skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Completely agree. It's a maddening conversation because this is fundamentally what the defend the police movement is about. Meat heads with a 6 months of training and a gun are the correct solution to almost no problems, yet occupy some of the largest budgets our cites and states have. Then we pass more and more laws to empower the meat heads and continue to wonder why nothing's working.
I took it not so much that the increased thought leads to more useful phrases, but that people are more likely to exert this effort toward things they think are useful, rather than lies.

You are going to remember "righty-tighty, lefty-loosey" better than "blue shoe, red bed" because you think it more useful. And you are vastly more likely to put effort into teaching the former to others.

When designing rhymes less for your own benefit and more for others, like advertising slogans, this obviously doesn't hold as well.
In the past, on Hacker News, I've had to explain to commenters here that the level of anti-China propaganda in the US is magnitudes higher than any anti-American propaganda in China. Most don't believe me because they assume that China must be deploying the same level of anti-American propaganda as the US deploys the opposite.

In 2024, if you go to a coffee shop in China, you'll very often hear American music. If you go to a movie theater in China, you'll very often see viewings for Hollywood movies. If you walk around the street, you'll see many clear American logos like Starbucks, McDonalds, KFC, Apple, Walmart, Ford, Microsoft, Tesla, etc.

If you walk around the US, you won't see many Chinese brands, if at all. In fact, even if a Chinese company operates in the US, they have to hide the fact that they're a Chinese company. American cafes won't play Chinese music. AMC isn't showing Chinese movies.

Furthermore, in a democracy, in order for politicians to win elections, they have to have a popular opinion. The US media has been non-stop anti-China for a long time now. Therefore, the popular opinion is "China bad". In order for politicians to win an election, they must be "China bad" as well. It's a cycle really. It's almost political suicide for a politician to even have a moderate view on China. It's also hard for any American media to have moderate views on China nowadays.

To me, it's not surprising at all that Chinese people in China do not hate Americans the same way Americans hate the Chinese.

On Hacker News comments, I've been accused of being paid by the CCP more times than I can remember just because I'm not automatically "China bad".
Those in-Schengen checks for buses and so on are largely just "do you have a valid passport?" and I'm not aware of any real checks of visa status, overstay checks, etc.

If you get caught without a passport, you get detained though. If you've forgotten your passport somewhere, someone else can take it to an airport (or a physical border) and the border control at the airport can then confirm your identity.
Yeah, except Intel previously said running with uncapped power limits was in spec. They've known MB vendors have been doing this the whole time.

Hardware unboxed video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdF5erDRO-c
It just doesn't have the same ring to call someone a "milliardare"
Show HN: Remake of 9M+ downloaded app (Yahoo News Digest)
Years ago Yahoo has shut down Yahoo News Digest. It was an app loved by millions. The idea is simple, a once daily news digest that delivers and unbiased 6-10 stories. Each story broken down into atoms; summary, quote, images, maps.
With the advancement in LLM's it made it possible to bring this back. Its called Quill News Digest and it follows nearly the same format.

Everyone is sick of scrolling through endless feeds or watching people yell at each other on tv.

Quill delivers an unbiased and succinct digest that you can complete. Just like a newspaper. Once you're done you can get on with your day.

It has really helped me out and I think it could be useful to you too. Check it out below.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/quill-news-digest/id1669557131
Burn-On – Exercise against exhaustion depression – bellicon
Here's a blacksmith demonstrating this exactly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzF1KySHmUA
kids without "the right attitude" or a lack of innate ability are routinely excluded from sports, as im sure many of us here have experienced.

You're projecting. Most coaches just want kids to work hard and have fun. They really couldn't care less about winning. If you need absolute proof, there are many sports such as swimming and track where every additional kid adds points to your team total such that having more kids is always more advantageous to the coach(es).
Well it mostly still is a one-trick pony: ads. It has kept trying to not be a one-trick pony for a decade. In the latest report, Cloud and Hardware did add up to around 25%, so they are getting closer.

They've been trying to focus on AI, but with moves like this, their position in AI will likely end up matching their position in Cloud vs AWS/Azure.
Sure the leadership probably failed too, but don't the "performers" have any accountability?
A smooth and sharp image interpolation you probably haven't heard of
Roman object that baffled experts to go on show at Lincoln Museum
Interesting. I've also always had a visceral response to particularly clear night skies - but it's only ever been a profoundly positive feeling. It kind of erases the idea that my "problems" have any significance at all.
Experientally, my brother with ADHD and severe depression, has told me many times, that he notices a huge difference in the severity of his depression based on how much he exercises.
They get the records from the airlines. They don’t need to pay someone to stamp passports at the border to know who is overstaying.
Seriously, I don't understand how people can defend copyright at this point. Maybe at the beginning it was implemented properly. Maybe in theory it's a great idea. But - surprise, surprise! - it's been broken by corporations. Life + 70 years? gtfo.
Man, if I had the space, the money, and the means of powering it I would bid on this immediately. It's so damn cool and will likely end up selling for a lot less than its worth due to its size.

I've always been fascinated by the supercomputer space, in no small part because I've been sadly somewhat removed from it; the SGI and Cray machines are a bit before my time, but I've always looked back in wonder, thinking of how cool they might have been to play with back in the 80s and 90s.

The closest I get to that now is occasionally getting to spin up some kind of HPC cluster on a cloud provider, which is fun in its own right, but I don't know, there's just something insanely cool about the giant racks of servers whose sole purpose is to crunch numbers [1].

[1] To the pendants, I know all computers' job is to crunch numbers in some capacity, but a lot of computers and their respective operating systems like to pretend that they don't.
Another recommendation is "Person of Interest". The series was ahead of its time with the implications of AI on society. It also has spies.
dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40199715
Now it's MAAMA (Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Meta, Alphabeth)
"At bottom, [the Internet Archive’s] fair use defense rests on the notion that lawfully acquiring a copyrighted print book entitles the recipient to make an unauthorized copy and distribute it in place of the print book, so long as it does not simultaneously lend the print book. But no case or legal principle supports that notion. Every authority points the other direction."

First of all, why isn't that supported? Why shouldn't they be allowed to distribute that book digitally at a 1:1 ratio?

Secondly, isn't this part of what their case is arguing for though? Wouldn't this be the case that sets that precedent?
What are some other examples of topics that, well gorsh-darn, the algorithm just had to push 'em down so we can all get along?

HN is an echo chamber.
Working example for a Dockerized twirp (RPC framework)
I'm an amateur, but I have code that I think could probably dispatch threads pretty efficiently on the Cheyenne thru it's management system simply because it's all xeons distributed. If I can run it on my personal 80-core cluster, I could get it to run on Cheyenne back then.

But hitting the roofline on those AMD GPGPU's? I'd probably get nowhere fucking close.

That is the thing that Cheyenne was built for. People doing CFD research with x86 code that was already nicely parallelized via OpenMPI or whathaveyou.
> It reminded me of a time I was at the ER for a rib injury and could see my doctor Wikipedia'ing stuff

When was this and what country was it in?

> The doctor, the lawyer - like the software engineer - will simply be more powerful than ever

I love that LLMs exist and this is what people see this as the "low hanging fruit." You'd expect that if these models had any real value, they would be used in any other walk of life first, the fact that they're targeted towards these professions, to me, highlights the fact that they are not currently useful and the owners are hoping to recoup their investments by shoving them into the highest value locations.

Anyways.. if my Doctor is using an LLM, then I don't need them anymore, and the concept of a hospital is now meaningless. The notion that there would be a middle ground here adds additional insight to the potential future applications of this technology.

Where did all the skepticism go? It's all wanna be marketing here now.
It failed on this math problem:

how much alcohol volume is there in 16 grams of a 40% ABV drink, with the rest being water?

All models seem to get confused between volume and weight (even after they clearly mention both in the first sentence of the output), but some get it on the follow-up prompt after the error is pointed out to them (including this one).
Consider the diversity of the US population, and multiply by 4.
a nail rusted into a lump of hematite is still a lump of very rich ore, and the hazard and labor involved in fishing it out of a pile of rotted wood is not disproportionate to the hazard and labor involved in reducing it back to iron, either by artisanal manual processes or by mass-production processes. artisanal manual processes require tens of person-days per kilogram of iron. see christopher roy's documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuCnZClWwpQ

your point about entropy is confused; it's reminiscent of the creationist argument that evolution is impossible because it produces more ordered structures from less ordered ones. yes, human activities do increase entropy, mostly in the form of slightly increasing the amount of infrared radiation into space from earth, but less so than other biological activities they displace. this is almost completely irrelevant to the question of whether landfills are richer or poorer ore deposits than banded iron formations or karst bauxite deposits, because the contribution of that term to the system's total entropy change is insignificantly small, and can therefore easily be positive or negative
> but in Spanish it might tell you "gatos tienen tres patas"

Have you actually had a State of the art LLM do something like this?

Because this

>But it does not ever figure out that cats and gatos are the same thing. And in particular, a true English-language fact about cats is still true if you translate it into Spanish

is just untrue. You can definitely query knowledge only learnt in one language in other languages.
Think most peoples gut reaction would be that it would melt.

But

"it took three hot Canadian summers for the test vessel to completely melt."

Seems like in north sea, it would have worked and probably would have happened if it wasn't for un-related changes like airfields and re-fulling planes.
The decision was made a long time ago by a conservative government. The Merkel government shut down 6 nuclear plants after Fukushima. When the current government with what you call the came to power only three nuclear plants were still running and the decision to shut them down were made a lot earlier and the companies operating them did not want to continue. Those remaining nuclear plants produced only 6% of electricity in 2022 and prices did not go up after shutting them down.
I don't think any general purpose language ever invented is simpler than lisp/scheme. I've not taken the time to familiarize myself with Nix yet, and one of the reasons is that the syntax of learning yet another language with its own idioms and syntax isn't something I care to tackle right now. I would love to reap the benefits of something like Nix, but something like Guix is much more appealing to me.
Yes. Take the age of the universe, multiple by the rate of expansion to get the total size of the universe, then multiple by the average density of galaxies in the observable universe. There are some further complications, but at the root it is basic algebra.
It's really hard to find a home for large, old, high-maintenance technology. What do you do with a locomotive, or a Linotype? They need a support facility and staff to be more than scrap. So they're really cheap when available.

The Pacific Locomotive Association is an organization with that problem. About 20 locomotives, stored at Brightside near Sunol. They've been able to get about half of them working. It's all volunteer. Jobs that took days in major shops take years in a volunteer operation.
Not to mention The Source, GEnie, BIX, The Well, and especially Delphi.
The mission of reproducible builds is a social mission that will bring good to the world regardless of whether other social goods are achieved.

Trying to tie that mission to other social movements is a strategic error that will more than likely cause Nix to fail in its primary mission while doing virtually nothing meaningful for any of those other causes.
Wow. This is really beautiful? Can the code be customized to other spacecraft?
I made a tracker for starlink satellites but think your visualization is much nicer.

[1]https://jdsemrau.substack.com/p/code-clinic-tracking-starlin...
Exactly. Profitable businesses solving some domain problem, without an extremely massive TAM do not make VCs rich. But they are amazing for the people that found them
Spotify CEO surprised that laying off 1.5k negatively affected operations
That feeling of awe, if that could be shared with most people on earth - perhaps they wouldn't waste their pity lives fighting each other.
It's a good mental exercise to go through. Does the behavior of a small handful of AND/OR-style logic gates constitute "inference" (like the simple circuitry in a hand tool)? What about hundreds? Millions? At some point in this exercise we will have built a ML model, so where do we draw the line?

My point was that it's a spectrum, and the law doesn't seem to give guidance on where to draw the line on that spectrum. The hand mixer was just a clearly absurd example on the far opposite end of it, to show its breadth.

So back to your question; some improvements in my mind might be:

(1) Don't phrase this as an AI topic at all. Make laws about the safety of automated systems of all kinds which have health & safety implications — we already have lots of laws for cars (whether AI driven or not), medical equipment, and yes, even kitchen appliances (: Then, the definition of "AI Model" is irrelevant.

(2) If we do want something specific to AI, then the definition should be more specific. The definition could involve it being a stochastic process (unlike much other software), having inner workings that are poorly understood even by experts (unlike much other software), and whose logic is developed statistically from training data rather than being hand-designed (unlike much other software (or kitchen appliances!)).
The Revolution Has Begun in the UK
It wasn't any over the top than the original. It mostly just followed The BBC production almost to the letter, except with US spin.

Until Season 4?. Whenever the re-election campaign started. Joel Kinnaman, while a great actor (loved him in Altered Carbon) was a massive miscast as a plausible candidate for the GOP. Mostly due to youth. And the last season was a Game of Thrones-level utter disaster.
Is it? I prefer the substantive page (with no scrolljacking) that I linked to. The developer marketing page linked to in that thread is a lot prettier, though!
I would say that insurance is low-cost or free for anyone is the myth.

Since the emergency over Covid was declared over last year, the number of people and kids being kicked out of Medicare and Medicaid ostensibly because of procedural issues or some imaginary fraud has been constantly in the news.

The forever argument on the right is link coverage to employment or some other ridiculous reason deserving reason invoking the welfare queen caricature, just last week John Oliver did a segment on this .
I feel that if they lose, they'll be nearing death's door as it would open up to even more lawsuits (they're already fighting the record labels) and I won't be surprised if various other industries such as the gaming industry would file one next.

More here in this essay: https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/1bswhdj/if_the...

Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39908676
But what’s the point of catching an overstay if they’re leaving already? It’s more important to catch them when they try to re-enter (at which point you could have collected data from airlines to estimate whether they previously overstayed).

Exit checks are pretty pointless if there’s no violation that would lead to enforcement other than deportation (since the traveler is already self-deporting).
The Boston Globe, Elite Status Signals, Political Activism
I haven't looked recently but I did search a while ago for a 5.25" USB floppy drive but never found any. Several 3.5" though.

Also, I haven't done any specific climate control for the books or the disks. The notebooks are still readable and I can even tell the difference in the parts I wrote with a ball pen and a fountain pen. Many of the disks are damaged with fungal growth on the magnetic medium and I doubt I'd be able to read them even with a drive.

It's quite challenging to read off an old disk. Jason Scott (the famous digital archivist) had a nice talk on recovering the original source code for Jordan Mechner's Prince of Persia from ancient disks that mentions some of the challenges. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnEWBtCnFs8
I'd say that's it's only value. This is all an obvious open threat against the labor market and is designed to depress wages.

If your business can be "staffed" by an LLM, then will not be competitive, and you will no longer exist. This is not a possible future in a capitalist market.
Because the root cause isn't a sudden increase in appetite. What caused people's appetite to increase?
This should've been done in VSCode. Most developers don't want to write code in a browser. Once VSCode extension is built they could generalize it to other editors.

I'm sure they are thinking of VSCode integration and I am hopping for that to be available soon
I am feeling pretty Okay now, indeed. I played golf today. It was on a Par3 course, so it only tested my short game. However, I scored -1, with almost a hole-in-one. I blame it on the success of PySheets :-)
I always find it fascinating that what you are seeing is a 1500 year old `close-up' of the nebula as that is how long (approximately) it took for the photons to get here.
This is a cohort study. They show association, not causality.
You're likely not seeing the context because you're not logged in. People need to stop using Twitter for this because it's not accessible.
Grim. This is just confirmation that the future of llms will be a walled garden of big tech and big rights holders. There's no open ecosystem if content needs to be licensed at prohibitive prices for small players/ universities/ open source. Between this and them lobbying for regulation closed ai is obviously pulling up the ladder behind them now that they're valued at $80 billion from being reportedly on the brink of bankruptcy just a few years ago before chatgpt
Keri Russell a lightweight? I’m curious what gave you that impression as I’ve always thought of her as an excellent actress. Probably missing out on The Diplomat too if you like political intrigue at all.
> while you are getting paid by some nefarious entities who pay for your work on patreon.

Spooky Patreon supporters!

> because there is now way to compete with you

How about YOU offer better work?
"So that a truncated partial download doesn't end up executing half a script"
Oh absolutely the CPU is lacking in performance. I actually entertained the idea of replacing the motherboard with a custom carrier for some arm compute module or the new Lattepanda mu but I suppose I should first use my new project that I spent so much work on :p
Also, a good warning sticker to put on books
PySheets is not based on Rust. It is 100% Python.
How can there be so many rich tech people and none willing to be patrons for this?
The default, read committed
The shell script starts with the following comment:

# All the code is wrapped in a main function that gets called at the
# bottom of the file, so that a truncated partial download doesn't end
# up executing half a script.
> Communism is where the means of production is owned by the people

That’s actually socialism, which some forms of communism see as a first step toward communism.

Communism is…fuzzier. It’s a state of voluntary, classless, non-hierarchical, self-government.
>Agree to disagree.

>Copyright has worn out its welcome when it is locking up culture for life + 70 years at a time [1] [2].

This isn't a "disagreement" with the GP. Piracy is a legal concept, and they were speaking in legal terms. Whether or not copyright has "worn out its welcome", it continues to be a legal reality in the US.

>LibGen, Scihub, Z-Library, Anna's Archive etc aren't going away.

Then why should internet archive, which fills a number of niches that aren't just book or document piracy, be killed off?
When I first read this prompt I thought "Okay but what time do you want the clock to be set to?"
The Hippies vs. the Woke
I'll take a stab at it.

I think we can get to this answer by looking at a couple of questions from an accountant's perspective. The first: Where does profit come from? Somewhere there must be an arbitrage. Next question: Why isn't that arbitrage competed away? Further to the point, there must be some universal arbitrage available to all industries to create "profit" in every single case. There are very few commodities that are universal across industries, such as electricity, land, and workers. Because of the universality of profit (or else all businesses would not exist long term), some universal input would be a prime candidate for a source of such universal arbitrage.

The next step is to think about Commoditize Your Complement [0]. Given that selling work is a universalized commodity, and sheer numbers of workers competes away all profits, what is the complementing field? Employment. Employers monopolize Work to extract the value away from their complement; workers. With being a commoditized complement brings with it the cutthroat competition just to keep the lights on, while value floats to all the businesses in the complement.

However none of this is permanent in the Macro. During boom times all boats float. All firms hire from the same pool of workers, driving available workers down and prices/wages up. This drives employers into the arms of productivity machines to control the spiraling costs of labor. This is a trap. While you might gain productivity, it shifts more of your investment away from the Universal Arbitrage (workers) towards productivity machines, thus becoming the commoditized complement of the makers of productivity machines.

Finally, I want to point out that these are general forces and not destiny. Also Reality is fuzzy, and none of this addresses stuff like Bailouts and other extra-economic interventions. Just because something is profitless in the long term does not mean it can't be profitable to you in the short-to-medium.

[0]: https://gwern.net/complement