skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks I will get down voted to oblivion for it.

Cause getting angry at a problem and spending 2 days coding to completely replace a long standing issue isnt something that happens...

People need to be less precious. You cant be happy all the time. In fact you probably should not be (life without contrast is boring). A little anger about the indignities and bullshit in the world is a good thing. As long as you're still rational and receptive, it can be an effective tool for communicating a point.
Actix-Web: v4.8.0
It’s a gimmick and a waste. Just walk or jog outside.
IMO the concept of long-term bulk storage doesn't really make sense: Most of your stuff will be recycled by your grandkids.

While you're alive, you can just buy a couple of NAS, stash one at a friend's/parent's place, buy the cheapest $/TB storage, use raidz to automatically correct errors over time, and set it up to email you every time it had to resiver to a hot spare so you can buy another HDD

>only a fool would trust them to last

Heh, head over to /r/DataHoarder to see more of that. "but this time it's different, my coasters don't use organic dyes!"
That is something I hear over and over, particularly as a rebuttal to the argument that llm is just a stochastic parrot. Calling it "good enough" doesn't mean anything, it just allows the person saying it to disengage from the substance of the debate. It's either reasons or it doesn't, and today it categorically does not.
Easy. Is the interview process a dehumanizing process, or is it not a process at all and you are treated as a potential friend and colleague? Are they trying to sell you on the team and project or are they merely hazing their applicants? That will tell you more than any heuristic about the culture of working at this company.
Even prior to the "digital generation", the reading and comprehension skills of a lot of students at my grammar school in the UK were piss-poor, even when I left at sixteen. These kids weren't diagnosed with dyslexia either.

Part of what we blamed was the switching between techniques of teaching reading. It seemed every few years a new gimmick to teach it came along. Kids, parents and even teachers thought the methods became worse over time, but they had to teach what was on the curriculum.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2022/jan/19/focus-on-p...
AGI Will Never Happen
My premise for a time travel movie is very simple.

1. Buy a book on probability. Work through the practice exercises.

2. Time travel back to a time before the laws of probability were invented or taken seriously. Pre-1600's would be a good guess.

3. Become a gambler.

4. With the riches that will soon be pouring into your pockets, acquire resources and transform history.
Back in the olden days, we had a customer who wanted, and got budget for, a CD-ROM burner, with the requisite Adaptec SCSI adapter, cables, burning software, etc. Blank CDs were $5 each, and you only got one chance to write them. It got to the point that you didn't even touch the computer while it was burning a CD.

If you looked at it wrong, or talked too loud, or seemed to be having a good day
... Poof.. buffer underflow, and a $5 coaster.

I grew to hate Adaptec, and had a really bad case of the SCSI Blues.

I'll never forget, nor forgive them.
Unfortunately, drives are not so common these days. I had to go buy an external USB DVD drive to see the images given to me after a scan, just last year.
Yeah, I didn't find any link to the source code either.
Great feature of DVD-Rs is that someone across the globe cannot just connect to it and steal medical data.
The police do their best to remove dangerous drivers! And yet, people keep exercising free will and breaking the law and rarely get caught.

As with most systems involving human error, improving the humans has a limit if their livelihoods do not depend on strict adherence to the rules (and even then, you get violations!) The most complete way to remove human error is to remove humans.
Thanks for the comment. I don't have PMF yet. I have a couple of paid customers but that's all there is. I don't see new sign up or response from people when I reach out to them over email or LinkedIn. Hence the question around long-term deals or rewards.
> ??! You've got a system of unpredictable reliability and you're going to let it handle money?

Yes. Recall phone banking? I imagine it like that. Potentially via a chat service like Whatsapp or signal.

You'd start with simple standard tasks and low limits, if course. But the risk and value can be directly quantified in online banking.
At least you understood that it was an attempt at humor. Humor is subjective.
Give it a few more years and the annual Call of Duty title may well hit a tb. The latest one is up to something like 300gb iirc.
I’m pretty sure CS50 starts from Scratch.
But were you using Taiyo-Yudens on a Plextor FTW??
To be clear I was just bunching high profile AI founders and CEOs that can’t seem to stop talking about how dangerous the thing they’re trying to build is together. I don’t know (nor care) about Ilyas and Altmans current relationship.
> It'll die down like web3, Big Data, cloud, mobile, etc

At least half of those the promise was realised though - mobile is substantially bigger than the market for computers and cloud turned out to be pretty amazing. AWS is not necessarily cost effective but it is everywhere and turned out to be a massive deal.

Big Data and AI are largely overlapping, so that is still to play. Only web3 hasn't had a big win - assuming web3 means a serious online use case for crypto.

"Die down" in this context means that the hype will come, go and then turn out to be mostly correct 10 years later. That was largely what happened in the first internet boom - everyone could see where it was going, the first wave of enthusiasm was just early. I don't think any technology exists right now that will take my job, but I doubt that job will exist in 20 years because it looks like AI will be doing it. There are a lot of hardware generations still to land.
ETH valuation metric is 'heating up,' but analyst says it's not overvalued
The cryptocurrency market is a volatile and unpredictable landscape, with prices fluctuating wildly on a daily basis. One of the most popular and widely traded cryptocurrencies, Ethereum (ETH), has seen its valuation metric heat up in recent times. However, despite this surge, analysts argue that ETH is not overvalued. This article will delve into the reasons behind this assertion and provide an in-depth analysis of the current ETH valuation metric.
Probably a reference to Larry Wall's (inventor of Perl language) three virtues of a programmer: laziness, impatience, hubris (https://thethreevirtues.com/)
Sounds like cooking for me. By the time the meal is ready, the stress of making it has eliminated my appetite.
Same. It's been terrible since day one basically. I'm always having to be cognizant of my power.
Tell me more about raidz and resiver…
That dark matter video aged like milk
Thanks for the links, I've just discovered Mashinky [1], which looks like OpenTTD with amazing graphics. So cool!

[1]: https://store.steampowered.com/app/598960/Mashinky/
Kaiser emails you the DICOM medical images along with an app for reading them. Most hospitals offer this so I'd expect medical DVDs to die in another decade. The vast majority of PCs and laptops don't come with optical drives and that's been the case for many years now.
Quite possibly…

https://www.recycledgoods.com/3m-703-blackwatch-6250-cpi-9-t...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Watch
Very ugly obviously
I never advocated “ask your doctor shit”, whatever that means, and I think you have severely misunderstood the post you are responding to.

Regarding big pharma, they are certainly to blame, but you don’t really see similar types of discussions regarding purely physical ailments like cancer.

As I said in my comments I am approaching this as a moderator for mental health groups where this type of discussion frequently arises and to point out a line of reasoning I frequently have to deal with.
I'm still finding your comments a little confusing; and, now, bordering on the self-contradictory. I think you'll find that the proofs presented in the lower maths tend to be of "the book" form and really overstate the simplicity and clarity available to mathematics 'at the edge'. On the flip side, modern engineering sometimes gets to benefit from the work of centuries and the final (refined) output of science: the solutions are very elegant!
Exploring AI Robustness Through Go
U.S. home prices have far outpaced paychecks. See what it looks like
I can see this making sense for monitoring and observation and even for very targeted application of pesticides. But bulk application of pesticides and seed, I just can't imagine land vehicles aren't more efficient in terms of energy use and longevity. Maybe rice fields are particularly unsuited to it. But buying a drone as an investment for your children... I don't think it's gonna last that long.
What category in particular? AI? Cryptocurrencies?
> It was only prototyped and never commercially produced.

aka Vaporware
Actually they don't, at least most of the time.

At my last shop the entry cost for hosting a single static file was around $2500 for infra, because that was the agreed upon template for a project that was pre-approved by all neccessary committees. I've tried to fixed it for quite some time, presented solution to C level, got some initial funding, but eventually after many pushbacks I died on that hill.

People like to play with toys, cv driven developement is a real thing, and when it comes to security and compliance everyone want to be sainter than the pope, just in case.
Do any of these theoreticals account for filling the storage media with data at the source, or ingesting it at the destination?

Yes a container of tapes is a lot of data, but how long would that reasonably take to write to tape? How many tape drives could you realistically have attached to the host system ?
I think there's a lot of readers who want content that critiques AI.

https://knowingmachines.org/models-all-the-way is excellent.

This content was not like what I linked, and for me at least (said content) needs to rethink their tone to be palatable.
Or maybe the author has an audience that wants to be berated, and can ignore readers like me. I'm happy to tune out and let the niche continue.
Australian billionaire wins right to sue Facebook in the US over scam ads
I think it depends on how you define intelligence, but _I_ mostly agree with Francois Collet's stance that intelligence is the ability to find novel solutions and adaptability to new challenges. He feels that memorisation is an important facet, but it is not enough for true intelligence ant that these systems excel at type2 thinking but gave huge gaps at type1.

The alternative I'm considering is that It might just be that it's just a dataset problem, feeding these llms on words makes the lack a huge facet of embodied axistance that is needed to get context.

I am a nobody though, so who knows....
I think it's a bit reductive to flatten the conversation so much. While I don't have as much of an extreme reaction as the people you talk about, the post left a bit of a sour taste in my mouth. Not because I'm one of "those people" - I agree with the core of the post, and appreciate that the person writing it has actual experience in the field.

It's that the whole conversation around machine learning has become "tainted" - mention AI, and the average person will envision that exact type of an evil MBA this post is rallying against. And I don't want to be associated with them, even implicitly.

I shouldn't feel ashamed for taking some interest and studying machine learning. I shouldn't feel ashamed for having some degree of cautious optimism - the kind that sees a slightly better world, and not dollar signs. And yet.

The author here draws pretty clear lines in what they're talking about - but most readers won't care or even read that far. And the degree of how emotionally charged it is does lead me to think that there's a degree of further discontent, not just the C-suite rhetoric that almost everyone but the actual C-suites can get behind.
I don't think it's changed much. I think perceptions of the kind you're describing (HN is turning into reddit, comments are getting worse, etc.) are more a statement about the perceiver than about HN itself, which to me seems same-as-it-ever-was. I don't know, however.
So a large cluster of nvidia cards cannot predict the future, generate correct http links, rotate around objects with only a picture at source with the right lighting or program a million lines of code from 3 lines of prompt ?

Color me surprised. Maybe we should ask Mira Murati to step aside from her inspiring essays about the future of poetry and help us figure out why the world spent trillions on nvidia equity and how to unwind this pending disaster...
Well there was an AI one just recently but it happened with crypto, happens with every hype cycle.
Okay; what problems would you expect to hit if you used a system where they were merged?

(My best thought so far is having multiple hosts sharing a single /usr over NFS while having per-host root filesystems, but I've never actually seen that done. I've also thought about building a distro that kept its initramfs as root and just mounted everything else into it, but that's even further off the beaten path.)
Why? Are you unhappy with the IMO very good test coverage, or has it not been working well for you the past checks notes decades?
If "being UNIX" hinges on the fucking filesystem structure I honestly am fine with it "not being UNIX"
Combinig concepts that are not affiliated and then filter out the bad ones. Recombination is the source of creativity. Laziness is the Motivation driving that process. Iterrative processes can only iterrate over ideas and concepts already existing, unless you manage zo create some shizoid TRIZ NN that can halucinate new permutations.
They are not the perfect way to get medical images. A friend called me last week to borrow my external drive because the MRI place gave him a stupid CD he had no drive for.

For what these places charge they should be giving out USB drives like candy. They are so cheap that Micro Center sells 64gb at the counter for like $3 or something. CD/DVD is not a valid option.
I‘d say there’s a third option - anyone working in the space realized they can make a fuckton of money if they just say how „dangerous“ the product is, because not only is it great marketing to talk do that, but you might also get literal trillions of dollars from the government if you do it right.

I don’t have anything against researchers, and I agree I know a lot less about AI than they do. I do however know humans, and not assuming they’re going to take a chance to get filthy rich by doing something so banal is naive.
But in the end you have to replace at least some of the nitrogen (and other nutrients) you are taking from the field in some way. And without a major shift in consumption patterns (less meat) this will mean fertilizer, as the alternatives usually lead to a much lower yield.
I... Well dev/null is an option...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs

It's all just history repeating.
Hm?

It automatically replaces the dead drive with a hot spare over a couple of days. You can also do it in a couple of hours with dRAID: https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/Basic%20Concepts/dRAI...

You just need a couple of parity drives per vdev and one hot spare for the whole array
If I was to tackle a simplified view of the problem I think you're describing: your frontend devs should provide the markup template the backend would interpolate and return

In the scenario you've alluded to, your backend devs are currently producing json data and your frontend devs are interpolating that into markup in the browser. In the simplest case then, your frontend devs would just provide a markup template that can be interpolated with the json already being produced. In slightly less simple cases, they can provide a function to be called instead

The gist is that the logic of taking data and producing markup should remain in the frontend dev's wheelhouse
Which country? I am absolutely sure that here in the Netherlands its never the case. Always by email or printed in rare cases. Less than 1% owns a optical disc nowadays.
I think the author swapped problems #1 and #2. The first one (name clash between different packages) is triggered only if the binaries are called the same, that is after you fix the second one (binaries having uu- prefix).

Problem #5 is not well explained: if /usr/bin and /usr/sbin are conflated, how could cowsay not find its templates? Paths relative to the two directories are the same. For example, if cowsay is looking for its templates in ../share/cows, such relative path points to the same destination no matter if the binary is in bin or sbin.
*The objective is that everything in Easy be configured by simple GUIs, without having to fiddle about on the commandline*

Screen with 20 checkboxes is never going to make simple GUI. I can imagine “configuring most common cases should be possible with simple GUIs” but *everything* is going to be challenging.
what is safe？
Would you apply same approach to abortion laws? Because technically it is legal killing people.
Something can be both a good development and overhyped grift. You have to keep in mind that for a lot of people and their businesses, the grift is literally the entire angle. Not building a technology. Not building a 100 year old business. But to get rich fast as you can while you have the opportunity, tech and business be damned. Ironically, both the real technologists and the grifters benefit from this preaching of misleading overstatements and half truths from the rooftop. It’s therefore tolerated almost as a funding mechanism for the industry at large. Mac os 15, same as it ever was now with AI under the hood. Sounds like a good seller to me.
For weeds, this is already a thing. There are weed bots that kill with fire and others that kill with lasers.
I don't go on "vacation" but I go to workshops that interest me and work on the breaks.

Contingencies exist! There are other mods who know how everything works, and have been at it a long time. I trust them and they'll do a great job if I get hit by a bus. It would just be hard on them to weather the public side of the job.

One thing that would suck if I get hit by a bus is that the people who know the code and the people who know how moderation works aren't the same pepole. That's not optimal.
RIP Arvind
Yup, exactly what I was thinking. But I bet that microplastics we're found in vaginas years ago!
I saw a video where this company is doing exactly that for weeds:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=V3A6L2Dao6s

Great idea, I hope it works.
I work at Microsoft, though not in AI. This describes Copilot to a T. The demos are spectacular and get you so excited to go use it, but the reality is so underwhelming.
Any chance of a window manager that lets you alt tab between windows instead of between applications. So Alt-tab-tab-tab takes you 3 windows ago, not 3 applications ago, or worse 1 application ago and 2 unrelated windows of that application?

Man I really mis application menus being at the top of windows and being able to layer different windows from different applications in any order that I wish. VNC screen connections just make it into an even worse jumble.
And the doctor across the globe can never access it to save the patients life.
Author didn't state a preference either way, but why do you care? Nothing is wrong with a reimplementation, as using it will nail down any untested/undocumented behavior of the original code.
I personally wouldn’t go that far, but I would say he’s at least riding the hype wave to get funding for his company, which, let’s be honest, nobody would care about if we weren’t this deep into the AI hypecycle.
Craigslist can work well for posting $items.
Many listings offer gift cards and stuff for trying something out - but that’s oriented towards b2c.
B2b probably requires more networking and marketing/ads. But keeping it local is a good way to start
If you want a theory; a man who isn't in control of his emotions can present anything up to an immediate mortal danger to the people around him (particularly if they are female).

Being able to control negative emotions isn't a nice-to-have trait or something that can be handled later. There is an urgent social pressure that men only get angry about things that justify it - a class of issues which includes arguably nothing in tech. Maybe a few topics, but not many.

Anger isn't a bad thing in itself (and can be an effective motivator in the short term). But people get very, very uncomfortable around angry people for this obvious reason.
Oh, I never considered e-mail as generally stressful. Certainly there are e-mails that can raise my blood pressure, but that usually happens after reading them. I see e-mail mostly as a letter, that I open when I see fit and answer when I can. The red dot indicating a direct message on Teams or Slack is much more stressful.
Postgres is awesome and part of its charm is the extensibility it offers enabling the adoption of innovative features introduced by competing DB's.

Postgres adopted a lot of mongos features when it released the JSON data type and support for path expressions
I wonder what happens when the first countries go into wet bulbs. I can imagine state sponsored assassin teams avenging those afflicted societies by attacking every oil exec and their descendants. Or threatening hosting states with nuclear arms to dispose of them and redistribute the wealth to energy grid transition or else.. We humans tend to be very emotional towards the end.
One could argue that building Gentoo is an excellent way to exercise things:) Which, granted, is kinda cheating since you could just `emerge chromium` or whatever... but IMHO even just making portage itself happy is a good first step.
It’s a shame to see all this effort going toward replacing core GPL licensed utilities with permissive ones. It seems like a particularly common thing in the Rust community.

It feels disrespectful of the intentions of the work that went into the tools that are being cloned.
To be honest I'm not 100% sure it was meant to be satire - but if it was then I agree with you :D
> The separate paths were originally done for reasons

These reasons were not originally philosophical in nature:
http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2010-December/074...

IMO, keeping /usr/bin and /usr/local/bin separate from /bin doesn’t serve any useful purpose except historical continuity. You can’t really get rid of those paths without breaking things (e.g. since /usr/bin/env is usually hardcoded in shebangs), but symlinking them together is a practical way of effectively merging them.
Reminds me what what what scene from The Lighthouse.
I guess you never saw a proper tape library?

· Start with an 80-slot 6U form-factor Base Library Module, and add up to 6 Expansion Library Modules for a total of 560 slots in a 42U rack form factor

· 25.2PB of total maximum compressed capacity with 560 slots and LTO-9 drives

· Performance scaling from 1 to 42 LTO HH Tape Drives and transfer rates of 300 MB/s per LTO-9 Tape Drive.

https://www.hpe.com/psnow/doc/c04111416.html?jumpid=in_pdp-p...
don't cut them up. Make one radial slit on each of two, and .. slot them together.
> Marry in haste, repent at leisure

>"regret" at leisure would make more sense, because "repent" doesn't really have the right meaning (is more about wrongdoing/sin).

Makes sense, now that I read you say it, though I had not thought of that before.
Well for what it’s worth I wouldn’t have watched it without this retrospective. Very skeptical of dark matter and find this topic highly interesting
Wait, what? Are all windows of an application positioned in the same layer on macOS?