skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a rabid FOSS evangelist and anticapitalist. If businesses hate it, I typically like it ;) but I also personally believe FOSS, even "viral" licenses (honestly I haven't seen evidence of this in practice though I hear it a lot about GPL), can lead to successful capitalist efforts. For example I believe that FOSS code leads to greater innovations that various organizations can capitalize on and drive profit through. SaaS hosting comes to mind, my co-op self hosts almost all of our saas, however there's one or two that are mission critical enough that we just fork over the cash to the experts to host.

In this case, there's already closed source solutions, such as stadia and GFN. Stadia shut down and took everyone's games with it (luckily offering refunds). Pure capitalist ventures are demonstrably unsustainable and don't serve the needs of the greater populace. But FOSS doesn't have that problem - if someone offers to host a FOSS GFN, you can pay to use their computers, that's really awesome! If they shut down their business, someone else can take it up, or you can host your own! Also awesome. I think there's valid business models there. I have a decently powerful gaming machine but I still pay for GFN for when I want to try a 4090 or when they have better throughput to my location.

Also recently Nvidia stopped supporting the API that self hosting option Moonlight uses, forcing the development of a pure FOSS protocol, thus leading to Sunshine (iirc), a similar self hostable game streaming server. Clearly the corporations don't care if we like things, they'll just shut them down (stadia, every other google product ever), so if these corpos come up with something people clearly like, it's a very good idea to build a FOSS version so we can keep having the thing when the corporation determines the profits won't reach several billion so it's not worth supporting (also some other company can then offer the service and simply make millions instead! Everyone wins)

Sorry I'm on my phone so it's a disorganized rant. I'm also a big user and hoster but I'm relatively ignorant so I might have gotten some terms wrong.
Risking stating the obvious, the linked issue[1] seems appropriate for stack overflow, but not a good fit for github.

It would have been a good github issue if there were no instructions in the project. If the instructions are too difficult, then write how you would improve them. If steps are missing or incorrect, report that. Otherwise post to stack overflow.

Both: closing the github issue or treating it as an incomplete bug report seems fine to me. The maintainers are doing the latter, I’d say this is a good response.

[1]: https://github.com/tukaani-project/xz/issues/121
But even then, a flow meter exists and works by physical laws. The device and the contract are separate. A mortgage is an abstract agreement that works because we simulate its dynamics (well the bank does). The device and the contract are one and the same.
> From what I understand, current models seem to have issue with planning and reasoning because they “blurt” everything out zero shot. They can’t recurrently process information.

IMO, this is not necessarily a model issue, but an interface issue - recurrently processing information is enabled by just feeding the model's output back to it, perhaps many times, before surfacing it to the user. Right now, with the interfaces we're exposed to - direct evaluation, perhaps wrapped in a chatbot UI - the user must supply the recursion themselves.

> But it’s not innate yet, where models can “think” about a complex problem until it solved it.

That's indeed the part I see us struggling with - we can make the model recursive, but we don't know how to do it unsupervised, so we can box it behind an abstraction layer, letting it work stuff out on its own and break recursion at the right moment.

I think the mental model I developed a good year ago still stands: LLM isn't best compared to a human mind, but to a human's inner voice. The bit that "blurts everything out zero-shot" into your consciousness. It has the same issues of overconfidence, hallucinations, and needing to be recursively fed back to itself.
XMPP never died. A more modern open standard is Matrix. The problem with open/alternative chat apps is the network effect — everyone is already on iMessage/WhatsApp/Messenger/etc and they aren't going to install Element and figure out the entire decentralised network thing to talk with one weirdo.
"For example, our teams did a great deal of work to bring GPT-4 to the world in a safe way" - Are you joking me?
Not from 90s but there is ourworldofpixels.com
António Egas Moniz: Lobotomy Pioneer and Nobel Laureate
If I had a guess? A lot of people asking, "Why buy a new cheap car when you can spend the same money on one that's off a 2 year lease that is much nicer equipped?"
EU is totally representing me by taking this stance, so there's that.
AWS to pump billions into sovereign cloud for Germany
I don't think the WIP is published. There's an occasional update on X e.g. ...

https://twitter.com/OrangeCMS/status/1784872873951125770

... but day to day updates are more on the RISC-V Telegram / Matrix channels.

There is also stuff here, but nothing on SG2000 there yet:

https://www.youtube.com/@CyReVolt/playlists
Current AI is pretty patchy in it's abilities. Chess is great, chatbot stuff has recently become quite good, but hook it to a robot and tell it to pop down Tescos to get some milk and then come back and tidy the house and it's hopeless!

But yeah developers are needed, a bigger LLM won't fix everything.

The money's a funny one. Global GDP is about $85,000 bn/yr so if someone can spend $50bn on getting AGI and taking it over it's a bargain. But if you spend $50bn and just get a loss making chatbot then less so.
Norway too. Due to a strong distortion field surrounding the rather dubious impact of large predators on the viability of livestock farming, there's a political consensus between the 3 largest parties(labour, conservatives and the agrarian party(officially the "centre party")) that the minimum viable population numbers agreed on in the Bern Convention are actually maximum limits. The resulting policy is that any population beyond that is culled every year. This is unironically referred to as "getting down to population targets".

This is of course not ideal for the ecosystem. Game populations are out of control, which has lots of harmful effects on forests, etc. And though I'm not an ecologist, it seems likely to me that predator populations will eventually collapse from a lack of diversity as they're artificially kept at a bare minimum for extended periods of time.
> There are always a few stories being bandied about claiming psychedelics might be harmful.

> There are far more stories about the positive impact of psychedelics.

Because they're already illegal. People who don't like them have no reason to go out and evangelize

Also because the bad stories are ugly, really ugly. A lot harder to talk about (and less fashionable) than a bunch of made up shit about "seeing the white light" or whatever

But for some reason people who evangelize them are in serious denial about those stories. I highly doubt you could do them for decades and not see some ugly shit
I'm glad it gave you pleasure! I almost changed the model for privacy reasons to obfuscate myself, but now I'm glad I didn't.

It's actually more thrilling now because they're so rare. You can play the i30 game, but it just feels less fun than pointing out that derpy little chug-along that is the Getz.
I don’t think we need the GAFAM to leave to obtain this situation, strong and meaningful regulation (like the DMA) should be enough to make room for sane competition.

Also, the EU is really smart here because they are not doing protectionism. So if GAFAM decides to leave, they’ll take the risk of new competitors which would have no reason to be banned from the US market.
> The EU Parliament can’t make decisions,

So it has no power

> that this idea of an undemocratic EU is rather false and really dangerous

Of course it is false and dangerous. Any disturbance in lobby money, flowing to the corrupt, unelected politicians, is false and dangerous. /s
Can confirm, moving part is held in right hand on everything I own, and also everything my daughter or partner own.
Margins were too low and were not made up by sales, so most of the cheap (small) cars are simply not made. People want large cars.
In my experience if both sides are wireless the connection quality is terrible, no matter how good the signal is.
> Michael Milken is the man that popularized mortgage securitization on wall-street

No, he didn’t. He did high-yield corporate debt. Mortgages are neither high yield nor corporate.
I don't undestand why there's still no solution for this in STL. Surely compilers like GCC could support a setup where STL instantiations are cached somewhere? If it was just one extra compile flag telling compiler to cache all template instantiations in some directory however it pleases, that would solve more than STL problems.
Plenty of people don't want the higher fuel consumption, worse visibility, and higher cost associated with larger vehicles.
Microsoft is quite awesome in general when it comes to carbon neutrality.
The executives role is to increase share price and Company evaluation for shareholders.

If all you can do is sit on a pile of cash without any good ideas on how to turn that cash into larger profits, or you just burn it to buy stock back or give dividends, it is a way of saying “I have no vision for the future of this company, I don’t know what else we can do, we will not continue to grow aggressively, so might as well take the cash dear shareholder”

Not a great move in front of the board. Done marginally is fine, sends a “we made more that we can use” cocky statement. Doing it massively to keep stock afloat, means you are out.
There is no anonymity. You can only make it more expensive to obtain one's identity.
Grab the wrong shirt in the dark a second time? Never.
For the #1, when I saw the demo of GPT-4o talk to an other AI in a somewhat convincing scenario, I felt like it was the first time I could saw AI as a real threat to thousands of customer service companies.
A majority of those jobs is scripted and the employee doesn’t have a deep enough knowledge to be helpful in any other way. I worked at places where the customer service support wrote all those processes and the teams were trained to follow the scripts.
With AI having the ability to analyze text and talk with expressions and feelings… they’re a perfect and cheap replacement that can be scaled easily.
If companies are not training their employees to gain deeper insights and level up their support I feel like they are in great danger
The EU started as the European Coal and Steel Community which explains most of the beurocracy its saddled with.
That tweet thread confirms what I said, at least in a roundabout way. Per the next tweets:

> Equity is part of negotiated compensation; this is shares (worth a lot of $$) that the employees already earned over their tenure at OpenAI.

> Employees are not informed of this when they're offered compensation packages that are heavy on equity.

That makes it sound like it's something that they agreed to when accepting their compensation, perhaps unknowingly.

And Kelsey's article links to this LessWrong post about one of the employees that refused this deal and gave up massive amounts of equity, and he writes this:

> To clarify: I did sign something when I joined the company, so I'm still not completely free to speak (still under confidentiality obligations). But I didn't take on any additional obligations when I left.

So again, there are some things that they signed on joining OpenAI, perhaps non-standard things. Now they're asked to sign something more.

I'm not sure of the structure of what they signed before and this article doesn't get into it, but I maintain that there is no legal mechanism to tell someone "sign this or I take away something you already received". There has to be more to the story than the way I've seen it presented so far.

And for the record, I'm very much in the worried-about-AI-safety camp, I have a lot of issues with OpenAI in that and other regards, and I am absolutely willing to believe that the "more to the story" that I gesture at above is still OpenAI being really bad here - it might be that the conditions negotiated with employees made this "we take away your equity" a loophole they weren't aware of, or that OpenAI has some mechanism to make equity effectively zero out somehow, or something.

I'm not saying OpenAI is in the right, at all. I'm saying that the story as told so far doesn't fit with how reality works, and I'm interested to know more details. That's all.
Caves of Qud
To my young self Myst felt utterly brilliant, and when it finally arrived Riven self-indulgent, a cautionary tale that even the artist does not always grasp what made their work good.
What benchmarks?
> "I've had really good results with Python projects in an ODE course."

Which textbook did you use for this course? What were the reference material? Could you share with me anything about this course? Lecture notes, code, slides, books, anything.
Hardly ever now
Two of the examples mention are platform providers. If they standardize on flutter as their native UI, that’s fine and they are following my suggestion. If they port a BMW app from my dashboard to iOS / Android, I’m 99% sure you’ll see the issues I mentioned.

Google earth is fine, but doesn’t feel native. I think that’s fine for some apps (games mostly).
Happened to Linus Tech Tips last year.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/23/23653115/linus-tech-tips-...
They have a fiduciary responsibility to kick and scream as much as possible, then turn around and pitch it as a new feature once the rule is passed. If they really thought that they'd lose tons of money they would avoid drawing attention to it, and quietly pour money into bribing officials and sabotaging Android.
> They also do not wish to die if you think they have no incentive to keep everyone safe.

I wouldn't be so sure even about that.[0] That's Page but I wouldn't bet that Altman is any more sane.

"Mr. Page, hampered for more than a decade by an unusual ailment in his vocal cords, described his vision of a digital utopia in a whisper. Humans would eventually merge with artificially intelligent machines, he said. One day there would be many kinds of intelligence competing for resources, and the best would win.

If that happens, Mr. Musk said, we’re doomed. The machines will destroy humanity.

With a rasp of frustration, Mr. Page insisted his utopia should be pursued. Finally he called Mr. Musk a “specieist,” a person who favors humans over the digital life-forms of the future."

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/03/technology/ai-openai-musk...
Microsoft has a whole dedicated fund for not credits but carbon capture projects - it’s quite detailed and I couldn’t spot any bs in it.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/corporate-responsibility/sus...
That's true, but I long ago got convinced that this particular worry isn't the most important one (the recursive-self-improvement one).

I'm fairly sure that Yudkowsky and others are also pushing that less, because there is a reasonable chance that it's just not a necessary part of the argument; even without self-improving, it's possible that just something like GPT-8 or something is harmful enough on its own that there are significant risks.
Is it not true that labour is also cheaper, and why is that?
I’m getting a stable 5ms latency over ethernet with Sunshine + Moonlight (forced HW en & decoding). WIFI adds a few ms and you need a good router & mostly idle access point for perfectly smooth 4K. For FPS like L4D2 I do get better results (aim) running locally, but I ascribe that to the mouse acceleration weirdness which I never managed to configure _just right_.
HN 2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8622720

Video showcasing it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRdLlaUmmpM by it's original designer: Steve Chamberlin. :)
I like the terminal control for raco commands.

You can see a short gif of it in action while installing the debug package on the discourse post at https://racket.discourse.group/t/racket-v8-13-is-now-availab...
A thought I've had regularly is that any financial product so widely required ought to be provided at cost (base rate of interest) through central banks. Why bother with middlemen?

As the author says, it is because the mortgage is hardly for my benefit.

Its purpose is to grant some privileges to those who remain on the treadmill of work for a long time without falling off, and to act as something like a tax, levied on behalf of the absurdly wealthy + institutional investors.
How do coal and steel production imply a high bureaucratic load?
They represent me and my fellow non-extremist citizens. Is the EU perfect? No. Is it better than any alternative? Yes.
> While there has been some regulatory action it also feels there is some "moving on" from the more apocalyptic risk views towards more mundane risks and their management

I don't think this is correct. It's more accurate to say that multiple different camps with different fears have risen up over the last few years, and ones worried about more "mundane" AI risks have gotten their view heard more.

I think both groups - "mundane" AI-safety and AI-existential-risk worriers - have both gotten more audience for their views as AI has proven more capable.
I have a jar of Adams 100% Natural crunchy from Costco that I’m looking at right now that says “Ingredients: Peanuts” and “Contains 1% or less of salt”. Do they have multiple kinds of products? This is all I’ve ever bought from them.
Bullshit jobs yes but still they are paid. What happens in a capitalist society when thousands of people loose their job and can’t produce value and contribute to society ? It’s tearing apart the fabric of capitalism is some way.
What happen when all those people without jobs won’t be able to train for better jobs (because they would have done it already and won’t have a bullshit job in the first place) and either fall poor or move to less paid jobs ?
58MW would be ~0.5 km^2. One hectare is one MW (in Poland, in US it’s better because more sunlight, if I’m not mistaken)
I run the event, not build the cars. People have entered with RC cars and up to full size porsches
Serving or reading?
Uber migrated all its payment transaction data from DynamoDB and blob storage into a new long-term solution, a purpose-built data store named LedgerStore. The company was looking for cost savings and had previously reduced the use of DynamoDB to store hot data (12 weeks old). The move resulted in significant savings and simplified the storage architecture.
That's not correct: cash that is not in circulation is not part of "broad money" in the same way, so it is still right to say that money is created when a mortgage is issued if that mortgage is backed by large investors. At least as I understand it, investments in financial instruments are not usefully regarded as money.
That tweak would make many people happy.
Uber should be worried, but also because they are no longer cheaper than the established competition (taxis) that already had the labour laws in place.
I recently wore a FreeStyle Libre for 10 days and one of the most positive things I learned from it was 10-15 minute walk after a meal significantly dropped glucose levels. It would reduce the spike in the range of 5-10% immediately. After I noticed that effect, a quick Google search presented many articles confirming it.

I strive for 7k steps per day since Covid hit March 2020. Some days I may fall a little short if really tired or sore from golf or coaching little league the previous day, but most days I easily achieve it or go well over. I surely don't think 7k is an unreasonable goal for ANYONE - it just takes a little bit of mentality change and effort that just seem taken for granted in the USA from what I have observed last few years.

Things like parking near the rear of parking lots when going to stores. I am amazed now at how often I see people wasting many minutes in their cars just to wait or "hunt" for closer spots when they could have just parked in back and be walking into the store already. Or parents at the park sitting and reading their phones for an hour while their kids play in playground. Teenagers riding electric scooters/ebikes instead of walking or regular bikes, etc.

I was at my in-laws over Christmas and everyone sitting around eating one of the many appetizers to choose from and drinking alcohol, I decided I wanted to go for a quick mid-afternoon walk just for some fresh air. I remember sort of being giggled at when I asked if anyone wanted to go, with a few bewildered looks on some faces. Again it is a change of mentality that needs to happen if obesity is going to be addressed in the US anytime soon. Now, with these drugs available, I'm afraid it will be even harder to get to the root of the problem.
Wow, what a great website. I wish I had found that back when I was a chemical engineer.
"outsourcing companies" exist?
It’s like saying the US started as a colony and that explains the lack of its progressive democracy and having a static constitution.

Just because something started as X doesn’t mean that evolution didn’t happen. The reasons for the bureaucracy are a lot and different but come down to power sharing between the stakeholders.
Good for you, I can’t and now I have to deal with endless pop ups about cookies.
100% duckduckgo. With google i must skip much more pages even with ublacklist.
Modules, standardised in C++20, are the official solution both for the standard library and for other code but they are not universally well supported by all major compilers and build systems yet.

Transitioning existing code to use modules is also not entirely straightforward, though probably no more problematic than introducing unity builds.
Ahahahah
I also enjoy Parsec at home (and for non gaming remote desktop). For some reason outside of home (I'm travelling to a city 10ms away) it's not as good
I think the 58MW claim is so blatantly wrong that it’s not LLM that produced that „fact”.

I discussed various climate
related things with chatgpt and it doesn’t make such crazy mistakes.
I want to see pictures! ;)
>This part could well apply to Americans.

What about USA?

But honestly I never chat with an american that would claim that half of the world belongs to them and they are not sorry for the future genocides that they will have to do to achieve it.

Nice of you to confirm here for our HN community that what I said is true, Ruzz claim that God gave tehm half of the world to make a "sphere of influence" and that Moscowites are OK with genocides because is geo politics and not "personal"
Riven doesn't have a VR version quite yet, but it's set for release later this year.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1712350/Riven/
Generational wealth theft does seem like a fair thing to complain about. Mortgages became a lever: most countries have regulations saying what lending ratios people can have, who is and is not eligible, etc. Want to control inflation over the long run? Raise interest rates and destroy the buying power of a generation. In the UK this is even more flexible, as we tend to only fix our mortgage interest rates for a few years. I gather in the US rates are fixed for the life of the mortgage, or close to it.
The receptacle is the moving part.
The Comission is appointed by directly elected governments, e.g. with one proxy in-between.

It is as (un-) democratic as the American Presidency, considering the Electoral College.

Yet you never hear complaints about the EC from the same types that love to rally against the Commission.
This. U.S. car market is saturated. Everyone has a car. There is no way to (sustainably, over a period comparable to a car's lifetime) sell more cars. So only way to increase revenue is to sell more expensive cars.

This is also why homes keep getting bigger. There is no way to sell (many) more homes, so to make more, bigger ones have to be built.