skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It might be outdated, but .com outperforms.

If content marketing and SEO is a part of the issue, being sure not to select a TLD that isn't penalized by google is important, as some TLDS (often the cheapest ones) have really bad reputations both for web, and sending spam.

.com doesn't need a weird name to be OK. Lots of ways to come up with a unique enough .com that sticks.
GPT-4o is really oddly hit or miss for code.

Sometimes it outperforms GPT-4 in quality by a fair amount, and other times it starts repeating itself. Duplicating function definitions, even misremembering what things are named.

It seems to have to do with length. If the output exceeds a few thousand tokens, it seems to experience some pretty bad failure modes.
The longest trust for ecommerce is with .com.
The necessity of private jets is beside the point.

At issue is whether or not tracking private travel should be accessible to everyone with an internet connection.

Most people would not be ok with tracking private vehicles, and it’s unclear why this should change when the mode of transportation is a plane instead of a car.
What do you do if you build a youtube channel? Can't exactly take the algorithms with you. There are mitigating steps you can take, such as building your own mailing list, but that pale in comparison even though people probably be doing that.
No. All it means is people are unable to compute the net present value of future calamity - which is the core of the climate crises.
this is my fear regarding AI - it doesn't have to be as good as humans, it just has to be cheaper and it will get implemented in business processes. overall quality of service will degrade while profit margins increase.
> you only think it's entitled and arrogant because you don't understand that protestors are protesting for people who don't have a voice, who's pleas fall on deaf ears like your own. your conception of protest is something an individual does to advance their own personal cause, so of course you only conceive of it as selfish - because you yourself do it for selfish reasons.

You really sullied what was otherwise a very powerful comment with this unnecessary and unfair personal attack against GP.

In some ways this is an interesting microcosm of the activism we're discussing, where people take a worthy and often powerful cause, and self-sabotage it by being arrogant, condescending, and rude to the people they are trying to convert.
Our Encryption is still theoretically sound. There was an attempt made to do something very similar called the Clipper Chip back in 1993 but it failed. Snowden revealed massive warrantless data collection of metadata which is also very valuable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip
Sounds like the WBB was to Toronto what Powell’s is to Portland. Are there other bookstores like this around the world? Let’s hope some of them can survive and thrive.
> architecturally, OStree is a Lovecraftian horror.

What makes you say this?
Thanks for reading!

>What do you think is next for you?

Next is either an educational product or a SaaS business I can build either fully solo or with 1-2 teammates in customer support roles.

>Would you do it all over?

No, not knowing what I know now about how difficult it is to succeed in hardware.

I'm grateful that TinyPilot worked, but there's definitely a reason why there are so few bootstrapped hardware companies.

In the first few years, there were so many things that could have clobbered the business, like supply shortages, manufacturing errors, lost shipments, design mistakes. I did a lot of things to mitigate these risks, but a lot of it just came down to being lucky enough to avoid random disasters.

For example, there were definitely times in the business where a critical part could have been lost in shipping, and we would have been dead in the water for months if it went missing or got delayed.

As the business matured, we were able to mitigate those risks better, but I wouldn't want to go through those first two years again unless I had a huge amount of investment or co-founders with more specialized hardware/manufacturing expertise.
Please, set this clickbait car insurance ad on fire, and blackhole whatever "source" you got this from so it doesn't push junk on you again.
meh, this is simply the grounding problem.

I agree with the conclusion, but not the reasoning.

An AI trained on low level sensory input, rather than words, might well be able to 'feel' hunger.

Even so, I think it's correct that current model architectures lack sentience. I think that requires a continuous updating loop of experience, rather than the once-through dream sequence of current models.
> OpenAI is betting heavily on code as a way to improve LLM reasoning for AGI.

And researchers from Google Deepmind, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Laboratoire de l’Informatique du Parallélisme, University of Lyon, actually publish some of their results in that direction [1,2].

[1]: https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/funsearch-making-new-d...

[2]: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06924-6
The explanation for this is simple and has been true for decades: the major investors in utility corporations have huge holdings in fossil fuels. So if you own the electric utility and are trading gas futures and hold many shares in gas producers, then a transition to solar - while good for the customers and for the utility's balance sheets - hurts the investor's other larger interests.

It's comparable to kerosene lamp manufacturers and kerosene producers trying to block rural electrification because people would use electric lights if they only could get access to them.

Of course, this is why the US government - whose politicians are little more than middle managers for the investment capitalism system - implemented huge tariffs on Chinese monocrystalline silicon PV panels.
The point is that you could change the particular privacy identifier used each flight, in principle.
I had excluded SMTP in my thinking because SMTP has the MX records, so it doesn't run into the issue with apex records not allowing CNAMEs. If I'm mailing you at pinguts@example.com, it does not require a dedicated IP for example.com, your MX record can inform my server that SMTP needs to connect to smtp.example.net, and that needs to have matching forward/reverse, but I can have a hundred domains that all specify smtp.example.net without interfering with the apex-can't-have-CNAME rule.

I think this is what people elsewhere were referring to when they said that SRV records would be nice for HTTP.

edit: Aside: I ran my own first mail server over 30 years ago. :-)
Aha this is exactly what I had hoped for. Thank you!
I remember reading reports by a German UN weapons inspector. The CIA gave them a few of their bests leads but every time the inspectors went there they found nothing or equipment that hadn't been used in years. The CIA's response was to cut them off completely. The US clearly wanted to go to war no matter what. The WMDs were just cover.
> Opened in 1980 in the former Olympia Bowling Alley building, the World’s Biggest Bookstore may not, in fact, have been the world’s biggest bookstore.

It might have been at some point, but by the time it closed I think Powell's was bigger.
On the plus side, now the conservatives can use emergency powers to deal with protests too. The cat's out of the bag, and people with left-leaning politics who were okay with the powers being applied to the trucker protest, I'm sure we'll find they're all of the sudden not so okay when it's applied to a protest they favour.
Something that strikes me as really ironic is that, here we are in 2024 and tons of goods are being manufactured in Vietnam for a pittance and exported to the west. We are effectively just a small step above having enslaved this country, without a single boot on the ground.
> if that’s not a “real” loss then I guess we “couldn’t lose” that war, which is plainly a strange way of looking at it.

Well, I think the entire reason the US has been so quick to insert itself in situations like this is because there's a very real feeling that the US can't really lose these wars, because the consequences of failure are very different from, say, WW2.

If the stakes were higher for America as a nation we'd probably be significantly less likely to enter into these sorts of conflicts to begin with. And if the stakes were higher for America in the conflict for some other reason - say it was Mexico instead of Vietnam - there'd probably be significantly more political and public support for continued action and additional resources being thrown at it. But it's hard to do that when it's for the more nebulous idea of keeping the foreign power most aligned with US interests in the region in power.

Which isn't to say I disagree with the general idea - Vietnam was a loss by any reasonable sense of the word - but that I think there is a certain amount of truth to the idea that people in power really did look at Vietnam as a war that couldn't truly be lost.
Maybe 10 is better than 2 if there's some independence of data gathering and perspectives. In general, though, at least a couple of different takes is probably valuable--assuming they're bringing at least some diversity of experience.
I thought that was the idea, open source small specific models that most people can run vs general purpose ones that require a massive amount of GPUs
The courts have actually ruled that billionaires are inherently “public figures”, for exactly this reason, their “outsized impact and influence on public affairs”.
Go can "handle" a million plus active goroutines, but that doesn't mean Go can handle a million goroutines doing literally anything a goroutine can do. They still have to fit into the resources of the computer. They can not all, for instance, have a gigabyte of their own active memory that they are doing something with, even though Go and a goroutine can individually "handle" a gigabyte of active working set.

Cgo calls take a lot of resources, or, at least, take a lot of resources if you're trying to do a million of them simultaneously. (In absolute terms, Cgo slowdown is one of those things that programmers hear bandied about in conversations and can easily come away with the impression that a single Cgo call will consume 150 milliseconds or something and instantly bring your program to a crawl, but a single call is not noticeable. It's only really a problem when scaled somehow. See also the belief that GC guarantees that my program is going to be frozen for 250 milliseconds every couple of seconds.) In this context probably the most relevant one is they need a full OS thread to work in the C runtime, so a million simultaneous Cgo calls would require a million simultaneous OS threads, and that's still a pretty big expense today.

For obvious reasons, Go can only "handle" millions of goroutines if all but some approximation of the number of CPUs available are doing nothing at any given time. The only common type of program that might have this circumstance is really network servers.
Interesting. My favorite thing to ask the models is to refactor code I've not touched for too long and this works very well.
a person buying a condo in Vancouver generally isn't purchasing land, and if they are, then yes, the land might appreciate even as the thing built on it degrades over time due to a bunch of natural processes (e.g. wood decays)
Hypothetically, let’s say all private car locations were tracked and visible to everyone.

“Take public transit: problem solved” does not alleviate the privacy concern.
I have to ask: if we think privacy is a right, then why does flying in a private jet mean you give up that right?
> One of the essential characteristics of general intelligence is “sentience,” the ability to have subjective experiences—to feel what it’s like, say, to experience hunger, to taste an apple, or to see red.

Why is it essential?

I get that an LLM saying "I am hungry" has no feeling of hunger, it's stringing words together without the experience behind them. But does it need to? Give it a robot body to move around and tell it the battery level is a hunger-meter, put it in a constant loop, and what's the functional difference?

I'm interested in figuring out the right question to ask to be able to tell if some AI, say a brain upload attempt, is or isn't sentient in this sense, if it does or doesn't have qualia, but this kind of reductiveness doesn't even have the right shape to be that question — it doesn't say why a camera responding to a 550 nm photon isn't seeing red when your retina is.
GitHub Copilot uses GPT-3.5?

I was under the impression it was a custom codex model with a surrogate local model as per https://github.blog/2023-02-14-github-copilot-now-has-a-bett...

When did this change?
My point is that you shouldn't expect to one shot everything. Have it start by writing a spec, then outline classes and methods, then write the code, and feed it debug stuff.
This is an interesting problem. Here is a potential solution that I (roughly) follow when I’m not very busy.

Start with a group of interests that has the most overlaps in terms of skills or resources needed - call these compounded projects. Out of the compounded projects, start with the one that interests you with 2 weeks of effort. If you can’t make a significant progress in that time frame, you either lack the skills, resource, or interests in them. Move onto the next compounded project.

After you finish with the list of compounded projects, review the original list and prioritize the interests based on your experience. Create compounded projects again and go at it. Repeat.
The day that AI can do my job is the day I need to quit. At that point, I'd no longer care if it can replace the CEO of my company.

However, I doubt it could replace a CEO. The reason for my doubt is that being CEO is primarily a social job.
> When systems compete with each other for market share, delicacy goes out the window and designers often give the application everything it wants.

This rings false for established systems that are locked to their APIs.

The vendor of a large, complex set of APIs that large, complex applications depend on is not going to give the application users everything in a new API for fear they will migrate to another set of APIs.
No but we all talk about it behind the scenes and everyone seems to use some form of it.

Just have the model reflect and summarize so far and remember key concepts based on the trajectory and goals of the conversation. There are a couple different techniques based on how much compression you want: key pairing for high compression and full statement summaries for low compression. There is also a survey model where you have the llm fill in and update a questioneire every new input with things like “what is the goal so far” and “what are the key topics”

It’s essentially like a therapists notepad that the model can write to behind the scenes of the session.

This all conveniently lets you do topical and intent analytics more easily on these notepads rather than the entire conversation.
Yes. Every type of employment puts undocumented costs at the employees.

But not all types of employment puts the same amount of costs. Those vary widely. And the possibility for the employee to optimize them also varies.

And all the comments up to now are still ignoring the elephant on the room and didn't touch the opportunity cost of having your entire family work on the same geographic area, and the insane housing costs on the few small areas where a family can do that.
The repo does claim that something is "open source" but the only included license text is "CC-BY-NC-ND" and the README seems to restrict permissions even further.

In addition, the Hugging Face repo[-1] states the license as "Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 4.0" (lacking the "ND").

Unfortunately, this combination of license imprecision and restrictiveness seems par for the course with a lot of academic TTS projects. (And, even for commercial "Open Source" TTS projects it's often the case that while code might be OSS licensed, none of the the voice data/models are.)

The current version[0] of the README repo states:

* "The open-source version on HuggingFace is a 40,000 hours pre trained model without SFT." (Presumably refers to model.)

* "At the same time, we have internally trained a detection model and plan to open-source it in the future." (Not directly relevant.)

The included "Roadmap" indicates related completed & uncompleted tasks:

* "[x] Open-source the 40k hour base model and spk_stats file"

* "[ ] Open-source VQ encoder and Lora training code"

* "[ ] Open-source the 40k hour version with multi-emotion control"

However, as noted, the current LICENSE[1] file states:

* "Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International"

And the README also contradicts the license:

* "This repo is for academic purposes only. It is intended for educational and research use, and should not be used for any commercial or legal purposes."

* "The information and data used in this repo, are for academic and research purposes only."

And this part of the "disclaimer" would make me concerned about potential licensing issues in regard to code and or data from other sources:

* "The data obtained from publicly available sources, and the authors do not claim any ownership or copyright over the data."

The code in the repo itself appears to have no license information contained within it.

My go-to actually Open Source licensed Text-To-Speech project (with a range of voice[2] model licenses[3]--including Public Domain & CC-BY[4]) is Piper TTS: https://github.com/rhasspy/piper

---- footnotes ----

[-1] https://huggingface.co/2Noise/ChatTTS

[0] https://github.com/2noise/ChatTTS/blob/f4c8329f0d231b272b676...

[1] https://github.com/2noise/ChatTTS/blob/f4c8329f0d231b272b676...

[2] Voice samples: https://rhasspy.github.io/piper-samples/

[3] Though I would also caution that (at least by my interpretation) some of the voices listed as CC0/PD or CC-BY also note that they've been "fine-tuned" on models which have more restrictive licenses and thus probably can't inherit the voice data's more permissive license.

[4] However, these Public Domain and/or CC-BY voices do appear specifically created to be data license-compliant: https://brycebeattie.com/files/tts/
The US definitely got very good at selling wars in the last decades. I remember being fascinated with the cool videos of "surgical strikes" against Iraq in 1991. Only later I read reports that a lot of the strikes weren't exactly surgical and killed thousands of civilians.
Sidenote, the evaluation model of python can be surprising. List comprehension will create implicit function scopes that can trip you up.
Phoenix doesn't really have the related weather concerns of the midwest which allow Waymo to flourish in your state.
Show HN: Simple P2P Matchmaking Service via WebSocket
DEMO Chat:
https://p2p-chat.pages.dev
maybe no user, so please open using two tab :)

Simple WebSocket server implemented in Go and dedicated for P2P matchmaking.
That's about when they added the capability, yeah. They've dropped support for win 7/8, not sure if CHOC goes back that far.

I suppose this would break the "Nothing needs adding to your build system to use any of this stuff.", but that doesn't seem true now that Boost is a dependency for the server stuff.
Ironically this keeps them dependent on oil.

And natural gas; it's clear from https://www.meti.go.jp/shingikai/enecho/shoene_shinene/suiso... that the plan is to get hydrogen from natural gas, with electrolysis as a thin renewable figleaf over the issue of CO2 emissions.

(don't trust any source that describes hydrogen as an "energy source". There is no naturally occurring hydrogen reserve. It is not a source.)

They might be in a better place if TEPCO hadn't messed up their nuclear plant designs in a tsunami zone.
Yeah, the typical US Citizen completely forgets the French part of Vietnamese history. The US was like the French's big and tough friend, that got dragged into it.

Really, the US is all about the under dog fighting for independence, isn't that the US Mythos? We should have been rooting for the Vietnamese, not bombing them.
Because they do so well at randomness?
We still do need base & peak load and batteries are not sufficient currently.

These plants currently do have to be in someone’s backyard.

If we really care about transitioning as fast as possible, we should probably end our trade war with China over solar panels and EVs. “Buy America” requirements for green products will hamstring us.
> I seldom hear that particular basis given for free markets however, the basis seems tenuous.

You seldom hear it because it is not taught in schools and is rarely discussed. Leftist ideology is taught instead.

> there may be differences of opinion as to what a free market is/requires, and as to whether the free market was really fundamental to the founding of your country

There are differences of opinion about everything, even math, and even about the Earth being a sphere. Some of those opinions are simply wrong. I did not invent the definition of a free market, you can google it.

> It might be that your country could not really sustain too close a focus on those questions in its K-12 system of education though, best to leave it for later.

Really? The poor dears cannot understand notions of rights? Research shows that kids develop a sense of "mine" long before kindergarten - nobody has to teach it to them.

My father, a college professor of business in his later years, said students would come up to him and say "I didn't think there was a case for free markets! I've never heard of one!" But they do hear a case in K-12 for collectivism.
Now if only some of those tariffs money would be used to promote the local production of solar cells...
What seems like an infeasible solution? The article doesn't describe the author's "particular approach".

You snipped:

> [...] a lot harder than it sounds – more on that in a different post.

I don't see a newer post in that blog as of now (May 29, 2024).
Clicking through the "More on this story" link, we find

> On Monday she was convicted of entering into or becoming concerned in a money laundering arrangement.

Which sounds like she was facilitating money laundering without holding any criminal property herself. For a more comprehensive explanation, see e.g. https://www.jmw.co.uk/blog/business-money-laundering/three-m...

It sounds like what the US often calls "conspiracy to ...".
>the Vienamese seem to have done OK out of the "Communist" victory

They have largely followed the Chinese model of economic development, via a policy of Đổi Mới[0][1] adopted in 1986 and has since continued with various reforms in the 1990s as well. This is persistent today in how Vietnamese economic policy is driven, as far as I can tell

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%90%E1%BB%95i_M%E1%BB%9Bi

[1]: https://www.wider.unu.edu/sites/default/files/rp2008-84.pdf
The bankruptcy lawyers did follow the money BTW and the report just came out.
Thank you for the thoughtful response. You've given me much to think about!

I still intuitively see a difference between staying in the seat you paid for and got to first, and using a restaurant/diner the way it was intended, and people blocking traffic (which often includes hitting/attacking cars that try to get by). To be more equivalent though, I think Rosa Parks would have had to block the white passengers from getting on the bus, or the sit-in would block everybody from entering/patronizing the establishment. Had they done that, I think things would have turned out very differently because (rightly or wrongly) they cease to be sympathetic and reasonable figures in many people's eyes.

Other than that, I'm in full agreement with what you said. Also thank you for the Letter from Birmingham Jail read in his own words. So good :-)