skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> other stuff that was going to use labor anyway (shingles, asphalt, siding, etc)

No. None of that ever works. Everyone has the "good idea" of cramming PV into some other product thinking that doing so will somehow reduce labor. It never does. Solar shingles are typical. They sound great but in reality require hundreds or thousands of electrical connections all spread over the moving flexible surface that is a wooden roof. You will be chasing electrical gremlins the moment the temperature shifts. And fixing any of those gremlins will involve penetrating the waterproofing, the core function of any roof. It is far easier to build and maintain a normal roof and then mount dedicated panels atop. The same too with siding. Want solar walls? Build normal walls and hang solar panels on them.

It is like building a computer into a desk. It seems like a great idea that will save space and keep your office tidy. There are lots of youtube videos about such builds. In reality, it is expensive on day one and extremely inconvenient to maintain in the long run. Nobody ever does it twice.
Bun.sh advertised JSC perf improvements, some listed under the “Various Miscellaneous Optimizations for Real World Use Cases“ section.

How much of an effect those optimizations had the Speedometer score (if any)?

The ~6% + the few ~1% changes don’t add up to the 60% score increase mentioned.
I think the problem is that Chromebooks don't have DVD drives or any significant amount of their own storage (in which case you could store ISOs and mount them).

And SD cards are pretty expensive if you only have one movie per card, because while they're cheap per MB, they only come in huge sizes these days.[1]

A USB angle adapter and a judicious use of 3D printing and/or sugru and/or VHB tape might allow an optical "undercarriage" though!

A Framework laptop with those nifty expansion slots might permit something unconventional like some kind of key-slot/punchcard/unique-MAC-type EEPROM/RFID reader, but the OS won't be ChromeOS. And that's really getting into the "not because it easy, but because it's there" zone!

[1]: But i have just discovered that you can buy "unfinished USB sticks" that are just the little black inserts with the flash in them for £1 each for 8GB on AliExpress (cheaper than the same SD cards and less fiddly), which is big enough to get a DVD ISO or BR rip with some massaging onto! (128MB is 50p, so an indirected method would not save much money). Probably very junky chips but the write-once and read-slow use case would probably not really care much.
It is like having a Bob Ross painting. Which is surprisingly actually decently difficult to do as he kept most of them even though he made thousands of them. They are mostly in a Bob Ross museum. But 100 years from now? Without that show and the people who grew up watching it? Will they be worth anything?
It's almost like capitalism stifles innovation.

Paradoxically it's one of the most common arguments people use in favor of the system: it pushes innovation!

It actually pushes innovation towards profits, not pure innovation. When real innovation happens it's mostly by coincidence on the small intersection of the Venn diagram.

Edit: It's interesting that the patent system was created, in theory, to allow people to profit from innovation and actually promote it. Ironically it instead created a whole industry of extracting rent from broad useless patents that stifles innovation even further.
Let him manage your wealth.
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What do you think a public directory of PGP keys exist for? To publish them so that other people can use them without asking you for one in person. Why would it need a oh-this-is-not-actually-meant-to-be-public-it's-a-trap-for-shaming-people-who-reasonably-assumed-otherwise flag? Would that flag also need another this-flag-should-not-be-respected flag?

Yes, there are UX problems with PGP. No, that's not relevant to this particular case.
> And it's not unusual to have several menu items with a long common prefix, so typing a prefix wouldn't be efficient

Especially not on systems where companies think your file system and the start menu are advertising space. That gets you multiple entries starting with “Microsoft ”, “Adobe ”, “Google ”, etc.

Yes, it may (still) be possible to rename those (for third party applications, you can on MacOS, for example), but I bet most users won’t do that.
RDP built into windows should work well?
I've done basically the same thing, but without lineage involved. Most / all of what you say there can be achieved with stock Android. One can download F-droid, disable the play store and google services, disable 15 other things, disable the stock browser, and do the same little trick of having no browser, and then easily downloading one occasionally if there's an actual need, then re-deleting. This works for me if I have it as a rule that I never re-enable the stock browser.

Not suggesting you do this, your approach is better I would say. Just for anyone reading, it is possible to do something very similar with a standard Android phone, and roll back if required. I only have a few apps from F-droid installed, and never feel the lack of something. Used OpenStreetMaps once or twice when in a new city for navigating offline with a downloaded map, for example.
Still requires drag&drop on most browsers because the File/DirectoryPicker API isn't universally supported.
Yup. With AI being the cleverest, the value comes from having vision and being able to do long term planning.
Have you looked? The devices exist. Onyx Boox has a diverse line of readers, tablets and monitors. Their competitor Dasung offers a bunch of monitors, phone displays and other e-ink stuff as well. But large e-ink screens are expensive compared to small.
Right, but is any serious researcher insisting that just scaling will be enough to achieve AGI? Because while I'm a layperson on this stuff, I don't get that impression, meaning this criticism from Marcus is mostly attacking a strawman. And he's not the only one peddling it.

The understanding I have is that scalability of LLMs with data took even their developers by surprise. They kept at it because empirically, so far, it's worked. But nobody assumes it'll keep working indefinitely or that it'll lead to AGI alone. If they did, OpenAI, Google, etc. would have fired most of their researchers and would simply focus everything they have on scaling.
I've been so much happier ever since I took a position in an organization that doesn't feature a sales department.
As for the GT-U7, this software can be used to avoid Windows, it seems:

https://github.com/semuconsulting/PyGPSClient
Reminds me of the Haskell entry on the Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages [0].

"1990 - A committee formed by Simon Peyton-Jones, Paul Hudak, Philip Wadler, Ashton Kutcher, and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals creates Haskell, a pure, non-strict, functional language. Haskell gets some resistance due to the complexity of using monads to control side effects. Wadler tries to appease critics by explaining that "a monad is a monoid in the category of endofunctors, what's the problem?""

Math people: "What if we made software code more like mathematical proofs?"

Idk. What if you had dated before age 38?

[0] http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-m...
Do you have a blog post or something detailing your experience? I'm in the exact same situation (Ireland, Virgin, self-hosting) and after a week of struggling I couldn't find a way to expose my services. I'm happy to run everything locally at the moment as I only have a media server but I'm interested in running a few websites and services.
Monkeypatching was common a decade ago. Now it’s more limited to things that try to be language or framework extensions, like ActiveSupport or gems extending ActiveRecord. The whole point of those is to deeply integrate.

Metaprogramming like looping over an array to dynamic create methods is far less common. It definitely makes me cranky when I can’t find a method definition. ORMs are one of a few exceptions where the utility justifies it.
Apple used to make good software/hardware. Now it is just less bad than the competition.
Do you agree that AGI can emerge from a bunch of haphazardly connected Neurons, using about 700MiB of procedurally generated initialization data (human DNA) and employing 1-2 decades of low-bandwidth, low-power (~25W) training?

You might even agree that not a single directed thought went into the design of that whole system.

Having established that, it seems laughable to me that it would be an "impossible fantasy" to replicate this with purpose-built silicon.

Sure, our current whole-system understanding could still be drastically improved, and the sheer scale of the reference implementation (human connectome) is still intimidating even compared to our most advanced chips, but I have absolutely zero doubt that AGI is just a matter of time (and continuous gradual progress).

If a lack of understanding did not stop nature, why should it stop us? :P

To me, all the arguments against AGI appear unconvincing, motivated by religion/faith, or based on definitional sophistry.

But I'm very open to have that view changed...
He's right, it won't get us to AGI.

But scaling is necessary if we ever want to get to AGI.

One thing his argument has a point is that we're really close to hitting a ceiling in improvements for LLMs, unless a new groundbreaking research arrives.

Just shoving more data, increasing parameters etc won't get us anywhere. Not to mention LLMs behave more like a data compression algorithm than anyform of "artificial" intelligence.

What I personally find troubling is what will happen to NVidia and other pick sellers once the LLM hype fades away and people are aware of its limitations, will we have still big investments in scaling? Likely not.
These posts from him are so tiring. If ChatGPT-5 was a high fidelity 100% accurate simulation of a team of top tier grad students, he'd be writing that we will soon run out of grad student brains to scan and results will taper off.

It would an powerful tool, changing the world but the post would be the same 'nothing to see here folks' post as this.
Assuming the vim here is fully functional, the sequence (Not combined) would be esc : q enter.
Just a weird wrapper for the package "is-ci", which is a wrapper for a variable "isCI" exported in the package "ci-info". I hate the npm universe.
Stack Overflow is documentation, not Q&A
PumpkinOS and RePalm: FOSS PalmOS-Compatibles in C21
In most companies I worked for the standard "I'm not feeling well today, taking a day off" was enough. Nobody asked for details.
Amazon will put DRM on a "DRM-free" book if it's using their new format KFX.
How did they do sound localization then in those times ???
Same with "real" servers. For a while there, it was trendy to boot ESXi from an SD card stuck to the system board and use all of the 2.5" disks for just data storage, no OS. It worked great... until it didn't. It turns out that writing logs and swap to an SD card roasts it after 2-4 years pretty consistently.
Image is the highest density method of communication we have (a huge portion of our brains are used for just this) but interfacing/responding/reacting to this information via a crippled gesture system and voice is a huge bottleneck.

So this can be avoided by intelligently reducing the dimensionality of this incoming data (potentially with AI) and/or increasing input bandwidth
One thing that hasn't changed over the past 2 decades is the structure or definition of product management. It sometimes is borderline crazy to see the world following a defunct model of product management which no longer applies in the current context when AI is changing the way businesses work. Keeping that in mind I thought through the problem and came up with an entirely different model for product management which might make more sense if we were to see the modern organisations or the products they are building in this AI enabled world.

Read my blog to know more - https://medium.com/@prometheus666/redefining-modern-product-...
You probably do put quite a chunk of your taxes to fund research in the medicine, and pharma profits on top. Especially outside US drugs are typically bought with public funds. With the privatized drug development model we just get extra middlemen leeching off profits.
> You wouldn't put aside, say, 3% of your taxes to fund research into medicine?

Not if it goes through the traditional grant process. I've fundamentally soured on that.

Maybe an open bounty system? First one to develop an effective drug for X gets their costs paid for + 1 billion or something (number pulled straight out of my ass, feel free to adjust)
The way to get around some of this is to work on contract. I have found I am most free being a contractor. I go in to the gig knowing it has a definite end and do not care about any of the internal politics. It’s not a perfect solution but much better than being an employee where I have granted a company a monopoly on my time.
What I don't understand is, this device has been in development since 2018. Obviously the founders didn't intend it to be a ChatGPT wrapper many years before ChatGPT existed. So what was the original vision, and what made them do a half-assed last minute pivot and redo the whole thing right before launch?
Back to my original comment in this thread… anything seems possible. But no amount of worrying or blog posts will affect those possible futures. So for me the most rational choice is not to worry about it.

I prefer to reflect on what a Buddhist doctor told me: whatever will kill me has already happened.
Yes, this is why the most popular songs on the radio atm are all mass produced, generic (for their genre) crap that doesn't really stray beyond the proven money making methods.

I mean people watch Love Island on TV for chrisssssakes. Humans can definitely be mindless consumers, where the sugar salt and fat in fast-food is the same as false drama, outrage, sex and violence in media. We all got buttons and they're so easy to push. Just look how popular TT is versus the type of content on there; mostly short-lived mindless stuff.
Jobs did his thing with the iPhone. He took a complex and indecipherable phone market and removed pretty much all choice.

It worked brilliantly and if your phone is not a featureless slab of glass you have an insignificant niche of a market.

This idea of “one dumb phone to rule them all” is what every carrier in the world was trying to do in 2005 and we ended up with hundreds of ambitious and doomed designs.

What I miss most about the pre-iPhone era is that I didn’t think about my phone unless I needed to communicate with someone in my real life.

The dumb phone isn’t making a huge comeback. People escape into their smartphones.

But I appreciate this movement that in return offers us an escape from the smartphone
Why would you use public key encryption here in the first place? Just use a symmetric cipher.
Here is the unofficial benchmark:
https://huggingface.co/mistral-community/Mixtral-8x22B-v0.1/...
Yeah it’s a real valid business strategy.

It’s also silly.

The crytek case is similar, but there’s a big difference.
Crytek was betting that performance of hardware will increase.
A lot of AI startups are betting that future LLMs will have an new different, fairly vague, capabilities (AGI, whatever that actually means)
I'm surprised they made it so much worse than, say, Siri on an Apple Watch (which is something I've been using for years, and which might well become my only phone if Apple ever allows me to fully manage a watch from an iPad mini).
A 4/10 is way too high for this review, when the conclusion is it barely ever works and instead "just buy an Apple watch".
It's so weird. I started to think that maybe this is intentional. It looks as though investors want to invest only in over-optimistic people who believe that we're living in some kind of utopian paradise; at the same time they avoid investing in anyone who has had so much of a faint whiff of how the sausage gets made.

It's like the entire system is desperate to keep optimists optimistic and pessimists pessimistic.

Why is it that investors actively seek out starry-eyed individuals?

It sounds like an economic bubble factory. If every new person who joins elite circles is optimistic to a delusional level, then that level of optimism may be contagious and propagate delusional beliefs among the elite.

There are people in the tech sector who were very successful decades ago and are now in their 40s and still haven't come out of their highs. They have the same worldview as I had when I was 15.
This reminds me of Stanisław Lem's literature theory / theory of everything monograph The Philosophy of Chance [1]. One of the many claims defended in the book was that which works ultimately become famous art depends to a great degree on random chance.

The Mona Lisa is an unusually clear example. It doesn't even stand out among da Vinci's other paintings. Another example is music. Whether a piece becomes famous, isn't just influenced by whether it sound good. It also has to hit a specific nerve in the current zeitgeist. If the best House track of all time came out tomorrow, nobody would notice, because the genre isn't popular anymore. The artwork has to be at the right place at the right time, or it will be forgotten by history.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Philosophy_of_Chance
> This is why I think unions in tech would be great. To set realistic expectations, approach management from a collective point of view.

What? The person in this scenario wouldn’t be in the union once promoted. Unions don’t do anything for manager to director dynamics.
I will definitely bookmark this. I've been meaning to try out NixOS. It seems like a really interesting alternative to using containers for deploying servers. Both much simpler and much more powerful.
> Commit signing

You use your encryption key for that? Which PGP implementation does that? I use my signing key.

> SSH key storage

Again, I use my authentication key for that.

> deb package verification

I use the published signing keys. Never had to use any other key type.

> What an uninformed blanket statement.

I'm sorry for my ignorance. Could you at least provide an example that's valid?
As the old saying says “The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent”
Information Automatically Collected.
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Online activity data. Information about your use of and actions on the Service, such as pages or screens you viewed, how long you spent on a page or screen and navigation paths between pages or screens.

https://reemo.io/privacy-policy

To me this seems horrifyingly invasive.
> this wearable computer promises to free you from your smartphone.

Here's an even more effective solution: stop using your smartphone! After I stopped using my phone, I realized it had almost no value except some diversionary value that was actually just a distraction in disguise. I still have to use it at times such as 2FA, but other than that I rarely use it.
I don’t know, their hardware is still pretty amazing — IMHO higher build quality and value for money than ever before (except RAM upgrade prices).

I agree on the software. There are 1000s of tiny problems scattered across all their Mac OS apps, and it leaves a sour taste (looking at you Apple Music).
C is a very slow moving language, but platform-specific APIs (meaning outside of stdlib) change more frequently. "C" does not exist in isolation, and outside of toy applications, not useful without the underlying platform APIs. If you were migrating C code, from say, Mac OS 7, or even Mac OS X 10.1, you would have to make many, many changes. If you're migrating code across Unix platforms (say, 1990's SunOS to modern Linux), you'll require changes, too.
No. Every creation and discovery is influenced by culture and individuals.

Even if you assume the same level of skill and effort will be used (it won’t) there are still many paths and forks to take.

Consider that most “ui designers” come from graphic design or psychology backgrounds, while 90s UI was designed by engineers. Those groups have different values and make different decisions.
You might want to post that as a Show HN instead, which you can read about here

https://news.ycombinator.com/show
Correct. theoretically SOAP could work using SMTP/POP or whatever transport mechanism.
> there are no extra bonus points for serving straight HTML to them.

There is, in the sense that every site gets a CPU budget allocated for indexing. SSR means less of that budget gets used per page.
What do you use to communicate with other humans?
Stop posting Gary Marcus. Yeesh.
'Fears are rising over the fate of the remaining hostages held in Gaza after Hamas said it was unsure whether it could bring forth 40 Israeli civilian captives as part of a U.S.-backed cease-fire proposal, according to officials familiar with the negotiations.

The 40 hostages, including women, children, elderly men, and those in fragile health, would be released under a U.S.-supported plan for a six-week cease-fire in the war in Gaza. In exchange, Israel would release hundreds of Palestinian prisoners.

Instead, the militant group has been unable to confirm that it has enough civilian hostages to fulfill its end of the deal in the initial phase of the proposed plan, complicating talks toward a possible cease-fire in the six-month-old war that has left much of Gaza in ruins.

A Hamas official said the group wouldn’t commit to releasing 40 living hostages but could commit to 40 hostages total, which could mean dead or alive.'
For some reason, VCs got super hype about foundation model companies, but from my perspective being very deep in this area is that there's zero moat there with the prevalence of open source, so it's a very stupid area to burn massive amounts of cash in.

Targeted AI applications and virtual "executive assistant" agents are going to be huge though.
Exactly, from the bank’s point of view every dollar you deposit is incurring indebtedness to you
I figured most of us in software would have at least a few months of buffer. Of course I don't have kids so
LeCun has startling bad takes for a major player in the space to the point that they can only be bad faith and driven by adverse motivations.
Do you as a user seriously want a 400MB binary that takes up 1 GB of memory at least just to have a sluggish interface to run a command line program for you when it could be an instant GUI that takes up 1 MB of memory ?

Why would anyone want something taking up literally 1000x the resources it needs to?
This is the hardest lesson to learn. Sometimes you won't be afforded the ability to do it "right", either for the company or the product or the customer. Eventually, you'll decide to just show up and ask what is most important today and work on that. Then clock out completely when your work is done and go find meaning and personal satisfaction in your personal life. Go exercise or volunteer or get a hobby or be present for your family. The best way to have work/life balance is to separate them. This is also one of the reasons why I hate wfh. The drive to/from is a great separator and decompressor for me.
Read the first line: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Postal_Service
Also, retrofitting (reconductoring) can be done today, incrementally. Whereas new adding lines takes years, decades. Hurdles like permitting, environmental reviews, NIMBYs, getting stuck in the interconnection queue.

Weirdly, how utilities were financed blocks retrofits.

Public utilities make money by building new stuff. Increasing efficiency actually loses them revenue. Eventually, we have to reboot their businesses models. Meanwhile, we need legislation (and subsidies) to compel retrofits.