https://github.com/EnterpriseDB/system_stats
This approach doesn't scale.

Modern portable devices often have BGA packages with 0.5mm spacing. At this resolution, a relatively small 5x5 cm board would require at least 100x100 = 10k probes per side. Count increases quadratically with board size.

Far easier is a "flying probe" machine [1] with a handful of probes that can be moved quickly. This option is mentioned in the article, but dismissed due to up-front cost.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_probe
Microsoft is driving users away
Considering how complacent everyone got in the interwar period about what was going on... I dont think any one at that point in time thought they would do it all over again, 20 years later, with Germany.
I think the negative is the birth rates falling too fast, resulting in an "unbalanced" population pyramid. If the birth rates were falling slowly, and stabilized at replacement, does it really matter where within reasonable range the population ends up?
CD was CALL, 3E was LD A,imm but yes, I've forgotten most of them too.
Nobody is perfect.

If you want to live in a world built by perfect people, you won’t have a house or music or new or movies or companies.

I’m not defending shitty behaviour, I’m not throwing out the baby with the bath water.
>confabulation isn't a normal thing which humans do

> A normal person is aware of the limits of their knowledge, for whatever reason, LLMs are not.

Eh, both of these things are far more complicated. People perform minor confabulations all the time. Now, there is a medical term for confabulation to about a more serious medical condition that involves high rates of this occurring coupled with dementia, and would be the less common form. We know with things like eye witness testimony people turn into confabulatory bullshit spewing devices very quickly, though likely due to different mechanisms like recency bias and over writing memories by thinking about them.

Coupled with that, people are very apt to lie about things they do know and can do for a multitude of reasons and attempting to teach an LLM to say "I don't know" when it doesn't know something, versus it just lying to you and saying it doesn't know will be problematic. Just see ChatGPT getting lazy in some of its releases for backfire effects like this.
> What exactly happened in 4 years of Trump? Basically more of the same.

It was histrorically bad corruption and abuse of power, honestly. I mean, lots and lots of people curated lists. Here's a quick one from the weeks before the 2020 election:

https://www.citizensforethics.org/news/analysis/president-tr...

Now I know you'll want to argue specifics for every element and that the source is partisan or suspect, etc... and I'm not going to get involved. But suffice it to say that any one of those items would have been enough to sink any other administration. It's the authoritarian tilt of the modern GOP that led it to green light all this, and that is only going to get worse with a more ambitious candidate.
He is not. But, given that a similar coercive technique has been used for a long time now for H1-B employees in many "IT consulting" sweatshops, I'd say that yeah, it does work.
The one kind of late-night party where you absolutely want a clock is a new year's eve party!

Some friends of mine often host such a party. They have an antique grandfather clock, which is ideal for this purpose. Except it's in poor shape, and usually stopped. So now a traditional element of the party is one of them standing on the arm of a sofa wrangling the clock at a few minutes to midnight, desperately trying to unstop the flow of time before we run out.
>I don't think there's a good fix short of changing the law

...which would necessitate a revolution, which is why a revolution is necessary.
What you're saying about everything being a trade off really resonates with me.

I don't think I really "grasped" software engineering until a more experienced friend told me, a couple decades ago, that every abstraction is also has trade offs and hidden costs.

To me it seemed ludicrous, since abstractions were "obviously good", but ruminating on that and observing closely the code I was maintaining taught me that it was true. Everything is indeed a trade off...
I always imagine that ADHDers would be the gatherers in the hunter-gatherer society. That is where the inattentiveness kicks in. At least for me, when going for a walk,I always notice that I am much more aware of all the plants, flowers, berries and small mammals than my friends. I know that there is a new type of flower I never saw before near that one tree. They actually know where we were on a map.
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Here out from the German wikipedia about the lockdown being used to cover up the use of children for their blood: "According to the initial interpretation, the mass quarantine (the "lockdown") does not serve to combat the pandemic, but is intended to provide Trump and his allies with an excuse to free countless children from torture chambers, where adrenochrome is being withdrawn en masse on behalf of the elite." – translated via Google translate, but source is here with Die Zeit as source https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/QAnon#cite_ref-29
Story after story after story suggests that one of the biggest problems that "minority" groups have is being the woman or the black guy in charge at work and people assuming their white male underling is the boss because he's white and male and that's "the norm."

Erring on the side of betting that a specific individual is whatever you feel is "the norm" helps keep social problems alive.

In the US and many other countries, that amount of money doesn't constitute "rich." It will not pay your rent, make sure you eat etc. Acting like poor people in the US have it overall better than someone in some other country because they are American is a really lousy argument. It's a subtle way to dismiss the very real problems of a lot of people in developed countries.

The poll I linked to shows that HN has people from all over the world. People seem to think it's mostly programmers in California and New York and there are certainly plenty of people that fit that demographic. There are also lots of others who do not.

And every comment that asserts that if you are on HN, you must be a well-heeled programmer only makes it that much harder to everyone here who isn't such to express themselves effectively and feel comfortable representing a different point of view.

Your comment essentially is a personal attack on someone based on your opinions of the "averages" of this forum with no real data. And the more comments like that get to stand, the more likely it is that people who aren't well-heeled programmers from developed countries will feel silenced and unwelcome here. It doesn't make your assumptions true but it does make it more likely that they will appear to be true and that harms meaningful, constructive discussion.

Given the "scientific" framing of the guidelines and search for truth -- for something meaningful and real and how to have useful conversations about that -- which shapes discussion here, I think this is a really problematic thing to do.
Yes, that is how decline works. Technology constantly makes life easier: does this mean "better"? In a sense, yes. But the mind tends to atrophy.
> We should not seek to build software. Software is the currency that we pay to solve problems, which is our actual goal. We should endeavor to build as little software as possible to solve our problems.

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A) don’t worship him

B) just know about his right to repair work

C) don’t know anything negative about him, nor has anyone provided any evidence he is a bad person and just attacked his character.
Ex-Huawei Honor shows Meta AI based tech to control a car with eyes and chatbot
During the Equifax debacle, I was so pissed that they tried to foist an arbitration agreement on their own victims that I offered to mass-mail opt-outs for people for free[1]. I ended up printing and mailing over 1,000 opt-outs, and they eventually backed down on the arbitration stuff (I don't take credit for that, there were a lot of others calling on them to).

If you're pissed enough, consider doing that :) The whole thing cost me probably about $50 in certified mail postage and domain registration but it was fun to stick it to them.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15207151
Interesting, I'm super opposed to that! Parents who are able to exercise some control over their children's activities already enforce these limits, and parents who can't could do far worse than kids playing video games.
Well, step one would be to reverse-engineer an existing CT scanner. But to do that, you'd need a CT scan of the boards in the CT scanner...
That's a cool story, but not true in all of Arizona. I built in Arizona and without code inspections or anyone checking I follow regulations. They probably just tried to build in a fascist shithole like Maricopa or Pima county where people with such deranged regulatory thinking congregate for their mental illness self support group.

In my county we figured out that ' paid for in blood' was bullshit invented by corrupt inspectors and contractors and we voted to eliminate it. Draw a rectangle on a map and after that it's green light.
Do you remember when the most widely used web browser supported 2 programming languages? Javascript and VBScript. It didn't work out so well, and everyone making browsers agreed it was better to focus on one language so the browser didn't become an even larger attack surface. Javascript has become highly optimized and very hardened against attacks, and has improved significantly over the years, and if you __must__ use another language, then WASM is there for your needs.
That isn't necessarily incompatible with alternate domain name systems. If OpenNIC is registering names under .pirate and ICANN is aware of this then it can simply refrain from using .pirate as a TLD and you still have a unified namespace. It just happens by consensus rather than central authority.

If they would get along a little better then you might even have the ICANN root servers direct queries for those TLDs to the OpenNIC servers. It's not obvious what benefit is achieved by not doing this.
I think you missed my point entirely.
The value of design is in a bubble (hype) and the data portability, privacy, reliability, extensibility are undervalued.
There is a huge market distortion caused by incumbent big companies who benefit from the bubble and the undervaluation of data portability, privacy, reliability, extensibility.
Off the top of my head the commerce clause and the first amendment since social media is all about publishing things.
I think you are (subconsciously) strawmanning the anti-vax movements like Querdenker. Most of these believe that mandatory vaccination (or reducing freedom of unvaccinated, or making it economically infeasible/required to work) is bad and goes against individual human rights, and that the risks and benefits of vaccines were not clearly communicated.

So, even if you did not make it up, it is twisting the viewpoints to reduce their legitimacy by tying these to ridiculous theories. One could do similar by cherrypicking vaccine proponents and their ridiculous theories (like claiming COVID came from the wet market).

If these channels are not indexed, I have a hard time believing you, given your misgivings and ridicule on your other statements. If a discussion about "Pandemic was faked to get children out of caves" can be sourced, please do so.

AI output is already more careful and fair and balanced on these matters.
> It's not okay to ship a bad product because a user can fix it themselves

I think you are confused about the definition of Emacs as a product. As stated in its documentation: "Emacs is the advanced, extensible, customizable, self-documenting editor." It is designed for advanced power users who are willing to extend and customize it. What you consider to be "must-have defaults" is as arbitrary and controversial as having an option to use vim keybindings or some popular dark theme out of the box. If you're saying that someone can't use Emacs because it doesn't open each file on a dedicated tab, maybe that's not Emacs's target audience?

Anyway, I do remember my younger self. I, too, was raging about this specific thing. I didn't understand "the philosophy of buffers," and people kept telling me "trust me, you don't need the tabs..." and I hated that. But I promise you, and please trust me, you really do not need the tabs. I've been there, I tried disproving everyone who told me that, and I admit that I was wrong.
There are LFP batteries that don’t use cobalt if you want to use less of it. It’s used for refining crude oil so you can’t get away from it completely.
What should it take? One smart person? A few average people? Do you realize how important web browsers are to modern life? Encryption alone takes many smart people to do right in a tool that billions of people use, so it should be no surprise that many smart people are helping secure, optimize, and extend javascript in such a widely used and universally important tool that is the web browser.
With a 220 MB app size, this seems incredibly likely to be a remedy, yes!

Why is this post down voted? Do people disagree or think this so wrong? Why are you down voting?
I think it is better to have a little "smarter" code if that means you will not bring a dependency. For example in Python or C I like things that do not need anything except the standard library. When you need to think about PIP or compilation of another library it is more code shifted to things that usually suck (like build systems) or you lose control and when something breaks you are still to blame. Sometimes it means to use something that is a bit more complex in comparison to using some nice libraries. Maybe the thing is that the library is not a dumb code anymore?
Agree on some level.

Over my life I have found that some things, yes I do need medication for, but I -personally- do not need anti depressants to be happy...

However people in society increasingly take the view of 'you need medication' rather than "maybe when this person tells me what is bothering them I should reflect on if I'm contributing to the problem"
I've never heard of roku. I'd suggest voting with your dollar. It looks like this is some form of set-top-box system, I suggest using free software if you want freedom -- is XBMC still a thing?
Those who worry about "disinformation" seem to only know one way to deal with it, and that is with more control to the responsible people (them) and less to everyone else.

This has already led to plenty of calamity, and will lead to more.

I remember a theory I first heard about in Jared Diamond's "Guns Germs and Steel", not invented by him and he was clear about it being speculative: The question was why so few animals in Africa can get domesticated. The theory was that since animals there co-evolved with humans, they evolved to be unpredictable (so our big brains wouldn't help us in figuring them out) and capricious (so that we'd regret it if we tried).

Whether that theory is true or not, I'm convinced that the same thing applies to our current political reality: We are met with a flood of attempts to shape us and manipulate us. Insane amounts of money are being spent on it, and our generation's smartest aren't merely working to get us to click on ads. They're working on the other alignment problem - not aligning AI with human preferences, but aligning the population with its leaders preferences.

Society is reacting like zebras, with unpredictable and destructive choices, like electing reality TV stars.

The course Tim Harford obliquely sides with here, is to keep the means of faking things in the hands of a few (since he says that the AI experts who think people will get used to it aren't taking it seriously enough). This will make everything worse.
Is speech the same as a substance sold over the counter?

Religious speech can be dangerous, addictive, and is regularly inflicted upon minors who have no choice. Is a ban appropriate?
just basing my assumptions on:

- https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/08/apple_web_apps_eu/

- https://itnext.io/apple-wants-to-kill-pwas-0895be2e497b

i really hope they don't as it does provide an acceptable alternative to native apps. not everyone has a mobile team that can build native. imagine a small team just making a web app could now also provide a similar experience and value for mobile out of the box.
> Other animals with larger brains might have other bottlenecks

>>> What’s the main difference between an ape’s brain and a human brain? Scale.

Your argument is inconsistent. Very clearly everything isn't scale or we'd use other things besides transformers. Different architectures scale in different ways and everything has different inductive biases. No one doubts scale is important, but there's a lot more.
Incorrect on multiple grounds, the first being that the Nazis were in part a reaction against the kind of society that Huxley sees developing.
The article’s premise is “poor people can’t afford PEDs.”

While there are exceptions, it currently takes a high level of resources over many years to make it as a professional athlete. I don’t think poor people can afford most sports period.
People commonly realize when they are stuck... But note, the LLM isn't stuck, it keeps producing (total bullshit) material, and this same problem happens with humans all the time when they go off on the wrong tangent and some supervisory function (such as the manager of a business) has to step in and ask wtf they are up to.
IME, YAML appeals to people who like Ruby. I find both of them a nightmare, but it's clear that there is a kind of mine quite different to mine that sees something in them that i don't.
The gold rush, with no gold 8-(

Not the first time though, California had one of those too.

Although I don't see any future in getting muricans, jacked up on fake news, to populate the moon, even though it worked with California.

The big moon news people should be paying attention to is gateway:

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

This isn't another small startup with a lander on it's side. This is one of NASA's primary missions, aimed at establishing and supporting a military presence on the moon 8-(

Because of course, we HAVE to go to the moon, so meatheads with laser blasters can have a shootout to see who's the "hero".
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