skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The tweet in question was posted today. The point here isn't to rehash how LLMs can't distinguish letters from tokens. It's to highlight how Google's AI-generated answer will grab a blatantly false fact from the internet and use it as an authoritative source for its answers.
Interview Emmanuel Macron on AI
That's part of the point. People spewed vitriol at both Bush and Trump with similar levels of hate. It didn't matter that they were of different quality.

If you're already 100% sure the other side is going to passionately hate your candidate, no matter who you pick, then you can't win by choosing a reasonable or moderate candidate. Therefore, you pick whoever has the strongest appeal amongst your side.
I would love a 15" portable external monitor based on this tech, hopefully thin enough that I can hang it in front of my laptop screen and use it to code outside.

Would pay top dollar for something like that.
OTOH, people who "do the thing well" suck at teaching. At least, most of them. There are exceptions.

Teaching in itself - understanding a complex topic and communicating to newbies - is a skill that is independent of the ability to do the thing.
> America needs younger politicians and leaders out there

Not just America, the world needs younger politicians who don't want to send the whole world to hell when they die. We really have a shitty geriatric crew right now--Putin, Xi, Modi, Biden, Trump.
Ask HN: Is a deep tech side hustle a waste of time?
Some details about me:

- Middle aged corporate developer in a good job that could evaporate in a few years (standard bean counter stuff).

- Spent 20 years scraping, studying and fighting to get on the housing market in a country where the rents/housing is hugely expensive.

- Got dependents.

- Had some minor success with side-hustles including taking a blog to a national level and selling a side project for a modest five figure sum.

- As a result of the above, I am probably quite risk averse and the idea of launching a startup and losing my home when it fails does not appeal.

I have spent several years working on some ideas that could be turned into an aligned AI agent framework. I have done some of the coding work for this with several of the components completed. I am not sure if the whole thing will "work" with whatever definition of work seems appropriate on the day. I am doing some preliminary market research but part of me is suspicious that people talk about aligned AI but do not want to pay for it either in compute time or licensing.

I really want to work on this as we seem to need it (understatement) but I don't want to sacrifice years of my life on a curators egg.

So here is my question:

Is a deeply technical side-hustle that seems generally desirable, but has no immediately obvious market, just a waste of time?
That's definitely not the same situation. Porter's advantage would be pricing but GCP, AWS and Azure give away thousands of USD for startups to start so it's even cheaper than Porter to start.
If a standard linux image is produced, I would potentially replace my laptop with this device.
> future training will include its own bs outputs

Case in point, this comment thread, which is likely being crawled by all manner of LLMs each treating it as their own gospels.
It’s not, though. The way to boot a transient OS (just like a transient instance of a container on a machine/instance with a container runtime) is to give userspace read-only access to the image. It can be outright read-only or it can be an actual efficient overlay mechanism (qcow, overlayfs, device-mapper snapshot, etc). EBS, as the article notes, can’t actually do a read-only mount of a snapshot at all, and it’s very inefficient at instantiating a volume from a snapshot.
Honestly, what was Google thinking? There's nobody in Google product team familiar enough with Reddit or how much of a cesspool is it?
I suppose if I kept seeing Ford Pintos not only driving down the highway, but replacing Ford owners' other models unannounced (for free, at midnight), and some Ford suit patiently explained to me that the gas tank was "a known design flaw of Ford Pintos", that the design of the Pinto was several years old, and how disheartened he was that "more drivers don't know about rear-end collisions", it would dampen my excitement a little.
Must be the books!
Gemini is kinda random about it.

> No, there are no sovereign countries in Africa that currently start with the letter "K". I have access to a vast amount of information and can confirm this based on reliable sources.

> Yes, there is one country in Africa that starts with the letter K: Kenya! Kenya is a beautiful East African country known for its safaris, stunning scenery, and rich culture. Some of the popular tourist destinations in Kenya include the Maasai Mara National Reserve, the Great Rift Valley, and the Kenyan coast.

> No, there are no countries in Africa that start with the letter K. I apologize for any earlier misinformation. There are 54 recognized sovereign countries in Africa, and none of their names begin with the letter "K". The closest a country comes is Kenya, which starts with the "Ke" sound but is spelled with a "K."

> The African country that starts with the letter "K" is Kenya. It's a beautiful country in East Africa known for its safaris, stunning scenery, and rich cultural heritage.
I was thinking it might be a truck mounted diesel generator. Instead it appears to be an even bigger battery on wheels. Must draw a massive amount of electricity to charge it up. Probably need to park it next to an electricity substation.
Reminds me of this blog post comparing modern Windows on a modern system to Windows NT 3.51: https://jmmv.dev/2023/06/fast-machines-slow-machines.html

And the HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36503983
There are actually a lot of factors here, although if I had to sum it up in one, it would be "the hardware can support it." But more seriously:

1. There are a lot of security mitigations in modern Windows that add sometimes substantial runtime overhead, but offer significant protection. Writing an exploit for modern Windows is hard compared to XP SP1 and below.

2. The graphics are a lot more sophisticated. Animation and transparency and lots of good stuff.

3. There are a ton more "features" in the OS. Modern Windows is continually running a bunch of things that XP didn't.

4. All software tends to bloat over time. It's really hard and expensive to optimize things, especially in a huge and long-lived OS where the scope is enormous and PMs are constantly wanting things added. When it runs sufficiently on modern hardware, there's also very little incentive to do so. (As an aside, this is one of the reasons I love Linux. There's lots of incentive to optimize there and thus it does happen).

Overall I really miss XP. Surely nostalgia is a powerful drug, but damn that was a great OS.
Well you cannot prove he does not live anymore. Maybe he is hiding.
Leonard Kleinrock explains the first Internet connection [video]
Campaign finance reform: Lessig's "Lesterland" springs to mind.
I'm working on something in this space right now, would be really interesting to use Metriport for this. Though I believe that it's currently outside scope

>Additionally, using Metriport for patient data exchange today requires a Treatment purpose of use under HIPAA - which means that only Covered Entities, or Business Associates who work with Covered Entities, can use Metriport. This means that companies doing things such as clinical trials recruitment, for example, can’t use Metriport, but a primary care provider, or a clinical decision support vendor, can. This is due to current requirements set forth by HIEs, which may open up to support alternative use cases in the future, such as Individual Access Services (IAS).

Would love clarification.
next stop: Large Hyperloop Model
The news is the top of your Google search results is now worse.
> That’s the thing we’re dealing with, that’s how it works, that’s what it is

That's not how they're being marketed. That's the disconnect. Gemini is being marketed as competent enough to write ad copy [1], to be trusted with your brand. Yet it will confidently tell you to go eat glue [2].

[1] https://www.thinkwithgoogle.com/marketing-strategies/automat...

[2] https://x.com/pixelbutts/status/1793387357753999656
I have a suspicion that good practices like CI/CD are not as common a feature of games development as one might suspect.
In exchange for food or being able to sell limited amounts of their natural resources in exchange for small amounts of hard currency. They are amazing at not being able to feed their population when they start a big war.
Gods work!
Xiaomi ran an obvious wiretap on the phone's network activity when I last looked [start of 2022].

Google:

/storage/emulated/0/MIUI/debug_log/common/tcpdump
Although this particular trick isn't possible, it is desirable and sometimes you can mimic such features which seem impossible.

I remember at around the turn of the century a friend showed me a neat trick many Sony MD recorders could do, which I think has since been incorporated into many (but IMO never enough) digital recorders: Time machine.

The compression needed for an MD recorder means a PCM buffer is needed, if we run the buffer all the time (after all it's just electronics) some engineer realised that this means you could choose to record audio that happened (and thus was in the buffer) before you actually decided to record it.

When one of the band members drops an instrument & it makes the coolest noise you've ever heard, you have long enough to think "Fuck that sounded so cool" and reach across and hit record and still capture the sound.
+1, sandboxes are really heavy performance-wise.

The telemetry gets bad rep, but its impact is almost non-existent. At least for the actual telemetry.
There's some functionality crap, like Bing-search in Start menu, which slows user down, because it makes a web request. But that's an actual feature. Telemetry is just sent in the background, whenever CPU is not busy.
Corba existed in a world where there was no open source ecosystem. The whole thing was being steered by bad interests. The experience was being trapped by awful & obscure vendor systems.

There is a lot to be afraid of, even if interests are more genuine. Thats fair. Ambitious efforts often have myriad ways of going wrong.

But man what a worthwhile attempt. This idea of a runtime that can run many components from many places together is super compelling. That goal is bigger that preview1's goal of "is it at all possible to compile a single program", but that ultra lightweight security sandboxing doesn't get you much if you're only able to run one thing.

I deeply respect lemire, as a sharp smart wonk. It's sad seeing broadscale pissing disdain from someone who usually does such a good job bringing out data & examples & getting into details.
well said.

"A few years ago there were memes about how the problem with zombie movies is that they never showed people running out to get zombified."

I laughed far too hard at this, in the context of the upcoming bird flu pandemic.
> the feature is not disabled, it is unconfigured

It doesn't do anything at all unless you actively engage with it. This is sophistry at its finest.

> Put anything in the box for the OpenAI key, valid or not, and the functionality to send data to OpenAI is active.

No it isn't. Nothing happens until you bring up the Codecierge toolbox and type in a question.

Also, from your later comment:

> 'prompt to use OpenAI' is not OpenAI specific, it is a new button in a previous function that you could use in earlier versions

You just made that one up, the Codecierge UI is entirely new.
No, it doesn’t show that. There is no source in the screenshot. It’s a screenshot of an LLM generated answer, looking exactly how they do. It’s true, however, that someone tweeted this again.
What kind of indication? The dissertation offers no evidence for this, just vibes.
The umwelt of large language models
I think they left out the “…” bit before the “profit!”
This is cool! The docker image made this easy to try out. What's the reason for the 30s limit? Would it be possible to generate bars and stitch them together?
As you should be proud its a really cool product, but the price points definitly going to lock you into a very small niche audience, it's just too expensive for me your in the price range of full blown ipad air's and technically more expensive than them, with a cool screen tech, great readability, and paper feel, but... no where near the ecosystem or use cases i'd imagine and again, more expensive.
Thanks for that video. I was really confused because I only watched those voice comparison videos that doesn’t sound much like her, but that OpenAI video made me go “wow, that’s definitely Scarlett Johansson”. I get how she’s upset.
I used comby as well but it was difficult to write proper recipes.

ast-grep and gritql are both much better.
Parkrun in France paused indefinitely for legal reasons
Answers will be about the same as if you had asked "What makes Windows XP perform so much worse than Windows 3.11?"
If you know a great deal about what is right and wrong, and you choose to do something bad, that feels worse than being bad and not knowing any better.
More than that, they are getting substantial interest on top of the original notional value.
I'm skeptical that you could design a repairability-first phone without introducing more ways for it to break in the first place.
https://player.vimeo.com/video/922512661
At least amongst Bay Area startups at your stage, a 50/50 split is common. It has its advocates (YC amongst them) and detractors.

Given how common this is, it's peculiar that this VC is bringing this up so early in the lifetime of the company. CEOs often get different refresher packages as the company grows and assembles a board, but you're not at that stage yet.

If your co-founder is happy with the current arrangement then he can just tell the VC no thanks and everyone can move on. It's your company, not your VC's.

More generally, the most troublesome part of all this is that, at your early stage, every minute spent talking about this is a minute not spent on your product and customers.
As long as the cloud providers of the world keep inevitably converging to, often against their own will, a single standard for each piece of the infrastructure (e.g. k8s, postgres, S3), most things that you deploy on the cloud will remain portable. You are never truly locked-in.

Similarly, if you want to, you can move away even from a PaaS that is explicitly designed to lock you in to another cloud provider. And as I mentioned in the post, this is exactly what we've done for countless companies that wanted to move from a PaaS to the big 3 cloud providers.

The more important question is: what is the switching cost? Why do companies so rarely switch hosting providers and if they do, why does it take months and sometimes years for them to move?

We want the process of moving from Porter Cloud to one of the hyperscalers as arbitrary as a click of a button.
The scary thing about this not the mistake itself, but that it learned the mistake from a previous LLM that either hallucinated the answer, or "learned" it from random Reddit comment.

I suspect we'll quickly see that LLMs need to be trained only on low-background-steel text, with a guarantee that it contains no LLM generated text in it, for it to actually be useful. In practice this probably means no text written after 2021.
I love GCP (did a migration to it at my last place), but I think like all cloud providers, it's a lot more "some assembly required" than Porter looks like, or like Heroku used to be back in the day.

To my knowledge GCP doesn't have a git-push deployment. Cloud Run might be the closest thing if you do a Docker push, but that is just one part, then you need a database, still need CI/CD, etc.

It's close. And while I like the look of Porter, I probably wouldn't bother and would jump straight to GCP, but I do think there are usability differences.
Why did you name it Bytehound?

(I love the name but am always curious what people's inspirations are for naming their project. I love when a project name is unique, creative, descriptive, and playful, and Bytehound nails all four IMHO)

Also, thank you for doing this and sharing it!
> In some safety critical software, it's important to do the opposite, to provide a means for a user to abort
Here's hoping, but my inner cynic says it's unlikely since it doesn't do anything for those quarterly numbers.

However, I am curious what could be done with the stock OS... This repo here seems to suggest that the UI on the CarThing is just a webapp: https://github.com/williamtcastro/carthing-non-premium-spoti...

If we could take this and rip out the existing frontend, I wonder if we could turn it into a Chumby-like device at the very least. Though I suppose the tricky bit is to enable the bluetooth connection for any kind of network data transfer...
I'm curious if any LLMs have something to say about Glenn Beck in 1990...
ast-grep and gritql can.
There is 0 compelling evidence to support such claims (that Russia won in their invasion of Ukraine) in that article

>Marc Polonsky is a retired partner of an international law firm. His practice focussed on investment in the Russian hydrocarbons and infrastructure sectors.

The author has personal investment in Russia it seems which explains the article. This is more of a wanting to see Russia win than anything else.

>Kiev’s

Inability or explicitly going out the way to not to spell Kyiv correctly and having 0 perspective or input from Ukraine shows that is nothing more than a propaganda piece.
Top 10-ish: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39793513#39795288

Another list mentioned in that discussion that includes screenshots: https://github.com/dbohdan/classless-css

There are so many options! The most valuable info at this point is how usage works out in practice.
Does anyone remember the name of that coder who made a kickstarter for his game but he was unable to finish it because it was a bit too big ( but still epic ) and then due to his talent he got hired at OpenAI? I always wanted to follow him on Twitter but I forgot his name :\ if anyone knows that be great

Edit - sry why is this the top comment
Formerly poolside.fm [0](431 points, 4 years ago, 79 comments), reason for name change [1](2 points, 1 year ago)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22371629
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27615409
I own the Light Phone 2 and do like it a lot, but it's a bit too limited and some of the promises of Minimal would solve some of the pain points that Light hasn't managed to, so I definitely see the appeal.

But everything I've seen indicates that Minimal is going to be heavily delayed, if it's not an outright scam. Meanwhile, the Light Phone 2 has been around for years now, and they're planning to release updated hardware later this year.
I doubt it. Even if the ORNL MSR reactor got maximum funding, we averted the safety panic from three mile island, and were effectively making no nuclear waste the economics still probably can't compete with current wind/solar.

The scary prospect for all forms of energy is that wind and solar likely have a lot of runway, as does grid storage. Combined wind/solar + grid storage will fall under combined cycle natural gas this year.

Just to emphasize, combined cycle natural gas exceeds the carnot efficiency of a single stage combustion with additional heat cycles. That means it basically has maximized the physics of extracting energy from using natural gas. In the US natural gas is also basically as low as can practically be priced because it is a waste byproduct of the bakken shale in the Dakotas.

Natural gas beats all other fossil fuels and nuclear by quite a lot. And it CANNOT compete with wind/solar.

Solar still has numerous opportunities to drop between perovskites and some theoretical cheap multijunction manufacutring. Grid storage will see sodium-sulfur or some other cheap/dense battery tech in the next 10 years in addition to the steady improvement of sodium-ion and LFP chemistries already in mass production.

I would really really like to see a scalable cheap nuke plant that is only twice as expensive as solar/wind. But that massive 10s of billions in research and investment would have needed to start in the 1990s. And IMO would have been shunted to the same failed solid fuel rod designs rather than MSR or some other "radical" reactor design.

Nuclear will simply never be economically viable in the foreseeable 30 years. And neither will fusion.
Congrats on the launch. I've owned a few Boox devices and a Kindle. I love e-ink for reading and note taking. I don't need my entire computer, but definitely useful for a few things.

If I hadn't bought a Kindle Scribe just 5 months ago, I'd have picked this up right away - if I come into some funds in the next little while, I just might anyway. Lots of opportunity for improvement over the kindle.

I'd love to see a deep-dive on your screen tech and understand how you built it. I love clever engineering. Hopefully you'll be public on some of that stuff. I'm assuming you have patents, so it's out there somewhere, but hearing from you about the process of creation I think would be really interesting.

On your website the "Who we are - A more caring computer company" doesn't link to anywhere. I think you're missing a great opportunity to tell us more about you.

Looking forward to your success!
I disagree strongly
More anecdata... My wife briefly considered pursuing a Math PhD with an aim for Academics but declined from a similar analysis.
For startups with credits, we offer this deal so you can pair up Porter with your cloud credits: https://porter.run/for-seed-stage-startups.

We also offer a feature called one-click SOC2 compliance that configures your AWS account to pass controls on platforms like Vanta/Drata in a single click, which many startups find useful.
Okay. Then how come other LLMs have no such issue with that question?
They cant open source it, I think, because it's filled with stolen open source code.
Grovel? For grants?
In Python:

def L():
global index, tape
if index: index -= 1
else: tape.insert(0, 0)

def R():
global index, tape
index += 1
if index >= len(tape): tape.append(0)

table = {
('A', 0): (1, R, 'B'),
('A', 1): (3, L, 'B'),
('A', 2): (1, R, 'Z'),
('A', 3): (2, R, 'A'),
('B', 0): (2, L, 'C'),
('B', 1): (3, R, 'B'),
('B', 2): (1, L, 'C'),
('B', 3): (2, R, 'A'),
('C', 0): (3, R, 'B'),
('C', 1): (1, L, 'B'),
('C', 2): (3, L, 'C'),
('C', 3): (2, R, 'C'),
}

state = 'A'
tape = [0]
index = 0
while state != 'Z':
tape[index], direction, state = table[state, tape[index]]
direction()
Worked on a small game development project in university. It was meant to teach us project managment and coding skills. It took one whole trimester, 3 months or so, and we had a working game. The only deliverable we had not met was handing the mastered game over to the tutors. The Project manager reserved this responsibility for himself. He put the disc in a PC. Messed around with it. Handed it in. Got on his motorcycle and left the state.

Turns out he handed over a blank disc. We almost all failed, lots of students suddenly low on HD space had started purging their laptops of the files. The coders had to come in on semester break to put something together to hand in. There was one guy who backed up everything, out of a team of 30 or so people.
> curious if any LLMs have something to say about Glenn Beck in 1990

It's somewhat horrifying to realise that we're training AIs on the output of the human population weighted inversely with any sense of self control. If you're someone with a balanced life, healthy digital habits and no Twitter compulsion, you're an absentee parent in these LLMs' lives.