skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is basically all wrong, except the Ford switching to planes and tanks bit.

And you are aware, that France was a major biligerent in WW1, stopped Germany at Verdun and held more than half the Western Front, sucessfully after the race to the sea ended, together with Britain, for years before the US showed up?

Or that the Ententene, without significant US participation, won the strategic victory that defeated Germany during the Kaiserschlacht, the last German offensive in the West? This victory allowed Franch and Britain to start the 1919 offensive already in 1918, the one that ended with German surrender. In fact, they started early, in part, to avoid the impression that it was the US who "won" WW1. Little did they know how WW2 would play out and influence puplic opinion.

Also, being impressed by something doesn't mean being defeated by it... I know the meme, and that is all it is, a meme. And a lazy one at that.

During WW2, economies in the UK, the US and the USSR had a lot in common. Mainly them being not free to choose what they produced. The degrees of freedom regarding how it was produced differed, but that is not what defines an economy as free or not. And please tell me you don't think the USSR functioned without money? People were paid to produce stuff, they didn't have the likes of Ford getting rich building war material so.

Edit: I forgot one theatre in WW1, the Ottoman Empire. Arguably at least as important for Britain than the Western Front, and there the US didn't participate at all. And still Britain won.

This is not to downplay the role the US played in WW2, far from it. Projecting this role to WW1 is just plain wrong so, and only feeds into a whole bunch of wrong preconceptions about WW1. I partialy blame Cold War propaganda for this, that downplayed the Soviet role in WW2, for obvious reasons, and over played the US one. Regarding WW2, this narrative is finally changing, for WW1 not so much. And I don't like factually wrong narratives for historical events.

Edit 2: Just read the first half of FDRs 1945 State of the Union during my lunch break. Not sure how you can consider a national service obligation, in parallel to the normal recruiting of workers, to be equal to forced labour...

You really should look up what real forced labour looked, and looks, like.

Also, the same guy, FDR, who called for "forced labour" and was a "friend of Stalin" was in charge of the war economy. And yet, you claim the war economy led by him was a free market. One of those things is not true, I'd say.
I believe two key components were missing from Brazil's protection of its IT industry. Firstly, there was no attempt at educating the public (such as with Britain's initiative in the 1980s). Secondly, there was no attempt at making the machines cheaper.

And when push came to shove with Unitron's Mac, Brazil gave precedence to its orange exports. So I would classify it as a half-hearted attempt at industrial policy.
Good that I don't have to worry about things like this when downloading from official OpenSuse repos. Are they allowed to bundle adware into flatpaks and AppImages?
Developers can store items in keychain on your device/icloud account that are only visible to the apps made by that developer (and not you). It is a feature that it works this way, and this whole concept is fucking insane to me.
> Most Windows laptops have abysmal batteries, to the point that you can barely call them laptops.

The plateau of 6 hours is less Microsoft's fault here and more a combination of stinginess by OEMs and their willingness to reduce cost by taking money to have extra installed software out of the gate.

> The trackpads are downright unusable.

This varies wildly by OEM and price point. Below some weird gulf, this is the truth. Above some arbitrary shore, there is a plateau of goodness, of which some rival the historic best from macs.

> The keyboards are a hit or a miss.

Again this comes down to the choices made by the OEM during their costing. I recently picked up a Chromebook from Acer just to have something that was not "very Computer" when I found myself needing An Computer to look something up with. It had surprisingly little flex to the chassis, and I found myself quite enjoying the deck, minus...

well

> And for some reason, so many companies are still shipping laptops with 1080p screens in 2024.

Or 1366x768, the Devil's Resolution. The reasons for this are weird and varied but the short form is that economies of scale have yet to make it more profitable for companies to standardize on higher density panels. It actually makes me insanely mad that the laptop I started college with (a dell c600 hand-me-down I'd been tinkering with since high school) had a better resolution at 1400x1050 and that the 2560x1600 beast that I carried after that... that in 2012 would define the lower side of "retina".
And Oracle’s Java, when they bundled the Askbar with the JRE.
Unchecky helps with shit like this

https://unchecky.com/
I have curtailed my reading of both The Economist and the FT over the past few years due to their increasing stridency in coverage of American politics and tone-deaf reporting on East Asia, prompting me to realize I had likely succumbed to Gell-Mann amnesia effect.
Bugzilla actually came out of Mozilla so that would be safe.
> peacefully toured the premises ... LOL
Very interesting. So if you want an intelligent model, you should train it on data that gives a high IQ score.

You can then test a text to see if it increases or decreases the IQ of a model, if included in the training set.

This makes it possible to classify text as "decreases intelligence" of "increases intelligence".

Logical next step is to mark books based on the expected effect on intelligence.
Microsoft has moved very quickly to add LLM functionality to multiple products

Literally the opposite of LinkedIn. I’m approximately user 5000 on linkedin, and since I joined almost nothing useful has been added, despite a huge increase in complexity
In Britain, councils have a permanent civil service who are responsible for running the council. The elected councillors are responsible for policymaking and oversight.
I joined Udacity when the mission was "Double the world's GDP" and the best engineers and researchers flocked there to create great content. I loved the culture and the people. It was family in the truest sense. When I left the company, it had been hijacked by greedy and stupid MBAs running the show with a huge number of unwanted meetings, buzzword-filled marketing, sub-par content, and burning cash with random "data-driven" experiments.

People passionate about education and those with genuine ideas were sidelined and many were let go in multiple rounds of layoffs. It's so painful to see Udacity being bought by Accenture, another MBA/consultants-led shitshow.

The courses that were created until circa 2018 were amazing. Those created afterward were barely worth the time, let alone the money.

I hope someday the great folks will get back together and build another great learning platform again.
Hopefully. I am an certified electrical engineer in Germany and the full norms I (and everybody else in Germany) have to comply with cost upwards of 1400 Euros per year.

Saying in the law you have to respect the technical norms and then be like: "Yeah but you can only see them when you pay a heckton of money" is totally immoral.
Sorry, that question was purely rhetorical.

That divide between individual and collective as stated above was very sketchy, and I merely wanted to indicate that.

If one take the strict definition of individualist and collective from a dictionary (well, which one, to begin with?), of course they are opposite, just looking at the idea conveyed by the word radicals (ie individualist -> individual, vs collective).

As always, we all start talking about things without first defining the terms we use to discuss those things, and of course confusion, anger and frustration ensue.
I have this naively optimistic hope that AIs will allow orgs to scale units past Dunbar’s number.

We humans can’t effectively communicate with groups larger than about 7 people, but AIs have no such limits. We could all simply talk to one manager that can integrate everything and everyone into a unified whole.

It’s like the ship Minds in the Culture series having hundreds or even thousands of conversations at once.
Not all comparisons fit.
Financial markets are some of the most regulated environments anywhere.
I love this back and forth (subscriber of Hillel Wayne; gonna bookmark this blog too)! I think the authors probably agree more than they disagree. There's probably energy around adding better graph support to mainstream languages, but I have significant doubts about whether or not Datalog will get traction there. It's really hard to get programmers to help themselves (I'm in this group FWIW--didn't use linting for waaaay too long), whether it's GC, Rust's ownership model, formal methods, flow analysis, Datalog, functional programming, blah blah. Maybe it's cultural, maybe it's some kind of deep/shared aesthetic amongst engineers, I don't know.
I gave it a try. The difference is that XINPUT2 scroll has inertia: I start scrolling, remove the fingers from the touchpad and it keeps scrolling for a while. If I want to stop when I see something interesting I have to click or it will scroll away. That adds an extra action that must performed at the right time. I don't think I like that because this is not a videogame and Firefox is not supposed to challenge my abilities. I prefer the current behavior: it scrolls until I stop sliding my fingers on the touchpad. Then I have to move them up to the top of the touch pad and start again but I can scroll all the front page of HN in a single motion and it gives me time to check what I'm looking at, especially on longer pages (this comment thread.)

Anyway, it's nice to have different settings that suit different people.
the earth has cycles, the sun has cycles, the galaxy has cycles.

Last event was 6k years, half harmonic of the main 12k years cycle.
The carrington event signed the arrival of the galatic current sheet (a rippling magnetic wave emitted by the core of the milky way) which, among other things, causes the earth magnetic field to decrease.

There was no "very nearby supernova", it's just the sun and the event is much smaller but still a kind of nova (called micronova).

The induced current from the micronova is believed to be able to unlock the crust from the mantle which adds to the magnetic pole shift a physical pole shift.

The younger dryas impact theory is wrong in the way that the impact was just a proxy of the micronova (full coronal mass ejection) and not the cause.

Civilization has cycles too, I guess.
Is "Grow Your Business Fast at All Cost" a Sound Strategy? Study Says No
Orgs never value engineers that improve the overall codebase so I can't blame them. You're only getting promoted and compensated by delivering the next big feature which is part of the owners vision and being visible.
Tbh,I don't miss a lot from AWS, but IAM is pretty cool for auth between services and I have not found a comparable on premise solution
How is an AI passing the visual reasoning questions?

edit:

> But if I translate the image to this (it’s tedious to read for us, who are used to processing such things visually):

If you translate the visual questions they're no longer visual questions, wouldn't this massage the results? Especially given AIs are really bad at context.
If so, then they shouldn’t have started down that path by refusing to open source 1.5B for a long time while citing safety concerns. It’s obvious that it never posed any kind of threat, and to date no language model has. None have even been close to threatening.

The comparison to nuclear weapons has always been mistaken.
Microsoft being the sole beneficiary is the main problem. They are not the only company which can offer compute and money.
I'd argue it's partly because of tradition. If you look at early APL code, including Iverson's earliest papers, it's written with pretty much zero spaces (well, except for where spaces are required).

A lot of APL programmers continue this tradition, and it works for them. Not everybody does it though. I'm one of those people that adds spaces and newlines to try to make the code more clear for myself.

As an example of the kind of code I tend to write, here's the code for the Kap output formatter:

https://codeberg.org/loke/array/src/branch/master/array/stan...

Of course, if you don't know what the symbols mean, a lot of it is probably still impenetrable, but I think this code is less dense than your typical APL code.
Problem is how much time one does need before it is readable.

Had a guy that tried to push LaTeX as documentation writing tooling for the whole company.

Sales guys went with Confluence. They were more concerned with actually closing million dollar contracts than learning fancy typesetting system.
It's possible jellyfish cancer evolved into anerobic salmon parasite
An immigrant taxi driver wanted me to say the street where I wanted to go, for google maps.

It would have been ~20x faster to just let me type it.

At least I had told him the general area, so we were getting there even while I kept repeating the address and maps was getting it wrong.
I'm not sure we can deduce much from this without knowing how many questions (and answers) were part of the training data.
It makes people feel mistrusted (which they are, and in general should be.) it’s a bit challenging to overcome that.
Funnily enough, I’m currently reading the 1995 Sci-fi novel "The Star Fraction", where exactly this scenario exists. On the ground, it’s Stasis, a paramilitary force that intercedes when certain forbidden technologies (including AI) are developed. In space, there’s the Space Faction who are ready to cripple all infrastructure on earth (by death lasering everything from orbit) if they discover the appearance of AGI.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star_Fraction
Could you explain to me the point of it, though?

What's the point of accepting 400M to build a business if you essentially don't own any of that business (because of the 559M buyout ceiling).

Were they gambling on a buyout more than 559? I don't understand why someone building a business would accept these terms.
Incredible! I wonder how much delay there is between the sensor data coming in to ISS, being relayed to NASA, fetched by these guys and forwarded to their model's actuators.
Oh I'm talking about the ideal, not what they're actually doing.
winSCP for the win! WinScp is all so grate with screen readers. For anyone that needs to use one. I find it to be grate with NVDA even the file viewer.
Congrats! Its lovely, especially like the transition after you submit the answer.
This is exactly the nuance and historical context that I was missing in the article :)
I've tried this and it seems to be working fine.

git clone --bare https://path.to/repo.git

mv repo.git .git

now we can create worktrees in the same folder.
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> Like you noticed people need incentives to volunteer their hardware.

I wonder if this is because "volunteer your hardware" projects sometimes involve someone making else money, and if someone else is making money but not you, why should you donate your hardware?

For the truly libre "hardware donation" projects, they seem to be doing ok without financial incentivization. What immediately comes to mind is the petabytes of data flying around on peer to peer systems through torrenting. I know people that spend thousands of dollars a year on upkeep and upgrades for what are essentially super seedbox homelabs (I'm one of them too :P )

There's also communities like soulseek where people keep TBs of music up, often seeking out rare tracks to make available to the community for free.

There's folding@home and seti@home, and I'm sure other similar projects I haven't heard of, where people donate cycles just for the common good.

folding@home is a great example because we can directly compare the people that are "incentivized" to participate with bananocoin, a cryptocurrency rewarded based on work cycles in folding@home. You can see all bananocoin miners here under the banano.cc team: https://stats.foldingathome.org/ That team is in first place for work completed, however are only just surpassing the linus tech tips team, and not to mention compared to a bunch of other teams (and private "donors") they're a very small % of work completed for folding@home

So therefore I disagree that people "need" incentives, there just needs to be no, erm, disincentives, if that's a word.
Thanks! It's fixed now
>Even within the communist countries you can find difference and things which worked better or worse.

That's true, but life in the GDR was still shit compared to the west, even if it was the least shit out of all the eastern block. You can powder a turd in sugar but it's still not gonna be edible, it will still be a turd.

That's why people from the est were risking to get shot/arrested to cross the border west. Better childcare wasn't enough to unshittify the life in the east.
IQ tests for models seem...somewhat flawed.

For example, most (if not all) IQ tests will test you on working memory. Meaning that you'll be given a string of characters and numbers, and then you'll have to re-iterate them in some ordered fashion. That is completely trivial for a machine, and will give a large skewed max score.

Same with detecting differences. A typical task is to be shown two different pictures, and find the difference between those. Again, totally trivial task for a machine.

Or the vocabulary test. Quite trivial for language models.

The final IQ score will be some weighted and scaled score that consists of all those different parts. When I took the WAIS-IV, that's how it worked.

On the other hand, excluding those (trivial for machine) parts would give a score which may not mirror human intelligence, as far as scoring/testing goes.
Yes, and that if you want to believe in something you can always come up with the correct sounding justification. In this case, it’s the use of obviously formulaic IQ test formats, thus easily targeted for training, to justify claims that we have AI with intelligence equals to the average human of 100 points. This is pure BS to anyone who has not sold their soul to the AI bandwagon for profit or otherwise.
That's an interesting thought, yeah... technology and communication are definitely interwoven, things are possible today that were impossible before computers simply due to communication constraints.
One could imagine a large number of practically autonomous small teams organized "automatically", more mirroring a neural network than a hierarchy.
The semiconductor industry is an interesting example because even if the transistor was invented by Bell labs, it all comes from wartime technology, obviously very heavily publicly subsidized. And actually, it was only profitable for the first 10 years becuse they had military applications so they had the gouvernment as client…
Really feels like mission impossible to do this kind of role remotely.
With the "in context" ability of LLM I think you can add one sentence like "as you were IQ185" to make AI ignore portion of its training data.
We're getting very solid results.

Instead of performing rag on the (vectorised) raw source texts, we create representations of elements/"context clusters" contained within the source, which are then vectorised and ranked. That's all I can disclose, hope that helps.
> Drug lab is more probable than a gas leak.

I can’t tell if you’re trying to demonstrate the problem you have with your neighbors ;)

It was a gas leak, not a drug lab. The utility failed to fix things in a neighborhood where there’d been reports of leaks for years: https://www.wbur.org/news/2023/08/17/eversource-fine-gas-exp...
If I had to guess I doubt if this was actually Oracle's fault - sounds like implementation problems not problems with software itself?
The average IQ is 100…
Did Mozilla really came from Godzilla? I've always thought it was short form of 'Mosaic killa' (Mosaic killer). Original code of NSCA Mosaic was licensed by Microsoft Corp from Spyglass, Inc. (and so become a part of first version of Internet Explorer); while team which had written this code (Marc Andreessen et al) got venture funding from James Clark et al in 1994 to form Netscape Communications Corp and basically rewrite the browser from scratch. I.e. initial goal of that team was to kill NSCA Mosaic, their previous creation, hence the name.
It’s literally open source bruh.
LinkedIn and Microsoft are the same, that said I personally think the rush to push LLMs into everything is entirely consistent with my prediction and with the internal structure of Microsoft (current and historical).
> But it's also a minefield politically: you cannot ask too many questions or point out too many bugs because it exposes the brokenness everything has been running on since years.

> Even though somewhere, at some level, people knew everything was FUBARed (otherwise the decision to rewrite the spreadsheet to a dedicated app would not have been taken), it's a minefield. You have to walk on eggs to not piss anyone.

Your argumentation implicitly makes use of the assumption that the respective person scores high on agreeableness:

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits

There exist people who do not mind pissing other people off ... ;-)
Yep. The utility had gotten reports of gas leaks on that street previously and didn’t fix it.
It's also often forgotten that local government in the UK has two income streams:

* Council Tax, which is based on the value of your home.
* Government funding, which makes up the vast majority of the income.

The latter has seen a cut of £800m in the last 13 years.

Birmingham has been set up to fail by a government run by the other political party. The same area is also covered by the West Midlands Combined Authority, which is headed by an elected Conservative mayor. Somehow, his organisation has tons of cash to do all sorts of nice projects (like campaigning to rebuild a wonky pub) but doesn't have any tax raising powers (something they're very proud of).

Where is that money coming from? Why is it not being used to bailout the council instead of forcing 20% tax rises on residents along with shutting public services.

Birmingham has been left out to dry by political opponents. Nothing more, nothing less.
Just in case others are curious:

NOTE: Google Voice only works for personal Google Accounts in the US and Google Workspace accounts in select markets. Text messaging is not supported in all markets.
Sadly one can’t be separated from the other. I’d agree if it was true. But there’s no evidence it ever has been.

One thought experiment is to imagine someone developing software with a promise to open source the benign parts, then withholding most of it for business reasons while citing aliens as a concern.
I've recently read about worktrees and currently trying to incorporate it in my work routine. For NodeJS applications, it seems we need to create a soft link to point to the node_modules folder in "main" worktree in all worktrees. Otherwise we need to do a npm install in each of the worktree, and knowing how big the node_modules folder can be, a lot of disk space and time is wasted.
I don’t think terraform will recursively delete everything in your S3 bucket.
They might know which dealers are in the area of the testing facility?
I‘m using it in for an internal application and the results so far are amazing. Considering it was hacked together in a few hours.

It helps a lot with discovery. We have some large PDFs and also a large amount of smaller PDFs. Simply asking a question, getting an answer with the exact location in the pdf is really helpful.