skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Yes what I am describing is my opinion

Have you an opinion on whether your opinion is necessarily true?

> If you think it does have bearing on such things I am totally interested in hearing how.

I happen to believe humans have > 0 free will, and that if we do it derives from cognition, at least primarily. If this is the case, I believe that it would be advantageous to be able to exert control over cognition on demand. I also believe that doing something often requires trying to do it, and that if one doesn't think something can be done, it decreases the chances that one will try to do it, in turn decreasing the chances that it gets done.

I believe this to be > 0 "true", and that it has extremely broad applicability.
Eminent Sun alumnus says NFS must die
> Imagine waltzing with your partner to an orchestral cover of a Taylor Swift song on a replica of the Bridgerton set

We really do live in the age of slop.
Boeing CEO admits company has retaliated against whistleblowers
I'd add 8P8C for PoE to that list, but otherwise agreed.
For individuals though, it pretty much means you're supposed to take them down the street to a "donation" dumpster rather than toss them in the trash. Almost certainly, no one is going to come to your house and arrest you/fine you because they found an old t-shirt in your trash but they maybe could.
RTO mandates: the common enemy?
So, looks like there's a market for non-censoring public DNS providers. Any recommended providers?
im no expert and havent followed particularly closely, but my impression is that the screens are considerably better than quest or others. that it is much more capable at virtual screens. could be wrong
I've read this twice. I'm still not sure if it was originally in The Onion.
> But there are devices that require 24 V, or 48 V, or any other voltage that USB-C can't supply, and that for various reasons (space, EMI, possibly even compliance with some safety regulation) can't contain an integrated power supply unit from 120/230 V mains.

Sounds like a job for Power-over-Ethernet :)
Companies file patents all the time, for various reasons, including defensive against competitors.
Imagine how much research is held back/misguided because of this... I'm happy I'm out tbh, a good r&d team seems so much easier to work in.
I agree that competitors could outsmart you. But that's just like in any other kind of business. Doesn't mean entrepreneurs should give up trying to start a business.

And the probabilities of you succeeding won't be good, of course. But neither are the chances of a startup succeeding good either.
> went after individuals sharing bad takes on COVID

"Went after" is misleadingly strong phrasing. They took no legal action against these people. There is also an established public health function of government that, in no small part, corrects misinformation about things like smoking, fad diets, and, yes, Covid.

> but not classic fraudulent advertising

This is already illegal and policed by various federal and state agencies. If the regulatory state fails to punish them, consumers can (and often do) file class-action lawsuits.

In short, this is a strange axe to grind and seems fairly off-topic anyway.
Thanks for the comment but I have to say: woa there, hold your horses. Hallucinations as the basis of intelligence? Why?

Think about it this way: ten years ago, would you think that hallucinations have anything to do with intelligence? If it were 2012, would you think that convolutions, or ReLus, are the basis of intelligence instead?

I'm saying there is a clear tendency within AI research, and without, to assume that whatever big new idea is currently trending is "it" and that's how we solve AI. Every generation of AI reseachers since the 1940's has fallen down that pit. In fact, no lesser men than Walter Pitts and Warren McCulloch, the inventors of the artificial neuron in 1943, firmly believed that the basis of intelligence is propositional logic. That's right. Propositional logic. That was the hot stuff at the time. Besides, the first artificial neuron was a propositional logic circuit that learned its own boolean function.

So keep an eye out for being carried away on the wings of the latest hype and thinking we got the solution to every problem just because we can do yet another thing, with computers, that we couldn't do before.
Going up the chain for order is itself a source of friction. Communicating the situation on the ground, dealing with transmission issues like staticky radios, waiting for command to have time to deal with your issue (they may be dealing with other units having similar issues, especially if you have a command structure that doesn't delegate), etc. It's uncommon that higher levels of leadership have a better understanding of what lower level units are dealing with than the lower level unit itself
Uh huh.

Then you know, the people who are allowed to bid are only qualified bidders - unless you absolutely want to guarantee legal shitshows and disasters.

And the lowest bidder of them makes it up in change orders or the like in most cases. Or is legitimately the biggest outfit in the area and can make it up in economies of scale.

And even then, PR disasters can and do still happen. And do happen all the time. Even at the national level, but especially at the local level.
Today's apple is not 2005 Apple. They have infinite cash reserves and talent pool. The market allocated them all of this capital because we trust them to make these big bets that no other hardware company can make, to move technology forward.

Vision pro is a leap forward in dispays, tracking, input gestures. It has not solved the weight/size issue, but if history is a predictor this is an area that apple will excel at with iterative improvements.
Fortunately, the EU is also mandating app store competition. :)
> trauma inflicted on your grandfather

Can anyone verify that studies have shown that trauma can be inherited from male parents? I had been assuming epigenetic memory came from mothers, via chemical signaling during pregnancy. But epigenetic memory from fathers must be from actual changes to the DNA? Fascinating that a trigger like 'the smell of cherries' can be stored that precisely. It is very hard to believe, so relying on the scientific method here.
Do you have a source on the phonemes situation? First time I hear of it, and I'm pretty sure I've seen people learn them past that point. I know they struggle with it, but, as an example, even japanese people can learn the effective difference between l and r given enough effort.
Yeah it was "essentially" a mobile phone that people already understood the value of, particularly because of Blackberry, so it was a potentially improved mobile phone given its touchscreen and interface. It was also a much better iPod and a web browser alongside. The iPod touch came much later.
Money we use for daily things is in shared account. We trust each other to use money wisely on expenses. Consult each other before making >$500 purchase. We get notifications on every transaction. Any unrecognized transaction, we consult to check if it is legitimate.

Honestly don't really care if she spends on cosmetics and little indulgences here and there.
They're releasing a model to the public that likely costed tens of millions, for free, and you're complaining that they don't want to have to deal with bullshit PR for giving a teenager fucking around in his backyard the recipe for a pipe bomb.
But "it's still about limiting money supplies" is correct, no?

One's investment in mining equipment becomes half as profitable every so often.
In Southeast Asia there are many markets selling used clothing like this. It provides a good business for the vendor and a great option for many locals to get much nicer clothes than they could otherwise obtain. Googling, it appears similar in Africa.

I'm not sure it's quite as evil as the author implies, though, I don't doubt dealing with the junk is a problem and there should be some recycling infrastructure setup to deal with the junk clothing.
I guess those kind of citations should be put in different category that doesn't increase citation count of the referenced paper, in other words raising its prestige. These kind of citations shouldn't do that anyway.

So now if you want to cite come paper you have to decide which papers you'd die and live with, and consequently your paper prestige will be dependent on how many other papers want to die and live with yours.
Could you elaborate on what you mean by the vision pro being a logistics failure?
I don't really understand what you mean by that.
Individuals file patents at Apple and no one works on projects without management approval.
More like, pretending to be a few guys doing it for laughs, but it's really to promote a netflix tv show.
If you told an alien visitor from Vega—or a computer architect with a time machine from 1980—that an Nvidia GPU was built to be a language on a chip, I wonder what they’d infer about the nature of that language?

I don’t think they’d describe CUDA. Something more APL-like, I’d imagine.

EDIT: Maybe … https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/319838.319870
The same people that get you into power are rarely the same ones you want when you actually have it!
Hi everyone, thanks for posting Amphi :)

To give some context, Amphi is a low-code ETL tool for both structured and unstructured data. The key use cases include file integration, data preparation, data migration, and creating data pipelines for AI tasks like data extraction and RAG. What sets it apart from traditional ETL tools is that it generates Python code that you own and can deploy anywhere. Amphi is available as a standalone web app or as a JupyterLab extension.

Visit the GitHub: https://github.com/amphi-ai/amphi-etl
Give it a try and let me know what you think
In Postgres, synchronous_commits = off can seem like magic during benchmarks but in real-life applications the anticipated benefits can be underwhelming. Ultimately, a reliable non-volatile write cache, sized for your workload is the answer. It evens out all the peaks and valleys of flash writes and hands control back to the database engine so it can get on with its work.
I love solvespace. It's a wonderful program. But I don't think I've ever been able to make a complete model of something I needed without running into model breaking NURBs errors. Maybe there's a list of known gotchya's that most users know to avoid in their modeling, but for me it seems to break on very trivial things so I've never been able to use solvespace as a tool. Which is sad, because otherwise, I quite like it.
In my opinion this isn't really the problem.
While one sector might be slightly affected, this is something many more benefit from. For the sake of argument, imagine that Santa was real and gave kids free toys, magically produced, during Christmas time, destroying this industry.

Sure thing, that'd be a pity and would generate some unemployment. However, overall we'd be better off: people would be freed from the costs of buying toys for kids and would have their resources available for other industries and endeavors...

Don't get me wrong: if this happened overnight, it'd be catastrophic for many people, but still, on the long run, we'd be better off.

A real problem, though, is that we're still wearing a lot of low quality clothing.
We, as a society, would really benefit from a shift to buying higher-quality clothing that would stay good and last for longer.
Just take a look at the schism between Japanese Mastodon instances vs Western Mastodon instances and their vehement disagreement on what constitutes pornography and CSAM. These are userbases composed of mostly developed country users with liberal values, high incomes, and varying degrees of social infrastructure. If you can't even get these entities to agree, how do you think you'll get NATO countries onboard, let alone BRICS?
I continue to use redis as a multipurpose tool including acting as a message queue.
PoS is a superior mechanism design than PoW from the fact that miners acting in bad faith in PoS have their stake burned so they can't keep on acting bad. While to mess with PoW miners only need to guarantee temporarily excess hash power - look up "Bitcoin Cash: 51% Attack" for examples.

Like everything in tech, the devil is in the details, algorithm details in this case, so far it seems to be working out just fine.
> Did you even read the paper?

?! Are we in middle school? If so, I'm rubber you're glue, whatever you say... (to wit, I quoted the paper to you to demonstrate it wasn't as the claim, i.e. "exhibit lower entropy in token predictions" != "creativity is obliterated due to censorship")

> It literally says how RLHF significantly reduces model creativity through three experiments.

Ah, I see now. :) I don't take it personally. I'm old enough to smile at aggro behavior kicking up sand in front of a step back to the bailey.

> No need to to that when we have base models of llama, Mistral, etc.

They're RLHF'd/censorship'd too. "Base model" is a colloquialism that used to mean "no RLHF, just straight sipping from scraped web pages." Now it means "the last round wasn't explicitly chat". I am using it in the "sipping from straight scraped web pages" sense.

> Not really

Yes, really. Btw, what does "It aligns the model" mean to you at this point in your post? RLHF was just censorship that obliterates creativity?

> "[intentionally left blank]"

There is 0 discussion of any of the practical effects I mentioned as rope for you to walk down from your strong claim, ex. abliteration, uncensored models, etc.

> (not actually in your post at all!)

Is it possible your account got hacked? There's someone else using it to post that no one should even release models anymore because they're all the same and use the same techniques.[1][2] That's hard to square with someone who thinks they're all having their creativity obliterated due to censorship.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40599838
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40600136
I can offer one data point. This is from purely startup-based experience (seed to Series A).

A while ago I moved from microservices to monolith because they were too complicated and had a lot of duplicated code. Without microservices there's less need for a message queue.

For async stuff, I used RabbitMQ for one project, but it just felt...old and over-architected? And a lot of the tooling around it (celery) just wasn't as good as the modern stuff built around redis (bullmq).

For multi-step, DAG-style processes, I prefer to KISS and just do that all in a single, large job if I can, or break it into a small number of jobs.

If I REALLY needed a DAG thing, there are tools out there that are specifically built for that (Airflow). But I hear they're difficult to debug issues in, so would avoid at most costs.

I have run into scaling issues with redis, because their multi-node architectures are just ridiculously over-complicated, and so I stick with single-node. But sharding by hand is fine for me, and works well.
The web got faster, and it became easier to build and consume APIs, so we eliminated the need for an intermediary. More "native" event-driven architectures emerged.
The point I mentioned isn't enshittification by itself so much, but combined with the predatory dark patterns, I personally consider it enshittification as a whole.
This is egregious behaviour on the part of Austen. It is not lost on me how Paul Graham blessed this mess.
It's an itch I scratch when I come across something that seems interesting, and is priced right (usually, this means "free").

For instance: I've got a teletype. It's not as impressive as it sounds; it's a little TI SilentWriter that prints on rolled fax paper with a thermal head and talks RS-232. I recycled it from an equipment cabinet we were replacing in 2008, where it looked like it'd been sitting there untouched -- and switched on -- for the past 20 years. It was fun getting that working correctly with a modern Linux box (no, 3-wire serial is Not Good Enough), and one of these days I'd like to put a Linux box inside of it. (I've even got some proper MAX323 chips here...somewhere...to do it "right", but I haven't decided yet what other hardware to use for it. But I'm not dead yet -- there's still time!)

Or: I once scored an 8088 clone machine with two low-density 5.25" floppy drives, Hercules graphics, no hard drive or evidence that it ever had one, and 10base2 Ethernet built into the motherboard. That was a fun thing to get online with on the post-dotbomb Internet. I even had a graphical web browser working and an FTP server -- at the same time -- and I also got it booting over the network as was probably always its intent. I got to spend some quality time at the local computer shop (RIP) buying stuff from their junk bin in the back corner to get it to happen, which was a hoot.

Someone gave me a trash-picked 24" G4 iMac nearly a decade ago. That was a very strange and beautiful machine, and it seemed like it would be quick enough to use in the garage for reading manuals and playing music from Spotify. It failed miserably at both tasks; it seemed like a bad combination of being too old to run current software, and too new to be interesting enough for people smarter than me to do clever things with. I spent more time on that box than I should have, since a freebie x86 closet laptop did both of those things easily, so utility won.

(I remember playing games on the Atari 800 back in the day. If I had one today, I'd probably try to find a CRT TV and do that again.)
the gateway works by using your android phone as the SMS sender, and currently the app is available for Android only
It's neither.

The Arduino ecosystem is objectively garbage, for a host of reasons. Yes, it is an "abstraction layer", that attempts to abstract away all the hard stuff from a whole host of different microcontrollers, and does it in some really bad (and broken) ways.

Arduino prioritizes making things easy for the person who doesn't know how to write embedded code. That's fine, as far as it goes. The problem with things like this is when people put them in production anyway, because "it works" on the bench and there's no need to bother with making sure it actually works.
If anything, this suggests to me there is a ux/ui barrier around the best ai translation tools available.

A reasonable step would be to get some of the best models running locally on NPUs which are increasingly common on the latest generation of chips (Snapdragon X and the upcoming Intel Lunar Lake) and fix the gawdawful latency of having translations do the round trip over to a data center.
My hot take is that "magic" is just a pejorative term to dismiss any abstraction that someone doesn't like. It's subjective, and IMO it's used mostly as a thought-terminating cliche rather than providing any value to a discussion.

Sometimes it seems like people throw around the word "magic" like it's some morally dubious shortcut used by programmers who lack the discipline to resist its temptations. I'd argue that making a good language that doesn't require using "magic" is actually _hard_; it needs to differentiate from existing languages enough not to be redundant but still try to fit into the non-uniform expectations of users.

Rather than saying that a language "has magic" or "doesn't have magic", I wish it was more common for people to directly state that a language works like they'd expect or point out the areas where it doesn't (which can be separated from a value judgment of whether something is "good" or not). If anything, I think that saying a language works like you expect is _more_ of a compliment than saying "it doesn't have magic" because it properly conveys the sense that our expectations are fairly narrow in comparison to the entire design space and require skill to identify rather than something obvious that people would only avoid by choice.
Interesting, isn't it? You MUST take in used clothing.

Africa is still in the grips of foreign agents that smother its economies and make a profit while exploiting the riches of the continent. Neocolonialism is not the colonialism of the 19th century.

Backing off would go a long way toward helping these countries to become prosperous.
What do you say about the reasons those regulations exist? It didn’t start that way; they were added after years and events.

Also, NYC has a lot of new residential buildings going up. I see them all over. But every time I look up what’s it’s for, it’s for the ultra-wealthy - $10s of millions per (huge) condo.
With Westworld-class hosts as soon as they’re feasible! (Current projection: 2029)
I guess you can have something like a nofollow attribute

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nofollow

although the incentives will be more confusing.

There's an argument to be made that citing something to disagree with it should increase its prestige but not its credibility (to the extent that those can be separated): you're agreeing that it's important.
Like micro-services, it's not a bad idea, but it's not the hammer for every nail as people who write books and blog posts seem to push for (they've now moved on past blockchain to AI).

If you have a problem that logically has different async services, sure, use Redis or something. Databases also were able to handle this problem, but weren't as sexy, and they explicitly handle the problem better now. Just another tool in the toolbelt.

NoSQL was another solution in search of problems, but databases can handle this use-case better now too.
I am seriously tempted. I've been back to my apt roots lately so I'm somewhat dreading the mess that is homebrew. I assume things are better now, it has been ~3 years.
No. Remove the "explain" or "what do you think" or "think critically about" types of phrases from the prompt and you get this kind of thing:

My prompt:

Joe drove Sue to the university. Afterwards, he drove home again and drank tea with her in the kitchen.

GPT-4o Response:

Your sentence is correct, but for a slightly smoother flow, you could rephrase it as: Joe drove Sue to the university. Afterwards, he returned home and drank tea with her in the kitchen.

It will never "notice" anything off about the input unless you ask it to. I'm consistently impressed how many supposedly tech-savvy people believe GPTs turn into magic orbs if you make them big enough.
You know whats missing: kids.

Kids are what drive fantasy theme parks.

Kids want to be Elsa or Luke or Harry Potter.

They drag their parents along.

And many times the parents remember their experiences as kids and it gives them warm fuzzies.

With respect to adult fantasy, none of those shows has the deep cultural hold Star Wars or Star Trek likely from kids watching these with their parents and wanting to be like Luke or Leia and Han.

Bridgerton might be good (or not) but it’s not family entertainment. Neither is Squid Game.

My guess is that most adults will consider these fantasy worlds either sad or just a curiosity and won’t have the same enthusiasm as Disney or Universal.
I've provided a summary of proposals, not a comprehensive regulatory framework. Please reread the rules: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It's a bot this guy created. He doesn't really think it's smarter than him, but he's pulling a stunt for visibility.
Donating used clothing contributes to the used clothing problem. Story at 10.
That's the simplified version of 發啟第十二 from your [D]

1. Cultivate virtue
2. ???
3. Profit

Although 不在天时 suggests that the sovereign can engage at a time fully of his choosing, contra vS. (though maybe concurrent with Sasha)

This is already (!!!???) contradicted in the expansion:
太公曰：「王其修德以下賢，惠民以觀天道。天道無殃，不可先倡；人道無災，不可先謀。
I was going to say something like this but you beat me to it. Moving more application state and logic to frontend SPAs reduced the need for so much backend work.

Backends are faster and more robust when they don't need to manage the "session" so much and instead just validate the final API request data and if they queue up anything it's those actions that require database transactions or to publish a message.