skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Frankfurt’s book “On Bullshit” explains that lies and bullshit are very distinct:

- Both people who are lying and people who are telling the truth are focused on the truth. The liar wants to steer people away from discovering the truth and the person telling the truth wants to present the truth.

- A person who communicates bullshit is not interested in whether what they say is true or false, only in its suitability for their purpose.

By this definition, the article seems well reasoned

> We argue that these falsehoods, and the overall activity of large language models, is better understood as bullshit in the sense explored by Frankfurt (On Bullshit, Princeton, 2005): the models are in an important way indifferent to the truth of their outputs
It’s not a captive market. It’s a market where the buyer has a need and if they don’t have that need met, then the buyer will suffer. That’s FOMO, and that’s when sales happen. If the buyer can sit on their laurels without any negative repercussions, then they’re not going to pull the trigger until their situation changes.
EU's 'Going Dark' Takes Aim at Self-Custody, Mixers and the Lightning Network
>> do you actually have some constructive argument for not using k8s

It adds vast complexity and is not needed.
Overly specific non-competes are just not enforceable. Just tell the judge you're going to go on unemployment and medicaid (You can, since you have no income), and they'll quickly re-arrange things to make it worthwhile. Why would a state possibly do this?

Going back to your list. Look at the 'protected activities'. Simply being employed in the field is rarely one of them. Yes, you can't take clients or poach employees. Some might require repayment for training, etc. But no one can make you unemployed and destitute for it. Why would any state want that?

The key word in many of the tables is 'not against public policy', which is what it means when states don't want people to start taking welfare when not able to work.

That being said I am glad states are now pre-emptively fining businesses that attempt to use these. It shouldn't be up to employees ignoring what they presume to be valid contracts.
The Alpine Linux docker image is 7.8 MiB to Ubuntu's 76 MiB, so they get a savings of about 68 MiB in image size by using Alpine Linux over Ubuntu.

From the stats in TFA it looks like about 43 MiB of the file size is the Swift runtime itself, which would need to be installed in any OS. This leaves ~57 MiB extra in their static binary approach vs what they'd get out of dynamic linking.

68 MiB (saved by using alpine) - 57 MiB (lost to static linking) = 11 MiB (net gains from Alpine), so their Alpine Linux solution is actually about 10% smaller than the equivalent that uses an Ubuntu image.

Is that worth the extra work they put into it? It probably depends on the application.
There could be both.

I very much identify with the self respecting type your parent describes and try my best to 'punish' sellers who try silly FOMO tactics, by demoting them into oblivion in my books. However, I am still prone to some FOMO with proven, trusted brands.

Anecdote: Several years ago I happened to try out a certain brand of shoes and loved the quality and style and have ever since only bought that brand and have even introduced friends and family members to it. However, I still wait for their deals to show up before picking up a pair and am vulnerable to their "time running out" campaigns. I click "Buy", assured that at least I won't be stuck with a substandard product.

I like to think that if I ever build a product, I would focus on quality and attract the kind of customer I myself am and would never stoop to the lowly FOMO tactics, even for assured short term gains.
What Vegetarianism Means in India
Meh, I skim read the paper. It’s been published in an ethics journal and written by philosophers.

It’s a very long paper that reads to me like an opinion piece designed to get a reaction (and citations).
No words for how bad this article is. It is essentially the sky is falling and we need to immediately go back to strict lockdown procedures, increase vaccination rates and shut down dissenting voices.

Just nonsense. The people have spoken and do not want to go back to 2020/21. They are willing to take the risk to live more active lives in contact with other people.

If you want to tackle the real health elephant in the room just take a look at morbid obesity rates, quality of life and risks associated with.
Astrology based dating is less bonkers than this.
I calculated how much our savings would be if we buy a PHEV instead of a new ICE (or a very efficient mild hybrid like the civic or a corolla) and we wouldnt get even after 5 years, because buying a PHEV costs that much more.

Of course this is based on our car usage patterns so its really subjective.

I agree with you on the powergrid and charging infrastructure. A counterpoint i rarely see is if everyone would switch to EVs or PHEVs in 5 years, the electrical infra would collapse. And the electricity price world skyrocket and it would not be this cheap as it is now. So we should keep that in mind when we calculate the savings.
I have a similar issue with R2 billing, but related to enabling bucket events. Says I need a subscription, which I already have. I opened a ticket in ~March while they were having a huge billing outage. After a month of pinging them every 3 days for an update they closed the ticket without replying marking it as resolved.

I still don’t have access to bucket events.

I want to assume it must be an absolute mess internally where they can’t even reply to a ticket.
it presumes some huge things.

like, that selling light bulbs that expire in weeks is better for the supply curve.

or presumes that workers might never beat the prisoners dilemma and the central banks will always keep the correct unemployment rate.

or that consumers will never make any informed purchase and will always drive process to bottom for a good demand curve.

etc.

the thing is, it works very well, because the system accepted that dogma just like feudalism accepted looks were ordained from god, despite having to hold an army to keep god's word... so the models work, but you must accept the whole theology, which is never mentioned in any level of economics (well, it's briefly mentioned as tools in development economy)
And the machine crashes which in production environments is far preferable to dog slow.
ok, but why are they still involved at that point? shouldn't a recruiter get out of the picture once the connection is made? if they are still involved after that then they are an employment agency. you get good and bad ones there too. but my contract should make it clear which one it is.
Well, if producing a working, custom disposable web application doing exactly what I need to do in half an hour for data processing is bullshit, I don’t know what isn’t.
The only thing I understood from this reading is that I don’t want to date Jessica
if this happens to me then i can just directly shut down my business, this is unbelievable
Maybe try reading TFA? There’s a whole section on transcoding.
The problem is that if you're using a reasonable and modest way to describe your level of knowledge, then that's a good way to shaft yourself over if the other guy is bullshitting with titles like "senior" and "expert", either in terms is salary or not getting the job at all.
Yeah but I find them unusable as an entire month is too long for a single sprint
Anyone know if the wifi6 support extend to hostapd? Can this be setup as a decent wifi router under Linux (or *bad)?
At some point the current incarnation of the GOP will have power - with or without Trump, 2024 or later. It’s just sadly something that’s going to happen.
sounds like every AGI huckster out there vs those who have been in the weeds with ML / NLP since 2010s

but yes AGI will be here in 2 years... if only I was an expert and could know this for sure!!! :D
Now if the Economist wasn't a warren of conservative talking points how might it land?
That's what an asshole would say
I have had this same encounter (in Arabic though). And I still vividly remember when it all made sense (that would be 24 years ago)
An expert can also say, "I've never done that before, but I did this other thing, and if we adapt your requirements like this, we can derisk the problem by applying part of the previous solution".
Sheaf Theory Through Examples
I think he is actually trying to say it IS a simulation and NOT emulating the real world.

At least in the hardware world, there are simulators (which are faux short cut versions that work reasonably like the real thing) and emulators (which are software versions that act exactly like the real thing, but usually are very slow)
This is true but I think it would still be nice for VCS to have a first class concept of "peek through" changes (whitespace, formatting, etc.) for the purpose of blame.
First world problem, I know, but when did we stop getting an ebook along side a purchase of a paper copy?
Googles source control system at the time (Perforce) didn’t allow for this at least easily. Not sure about now
those are imported words.
You could check out the A500 mini, more of an emulator though - https://retrogames.biz/products/thea500-mini/
I need to check my exact configuration, but whilst I've got 1e100 in a list, I think I've got an exception for it elsewhere.

Ie. Whilst it's been detected as uninvited activity, it causes issues when blocked, so it's excluded from the blocking.
the shunting yard algorithm is beautiful. I also love flood fill, especially with a nice visualisation.
The ESP32 has nothing to do with a Raspberry Pi. It's only good that people learnt to use the better tool (in terms of price and power consumption) once better tools like MicroPython or NodeMCU came around.
Academia is cooperative. A good paper is a paper that furthers discussion.
I just want to point out that I think ChatGPT has seen more data than a single human being. With 45 TB of text data [1], it would cost a human around 70k years of continuous reading (assuming 1 GB is 200M words, and humans read 225 words per minute) to see all the training data.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/google-researchers-openai-ch...
> We're trained on significantly more data than ChatGPT et al.

I don't think that's true anymore. GPT-4 is rumored to have been trained on a dataset with >1 trillion tokens. An average human would take a few thousand years to read through that dataset once.
Still, their actuarial chance of dying within a year is >5%, given their age and sex.

Even with scans and checkups, at that age, a bad case of the flu can kill you, or start you on that path. And I don't think we have any reliable non-invasive ways of detecting heart attack risk, or aneurism risk, those kinds of things.
> P.S. - OpenAI adds former NSA chief to its board

Related HN discussion of the annoucement 3 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40674835
This is very unhelpful. There's a difference between "someone fatfingered a command and brought this mysql machine down" and "our cloud provider shut down a core feature for our account".

When you design a new system do you plan for S3 to go down for more than a day? Do you have a fleet of offsite machines to smoothly transition to? If not, why not?
To be fair, Pokémon is abbreviated English, while pachinko is recent from pachin, the onomatopoeia of the loud sound made by the metal balls.

I believe the change into “h” sounds is more applied to words that were traditionally initiated in “p” but morphed over time, in turn also making words starting on “p” an oddity.
Honest question, what different decisions could you make with a 48-52 interval than a completely uninformed interval of 0-100?
That's the difference between [e] and [ɛ] in IPA (in IPA, with "narrow" phonetic transcription, you enclose the sounds in brackets). In American English, "ace" is [eɪs] and "mess" is [mɛs]. But I don't think that's right; I'm pretty sure both the Japanese e and Spanish e sound exactly the same.

And if you pronounced [e] and [ɛ] to native speakers of either Spanish or Japanese, they most likely wouldn't be able to differentiate the two sounds consistently without having had training. I know that in Spanish, realization of e can be either vowel depending on the speaker and context; they might pronounce "tierra" as [tjɛra] and "mesa" as [mesa].
Those are idioms.
Probably more expensive as well.
Hopefully you built a solid eval system around the core of your GenAI usage, otherwise, yes, this is going to be very painful :)
>if the organization is dysfunctional, it won't be beaten by a better one, and (2) it has little incentive to improve.

Source? Ever heard of elections? Sounds like a braindead libertarian software developer take on a topic you have no idea about to me
I did a summer school/camp program at my local HS when i was about maybe 10 or 11 where we learned logo on apple //s, they even had a could of turtle robots that were controlled via, i assume, the serial port. So by the end we all got to send one of our programs to the bot to draw out in sharpie on a big roll of craft paper. I'm sure in my parents attic somewhere there it's probably still rolled up in a box.

Love the immediacy and physicality of that to this day, which is why i still love processing as a learning language for kids.

Oh nice, someone has done some work restoring on of those little robots: https://www.waitingforfriday.com/?p=70
Sumerians counted to 12 on one-hand.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexagesimal
So how many tools out there use the term "uri" to sound smart but would fall over on their faces of you passed anything but a web URL to their "uri" parameter?
I usually want to load-balance between different hosting providers (so if AWS goes down, I still have DO running). From what I've seen, most of them only provide load-balancing within their local networks.
The old grammar rule we all obey without realising (2016)
It's a hard lesson to learn like this, but it's a learning moment nonetheless. You don't rely on your provider to make backups for business-critical stuff like this, you need to manage it (and test!) it yourself.

rclone[1] supports tons of storage providers. If you get access back and recover your business, start making backups onto other providers.

[1] https://rclone.org/
Right, but barring evidence against the simpler model we should prefer it to a more complex one.
Crypto Startup Funding Overcomes Blow-Ups to Hit $100B
Global defence groups hiring at fastest rate in decades amid record orders
https://archive.ph/ucUxn
> At the end of the day, I guess I just don't really see what the issue is with AI hallucinations or how they make them less intelligent.

At the end of the day, you wouldn't be bothered if Average Joe would add arsenic to your favourite pie, because AI told it would enhance it's taste, right?

Thing is, Average Joe wouldn't be the one asking your brother about bulls and steers, or your wife about watermellons. They would ask ChatGPT. And 99% it would be all fine, until some orphanage cook would try to improve some dish.
For me as well. I've been a CTO of a software company since 2011, but this is how I got started.
'Blue Screen of Death' Comes to Linux
Blame can be configured to ignore cleanups like this.
I don't agree.

When the first raspberry was introduced, it was really really hard to interface an electronics project with the internet. Arduinos were really dumb at the time. That's why the raspberry was so ideal. But most electronics projects didn't really need a whole linux distro running on it. It was just that there was no other option.

The ESPs introduced a totally new class that can cover most of the usecases of electronics projects that the raspberry originally aimed at. They support wifi, bluetooth, pretty serious processing, enough for most connected projects. They totally ate the raspberry's lunch in the embedded market. Of course the RP2040 aims for this too but IMO it's kinda too little too late, the ESP32 is already so well established and has the biggest community.

At the other end of course the PC pricing came down and the intel N100's and the like eat its lunchon the other side.
Hacker News is, in my experience, and despite its benefits, susceptible to a belief in pseudoscience. I love the optimism behind the refrain of “what’s next?” But, at the end of the day, I wish the community, myself included, did a better job of acknowledging that this optimism too frequently sacrifices comprehension and understanding for the dopamine released when we contemplate possible futures.
Haven't actually done the book. Can vouch for the lectures[1] though. Very much worth it to get a different perspective on various language structures I had just taken for granted.

Watching 2-3 of these will probably answer your question.

[1] https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.001/abelson-sussm...
This is a very fun book, and an unusual one too. Especially for a concept that even many pure mathematicians find abstract.
If data on S3 is crucial for business to be alive? Of course! I would even think about writing data to 2 separate storages in real time to be able to switch easily.
3-2-1 backup is a no joke, especially when it's your business, not a hobby project. Having DR too. And it's not a legacy, 20 years old system, so it's much easier to do such plans and test them.
Were the segment registers (fs, gs) slower than the general registers (ax, dx)? I used to use them all the time as temp variables :/
Tech nostalgia enthusiasts have made a PiDP-10, a replica of the PDP-10
NumPy 2.0 Is Released
Oh boy, the asymmetry of modern dating is really something.

Just imagine if a man tried to do what this woman is doing. Just imagine being a man and asking a woman you're dating to "approach our relationship as an experiment" that runs in 2 week "sprints" where you require your partner to "commit to radical transparency and empathy" and "commit to continuous improvement" to find out every 2 weeks if you dump them.

I guess being a woman means you can "co-create" your own rules for dating and men will just line up to compete each other for your favor. No matter how many obstacles you throw in your own way, you can still find happiness, because the world will bend over backwards to accommodate your every whim. Must be nice.
The point about using the term bullshit (as used by Frankfurt [1]) is it implies indifference to truth.

So the paper is pointing out that, rather than thinking of these models as being mostly truthful, but which sometimes hallucinate, it's more accurate to think of them as bullshit all the time.

It doesn't mean that the bullshit is wrong (although it could be). The model itself doesn't care.

[1] https://reasonandmeaning.com/2017/01/23/harry-frankfurt-on-b...
Some schools have already banned phones and everyone loves the result. The wave is coming.
Pretty sure the issue is that the RK3588 drivers are not upstreamed into Linux/U-Boot etc. This is the issue with most ARM CPUs in this area like the Broadcom ones RPi is using. Which is why they have Raspberry Pi OS to ship you the drivers. The first good ARM CPU to actually get mainlined will probably see more sales.

RK3588 upstreaming project: https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2024/02/21/almo...

Risc-V JH7110[0] upsteam status: https://rvspace.org/en/project/JH7110_Upstream_Plan

[0] used in https://www.starfivetech.com/en/site/boards
Is "AI" an imitator or an expert?

It is performing mimicry.

What happens when people try to "learn" from imitators.
All changes need to be reviewed. That's the point of code reviews.

Your suggestion would allow people to bypass the code review by just saying "oh it's just cleanup don't worry".
> but you shouldn't blindly buy a PSU to any computer

Make up your mind.

Or you don't need to bother with RPi PSUs or you shouldn't blindly buy a PSU to any computer.

It's even more ridiculous what you were proven wrong in your assumptions about RPi PSU.
Nix is another option for static builds. There is a `pkgsStatic` tree for building static musl-linked binaries, which would be a perfect integration point for Swift's static Linux target.
Yes interesting elephant in Japanese is almost the same word in Shona (a bantu language of Zimbabwe) nzou vs zou and sound very similar. Many words have similar structures. Many shona names could be mistaken to be Japanese.
Do you run a multicloud system too? In case the AWS account gets shut down by billing issues?
1 trillion tokens is about 1024 GB (assuming 1 byte per token).

Humans ingest about 74GB of data per day: https://kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frym.2017.0002...

That means for a human baby to be as smart as GPT they would have to go from zero to speaking English within two weeks of birth.

Your error is mistaking training data for text only. Humans are particularly inefficient with text because it takes a lot of visual data to get to the thought of a particular word or character due to how human senses work (we have no 'token' sense).
Even among words that do theoretically have an ordering preference, some people have different habits. I knew someone who habitually said "three or two", rather than "two or three".

Leaving aside the effect of prosody mentioned in another comment, I think the rest of it is habit, together with the brain's tendency to group things. If you're used to hearing "plus or minus", your brain may be grouping it together into a phrase whose meaning you understand directly without decomposition, so if you hear "minus or plus" there's a moment of having to map the components to the composite meaning, together with wondering if the speaker intends the difference to have a meaning.

(In mathematics, there's a reason to have both ± and ∓, since you can use them both in the same equation when you need "minus when the other one is plus, and plus when the other one is minus". For instance, a±b∓c means "a+b-c or a-b+c".)

I don't know if this has a name, but if it does I'd love to know it.
Cute, but missing some things that real ntpd on *nix offers.

And I like ntpd. I also like self-contained systems that I can tweak without using a compiler and a dev environment. I'm a fairly competent computer user, but I have zero aspirations of being a programmer when I grow up.

(If a Pi Zero W can do the job, then: Why must it not do that job?)
This might answer my question here, but it's unclear if the same performance hit happens if the CPU is in Real Mode:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40700257
Only to find out later the increase was authorised but the recruiter took it and lied to the worker about it be accepted.

If an increase was requested by the worker and authorised by the client and then the recruiter just plain lied about it and took the money - how is that not plain old fraud?
I wonder what the outcome would be if they said "bouba" in a high-pitched voice, and "kiki" in a low-pitched voice.
Um, ok. I think you're massively underestimating the LoC of the services mentioned (I would bet significant sums that cumulatively it would exceed a basic k8s deploy).

I'm also not really sure what the relevance of LoC here is though? The Linux Kernel is a large codebase...but surely you don't object to using that?
“How do I move the turtle in Logo” was one of the controversial questions in Stack Overflow back in the date. It was posted by Joel Spolsky, one of the co-creators and then deleted by Jeff Atwood, the other co-creator. I like it because it illustrates the two cultures so well. Joel thought it was a reasonable and answerable question and Jeff thought it wasn’t specific enough to be a real question. In the end Stack Overflow went Jeff’s way which I think is a pity. The question was undeleted later for its “historical significance”: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1003841/how-do-i-move-th...
Ugh I just loved to play that game. Cool you still do!
I think Linux dropped support for 486, right? That was the only thing I remember that supported dual 486.