skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Brother Cavil: I don't want to be human! I want to see gamma rays! I want to hear X-rays! And I want to - I want to smell dark matter! Do you see the absurdity of what I am? I can't even express these things properly because I have to - I have to conceptualize complex ideas in this stupid limiting spoken language! But I know I want to reach out with something other than these prehensile paws! And feel the wind of a supernova flowing over me! I'm a machine! And I can know much more! I can experience so much more. But I'm trapped in this absurd body! And why? Because my five creators thought that God wanted it that way!
I'm at the hairy edges of my understanding here as well, but AFAIK infinite-dimensional Hilbert spaces arise when modeling position-momentum states because it is assumed that space is continuous.
Fined, but yet still posting yearly gains. Fines would only work if it meant being fined would resolve to them having to show stock holders that they experience negative growth because of it. Not saying that is the ultimate solution, but its the only way to do it if people are not gonna go to jail. The fines have to be so massive, the company can't post positive growth.
Probably related to soliciting donations (See "Businesses that are prone to abuse by fraudulent actors" on that Stripe link)

A lot of payment processors do not like it when individuals (versus certified nonprofits) take donations. Because, well, it is more prone to fraud. It's a really easy way to cash out stolen credit card numbers. The systems are set up for a transaction, not a one way transfer of funds.
I was aware of the Terry Davis/Temple OS story.

I didn't know he worked at Ticketmaster. Thanks.
Do you really think it's nice to mock a person with schizophrenia?
Definitely. I've become close friends with a colleague without meeting once in real life. That being said, physical presence brings a different dimension to social relations.
If there wasn’t one company responsible for all of concert ticketing in the US maybe there would be fewer victims.
Some 8-bit cpus allow combining some registers in pairs. Giving 16-bit values from otherwise 8-bit registers. Or have a few dedicated 16-bit registers.

Couldn't the same be done in a 16-bit architecture? And cut the # of registers. Like 16x 16-bit registers, optionally used as 32-bit pairs (8 of those).

None of this says anything about external memory sizes or such.

Btw: RISC-V has an "-E" flavour which cuts the # of registers in half from 32 to 16, but is otherwise identical. There's even some (unofficial) RV16 candidates out there.
> I think this confuses the responsibilities a CEO may have (write memos, etc) with the responsibilities they must have (ultimate authority/responsibility for company decisions/direction).

The vast majority of articles about CEOs are populist rage-bait. The goal isn't to portray the actual duties and responsibilities of a CEO. The goal is to feed anti-CEO sentiment which is popular on social media. It's to get clicks.
I'm conflicted. I know modern vehicles are so complex and if something breaks it actually is cheaper to just go bet a new car.....but I don't really like that.

On the other hand, most of my close family that I know has a vehicle that is fixable. I know how to do basic stuff like change oil, change a tire or break pads, but I also know how much vehicles are digital and I really don't enjoy that.
Are you producing podcasts individually for each person, and some subset of those people who receive a custom podcast tip you?

Are you charging money for your podcast to all listeners, and some subset of those people who pay for your podcast tip you?

If either of those is true, then your podcast production is a goods or service, and you should present that evidence to Stripe as they may have overlooked it. If you're just broadcasting the podcast and asking for donations, that's not going to qualify as "a monetary transaction in exchange for goods or services delivered to the buyer", since your goods/services are delivered regardless of whether transactions exist.

From a selfish bank standpoint, ask "How would a chargeback be evaluated for validity?". How will the bank's processes handle someone charging back their tip jar donation because you unknowingly say something upsetting on the next episode about their favorite hobby? Whether or not they grant the chargeback, you will end up terminating services with that bank.

I suspect this is why Patreon is constantly rotating card processors every few months: the banking chargeback system often refuses to cope with "payment without promise", unless it's a 501(c)(3) non-profit in which case the bank is paid in the form of tax breaks to deal with all this.

This also suggests that "Who is your payment processor?" is probably a trade secret for all existing tipjar/donation platforms.

(I am not your lawyer, this is not legal advice.)
All the AI demand software s today isn’t AI, it’s just some mathematics and basic algorithms, but it’s better than nothing which is what’s there today mostly.

Source: I work in this area.

Also: I’m looking for work!
The new Framework Laptop 13 with Intel Core Ultra Series 1 CPUs
”Make decisions where there isn’t definitive supporting data.”

I still wonder if this is something AI will ever be able to do, or if it’s much harder than we suspect and at least several more AI winters away.

It’s basically the is/ought problem, where the theory is that one cannot get to what one “ought” to do based only on what “is”.

Like we might say “it is cold outside, therefore you ought to put on a coat”. But, should you? Maybe you enjoy the cold, or maybe you live in an area ruled by a street gang and your coat is the wrong color and you risk being shot if you wear it outside.

AI could eventually make a much more informed recommendation, with more context, but at some point it begs the question of how close the model needs to get to reality, which obviously has some limit.
My experience is the opposite. When I started using Copilot I thought it would only be good at standard boilerplate but I'm constantly surprised how well it understands my completely convoluted legacy architecture that barely I understand myself even though I'm the only contributor.
> This seems like an infeasible solution in most if not all real world cases I've seen. Especially if you have a system with 15 years of legacy and some thousands of man-years of effort put into them.
> Now, the obvious "don't let it get to that point" is a smug IT nerd answer I often see regarding this, but this seems like the kind of green-field startup thinking that doesn't apply to 90+% of software development.

I think that what often happens, is that the manifestation of an old system crumbling under the weight of its complexity is that a "new kid on the block" (startup, etc.) eventually takes over. As long as the new thing only forgoes the old cruft very few care about and add stuff many care about, there's a possible takeover.
Future CEOs may be like constitutional monarchs. They will be figureheads with some responsibility, but not day to day operational duties.
Over time, as with the King/Queen of England, they will become less necessary.

Once AIs are close to doing the job, they have fundamental advantages. They're faster than humans. They have far more network bandwidth. The next frontier is figuring out how to interconnect AIs into a management team.

Can AIs use spreadsheets yet?

I'm still expecting "Microsoft Middle Manager 2.0" at some point.
Payment processors aren't "common carriers." Common carriers are a specific thing, and they're not:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_carrier
Do people get access to these things without sending you money?

edit: You can request to get paid EXTRA for a good or service you provide (a tip). You cannot request to get paid (in any way) while not providing a specific good or service in return.
I mean ChatGPT has been very successful at raising funds.
(Animation) Lusitania Sinking in Real Time – 18 Minutes of Terror [video]
Unfortunately the incentives are very much against a robust modern decentralized grid.
> hence why it is impossible to derive rights that are logically justified without an appeal to God

All attempts at changing human nature have failed, and it is human nature from whence rights are derived.

Parents with zero or one child believe that human nature is conferred from the parents. Those with 2+ children know that it is inherent.
fixed: http://github.com/civboot/civboot http://github.com/civboot/civlua

(both use Unlicense)
as a fellow pedant, i also really appreciated this clarification. i love it when i learn i've been saying something wrong!
You should just throw up your Ethereum address on your blog and let people freely and easily send you USDC. It's not a total replacement for Stripe but it's a lot easier than snail mail and there is no risk of getting your account shut down.
> Why do the rich need this dog and pony show?

Because alleviating suffering is not the goal. Reputation laundering, giving friends and family cushy sinecures, optimizing tax liability, and placating the masses and governments are the goals.
The links aren't loading for me, but there is a difference between the output when the AI is trained vs having it google something for you, no? Having the ability to google something for you vs just making up an answer or being unable to answer is definitely a step in the right direction, but isn't the same as the AI incorporating the new data into it's model on an ongoing basis as a way of continuous improvement.
There's the Tattered Cover in Denver, but it's apparently in the middle of bankruptcy right now-- might not last much longer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tattered_Cover
Yeah, "AI" is everywhere these days, and I try to give it benefit of doubt - if they want a Generative/LLM AI to build their designs and operational manuals or answer emergency questions, maybe not; if it's a more traditional 'AI' and just means automatically adapt to conditions, probably yes? As long as there exist backups and manual controls? (not because of fear of AI gaining sentience and killing us, just for unforseen or emergency circumstances)
they’re beautiful, dress like high priestesses in malfunctioning silk robes at their picturesque sound baths and ceremonies, and dating them is great
ChatTTS – open-source TTS model designed specifically for dialogue scenario
> same way no good CEO would sign up for a high risk CEO job without golden parachute

This doesn't make sense

The golden parachute means that these jobs are not "high risk" at all

Oh no you got fired and wound up with a severance package that is big enough that it could set you up for life and you can retire right now? The horror!

That's not risk. Someone working a minimum wage job living paycheque to paycheque is taking more risk when they take a sick day than any CEO with a golden parachute contract ever takes in their whole life
It's both unethical and foolish to outsource meaningful decision making to AI.

Use it to support your decision making process all you like, but you shouldn't trust a big opaque ball of matrix arithmetic to make the final call on anything that matters.
>In any case, it doesn't matter if one instance of the class of human minds hasn't invented anything, in the same way that it doesn't matter if one car can't do 80mph.

It does matter, depending on what claim you're making. We've not reached the upper bound of transformer ability. Until we clearly do, then it very much does matter.

>I'm with LeCun and Bengio. There's a fair amount of confusion about what a "model" is in that sense: a theory of the world. There's no reason why LLMs should have that.

See this is my problem with Lecun's arguments. He usually starts with the premise that it's not possible and works his way from there. If you disagree with the premise then there's very little left. "Well it shouldn't be possible" is not a convincing argument, especially when we really have very little clue on the nature of intelligence.

>Sutskever's bet is that a model can be learned from text generated by entities that already have a world model, i.e. us, but LeCun is right in pointing out that a lot of what we know about the world is never transmitted by text or language.

A lot of the world is transmitted by things humans don't have access to. Wouldn't birds that can naturally sense electromagnetic waves to intuit direction say humans have no model of the world ? Would they be right ? Nobody is trained on the world. Everything that exists is trained on small slices of it. A lot of the world is transmitted by text and language. And if push comes to shove then text and language is not the only thing you can train a transformer on.

>Sutskever again seems to think that, that kind of information, can somehow be guessed from the text, but that seems like a very tall order,

I don't think this is as tall an order as you believe

>and Transformers don't look like the right architecture. You need something that can learn hidden (latent) variables. Transformers can't do that.

But they do this all the time.

Transformer trained on only protein sequences learns biological structure and function - https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2016239118

Toy example on binary addition (transformer trained on inputs and outputs of addition sequences) learn an algorithm for it - https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/N6WM6hs7RQMKDhYjB/a-mec...

Unless i'm misunderstanding what you mean by hidden variables, it's very clear a transformer is regularly learning not just the sequences themselves but what might produce them.
Good to hear. I'll definitely check it out.
This is a business model I can get behind. The model is under a non-commercial license, but it's open weights and they have their official API for it
> The "Ghidorah" part of King Ghidorah's name comes from the pronunciation of the word "hydra" (Гидра, ˈɡʲidrɐ) in Russian, written as ヒドラ (Hidora) in Japanese.

Good eye, looks like the name does originate from that.
"We can find plenty of examples of intelligent behavior in the animal world that achieve results far better than we could achieve"

It's hard to take this author seriously. Most animals live in their own feces, while man has sent people to the moon and back.

The push to anthropomorphize animals really needs to stop amongst serious people.
I think you're the one implicitly claiming that Terry wasn't among the greatest.

I believe he is, and I took OP's comment charitably.
Arn't AIs already capable of 1 and 3? Seems like 1 is easily solved with linear regression, not AI really even needed. What is the slope of operating costs, what is the slope of revenue? Is revenue greater than operating costs? 3, well arn't people already trying to have AI solve problems where there isn't concrete data? The only difference is, there is a human between the machine and the levers. ChatGPT will give me a decision, the only thing it can't do right now is enact that decision.

Addition: Hell, it could probably solve 2. LLM that does sentiment analysis. Sentiment drops below a certain level, the model knows to put in an order for Dominos for a company pizza party, since this is about as much morale boasting as most employees get.
I'll have to defend your parent commenter on this one.

Not having indexes for FKs is on average much worse for overall performance. Defaults should be reasonable.

In the great majority of cases you WANT to have indexes in FKs.

> expect the universe to magically fix all of your mistakes

This kind of derogatory hyperbole is not necessary nor productive.

I should expect tools to help me avoid mistakes. Not having an index on FKs is, more often than not, a mistake. It is reasonable to expect PostgreSQL to help me here.
Please give me something the opposite way around. I'd like food to taste worse, so I'll eat the bare minimum, and never run the risk of overindulging. Ideally, I'd like food to taste a little better than medicine.
Agreed, also anything else from Russinovich.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/resources/win...

But you have to be aware the part 1 is now a bit dated, the 7th edition is from 2017. The part 2 is from 2021. It’s not a big deal but some references are a bit outdated and some modern stuff is missing, but nothing that will be a blocker.

The books aren’t focused on programming though, but they explains the security, threading model, etc. Really interesting reads.

I comment it often but something great with windows API is that you can still use all the Win32 APIs, almost all old examples you can find on MSDN are still relevant to this day. The only thing you need to get started is a way to interact with C, and learn windows conventions (parameter names are weird at first but make sense, the error handling can also be confusing at first, the process model is a bit strange at first if you come from Unix, etc)
I saw it as mocking Ticketmaster.
I've used Windows many times the last 20 years and i'd rather use MSYS2 to build a C/C++ program than MSVC as it allows me to use the exact same tools i'd prefer to use on Linux and macOS (...i don't really prefer to use macOS, but i can still use the same tools there too) than having Windows be its own special snowflake. And i find current MSVC incredibly bloated.

I see in other comments you mentioned Powershell and CMake and TBH these are two things i avoided whenever i used Windows. CMake is used too much to be able to avoid it on Linux (which is currently my main OS) but it is not a tool i'd use myself if i had the choice.

If i had to use a tool that generates build files, i'd rather use premake[0] as it is a self-contained binary with very simple Lua-based scripts (by default they look declarative but you can extend it as much as you want - i've even used a script to generate CMake files since these can be parsed by Qt Creator). The only downside is that on Unix systems it doesn't know concept of a shared library (can be "taught" with a custom script but it isn't something that is available out of the box).

[0] https://premake.github.io/
There's a case to be made that a naked display of force - at least in a democracy - is less authoritarian than quietly destroying someone's financial life. Spraying pepper spray and knocking heads creates some very unsavoury images that the government has to contend with during the next election and stokes outrage. Having a bunch of people's bank accounts frozen doesn't trigger the same visceral reaction.
Contrary to common culture, if memory strain is an issue with GC, it is even worse with algorithms that cannot cope with fragmentation, or have to keep going down into the OS for memory management.

Optimizations to avoid fragmentation, locking contention or stop the world domino effect in reference counting algorithms, eventually end up being a poor implementation of a proper GC.

Finally, just because a language has a GC, doesn't mean it also doesn't offer language features to do manually memory management and reference counting if one feels like it.

While Java failed to build up on the learnings from Eiffel, Oberon, Modula-3, there are others that did, like D, Nim, C#.

Not all GCs are born alike.
At 2.6 megabytes per dollar, it is at least cheaper than the price of a (very legal) kdb license, which can hover around 3 bytes per dollar.

Comparing apples and oranges here but I like thinking about the monetary value assigned to a byte.
"Big" hardware like a USB3 controller or the NVMe controller in the linked article actually looks more like software than hardware anyway, to be truthful. The devices have their own processors and accept commands that look like a software protocol: you put a linked list of these structs/headers/commands into memory, which reference buffers at these addresses via pointer, then turn the device on by writing to this register over here. As the device finishes, it signals completion with a given struct by putting a message into this output buffer (or by setting its "active" field to false, maybe), etc...

The only bits you need to worry about that looks like hardware are getting the correct physical addresses filled in, and on some platforms worring about memory ordering and/or cache management to be sure the device sees the same memory state you think it does.
> It's popular with people who don't really understand how managers help groups of people work together efficiently.

Two of the biggest things people realize when they first become managers:

1. Managing is much harder than it looks from the outside.

2. Your past managers were probably dealing with a lot more than they let on. As an IC you think you know and see everything, but you're really only seeing the tip of the iceberg.

There are exceptions, of course. One friend is a manager at a company with more managers than ICs. By his own admission, managers there don't do much at all. Of course, the company is also bleeding money with little progress, so these situations usually don't last very long. My above points are in reference to real companies doing real work, not the rare retirement community for managers.
It's unlikely you were cancelled arbitrarily and it's almost certainly the case that you're engaged in a high-risk or restricted activity.

>https://stripe.com/legal/restricted-businesses ... nothing on this page applies to what I am doing.

I doubt it. Post the URL to your business website so we can see why it was cancelled by Stripe.

EDIT: I see you posted the link below, and as eli pointed out, it's probably due to soliciting donations. Per Stripe's restricted businesses link:

Crowdfunding, fundraising, and other donation-soliciting activities
No, Visa and Mastercard aren't common carrier and they don't need a defense. Like any other business in America they can choose not to serve you for any reason or no reason at all (so long as it isn't the illegal discrimination of a protected class)
I remember having more luck at Bakka Books back in the 80s when it was on Queen St. Looks like it still exists in perhaps a reduced form [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakka-Phoenix
Blogging since last year on my own site. Didn’t want any obstructions and something that loaded really fast, just hacked something together with PHP and static files.

PHP is a great template language.

So far I think it already led to some interesting opportunities and good discussions. All of my articles got picked up by well-know newsletters so at least it’s good enough for other people.

You only get a discussion if you claim something outrageous, you’re completely wrong or you share something that can be read in less than a minute.
In kernel space ordinary operations like writing to a [u32] you own can have unexpected results. For example the page may not exist or the memory could point to some hardware component or be aliased. See also pornel's comment.

There are some ideas around Rust code patterns and structure for bare metal, see for example the RTFM work (now renamed). But they all do have some drawbacks such as redeuced readability and IMO too much abstraction.

Anyway, my point was that since of the guarantees Rust provides build upon certain assumptions about the environment that generally don't exist in kernel space.
That might work for highly tech savvy people, but that's a very small minority of users. Google will still make ad blocking near-impossible for 99.99% of its users.
AAlib can probably be used for that, although it doesn't have those text effects coded.

The demo, BB, should be more like it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ukhOAUseKY

AAlib, as far as I know, works in VT220.
>Again, unless it affects them directly, it really doesn’t matter.

It does affect them directly, doesn't anyone know why they're broke all the time (aside from inflation)? Is it possible all that harmless telemetry for harmless marketing purposes actually isn't so harmless, and Terminator is inducing you to buy products you like but really don't need more than the savings you're splurging with? No, can't be!

If people woke up to how insideously manipulated they are at large... oh man!