skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Free Software ecosystem is not black and white (i.e. Build a community or don't share).

I put my software in the open with a license which I think is fair, because I hope someone might find it useful, with a completely neutral stance. On the other hand, I set my expectations with the license I assign to my codebase. If nobody cares about what I do, I'm also fine with it. At the end of the day, I wrote that thing for myself in the first place.

If somebody decides to contribute something back, my primary responsibility is to act as decently as other party allows me. They can report a bug, send in a fix, or ask something.

If the proposed change is favorable to both of us (i.e. it also fits into the design/role I have in my mind for that codebase, or doesn't disturb it), why not work together and make something better?

If the change makes the software unfit for me, but fit for the other party, they're free to fork and maintain their fork as they fit, as long as they honor the license. This is why is this thing is in the open.

But, if the requester wants me to implement their changes to make the software fit for themselves, while making it unfit for me, and want to pass the burden of maintenance on me, then sorry, we can't cooperate.

Plus, who decides which codebase I open to the world, and in what way?
I can see the evolution of roving bands who pillage and burn, to roving bands who suppress and extract, to roving bands who tax and collect.
Musician here, and it’s the same for me. Recalling music is so detailed and vivid that it’s almost like it’s playing in the room with me. I’m sure it has something to do with how rewarding our brains find music.
So the owner of Boeing should be held personally liable? Okay, cool, except Boeing is a publicly traded company which means that the 'owner' is countless individual shareholders around the world, many of which are in turn other companies, whose owners are in turn things like pension funds.

So if you have a pension, should we be locking you up 'cause it was partially invested in Boeing?

Alternatively, you can have a specifically named role which is to be held liable? But then as far as the 'company' is concerned it's still just cost of doing business.

There's only three viable ultimate sanctions for a corporate entity: financial, being split up, and the death penalty.
We are building Stacked Search: Beyond the first - https://stackedsearch.com

We index the links that are curated resources from people all over the world. We have already indexed 1M+ links on a wide variety of subjects.
Yep same here. Temperature seems weird. It has offset option but didn't work correctly for me. CO2 and PM seem ok, but I don't have anything to calibrate with except outdoors.
Astronomers find biggest known batch of planet ingredients around young star
Sure, the question is if you're surprised to get a positive from a USB cable. Wouldn't be surprised to find a diode inside there...
What are some good long battery life Windows laptops currently on market? I wouldn't need 20 hours (like macbooks have), but I'd like to get an entire work day without charging and my current experience with Windows laptops is that they last maybe 3-4 hours. Though I've also only owned mid-tier devices, so maybe that is only exclusive to top tier, not sure.
UV light is not visible, but it is high energy electromagnetic waves.

Your brain doesn't process "excess light" because your eyes aren't sensing visible light. They are being exposed to damage by the rest of the light, nonetheless.
I need to know pricing for this because cloudsql is not cheap
> My prediction is that Jeff Bezos will be back within 2 to 3 years if not sooner.

Who knows? We’ve all been hoping to see Sergey Brinn and Larry Page to come back to google for like ten years now?

I’m not sure I would hold my breath
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i found some of my cards and just tossed them in the trash a few years ago because they were all revised and fallen empires and i was still thinking they weren't worth anything, including a full set of revised dual lands.
The Collapse Is Coming. Will Humanity Adapt?
Maybe you can mention it on r/learnmath? A lot of people would be interested.
So that’s not really a mother of all shorts play right?

You have some other thesis about when to get in and out otherwise each of your sells works against the broader short squeeze.

Sounds like you are doing a pretty traditional volatility trade with occasional profit taking. Will be curious what the total return will be once you close out the position totally.
They were amazing, and the progress was incredible, but both of those computers - while equally exciting and delightful to people who saw the potential - were met with ‘but what can I actually use it for?’ from the vast majority of the population.

By 1990 home computer use was still a niche interest. They were still toys, mainly. DTP, word processing and spreadsheets were a thing, but most people had little use for them - I had access to a Mac IIci with an ImageWriter dot matrix around that time and I remember nervously asking a teacher whether I would be allowed to submit a printed typed essay for a homework project - the idea that you could do all schoolwork on a computer was crazy talk. By then, tools like Mathematica existed but as a curiosity not an essential tool like modern maths workbooks are.

The internet is what changed everything.
It is both subtle and obvious, yet many are missing this: if you want/need a deep subject matter expert in virtually any subject, write a narrative biography describing your expert using the same language that expert would use to describe themselves; this generates a context within the LLM carrying that subject matter expertise, and now significantly higher quality responses are generated. Duplicate this process for several instances of your LLM, creating a home brewed collection of experts, and have them collectively respond to one's prompts as a group privately, and then present their best solution. Now there is a method of generating higher reliability responses. Now turn to the fact that the LLMs are trained on an Internet corpus of data that contains the documentation and support forums for every major software application; using the building blocks described so far, it is not difficult at all to create agents that sit between the user and pretty much every popular software application and act as co-authors with the user helping them use that application.

I have integrated 6 independent, specialized "AI attorneys" into a project management system where they are collaborating with "AI web developers", "AI creative writers", "AI spreadsheet gurus", "AI negotiators", "AI financial analysts" and an "AI educational psychologist" that looks at the user, the nature and quality of their requests, and makes a determination of how much help the user really needs, modulating how much help the other agents provide.

I've got a separate implementation that is all home solar do-it-yourself, that can guide someone from nothing all the way to their own self made home solar setup.

Currently working on a new version that exposes my agent creation UI with a boatload of documentation, aimed at general consumers. If one can write well, as in write quality prose, that person can completely master using these LLMs to superior results.
I don’t understand why this is bad faith. It’s just outcome oriented and realistic. We hit the AI ceiling, now development has clearly stalled.
I believe they have your phone number hashed not in plaintext, also they rolled in usernames recently and option to not expose your phone number to anyone, which addressed privacy concerns
Not American myself but I've met a whole range of Americans while living in Japan. Their experience varies, obviously, but I've noticed some pattern.

I've met from the "top" of US hierarchy; white Harvard graduate (parents both from Harvard) who get to live very nice life with wide availability of choices, to the "lows", Latino high-school dropout from the ghetto. Those two both love living here, for different reasons, while a lot of people coming here working as English teachers just loath the place and leave after 3-4 years.

All in all I think (like most places) it really depends on 3 things, what job(income) you can get, what social circle you'll find, and what expectations you have in the place (and your life).

The most content ones I've met is well paid engineers married with kids. Having kids just makes you part of the community so much easier. Also being an engineer from US probably means you're not that annoyed by work culture (compared to say Europe). The safety is ofc incomparably better and most people get used to being perpetually treated as "the foreigner"; people that can't get over the latter, usually sooner or later, will start to resent the place.

Since the majority of Americans coming to Japan to live, is white college graduate who end up as English teacher (horrible job with bad pay), they start to loathe the place after the honeymoon phase. Online forum is filled with these types so staying away from those is also crucial ( I'm looking at r/japanlife)
If you have the ability to disassemble your electronics, do so! Do a DDG search for the identifiers on all the chips. You will learn a lot.
Who said anything about owners? _Management_ should be held accountable.
>Dell is planning to refresh its XPS 13 Plus from 2022, with a touch bar on the top row of the keyboard and only two USB-C ports for I/O.

If I wanted a Macbook I would get a Macbook instead of some frankenstein knockoff that can't run neither Win32 nor Mac.
Does it matter that the people who dedicated the last decade to developing breakthrough work have left? It is a mistake to think that their luck streak will continue and their departure isn't a sign of decay at OpenAI. They may as well cash-in on their notoriety while it is of value. The odds are more in favor of other teams blazing new trails.
What an absurd thing to say.

John Schulman is still at OpenAI. As are many others.
Well, it was like that all the times, the pr shield was just better in china.
This looks extremly well written. I think the arch philosophy of great documentation is also spreading to its users.

This makes me want to buy a new laptop and install arch on it :) Big kudos to the author.
It makes building any app that requires generous user prompting impossible to build for regular developers (cloud pricing).

$20 hosting can serve thousands of users per month. $20 llm sub services just one person. This is fucking impossible.
Might be because it's a reliable and stable source of data, so it's not hard to implement. And it's something which is updating often, so it makes sense to have it as some kind of noise on such a tool, even if you do not care much about.
you can speak instead if you wish. Speech to text is available for all operating systems.
Have they earned a return on it yet?

Seriously asking; I've purchased a GitHub CoPilot license subscription but I don't know what their sales numbers are doing on AI in general. It's to be seen if it can be made more cost-efficient to deliver to consumers.
And if a societal model causes catastrophe and collapse it contains that failure? If it wastes human potential and is a free loader compared to free societies? What then?
In the upper peninsula of michigan I have only seen grey.
Are you suggesting disparities in material wealth did not exist in neolithic times? Why would you think that?
Looks good, one quick thing: Maybe hide the comments behind a button? Now they are giving away the answer, as some have already posted it there in the first comments.
Does VEYIL stand for something?
If you don’t want to be treated as a tourist, wear a suit and a badge xD
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Some people believe sex and gender are different things and gender is just sex based stereotypes. These views are legal and in the UK considered protected.

You wouldn't call someone transgender if they didn't believe they were trans, or someone a christian if they didn't believe in the bible, it's the same the other way round. If someone doesn't think gender is real, calling them it is putting a label on them they don't agree with.

I've then seen the label used to devalue people's opinions on things, so yes it can be a slur. Unfortunately these debates end up being so toxic due to people on both sides.
Except OpenAI hasn’t yet finished discovery on its true goal: AGI. I wonder if they risk plateauing at a local maximum.
both can be true: The US is extremely aggresive in "protecting" internal interests internationally and lax at punishing its own for international crimes.
> And people get (justifiably) offended when asked "where are you from?"

Why is it justifiable? Is curiosity an offense?
i posted here previously - https://www.reddit.com/r/learnmath/comments/19e8awk/i_wished...
Context length isn’t the same as context volume I think. Just input the 1m tokens slower, it’ll still be in context.
Because the commenter implied that LLMs get it wrong, as if search engines get it right. The reality is that both take digging, but the LLM response gets you to the right answer more quickly.
That interview is a couple of decades old, Stepanov is of course referring to GOFAI.
Do you mean English has gender? Then what languages lack gender?
Suicidal humor is very much a Millennial trait. They weren't the first to make those jokes but they definitely made it bigger, more common, and went beyond the standard "ugh, just kill me now" you'd hear before.
Strong-field photoelectron holography in the subcycle limit
The Alpine Lake example is gorgeous
I think it would makes much more sense, to have a dedicated project which is focusing on just collecting the data and have a community to maintain updates. Then all those frontends could connect to whatever API this would offer.

There are many fancy projects like this for high profile environments in companies or specialized areas (like home assistant), but they all are very cumbersome to start and maintain. Something simple which could run with a oneliner and some config-file, in good old unix-mindset is really missing in this space.
Google: Prompting Guide 101 [pdf]
One of the motivations is interesting

> Experiment with modern high-performance GC implementations, such as Immix, G1, LXR etc

Can I today access a Ruby version with these implementations or do I have to recompile Ruby myself?
Yeah I find this very strange as well. Isn't this more or less exactly what Apple did 6-7 years ago which was almost universally hated?
you are right, user-submitted content can help too. but that would imply a difficulty setting based on all users who have participated instead of a globally agreeable difficulty value. if the smart ones find a hard problem to be easy and they are the only ones to attempt that problem, that problem would be marked as easy.

on the "very hard"/"advanced" bit, feedback taken.

thank you for writing your thoughts!
Have JavaScript frameworks started to look alike?
Hi HN,
Is it just us, or have web frameworks started to look a lot like each other?
https://toddle.dev/blog/the-carcinization-of-web-frameworks
GPT4-O as a Game Engine
I had have 18hrs windows RT laptops, but those were otherwise useless.

A newer Microsoft surface gives you 13-16 hours depending on the model and HP, Dell and Lenovo have slim-ish laptopts in the 11-14 hrs range
He said nothing controversial and yes the model has digressed. This "flagship model" is fast and cheaper, but it is worse (regardless of benchmarks & charts, subjectivity is failing for me and many others).

The model seems better at logic, but something is off. It is repetitive of the user prompt, gets hooked on logical meaning vs contextual (per provided conversation), and is too concise as if it needs to provide a direct answer. Perhaps all good for a benchmark, code, or simple logic flows/chains (e.g. ai validation - which gpt-3.5 is good at as well). But it's not desirable for advanced/creative content generation.

My anecdotal receipt: None of the 15 functions we run in prod are switching to the 50% off model as product quality is degraded with gpt-4o.
I guess in the near future prompts can be replaced by a live editing conversation with the AI, like talking to a phantom draughtsman or a camera operator / movie team. The AI will adjust while you talk to it and can also ask questions.

ChatGPT already allows this workflow to some extent. You should try it out. I just talked to ChatGPT on my phone to test it. I think I will not go back to text for these purposes. It's much more creative to just say what you don't like about a picture.

If you speech is also affected rough sketches and other interfaces will/are also be available (see https://openart.ai/apps/sketch-to-image). What kind of expression do you prefer?
This is a pretty interesting development. Anyone know the userbase/impact of "Oracle EBS"?

I don't know much about Oracle's services so can't figure if this is a huge number of users, of a small subset of their clients.
tldr; we've pretty much maxed out the abilities of LLMs, now we need to learn smart ways to apply them.
Oh Dell, Windows and Qualcomm. I’d rather cut my hands off and shove the bloody stumps in a bag of salt. Have had nothing but trouble with all of them over the years.
It uses less compute and is better.

Evidence of hitting the AI ceiling would be if 4o used more compute and didn't improve much despite the extra compute.

They likely have another model, or are at least planning another one, which uses more (not less) compute than GPT-4/4o. If that model doesn't get much better, then yes, we've stalled.
Mac and Win32 aren't operating systems.
So perhaps human language is simply never complex enough to need more than 3072 numbers to represent a given train of thought, but that doesn't seem clear to me.

Will compute allow that number to go up? Or is that an optimal number?
Its not just about danger. Americans would be insulted if a kid asked them if they were a foreigner, theres not an easy way to tell.
It's likely that UKUSA intelligence assets in Eastern Europe were able to draw a bead on him as the result of increased attention paid to the region over the last two years, and the fact that he's been really successful at making himself known to Western cybersecurity professionals.

That being said, sanctions and polite extradition requests have to have the Russians laughing at this point. These people are waging warfare against critical infrastructure in the US and its allied nations. It's time we take actions that can be counted on to discourage the technically-gifted in Russia from hacking for their government.
To each according to his needs. I do not care about most of the content out there, and in my view very few people write things interesting, subversive or novel enough to justify following their activity.
code I wrote as a 12 year old beginner in python is running all of the Deutsche Bahn, I think. I suspect it anyways, it has the same performance characteristics.
https://www.rtings.com/laptop/tools/table/137729
Seriously, more skepticism is in order rather than looking at a floor plan and proclaiming "look, Marxism!"
The article seems to be making the argument that

- these "megasites" were bigger and more urban than your typical Neolithic village, and certainly than a typical group of nomads or hunter-gatherers.

- normally, increased urbanisation like that would lead to increased levels of inequality, for the reasons you mention (you can acquire more material wealth through specialisation, and it's easier to accumulate it when you don't have to carry it with you)

- but actually, from their analysis of floor plan sizes, there wasn't as much inequality as we might expect.

It seems a little tenuous to me. I'd like to see their conclusions when you add on the error bars for "just how strongly family wealth correlates to house size", "how accurate is our distribution of house sizes given we only recovered X% of them" and all the other assumptions being made along the way.
A couple of months ago there was a discussion on HN about this exact topic :D

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39517463
The dolphins are actually openai
I know a few people who went to live in Japan. Some came back, others didn't.

I can't help about the paperwork, but the general sentiment is that the "I felt so welcomed and people were so kind to me" part is only on the surface. Tourists are very welcome in tourist places, not so much elsewhere, and don't mistake politeness for kindness. One common theme when at work is that as a "gaijin", if something goes wrong, it is always your fault, even if you speak Japanese perfectly (a must), and even if you have citizenship (note that Japan doesn't allow multiple citizenship).

Racism (xenophobia, actually) is very present, but in a more insidious manner than in the west. It doesn't mean Japan is a bad place to live in, cleanliness and order are real things, and the low crime rate is very appreciable. Politeness is nice too, but it goes together with hypocrisy, so if you value things like consideration, harmony, and agreement, Japan may be for you, but if instead, you value honesty, directness and to confront ideas, maybe not so much.
The key addendum I would add to this post is the Japan you see when you are in public is not the Japan behind closed doors. Japan has many things going for it, yet it can be a very lonely place to exist. It is just a place where it is easier to be lonely due to a high number of distractions. Social care and a lack of significant mental health support creates a large number of society excluded citizens.
When I see these charts I definitely don’t want to be that sweating guy in grid operator’s control room desperately trying to turn off some solar parks to stabilize the grid. Solar generation goes from nothing at night to 80+% during daytime. Ouch.
hahaha thanks! it is easy to put up a paywall but like you rightly pointed out, i'd love to make something worth paying for. until then, i don't know what direction this project will be taking. i'll keep iterating.

thanks for writing in!
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> Or they think that users would rather have a faster GPT-4 than a smarter but slower one.

And they are absolutely right.

GPT-4 is already much more than enough for 90% of tasks while maintaining a sane dose of human double-checking.

Making it faster enables real-time workflows, and better energy efficiency also gives them much more capability to serve more requests/users while lowering costs. And that knowledge likely carries over to GPT-5 or whatever.