skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And nobody's making comedies anymore because present day people are too easily offended by everything and raise hell on Twitter out of every stereotype joke.

This is such a tired line. Comedies did not stop getting made because woke mobs were flaming them on Twitter, despite what Joe Rogan might have told you in his latest special plastered all over Netflix.

There is a confluence of actual reasons why comedies aren’t prominent in theaters anymore.

Studios stopped making mid budget movies.

Studios consider international audiences more than ever before and comedy doesn’t transcend cultures easily.

Comedies that performed poorly in theaters often broke even in vhs/dvd sales and rentals. Without that it’s more risky to make them.

Movie goers don’t want to pay $30 for tickets and popcorn to see a comedy.

Low budget comedies are saturated on streaming.

High budget action/comedy movies are being made instead e.g. fall guy.

And there’s certainly additional reasons more relevant than twitter users cancelling movies.
Why the downvotes? Today I tried to return a $200 portable Li-ion power station purchased from Amazon:
"Call FedEx to schedule a Ground PRP Hazmat pickup (do NOT take it to a FedEx drop-off location). Hazmat labels and pickup are safety measures for batteries."

Li-Ion batteries are classified as hazmat in some contexts.
It's kinda amazing the results you get just by putting your collection together in something like Jellyfin, and getting the metadata etc.

Like having your own Netflix service.... I found I watched a lot more of my movies that way... than when they were just sitting on my drive.
Don't take this as defending specific headcounts, but rather a response to the general idea. Modern vehicles have probably the highest inherent complexity of any thing most people regularly interact with. These are heavily regulated, safety critical electro-pneumo-mechanical distributed systems built to survive decades of severe conditions and piecemeal maintenance by the kind of people who work at jiffy lube.

Every one of those attributes adds an order of magnitude to the headcount. There's simply no option to do small teams that might escape Conway's law. Sometimes I'm amazed cars work at all.
To what degree the GeForce software license is applicable even if you don't download the GeForce driver is debatable. It technically governs all software downloadable from nvidia.com including CUDA. The fact that you are only presented with the CUDA license while downloading might not stop Nvidia's lawyers. You might be safe as a consumer against EULAs without the ability to review and reject, but as a company, this might not slide.
netboot.xyz allows you to preload the isos you want to boot :)
No evidence masks prevent spread of viruses:

https://www.cochrane.org/CD006207/ARI_do-physical-measures-s...

https://www.cureus.com/articles/93826-correlation-between-ma...

Studies cited in this opinion piece. Sorry for the PDF:

https://thevirus.wtf/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Masks-Are-Ne...

Evidence cited in this article
https://brownstone.org/articles/not-even-n95-masks-work-to-s...

No evidence supporting social distancing:
https://oversight.house.gov/release/wenstrup-releases-former...

Elevated risk of myocardia post vaccination:
https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMoa2110475

Excerpt:
In the vaccination analysis, the vaccinated and control groups each included a mean of 884,828 persons. Vaccination was most strongly associated with an elevated risk of myocarditis (risk ratio, 3.24; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.55 to 12.44; risk difference, 2.7 events per 100,000 persons; 95% CI, 1.0 to 4.6),

https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/13/6/e065687

Excerpt:
Our meta-analysis indicates that within 30-day follow-up period, vaccinated individuals were twice as likely to develop myo/pericarditis in the absence of SARS-CoV-2 infection compared to unvaccinated individuals, with a rate ratio of 2.05 (95% CI
The demo shows the date in mm/dd/yyyy format. Does it use your locale's date representation by default or do you have to configure it?
Tldr; We can't talk about proper numbers cos hackers.
RPi has an ecosystem and great documentation. People use it for projects because every tutorial and YouTube video out there shows you how to get the job done with an RPi. There's a jillion expansion boards (HATs), hundreds of 3D prints, many ready to run OS images (selectable from an easy to use flashing tool), and even a first party camera module. The 40 pin GPIO header has stuck around unchanged thru all but the earliest hardware generations. Does the N100 offer that?

There are more performant and efficient alternatives, but for many hobbyists, prototypers, startups, and students (or rather, their teachers) it's not worth the extra time/headaches/hassle to start adapting an rpi solution to non-rpi hardware.
>That's basically already the case because of progressive tax brackets.

Progressive tax brackets work against single income families? Do you mean combined tax declaring? I know the US is different to most of the world. But in most of the world income is a reflection of an individual not their family.

It is impossible to combine incomes in a single tax declaration in lots of parts of the world.
AI is a tool, if you don't know how to use a tool you can't expect to get good results with it. That means both how to interact with the AI and how to structure your code to make the AI's generations more accurate.
If you could make 500k/year (and lets say it reduces to a drastic 200k after taxes/platform cuts), I don't see why paying 1.25% (+0.2% per extra seat) is a hard ask for a core tech.
I love how you write a novel to justify not being able to manage your work/life balance.
I could see it in DFW, both because it's a large indoor (air-conditioned) space and because of the surfeit of land to develop.

I'd definitely seen them disappear in denser, geo-limited cities.

Which is a shame... one of my favorite workouts! And a nice general-purpose court for other things too.
Clicking the generate song button seems to do nothing.
The internet was originally designed to be robust in the face of nuclear war, but that meant packets could be routed over the network even when individual point to point connections were lost.

I remember seeing an ad for whose premise was a cheap hotel where "we have every movie ever made on our TVs".

That was one promise of the streaming future... but there was never an understanding that the internet was permanent.

Even during the initial fad of "everyone needs their own homepage" before geocities, most pages were dead or broken or obsolete in a few months.

A large distributed redundant archive of data would be useful... probably with some mechanism where you can donate resources to preserve the data you like without having to support the stuff you don't care about (because resources are finite.)
> but I am yet to see any reasoned argument for why it is far more difficult and will take far longer

I am yet to see any reasoned argument for why it is easy to build real AI and that it will come fast.

As you said, AI has been there for decades and stagnated for pretty much the whole time. We've just had a big leap, but nothing says (except BS hype) that we're not in for a long plateau again.
Perhaps it is worthwhile to read the article to understand their criticism of the law? They extensively cite the court’s decision, which explains the reasoning for declaring the law unconstitutional.
I'm not sure if Tesla is a great example here, considering they also suffer quality control issues, at least in their US manufacturing. The amount of panel gap issues and fitment problems I've witnessed with Teslas have been more than I care to admit.

Being truly vertically integrated is no guarantee for quality in my experience.
I think most of the stuff from the era of physical media will survive if cared for. So content pre-2010s will probably be found by archeologists some day, and they will ponder why we stopped making films and TV shows all of a sudden.

My collection of DVDs and CDs is still flawless after many decades. I have some VHS approaching 40-50 years (Although it’s slowly degrading).
> Because I'm not an ascetic monk.

That’s glib. It is possible to discern websites that are safe, respect privacy and are generally pleasing to visit without an ad blocker. If you deem them unsafe, leave, don’t log entirely off the internet.
Go back ten+ years, replace AI with cloud and it was the same. I saw ‘no cloud’ policies everywhere. But most of the anti-cloud people have since retired, so even the most hidebound of organisations are adopting it. It will probably take another round of retirements for AI to adopted in the more conservative environments.
it is the (correct) github response to DMCA, then let the dispute process happen.

I don't own the repo, but i do hope the owners of the repo dispute it, because the takedown has no real leg to stand on.
I don’t know if I’ve done something wrong my my copilot is so wrong I just turned it off. I don’t understand the appeal at all.

I don’t remember the last time I thought one of its suggestions was useful. For me LSP has been the real game changer.
It can get a little tedious if you are just using ChatGPT or Claude as it is. Also you are limited by lack of context on existing codebase.

That's why there are a lot of tools that help to setup a proper workflow around these LLMs.

For terminal-based workflow, you can checkout aider or plandex.

For GUI-based workflow, you can try 16x Prompt (I built it).
Not only that, solar is entirely misaligned with power requirements. Over the year it may be 1.5 over nuclear, but in the winter, when demand is highest, the amount of energy provided will be far less, on account of short days and low light - typically you get 1/10 of the energy in winter that you do in comparison to a summer day. So overproduction when unrequired, underproduction when required.
>the person that is making the plugin must also hold a license which is too much, not going to pay to do work.

I suppose the idea is that you're paying to work on something that will make you money. And then if you have a FOSS mentality you can share that for others using your engine.

But I'm sure there's wiggle room if you contact. if you're an up and coming engine and are interested I'm sure Spine only has to gain by having its tech ready to go with it.
I think there is still a market for the old offensive comedies. There are comics out there who simply don’t care about getting cancelled, and it seems their audiences are big enough where the people complaining don’t matter.

The number of people willing to speak up to support the right for people to make and enjoy movies, or content in general, that is offensive seems to be growing.

Spotify kept Rogan and dumped the employees complaining about him. Netflix backed Chappelle with his specials. Eminem’s latest album debuted at #1. South Park is still going strong.

The people raising hell on Twitter were never the audience, so it really doesn’t matter what they think. They should be making things for the people who are going to pay.

Disney has been trying to please all those people and there stock has tanked. All I hear are people complaining about their various franchises and how they suck now. I guess those people on Twitter aren’t showing up to support the content they demanded.
Discogs, mostly electronic music. Here is an example (sales statistics to the right)

https://www.discogs.com/release/848169-Carbon-Based-Lifeform...
On the current state of AI - do you believe it has "intelligence" or is the underlying system a "prediction machine"?

What signs do you see that make you believe that the next level (biological intelligence) is on the horizon?
if you got to pick, red or blue team?
Bill Gates Sr
I did follow a curriculum set by Dijkstra's students. In the first trimester, we learned to program in Pascal, so we knew what programming was. The next two programming courses, in the second and fourth trimester, "programming" meant proving programs correct. Using pen and paper. Often in one-on-one sessions with our teachers where we'd to demonstrate our proofs. Or the teacher would state a problem and then continue to derive a correct progam by construction, writing slowly on the blackboard. These programming courses were supplemented with logic, discrete mathematics, and other formal methods. And we had continuous mathematics courses as well, practical labs, electronics, databases, and whatever you'd expect in a computer science and engineering curriculum.

For most students this wasn't easy, particularly compared to the way most of them were comfortable programming on their own by trial-and-error hacking away at a problem. Proving programs correct by construction takes a different skill. At the same time, it wasn't particularly hard either once you got going.

I don't think this way of teaching and learning programming was very useful or practical. With Dijkstra's students leaving the university, or otherwise losing primacy at the computer science faculty, Dijsktra's ideas faded away from the curriculum. Since then—I returned twenty years later to teach at this university—, the curriculum is very like any other computer science / engineering curriculum. And students seemed to have as much trouble with it as before.

What I missed about the curriculum when it was gone, was the consistency it brought into the curriculum. The curriculum felt as one continuous track to some clear idea of what it meant to be a programmer in Dijkstra's style. If you liked that idea, the curriculum was a great guide. If you didn't, it felt as a waste of time.
I use multiple daily and have definitely seen a productivity boost. If nothing else, it saves typing. But I'd argue they are in essence a better search engine - it answers "you don't know what you don't know" questions very well, providing a jumping off point when my conception of how to achieve something with code or tooling is vague.
Unfortunately, scale isn't global given how many of the regulatory limiting factors are country-specific (and even worse, site-specific).
What's the next big step? What will it do? Why do we need or want it? Surely you have the answer.

This means you are sure we are close to automated driving, engineering and hospitality?
Jetbrains was sort of close to doing this. But ofc it had to be in your face when you update to a version supporting it, and prodding you to opt in.

May have worked if it wasn't a paid add-on.
I work with people like this. The least skilled, least experienced, least productive people on my team constantly recommend “AI” solutions that are just a waste of time.

I think that’s what people like about AI, it’s hope, maybe you won’t have to learn anything but still be productive. Sounds nice ?
Yes, the Nvidia SASS ISAs are not documented and emitting them is non trivial due to Nvidia GPUs not handling pipeline hazards in Hardware and requires the compiler to correctly schedule instructions to avoid race conditions. The only available code that does this can be found in MESA, but even they say "//this is bs and we know it" in a comment above their instruction latencies, which you also can't easily figure out.

Replacing ptxas is highly non trivial. I will attempt to do so, but it increasingly looks like ptxas is here to stay. I started working on a nvcc + cuda SDK replacement which already works surprisingly well for a day of work.

However, ptxas is in my sight. But I know this is something that to my knowledge nobody that wasn't fed Nvidia documentation under license has ever successfully accomplished.
A DC-10 can't fly when one engine comes off unplanned (and it has two engines left in that case...):

as the aircraft was beginning its takeoff rotation, engine number one (the left engine) separated from the left wing, flipping over the top of the wing and landing on the runway. As the engine separated from the aircraft, it severed hydraulic lines that lock the wing's leading-edge slats in place and damaged a 3-foot (1 m) section of the left wing's leading edge. Aerodynamic forces acting on the wing resulted in an uncommanded retraction of the outboard slats. As the aircraft began to climb, the damaged left wing produced far less lift than the right wing, which had its slats still deployed and its engine providing full takeoff thrust. The disrupted and unbalanced aerodynamics of the aircraft caused it to roll abruptly to the left until it was partially inverted, reaching a bank angle of 112°, before crashing in an open field by a trailer park near the end of the runway. The engine separation was attributed to damage to the pylon structure holding the engine to the wing, caused by improper maintenance procedures at American Airlines.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_191
Amazon customer for 25 years. The amount of time and gas I have saved over that time is enormous.
Well he gave you a list of credentials of why you should believe him. Isn’t that enough ?
> I am yet to see any reasoned argument for why it is far more difficult and will take far longer.

For language models specifically, they are trained on data and have historically been improved by increasing the size of the model (by number of parameters) and by the amount and/or quality of training data.

We are basically out of new, non-synthetic text to train models on and it’s extremely hard work to come up with novel architecture that performs well against transformers.

Those are some simple reasons why it will be far more difficult to improve general language models.

There are also papers showing that training models on synthetic data causes “model collapse” and greatly reduces output quality by magnifying errors already present in the model, so it’s not a problem we can easily sidestep.

It’s an easy mistake to see something like chatgpt not exist, then suddenly exist and assume a major breakthrough happened, but behind the scenes there has been like 50 years of R&D that led to it, it’s not like suddenly there was a breakthrough and now the gates are open.

A general intelligence for CS is like the elixir of life for medicine.
> Do you do anything to offset your increased carbon emissions?

Yes. Quite a lot. I walk the talk.
I remember rebooting my Mac every time I went for coffee. Prevenative maintenance...
Because homo sapiens have killed off all other competing humanoid species in the last ~100,000 years.

Survival of the fittest ensures that if some species survived, they have to be specialized in avoiding humans.
Phrack 71
> I've trained as a neuroscientist and written a book about consciousness

This has to do with ML and numerical computing, how?
Aping Steve Jobs without anywhere near the same sense of style. A perfectionist of crafting the mediocre experience. Also the line about caring that they were "humans" and not "users" is particularly rich. I am not doubting he probably said something like this, but I doubt his sincerity knowing everything we do about the man now.
I think you missed the memo during the pandemic then. That was the biggest supply of free money in a while for many industries.
timing is everything when posting. 9PM EST isnt the best time to post either, but it's better than 10AM when people are just arriving at work (or heading to work the further west you go).
Reminds me of The Primeagen quote:
“If copilot made you 10x better, then you were only a 0.1x programmer to begin with”.

As someone who uses ChatGPT and Claude daily, but cancelled my Copilot subscription after a year of use because it intimately just wasn’t that helpful to me and didn’t provide enough benefit over doing it by hand, I kind of sort of agree. Maybe not entirely, but I can’t shake the feeling that there might be some truth in it.

The code that AI generates for me is rarely good. It’s possible to get good code out of it, but it requires many iterations of careful review and prompting, but for most cases, I can write it quicker by hand. Where it really shines for me in programming and what I still use ChatGPT and Claude for is rubber ducking and as an alternative to documentation (eg “how do I do x in css”).

Besides the code quality being mediocre at best and outright rubbish at worst, it’s too much of a “yes man”, it’s lazy (choose between A and B: why not a hybrid approach? That’s… not what I asked for), and it doesn’t know how to say “I don’t know”.

I also feel it makes you, the human programmer, lazy. We need to exercise our brains, not delegate too much to a dumb computer.
> A mugger could knock you out from behind while you're using your phone and then empty your bank account or whatever.

that's true, but they could also just point a gun at your head and tell you to empty your account.

There's a balance of convenience and security. A lot of processes disregard convenience as a factor, but i argue that a laymen considers convenience a large factor, and would be willing to skip security for convenience.
I’d argue in the UK probation periods are effectively 2 years long.
How on earths name do you use an LLM to find information ? I just don’t get it. For current events it out of date and it confidently feeds me shit ?

I might use them occasionally for a rubber ducky but , replacing Google ? Hm
This isn't what the other comment you're replying to was talking about.
It was actually scheduled to be demolished, but then they added an antenna: https://www.toureiffel.paris/en/news/130-years/why-was-eiffe...

Also: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/eiffel-tower-grows-six-...

Utility may have been an afterthought, but it's still there.
> You can basically find any movie for rent/purchase on Apple TV Store (formerly iTunes Movies) or Vudu

If you look closely at film ownership and licensing, you'll know why this is not true.

The production gold standard for content + commentary is Criterion Collection, who now have their own streaming service in addition to their blu-rays for restored films.

Everything else is an unpredictable puzzle palace of variable quality, license availability windows, free-with-ads, digital codes or exclusivity when a studio (e.g. MGM, Paramount) is bought/sold by a streaming service. Vudu has a good service where you can get an HD digital copy for $2 if you own the bluray. Max 100 titles/year. But as usual, the selection of films for "Disc to Digital" is a random output of license quagmires.
> Why would it want to hide in the forest?

They are are plenty of actual humans that are isolationist. From the Amish, to the Sentinelese, to the Pintupi, plenty of peoples have purposefully curbed contact.
Please make a video about this when your new baby is sleeping.
Yes super-car rentals exist, but only in a small number of locations. My point was that not having one conveniently available doesn't make alternative approaches ok.

An aggregator like the original Netflix would be nice but I suspect that model would not work for long. (As evidenced by current Netflix et al).

Publishers can certainly do anything they like with their content, and they set the rules for accessing it.

Assuming what they want is piles of money, I expect they take that into account when setting the rules.

But it's their content. You don't get to break the rules just because you don't like them.
You think silicon valley types care?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA_world
Some of these are just text matchers with hardcoded options, no ML involved. Essentially phone trees, except worse because they don't tell you your options.

There are some more advanced ones using ChatGPT now. I'm guessing they simply pre-prompt it. Can lead to funny results like a customer making the Chevy bot implement an algo in Python.
Usually more for solution suggestion for programming stuff. Anything where I cam verify the answer.
We need better bike infrastructure, like everywhere. Let's spur some competition in that area, so we can cook ourselves more slowly by taking cars off the road, and also let the invisible hand of the market take GM out of business.