skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No one knows what an economy where AI does all the labor looks like.

In such an economy, it may be that we can become communists! One of Marx's ideas was that technology will liberate man from labor. In actual historical Marxist societies, slave labor and coercion were widespread. But, in the future, if all labor is done by robots, far-left, restributionist policies may be viable because there's no humans being exploited (except, ironically, the humans who invented AI -- the people you're criticizing). In such a communist utopia no one will have to work, people will just have hobbies and hang out.

Are we heading towards this sci-fi scenario? I doubt it. I'm just trying to make two points: 1. when we imagine a future world with AI, there's no reason to imagine that it's a bad one and 2. it could be the case that "from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" becomes a viable credo in an imaginary post-AI world.
Apple is the biggest scumbag opponent of right to repair.
I am not the Lazy programmer nor the owner of this website, but titular Lazy Programmer has developed several roadmaps of the courses they offer for those who wish to learn AI/ML. You don't necessarily have to take their courses, but you can glean the topics of the courses from their titles and get a good idea of what you need to know.

The courses:

https://lazyprogrammer.me/deep-learning-courses/

The order in which to take the courses:

https://deeplearningcourses.com/course_order

A video summary:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAdA2t2Xmm0
Custom loop watercooling (not the all in one kind) and especially, direct die (delidded) cooling, can just about tame the beast. Someone has linked the DerBauer vid where he does it.

Of course, the market for enthusiast stuff like direct die watercooling and KS-series purchasers have a significant overlap <:o)
While the G series (basically mobile chips) do idle a lot lower, here's a chart that shows that Ryzen chips idle at about the same (a few watts less actually, but negligible) than their Intel high-end desktop counterparts: https://www.guru3d.com/review/amd-ryzen-7-8700g-processor-re...

One thing to keep in mind is that while slightly higher idle power might cost you a bit more, high power when processing means that you will also need a much beefier cooling solution and have higher noise levels and exhaust more heat to boot. Again, from the TechPowerup review https://www.techpowerup.com/review/intel-core-i9-14900ks/22.... they show that for a multi-threaded blender workload, the 7950X3D sits at 140W, while the 14900KS hits 374W. I don't believe there's a single consumer air cooler that can handle that kind of load, so you'll be forced to liquid cool (or go even more exotic).
Researchers observe how energy of single electron is tuned by surrounding atoms
My Yahoo mail account was created as a Rocketmail account, likely in 1996 or 97, when Rocketmail launched and became the biggest Hotmail rival.

Yahoo acquired it and it became Yahoo mail.

So 27 or 28 years
I loved getting taxis in India for exactly these reasons, I used to get taken to random shops way out of the way of where I needed to go ... I'd just go along along with it, total adventure time! But I can see how it could grate after the novelty wore off. Or if you were maybe being a bit cautious as a traveller.
Incompetent lawyers and managers did a half-assed job, and some exemplary fines will motivate them with respect to the other half.
I still have a DynDNS (later Dyn and then acquired by Oracle) account.

It is a bit funny since the "Dyn (company)" Wikipedia page[1] says the company was founded in 2001, but I'm pretty sure I had this account already when years started with 19.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyn_(company)

EDIT: Not an online account, but I only had a single mobile phone number my entire life.
Would work! If you're willing to write something, go for it. I'm personally way too exhausted right now.
> Traditionally, these challenges have come through challenges associated with a hunter-gatherer or an agricultural lifestyle, and in contemporary times, it is associated with a job.

Maybe it's time we found other "forcing functions"?
How Turkey Is Winning the War for the Black Sea [video]
First laugh of the day, from the 2nd link you posted: "I have filtered the dataset to remove alignment and bias."
I'd really like to have some specific example, because while apple never kept much backward compatibility, I've not eared of or being impacted much by supported API changes when used in intended ways.

The actual thing you can praise MS for is to respect the «all observable behaviors» in their backward compatibility or support. Apple never ever gave in that way, only that you are supposed to use things as expected or expect to be punished. Not that they have stellar track records on that front either, there are tons of old code that still work out there.
"Nagware" was a subset of shareware for a long time.
The thing is, if you have any of (b)-(f), why shouldn't you also get (a)?

The maximum fine is 20 million euros or 4% of revenue, whichever is higher. Sure, it probably won't be imposed on a first time violation, but why take the chance?

Could you imagine any lawyer advising a company against requiring consent, even if they have some cover because of a legal obligation? Isn't it much safer to deny service to those that refuse to consent?

Sure, it'll annoy the customer, but right now the customer is used to minor annoyances.
A new Kindle runs less than $100 in the US (it's largely subsidised by Amazon, they want you to buy books). You can find used models for as little as $20 on Craigslist currently.

Other eBook readers from firms such as Kobo or Onyx start at about $100 to $200, and again may be found used for a small fraction of that price.

That's still a hurdle, but roughly the cost of a new trade-paper volume with the capability to hold many hundreds or thousands of books.

Depending on what you're looking for, there are ebooks which can be found, legally, free of charge from sources such as Project Gutenberg, Standard Ebooks, the Internet Archive (both to check out or to download with no limitations), and other libraries. The US Library of Congress has been expanding its own offerings (I'm not up on the latest, though am given to understand it's generous), and many large-city libraries (Boston, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Kansas City, etc.) have extensive digital lending programmes.

That's without leaning on book liberation sites such as ZLib, LibGen, or Anna's Archive, though those have quite extensive holdings.
Reaction I: Trillionaires behaving how? If they acted like competent, mature leaders, actually concerned about the long-term welfare of the 99.9999999% - that'd probably be fine. Vs. the behavior of modern mere-billionaires, which is far closer to "tell the fiddlers to play louder as I grab some more loot from the burning City of Rome"...not so much.

Reaction II: How much will dollars be worth, when there are trillionaires? Will that be enough to buy a decent house anywhere?
This is specifically a change targeted at harming Elon Musk for his political beliefs.
Honestly I've never understood any sort of software update or new user guide or changelog appearing when the user starts the software.

You know why I've just launched this game in Steam? Why I've just opened this shared meeting whiteboard software? Why I've opened my bank's banking app? Because this is the moment I want to use it.

If I open Skype it's because I need to be on a video call within the next 15 seconds. It doesn't matter what the popup says or does or how valuable it might be - I'm dismissing it, because I need to be on a video call within the next 15 seconds and it's between me and that.

How could a UX team possibly conclude that the precise moment a user shows unambiguous intent to use your product, is the best time to get in their way?
> Ex post facto, the amount of "dark" matter calculated this way directly corresponds to the amount you would need to also explain galaxy rotation curves and gravitational lensing observations in today's universe.

Could you comment on this please? Or suggest some further reading? I was under the impression that the amount of dark matter in each galaxy is adjusted to match the rotation curve.
> a huge transfer of wealth

This right here, this is 90% why.

With 10% of "what this button do?"
I guess it depends on the location. I had a car service pull this on my at Denver International a few years ago. He wasn't asking for more than the flat-fee from downtown to the airport, so I hit the ATM and gave him the cash. But if I had been in a hurry, he would have been SOL, I would have gone straight to security and not given it a second thought.
When I think racism and Oregon, the first thing that comes to mind is not oppressive drug policies either.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_Oregon
Great, then maybe we can all finally go outside and smell the damn roses.
I’ve had good luck with broken credit card machines working when I declare I have no cash. Maybe it’s because of my stature and/or luck.
I personally feel that if you have bought a high-end machine and are not thinking about how to get peak performance, you might have wasted your money.
One cup for me, and one for my machine please
Promising initial trial on sleep apnea nasal spray
I'm a bit younger than some here, but my teenage tumblr blog is still online, and my Gmail and Spotify accounts are still the same accounts from when those services were invite-only, so 2004 and 2010 respectively.

As an aside, I was reading a review of a book about Richard Nixon on Amazon recently, and noticed that the review was from 1998.
Shortly after it got access to production and caused the giant mess in the first place.
It's less about land availability. There is plenty of land at least in some countries. It's more about desirability. As those in the real estate trade like to say it's all about "location, location, location."
The DNT (Do-Not-Track HTTP header) setting has died the moment Microsoft made it too easy to enable it during setup of Edge, making most of their users default to do-not-track.

The adtech will absolutely freak out and destroy any attempt to make such setting as soon as there's a risk of it working.
> Sure, and who is supposed to understand the code written by AI when we retire?

Why someone would need to? Do the product/business people who order creating something understand how it is done and what is Git, a webserver etc.? It is based on trust and if you can show the AI system can consistently achieve at least humanlike quality and speed on almost any development task then there is no need to have a technical person in the loop.
The one named bing ? Or is there another one

Edit how lazy is the question, found the stand alone app
There’s thousands of AI directories out there, from huggingface itself to the ones specialized in SaaSes
I think your problem is that you're accessing US websites from Europe, since those are what you know. European websites are a lot less annoying, they actually care about the customer base here.
On macOS 4K displays are fine. Not the best, but fine.

I think the display resolution market suffers from some opposing directions: people who do productivity work like high resolutions, but since Windows (majority of the market) still seems to struggle to scale UI elements correctly some people prefer lower resolution. Also, gamers associate high resolutions with heavy GPU requirements or lower framerates. And then there are companies that are used to spending the absolute minimum on screens that are barely 1080p.
Does anyone by chance have benchmarks of runtime (so not the compile time) when using Cranelift? I'm seeing a mention of "twice as slow" in the article, but that's based on data from 2020. Wondering if it has substantially improved since then.
To be honest I've always found the model of a frontend being able to write data into a database highly suspect, even with security rules.

Unlike a backend where where the rules for validation and security are visible and part of the specifications, Firebase's security rules is something one can easily forget as it's a separate process, and has to be reevaluated as part of every new feature developed.
This did not improve performance, it was just an unnecessary hack. The authors agree, as they removed it realizing it was not an optimization.

UNIX signals are in no way or form direct translations of hardware CPU traps. The kernel handles hardware traps, which may or may not lead to UNIX signals. Heck, with userfaultfd, a different userspace process could be handling, or injecting, the fault! Not to mention VMs, where the the guest userspace is very far away from any real hardware traps.

There are basically two classes of UNIX signals: Signals that indicate that you might need to take some action (SIGTERM, SIGALRM, SIGUSR1, ...), and signals that indicate that your process did something illegal (SIGILL, SIGSEGV, SIGFP, ...). There is a very, very limited number of cases where handling these errors make sense, and trying to be "clever" to make (faulty and ill-advised) performance optimizations is not one of them.
> As for Caddy, let's agree to disagree. :D I will concede that many programs' installers are quite dumb but Caddy itself is excellent once you start it up and it starts doing its own thing.

Installing root certificate into my system without any explicit verbose flags is something malware would do. The developer who thought that's a good thing is the one whose software I'd avoid. His views on usability are completely opposite to mine. What else will he do by default? Listen on 0.0.0.0? Add firewall exception for usability? Create tunnel to the Internet automatically so I can share my work with others without those pesky port forwardings? Some people might like it, but not me, I prefer things as explicit as possible, when it comes to questionable features.
This reminds me of a friend who missed a dinner date because his Tesla update took way longer than usual.
What would be the correct way to set up security to prevent this?
Designing a Production-Grade CRUD REST API Using Winglang
It has an "angry vein" on its head, it's threatening (someone) with the bat.

I have no idea what they're trying to communicate lol. In my experience Line stickers are often used the same way "huh" is, when you don't know wtf else to say but you'd like to terminate the conversation somehow.
I'm in Toronto and never experienced any of this. Even before Uber, if a drivers' credit card machine wasn't working, they'd tell me before I got in. 95% of the time there was no issue with their machine. I used legitimate taxicab companies - if one wasn't available on the street corner, you could call their dispatch and they'd send one over.
They probably trained it on github issue threads. If you ask a maintainer to do something then he will usually try to explain to you how you can fix it since it is open source. And then if you push for him to do it he will get angry, happens a lot you see quite a few angry maintainers posting about such events here on HN.
My Amazon account order history starts in 1998.
This sounds like Stanford maintains its elevators but the state doesn't have enough inspectors to to certify and renew paperwork. But the anecdotes in the beginning make you think Stanford is ignoring its responsibility. Maybe it is, but the lack of inspectors sounds more plausible
You're not wrong about that.
Same, came here to say yahoo mail
Does it? It seems complicated. Higher availability of books means more readers for a start. Large numbers of people don't read at all and therefore aren't even in the market for books. Then you have to consider the absurd length of copyright. How does an author receiving money for something they wrote 50 years ago incentivise them to write more? Even worse, how does a dead author's estate receiving money incentivise anyone to write anything?
I also have an eBay account that I still use from 1999.

The other one that people seem to be impressed with is my Netflix account is from 2003. I was ordering DVDs in college and it blew people's minds that I was renting DVDs through the mail at that time. I tried to buy their stock back when they tried splitting the company into two entities. I think the stock was like $5 at the time. Unfortunately it was a lot harder to buy stock back then.
That’s true, but with ESPPs, you get a discount on the stock price, effectively guaranteeing a decent return that would be hard to beat.
My personal website [1] has been hosted by Hostway.com since 1999. I still edit the HTML files by hand in a text editor, and I upload them by dragging them between the windows of an FTP client.

[1] https://gally.net
It sounds from sibling comment that Windows is only booted up at irregular, far-apart times. So most likely there are weeks or months of accumulated updates all trying to go at the same time. No mention of what Windows version is running, or how old the hardware is (limited ram, slow disk, etc).

As a counterpoint anecdote, I've been using Windows 10 Pro on a half dozen both newer and older machines ever since it came out, and have never once had to re-install Windows due to a failed update (and in fact failed updates have only happened a few times, each simply requiring trying once again). But these machines are booted up and used on a regular basis.
Google/Gmail account from 2007. I was a tween back then.
It is or used to be the case that as part of account recovery Google would ask you when you created your account as a sort of security question that applies to everyone, so I'd suggest discretion when you think about making such information public.
This situation is different. This isn't about some deprecated API, but Apple changing the behaviour of the API, with no prior warning. Even the beta releases of 14.4 didn't implement this change, so no third parties actually got a chance to detect this. It's a really bad situation.
The industrial revolution didn't really make any work obsolete though. It just augmented human labourers so that they were more productive freeing up people up to pursue other types of work.

Humans still need to do agricultural labour, the only difference is that machines mean less humans need to do that as a percentage of the population.

AI doesn't improve human labour productivity, but makes it obsolete in a similar way to how the combustion engine made the horse obsolete.

What exactly are you going to do of economic value when an AI can do everything the human mind can do?
where does it say in your links that these people were part of the team that designed chips in the 90s ?
Are these wrong links maybe ?
Starbucks announces the death of its NFT rewards
I'm not aware of mechanisms that could replace these; could you propose some that would work in a world where most or all jobs have been replaced with AI or other automated systems?
> One very compelling argument against the idea that current gen LLMs have personal beliefs etc is that they don't have a feedback loop

Compelling counter-argument: due to neurological injury, some humans lose their ability to form new long-term memories (anterograde amnesia). Just like current LLMs, they lack a “feedback loop”. But, it is a mistake to say that just because such a person has lost the ability to change their personal beliefs, they therefore don’t have any. And, rather like such humans, LLMs used to have that ability but they lose it-when they are switched from training mode to inference mode
That is so wonderfully naiv that I had to laugh out loud. The fairytale of the manager who suddenly is fined big-time for his/her decisions is just that, a fairytale to pacify critics.
These are NVIDIA and Realtek issues. Linux works fine on supported hardware. Closing your eyes and saying "Linux is not ready" will not help.

I've experienced issues with GMA500, could be resolved by Intel, never were. I've pinned package versions, patched driver - that's development, should not be exposed in GUI. I've switched to supported hardware, no issues.
The whole point of "dark" in the dark matter and energy cases is to indicate "we don't know." It looks like there needs to be something there for everything to make sense, but we can't see it. Let's try to work out what the properties of the stuff is based on what we can measure and see if anything starts to make sense.
Updates on shutdown make sense in some of my machines but are awful in the laptop I use to teach classes. When I finish a class, what I want is to leave to do something else elsewhere (often another class in a different room).

I know I could probably suspend or something, but I never do that because it used to be a lottery on Windows whether your machine would actually unsuspend or you would need to fight it pressing the power button until it rebooted (did they ever fix that?)
My Eero wifi defaults to 4am for updates, which is changeable, and it warns me with a push notification the day before. I appreciate whoever implemented that particular subsystem.
The growing backlash against AI
my amazon acct has my first order from 1998...
ICQ - 6 digit address. It's 30+ years old at this point. I still use it once in awhile.

Sadly, my Compu-Serve account no longer works. :|
I don't quite think Cargo Culting is the right label for it. It's not just because everyone's doing it. My experience when legal meets code is that common sense, intent and what is actually allowed go out the window, and cover-your-ass wins. My experience with Legal has been that they default to no "just in case" for every question you come to them with.

It's a battle to get them onboard to not taking the safest possible approach, so you only want to fight that battle when it's a kingmaker of an opportunity.
Title/site context: The Coming Enshittification of Public Libraries (karawynn.substack.com) 2023-08-04

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36998643>

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> people who thought humans were special

Literally the third time you've beaten this straw man. Keep going, though. All the other species of monkeys and I are enjoying it.

> so any claims that LLMs lack such things is conjecture at best

Holy shifting the burden of proof, Batman! It's incumbent on you to show that your fancy pattern-matching system is conscious. The null hypothesis is that your chatbot isn't conscious in any way that matters (I'll happily grant it a slightly-lower-than-thermostat[0] level of consciousness).

I realize it's not easy for you to back up your bold claims, but all I see is a bunch of overconfident CS majors refusing to face up to the hard problem of consciousness[1]. Maybe you are an LLM, after all? Prove you're human: tell me a racist joke? (this question is a joke – something else LLMs are bad at)

[0] http://romainbrette.fr/is-a-thermostat-conscious/

[1] https://iep.utm.edu/hard-problem-of-conciousness/
Here's Rajeev Chandrashekar's interview with IIT/IllinoisTech which he is an alum of - https://magazine.iit.edu/fall-2012/ahead-curve

Vaishnaw wasn't on the chips side. He's Engineering Management (GE and Siemens and a Wharton grad)
I think he's refering to posts like this[0] rather than the shiny new tool people usually get excited about.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30803589
> This is how ad companies can sell premium views, don't show cosmetics to men, increase car related ads to people who has watched other car related ads and so on.

It's really not. They already could do all that before cyberstalking was normalized. It's called content-based profiling, and it doesn't require any GDPR consent.
> Turns out that a Python program with ~500 threads will start to chew up memory over time.

Anyone have more info about this issue? I've got a scraper myself in Python with a few hundred threads which seems to eat a lot of memory. Any workarounds or is the only solution to rewrite in another language?
Reminds me of that early Airbus issue where the fly by wire system would suddenly go "rebooting, please wait" in the middle of a flight :)

It was on the earliest fly by wire versions as far as I recall, and was fixed pretty quickly :)