skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See, I don't think languages should accommodate this, because I see it as an ugly solution. It's nice that it works in a few cases but then it very quickly breaks down: a developer finds that their null check is enough to strip an optional, but a test against zero doesn't convert their signed integer to unsigned. Checking that a collection has elements in it doesn't magically turn it into a "NonEmptyCollection" with guaranteed first and last elements. I'm all for compilers getting smarter to help do what programmers expect, but when they can't do a very good job I don't find the tradeoff to be very appealing. Basically, I think pattern matching is a much better solution this problem, rather than repurposing syntax that technically means something else (even though 90% of the time people who reach for it mean to do the other thing).

Also, fwiw, I was mostly talking about things like the last example you gave. I guess it would be possible that in circumstances where T is invalid but T? would be valid, the language actually silently undos the refinement to make that code work. However, I am not sure this is actually a positive, and it doesn't help with the ambiguous cases anyways.
Can't specifically recommend a talk but here's a menu of Kay talks.

https://tinlizzie.org/IA/index.php/Talks_by_Alan_Kay
> Vignelli designed the iconic signage for the New York City Subway system during this period, and the 1970s–80s map of the system.

If you're Vignelli, you can tell the MTA which font to pick. If you're not him (or someone of equally high standing), you will most likely have to work with a style guide someone else thought out, and use whatever font(s) the style guide says you should use...

Plus, that was back in the seventies. Nowadays, every self-respecting company wants to have their own font (even if it's indistinguishable from Hel(l)vetica/Arial/whatever for >99% of people) - https://www.hvdfonts.com/custom-cases
I’m a big fan of typography, but I also strongly feel that applications (both native and web) should use system fonts and obey any user preferences for weight and size.

It’s a question of both accessibility and UX productivity. Switching to a different application shouldn’t be a jarring context switch. The user should be in control of their desktop environment, not the branding department at company X who insists that everything they release should be using font Y this year and then font Z the next. These changes bring no user benefits.

It’s different for software and content that actually tells a story. Games and web sites have a lot more freedom for custom design, and typeface choices are an elemental part of that.

I just wish more designers understood the distinction between telling a story and enabling people to be productive.
Luxury!

In Brazil we had to make do with mostly clones of PCs and Apple IIs (and, later, MSX). Sadly, computer imports were very restricted in order to protect a local industry which was considered strategic. The policy was somewhat successful in the end, but not to the extent the government - a military dictatorship - intended, which was to bring about a completely local industry. There were few locally developed architectures, most based on imported components, and the bulk of the industry centered on clones with minor improvements (such as better peripherals, higher integration) in order to remain compatible with the existing software base.
On the one had yes, it would be nice to avoid that sort of association-blurring.

But on the other, if we're calling ownership over the '-zilla' suffix then a certain giant monster might take precedent.
> For those of us not in the know, what does that mean?

I reckon that some people are either critical of LLMs due to the data that they're trained on (concerns about the legality of using the outputs, or the ethics of taking open source projects with a variety of licenses and how transformative or not the output might be), or question the quality of the code that they might output. Oh, also there's hype cycles and right now people at large might overestimate the capabilities of what LLMs can or cannot do well, which can be tiring, as seeing constant posts about crypto was (where we had a solution in search of a problem).

In my eyes, they can be used in conjunction with something like IntelliSense and IDEs to solve select problems (ones with solutions that already exist out there) more quickly, as well as save time on some boilerplate, as long as you still validate the outputs and actually check if everything works. Nowadays I'm using GitHub Copilot and the user experience is mostly okay, I'd say it actually lets me write code faster, at the expense of occasionally getting things pretty wrong, but is still a net positive, other considerations aside.
Maybe "Americanaly". Lots of words there seem to mean different things than in the rest of the english speaking world.
zilla isn't a word reserved to Mozilla, there are other thing using this word, like godzilla, where mozilla name came from.
yes indeedy four years of diversity training for the low low price of $150,000. but at the end it's all worth it because you can express your true thoughts when you get to the workplace
Best of luck with the project, but your site says: "Octopus.ai is the ultimate business health and growth management powered by the cutting-edge technology of ChatGPT."

So I guess the question is, why not go directly to ChatGPT? What is the value add?
The worst AI-generated artwork we've seen: Symphony Orchestra's Facebook ad fail
That's why nobody should use FileZilla anymore, but WinSCP.
To clarify: when I say value I don't just mean monetary value - though of course everything in a business ultimately does boil down to that, including the total expectation of risks.

I agree though, definitely a factor
Indeed! Everyone who pushes Postgres is a win in my book.
Flagged as this is more culture war than hacker-related.
Here is a short intro on the theory of Gradient Boosted Decision Trees:
https://developers.google.com/machine-learning/decision-fore...

And here is a practical intro to it, you can run it right in your browser if you open it in Colab:
https://www.tensorflow.org/decision_forests/tutorials/beginn...
The idea of computing as the shared stage to reflect our own intelligence is really what sticks out to me as the best way to frame what interacting with a computer means. It's not new but Alan did a great job of motivating and framing it here. Thanks for posting this great reminder that what we use as computers today are still only poor imitations of what could truly be done if we can transport our minds to be more directly players on that stage. It's interesting to reflect the other way as well. If we are the actors reflecting a computer to itself. An AGI has to imagine and reflect in a space created of our ideas. To be native the AI needs better tools, the "mouse" of it's body controlling the closed loop of it's "graphics", how do we create such a space that is more directly shared? Dynamically trading been actor and audience in an improvisational exchange? This is the human computer symbiosis I seek.
Definitely not good, but wayyy less dangerous for humans and the environment than a huge oil spill
Their name is as brilliant as

“The Democratic People's Republic of Korea”

(AKA North Korea)
But enough about Sam Smith
Hospitals, Daycare, Schools, Social Work, Police, Fire Departments, Puclic Infrastructure, ... would fall apart in minutes if this would be mindset there.
On other hand is there other than Bugzilla and Chatzilla(dead) that follow that scheme?
Actually it's the opposite. I worked for an NGO half a decade ago, and they wanted to add 2FA authentication to their login system used by ~400 staff. I created a quick demo using Google Authenticator in less than a week.

However the director of IT didn't like this solution. He insisted we use RSA keys and hire IBM to build a solution using that - I think the original estimate was a few million $ and it would take six months or so for their team (of basically new graduates) to build.

I asked my boss why the director was pushing so much for IBM to build it:

He told me that if we build it, and it doesn't work, then the director has to take the blame. If IBM build it, and it doesn't work, then IBM take the blame.
From a cost perspective it'd be easy to be tempted into thinking you can play the odds and come out ahead. It's not like getting infected with ransomware is something that happens all the time.

Fortunately not being negligent when it comes to security does a lot more than just protect you from ransomware extortionists. It can make it possible to easily recover data after all kinds of incidents (human error, software bugs, hardware failures, fires/floods, etc) and also help keep you protected from other types of viruses/malware, malicious employees, corporate espionage, whistleblowers, and anyone else who would take your data and then actually use it instead of just demanding payment to make it go away. It can also prevent the reputational harm a company can suffer by having a data breach go public.

Good security is one of those things that could easily save a company way more than it costs them, but the costs are immediate and non-trivial and companies seem to love to cut corners even when they know it'll screw them down the road because they're pathologically short-sighted and it's hard to brag about doing something that didn't have an immediate and obvious impact on their next quarter's bottom line
Using CodeMirror in a desktop app seems like an interesting choice. I'd love to hear more about why they took this approach.
I’d say it’s better to post what the law actually says. You’re right, people will complain because it quite clearly is subjective nonsense. But sticking with the facts makes for better discussion than trying to cover them up imo.
I'm referring to the fact that SpaceX can buy the direct to cell technology from Nokia, Ericsson or Huawei and put on their satellites.

You can buy starlink dishes at Walmart, Best Buy, Home Depot, Costco and that's just in the USA
Oh thank god at least somebody is doing Cocoa in 2024.
You've just mentioned the topic yourself, giving it a little bit of attention and making others do so too, and you might well not have done that without these stunts, or even had this opportunity. One thing such stunts do very well is ensure that people don't have that topic driven out of their minds entirely, anchor it there, even if it doesn't take center stage. That makes it much easier to activate through other campaigns, channels or even uncoordinated word of mouth, and while that may not seem like much, big corp marketing departments spend fortunes to do the same for their brands. Is there a risk that soup stunts will foster resentment to a degree that harms their goal? Absolutely, but it doesn't seem to have happened yet. Most people appear to forget the stunts fairly quickly, whereas climate change as a topic is gaining traction, and while it's hard to attribute any of this directly to the various steps taken to foster awareness, it's well established that anchoring an idea in people's minds is a crucial basis for bottom-up action – just look at how the MAGA slogan has galvanized the US far right, to a large degree by firmly anchoring certain core tenets in people's minds, even those on the other side of the aisle. I'm wary of the downstream effects the current protests may wind up having, but I can't think of an alternative that's actually doable and that would have the same amount of impact.
Are there any examples for when RAG powered by vectorsearch works really well?

I tried best practices like having the llm formulate an answer and using the answer for the search (instead of the question) and trying different chunk sizes and so on but never got it to work in a way that I would consider the result as "good".

Maybe it was because of the type of data or the capabilities of the model at the time (GPT 3.5 and GPT 4)?

By now context windows with some models are large enough to fit lots of context directly into the prompt which is easier to do and yields better results. It is way more costly but cost is going down fast so I wonder what this means for RAG + vectorsearch going forward.

Where does it shine?
From all the evidence, the one to look the worst on all of this is Google...
Linux is very much ok at least x64 vscode is working faster than Mac version but ofc. It is not Xcode
Godzilla may want a word too.
> but it doesn't really refute any of his core assertions: they still have the appearance of abandoning their core mission to focus more on profits

They don't refute that, but they claim that road was chosen in agreement with Elon. In fact, the claim this was his suggestion
To be clear I agree with your interpretation about how much data you can store in the deck permutation and how to search it, my previous comment was only about p-adic valuations. I can't actually see how the 49 is relevant either.
It’s still good to alert people, but do note this has been going on for a decade. FileZilla has irreparably tarnished its reputation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FileZilla#Bundled_adware_issue...
Nothing. No evidence suggests that actively managed funds beat indexes.
Let's not forget the Shuttles were not as much reusable than fixable. They had to spend months grounded for extensive refurbishing after every flight.
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If it works, I don't see anything wrong with it. It looks good. Hating on projects that disclose their GPT usage will only incentivize them to not disclose in the future.
I randomly remembered this game that we played in high school on school computers a lot. I thought that it would be nice to find it, reverse engineer it and port it to some modern target, but it seems someone beat me to it already for a web version.

There is even p2p multiplayer implemented.
Note: cyberduck GUI applications seems to be available only for MacOS and Windows and it shows donations prompts unless you purchase a license.

I'm interested in finding a replacement for FileZilla that works on Linux as well, ideally with data import (having tens of connections saved).
Wonderful as ever.

Kay demonstrates an emulator of Sketchpad. Anyone know if it's been shared anywhere?
Similar enough intellectual properties can lead to legal trouble if their domain overlap.
Aren't they literally Ossi?
Germany hasn't had a left-wing extremist movement since the RAF, which was a GDR-affiliated group (or more accurately, a number of groups as the members of the initial Baader-Meinhof group were imprisoned) that performed political assassinations, bombings and abductions initially and then later bank robberies and other less ideologically motivated crimes.

We've been desperately trying to label groups as "left-wing extremist" ever since to avoid having to talk about right-wing terrorism without a comforting "all extremism is bad" caveat. The most recent example is the non-violent eco activist group Last Generation (Letzte Generation) which we've been trying to legally frame as a "criminal organization" (a legal device originally intended to help combat organized crime and terrorist cells) and which politicians and the media have at times referred to as "eco terrorists" and a "green RAF". Keep in mind their stunts mostly consisted of gluing themselves to intersection.

There was a broad "anti-COVID" movement (Querdenker/Querfront - "quer" in this case meaning "traversing (political lines)") founded in 2020 that drew from a broad political base including anti-vaxxers, new agers, "völkisch" nationalists, libertarians/ancaps and some groups self-identifying as leftist. The vast majority of leftist and anarchist movements however strongly opposed this movement, on the one hand because it was strongly affiliated with the political far-right (as a consequence of being a mix of people openly far-right, lying about not being far-right, being politically apathetic or being okay with aligning with the far-right) and on the other because while even anarchists disagreed with the implementation and choice of state anti-COVID measures they often did not disagree with their necessity in principle. These disagreements eventually contributed to Sarah Wagenknecht, a celebrity politician in the minor party Die Linke (The Left) parting ways with her party and founding her own party - although it's noteworthy that the party's official position of refusing to expel her for her publicly stated views led to many people breaking with the party prior to this.

With all that said, I wouldn't put too much trust on the German authorities' ability to correctly assess a terrorist group's ideological positions. According to some other news articles, the group does use left-wing language tho. Apparently it describes itself as being in a battle against "capitalism, patriarchy and colonialism" - which to me sounds more Third Worldist (i.e. Maoist) than anarchist. I can't imagine leftists in Germany broadly welcoming their actions tho as they're providing exactly the boogeyman politicians have been holding up as a justification for cracking down on non-violent "eco terrorists". Anarchists too tend to emphasize the importance of prefiguration before revolution (which is difficult because prefigurative projects also run risk of being labelled "criminal organizations" purely based on ideological stances) so I doubt they're too happy about the association either.
I'd say balance is important. You can't just say: "I'll start a company, where if a consumer reports he's unhappy with a product, service, I'll just refund his money unconditionally, because that's the world I'd like to live in." Maybe such approach is achievable in the far future, but you can't ignore the harsh environment of your competition and go straight for the ideal approach.

And yes, I know you might not consider my example of an ideal approach, but there's plenty similar examples to make, like a sports team being completely fair: recognizing their errors when even the judge doesn't, recognize negative errors of the judge against their opponents (and e.g. allow the opponent to easily get a point to cancel out unfair judge's ruling), never pretend an injury even though an opponent does it etc. Such a team would quickly become irrelevant.

In other words, your attitude is naive and it stems from a false dilemma that you can be either good or evil, disregarding the smooth gradient, where you can try to climb up reasonably high - higher than average - and pull the rest up.
The Oracle number is, I think "one off". But some of that number also appears to be "intended savings that could not be made".

The savings delivery rate .. is something of a work of fiction, but if you build a new accounting system sold as being able to give greater insight and reduce costs, and it does not in fact reduce costs, or even work properly, that obliterates the hypothetical "savings" that were intended.
I think you're misreading the intention here. The intention of closing it up as they approach AGI is to protect against dangerous applications of the technology.

That is how I read it anyway and I don't see a reason to interpret it in a nefarious way.
I take it that you’ve never been paid late while living paycheck to paycheck? No, it’s not just about forgetting to pay the bill on time, and in many cases the interest rate is already the highest one that’s legally possible.

When high-status people conspicuously consume through Birkin bags and exclusive club memberships, a lot of other people are led to desire those things.

In the case of credit cards, not only is demand drummed up by enlisting wealthy people as card-carrying brand ambassadors who flash their membership card every time they approach a cashier, it also distorts the perception of incurring debt for everyday purchases into something that financially savvy people are doing.

Your analysis is kind of correct if you entirely ignore marketing and psychology.
Regulations work with perfect governments that are all knowing, all powerful and only interested in the good of the people. It is used as a smokescreen by the governments who can (literally) bend the rules to their will, to convince the rest of the people how the economy works.

I would say this is ever further from reality than perfect markets.

So we probably need both.
I wonder if a deployable sunshade would help extending their life. When Skylab lost one solar panel array on launch, they had to cover it with a blanket to help manage temperatures.
> Even though statistics might mean someone is more likely to commit a crime, that does not necessarily mean that they did commit a crime (or if they committed the specific crime being asked about).

Which is why you're not supposed to consider these things when serving on a jury, and the court will exclude it from being presented to the jury to the extent feasible.

But if you do the opposite with some LLM, purposely feed it the exact information you know it can use to make a particular inference, why is anybody surprised what happens after that?
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So, @dang, I think we should switch the proportional font to Chicago.
I had similar experiences. Can't understand all the hype around RAG when the results are so bad.
It’s getting harder to choose software because half of it will be shut down before 3 years pass.
Science and technology lifted them from poverty, not capitalism. The state in those countries played a huge role
If that's what's important then the ISS itself has beaten it. So it still seems like an arbitrarily narrowly chosen record just to make it seem special by limiting it to transport spacecraft. Everything beats some sort of record if you exclude enough others.
Sure, here's an easy example: The GDR had childcare for everyone. And the reason for that was based in the system, namely that communism says everyone is equal, men and women both work. Western Germany said childcare is the work of the woman, who cares about public childcare?

The communist system was far better, which is why we - after having dismantled it in the 90s for Eastern Germany - are now back to providing childcare for all children. Though it will take decades until it works again.
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Trying to force this in to a capitalism vs. communism false dilemma is so boring. No one mentioned communism until you.

There is not a single fully capitalist nation state on the planet. All have significant legislation and elements of socialism.

"Capitalism" can take many forms; some better than others. The (rather ranty) statement talks about "predatory capitalists" for example. "Crony capitalism" is also another commonly used term.
What do you mean it's a red herring and doesn't exist?

It's quite literally the only "thing" we can be sure exists, because without consciousness, we wouldn't experience anything at all.

I agree we care mainly about increasing information complexity in AI systems, but we can't discount the possiblity of consciousness being generated non-biologically in the process. I think we just need a better model of what that means exactly.
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Britain would have lost WW1 and WW2 without massive US support. The WW1 Germans were not amazed by British soldiers' supplies and health. They were amazed by the US soldiers' supplies and health.

> Finally, the US war economy of WW2 was decidedly not free

FDR mobilized existing free market businesses to convert to war production. It was not a collective, nor was it forced labor. For example, Ford switched from producing cars to producing tanks and airplanes. After the war, Ford switched back to making cars. Ford was paid to do this by the government.

FDR's State of the Union Address of 1945 proposed switching the economy to forced labor. Apparently, he was an admirer of Stalin. Fortunately, he was not able to make that happen.
It's based on Chromium, wich is C++. In terms of total code, I'd wager it's around 99% C++.
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