skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nobody knows why, because it's meaningless noise. It's just what the stock was traded for in that particular moment, somebody offered to trade for that much and somebody accepted that offer which alone is a meaningless number. You need some longer term average according to volume, not points in time to gain any meaningful information.
> The post's humor is a style which won't make sense if you're not fluent in both English and online culture.

Oh, please. That's like saying that only native speakers with a university degree can understand a 6 year old's fart jokes.

The humor in this article is juvenile shock-jocking. It starts from the trashy clickbait headline, and is never elevated past that. There's no particular sophistication needed to understand it. It's just not particularly funny or insightful; it's just taking some rote complaints about AI and the hype cycle, and threatening to kill people in various graphic ways. Hilarious.
My take on CVE-2024-30078
100%

On one of my worst days of dealing with needlessly pedantic and blocking colleagues at a previous job, I sat out in the rain under an umbrella and watched ducks enjoy a pond.

Came back in, my coworker asked me if I was okay, and I just told him "Ducks don't mind when it rains."

It's become my mantra for rough days.

There is so much to be said for nature, and I feel like you can get 80% of the nature benefit by investing 20% time into it.

Why build a yurt, when you can get most of the benefit from a hammock? Why farm commercially, when you can get most of the benefit from a hobby farm?
It’s somewhat inevitable that something will try to replace the C implementation of coreutils.
Hopefully uutils will fix whichever bugs are reported upstream to lower the compatibility load though
This is really cool. A little bit overkill for my needs, but would definitely solve the problem.
It's not an uncommon argument to try and draw parallels between these - X was a fairly useless, yet extremely speculative new tech scam, and Y is speculative new tech. Therefore Y is also a useless scam, QED.

There's a difference between something being an extremely hyped development and it being an actual grift down to the core. The internet was an extremely overhyped development, but ultimately not a grift. Cryptocurrency was, to a large extent, both. Whether generative AI is one or the other won't be apparent until a bubble truly starts growing.
I think this htmx essay [1] addresses the tradeoffs you may be getting at if you're thinking "why html vs js+json": the gist is that html is self-describing to the browser, so the backend can make changes to the html it produces and the browser will understand it without the frontend code needing to be updated

If you're instead thinking more broadly in terms of "structure vs layout", I think the same reasoning for using something like tailwind css or higher-level web components may apply: i.e. the material you interact with is closer to your problem domain

[1] https://htmx.org/essays/two-approaches-to-decoupling/
Did you actually say "my subthread"?
Sheet Music Scanning by Soundslice
Reminds me of the mosquito laser. It would target only female mosquitos of the specific breed (they are the malaria carriers).
It was only prototyped and never commercially produced.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosquito_laser
TL;DR: Yes, and I think that's why some of these comments are so hostile to OP.

> it's impossible to try and make them understand, they just don't care. I can't make them care. It's a clash of cultures, I guess.

That seems to be what OP's cathartic humor is about. It's also (probably) a deliberate provocation since that sub-culture doesn't deal well with this sort of humor.

If that's the case, you can see it working in this thread. Some of the commenters with the clearest C-suite aspirations are reacting with unironic vitriol as if the post is about them personally.

I think most of those comments already got flagged, but some seemed genuine in accusing OP of being a dangerously ill menace to society, e.g. "...Is OP threatening us?"

In a sense, OP is threatening them, but not with literal violence. He's making fun of their aspirations, and he's doing so with some pretty vicious humor.
0. Forget everything you know about php and programming in general really.
1. Make a simple web page in an html file
2. rename it to .php
3. then throw in some <?php ?> tags
4. Look up [include](https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.include.php) and not much more
5. PROFIT

At least that's how I remember writing php in high school.
Defunct satellites burning up in the atmosphere could damage the ozone layer
Not sure we should spend so more time and money on inconveniencing the suicidal than we do treating the reasons they’re suicidal, but sure, it’s a help.
So you're saying the stock market should have never been a thing because when it started there were scams?
Would be perfect if the article was written by gpt.
Discussion (180 points, 7 days ago, 114 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40667786
Many console games are available on physical media. They still don’t have gigantic differences in size from the digital only pc Steam games.

That’s probably because they’re sold on Blu Ray discs though. If you had cartridge based consoles maybe you could have gigantic games nowadays.

Actually…couldn’t you have gigantic terabyte games anyway? I’m not aware of Steam or any of the consoles restricting game data size…

Hmmm
I'll say the same thing here I said the other time this was posted inside the last 2 weeks: This is a very narrow ecological "corridor" which an accidental release of a nicotinoid pesticide could wreak havoc on.

You would think under global warming there were more opportunistic passing places now.
I take it as humorous hyperbole, in the style of McSweeney's, like It’s Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/its-decorative-gourd-sea...
I saw a YT video once where the founder said they started charging mainly to cut spam.
clarinet, saxophone, flute, percussion
> Seems like there is a lot of criticism of the FAA while ignoring real time cuts to their budget.

Certainly wasn’t my intention! I don’t _think_ I said anything in there that was assigning blame to the FAA, merely pointing out that in practice they are no longer actively preventing issues.

I know their overall budget has been decreased and there are sources implying that’s the cause of the failures, but I couldn’t (on my phone, to be fair) find any good source comparing the portion of their budget that went to these programs specifically over time. So I chose to stick to what I could source and mostly let people draw their own conclusions.

For instance, while I have Thoughts(TM) I left it to the reader to take a wild fuckin’ guess which political party controlled the presidency, house, and senate in the years we decided outsourced the regulatory role of the FAA to those they regulate.
Not necessarily true. A safer AI is a more aligned AI, i.e. an AI that's more likely to do what you ask it to do.

It's not hard to imagine such an AI being more useful and get more attention and investment.
Check out a few of the bridges rated poor on this map:

https://gis.penndot.gov/paprojects/BridgeConditionsMap.aspx

... and find some that pass over other roads, and you can find other instances:

https://www.google.com/maps/@40.4562613,-79.9736136,3a,52.6y...
But can they mount speakers and play Ride of the Valkyries
My local bank has a pneumatic tube. They have a limit of how much cash they'll send through at one time, a few thousand dollars. If you want more than that they're willing to send it in batches. The only reason I've been able to think of is something involving insurance/liability if the tube gets stuck with the cash in it, perhaps to limit the amount the service tech could possibly lose or steal. I should have asked the old manager about it before she retired, she loved to talk shop.
I think you just touched on it. for reference, I have had several accounts in the past, just for fun. I'm a complete newbie, but enjoyed many articles and commented on them. I was constantly downvoted (or whatever term is used) and I was many times just innocently asking honest questions. I feel that most of the people here ARE childish and can't relate, and therefore impose their 'powers' of banning and downvoting. After a year of all that childish behavior on here, I just closed my accounts and left. I am just a very curious (and I think I am intelligent) retired senior aerospace engineer. I was just so rudely treated here that I couldn't fathom the reasons for it. I am just too ignorant of this 'new' culture, I guess...
The section starts with him bragging about having written libraries from scratch. Given that, I really don't understand how you can arrive at them considering themselves one of the people who hasn't written libraries.
n-gate was the best. Referencing it was always worth the downvotes.

I get we are semi-autistic nerds and can't appreciate comedy/satire/sarcasm, but comedy/satire/sarcasm is a potent means of criticism and analysis, especially since we are in an ever-increasing torrent of bullshit.
What a shit blog in general.
A New Kind Of Dance Science (combinatorics of social dancing)
You can fly indoors, where the FAA has no jurisdiction (probably, ask a lawyer). You can get all kinds of waivers as well, but I don't know if there's one for that - they tend to be more one-off exemptions from a single regulation, type of thing. There are some dedicated test sites as well where the FAA might be more relaxed with the regulations: https://www.faa.gov/uas/programs_partnerships/test_sites/loc...

Most companies though probably have a part 107 pilot on staff, or have had some of their employees in other roles certified as such.
> LLMs are literally making up stuff through statistical linguistic inference on a grand scale from hearsay.

Hearsay being some personal "truth" it may be useful to know what the statistical average of that "truth" is. If we do it right perhaps we can get the various personal errors to cancel out.
His style is exactly that - arrogant, condescending, exasperated, and bombastic. I find his writing both very entertaining (I get many surprise laughs) and unexpectedly insightful. The style is so refreshing compared to the bland influencer factory (that he often attacks) and it plays really well into the childish craving I have to blame big industry problems/trends on the pointy haired boss / office space style cliches.

I'm sorry you don't like it; I expect it doesn't resonate with many but I'm glad I found this author here on HN a few months ago.
I honestly don't think OpenAI anticipated it becoming as big of a deal, and they had to lean into grandiose expectations once it did become a big deal. They didn't have a grandiose marketing campaign to my memory - the only reason their tech exploded overnight was because it was something that made an average person interested. News of previous GPT versions and primitive image generators were passed around among techy people for years before that point. Maybe there's a threshold of generation quality, at which a user perceives it as something that can rudimentarily "understand" the input, and isn't just a generic chatbot.
And yet NVDA stock rises and rises. You would think, if the question is too ridiculous to be posed, that there would be clear signs what people want the magic chips for. And in due course, signs of innate value and not meme-stock inflation in the companies consuming Nvidia product, aside from the DC owners: Microsoft and AWS will find a way to pass their burden on to more gullible people, they won't be holding dead asset.

I consider the posing of the question a reasonable first approximation to "the emperor has no clothes". I would like to see a couple of blue chips, who make significant outcome in real world goods and services from this input source. Or a finance house or investment bank who decides to sack their quants. If they just supplement the quants with chips, then I think the claim the chips add value is open to doubt.
This is my exact feeling about legal coverage. It’s not clear to me that most journalists have even a middle school understanding of what “law” is.
I think you missed the point of the article.

It's not meant as a criticism of ChatGPT and some LLMs, more like a criticism of corporate drones and "thought leaders" that latch on latest hype instead of fixing their core problems.
It's a polarizing style of communication but the message is on point.
Atleast emancipated. The bigotry against AI will go out of fashion in the woker future.
Oh I probably did because none of that is interesting to me. Every 5 years another crop of omg corporate drones are so awful consciousness appears, but once you've been through 3 or 4 cycles, everything new is old again. The rants aren't more interesting than the suits are. (well, - the rants at least have their fun side)

What interests me is that there is new technology here that does something relatively magic - that just doesn't happen often. Corporate crap and MBAs and suits and founder hucksters are forever with us. I'm sure it was equally true decades before me and you showed up.

I'm rather annoyed that this is so, because now I have to slightly get off my ass and learn something, so as to reach a better state of lethargy later.

I'm a ranter by character, but you know who I'd pick between the ranters and the drones? The drones. The drones are the 100 million sperm racing to fertilize the egg. They're all losers (save one infinitesimal winner) and it's easy to point that out. The ranters stand on the side saying "those fucking idiots. those morons. what losers they are. as opposed to me, who sees this." But the ranters are the dead end, smart as they may be. The sperm are at least in the race.
Oh, these are very different questions. I only have a glimpse from a social angle, and don’t have a business relation with him in which to compare.
No, it’s the contractual obligation to use the dictated price without deviation that is cartel behavior.
This tool was the subject of a FOSDEM talk this year, which is available as a video on FOSDEM’s website: https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-2052-open...
I one of us misinterpreted this part. Isn't the author echoing other people's sentiments here?
Well that's all you can do and in that case I misjudged you, sorry about that.
They might as well rename it C:/Linux/System32 while they're at it.

The separate paths were originally done for reasons but since you can't install a mainstream distro with < 512MB RAM these days (not even Alpine) some of those reasons are moot.

Linux is becoming less and less like UNIX every day.
Yes I believe that was the whole point of my comment. The third paragraph covers this.

The second to last makes the same as your second to last.

So no except… we’re in agreement here.
Let me offer a dark one:

human beings are bad at gathering information, inferring the right things from it, and responsibly passing it on to others. It is incredible what we’ve achieved in spite of this

All was achieved when it was widely not so, and by people not affected by this.
I feel resentful about CD-ROM.

I was a true believer and it distracted me from what really mattered, that was happening at exactly the same time - the Internet.
Cameras Being Utilized by Thieves
The issue with google is true. That being said ai isn’t the answer in my experience. Wikipedia is a better source of casual information I find. And if I want to dig further I look for the real sources if I can, not the slop written by journalists but the actual material people in the field are engaging with. The primary sources. The documentation. If I can’t find that or understand that material, then thats that and I move on, considering anything ‘accessible’ is going to be an example of gell mann amnesia and not worth my time.
By "glasses" I mean the form factor, not something that actually has transparent lenses. Apple is making a (in my opinion reasonable) bet here that trying to actually make a see-through device is a losing proposition.
I have been a long term Rectangle user on Mac and a WinSplitRevolution for decades on Windows, my biggest preference as a developer is for it to be keyboard centric.

I love the use of a numpad as a positional reference for the screen.

Hotkey + NumPad 6 = right side of screen full
Hotkey + NumPad 5 = full screen
Hotkey + Numpad 1 = Bottom left Quarter

Repeated presses of these cycle between Half, 3rd and Quarter

This reminds me of the Crysis UI which I still love as a weapon / armor switcher :)
> How stupid do you have to be to believe that only 8% of companies have seen failed AI projects?

That’s because most of them are still in progress. Enterprise moves slow and only started on this recently. They still think it’s going great because they’re riding the high of imagination.
Vulnerability-lookup 1.0.0 with user management, VarIOT sources and SA editor
You guys reckon with a big enough drone (or a few of them) you could hoist a pivot line spin it around the center, then fly to a new field to rinse and repeat. Get rid of those monstrously huge Fixed Center Pivot that are only in use 15% of the year??
Open AI was betting on AI, AGI, Super inteligence.

Look at the google engineer who thought they had an AI locked up in the basement... https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/13/23165535/google-suspends-...

MS paper on sparks of AGI: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/sparks-...

The rumors that OpenAI deal with MS would give them everything till they got to AGI... A perpetual license to all new development.

All the "Safety people" have left the OpenAi building. Even musk isnt talking about safety any more.

I think the bet was that if you fed an LLM enough, got it big enough it would hit a tipping point, and become AGI, or sentient or sapient. That lines up nicely with the MS terms, and MS's on paper.

I think they figured out that the math doesn't work that way (and never was going to). A prediction of the next token being better isnt intelligence any more than weather prediction will become weather.
At this point "blazingly fast" is just marketing noise. Any product whose page does not use the phrase must be abominably slow.
maybe consume an introductory physics textbook instead of slides
As someone who spent an inordinate amount of time trying very hard to be less angry despite having a lot of good reasons to be, a chunk of which overlap with this piece, I get a lot of dismissal from people who seem to think any expression of any negative emotion, especially anger, deeply discredits a person on its own. It's so pervasive that I find even addressing it to be refreshing, so thank you
"Everyone is talking about Retrieval Augmented Generation, but most companies don't actually have any internal documentation worth retrieving. Fix. Your. Shit."

I read up about Copilot as part of some internal research, and absolutely the first things to do for Copilot (I'll copy-paste just the line-item headings from the section entitled "Prepare your data for Copilot for M365 searches") is:

- Clean out redundant, outdated, and trivial (ROT) content.
- Organize content into logical folders and sites.
- Tag files with keywords.
- Standardize file names.
- Consolidate multiple versions.
- Promote data hygiene habits.

Sigh. If I could do all this at an organizational level, I wouldn't need copilot at all.
> when Canada listed the freedom truckers as a terrorist group

This unfortunately isn't true.
I get what you mean but I have to disagree about this one being good. Epic rants are fun when there's a cold hard point being made, and the author uses the rant format to make the point irrefutably clear and drive it cruelly home.

Here, if you strip away the guff about how smart the author is and how badly he wants to beat up people who disagree, I have no idea what he's trying to say. The rest reads like "these companies who want to use AI are bad, and instead of using AI they should try not being bad", and such. Ok?
I think the author disproves his point by ridiculing the stupidity of human actors. AI doesn’t need to become much more powerful to displace the idiots in management, product design and marketing. Just wait until the keys are actually handed over. Dismissing things such as Copilot seems crazy to me, give it time. Chatgpt made stackoverflow obsolete overnight. AI isn’t going away anytime soon.
agreed. windows has been running on arm for what? a decade or more? and they made such a big deal out of these new laptops.

i've been crossing my fingers for this. I've got a surface pro 9 and while it's great, the battery life is awful considering the limited performance on tap. I'd love a surface with specs comparable to apple's M3.

hopefully they do like Intel did with their Arc cards and relentlessly pump out impressive fixes and improvements, but Microsoft being Microsoft, I'm not holding my breath on that one.
There is more than one "Rosser's theorem" to wit:

In number theory, Rosser's theorem states that the {\displaystyle n}th prime number is greater than log {\displaystyle n\log n}, where log{\displaystyle \log } is the natural logarithm function. It was published by J. Barkley Rosser in 1939.

(wikipedia)

Wiki refers to what Scott Aaronson is calling Rosser's theorem as "Rosser's trick"

Rosser's trick uses a formula that says "If this sentence is provable, there is a shorter proof of its negation".

Not that wiki is the cite beyond all reproach, having more than one theorem named after you is also a good thing.
The original history behind a lot of original UNIX directory structure is engineers running out of disk space on a PDP-11 50 years ago and shuffling things around to keep the system operating. Other reasoning has been piled on top over the years.
Mongo is still very big, including for greenfield.
Funny how those academics and professionals like François Chollet and Yann LeCun are on the skeptic side, and a vast number of vocal proponents are old NFT pushers.
> At that point, is it a problem of most of the comment thread, or the way it was written?

Maybe OP's fault for posting it here, then. It's angry cathartic humor, so you're right not everyone will appreciate it.

> This doesn't come across as a good-faith argument.

It was meant to be, but you're also right that it no longer seems to be true:

* the aggressive knee-jerk stuff is getting flagged quickly

* more comments have been posted

> It's very demeaning.

I see your point given the way the thread is evolving. However, the posts I was referring to were implying OP is a schizophrenic[1] or bipolar.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40734705
Have not read the article.

But the title (as phrased here on HN) is exactly how I felt at Google IO this year.
What issues have you experienced due to the merging of those directories?
At least it's somewhat possible to reliably test behavior of these against GNU coreutils. Pull down some archaic C++ project with a pile of janky shell scripts involved in the build (Chromium might be a good target) and compare final results.
No Way to Save the News
HN is a bit too serious I think. More comedy would be better than the usual cynicism which can bleed over into your mindset even after visiting the site. You are what you read, after all. Maybe even this comment comes off as cynical; no doubt I’ve been infected too.
tl;dr
"The authors highlighted two significant negative outcomes for level 4 AVs. It found they were over five times more likely to be involved in an accident at dawn and dusk. They were relatively bad at navigating turns as well, with the odds of an accident during a turn almost doubled compared to those for human-driven vehicles."
Machine learning isn't just a word frequency machine. If that's all it was, we'd have this technology decades ago.