skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Over the past three months, I've been manually sending out six emails every morning for my newsletters Implementing and Quickview due to the platform's lack of automation support. In this issue of Implementing, I discuss how I automated email delivery for a SaaS. Feedback is appreciated!"
What is a "overly" capitalist system? Where we would find companies with a conscience for example? Argentina?
With time mass consumer hardware scales up. You expect that trend to stop?
I guess I'm just annoyed that people think Altman is scanning the eyeballs of Africans as part of some dastardly scheme, but he's only doing it so that Worldcoin will have value that's all.
Self-proclaimed leaders and experts basically signal to me that they stopped bothering to upskill, leveled off, and use their new title as a form of justification or personal flattery.
What a bold statement to make out loud, all at once.
I used the Genki books which also use Hepburn. Simply put Hepburn mimics the English language and, the English language uses apostrophes for glottal stops. Especially if the language foreign. This is why Genki does that.
I feel like the space has already plateaued. Lots of improvements up to GPT4 were genuine milestones, but that’s now a year ago and everything since was marginal.

I’m not invested in any sense in the space. I’m actually more frequently turning off Copilot in VSCode recently. I’d like to see further breakthroughs as much as anyone, but am not holding my breath. In fact, shorting NVIDIA seems like one of the better ideas currently.
> What's the value in pointing this out yet again?

To correct the mistake you keep repeating

> - It doesn't seem like any of your suggestions are possible

Could you resolve this self-contradiction first?

>Huh I don't think I said anything's impossible

Or name one?

> - even if they are with something like Karabiner, "My point is that it's always gonna be a little imperfect and maybe a lot of work"

I've also addressed this mistake, but you're just repeating it without any reponse to that, so can't add anything new

> No, all I'm saying is that going from "docs" to "API docs" on a site like HN isn't a big leap,

But it is a leap, in the same mistaken direction of all your other leaps. Also you forgot to excuse limiting the hardware to only the recent models to

> and I was just making an off-hand remark that you've dug into multiple times now.

And the correction was (in an off-hand remark in parentheses), why do you keep pretenting like it's not your trying to defend this silly mistake is what's "digging into"?

> I'm forced to conclude you don't actually know how to do this

No one is forcing you to spread your ignorance like that onto other people, that's just another one of your bad faith leaps

> You've not responded to my questions about specifics on this for either Terminal.app or iTerm2.

This is pretty trivial, and you rail against me for addressing your comments in a detailed manner, so I skipped that one: in Karabiner you make a simple rebind "if terminal is active, let Cmd-C send something else"

> Also FWIW "using a different keybind to cancel" isn't something you've suggested before, which I know can be done in config files.

So if you knew it's possible, why did you waste time arguing it was all time consuming and complicated?

> You can't really mean this.

Of course I don't mean what yet another one of your confused leaps resulted in. If you use Cmd-C to cancel in the terminal, this conflicts with Cmd-C as copy everywhere else. And you'd use Cmd to cancel (although not necessarily Cmd-C, far simpler to use Cmd-X or something) instead of Control because Cmd is your "control" key on a Mac

Try to remember that this whole conversation started with me trying to clear your confusion about "[winning] Macs also have the same "Fn on the far left" layout" - the far left side and relative positions of fn and Control isn't as relevant since you'd use Cmd for all control-like functions to be consistent with the rest of the OS
I don't think anyone in their right mind brags about GRE scores, and I'm sorry it came off that way. I mentioned it solely because as other comments said, I have no reason to cheat.
I agree, but I'm talking about bike lanes in places with networks.

I'd like to be wrong: Where have you seen medium or high utilization of bike lanes, in the US?
> If you don't have, and don't plan on ever having kids

Then you don't pay for their services, and other people pay more.

Most people don't want an uneducated population so they pay for them.

Government is this strange beast where we continuously seem to vote and pay for all these things we value at the ballot box, but then given the individual choice we change our mind. Or its a matter of "I won't if they don't". Which I guess creates the problem of excludability...if one group is paying for something that those who don't pay for it can't be excluded from...then it's unfair. Then it kind of comes down to everything being modeled as "insurance", such that you are guessing into the future as to what might happen to you and what you might need, and paying based on that.

Maybe its a convenience thing - it takes too much time.

> if I don't drive and don't have a car, I'd shortsightedly opt out of paying for road maintenance

I mean if you drive on the road you should pay more. And with modern tech we can now track road usage very precisely.

The *shortsightedly" argument could be resolved with civic education. People need to be more informed about these things. Or its like: if you don't pay for roads, then you get surcharged by any service you use that uses the roads.

> which is not to turn a profit

Government is then essentially a bunch of not-for-profits. But instead of multiple tackling the same problem, there is only one.

Nothing implies a need to turn a profit.

Those working in the public sector are incentivized by government committee scrutiny, who are incentivized by winning elections.

So you essentially have a bunch of people who do things for reasons other than money. It's a bit like open source software.

Some people will do things simply because they see there is a better way of doing them, and they enjoy doing it, and perhaps derive secondary benefits like prestige and fame.

By not voting for the "zero tax" party, people continuously show that they derive benefit from the services that their taxes pay for.
> China meanwhile, is trying its hardest to remove its dependency on foreign oil.

Dependency on foreign oil is obviously one reason, but let's don't miss the big picture here

China is trying its hardest in all sectors, everything. With over 1 billion people that are just dead poor, there is no choice but to compete the hardest with everyone on everything. Semiconductor, ev, 5G, bio tech, AI, ship building, high speed rail, internet, solar panel etc, the list goes on and on.

Is there anything China is not trying its best to compete?
That's actually the only way to disentangle it - by disentangling it.

"colour-blindness is racism" is postmodernist garbage. Same for "everything is politics", a derivative of the same impulse.

You aren't employed to discuss the relative merits of the Hutus or the Tutsis, whether they're at peace or at war!
Hundreds of climate activists stormed a ‘forever chemical’ plant in Lyon, France
It might make sense for some food goods that would spoil on a ship and aren’t high enough margin for a plane trip. But that isn’t really much.
When the IRA was periodically attacking UK institutions and killing civilians, did the UK feel entitled to level Belfast and say that the IRA is to blame?

This war in Palestine is much closer to a civil war than to any country-to-country combat, especially since Palestine is simply not an independent country. Since Israel is in control of the Gaza strip for 50+ years (explicit military control till the 2005, still in full control of their borders today), it is on them to treat this as authorities in any country are expected to treat insurgencies on territory they control, not as if they were attacked by a foreign country.
This seems weird to me because they mainly just argue that abusing kids is bad, which I think is an extremely uncontroversial opinion. The critical discussion is how to reduce/prevent abuse without the government becoming overly authoritarian and/or false positives ruining otherwise healthy families. Because the government taking kids away from their parents, even with the best of intentions, probably also can be seen as abuse.
Ah, I misread the article. I completely missed the line mentioning that the test was still inperson, and thought that the "bring your own device" thing implied remote testing. I'm glad it's still an in-person proctored exam, since then if people have issues with their own devices they can hopefully switch to a provided one
There is no such thing as "conventional" MVP, every implementation is slightly different.

It is not an official framework per se, but it is a framework nonetheless, except without comprehensive documentation and developer availability or much commercial value in investing your time to learn it.

The main point is that if you're arguing against React or any framework "because abstraction bad", you will end up with them anyways, enjoy:

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/release/1.87/src/vs...

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/release/1.87/src/vs...

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/release/1.87/src/vs...
Why do you say this?

We have been in this very position before, in 1948, when we were the only people with nukes. We didn't first strike then.
I know everybody has a suggestion to give and you should listen to nobody, but, if the time comes, give them a nintendo switch with Kirby star allies and yoshi's crafted world (and nothing else).
If videogames are something you want to allow, give the hard ones, they either get bored because it's hard or they learn
In this chicken and egg problem, the chicken is eating the egg
All high income earners beyond a certain amount (on a graduated scale) should be required to found a new city and pay much higher taxes. Also needed: UBI because around a hundred million Americans are being shut out and left behind.
There's a disconnect in my understand of MBAs. How and why do MBAs only know Oracle?

Why are they making wild business decisions. Yeah I'm probably living under a rock so apologies for the ignorant question.
It sounds like they actually can’t ‘manage’ if nothing of depth ever comes out of their efforts.
So why is that?
You make sure that employees don't own what they write, but sign it over to the company (usually language to that effect in the employment contract, if there is none).

Also running tools like Black Duck over your source code tree to check open source license types or use of unlicensed code snippets from the Web.

NDAs can be given to people who know how something is done, knowledge that they could use to re-create the product or service elsewhere, which the acquired does not want. In some cases (that I have not personally seen) making people sign non-compete agreements, meaning if they quit they cannot work on the same thing for some time (not legal everywhere).
I do not know and I do not care. Two comments above I explicitly said that.

Which legal term will be used to qualify Israel actions is less important than stopping this nightmare now and approaching the strategic goals differently.
our code indeed
You’re right, I throttle submissions.

Currently, you can submit up to five coffees per hour.

After that, a health warning is shown, and the coffee intake doesn’t get recorded.

That said, without accounts, it’s really challenging to verify coffee intake.

I am not shooting for 100% accuracy. It’s just a fun side project.

I try to encourage people to post their coffees so that there’s less incentive to cheat.
In the grand scale, human intelligence evolved over millions of years. We went from personal computers to LLMs in mere decades. I get that everyone wants Singularity now, so do I. But there’s too much over-promise and delusion.
China is the new bogey man. We always need someone to hate to rally the troops (and to keep them distracted).
Yes, it’s likely a one time effect.
No it isn't.

You are perhaps obligated to take an interest in your own democracy, although that doesn't mean you're obligated to inject it into your workplace and every facet of life.

You are by no means obligated to take an interest in wars on other continents.

Especially not to subject your poor coworkers to your Gell-Man Amnesia-ridden opinions on it!
It's a profession that depends on others actually following you. You can't just decide you're going to lead.
Much as I asked the other commenter, how many school shooters would need to be in the school before we believe it's valid?

Let's change the analogy: ISIS terrorists take over the MIT campus. Inside the university are 50 armed terrorists. Is it valid to now bomb the university? What if there are 100 terrorists?

There is no issue with scale here. No matter how much it scales, you won't reach a point where there is an ethical position that argues for the mass murder of people that we actually view as people. It only becomes ethical when we dehumanize the people affected.
>the environment we live in

This has changed drastically and thus our definition of smart has too.
I don't really understand, if physicist is right and deterministic we already have thinking machines. They're called brains. As far as anyone can tell, thermodynamics works fine for them.
BYD is a commercial company with US financing. They are leading in vertical integration and battery tech which allows them to sell at these price points. They are expanding in export markets because they think they can make money not because of "overcapacity".
Speaking as a lawyer, we’re not incentivized to advise a course of action whose primary purpose would be to line our own pockets. Doing so would cause us to lose trust in our clients and could possibly subject us to disciplinary action. We are expected to act in our clients’ best interest, not our own.

I’m obviously not Boeing’s attorney, but given the industry they’re in and the amount of scrutiny they’re under, they don’t need their lawyers to fabricate situations that drive up their billables. They’re quite busy enough already.
The reality is that most companies are dysfunctional and caputed by the professional managerial class, people with few other skills than nepotism and favour trading, and that would crawl over broken glass to avoid doing something that benefits customers, shareholders or employees.
I honestly missed the mention of layoffs..
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> And frankly, that’s probably not what our brains are doing.

I think that it is! It's much more likely to me that our brains are doing something big and simple than small and complicated. That's the way that nature tends to work. Fitting low-order million-dimensional polynomials would meet that description.
For some value of the word 'nice', sure.

In February 2001, the Hergé Foundation learned about Bud E. Weyser's attempts to market *Tintin in Thailand* as an unknown Tintin book to distributors in Belgium.

The Belgian police organized a sting, with an officer pretending to be a prospective buyer; two arrests were made in Tournai. They also arrested the designer in Antwerp.

The men confessed to printing more than 1,000 copies for sale in Belgium, and the 650 copies found were seized. All three men were subsequently released.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Tintin_parodies_and_pa...
Ask HN: Experience with AWS goodwill in case of self-inflicted high bills
Do you have experiences with high AWS bills due to your own mistakes?

For example, I have generated a 4000$ bill within 24 hours by an AWS Lambda function reading a row from a DynamoDB table and then called itself again using an EventBridge event ;(
And that with a concurrency of 300 and so I quickly reached the 4000$ within a few hours.

I immediately opened a support ticket, but it's been 4 weeks now and it seems nobody can or wants to help me.

What are your experiences?
Not informed about NL politics, but would any government be hindering high skilled legal immigration? In my experience this type of migration is highly encouraged, regardless of the left/right leanings of a government.
Even if you can't prevent it directly, you could regulate labeling and shaming like Carrefour did[0].

Even better if you require companies to put big gaudy warnings on their products themselves when shrank(and replacing the previous size) like cigarette companies.

0 - https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/sep/14/carrefour-p...
> What if our LLMs fail to turn into AGI?

This is nonsense statement in and of itself. Its like wondering why an orange fails to turn into a chicken.

There are SO many missing pieces an LLM just doesnt have. LLMs could certainly be a small part of some sort of AGI _system_, but they themselves can never be AGI
Well they definitely commercialised it. Before the Lisa, no one thought consumers would be interested in a GUI computer. Bringing it to market is an important part of disrupting industries.

The iPhone was similar where the tech just existed out there (touch screen smart phones were definitely a thing), but it was Apple’s specific implementation that helped in the disruption. After both the Lisa and the iPhone launched, you can see computers and mobile phones coalescing around Apple’s vision in the long-run.
Yes I don’t think AGI (which is entirely an ill-defined concept, but put that aside) will happen until AI is embodied in the physical world.
This is exactly what's happening.
> "Make no claims without support." "Be precise and specific with your descriptions."

I hope LLM's (which can be used to create grammatically sound but semantically dubious copy for nearly free) will mean these two points will become more relevant for all writing.
So, not real wax, but another chemical.
Was just about to write that AWS does that, but no, it's only for MS SQL Server: https://babelfishpg.org/, https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide....
Oh my, I’m conflicted about this post.

(Disclaimer - I’m CEO of a small company and also adore the Turn Your Ship Around book and partly base my leadership style on that book. )

I suspect that the author would be fine with the company meeting if he didn’t already have well formed (and it appears, justifiably formed) opinions about the competence of the company’s leadership.

Human beings are wired in a particular way; being physically present together in a room at least occasionally should have strong benefits, if enough other caveats are met.

So - I wonder if the baby is going out with the bath water?

Do I describe myself as a leader? Yes, I do; because the evidence of my life shows that to describe myself as anything else would be silly.

Maybe we could say that resources need to be managed and people need to be led, but the average manager/leader doesn’t understand the distinction, or perhaps doesn’t have any desire to.

One last thought; I’ve seen it written that people join companies and leave managers and I agree with this wholeheartedly. For me, the simplest measure of whether a manager is a leader is the staff turnover on their team. That is one metric you simply cannot fake.

And that manager is a superstar if their team members are able to regularly grow into new roles (or switch into a new role that is a better fit, as happened today.)

~ Edit ~

I just read the blog post that the author linked to, about Pivotal Software. We have a very similar philosophy. In the blog post he describes the hiring process has being designed to filter out assholes and that, for me, has to be one of the most successful parts of our approach, too.

https://www.simplermachines.com/mr-reciprocity/
Europe is not going to commit seppuku and willingly allow Chinese EVs to destroy their internal car industry. Especially since China is now more and more visibly aiding Russia in its war against Europe. Tariff from EU will stop Chinese EVs dead in the water. In fact, today, there was news that EU is set to allow possible retroactive tariffs on Chinese EVs [1]. And there's an ongoing EU anti-subsidy probe that will conclude this year, most likely resulting in more tariffs.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/eu-set...
Nonhuman Intelligence
It’s difficult to comprehend impact of something that’s widely adopted. Like, batch normalization alone was probably mind blowing when it came out. Yet it seems so simple and self-explanatory now.
the more interesting use cases I've seen have been real time video filters and uses with music based generation for live performances, which is why the speed matters more than the accuracy.

For example it could take an old video game say morrowind and it could in real time patch the graphics onto the video screen. Or people could look at a video of themselves and it would update the style similar to a snapchat filter.
It is a bit weird though… I mean, you could just as well say that the last breakthrough in all of computing was the transistor (Shockley 1946) – all we’ve been doing ever since is just “scaling” and combining them in new ways.
For Windows, I recommend looking into running in WSL2 instead of trying to get QEMU working in a performant way. It's pretty easy to install a custom lightweight WSL2 image and run it.
"We will soon be reaching the limits of hardware scaling for larger AI models"

Worth noting it's been said before for each version of GPT, only to be proven wrong.
If programmers can call themselves engineers, managers can call themselves leaders.
That doesn't make any sense. The UK runs 2x the services on a network of less than 50% of the size of France - so 4x the services per route km. Believe me the UK network is riddled with horrendous chokepoints too.

Most of these routes have about 1-2tph running on them max. The UK (and I'm sure many other countries) manages to run clockface timetabling (for the most part) with a lot of routes on 10tph++.

It's not the lack of clockface timetabling that is the problem per se, it's the constant huge gaps in service. Eg approx 1tph, then a big gap of 3 hours, then 1tph. It's all over the place.
> The level of results does not scale well down to mass consumer hardware.

I think that it does, though. A few years ago, running any remotely complex (and decent) generative AI on anything that wasn't a large compute server was out of the question. Nowadays, you can run a very respectable image or text generation algorithm on a middle-of-the-road gaming PC. Local models may not always be as good as the enormous things that companies run, but they're putting up a fight.

This isn't founded on research, but given how much people were able to scale all of it down, I feel like there's going to be more of this "fat" to trim - data that takes up a lot of space but isn't very important to the final result. Add onto that the constant improvement of hardware, and the lines are going to intersect eventually.
There is already a test described in the rules: “do you expect to read it on a headline of a major news outlet” if yes, it may not be of HN interest.
>We'll likely want tariffs if we want to give our domestic auto manufacturers time to adapt.

Also known as "<Country> First" policy, wasn't too long ago (and presumably still is) that such policies were/are heresy.

Note, I agree with protecting domestic economies; I am all for America First, Japan First, UK First, France First, et al.. I'm just amused the same people who screamed "Orange Man Bad" turn on their heels to advocate the same policy just under different words.