skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a pair of HGST HDN728080ALE604 drives (8TB Deskstar NAS). One has SMART 22 at 100 after 43,239 power-on hours; the other is offsite and online, but is the same age and had SMART 22 at 100 last time I checked.

My other helium drives (WUH721816AL5204 — 16TB Ultrastar DC HC550) are SAS, and I don't know how to check helium levels of these (smartctl reports neither SMART 22 nor anything related to helium).
> Japanese highways are heavily tolled

As an example. For me to get to the nearest large city, it's a 4 hour drive, 7000 yen in highway tolls and around 3000 yen in gas. Or a 2 hour Shinkansen ride for 9000 yen. If you're a solo businessman the choice is a no-brainer. If you're traveling with the family, then you're still gonna drive.
I wouldn't say humans are so different. You could argue we've been trained on about one quadrillion bytes of visual data by the time we're 4 years old: https://x.com/ylecun/status/1750614681209983231
Something similar used to work for Delta (and probably some other airline's wifi) because they hardcoded the ability to access some Google stuff (like analytics) which enabled more interesting stuff (like Gmail, Voice, or a proxy running on Google Cloud)
I forgot to answer your two other questions.

Maelstrom is open source and we plan to keep it that way. We may look at ways of selling access to a hosted cluster as service. Test running is very elastic, and could benefit from having an elastic service to support it.

Maelstrom is completely root-less, so it'll work inside of Docker just fine. We regularly test Maelstrom within Maelstrom.
It's funny how such snooty nose-in-the-air attitude about boutique hand written js masquerades as a choice any company can make.

So, we can only hire artisans who hand tailor every event handler, who writes bespoke careful updates that never conflict and always handle every corner case of the dom right? And you and your 63 clones that NYT has hired will all work in harmony & concordance doing your bespoke vanillajs practices.

Reacts vdom is pretty sweet. Even the old iterations of React can go eliminate a lot of paints. Old websites used to have plenty of write-read-write loops that internally block the dom, that react's lifecycle generally helps guard against. The article here talks about even further improved batch updating that React 18 can help with.

Apologies my attitude, but it's just remarkably how much rancis ass attitude there is about React & how fucking stupid it sounds. I know it's the internet, that people will forever be springing up to spout off, but it's so sad having such miserable negativity hounding such perfectly respectable tech.
Speaking from experience.

More specifically, something like “whats the best brand of phone”. The LLM just summarizes common knowledge. But even a child will grasp some of the differences and have opinions drawn from experience.

Note that this isn’t just an anthro-good argument. AI systems could have experiences and be trained on long duration tasks with memory of what worked and why.
> Why stop there? Extrapolate that thought, keep generating more variants of the code, claim copyright, and seek rent from other people doing the same thing. To extrapolate full circle, there would be a business opportunity to generate as many variants as possible for the original author, to prevent all this from happening.

This has already been done[1] in music, though in their case they released them to the public domain. Admittedly I think that was more of a protest than anything.

[1]: https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxepzw/musicians-algorithmic...
Thank you for this. It's possible that you've saved me and others a lot of pain by heading off ignorant mistakes.

I'm currently building a product that makes use of an ESP32 module with a built-in antenna. I've been operating under the naive assumption that since the modules are certified, the product I build with the module is certified (perhaps pending an EMF certification or something equally trivial). You've certainly put this issue on my radar.

That said, while I actually enjoyed the snark in your reply, there are those of us who actually do want to get this right and do the right thing, despite lacking years of experience and an infinite budget.

If you have any go-to resources to share that might qualify as accessible and perhaps written to an indie maker audience, I'll diligently consume anything you recommend.
> By the end of this, I expect us to get something that looks a lot like a drop-in remote worker. An agent that joins your company, is onboarded like a new human hire, messages you and colleagues on Slack and uses your softwares, makes ..

I work at a company with ~50k employees each of whom has different data access rules governed by regulation.

So either (a) you train thousands of models which is cost-prohibitive or (b) it is going to be trained on what is effectively public company data i.e. making the agent pretty useless.

Never really seen how this situation gets resolved.
The other important property that wood shares with modern manmade composites is that it is anisotropic - i.e., it is stronger in some directions of force than others. You can use bodyweight to snap a short grain board that would, if it were long grain, hold up under a ton or more.
I think that both sides (SW and HW) can learn to coexist better, and tbh, there is really a necessity for them to.

The reality is that the reason software is currently the top industry/value creator when it comes to revenue is an artifact of an open ecosystem where the barriers to entry are low, and where there is space for many to experiment.

Traditionally, the engineering world doesn't see things the same way. Part of this is culture, and that's hard to change - engineers see what they do as an art, and this is fine,and it's a good thing as some engineering systems do have a disproportionate impact, but I think the tone of the response also does reflect an attitude of perfectionism and "this at any cost" that I think holds the field back.

I think the solution is not rather to "just let people run amok" (though as it happens, this is the strategy China is testing for us and it appears to not have broken too much yet - the land of trillions of SOIC-8 Bluetooth MCUs with no shielding and a 5-line BOM) but rather for the engineering world to embrace the software developers and provide a happy path to compliance.

If you want North America to compete with China on having ubiquitous technologies everywhere (this is the only way to build out the supply chain), we have to come up with a way to fix certification and part of the attitude has to be "we're going to teach you how to cheaply get your product to market in a way that respects the spectrum", and not "it's expensive, deal with it". This one is tough for people to accept but we cannot ever go back to stuff being expensive, as the floodgates have already been opened.

This is something that the government has to do, probably - provide funding to run (at least, cut down versions of the labs for precompliance) cheaply, put out good resources. Encourage or fund the creation of low-cost and easy to understand paths to compliance. As anyone knows, if you try to hold your nose to stop a nosebleed, the blood just goes down your throat. Same with all of the stuff from China. If you want to meaningfully improve device compliance, making the process hard and painful will just increase the number of random Amazon/Temu Bluetooth nonsense with a total lack of attention to design at all. If we made the process more accessible, it's possible that this would drive the industry to create solutions that might not even cost more, but are more compliant - which would be a win overall.
IMO, is this Good advice for hacker news itself. It contains diverse topics in one stream, such as history, Botany, and Coding. You can argue it is a feature or a bug.
Wood was a chief enabler of the success of our species

Wood was the chief enabler of trees. Trees have to be big, strong, lightweight, and bendable. Homogeneous materials won't work for that application. You need a composite. So evolution invented one.

Even more amazing: Trees 3D print themselves out of carbon dioxide.
How long do you expect LLMs/agents to be unable to do this?
Let me clean that up for you. '; DROP TABLE comments; --
Neither Wealthfront nor Betterment appear on the FDIC’s own list of insured institutions, so my guess is that if something wrong your money could disappear between the cracks, as in the example in the article.

https://banks.data.fdic.gov/bankfind-suite/bankfind
China Railway Map, an interactive map for rail routes and stations in China
Huh? Minimum wage does not make it harder to find work.
This is a nice sandbox walkthrough of the author's objective which was to test MSFT claims in the paper -- but with all due respect the buzz of graphs is because they add whole third layer in a combined approach like Reciprocal Rank Fusion (RRF). You do a BM25 search then you do a vector based nearest neighbors search and now you can add a KG search then all combined with local and global reranking etc the expectation is this produces a better final outcome. These findings aside, it still makes sense that adding KG to a hybrid search pipeline is going to be useful.
That‘s Matthew Butterick‘s case.
works the same for banks and owing them money
> You can't get better than 60-90s frequency per direction on a classic fully automated dual track line.

Note that this is 40-60 trains per hour, and each Yamanote train holds 1724 people, giving a capacity of 69,000-100,000 passengers per hour per direction

A highway lane operating at peak capacity can carry fewer than 2000 vehicles per hour. If each vehicle held typical passenger loading of 2 passengers (average occupancy is actually lower in most cities), the yamanote line would need 17-25 highway lanes in each direction to replace one track in each direction (plus way more space for entering and exiting the highway than a subway station requires).

So while your fundamental point (train tracks have limits) is true, by that point a comparison with automobile infrastructure is truly absurd!
There really isn't much to be done about it at that point. Once a game has incomplete rules and someone knows how to play the game they will avoid repercussions.

That doesn't stop prosecutors from going after those who did leave evidence behind though. When a company pleas guilty to fraud, for example, there absolutely are people that committed the fraud. A company can do nothing by itself, it definitely can't commit fraud without people making the decisions.
> If I'm a frustrated customer of those products, AI is not the reason I'll be looking to switch, and I'd be far more likely to be interested in performance, extensibility, openness, integration capabilities, etc.

Sounds like this is what they should be asking you more about.

Would you mind rattling off some a wish list?

Perf I can imagine but some of the others not so much in detail.
> Japanese highways are heavily tolled and parking in choice areas is expensive. In the US parking is mandated at such high levels that it is given away for free; in Japan parking is entirely market provided and you cannot buy a car without proof of a reserved space which you must purchase

this is because of the efficacy of public transport working for most of the populous, getting a car isn't the worst thing in the world, but you need to be able to pay for it, show insurance, whatever. Also don't be a foreigner who can't speak Japanese. Basic rules.
as I said, I'm well familiar with the cloudflare domain "are you human" challenges.
Current LLMs have a number of limitations that human reasoning doesn't. Whether these are intrinsic to the technology or can be overcome with larger and better datasets is an open question.
And then doing that with several cars leaves you more out of pocket than just relying on a dealer. Not to mention most people won't want to take their car to every buyers mechanic...

Yes... car sales are complex and not straight forward.
How many years ago? Yamanote was above 200% average peak capacity as recently as the mid '00s
Not a single mention in the article of their biggest downside, environmental costs.
First thing that came to me after reading the url https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auschwitz_concentration_camp
There is less of a difference between BSL and MIT than between any GPL license, as I'm sure you are aware. If I'm giving away software including source in the open, for free, while allowing redistribution and modification, then I'm not sure how to convey that without offending patrons of the OSI and FSF. Not feeling like walking around on eggshells to give things away that's for certain.
> uses your softwares

This grammatical mistake drives me nuts. I notice it is common with ESLs for some reason.
You still have to look somewhere. Lots of people certainly do listen to music, judging by all the people wearing wireless earbuds I see, but if they're not staring at their phone, they're staring at their lap, or sleeping.

It's not quite this bad on uncrowded trains though. We're talking about the Yamanote line which is generally very crowded.
eh, this is the cart before the horse.

the US had public frequent transit systems at the turn of the century. the problem was they couldn't compete with brand new free Interstates. It's hard to compete with free.
the bnetd emulator, that let Diablo and StarCraft players not have to pay Blizzard for the privilege of buying the game, though that's a bit different.
These "it's like a young/stupid person" arguments are wretched. LLMs are interesting but it should be obvious their development is not comparable to the development of human beings.
Even if an LLM it isn't "AGI" as we all imagined the term a decade ago, it will certainly be able to fake it pretty well in the near-term.

What LLMs have done is really redefine my internal definition of "intelligence."

Putting aside the fact I don't believe in free will, I'm no longer sure my own brain is doing anything substantially different to what an LLM does now. Even with tasks like math I wonder if my brain is not really "working out" the solution but merely using probabilities based on every previous math problem I have seen or solved.
Personally, I think that phenomenon (along with "hallucinations") is fundamentally baked into LLMs writ large.

I think LLMs are a dead end on the path to AGI.
it is trying to mimic a hardware radio interface when it has nothing to do with radio. Square peg, round hole. All you need is a searchable list of stations.
>I'm sure there are alternatives since mass transit has been around since before phones.

Of course: before phones became common, everyone read books on the trains. Why exactly is this depressing? Now, instead of reading manga in a physical book, they're reading manga on their phone.

>what struck me was that most people did not seem to have any awareness of what was going on around them. I would observe people on the train and not once did anyone look up.

When you're packed in a crowded train where most people are standing and there's barely enough room for everyone, "observing people" just isn't something you do. Most people aren't tall enough to see anything anyway.
Because they are a country of majority non-European decent and proliferation? Their population is made up of Chinese, Malay, Indian and other. None of these are Western nations by the definition.

Japan isn't Western either, although it is probably the most "the West" nation in all of Asia.

>The whole point of Singapore's model is to be a deliberate outpost of the west in South East Asia.

Not since handover from the British... The whole point of Singapore is to be a country founded on good execution with little resources and amazing cohesion.
Guess I'm the only one XD

Oh well!

I'd have expected a bigger overlap between chans and HN
Absolutely it does. How could it be otherwise? If it didn’t make it harder to find work, then why not raise it to some enormous number?
Platinum Tickets are priced by the artists who get the bulk of the revenue.
And your manager doesn't notice? How is his "vitrol" expressed, yelling and cursing at you? ... and nobody else notices?

There always are nasty people in the world. Why not be extra nice to him, tell him his talents are not being adequately recognized. Maybe he'll find another job. Why should it be you who leaves?
When I got a blue checkmark it required a review period.

I’d assumed that the review involved checking the payment against the public profile.

This belief is reinforced by the observation that every change I’ve made to my public persona (name, profile picture, description) has resulted in a temporary loss of my blue check mark for a review process.

Maybe I misunderstood the nature of that review.
the spruce goose could fly, too. But it wasn't viable
IMO that shouldn't be part of the threat model. I could run an ad right now that consumes CPU in timed intervals and estimates CPU usage using a microbenchmark to communicate with js on other pages. This sort of fingerprinting and bits/minute side-channels are impractical to block. You'd have to give each origin its own CPU cores, cache partitions, etc
We could always regulate that politically. An age limit for public service, though I guess that doesn’t cover most powerful people. Overall I hope that if we had figured out aging we’d be smart enough to deal with the consequences well but who knows.
As the gymbros say, motivation doesn't get results. Discipline does. Few children are going to be interested in learning all that they need to learn. Esp. when it comes to math. So you need to instill the discipline in them to do it -- good work and study habits, drilled into them until they... actually become habit.

That's the problem with, for example, A Mathematician's Lament. Lockhart is looking at the problem from the perspective of a seasoned mathematician, not a primary schooler without the requisite skills. He only got where he was in the field by memorizing his times tables and practicing elementary proofs until he could do them in his sleep. Only then, after having done the boring stuff, could he even begin to perceive the beauty and art in mathematics.
Perhaps they're defensive. Perhaps this blinkers them too much to know how they're acting.

Have you made it clear to him that you're both problem solvers working on a common goal where each can and will succeed overcoming the many challenges overhead.
>I'm sure there are alternatives since mass transit has been around since before phones.

Japanese novels are sold in small, pocket sized volumes because this was the only way to properly read on the packed trains before the smartphone replaced them all. If you were on a train with a lot more students, you'd notice a lot of them studying with similarly small volumes.

>what struck me was that most people did not seem to have any awareness of what was going on around them.

Something about being in mind numbingly large crowds packed uncomfortably close (like, your face could potentially be in someone's armpit) makes you a bit numb to the crowds.

>I would observe people on the train and not once did anyone look up.

1) You could end up staring at other people. Big no-no. Rude to stare, rude to stare aimlessly, rude to just observe people. Especially because the seats face each other, so staring out at the window without also staring at a fellow passenger is rude. Ever see someone just kind of "sleeping" on the train the minute they get on? Yeah, that's most likely just to close their eyes so they don't end up staring at someone.

2) You could end up staring at something unpleasant. When the trains become packed, you will most likely just be staring at the back of someone's head. Or chest. Or armpit. Or if you're sitting down, you will most likely be staring at someone's pelvic area because the convention is to stand FACING the chair in front of you if you're standing in the middle of the car (I still find this so strange but oh well so goes convention).

3) Plenty of people who find spots at the doors do spend time looking out at the city. Because they can safely do so without inadvertently staring at someone.

4) At some point the entire experience becomes mundane. To you, a tourist, you are experiencing a unique moment. To commuters, it's another Tuesday on the Yamanote line -- they can probably sleepwalk their commute if need be.

Edit: I want to add one more thing, but people ARE aware. I dropped a 100-yen coin once on the way out of the train without realizing, and immediately someone ran up to me with the coin. I think a good way of thinking about the whole thing is that people are aware, but in a way that seems like they're not. But if you're ever on the train again, watch closely -- people are keeping close eyes on who gets up, who gets on, and who is leaving and accordingly makes room.
On Arch Linux, mkinitcpio is slow. I don't know why is that
>It reads like the judge required them to show it happened to their code, not to any code in general.

Rightly so, you have to show some sort of damage to sue someone, not just theoretical damages.
Yes there is. If I can emulate Super Mario Odyssey on my PC, I don't need to buy a Nintendo Switch. If it wasn't available there, I'd have to buy a Nintendo Switch to play it. That's a lost sale for Nintendo. You could argue that I wasn't going to buy a switch anyway, but then we're getting too into hypotheticals.
This.

It's obvious to everyone who isn't willfully blind that LLMs aren't truly intelligent, and all the mental gymnastics that people go through to try to portray LLMs as genuinely intelligent is just so tedious.
The misappropriation of the code (a trade secret) would likely be grounds for legal action against the people who stole it and the people who received it. A lot depends on jurisdiction.

But if it was made public and then if an unrelated third party were to re-write the code in such a way that it was non-infringing, then it would be non-infringing. That’s just a tautology.
Do it with your eyes closed or stare blankly at the advertisements that plaster the walls of the train (conveniently located high up at the ceiling).
There was also related discussion about another longform piece by the same author that I'm too lazy to look up at the moment..

In my opinion, this author has drunken the kool-aid and then some. There is simply no evidence that more scaling of LLMs will lead to AGI, and on the contrary there is plenty of evidence that the current "gaps" that LLMs have are innate and unsolvable with just more scaling.
I think you're looking for https://jeffreypalermo.com/2008/07/the-onion-architecture-pa...
There are lots of laws regarding how you can and cannot mine for gold.
We have a very different understanding of the potential fallout from a takeover of the US Congress. Its easy to write them off as clowns now, but in the moment how is they known? Those people didn't go through security checks and it wasn't known what they may have been carrying with them.

What would have happened if they got into Congressional chambers? Or got their hands on congressmen? PR the VP? We simply don't know.

It wasn't caffeine that scared me. It was the potential for a civil war. That seems outlandish now that we know was Jan 7th looked like. But honestly, can you say it wouldn't have happened should they have reached Pence or Pelosi?

I don't like either of those politicians, or government in general. But its a for agile house of cards, and a mob of people forcing their way into the capital building while all of Congress is in session is a terrible sign. I don't know how you write that off as a clown show, and I don't know what tipped you off to that being a clown show rather than something potentially more serious. Maybe I just missed it.
> All of that is possible because composites, while they have their challenges, are often able to perform just as well as high-strength metal parts, but with a fraction of the weight.

That's what Rush (who perished in the Titan submersible) also thought....