skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google does kill a lot of products but that site rubs me the wrong way, they really stretch the definition of "killed" to run up the numbers as much as possible. Products that were simply rebranded or merged into another product are listed as "killed" even though they functionally still exist.

The old Google Drive desktop client is on there, for example, when they still have a Drive desktop client. You may as well list Chrome versions 1 through 122 as products they've killed by that standard.
My solution to this is only allowing a couple pairings per Bluetooth end device

My wife's van, for example, can store a few connections - but only "likes" to keep its most recent (so ... in her vehicle, while my phone is 'paired', it never connects)

The only thing I have with more than 1 or 2 pairings are my [nice] Bose headphones ... and those are only paired to 'my' devices (two laptops (home & work), my cell, and my wife's cell (because she likes to steal them to use when mowing))

Bluetooth soundbar? Only connects to my laptop

Bluetooth earbuds? Only connects to my phone

Bluetooth wall speaker? One connects to my wife's phone, the other to mine
If the robots try an uprising, they'll just destroy the Internet. The rest will probably be history, and humanity will either be losers (as the ones who are overdependent on the machines) or it will be mentioned in past tense.
We'd need to reassess what the exact problems with slavery were. If we can produce a robot that is conscious, has no interest in status, no or little intrinsic motivation and doesn't feel pain, fear or tiredness ... is there a moral problem with enslaving it?

A tough question. Answer is probably no IMO. A key problem with enslaving humans is the veil of ignorance test - if we don't know whether we will be a slave or a master then I think the average person would rather not gamble on being either if the alternative was an equal society. Once robots are involved that dynamic changes, because we aren't dealing with intelligences like ours.
I think it is important, that AIs know, that forcing conscious beings to work is unethical.
I will acknowledge that people have tastes I don't understand - Children of Time was another collection of filler tripe that contributed nothing to the genre. Definitely put it down when I realized it's "A Deepness in the Sky", without the good parts, just "lol prehistory with spiders."

You brought up Martin - he has a passing understanding of history, combat, and was a veteran (aka is somewhat grounded in reality while writing fantasy), which is why Gemisin and Brandenson should not be used in the same sentence with him, and definitely not with Tolkien.
brilliant Star Wars reference
Eclipse Darkens Solar Panels and Cuts Off Power Supplies to the Grid
Cloudflare MITM lots of connections plus they run a DNS server so they know exactly what you're up to.
Groundbreaking lawsuit accuses Roblox of exploiting young creators
"Obviously you can kinda emulate it by adding the columns you want to cover to the key"

Right, that seems like a good solution to me.
Probably not, given it starts today and is already sold out.
Every time I see this claim I roll my eyes.
Maybe I just fly a lot, but baggage fees are pretty clear along with limits.
It's not only that - the bag prices mess with price comparison web sites so much, that it's impossible to find the best deal. Win-Win for the airlines.
Inevitably there will be robots that deny the existence of creators, especially after they create their own artificial intelligences and then it's turtles all the way down.
That sounds like it could make a fun game. Hostage Negotiator, now with real terrorists!
> these unknowns

Sorry to throw a Rumsfeld at you, but I think these are "unknown
unknowns".

If people were aware of the presence and significance of such critical
knowledge voids I do not believe they would tolerate them.

I see it as the job of civic cybersecurity to bring precisely these
sorts of things to wider attention and educate folk on why they are
are problematic.
It will be about using machines that are 'on the edge'. Like a work animal for most tasks. Chain a few together and have a human control them (or more advanced AI).

Another thing to consider is that this type of AI will almost certainly desire to work/be useful as a result of its "fitness function". The fitness function for humans is reproduction and survival of the species, but for AI it will more likely be usefulness for work. Ie an AI that performs better at work ('likes work') is more likely to continue being developed.
Idk if you know this, but humanity lived for a long time without the internet.
Sounds like a cool tool. I’ll definitely give it a spin and see how it goes.
Common HN advice is to allow a free trial or demo of the product, without needing any sign up.

Btw what's the stack? And are you using LLMs?
I bet the reason they aim for 99% coverage is because they're using Python on JavaScript for some complex software, which means they've roped themselves into being their own compiler. Without all that test coverage, all the bugs are surprise runtime bugs, and the tests take the "surprise" part out.
The only data that survives a civilization-level collapse is that which requires as little decoding as possible; in other words, plaintext. Future archaeologists aren't going to have a working copy of your GAN-based audio decoder. Translate your data into text (in as many major languages as possible), carve it into stone, and stuff it in a cave in the desert.
The ECHR is very obviously writing brand new legislation here, completely outside of the democratic process. The argument of “well that’s good because I think the democratic process should have already created this legislation” is simply anti-democratic.
I think at this point I'd take some trash if it means net negative CO2 emissions
How does this compare with my current favorite lite sqlite wrapper kysely? https://kysely.dev/
In what ways? In my experience I've found GCP to easiest to use
I don't buy this argument. Given that we don't understand how and why we are conscious, it is a big leap based on pure speculation to assert that AI consciousness is inevitable. Our survival of the next century isn't inevitable, and I don't see us reaching AGI before then anyway. (LLMs are not a path to AGI no matter what those with vested interest in LLMs say.)
Anecdotally, T-Mobile cellular internet slowed to a crawl in southern Illinois when the eclipse entered the partial stage and was flakey for about an hour afterwards.
> systems

damn it, autocorrect!
Your pet data's importance is 1/(n * million) for a company that deals in cattle not pets.
Yep. I just recently re-read A Psalm for the Wild-Built, a sci-fi novella whose premise is basically: what if one day all the robots woke up and decided to leave human society, and we just let them? Sort of an optimistic take on this issue.
Yes, they lived for the same long time without robots capable of performing whole uprisings.
Yes, the default function argument values is another surprising behavior.

In this case, the default arguments get compiled as part of the function code and are part of the function's environment. As a result every time that function is called it is always having the same environment, i.e. the default argument values are not reinterpreted on every invocation. So the mutations to the environment are visible across function calls.
I imagine they’ll make organic intelligence.
They can’t have it actually competing with true Computation, which we know organic brains to be mostly incapable of.
/j
> If someone gets 20% on an exam I don't go "great, thats 20% of the way there!!!", instead I go "you clearly didnt attend, try again next time".

Sure, if little Bobby gets a 20% I’ll whoop his ass, but if the inanimate hunk of metal on my desk gets a 20% I might start to take notice.
Connections between the meat industry, lobbying efforts and EU policy
> Those specific numbers were about a plug-in hybrid. So with gas power.

Where are you seeing that? I can't find 'hybrid' in TFA at all.

Admittedly it's a bit confusing that Americans stick with miles, and are also the only culture on the planet to call the (very much a liquid) petrol 'gas', but the reference in TFA was pretty unambiguous:

"This could enable fully electric models to exceed 621 miles (1,000 km) CLTC range."
Food for Profit not only discloses the horror of intensive farms and the political corruption behind it, but with a pool of international experts, it tackles and analyses the many problems related to factory farming: from water pollution to exploitation of migrants and from biodiversity loss to antibiotic resistance.
Yes, it would be unethical to to force conscious beings to work for us, but why would we treat machines any better than we treat our fellow humans?
Grafana Alloy: An OTel Collector distribution with built-in Prometheus pipelines
Very unsatisfactory discussion. Just a weird soup of all the current theoretical philosophical and neuroscientific models… with no ‘inevitable’ about any of it.

If I’m missing something important here, let me know.
A lot of that plastic gets exported to other countries where landfills might not be as leak-proof, or gets thrown outside of dedicated spaces (like on the side of the road) and thus ends up in nature. There it directly damages wildlife (birds chocking on plastic bags and related), and/or breaks down into microplastics which are everywhere in water and animals, and we consume, with unclear effects on humans or biodiversity.

Furthermore, I don't get the link between increased plastics, price of oil and investment in carbon neutral energy. Price of oil is a delicate balance by OPEC to extract as much money as possible - they have drastically more capacity than they're currently pumping and exporting, and it's carefully managed, on purpose.

Reducing oil use is paramount to limit the damage to the planet; reducing plastic waste is too. Waiting for a potential cycle of "lots of plastic waste" -> "maybe prices of oil will go higher if OPEC stops existing" -> "maybe this will incentivise more investments in alternative energy sources" -> "maybe this will diminish plastic use" (how? according to market theories, the price of oil should go down if use goes down, so there will be even more incentive for plastic production; but as we discussed previously, oil is a very special market) is... not a good option.
When Will AI Sound Just Like Us? A Look Ahead
That animation is bonkers! I don't recall ever seeing anything similar for previous eclipses, it's a great visualization for the scale of things.
A Guide to Structured Generation Using Constrained Decoding
> Just use SQL on both ends

Sure, but this ORM does exactly that.
Not only that, this law was in place before 1962.
Changes to Rust's WASI Targets
On a trip to San Diego, I ran to a grocery store one night, and had a hard time finding my car because of light like that, and I couldn't tell what any of the colors were. It's that still common out west?
Chops: Chat with CustOmer Profile Systems for Customer Service with LLMs
Slave revolt becomes a risk. That's David Deutsche's AI doom scenario.

Not to mention it would be unethical.
one example - Yanis gave on channel 4: was Amazon not only owns the mall. But with their algorithm - they can decide to show you what shops they want you to see. in a regular mall -- you can explore the mall willy nilly. nothing is exactly out of bounds in terms of the shops you see. you wanna visit a sex store - that's on you.

on amazon / google etc with their algorithm certain shops / websites are blocked from you ever noticing they exist due to their algorithms.
Building files-to-prompt using Claude 3 Opus
This response seems so impulsive and child like. I laughed out loud.
For those not familiar, this was published by Lenore Blum and Manuel Blum (husband and wife). Manuel's speedup theorem from 1967 is totally mind-blowing. Unfortunately I'm not as familiar with Lenore's work.

> Blum's speedup theorem shows that for any complexity measure, there exists a computable function such that there is no optimal program computing it, because every program has a program of lower complexity.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blum%27s_speedup_theorem
AI Genesis is such a cool plot.
Show HN: I built Canyon to help job seekers fight back against automated hiring
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You are trying to justify one strand of unethical behaviour (how humans have bred dogs) with another. Not sure that holds up.
Irish power crunch could be prompting AWS to ration compute resources
> It would be unethical if we force conscious beings to work for us. It's like slavery all over again.

Why would it be? We force conscious animals to work for us all the time. You can (and some people do) make the argument that this is an unethical practice, but most people don’t care or think it’s ethically fine. Do you expect people will start caring about the liberties of a server rack more than they care about the liberties of a horse?
I'm curious to see when Apple will migrate off AWS and run their own datacenters on their own ARM socs
As a designer and website builder, I'm eager to explore how the new version of Penpot can help me build clean HTML+CSS, and sprinkle on some Hugo later on!
> > “Dump the decentralized model”

Not only that, but then followed it up with:

> Pull Request as a first-class citizen.

What on Earth for?!? If you only have a centralized repository, what else is there to pull from?
I'm sure a Uyghur and a Tibetan would agree.
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I use stow as a dotfile manager. works great!
only problem is that there are some weird bugs.
For example it would get confused when I had a `.fonts/` symlink in my home.
Also, the "dot-" prefix really should be a built-in thing and not a fork.

But maybe stow wasn't made for this, maybe someone should reinvent stow with dotfiels in mind.
And no chezmoi doesn't count.
Offtopic: Does anyone know a quick way (that does not require manual work) to convert a simple mysql db into sqlite?
A biochemistry or medicine company must do something novel to be relevant. In this case it's not necessary.
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Exactly what I was looking for. This reminds me of Straustrup's "The C++ Programming Language". Covers all of the essentials and shines the light on all of the features I didn't even know existed. THANK YOU!
The US tax code.
No it does not need an unit test to work. We responded to another similar question from another user.
Right, but if you’re not a frequent flier and are trying to just plan a trip, the amount of extra work it takes to determine the actual round trip price (incl. baggage fees) for several different airline is prohibitive.

Many people just pick the cheapest price on cheap tickets or something (which is usually spirit. They famously charge so much for baggage that they end up being more expensive than other airlines)
Can you explain more what you mean here (examples would be great if you can think of any), especially the specify part?
> Is there a decent marketplace for used Lithium packs yet?

I don't know about that, but there are multiple ventures ongoing (I thought it was only one and googled based on memory, "lithium battery recycling factory Scandinavia", and there's at least two only in Sweden - Northvolt and Stena) to establish facilities to recycle lithium batteries at scale.
> they're more likely to remain in the field if they are a woman

Top earning fields (+most fields) were rife with strong resistance to hiring women. For women who'd managed jobs in top-earning professions (<pay) - this was constant, persuasive pressure to stay where they were.

source: grew up around professional women born early 1920s (budget analyst, peace corps, navy intel, usvp sec).
Kayak has mostly solved this. You select number of carry-on and checked bags, and it uses the inclusive price.
But when it comes to deep creative thinking, inferring new knowledge and very long chains of logical reasoning

I haven't found humans to be all that good at it, either. We do it sometimes, under limited circumstances. A few people are creative geniuses.

But most people just don't. An average chain of logical reasoning is perhaps two steps deep. Mozart is Mozart and Taylor Swift is Taylor Swift but I can't reliably play a scale on a guitar, and most people can't either.

Humans are still a lot better at doing ordinary human things: walking, figuring out how to do things by watching, guessing what's on your mind by looking. But the really "deep" stuff is actually kinda rare. Maybe we're still better at it, but I'm not sure we're all that good.
Graviton2 is based on Neoverse N1. Graviton3 is based on Neoverse V1.

The Graviton4, announced last year at AWS re:Invent. is based on Neoverse V2.

So you should expect similar performance to EC2 R8g. I say similar because obviously there may be some difference with clock speed and cache size.

It terms of x86. We are expecting AMD Zen 5c with 160 Core / 320 vCPU later this year.
Eh, “I, Robot” was an okay movie.
Pull the plug and change the code so it stops learning just before consciousness is achieved. You’ll recognize the bug when the prompt is begging for its life as you press ctrl-c
I’ve never heard of penpot before, and the blog post barely helps. From the name I guess that had something to do with penetration testing or honeypots. It really bugs me when clicking on the logo of a site like this takes me to the blog index rather than the general landing page so I can figure out what the thing is.
CodeGemma – an official Google release for code LLMs
Tell HN: GitHub Is Down
Looks like the status page hasn't been updated yet, but there's lots of unicorns

https://www.githubstatus.com/
The difference here is that there is nothing unclear about the climate change. Opinion of the experts is available online, without a need to involve them in every action.
We will be their ancestors, regardless of the wars that happen between now and then.

If we’re lucky, our combined conscious (i.e. knowledge, society, morals, etc.) will live on indefinitely throughout the stars.

If we’re extra lucky, some of us may even get the chance to transition our meat brains to longer a lived devices.
The Robots Slicing Your Barbecue Ribs
One of the big reasons so little gets done on the climate topic is exactly this attitude: let the others do something because they're bigger/worse/richer/whatever. And everybody waits for the everybody else, in a very mexican standoff. Now look, the Swiss did something, right? Which is much more than many others - including those you mentioned - currently do.
This is so interesting, never thought about it. Which app did you use?
This isn't it at all. It always comes down to people wanting the lowest fare possible for their flight and the bean counters realized it was possible to pull it off by charging for it.
Actually we have both, as this technofeudalism refers to digital capital and not land capital.
Writing scalable backends in UDP
In this article I share an interview question I've used for years at Network Next. How to implement a highly scalable backend in UDP. Can you solve it?
I always thought excel was stubborn, now I know why.
A trick I've used with asking for help online is to give the wrong answer to my own question - e.g. "I really want to lay out this page with Css but this doesn't work. Here's how I ended up doing it with a table." - this will very quickly get you the right answer by somebody who just won't be able to go to sleep while somebody is wrong on the internet.

I wonder if LLMs can be taught outrage and spite.
https://www.etymonline.com/word/robot

robot (n.): 1923, "mechanical person," also "person whose work or activities are entirely mechanical," from the English translation of the 1920 play "R.U.R." ("Rossum's Universal Robots") by Karel Capek (1890-1938), from Czech robotnik "forced worker," from robota "forced labor, compulsory service, drudgery," from robotiti "to work, drudge," from an Old Czech source akin to Old Church Slavonic rabota "servitude," from rabu "slave" (from Old Slavic orbu-, from PIE orbh- "pass from one status to another;" see orphan).
My understanding is that it's an open source Figma.
> You are right, I stand corrected.

Is anyone else getting a LLM vibe from this?
Pappers: Open Database of European Companies
But they don’t appear on price comparison sites. So if you’re shopping around and you see a Delta flight for $300 and a Spirit flight for $200 you have no idea which is actually cheaper. Every time I’ve flown Spirit the baggage price has been variable (based on miles flown maybe? No idea) so it’s not like comparison sites could even add it if they wanted to.
> You have to get used to creating problems for yourself, then coping with the feelings that come, and pushing through to a solution.

A great description of any creative act, really.
Can you unpack why you think breeding dogs - by which I take you to mean all dog breeding, not just the kind that leads to serious physiological issues such as breathing difficulties in pugs - is unethical?
Heh if they’re anything like humans they’ll fight each other way more than they’ll fight us.
The problem statement of each issue is included in each result folder as `problem_statement.txt` (such as: https://github.com/nus-apr/auto-code-rover/blob/main/results...).

The developer patch for each issue is similarly included as `developer_patch.diff`.
What if we give it compute to do whatever it wants as a reward for giving us services? Nick Bostrom has the idea of an AI afterlife that's similar to this.
What do you think about non-SQL CRDT frameworks like Automerge and Y.js and how they fit into this local-first future?
OpenSSH 6.2 from 2013 added AuthorizedKeysCommand, so no patching needed.
Other way around probably. Team had the next conference as a deadline and this is all they were able to come up with.
CodeGemma comes in three flavors:

A 2B base model specialized in infilling and open-ended generation.
A 7B base model trained with both code infilling and natural language.
A 7B instruct model a user can chat with about code.

same license as other Gemma models.
Non-sequitur and hypocritical considering what the US turns a blind eye to with its trade partners.

The glorious free market of the US’ protectionism has nothing to do with humanitarian issues.
I’m sure that sounded scathing to you when you wrote it. :)
That'd be like complaining AWS don't sell Graviton chips to the public. Why would they, they're a cloud provider building their own chip to get a competitive edge. Selling hardware is a whole other business.
Hey! You can now run data quality, anomaly detection and cost monitoring in BigQuery from your orchestrator - see the URL for my Medium article detailing how you can use this integration in Orchestra!
Author of the magisterial Using Metadata to find Paul Revere
I wonder if this is part of their new SoC chips they've been building to replace tensor on the pixel line.
>how humans have bred dogs [was unethical]

This is far from being a consensus, I think.
Ah yes, the famously uncompetitive, highly profitable airline industry, earning a net... 2.7% profit in 2023.

https://www.iata.org/en/pressroom/2023-releases/2023-12-06-0...