skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I probably worded myself too harshly. There could definitely be value in a good ChatGPT "skin". I personally use Neurolist, which is pretty good

With that said, I think the main problem faced by these new businesses is not making people use the apps, but the cost of running the models themselves

Right now they're essentially being subsidised by Microsoft (in the case of ChatGPT at least). I think it's inevitable that there'll be a price hike and that it'll destroy the value proposition of these skins

ChatGPT is currently $20/month for a private user and from what I can gather from different news sources, OpenAI is still taking a loss on those sales. Most "skins" will probably have to charge at least the same for their service and I an app honestly has to be pretty amazing for me to fork over that amount of money every month

These are of course just back-of-the-envelope guestimates and I could be wrong about a lot of the assumptions I make here. Given the consequences it would have for the people running all these new businesses, I certainly hope I'm wrong
Oh! Yeah I think I know what you mean. I - personally - would attribute that to fear. People from certain experiences or backgrounds dont want to be wrong or look bad. So they’ll demand a spec instead of being given general guidance. To me people who need spoon feeding and entirely dismissable if they cant be coached. The whole style that seems to work best is “we need to cross this river” rather than “build me a temporary pontoon bridge that can carry a tank”.
Better explained by KnowYourMeme, but it's basically pressing and never releasing button A.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/05x-a-presses-but-first-we-ne...
It is a floor/ceiling situation. But the floor as a nice old intricate hardwood floor, and ripping it off would be a shame. Looks like we can do the sound insulation fro the ceiling of the apartment downstairs, but

1. It requires the occupants to vacate

2. It is expensive

3. It is difficult to estimate the change it would actually provide
From the author’s selfie, she doesn’t seem to crave high fashion, so why not shop at thrift stores? The selection is great, clothing is avoiding the landfill, and it’s cheaper than new.

I have gotten a fine knock-off pea coat, and a Boston Celtics jacket that might come in handy this playoff season. (I grew up in the Boston area.) And lots more.

Most of my clothes are thrift store finds, and many are cotton making a second spin around the block.
I’m not 100% sure Tolkien is right for Kubrick. Maybe but I’d be concerned that he’d make it a little too ponderous and symbolic. He’d nail the spooky dark aura around the ring though. But with the Beatles? Nah no way.

Peter Jackson’s adaptation was so authentic it looked at places just like my mental imagery looked as I was reading the book. That’s a tough thing to pull off in and of itself.

Spielberg would have made it campy. Lynch would have made it surreal, might have been cool but like his Dune would be a weird cult film take. (I like Lynch’s Dune but it’s weird.)

For some reason I think Ridley Scott could have done it if he could have gotten his head out of sci fi.
I really think you are right, but there's a contrarian part of me now imagining something that is almost identical with that Ballad of Bilbo Baggins video that was allegedly forced on Leonard Nimoy by terrible TV producers, magically turned good through the Beatles touch.

Who knows, as unlikely as it certainly is, perhaps knowledge of the Nimoy TV sequence was what made Tolkien protect The Beatles from embarrassing themselves on middle earth.
There were tons of claims about the efficacy of masks at different points in the pandemic. Masks went from being ineffective, to super effective, to marginally effective (depending on material used) in a matter of months. Various scientists and talking heads (such as Dr. Fauci) appeared on television and promoted the claims with little to no evidence.
'Just' 40-50% of first time marriages, you'll have to excuse them the exaggeration
Also after 15 years of witnessing a successful entrepreneur doing the exact opposite than they advise, what stays? The dislike. I had the opportunity to observe this many times with many of them.

I am always amazed how closed people’s minds are. There are some good open people out there too.
This was a bit confusing for me. Is this a simplified Core War[0]?

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_War
I had this same exact startup idea, and I think this can effectively work to change the landscape in ad-driven publications.

Ads are the notoriously culprit of this clickbaity and emotion-seaking journalism this model can effectively change the incentives for publishers and it will push for a more high quality writings as they will be rewarded back in reads from the LLM proposing the content more.

Is anyone working on something like this, or is this something only foundational models owners can try to achieve?
Some people want to dedicate a lot of their work time and energy to LARPing Tony Stark. Other people just want to deliver the value the company needs, get paid, and pursue their other goals outside of their job.
Debriefs: Synthesize news consumption and deepen industry knowledge
The paper is not connected to Penrose.
> NRK is only georestricting because the licenses forbids them from not doing it.

I would be more inclined to say that they're doing it to be "safe". For example, their immediate neighbour, Sweden, has a selection "Kan ses utomlands"[2] -- which, roughly, means can see outside of the country.

Presumably, like elsewhere in the world, not everything NRK is showing is licensed only for Norway.

To the original point: The issue isn't that BankId is being used, it's saying you can just watch the originals, in their mother-tongue (person-tongue?).

For example, NRK produces some originals, like Vikingane[3] that eventually became Norsemen[4] on Netflix.

Clearly, that's been licensed for semi-global (if not global) consumption via Netflix; however, as you can see from the NRK link, you still need to login via BankId to watch it in it's original form.

Again: None of this is a problem, per se, but saying that one can just watch original shows - in their original language - isn't congruent at all with reality, these days.

[2] - https://www.svt.se/kontakt/anvand-svt-play-utomlands

[3] - https://tv.nrk.no/serie/vikingane

[4] - https://www.netflix.com/ie/title/80180182

Edit: List formatting fix.
> They get stereotyped for not wanting to ‘be a small piece of the puzzle’

That’s hilarious. We’re ALL small pieces in a universal puzzle. Inescapable.

And yeah, anyone who understands the value of their time and is in a position to make free decisions about what to do with it will not want to take your piss ant job.
You are bound to stay the leader of mediocre teams then. You could at least bother with 2 or 3 of these who would make wonders - or fired based upon what you just said. But mediocre is … comforting.
Good quote, but I think editors in our time are more likely to 'upgrade' the profanity into something more intense than they are to remove it.
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I own(ed) my own business. It gets asked about at every job interview.
The simple answer: I prefer a regular paycheck.

I first started introducing Linux (as file/print servers) back in the mid-90's. The rate of support calls would drop from weekly to quarterly. A few of my clients I actually had to introduce a retainer. I was making "most of my money" on 'new hardware' upgrades. I was smart enough to stagger roll-outs so I would have somewhat consistent work at Q1 every year. But not enough to reliably pay the bills. The Microsoft Support racket was too lucrative, and would have forced me to be dishonest. I can't live like that.

I gave the clients a choice: I run linux at home, and this is what I suggest for your servers. The level of honesty won me respect but not a paycheck.
I go into more depth in the sibling comment, but I am not that optimistic about the prospect of these start-ups, given that ChatGPT is currently heavily subsidised by Microsoft

When that cost eventually has to be recouped I think the pricing will make it unsustainable for use in consumer products

There's definitely some people who'll become rich from it, but I think it's more likely going to be from acquisitions by a large corporation than from direct consumer sales
I started using F# late last year in a *nix environment and it is really well done. There's .NET Interactive which allows for F# in a Jupyter Notebook. You can create .fsx scripts that are interpreted at runtime and handle inline dependencies from NuGet. There's the Fable which compiles F# to JS, TS, Python and Rust.

And of course it's a full on functional language with some great syntactic sugar, especially computation expressions.

The stomaching of .NET basically means getting a much larger set of third-party libraries than OCaml or Haskell can offer.

It is well worth checking out!
This is ambiguously stepping into "overly general / building for the future" territory. Perhaps that is not what you meant.

There is a fine line where I do agree with you. Cases such as creating a relation table for categories, when you could have made a string array field instead. Or structuring a code in a way where you are not preparing for the future, but also not painting yourself into a corner.

Examples such as that do come to mind. But as I said it's a fine line.

This becomes exceptionally tricky when you are building towards a vision, but only 40% there, and having the code structured for that vision is hard to shake..
The point is, although emoji as known now come with rich selection of emoticons, same didn't apply to earlier Japanese emoji sets.

"Emoji present on the Sharp PI-4000 (1994)" from the article shows 20+ animals(12 from Chinese calendar), 9 relatives(grandpa, baby, so on), 3 types of alcohol(beer, sake, cocktail), and two smileys, one happy and one angry, out of 160 symbols. That's quite unlike typical non-Japanese emoticon sets before iOS emoji.

Granted, the Sharp pocket computer emoji wouldn't have been designed for chat, so there would have been less need for emoticons - but if you look at the list of emoji implemented in phones from NTT doCoMo and J-PHONE had back then linked in the article, there are just 5 each, neither even having a single circular smiley.
Why can’t I scroll? The page is not responsive
There's a reason everyone knows who Steve Jobs is and no one knows or cares who the vast majority of these corner-cutting "professionals" are
It’s not the same cause but the effect is the same. It’s a distinction with a difference, not to be confused with the opposite.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distinction_without_a_differen...
> quick python-like scripting

since we're at it, why not a batteries-included Common Lisp: https://github.com/ciel-lang/ciel it comes as a binary that starts fast and that includes libraries for mundane tasks.

(for more CL<->Python if anyone's interested: https://github.com/CodyReichert/awesome-cl?tab=readme-ov-fil...)
How Airline Lobbyists Just Got Humiliated
I was in the area too. Decided to go for a drive to Southport beach to try and catch it and saw.. nothing.

Yesterday evening I tried Crosby beach. Also nothing.

Did I just go at the wrong time? It was between 11pm and 1am.
Once you learn, how do you maintain the language? I'm currently in Brazil speaking Portuguese a lot. I used to speak more Spanish. Right now, if I want to switch back to Spanish it takes me a lot of time. They're so similar I still keep on mixing them up quite often. I even started a small project (https://glot.space) to try to keep training vocabulary in two languages at the same time to keep the distinction in my brain.
You clearly didn’t read what I posted and just repeat what we’re told on this side of the world.

That was the point, it was shut down - great! But to think that NATO expansion is not seen as a threat to Russia, having nukes on their doorstep is silly. And Ukraine creeping slowly closer to admission is a step too far for Russia.

“President Putin has made Ukraine's preliminary steps to joining NATO the principal grounds for the Russian invasion of Feb. 24, 2022.”

If a NATO-like power controlled by Russia was on our doorstep, we would do the same thing.
I went from Portuguese and English to Japanese and I can tell you: that is entirely normal.

So many words in English are from Latin origin, so you got so many shortcuts when learning English (and I’m sure you are exposed to it for more time than you realize, as time spent passively learning a language dominates in the end).

It took me some time to realize the amount of work (in terms of hours put into it) that are needed to learn Japanese.

But then what I look for in language learning is not what polyglots look for. I want to understand the language deeply to appreciate its beauty fully while communicating with natives in a deep level, so I’m OK with putting the hours and leaning it within many years, even if it means it is the last language I learn. I’m in for the depth, not for the number of languages.
Title left uneditorialized, could probably be changed by a mod. Shared due to context around the legislative and political mechanics that led to the outcome. Good read imho.
If it's physically grounded then it would be computable by some machine, just not necessarily a Turing machine. For instance, a hypercomputer can solve the Halting problem for Turing machines. We just have to be clear about the kind of machine on which a problem is computable.
This seems true based on my experience. I've taken two startups from 0-$100,000/month in revenue on shoestring budgets, and I've tried for years to get a corporate job with no luck.
For a popular survey of the relevant neurophysics, try Stairway to the Mind by Alwyn Scott (1995). He argues it is very unlikely that quantum effects are relevant, and is skeptical of Penrose.
I don't think that has anything to with this, though.
It would have been better to link with the original source, which is part of HN’s ToS https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/9/24152675/sonos-new-app-bad...
In some analyses, english only has two (past and present).
Thank you for bringing up this issue! Our plan is to release the paper in a month, but let's see how it goes. Feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions!
> The parallel garbage collector is now part of SBCL, but not yet the default.

Why is it not yet the default? Higher latency, not yet tested enough, or something else?
What if in 50 years it turns out alarmists were right, and there's nothing could be done? Anti-alarmists will say "oopsie, we were wrong, you were right, now we see". But it won't help.

Imagine there's a huge asteroid comes at Earth, but it will strike only in 100 years. Alarmists start screaming that we need to act NOW, but anti-alarmists would be like "oh come on, you're screaming it for the last 44 years, please stop".

People are pretty bad at solving long problems.
Sanity checking with wikipedia to see if I missed something, I'm going to have to disagree.

Json is a data exchange format and while ubiquitous and well defined, it supports none of the elements that make a computer language a language.
Sure, because this implementation won't work in practice. He's embedding the whole documents at once, without splitting, summarization, Q&A extraction etc.
Maybe that's it but whenever I've been in hiring rounds for dev roles and seen someone operating solo the story I see on their resume tends to look like they are solo because they were fired or otherwise couldn't make it in the corporate world so they tried to go solo, failed again and are trying to go back to the corporate world. That doesn't bode well.

If I see someone got a real company going with a real developed product or service and a couple employees and that failed that is an entirely different story, that is hire material. I understand most companies won't make it but the number of 'CEO' titles I've seen on resumes running a single owner LLC just makes me chuckle to myself.
Did you look at the site? It's not suggestions for replacing the word 'very' with an alternative word, it's suggestions for replacing the word after 'very' with a more intense synonym, so that 'very' can be removed.
It depends on if the universe is fundamentally deterministic or not. Right now we don't have any way to see beyond the apparent randomness in quantum mechanics and we probably never will. This part of the universe might be completely non-computable to us, it's just random.
Defining an experimental and null hypothesis and measurably testing that hypothesis is how science is advanced.

A claim is an assertion of fact. Science doesn’t make unproven claims. It tests them.
Could you describe those two startups?
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Yes. The breakthrough was "Batman", 1989, which redefined the fantasy/superhero genre. Before that, fantasy/superhero stuff was silly, unrealistic, or both. "Batman" changed that.

Of course, where that got us was franchises with endless sequels.
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I don't know, the Peter Jackson LOTR seems to owe a great deal to the 1973 Ralph Bakshi animated version. Some shots are nearly identical. And 1973 < 2000.
Shein suppliers still work 75-hour weeks
Ask HN: How could we bootstrap our technology should everything get fried?
With Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) making the news, lots of us seeing the northern lights in lower latitudes, and some conversations about the layers of abstractions we in tech have built over the last century, I stumbled on a question that's bugged me for a while;

How will we bootstrap our tech once more should every electronic device get fried by a CME? How long will it take?

These days you "just" need a C compiler to get started and in theory you can build everything, but this assumes you already have a machine you can run something, it's already compiled, you have a monitor to output video to, you already have a text editor — even if it's just vi — and so on.

I am looking for something that starts from even lower, hardware included.

So I guess my question is, should everything be destroyed but we retain all the knowledge in books, how would we start rebuilding our tech?
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Nice demo but its lacks one feature to make it practical: splitting the input documents in chunks.
Without it the embeddings will be too broad, and when retrieved the docs will consume a lot of input tokens, making the request slower/expensive
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Meta's market cap is 1.2T, it has $60B cash, revenue 143B a quarter... Not a real business? I mean maybe the original team in FB should have made sure they didn't accumulate technical debt and FB having failed would be a better outcome for shareholders.

Engineers need to give the business the options. Not unilaterally decide that they're not going to accumulate technical debt. That's my point.

And trust me, business people don't assume perfect software (at least if they've been in business for any amount of time). [EDIT: What's maybe different about] business people is they a) look at things as a negotiation. b) want to get the max value for their investment c) likely have seen a lot of engineering projects from the outside. Engineering needs to work with the business not go and decide what's right for the business. This doesn't mean you don't have ethical responsibilities as a software engineer in many situations but there are also many situations where the business needs to call the right balance between engineering effort the things like quality or feature sets.
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>What return paths for data are available?

One can imagine that the satellite would carry a large phased array, similar to the ones used on cell towers, only larger and more powerful. Would cost a ton.
As a practicing radiologist, I think this is great. We can have AI enabled MRI scanners hallucinating images, read by AI interpreting systems hallucinating reports!
Companies are not oceans. Giving up and accepting abuse from these companies is definitely one way to deal with it, but I don't believe it's a good one.
I don’t think software is like a cabinet at all. A cabinet is a well-understood thing, the main job of the cabinet craftsman is to implement the existing cabinet idea.

Cabinet makers don’t do sprints because everybody knows what a cabinet is, there isn’t any need to aggressively iterate on the design.

The software equivalent to buying cabinets is buying existing software. You don’t employ a bunch of engineers to install cabinets.

If you went into workshop with a bunch of mechanical engineers and asked “I need you to reinvent the idea of holding plates,” that might take some sprints. It would be a silly thing to do, but it would make the analogy fit.
N-BVH: Neural ray queries with bounding volume hierarchies
A scientist would assert we have no evidence that they this is a language, but here is what we do know. Here is how it is like a language here is how it is not like a language, this is what we need to measure/prove that it is a language.
Immortalized in Super Troopers (2001).

https://youtu.be/KiqkclCJsZs
“Instead of very fun use… Lively
The concert was very lively.“

I mean, if it’s going to suggest using “very” instead of “very” … shrug
If the brain can get any extra fitness from exploiting quantum effects, it will. But the reason people are interested in this stuff seems to be that they think there's a connection between the quantum nature of the brain and consciousness. I don't see how the argument is any more than this:

1. Quantum effects seem mysterious.

2. Consciousness seems mysterious.

3. Therefore, quantum effects cause/are consciousness.

...which seems pretty weak.
It's not a programming language with semantics, but it is a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Context-free_language in the sense that we have a grammar specifying which strings are valid.
OpenBSD 6.5 on an iMac G3 from 1999 (iMac,1) (2023)
> i don't remember seeing any wording relating to mixed-size accesses in the intel manual (not withstanding that the official models are ... ambiguous, to say the least, compared with what 3rd-party researchers have done)

I was probably misremembering the details. The manual has to say this regarding #LOCK prefixed operations:

"Software should access semaphores (shared memory used for signalling between multiple processors) using identical addresses and operand lengths. For example, if one processor accesses a semaphore using a word access, other processors should not access the semaphore using a byte access"

which is already vague enough, but regarding general atomic load and stores I couldn't find anything.