skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, fair enough: as I said, I don't know. The commenter with whom you originally raised the question can probably answer better there.
Depending on how your program is written, you might be able to use Lambda SnapStart and eliminate most of the cold start overhead.
"It's not worth it to save 4 lives if it means hurting someone's feelings"
I don't know. My personal take is that low-code/no-code tools should have ushered in an era of homemade software, but it didn't. It's something I think about a lot, incidentally. We've had the technology to make software using a GUI rather than a text editor for a very long time, and yet programmers still use text editors, and programming in general hasn't really been all that democratized. At best, it's now possible to create a website without knowing how to code, but it usually isn't a particularly good one.

A simple explanation is that the devil is in the details when it comes to implementation. Edge cases and granular behavior are hard to capture except in granular snippets of code. I'm not convinced that LLMs necessarily solve this problem. Even if you are working with a theoretically quite competent LLM, there are still going to be instances where describing what you want is actually challenging, to the point where it would be easier if you just did it yourself. You could argue that this doesn't matter in the case of simple software, but I think we underestimate what people really expect out of something that's "simple", and I think we underestimate people's tendency to grow bored of old toys, especially if they don't work as expected.

If anything, my belief is that LLMs by themselves aren't necessarily going to make this a reality. You need an accessible and empowering UX/UI to go along with it. Otherwise, asking an LLM to build software for you probably won't be much of a fun experience aside from those who are AI enthusiasts foremost.

Side note, I have painful feelings about so many UX researchers I used to admire jumping on board the AI hype train so uncritically. I kind of get it, their job is to speculate on new possibilities a tech offers without getting too hung up on external complications. Still, I feel disillusioned. It seems that prior to all of this these same people were questioning our implicit assumptions with how we interact with computers in really interesting ways (in the same vein as Bret Victor). Now, their takes are starting to converge with that of the usual anonymous midwit AI enthusiast on Twitter who pivoted from crypto.

Put more bluntly, the idea that LLMs will usher in a golden age of people making simple software is kind of a boring speculative future, a speculative future shared and talked about by the most uninspired and boring people on Twitter.
> Travail...Famille...Patrie (Work, Family, and Patriotism)

the opposition of these values to liberté égalité fraternité doesn't seem to have changed much in the intervening eight decades
What? How does medical debt relate in any way?

Look, medical debt is very different from other kinds of debt in that it is usually incurred suddenly and unwillingly and at ruinous expense. Just using your family medical history would be a better improvement on the model and I've got the feeling that wouldnt strike you as just.
> Tesla is perfectly boring and rational car

This is anything but what I've heard from people who own them, over drinks at least, and certainly their latest model cannot reasonably be described with either adjective you used.
Do what everyone else does - synthesize the abstract relations into views and limit the self-serve BI dashboard to the views that do make sense.
Users default to only seeing it from their perspective, so have alternate methods to let them see it how they think it works.

I'm aware of a product that uses time-based attendance for education, because not every day, every school, or every campus uses the same timetable quilt and often you have to be flexible (school sports carnivals, relief swaps, joint class activities, or 14-day rolling timetables for example). Doesn't mean there isn't a view that synthesizes the quilt into class-based attendance, or even just AM/PM for those users that think that way.
But you can say that about anything. There are people whose whole expertise is one area of, say, film production.

You can talk about films and critically analyze them without doing a deep dive into how props are made. It’s OK to have separate contexts.

It isn’t a “gotcha” that “everything is political” - it just doesn’t matter when trying to do most things. It’s distracting and pointless; it’s a null statement.

You can talk about anything without having to include politics the same way you can discuss literature without examining types of paper.
>Depending on the way you phrase questions, ChatGPT will gleefully suggest you a wrong approach, just because it’s so intent on satisfying your whim instead of saying No when it would be appropriate.

Which is easily solved by using another agent that is told to be critical and find all flaws in the suggested approach.
> In fact, the long decline observed in the past few decades is reminiscent of the secular decline that took place from 1870 to World War I.

> The fact that returns to wealth have remained fairly high and stable while aggregate wealth increased rapidly since the 1970s suggests that capital accumulation may have contributed to the decline in the labor share of income over the recent decades (Karabarbounis and Neiman 2014).

Predicted here:

Piketty, T. (2014). Capital in the twenty-first century. Harvard University Press.

> In terms of total returns, residential real estate and equities have shown very similar and high real total gains, on average about 7% a year.

> Housing, equity, bonds, and bills make up over half of all investable assets in the advanced economies today, and nearly two-thirds if deposits are included.

Interesting, Housing is marked as "risky", and yet heavily invested. Investors are over leveraged in risky investments. They probably do it because controlling housing nets them power above and beyond normal returns. I wonder if this part of the reason for the "boom and bust" of market economies in the West when proper government regulation is removed. The riskiness of much of the investment of most investors may lead to sudden losses and shifts in risk, which may result in them withdrawing capital to "safer" investments, thus triggering a "bust".

And `r ≫ g` shows why the wealthy can wield so much power. Holding capital hostage to regulate economic growth and control it is very powerful, and why they can exercise the kind of control they can.
It's a quote from, I believe, "Rogue One." The more salient question is "Why?", and to that I have no answer.
I hear the refrain "you'll have to rebuild your packages" a lot in these discussions, and I confess I don't see how this is a problem. Maybe it's a holdover from C and C++ veterans for whom figuring out how to build any given project is a Herculean effort, but for every other language with a first-class build system it's trivial.
> desperately need to communicate more effectively

Any particular reason why?

(Besides the unproven and possibly wrong notion that it will promote peace, etc.)
Bizarre that I literally heard about this for the first time yesterday, as it’s mentioned in the excellent game Pentiment, which is about a scriptorium in a 16th century monastery (which is more interesting than it sounds!)

Thanks for sharing.
The short version is residential scale anything usually isn't cost-effective. Roof top solar panels are the one exception and it's marginal - basically coz the land is worth more then the panels by a lot.
Xcrete
> I just don't want you to force me.

Rust supports dynamic linking, and has since well before 1.0.
They are GPUs, but standing for General Processing Unit. "GPU" the acronym has persisted from sheer force of tradition and habit, but what it means has changed drastically over the past several years between cryptocurrency and now "AI".

I wonder if NPU will supercede GPU as in General Processing Unit now that it has finally entered the wider lexicon, relegating GPU back to Graphics Processing Unit or video cards.

And no, GPGPU (General Purpose Graphics Processing Unit) is a bloody stupid term to be bluntly honest.
2024 is not relatively peaceful for the 21st century is indeed accurate. But relatively peaceful in terms of (the explicitly stated context) of human history is unambiguously accurate. There are multiple wars in the 19th century that have death tolls greater than all global conflicts since 2000.

I'm not sure what you are trying to argue or if you're just trolling or being flippant. No one is trying to dismiss the wars in Ukraine or Israel/Palestine. No one is trying to even diminish the atrocities in these conflicts in any way. But you are in fact being dismissive of the tens of millions who passed away in just the 1800s and even more in the other centuries. We can compare things without diminishing things and not recognizing the successes and failures of the past will only lead to greater intensity in the future.

If you cannot recognize context nor qualifying words, we are done here. Engage in good faith or not at all.
Lisp is objectively more readable. Adding parentheses around expressions distinguishes them. Compare the following.

a b c d
(d (c b) a)

The bottom example is objectively more readable. You can determine more about its intended function by looking at the code. In the top case, you can't tell what is a function call or how many arguments each function consumes. In the bottom, you can.
i immediatly tried to find "glish" in the outputs; for those not wanting to git clone

glish]$ git grep -A4 -B4 -n '"glish"' outputs/
outputs/monosyllabic.json-336287- [
outputs/monosyllabic.json-336288- "english",
outputs/monosyllabic.json-336289- {
outputs/monosyllabic.json-336290- "mono": "ɡlɪʃ",
outputs/monosyllabic.json:336291: "respelled": "glish",
outputs/monosyllabic.json-336292- "method": "direct",
outputs/monosyllabic.json-336293- "numSyllables": 2
outputs/monosyllabic.json-336294- }
outputs/monosyllabic.json-336295- ],
> They declined to give Elon Musk control when he offered them a billion to save the company.

On the contrary, it was the fact Elon pulled the $1B he had previously offered that put the company in jeopardy.

https://www.semafor.com/article/03/24/2023/the-secret-histor...
Yes and but: look up ZCPR/3
> Debt is debt and affects someone’s ability to service other debts.

"A large portion of consumers with medical debts in collections show no other evidence of financial distress and are consumers who ordinarily pay their other financial obligations on time. 22 percent of consumers with collections tradelines (7 percent of all consumers with credit reports) have only medical collections tradelines. These consumers owe less, have more available credit which they could use to repay their debt, and are more reliable payers than consumers with non-medical collections tradelines or than consumers with both types of collections tradelines. Indeed, of the consumers with only medical collections tradelines, approximately 50 percent have otherwise 'clean' credit reports with no indication of serious past delinquencies" [1].

It thus seems up for debate whether these debts represent the financial health or creditworthiness of the consumer.

> feels like a ban on speech

It's commercial speech regarding a private concern and thereby subject to "intermediate scrutiny" (versus the strict scrutiny afforded to political speech) [2].

[1] https://files.consumerfinance.gov/f/201412_cfpb_reports_cons...

[2] http://www.jtexconsumerlaw.com/V16N2/V16N2_FairCredit.pdf
You know this is a growing trend with teens, right?

Like to eschew smartphones and just use basic feature phones and to interact in real physical settings and not digital ones.

There's a growing and warranted push back to pervasive and addictive digital technology.
> 100X on selected workloads is easy to believe, I mean, it be a 100 wide vector unit and the workload they get 100X on could be adding up a big line of numbers, haha.

Exactly my thought, modern FPGAs have >1000 DSP elements; I can make 1000x paralle counters and theoretically “do more work”. It’s also extremely unimpressive. Haha
The FAR's weren't the problem. Self-regulation by the manufacturer was. Bring back adversarial FAA inspectors.
A friend is building service called memxi that scrapes thr page you bookmark and then gives u a rag like way to look up things later with LLM fuzzy search
It does, but it's also a really, really nice language. I'm excited to see Apple work to file those edges down. (and i say this as someone who is a Golang and Linux fan and owns zero iThings)
https://treaties.un.org/doc/Publication/MTDSG/Volume%20I/Cha...
As a non-economist, I ask: do you think their above-grade returns can persist into the future for decades, without becoming a concern, or altering this 7% rate?

My example of why it is bad is a hypothetical. If it's a stupid hypothetical I accept that, but my underlying belief that you cannot really have identified, "the same" companies continue to return 2-3x market average over 50 years without some concern remains.

Am I wrong? Sure, some companies do better than others. Warren Buffet swears by re-insurance. When the west coast disappears in a tsunami, it won't be as bountiful, right?
Rust supports dynamic linking, it's just not the default, so you need to configure a given crate to use it at build time.
In sleep my fundamental thingy, "that which observes", is catapulted out of the matrix. To the shores of the outer world probably, further maybe. The stuff is real but hallucinating happens too. And I carry my universal translator with me too. Converting the strange experiencestuff into common time-space-meat format.

But yes, it is deeply strange. A profound loss of familiar context. And with it the associated anchors of memory.

So yeah
I grew up watching him on tv whenever planetary missions did something great. So, I saw him a lot and admired him even more. A true giant has passed.
User data management for AR using a distributed ledger
An online demo and a link to an informative video are here:

https://paralogical.dev/glish/

Input: South Korea has said it will resume propaganda broadcasts against North Korea for the first time in six years in response to Pyongyang's campaign of sending rubbish-filled balloons across the border.

Glish output: South kawrshk has said it will zoordz pran byerkstz genst North kawrshk for the first time in six years in spahns to yangz kayktn of sning brish-filled noorz skruh the derr.

Not very practical but a lot of fun.

More than a century ago, “words of one syllable” was a trend in publishing:

Robinson Crusoe in words of one syllable

https://archive.org/details/robinsoncrusoeindefo/page/8/mode...

Aesop's fables in words of one syllable

https://archive.org/details/aesopsfablesinwo00aeso/page/6/mo...

History of Japan in words of one syllable

https://archive.org/details/historyofjapanin00smit/page/n9/m...
> I've ran a not for profit worth ~$100m.

Based on this thread I find that incredibly hard to believe. Incredibly.

> It's only when you start doing completely unrelated activities, like Mozilla's women who code

Or like... Mozilla Firefox. Cause that's why they've had Mozilla Corporation since 2005. Google pays the corporation for default search engine placement and all of the full time Firefox developers I've ever known have worked for the corporation, not the nonprofit.
I looked up electron donors in Wikipedia and apparently those serve as reducing agents. I was confused how it would oxidize wood, so I looked up 'iron-catalyzed oxidation' and found an article (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00351367) which claims oxidizing iron produces free radicals and hydrogen peroxide which subsequently eats the wood. I also came across https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrous in my research....chemistry is complicated.
Or having a medical emergency and being rushed to a hospital that happens to be out of network.
> like running up cancer treatment bills that they can't afford to pay

Looking at this strictly from the perspective of creditworthiness, the question isn't the morality of the debt but whether this influences that person's ability to pay their credit card bill on time.

Based on the CFPB's data, if that's the sole delinquency on the report, the answer is a coin flip [1].

[1] https://files.consumerfinance.gov/f/201412_cfpb_reports_cons... page 7
Currently trying emacs (after years of VIM) and what amazes me is how easy it is to extend the system. I don't know if we can extends this to novice. But spreadsheet and form builder looks like the most viable candidate. Maybe extends it with modules like data providers (files, music, contacts, emails,...) and actions (open file, play audio, call, send email,...). But this require open standards and protocols and the industry is trying hard to move away from those.
> The response to the vast majority of failures, even stuff as critical as an uncontained engine failure, is not to fast-twitch take some reflexive action, it's to work through a checklist (even memory items are still a checklist) to be sure you're actually taking the right action - and there are tolerances built into both internal and external systems to give pilots time to do that.

Let's see, a pilot flying in the yellow hits turbulence followed by a wind shear, and pulls up...
Any details on how these tests were created? I.e. which kind of program was used for generation.
Wait what. Gurbaksh Chahal? Dude, that guy is famous in ad tech. He was BlueLithium's founder and RadiumOne's founder. Super successful. He was on TV for the show Secret Millionaire etc. and went to jail for beating his girlfriends. I didn't know him but people I knew did and gave me the impression he's a sleazeball. Hearsay etc. etc. but the domestic violence kind of gave me the impression it was fair.

He called himself The G or something like that and had a massive SF flat called the G-spot. Haha, I haven't heard his name in the better part of a decade.
I'm not convinced labeling regulations work. Producers don't label accurately, and consumers aren't realistically in a position to make the choice being described. I live in California, where we have Prop 65 warnings on everything. The motivation there was quite similar -- people should be aware if a product or space is exposing them to substances which can cause serious harm. But I have never met a single person who refuses to enter a space with a Prop 65 warning because you basically couldn't function in society that way. When you buy a product with a Prop 65 warning, it's generally not actually feasible to know which chemical(s) (if any) prompted the warning. (Some companies may put the warning on all of their products even if only some of them actually contain such a substance.) Further, labeling for the nominal presence of some substance is not enough to make decisions -- you need to know what your actual exposure is likely to be. The system ends up being pretty useless.
> there are still going to be instances where describing what you want is actually challenging, to the point where it would be easier if you just did it yourself

Yeah exactly. I've seen meetings between engineers get into a level of technical specificity where I've had the thought "we are just coding in english now."

Even if you're able to communicate your intent with natural language rather than a "programming language," you still arrive at a level of concrete detail that is difficult or impossible to describe without some sort of standard technical shorthand or jargon. This is true whether the "listener" is an LLM, some other sophisticated machine interpreter, or just another person.
Diagnosing video signal loss on Wii and GBS-Control
> In the early ’90s, when id Software first began publishing games, the games had to be programmed to run efficiently on computers not designed to run them, computers meant for word processing, spreadsheet applications, and little else.

That isn't really true. Games were there pretty much for all of the PC era. I was using a computer at the time Doom came out, and there were a bajillion (obviously less graphically sophisticated) games in common circulation, and gaming was a significant and widely accepted part of home computer sales.
Why would they be impossible?

Plenty of people do similar trips every year. I know two people who cycled from London to Sydney several years ago.
There's also the Mongol Rally and similar fun adventures that people do.

Today you might not go through Afghanistan just like in the 70s you would not go through Vietnam.

I am also surprised you consider countries less safe today than in the 70s.
The 70s were rife with terrorism and war throughout the world and poverty was orders of magnitudes higher in the vast majority of the countries than it is now.

Maybe you have just become more cautious?
It's a stupid one too. "GPT" is an OpenAI trademark. Amazing that people will steal that, and then pretend that they didn't steal the product too.
My point is that it would change the game into a different one, with a different skill-set, and forcing everyone through the same restriction wouldn't make it any better.

And even if I disregard all this, cloud gaming wouldn't solve the problem, as hardware cheats that don't run on the gaming machine would still be usable.
Discussion [0] (178 points, 4 hours ago, 171 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40651203
I used their free tier. Didn’t meet my needs. Tried to delete my account. It fails to delete my tenent, can’t talk to support because it is free tier. Email support refused to help. Told me to pay to talk to support. So they want me to pay so I can have them delete my account.
I do the same. It’s a hierarchical steppe like system. Maybe if we gave it a name, people would develop to this target.
Istanbul to London, 12000 Kilometers
https://www.forbes.com/sites/rebeccahughes/2023/03/29/the-wo...
Quote from Max Payne 2 on free will:

"There are no choices. Nothing but a straight line. The illusion comes afterwards, when you ask 'Why me?' and 'What if?' When you look back, see the branches, like a pruned bonsai tree, or a forked lightning. If you had done something differently, it wouldn't be you, it would be someone else looking back, asking a different set of questions.."
NASA, Boeing push back Starliner's crewed return to June 18
Scamminess and hype notwithstanding, I'm still endlessly impressed that a natural language prompt like that actually does work at all.
> do you think their above-grade returns can persist into the future for decades

In aggregate, yes, given equities have done just fine persisting over the last century and a half. (Also, the 7% figure appears to be nominal.)

> you cannot really have identified, "the same" companies continue to return 2-3x market average over 50 years without some concern remains

No, I don't believe we have precedent for this.

> When the west coast disappears in a tsunami, it won't be as bountiful, right?

Flooding isn't typically privately insured. As far as reinsurance is concerned, a tsunami taking out a bunch of California would be financially uneventful; on one hand, you're losing a premium stream, on the other hand, you've freed up reserves.

(Not an economist nor an actuary, but have training in both and some licensing in the latter.)
"...Lynn was recently awarded the rare IBM Lifetime Achievement Award, given to individuals who have changed the world through technology inventions."

After the way they treated her, I wouldn't accept it.
Sometimes the employee comes down with a chronic medical problem that affects performance.
Discussion [0] (350 points, 23 hours ago, 287 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40641361
FWIW, Achenbrenner discusses some of OpenAI's motivations here:

https://youtu.be/zdbVtZIn9IM?si=F7evv4xfSjsS-Gob