skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can it consider an existing code base?
rather be inspired by it or even integrate with it?
If you seperate your brain into different components and functions, which portion of your brains work like your description?

If we take something like an embodied AI that has locomotion, audio/visual IO, and the ability to perform actions and part of that action loop is triggering an LLM when does it start looking more like us?
10 years ago we just had another AI hype. I want to see delivered promises & my job automated before i change my mind.
Preeeeeetty sure that's a war crime, not that the US is any stranger to those
You can have a whole conversation about someone in English without revealing their gender, but it takes some skill. There's even a name for it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pronoun_game

I am not at all sure that most languages are genderless. I just get that impression. Once I even picked some random unrelated languages "at random" from a big list and then investigated them, painstakingly, and found that a large majority of them were genderless. It was hardly scientific because not only was it a small sample but I don't even know how to go about picking unrelated languages "at random" or even what that means. Definitely more research required! Though probably someone has already done the real research so I should just search the literature more diligently than just using a search engine.

Of course most of the languages that English speakers are familiar with are Indo-European or Afro-Asiatic and both of those language families happen to have genders (though Persian, in the Indo-European family, has lost the he/she distinction, and I think I read somewhere that one of the Afro-Asiatic languages has similarly lost the distinction: like Indo-European, Afro-Asiatic is a huge family).
I think the tools to solve the challenges of waste, environmental damage etc. already exist within the framework of capitalism. Mostly they are just unpopular and seen by many as a government overreach.

1. taxes that force corporations and individuals to pay for the negative externalities / social costs of their actions
2. regulation (e.g. stop allowing planned obsolence, mandate the right to repair etc.)
3. government spending into R&D, incentives and subsidies for renewables etc.

Anyway, my point is that the issue is basically one of co-ordination and political will. It obviously doesn't help that many Americans (and Australians too for that matter, where I live) don't accept the basic facts of the situation (before we can even discuss solutions).
Put some CEOs in jail and you won't need to do all those multiplications.
Insurance companies haven't been allowed to deny coverage for preexisting conditions since 2014, due to Obamacare. They can't even raise premiums. The only variables are age, sex, smoking, and where you live.

This applies both to employer plans and the ACA plans on healthcare.gov, where you can get a quote without giving them any health data at all.
Rather than uncool, just kill them. In british historical drama there is an old standard that any character that coughs will soon die. If the butler even sniffles, they are doomed. So make smoking the new coughing. The kids will then associated smoking with death, living in fear every time their favorite characters go anywhere near cigarettes.
Yeah, but an N95/N100 box is not much bigger than a C64 power brick, either, which is both fascinating and frightening at the same time. :)

I think I can convert my spare Pi3 to a "boot to an emulator" system.
we've been searching for blood biomarkers for cancer for decades -- I'm sure we've found several by now
Possibly, possibly. But those extremes are not what you get from an effective bias appeal.
It isn't unfortunately

> Little evidence for protein associations was observed in these data for cancers of the pancreas, thyroid, lip and oral cavity, or melanoma after correcting for multiple tests

From the study https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-48017-6
OpenAI’s Library
shocking. wild behavior seen in the wild.
Show HN: I built LingoFella where you can learn a language by speaking with AI
Regardless of how realistic you think AGI risk is, it’s not marketing hype- it has been a human fear and central in scifi for a long time. Movies like 2001, Terminator, and the Matrix were hugely popular long before AI was profitable. Arguably ancient myths about golems and genies are essentially the same fear and concept. AI companies are afraid of public fear over AI as it might lead to regulating them out of existence…. They are actively creating marketing hype in the opposite direction, to convince people that AI is safe and useful.
Ah, good ol Gandhi strats
Playing the Wario game on the Virtual Boy is a very nostalgic memory for me. It was short lived though, my parents got rid of the device because it was giving me headaches. What a blast from the past!
I think the point is that we need both. One is short/medium term and the other is medium/long term.

An asteroid/comet impact big enough to wipe us out is a statistically certainty - not science fiction.
I believe the fee is a simple first-order throttling mechanism to tamp down on the easy creation of thousands of developer accounts, as a way for actors to evade developer bans. But also to help with scaling issues.

It’s low-effort for Apple and has some hassle reducing benefits for them.
Advanced Typechecking for Stack-Based Languages
These are sometimes called "strong" or phantom types in other languages, e.g.: https://github.com/mapbox/cpp/blob/master/docs/strong_types....
You can have both data races and race conditions in a perfectly safe Rust program.

Rust can only offer its safety for the lifetimes it tracks, and this tracking is limited to a single instance of your process.

In other words, if you perform concurrent accesses through multiple threads spawned from a same process, you're safe from data races, at risk of race conditions. If you perform concurrent accesses through multiples processes, you're at risk of both.

That implies that even in a world where everything is safe Rust, you cannot guarantee that these two Rust processes will not data races together.
Until it one day it doesn’t. It’s very fickle.
> If someone doesn't want to owe users anything, don't make project open source or make it clear "don't use this or fork for yourself, please" in read-me or something.

That's where I believe you misunderstand open source, and that's the point of the article.

Because I make my project open source does not imply anything other than the terms of the licence. Of course it's okay to report a bug (it's even nice) or to open a PR. But asking "is this maintained?" as part of the decision process before depending on a project just shows some misunderstanding about how open source works, IMHO.
John Gruber: The M4 iPad Pros
Absolutely agree. I use LLMs for their hallucinations and barely for their recall of "facts".
I wonder how llama3 is doing.
I firmly believe that the problem in the US regarding how we handle drugs in the US is that it is so focused on Shame. Same with how we do sex ed and many other things.

We shame it so much, that when you have questions or you start thinking about it, you don't have people who you can go to and ask questions without judgement or being preached at.

And then of course once you do try something, it is criminalized so you can't go talk to someone to get help without being worried about going to Jail (depending on where you are).

It also doesn't help that so many of these systems love to talk about how Pot is just as bad as every other drug, which of course it isn't.

I feel like we need more of a focus on compassion instead of just beating us over the head with "Drugs are Bad mkay" so of course we are going to rebel against adults telling us this. Especially when we know we can't have alcohol but they can, so are they telling the truth about drugs?

Same with Smoking. The message gets mixed up when we are being told all these things that we shouldn't do but adults are able to do some of them.
It is an option. It's called trust. If employer doesn't trust you - take your things and run as fast as possible from that jerk employer.
There are other employers who value their employees.

It's like that. Metrics, checking if the employee is working - this is all illegal in Europe. Even what Microsoft do with the office (offering detailed insight into the accounts) can't be used under European legislation. Just to make a point in my thinking.

If surveillance, then at work. No one has the right to tell me what I do in my home, even if I get paid for it.
It sounds like 7 percent of the 10 percent efficiency gains are from aerodynamics. I expected (probably naively) engine changes to play more of a role.
The Worst Website in the Entire World
I'm more into audiobook, and can't find an audio version for this one.
Maybe GPT-4o could read it to me?
I don't know that's it's comparable. The ozone required manufacturing changes, it didn't require an upheaval on how we live. Sure, it's "don't emit the bad gas", but the gases come from different sources.
If you rewind 10 years to a time before waves of big tech layoffs and the market for engineers was very much in favor, you'll find your answer. The explosive growth in hiring coupled with FOMO-driven risk taking resulted in many projects which were essentially resumeware for engineers. This environment permitted people to escape strategic thinking and any consequences.

Imagine having to deal with multiple data stores for your daily development but then go on-call for a week and have to deal with twice as many plus the inevitable lack of runbooks etc.? I personally have a big tech experience with the same data store proliferation in an organization with pretty solid RDBMS use. In the last 3-4 years we've been undoing the damage and migrating data. Toil for engineers is lower and uptimes are better.
What happens in 15 years? It’s not a comet impact. It’s an ongoing problem where technology will help us adapt.
The increase of temperature also causes the release of methane, which is a much stronger greenhouse gas than CO2.. Things aren't looking great
As someone who values a tight domain model (a la DDD) and primarily writes TypeScript, I've considered introducing branded types many times, and always decline. Instead, we just opt for "aliases," especially of primatives (`type NonEmptyString = string`), and live with the consequences.

The main consequence is that we need an extra level of vigilance and discipline in PR reviews, or else implicit trust in one another. With a small team, this isn't difficult to maintain, even if it means that typing isn't 100% perfect in our codebase.

I've seen two implementations of branded types. One of them exploits a quirk with `never` and seems like a dirty hack that might no longer work in a future TS release. The other implementation is detailed in this article, and requires the addition of unique field value to objects. In my opinion, this pollutes your model in the same way that a TS tagged union does, and it's not worth the trade-off.

When TypeScript natively supports discriminated unions and (optional!) nominal typing, I will be overjoyed.
The article is somewhat confusing but it sounds like Oracle packages a cloud infrastructure management tool that’s based on Terraform. Presumably it’s built on 1.6, which was still MPL. Since they offer this product as a service, it directly falls under the restrictions HashiCorp put into place to prevent competition from repackagers and SaaS offerings of their products.

So to move forward with upgrading the Terraform support in their tool, Oracle had two choices: pay HashiCorp (soon IBM) a hefty license fee to resell Terraform, or use OpenTofu which is free and has now proven to be well-run enough to issue a new release with both Terraform compatibility and OpenTofu-specific enhancements, while dodging lazy accusations of code theft from HashiCorp.

This is a no-brainer for Oracle, and it’s great news for the future of OpenTofu.
I thought the prediction of Elon being bankrupt in 3 years was a bit rash before this. Now he seems to be pushing down the accelerator towards his own destruction.

The one really good part of Tesla has been effectively sabotaged.
It is amazing to me how much grief could have been avoided if Boeing had committed to the 757 instead of the 737. Almost every operator who is using large 737s is using ramps and lift buses to access the aircraft, obviating the need to fill a large aircraft from a short staircase. Training pilots once to use 757s would have been a small expense compared to the risk that the entire Boeing brand is destroyed. And, the 757 could probably have stayed competitive with Airbus.

Was all this craziness due to some business magazine article about Southwest Airlines doing so well because they only had one major type of aircraft?
Most adults claim that they're not influenced by advertising, yet studies show they are. I'm quite confident the same effect would be found in teens.
>I hear these complaints and can't see how this is worse than the pre-AI situation. How is an AI "hallucination" different from human-generated works that are just plain wrong, or otherwise misleading?

With humans there is a chance you get things right.
Well, if Tinucci disagreed with him, clearly she can't be trusted and her entire organization is tainted. </musk:sarcasm>
There are always construction projects in my building, usually they are really slow.

Right now there is a packaged pump system on a pallet in the basement that's been sitting around for two months that they'll install... someday. People have been getting stuck in the elevator for years, looks like they'll replace them over a year and a half. Replacing the fire alarm took a good part of the year. You can wait for a month for the paint shop to show up and it takes most of a week to do a job.

We had a security panic last fall after it went down in Gaza. It used to be you could go to a sports game and bring a camera bag but no more. Security cameras appeared over the engineering school instantly one weekend, like mushrooms popping up after a rain. I'd never seen any blue collar job get done quickly like that before.

Of course security cameras are easy to install because all you need to do is run an Ethernet cable to the nearest PoE switch, our comrades in the PRC have made it so easy because they wanted it to be easy for themselves so it's amazing how much camera you can get for a low price. Also security has always been pretty lax, I am amazed to go through the loading dock and seeing a $250,000 fiber laser in a crate in a place that's totally unsupervised.
Which proteins?
You can have both. Wider tires are faster and more comfortable. It’s only at the point aero becomes a limiting factor that things change. In the real world most of what we “know” about tires is a myth (and the linked site isn’t doing real world testing)
It's in my closet never to be used again. Useless hot inefficient thing
I think a better way would be to keep the foundation and spin off a company that manufactures all of that. Sell 49% of that company in an IPO and keep the majority stake in the foundation. This way they can raise money for expansion while keeping the mission in line.

This also signals very clear to investors what this enterprise is about.
Understanding Misunderstandings in Source Code
>Everyone hell bent on leaving is actually distracted from the real less immediately glamorous challenge, which is learning to sustain life and exercise restraint.

Unless you're willing to exterminate people who don't comply, the incentives are such that maintaining the status quo will give economic (and military) advantages.

Besides, over long time scales there's more to fear than a few degrees of climate change.
So you understand that there is a jurisdictional distinction between domestic and foreign. Good, so do they. That's what they're talking about.
> Why do people live so far away from work? Because of cars.

And this is a good thing, or bad?
Come on, if checking a blog once a month is too much effort for you, maybe you're spending way too much time glued to your RSS reader and not enough time outside touching grass. Just saying.
Sure, and generally you don't drink enough to get a hangover so I fail to see the relevance.
> VTNA has made some improvements to the truck's diesel powertrain as well. It has switched from a six-wave piston to a seven-wave piston, and there are smaller needle control valves in the fuel injectors. There are smaller pistons for the D13 turbodiesel engine, with longer connecting rods and shorter pistons to "create better tolerances to fit in the cylinder to reduce that friction inside the cylinder," Stadler told me. And Michelin has developed new lower-rolling resistance tires for the VNL that further improve efficiency.

Well done to them. 10% fuel savings is massive for something that is already quite efficient.
It hasn't gone well for several UK companies listing through SPACs on US exchanges recently. Think that's given plenty of reason for a rethink.
And do not have kids.
Possibly, but you have to keep doing it. kicking up dust into the atmosphere tends to have significant short-term impact on the global climate (see e.g. volcanic winters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanic_winter). Then the dust settles shortly and everything returns to normal.

But volcanic eruptions that cause a winter like that tend to be quite a bit more powerful than your average nuclear weapon. More importantly, not all dust is created equal. Sulphur containing compounds tend to have the biggest cooling effect. One neat (in a terrifying sort of way) geo-engineering idea is continuously injecting large amounts of sulphur dioxide into the stratosphere.
You can’t take up app development for only $100 either. Especially when you can only develop on a Mac.
They only seem expensive because they're not expected to generate a lot of value (or military/strategic benefit).

Compare that the 6+ trillions that were spent in the US alone on nuclear weapons, and then consider, what is of greater strategic importance: ASI or nukes?
We have now chips with 20petaflops.

The weekly news regarding AI are always adding new things to ai.

We started pouring billions into ai.

The amount of new research papers regarding AI are exploding.

I would argue that it is not marketing hype or aluminum hat thinking to take that serious
> Randall chose one of the lowest point every in the history of earth as the "baseline".

Randall's graph starts at a little over 4C lower than current temperatures. The most recent minimum on your first graph is 7C below current temperatures.

Your 2nd graph couldn't be shown in Randall's format because it would either take too long to scroll, or it wouldn't have the resolution needed to show the dramatically higher rate of change.

> The recent rise of temperature is significant, but not unprecedented.

The rate of change is unprecedented.

> Before we reach a point that one could qualify as a "hot earth", we would need to warm up by an additional 10 to 15 C°

Billions will die before that.
Man, I can't wait for there to be 7 variants of RPi 6 all with some nondescript name and none of which actually offer exactly what I need, because they had to flood and segment the market.

They should stay private and build on the quality brand they have rather than trying to grow because reasons.
Jamulator did this for NES way back in 2013 but nobody really seemed to care...

https://andrewkelley.me/post/jamulator.html

There is also Winlator for running Windows programs on Android:

https://github.com/brunodev85/winlator

Also is the youtube video linked in the article using an AI voice?
They haven't been able to keep up with global demand for what, half a decade now? That's a problem that you can easily throw money at and make it go away. This gap in supply and demand has led to many clones gaining popularity too, and while that's good for the end user because more choice, it's bad for their business.
You're placing the blame on the wrong thing - The embodied energy of producing most of the things we consume is much higher than the energy of shipping. Shipping on a massive container ship is really impressively efficient. (Shipping by air is a very different matter, of course)

You can see the same thing if you look at the energy cost of food shipping: perishable goods like asparagus are shipped in refrigerated planes, and the added energy of shipping is huge, whereas bananas are shipped on cargo ships.

https://ourworldindata.org/food-transport-by-mode

For example
Negative advertising and positive advertising are quite different.

I'm definitely affected by both, but generally if I feel I'm being nannied my instinct is to go the other way. People don't need to be "convinced" to do things that are good for them - if they're not doing it, they likely just have reasons that you don't understand.
I do that, too! Sometimes it makes most sense: for instance if I found and fixed a bug, I don't need to open an issue to ask permission for the PR; I just send the PR.

Also many times, I find it easier to express my idea with code (by making a PR with the change) than with text.

I only open an issue first if the code contribution will take a considerable amount of time and I want to make sure that the maintainer is fine with it before I start. Or if I need help from the maintainer, of course.
> A runtime bug is now a compile time bug.

This isn't valuable to you? How do you get this without nominal typing, especially of primatives?
12 Factor App for Data
This is a video from my recent Goto Conference talk, it borrows the name from the 12 factor app and it outlines 12 ideas to help you build more resilient data-centric applications by taking care of the basics before you scale out to petabytes of data.
Can be used as a bait too...
> And yet Earth is still habitable.

For humans? We did not exist for most of that chart. There's only one peak that coincides with the 200000 or so years of human existence, and your chart shows us on track to beat it. We don't have records from 100000 years ago either, we know humans as a whole survived and that's about it. I think it's a bit presumptuous to extend that to all 8 billion people alive today.

I guess my point is that it's possible that humans will survive this AND it will be catastrophic for our society.
“Its biggest issue is in the productization.”

That’s not true at all. The biggest issue is that it doesn’t work. You can’t actually trust ai systems and that’s not a product issue.
Alternate approach that doesn’t involve sending people to jail just to make an example of them:

Make up a new position with equal authority as the CEO, but their only charter is safety and compliance. Lift the corporate veil specifically for that role (and only that role) so that they are personally liable for the performance in their role and the safety of the company’s products.

Require that companies halt sales and production if this role is unfilled.

In a free market, no sane human would accept that job unless there was a (legitimately) extremely small risk that they would ever be personally liable.

CEOs need incentive structures like this in order to change their priorities/behaviors.

Sending CEOs to jail is the brute force approach.
I started working at Toys R Us in October 1997 and stayed until December 2024.

When I started, we still had several "New-Style NES", Game Gears and eventually Virtual Boys. That no one wanted to buy. For years.

The deep regret I feel at not stashing them away when I had the chance still stings at times.
Media is part of it, but seeing the real life adults in your life smoke influences you a lot. It’s not necessarily about emulating people you admire, it’s about adopting a signifier of adulthood.
It doesn't. Electrify America and Fastned charge Teslas faster:

https://x.com/itskyleconner/status/1775014705222070331

https://insideevs.com/news/507489/tesla-model3-charging-fast...
>Who is going to prevent this from being used to pick military targets

When AI is in charge of controlling weapons, you get this: https://www.accessnow.org/publication/artificial-genocidal-i...