skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Neon is an opposite of stable. It’s a betatest distro for a fresh kde.
My hopes (and fears) about AI don't seem to match the reality which is that, until we reach AGI, humans are the sole source of creativity and novelty.

I think about it like this, would ChatGPT invent Google Search if we had ChatGPT in 2000? Probably not. LLMs seem to exist in this realm of "as smart as an average human with a really big encyclopedia". They're confidently wrong, invent fantasy to defend bad reasoning, and struggle to envision anything outside of their dataset (known things).

Ask an AI to construct an entirely new solution to a novel unsolved problem. What always occurs is the AI outputs a generic solution from its dataset that is either half-baked, made-up, or derivative.

I'm not even dissing AI, I love AI, but we have yet to see AI apply novel solutions to novel problems.

On our current path, AI is not going to dream up the next Uber without Lyft first existing. It won't dream up a new fusion reactor design or an entirely new way to generate cheap energy.

But maybe this is perfect! At the moment we have this sweet spot - AI without agency, without awareness, and without superintelligence. This is the kind of AI I want as a household robot or AI driver. This is one I can empathize with but also know that it isn't doing anything at all if I'm not engaging it with a prompt.

AGI would mean an ability to have novel solutions and in-turn would be far less stable for society. Where's the line between a mind that has novel thoughts and one that has intrusive thoughts? Maybe your AGI coder isn't content with no-pay and working 24/7. That'll be fun.
It doesn't follow that reducing efficiency helps in the long run. If producing a good or service takes 10X less work than it used to, that good or service will become cheaper. The only force that can stop this is regulation.
> Absolutely no benchmarks against GPT4 present in the paper.

Table 4 on page 14 shows comparisons to GPT4V
Yes, there are Swedish citizens without personal numbers. Not only that, but you can only get a personal number if you have been a resident. If you are a Swedish citizen who has never lived in Sweden, you have to move there to get one. Otherwise when you are registered with the tax authority abroad you are only issued a samordningsnummer.
As I recall, this was more or less the concept behind Brilliant Pebbles [0], except Starship makes it cost-effective to launch.

I'm not going to argue whether building it is a good idea, but it also seems like Starship has the potential to make launching a kinetic bombardment system [1] possible given the large payload capacity.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brilliant_Pebbles#Brilliant_Pe...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_bombardment#2003_Unite...
You mean triton the inference server or triton the DSL for cuda?
> whereas Swish is essentially free.

It's free for individuals, companies pay per transaction (somewhere like 1.50 to 2.50 SEK depending on the bank, and usually a fee for the phone number)
Yes, and dropping the wrong test tube onto a subway platform can be an act of biological terrorism. Small actions can have enormous consequences.
I use ChatGPT (paid GPT-4) as a quick & competent secretary. Mostly for discussion of architecture, bouncing ideas and seeing if it can spot any problems, and for questions answerable by reading manuals. Stuff that previously meant a lot of manual searching by myself is now a quick question.

For code, I use it rarely. Mostly for small snippets, like shell scripts or SQL queries. It makes too many mistakes when dealing with bigger problem spaces and validating its work takes so much effort that I might as well write the code myself.

Overall I think it has a significant positive impact on saving me time, even though I still write almost all of the code myself. That's because writing code has never been a significant time chunk of my work. Figuring out what exactly to write is the hard part. Once you can describe it in detail, the actual mechanical act of converting it from English to a programming language is rather trivial.
I use Slack for work and like it well enough, but I can't really think of a single thing that Slack does better than Discord. From an admin/moderator perspective, the level of control over user permissions and organization of channels that you have is so superior on Discord. I guess Slack Connect is kinda nice, and they give you helpful ways of saving items for later and setting reminders.

Overall they need to be separate because if I get a slack notification I know it's for work and discord it's not. But if Discord launched a thinly rebranded alternative for work I think it would be excellent.
So the thing here is docker provides the tooling to produce reproducible artifacts with graphs of content addressable inputs and outputs.

nix provides the toolchain of reproducible artifacts... and then uses that toolchain to build a graph of content addressable inputs in order to produce a content addressable output.

So yes they are very different, but not in the way you are describing.
Using nix, just like using docker, cannot guarantee a reproducible output.
Reproducible outputs are dependent on inputs.
If your inputs change (and inputs can even be a build timestamp you inject into a binary) then so does your output.
Has she tried cannabis? It prevents dream memory formation and can help with nightmares
Some laptops use-cases I've seen:

- red shift at night: if you move around countries, you don't want to reconfigure or use IP location. Having location from WiFi allows this.

- Weather application without picking a city or using GPS

- Night/Day wallpapers
There are not, GP is either a troll or misinformed.

The difference between the Swedish personnummer and similar system in other countries is basically that the Swedish version functions unusually well.

You can actually get a personnummer without being a citizen.
I don't think it's necessarily unreasonable to say that anyone seeking a business license for a physical premise must agree to accept cash, but there are very real business reasons to avoid cash payments. Cash handling can incur significant costs.
I guess it's not easy to even get your hands on it. Likely pretty low volume.

What kills it for the home and small business use is that it's MIPS. Just not worth saving 50 or so dollars of AMD / Intel premium for this trouble. As I understand, this CPU doesn't have an iGPU which makes it an even worse deal.
That's a fairly personal question, but we are still together and fine.
It’s always interesting to see these ideas on a tech forum.

Should we as humanity stop right here? Draw a line in the sand and not do anything new? Maybe we should move backwards, skipping the Industrial Revolution and go back to each individual growing their own food?

This is a serious question. What do you propose? Because you are not able to pick and choose what humanity tries out, so shall we stop entirely?
The blunder would be guaranteed if China spends a small fraction of the time and effort thinking out of box to look into other computing paradigms ... and relaxing some of the unnecessary limitation on individual rights, private properties, etc.
It is a thing but it depends on the opponent's will, orgsnizational prowess, resources and human capital. The latter includes talent pool and scientific knowledge. Not all countries can pull it off. Most countries don't have the scale necessary, many don't have the organizational prowess.
Ask HN: Open-Source Simple CPU?
Is there a open source simple CPU?
Preferably Intel compatible or able to run Linux? Something I can build in my garage or in a simple microprocessor fab.

https://github.com/google/skywater-pdk
There are similar strategies employed by high frequency traders using Java. Not as ergonomic as in C# (which I believe had this as a forethought) but interesting all the same.
Someone has a burned in square on their tv.
> So my take is that SpaceX stock as compensation can have zero value and should be treated as such..

Correct.

I remain astounded by people who consider stock based compensation on non-public companies (and in this case a company who's CEO has explicitly railed against companies being publicly traded), especially given these terms seem to actively prevent employees alone from selling shares during funding rounds and similar (from the article it sounds like the only groups who can profit from share sales are spacex itself - ideally the point of funding - musk, and presumably his selected cronies).

If a company say's "we'll give you a stock grant" but isn't willing to just pay you the equivalent value at each vesting point then their intent is to screw you over, and negotiating like there's any good faith on their side is stupid.
TV Station Launches Multiple 4K Broadcasts OTA on ATSC 1.0 [video]
Sorry I can't extract any actionable information from sarcasm this thick. If you have something you want to say you are going to have to dumb it down for me.

I do agree that we should dress the part though.
> Playstation and Xbox run on x86 because that makes porting games from Windows more convenient.

I expect it helps a lot that AMD can easily provide competitive x86 and GPU cores in one SoC, as they’re already building similar APUs - just with smaller graphics segments?
Part of the fun. Sorry if that was disturbing!
That's an interesting use case - a bit like editor macros on steroids.
I think this is clever: a TV station in Oregon is delivering on the promises of ATSC 3.0 with ATSC 1.0.

They are broadcasting a mix of high-definition channels, including four channels in 4K, two in 1080p, and eight in 720p, all on a single RF channel. Viewers can experience some of the benefits of ATSC 3.0, like higher resolutions, without needing a new ATSC 3.0 compatible TV or tuner.

If you click through to the full interview, the owner of the station (who bought the station for a place to test his ideas) says there are even some fringe benefits, like increased effective range.
OpenAI aims to make its own AI processors – in talks with Abu Dhabi investors
You are misinformed. I personally had to deal with the nightmare of not having a personal number as a Swede born abroad.
Independence Day? Probably not much.

Every bit of their content from the 90s? Likely a fair chunk. Not billions, but real money. That's a lot of the attraction of their streaming service, especially classics like their Princess movies.
What you really want here is for ebooks to be subject to First Sale. In general "licensing" should be restricted to the rights of the copyright holder, e.g. giving someone a license to permanently increase the number of copies that exist in the world, as when an author licenses a publisher. If someone has bought a copy, that should be theirs, they should be free to transfer it to other devices and other people as long as there continues to be only as many permanent copies as they've purchased, and the copyright holder can't impose any further restrictions on that, essentially as an anti-trust anti-tying rule because copyright is a monopoly.

Then libraries could buy physical or digital copies and do the thing they've always done.
Or another project that nobody wants that gets shut down after a couple years.
Been using this for a long while, i love it
It's dismissed like any other woo woo bullshit: strong claims, no evidence.

Where's the evidence that yoga and meditation accomplish the effects of sleep and how strong is it?
How to Patch a Package Source on NixOS
Chipper Cash cuts US and UK-based roles after suspending US operations
When I used .tk briefly in 98-99 it was using iframes and they injected ads and/or opened pop-ups IIRC.
Instead of SVG, I wonder if not the ideal format would be Haiku's Vector Icon Format (HVIF) [1][2].
It has binary files that are much smaller and it too supports multiple levels of detail for different sizes.

I heard somewhere that Haiku would use it for its own cursors, but my google searches for getting that verified have not been fruitful.

[1]: https://www.haiku-os.org/news/2006-11-06_icon_facts/

[2]: https://www.haiku-os.org/articles/2006-11-13_why_haiku_vecto...
This kind of begs a sort of “yes and..” line of questioning. Zoning permitting these things didn't happen because nimbys, right, I get that. But, why are the people just outside the reservation nimbys, and the people in the reservation yimbys? What messaging was used to lead to this dichotomy of opinions? I’m not so sure, but the answer to that question would likely make it possible to do such things elsewhere, even without a reservation legal loophole, since most places seem to have mechanisms to issue variances to zoning which would get used if messaging made such things popular.
> The fund aims to make Abu Dhabi a central hub for AI development, leveraging the country's financial resources and political backing.

Raise your hand if you've heard this one before, and then keep your hand raised if you've ever seen it work.
Human Eval is very different to SWE-Bench on which Devin is tested
Did that come to anything?
That is a fair assessment. I am probably parroting Musk here a little. However, your main issue is access to food and resources, not boring work. I can't see why the price of everything goes to zero if there is no cost to make it.
The TCL maintainers switched their main URL to tcl-lang.org a while back because Freenom was so unreliable, although they've continued to serve tcl.tk as well with crossed fingers.

I really hope Tokelau chooses a reputable registrar going forward, and .tk becomes usable for serious people.
This may seem funny but at least some of this sites demographic only know of ycombinator from HN.

My attitude is that anything on HN that I'm not interested I don't bother thinking about.
The Amish are a good example of making an antitechnology stance religious, and they get pretty good accommodation. IANAL but it seems like would be a serious discrimination suit if they were denied service due to a lack of smartphones. This is in the context of the USA, not sure how it would work in Europe.
Preserving the source for every movie would be absurdly expensive. That can easily be many terabytes each. Textures and models are huge if any CGI was used. Not to mention all the raw footage... Wouldn't be surprised if most studios just throw that stuff away a few years after release. Why would you need to re-render the movie?
Why should it be mandated to accept cash? Why should I have to take your money in some form that is useless to me, and only costs me more to process?
I dunno, all kinds of fraudsters and scammers are "serving a market" if you think about it like that. I guess it remains to be seen whether what they did was considered legal or not. Very very probably not.
That’s because most debates are not won based on reason. In fact a large part of how the world works is mostly based on how you say something not what you say. Perhaps the world of engineering and mathematics (and subjects which strongly depend on these) are the only ones where reasoning is a stronger lever in an outcome (outside of perhaps economic incentives).
Use pipdeptree for that
At the end of the day we're just a bunch of atoms, I suppose.
Well no, you still have to pay taxes on the stock when it vests, usually stock compensation is handled by a fraction of the stock being sold upon vesting to cover those taxes but I'm not sure how that works when you can't sell the stock yourself and spacex gets to invent the value those shares have when they're granted.

If a company wants to have stock based compensation, the company needs to allow employees to get priority in exchanging stock during funding rounds or "tenders" (I guess that what they're called at spacex scale), or it needs to be public. The idea that you can pay someone in an asset but then turn around and say "actually you don't own that asset" is absurd, but tracks with Elon's general view that employees don't deserve compensation or basic employment rights.
> Should we as humanity stop right here? Draw a line in the sand and not do anything new?

There will be a point when the answer is "yes".

For example, when we can produce hobby 3d printers for biological viruses. Or DIY kits for nuclear weapons. Or cameras that are the size of a grain of sand and cost only 1 cent. Stuff that some individuals might want, but society will never be ready for.
I doubt that that's any kind of obstacle to criminals.

At a quick glance, many registrars and hosters seem to accept crypto, and anyone can buy prepaid Visa and Mastercard cards anonymously for cash for the ones that don't.
The PEV2 is open source and give you a good visualization. I never used this pgmustard to compare.

https://explain.dalibo.com/
Or tools for the occasional household use. You might not want junk but that table saw you use maybe a handful of times a year may not have to be as high-end as what a carpenter might use most days.
To have a smartphone you have to agree to a number of EULAs which may include giving up rights you may otherwise have, agreeing to forced arbitration and other such nonsense. These EULAs are not decided on or designed democratically, but if you must sign one to attend school, has that EULA not become a form of law?
I’m only aware of YC from here, and I couldn’t tell you more than 2 or 3 facts about it, and I suspect at least one of them is wrong.
As with most things in life moderation is essential. Dissent is good if it isn’t too extreme. Exceptions abound. Hence the intractability of the current threat to the U.S. Disinformation will win out. Look at how many people stupidly don’t vaccinate their kids against polio now. The evidence is so overwhelming that the vaccine is beneficial and good for society that no reasonable person can possibly be opposed to it being mandated. If something as obviously beneficial as the polio vaccine can be made into a divisive issue then there is no hope.
You're arguing over whether or not the workers are right.

I'm saying it doesn't matter whether or not the workers are right. If the workers tell the boss "we don't know how to keep this server running", and then the server goes down, and the boss treats them badly, then the boss is morally wrong.

If the boss is professional and says "well, we need someone who knows how to keep the server running, so we're going to hire someone else" then that's better. However, that's not what the boss did here, probably because (if your argument is true), the boss doesn't treat people very well and competent people wont work for him.
I still haven’t seen a use case that will make AI adopted by the masses I think it’s still mostly hot air. It’s good for what it is for office jobs and higher education, but only for specific tasks and it has to be triple checked.

Just yesterday at work I asked it for a Powershell script to upload a local file to S3 and it hallucinated a method. The whole script is like 10 lines. How could it mess that up, but meanwhile it’s about to change the world and be mass adopted?

This is Claude 3 the best model for coding…

After using these models for awhile I think they’re really helpful to get off the ground in terms of coding and writing and to help review coding and writing, but that’s about all I’ve seen so far. It feels like we’re also getting diminishing returns with the current paradigm so we’ll see if I’ll be eating my hat next year, but I really don’t see mass adoption like a search engine.
By its proponents? It's already apparent to many. The current trade war started already over half a decade ago under Trump.
Bill Gates has a $1B short position on Tesla.

I wouldn't use what Bill Gates is investing in as any indicator of what we should be doing.
Open-source, language-agnostic dev environment for Neural Machine Translation
This was in the 90's and 00's.

.tk was the only top level domain you could get without having to give them payment details or personal information.

It was a huge deal at the time for kids, students, and spammers.

They made their money by injecting scripts onto your pages to display banner ads.
In addition they also encode (binary) gender which means they’re terrible for trans people (not to mention nonbinary people more generally) because it means anyone can search databases for trans peope. Just find everyone whose number encodes a gender that does not overlap with their name’s.

You can get it changed, but only after getting a dysphoria diagnosis and a recommendation letter from a doctor and then applying to a specific committee, a process that currently takes more than five years (I don’t know how much more because I’m still waiting).

And then of course it’s an administrative nightmare to get in touch with everyone and tell them you’ve done something that usually is seen as impossible since personnummer are meant to be primary keys in society’s database.
So, outside of the fact that a nix build disables networking (which you can actually do in a docker build, btw) how would you check all those build scripts in nix?

You seem to be comparing 2 different things.
> China’s terrible demographics

Are China's demographics appreciatively different from other industrialised countries? Questionable. Not to mention that it's unclear why an aging society is a problem at least for the next 100 years or so (e.g. most violent crime is perpetrated by the under-30s). It's also easy, at least for a dictatorship, to increase the birth rate (e.g. restrict access to all birth control, give massive preferences to families with children, like housing, salary, "bachelor tax" etc).

> military containment of China.

That is expensive. One frequently cited explanation for the collapse of the Soviet Union was that its poor economy could not support its oversized army, which it needed to keep the Soviet Bloc at heel (not to mention all the revolutions and secession movements it fostered elsewhere).

Also, does anyone actually believe that China is expansionist? Compare:

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

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

The strategic problem of China's rise is more that other countries will eventually switch allegiance away from the West.
I think I’m missing something, because I’m pretty sure you understand the go module proxy (having seen you around here before) but I really don’t understand what problem you’re talking about.

If a module author deletes or relocates their module, the old module is not deleted or renamed from the module proxy. It is kept around forever. Code that depends on it to not break does not break.

If they relocated and you want to update to the new location, perhaps for bug fixes, then you do have to do a bit extra work (a find and replace, or a module level replace directive) but it’s a rare event and generally a minor effort, in my opinion, so I don’t think this is a significant flaw.

For most users most of the time they don’t need to think about this at all.
Free market works fine. You are welcome to write and release any book you want at whatever cost you want. Authors require lots of money, support costs to create, illustrate, bundle, bind, and ship books. And they won’t waste their time doing that without a profit. Lots of people work for and support those companies and it’s getting more expensive as minimum wages increase.

You are just reacting to this because “free for me”. What industry do you work in? I want to see you backpeddle or try and explain in your response when I say the same about your “product” needing regulation.
What is this offering over something like datasette?

https://datasette.io/

Or even OpenRefine?

https://openrefine.org/
It’s ok to try to stop a bad act from happening even though other bad acts are also occurring.