skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Started like this. I had a few talks with startup founders interested in if they were hitting the market at the right time (their "why now"). Seeing more interest I ended up running a workshop on the timing topic for a few accelerators. I kept digging into what clues there are that a product will hit the market at the right time. Researched how the same products have been reintroduced again and again over years until finally they work out. Most surprising to me is how many people realize timing is important, yet how few have a framework to assess timing.

Fast forward a few years... I just wrote a book on the timing topic, called Why Now: How Good Timing Makes Great Products.
Another comment with emphasis on the word "magic" so I guess let's dive in.

> Is it a magical little light that goes on inside some entities but not others?

Instead of magic, just say "consciousness", and let's identify it as things like: The aroma of coffee, the taste of chocolate, the sound of a drop of water, the feeling of warmth on your arm... those sensations are not nerve cells. Nerve cells are nerve cells. As you already know nerve cells are tiny biological structures that can pass on or mitigate electrical transmission in the body like in muscles and the brain. That's what a nerve cell is. None of that electrochemistry in a nerve cell is the aroma of coffee.

> Searle and Chalmers, among others, believe it's the former

Searle doesn't, and has said many times "it's a biological phenomenon". Chalmers went off the deep end with panpsychism - but since neither Chalmers or Dennett can tell the difference between conscious/unconscious I guess they ended up in mostly the same boat, didn't they?

> Searle hasn't bothered to look at the research
> according to Searle, is some kind of magical "causal powers"

Just a joke, worth a call out that you think this of Searle, but not worth a response

I mean bad take after bad take, it's too bad you don't brush up on this stuff, you seem interested in it.

> Dennett never denied that we have experiences. He just didn't think they are magic.

Nobody said it's magic, Searle specifically said it's not magic, and that it's a biological phenomenon (see his TED talk "I move my arm and the damn thing goes up" - that one).
Had someone mention it to me yesterday in an organic convo so there are definitely people out there using it (seemingly happily).

Haven’t tried it yet - still evaluating autogen.
If memory serves me well, I think some guys in Florida found out how many times they could do it and got busted for fraud against the delivery companies.

System caught the anomaly, humans investigated, law enforcement made the arrests.
What unexplored space do you think is ripe for a totally new operating system?
M5's APIs tend to be quite buggy.
I've come across a few such as flicker caused by running the wifi on the main CPU core that's controlling the display, or RGB component order being reversed despite the ESP32 spec for their own hardware, or refusing to combine APIs for similar products (e.g. Core 1/2) resulting in multiple similar APIs and multiple imports/build configs/macros to support many of their devices at once from a single code base.
Hopefully Espressif will start lending their expertise as their documentation and software has been first class.
It's more like not using semi-autonomuous driving features with the car entirely relying on your expertise to realise and correct when it's making a mistake. The main difference is risk. Your own life at stake versus bugs in some production system.
One quibble I have with this: the items on the Joel Test are all language-independent, even if you're using a minor language with poor presence on GitHub. But that's not the case with AI codegen. GPT-3.5 was downright terrible at F#, and though Bing+GPT-4 does seem a lot better I'm not sure it's actually good enough for professional F#. I also doubt AI codegen is useful for Scheme/Racket developers who create DSLs (and of course it's totally useless for proprietary languages). So I am not sure AI codegen fits with the other items on the test.

In general I am concerned that LLMs will discourage innovation in programming language design - why write a better Python if GPT can just automate the tedium away?
I've been fascinated with the VESC project (https://vesc-project.com). I had no idea that controlling a BLDC could be so complicated.
didn't copy that to amazon, should've really put it between ` ` even though the formatting wouldn't have applied here
Ongoing discussion:[0](282 points, 4 hours ago, 156 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40117599
Been tinkering with my personal site again for no particular reason.

1. Looked at what it would take to turn it into a sort of "pubnix" for some friends

2. ...which got me looking into how to set up Postfix to manage local emails (allegedly this works out of the box, but I must have screwed something up since I never did get my test messages from one user to the other)

3. Then on to looking at BBS systems, starting from Enigma 1/2. Didn't get too far into that since the theme customization scared me away (and not enough of my RL friends are nerdy enough to get into it)

4. Finally backing away from the pubnix thing again because of insufficiently nerdy friends (although one is humoring me in experimenting with SSB), I then instead set up a Synapse server to have my own identity in the Matrix ecosystem.
People freak out when their data is used to train AI models, leaking their private data. AI data is regularly mined, whereas cloud data is usually encrypted in transit and at rest.
Brave of this guy to link his Twitter. Quick way to get blackballed from every startup in the country.
Thanks for sharing the link! Really interesting that its a multi-platform issue with reddit and twitter affected
That's a lot of negative shit to be assuming based on a cursory comment. If someone was averse to change, they probably couldn't be bothered to stick with anything because just about everything changes. I know I'd rather seek advice from an experienced specialist rather than a rando person with some limited experience.
One of the first things we did when GPT-4 became available was talk to our Azure rep and get access to the OpenAI models that they'd partnered with Microsoft to host in Azure. Now, we have our own private, not-datamined (so they claim, contractually) API endpoint and we use an OpenAI integration in VS Code[1] to connect to, allowing anyone in the company to use it to help them code.

I also spun up an internal chat UI[2] to replace ChatGPT so people can feel comfortable discussing proprietary data with the LLM endpoint.

The only thing that would make it more secure would be running inference engines internally, but I wouldn't have access to as good of models, and I'd need a _lot_ of hardware to match the speeds.

[1] - https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=AndrewBu...

[2] - https://github.com/mckaywrigley/chatbot-ui (legacy branch)
Yeah, digging this!
Got a ARTinoise Re.corder (an electronic wind instrument, basically shaped like a recorder, but MIDI) for my wife. Works with an iOS app for basic sounds. She's spent very little time with it :-)

The REAL rabbit hole is the astounding amount, and quality, of AUv3 plugins for iOS. Sounds, effects, looping tools, MIDI things, just... wow. And almost all of them are under $20, and many are free! I've spent less on a dozen software toys than on the first two guitar pedals I got. And infinitely more powerful.

Check out this video of someone doing the looping thing way way way better than I'll ever be able to (but it's fun to work towards a goal). Software she's using is called Loopy Pro, another amazing thing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1O0pwUMbnw
Never seem spam in HN threads before. Interesting.
I'm not sure he predicts a billion mips. The graph tops out at a million mips per $1000. He figues brain equivalence is 100 million mips. If you assume mips are equivalent to flops then that's 100 teraflops. That would seem roughly to match:

>"NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Is The First Gaming Graphics Card To Deliver 100 TFLOPs of Compute Performance" https://wccftech.com/nvidia-geforce-rtx-4090-is-the-first-ga...

Currently about $1,800 on Amazon.
I had a peek at the USB spec recently, no desire. I thought it would be trivial to even just enumerate USB devices on a Windows box. It is not.
I started by looking into LLMs outside of ChatGPT (self-hosting ollama, API services, etc.) I got annoyed that they all had their own 'chat' interface, or that all the chat interfaces were some bad rebuild of a chat application.

So I wrote https://github.com/arcuru/chaz to connect any LLM to Matrix so that I could use any Matrix client with any LLM.

That got me writing a Matrix bot account in Rust, and I couldn't find a simple bot framework so I split out a bot framework in https://github.com/arcuru/headjack

But _then_ I realized a really easy bot I could write that would also be very useful for me, and I wrote https://github.com/arcuru/pokem which is sort of a clone of ntfy.sh but using Matrix. Send yourself (or others, or a group) a ping on Matrix using an HTTP request or a simple CLI app.
Similar sentiment at Blackberry when they looked at the first iPhone. Forgetting that it is a long play. And that hardware will improve every iteration.
Weird, I have the exact opposite preference. I do like looking things up in paper reference books, but a lot of the time I remember context well enough that I can type a key phrase and have it instantly. I prefer learning from paper, so if it's a scientific paper that's too complex/deep to just skim and longer than 10-15 pages I'll often print it.

Reading for pleasure on the other hand, I will only do on paper. The physicality of the book, down to the wrinkles and texture of the paper, are part of the enjoyment.
All that build up and not a link to be seen?!?! Where do I go to spend $ on a new hobby I didn't need?
Are you lonely and want to do something? Flag those spam comments.

Yeah, I was surprised by the amount, it feels like an attack rather than spam.

I hope this didn't interrupt Dang from something more important.
Or that is just a simple theory that is easy for you to understand. 80% 5 stars might mean something else and 1 stars might mean as much as 2/5.
Yes, but that is pretty terrible advice.

It might make sense if you have tons of profitable business options and you have to choose one, but that is rarely the situation.

There are billion dollar companies that run on AdWords, and the owners are far better off than if they refused to run a business with a single point failure, and worked at a coffee shop.

Hundreds of billions of dollars flow through AdWords to businesses that would NOT be better off without the revenue.
> Is it just me

No, 1000s of bot accounts commenting 30+ per minute are quite obvious

> Is it some kind of coordinated flood attack?

Looks like it

> And is an AI girlfriend really a feasible idea?

It's the new penis enlargement and viagra spam
I'm not seeing correct answers at an extraordinarily high rate, myself. For engineering and physics questions I get confident answers that are off by several orders of magnitude, and the sources cited tend to be only tangentially related to the query and don't answer the question themselves.

What kinds of questions are you asking?
> May include some nifty quantum processing.

While we're at it they might do a bit of dabbling in reversing entropy and solving the halting problem - it's only impossible in flat space-time after all.
I don't remember the Joel test being about "add the latest hype to your dev environment"
Macros are still useful for conditional compilation, as in this case. They've been sunsetted for anything that looks like code generation, which this isn't. I was more commenting on the reflexive "ick" reaction of the author to the use of macros (even when appropriate) because avoiding them has become so engrained in C++ culture. I'm a macro minimalist but I would use them here.

Many people have a similar reaction to the use of "goto", even though it is absolutely the right choice in some contexts.
Should’ve used the AI to write better comments
That's a poor name for an operating system, especially in the UK.

Google Horizon Post master drama or watch the TV series.
HN also seems to be responding very slowly, and in a couple of cases timing out on the request. It may be under a heavy load.
I felt that way watching season 1 but I was drawn in by the great story regardless.
You can't change your biometric password.
Counterpoint: after taking a big hit during the pandemic years of 2020-2022, global book sales are climbing again. Sales are down compared to the years before 2019, but the trend recently has been positive, especially for audio and e-books.

https://wordsrated.com/global-book-sales-statistics/
For anyone like me, unable to figure out how to do that - you click Reply, and then there's a 'flag' link.
Yeah, guck that!
China has already indicated it won't sell its 20% share, and so TikTok will be removed from the US app stores.

And any replacement would be US only, limiting its reach to some 10% of what it had before.

This is why most people view this as a ban. And IMO, rightfully so; it's not as if our congressmen and congresswomen are fumbling about in the dark. They've just bought.
The AI Girlfriend posts are on a lot of threads today, not just this one. But you never know.
Thank you, I thought I was going crazy reading it. I've been out of the DID space for a number of years now, but I made contributions to the concept when it was first proposed. I don't remember it having anything to do government credentials at the time. It seems the VC addition is a later thing?
“Operating system” is being used to refer to the UI for running and managing apps (not the original under-the-hood sense of the word for how app share resources, manage security, etc.). For better or worse, that is how consumers understand it.
Worrying about the environmental impact of books is misguided. You use far more paper products in the course of your everyday life: paper bags, cardboard packaging, paper towels, etc. etc. Even for an avid reader, the impact is negligible.
There are apps currently make multi six figures a month with "AI girlfriend services". Not for me but it apparently is worth paying for to some people. But hell, one time I was scrolling through this hot person's Instagram and it took me a good minute or two to realize the whole account was a generative AI account, almost tricked me. Give it another decade and we can reevaluate.
Yup, this reeks of sock puppets
Or click the timestamp.
I can't think of any publishers that are also in the business of printing and distribution. Those are entirely separate industries. There is almost no way for publishers to lose money because of tech that makes it cheaper and easier than ever to get books to consumers while retaining unprecedented control over pricing (fixed, never discounted or remaindered), resale (prohibited), and lending (also prohibited). Publishers sell eBooks for the same price as print books but pay almost nothing to produce them. That's a big bump in profits.

I don't see how any publisher is losing money on their back catalog due to scanning by Google, either. Google doesn't sell or even offer access to the full text of most books they scan, certainly not any that are under copyright and still being sold by publishers. Out of print books are by definition not earning money for publishers, so it wouldn't make any difference there.
one apostrophe? sure. more than two in a row? no.

Ku' 'Laangah't is valid.
>For long out of date assembler

Note that chibiakumas also covers RISC-V, which is about as modern as it gets.
This should read “autism CAN make travel a challenge”. Mine doesn’t, travel isn’t hard for me, frankly I see a lot of people getting more stressed and anxious about travel then I do. the blanket statements people make about these things like autism, adhd, etc are just getting tired and frankly need to stop.
Can't an LLM translate?
I have an ikea idasen sit/stand desk, which turns out to have bluetooth.

There are a bunch of projects on github, but I used:

https://github.com/newAM/idasen

You can install it with just "pip install idasen"
If you are coming from the default position that companies inherently and always bad, I dont think we will be able to have a conversation about it.
There are a lot of economic theories that are correct under a particular set of constraints and completely invalid under a different set of constraints.

So for example, if you lower property taxes, theory says that rents should go down. At the existing rents it's now more profitable to own property because the ownership costs have gone down, so more buildings will be constructed as people take advantage of the opportunity, until the increase in supply brings rents down to account for the reduction in operating costs. This theory is invalid if you prohibit new construction because then supply can't increase so rents never go down and the existing landlords just pocket the money.

The problem isn't that theory doesn't work, it's that you have to satisfy its constraints. You have to get rid of monopolies and artificial scarcity or they capture the gains that were supposed to go to ordinary people.
"Slow is smooth, smooth is fast"
Beijing has a veto on the sale, and are likely to exercise it. From their point of view, allowing the US to force a Chinese company to sell itself off as soon as it achieves success would set a very bad precedent, and encourage a torrent of other blackmail efforts.

They'll be willing to let Bytedance take the L on this. Bytedance can console themselves that TikTok can still operate elsewhere on the world, just making less money.
I don't want them to require a email/phone for privacy's sake, but they should definitely have a captcha of sorts to limit bot accounts.
Seeing as there is usually no obvious spam attacks, there IS a filter. Assume competence :) https://paulgraham.com/spam.html
I’ve spent a half months salary on literature auctions. French, latin, english, swedish, 1700s and up. History, memoires, philosophy, religion, science and math, poetry, stories. Art as well, happened to buy prints of Girodet and Dürer that I enjoy very much.

Did some duolingo for french just recently and already did for latin two years ago. It’s difficult to read them but broad context is enough for an overview understanding and I feel a detailed understanding increase by the chapter from exposure alone.

Apart from the actual books I enjoy bidding, similar to but healthier than gambling on stocks, and “winners curse” of overpaying for stuff I really like eh I’m aware of it but the dopamine is worth it too. Some arbitrage opportunities as well, as in finds on local auctions and selling online internationally, but usually international shipping for heavier stuff like entire œuvres and just the time investment to pack and ship something deters me from doing that. Wouldnt want to damage 1600s books in shipping I suppose as well, they look quite cheap locally but fetch more internationally.
Same. I recently got one of these wirecutter book lights: https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/glocusent-reading... Does an amber color for bedtime reading, and now I' tearing through books again. It's so much easier to skim, skip, re-find something (yes, even without fancy search) and I just find myself reading faster with real books again. It's rekindled :) a love of books again I feel like I lost somehow only doing it on e-readers.
I have absolutely seen Copilot generate valid C# code with a nasty logic bug. You really need to carefully review every line, and at that point I would usually rather just write it myself.

I'm sure there are good use cases, but I just haven't seen anything life-changing in my experiments with various LLM products. The only thing I use day to day is IntelliCode, which saves a bit of typing here and there.
I mean, at least LLMs would have different text in different messages.
I’ve been trying to fit something into GCP free tier while also designing it to be scalable.

Been tinkering with that for an absurdly long time vs just throwing some python onto a $5 dollar VPS but it’s been fun & learned a decent bit about over engineering pitfalls along the way
1) Real world verification is voluntary. Nothing is forcing anybody to provide real world information. Users can decide to do so by claiming a real world identity - in which the verification is outsourced to that IdP. Users can also decide who to trust based on what information is available on the network.

2) Root key compromise can be resolved through revocations on the trust network. It's the same as how PKI works right now but in a decentralized manner. This isn't possible yet on PolyKey (PK) but it's something we are working on.

3) Actually we enable CAs to sign the PK certificate. This is in our roadmap.
Like the original author of this post sorta alluded to, treating it like a very junior assistant or pair programmer. Those kinds of questions. Questions I do not have time to trawl google for that are easily available knowledge. I don't expect it to be an expert - I want it to eliminate toil. It does do that.
This is fairly standard for mature products. In the early days the whole production process is tightly integrated, but as components and processes mature there is less room for there to be some “secret sauce.” Once that happens it makes sense to outsource it to other firms who compete on cost while you focus on parts where you can differentiate.

That said, companies frequently misstep determining where they can safely outsource and where they must keep things integrated.
I tried at first. It's a losing game against this number of spammy comments.

The temporary solution is to shadow ban the comments, the usernames seems to follow 2 naming schemas. Banning them completely will alert the attacker to change the naming schema, or to make it more random, which will make stopping them even more difficult.
Is financing North Korea bad? I understand that is illegal for American companies because it is an enemy of the Empire, but I applaud those willing to break the law to help the enemies of the Empire.
This is the one!

Same here.

Life happened.

What I told my dad would never happen (not using Linux From Scratch or Gentoo - like how can he use Windows and like just get things done instead of digging deep and solving problems all the time?) did happen.

I now use Debian derived but more up-to-date and easy to use for mainstream people distros (like shudder Ubuntu) and they're relegated to server and TV duty and I hope nothing breaks when I upgrade from LTS to LTS version coz "I don't have time for this!" and I play a few games here and there on my Windows laptop.

But I think it's important to have gone through the "rabbit hole" in the middle. All the digging and understanding I did I still do all the time at work. I just no longer spend the other half of my life on it. I spend it digging into other things.
This can be true at the same time the parent comment is. Advantages can be short-lived. I suppose the key is just not to take them for granted, or be surprised when they disappear.
I think people are doing it and I think it sucks. If you are making $10 an hour in the US you aren't really making ends meet.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40115155

Yeah this thread is full of spam.
On top of all of that, nobody's going to revise the book out from under me while I'm reading it, or prevent me from loaning it to a friend, or even yanking it entirely from my device.
The difference is theirs can be used right away without needing any keys haha
Could the tallest skyscraper in the US withstand Oklahoma's tornadoes?