skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a lot of artists that hate AI and hate that it is trained on their work, and this is understandable. But it's becoming apparent that a not insignificant segment of the "antis" are actually comprised of non-artists who enjoy the messaging.

If you follow Twitter drama or r/ArtistHate and r/AIWars, you'll see that a number of non-artists are stirring up anti-AI drama and gatekeeping a community they don't even belong to (yet). It's wild to see. They've been caught using AI to create art, then using AI to rip off that art with sock puppets, then posting complaints about it.

On the flip side, I've met a lot of VFX artists that are using Comfy on the regular now as a part of their process. They love it.

A lot of this "no-AI" marketing is catering to this "anti" movement. I suspect they wouldn't want software with "no algorithms", though. And as more artists come to use AI in their work, I believe that's where the argument will shift: that generative AI is just another tool in the artist's tool box.
> Dual incomes. It was easier to move when only the father worked.

This is the biggest one. IBM, for example, used to be a moniker for "I've Been Moved". What the wife did simply wasn't considered.

> In the 1960s (which this article uses as a baseline) 70% of households had cars and this number was growing

70% of households had a single car. People have forgotten what a pain coordinating around that was.

> Laws like prop 13 in California gave people incentive to stay in their abode or face rising tax rates.

Not really. A person only lives so long. In addition, houses were turning over at a decent rate in California as people tended to use the previous house to afford the next house.

The real problem with Prop 13 is on commercial real estate because ownership can outlast human lifespan. When I was in the Bay Area, commercial real estate would have something like 15+ layers of subleases in order to get around Prop 13.
For reference: https://blog.elevensoftware.com/ios-18s-rotate-wi-fi-address...
I've been thinking about this a lot where here in BC we just finished a new dam which could benefit 1.7m EV owners, 250k households........ Or the LNG plant just down the road. At some point these industries should be footing the bill for this infra. I get that the plant will positively impact GDP but how much? And why are publicly financed projects basically preallocated for private industry? It's such a common trope "we don't have enough power to meet our climate goals" well yeah especially when it's being used to support carbonized resource processing.
You're comparing the physical item with the reasoning capabilities of that item.

A popular LLM joke at the moment is "How many Rs in strawberry?"

You, a human being, understand this question. The purpose of the activity is to count the letter R in that word and give the one correct answer.

LLMs don't understand any of that. They don't know what words are, what letters are, what numbers are, what counting is, that a question can have one definite correct answer or many answers, what a question is, nor what an answer is.

They break your input into tokens and then look at the most likely set of output tokens given your input. That's all.

If you train a model on enough sensible input tokens and sensible responses then the output will mostly seem human and sensible. But it's never reasoning.
I think your points dont sound quite right.
* Yes there were lots of new schools in the suburbs but does that make education better? Were men better teachers than women of today?
* Ivy league were much easier to get in if you had the right background, but very few poor/middle class people applied or could afford it.
* The last two years are tough but still most grads work after graduation
* The retirement age was much higher in the old days. https://www.statista.com/statistics/319983/average-retiremen.... People are promoted much more quickly now, in the old days you had to work your way up over time.
Why should procreate be obliged to put generative models in? If they don’t want to, and their customers evidently agree, isn’t that sufficient?

Your argument seems to frame it as them “fundamentally needing” , or are in some way obliged to have that feature, when no such evidence exists for that.
Confession: I haven't read the paper.

But any mention of LLM reasoning ability ought to address the obvious confound: the LLM is trained on examples of deductive reasoning, inductive reasoning, abductive reasoning, SAT-solver reasoning, geniuses' musings, etc. If they replicate one of those examples, then should that be called "reasoning" of any sort or not? Regurgitating those examples may even involve some generalization, if the original topics of an example are swapped out (perhaps by a nearby topic in latent space).

Given that it appears they're training and testing on synthetic problems, this objection probably does not apply to their actual results. But given the fuzziness it creates for the definition of "reasoning" of any sort, I would have expected some working definition of reasoning in the paper's abstract.

Training on Moby Dick and thus being able to regurgitate text from Moby Dick does not mean the LLM is capable of writing a new Moby Dick-like book. (Thankfully; one is more than enough!)
> It also corresponds to 2-3 nuclear reactors

One reactor, if you use a modern design! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPR_(nuclear_reactor)

(Or maybe 2 anyway, to deal with downtime)
Define reason before making grandiose claims.
Geforce 256 and 2 were fixed-function; I don't believe the first shaders showed up until Geforce 3.
Or Pi Pico W, I've used that on a few projects. Nearly instant boot
> "the downright biblical flood of COVID misinformation that emanated from the right" is not a fact - it's an emotional plea

The term "flamebait" is also an emotional plea, but we trust adults to use their brain and decide how to report that in good faith.

"Biblical Flood" is a euphemism indicating "a lot of" misinformation (which is a fact [1]) and anyone not being willfully obtuse could interpret what the commenter meant. but I suppose it's easier to immediately dismiss that very true statement than engage with it.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9114791/
In Europe, yes. Avoiding US-based middlemen like PayPal becomes trendy.
I don't think I'm exactly a 'novice' system builder*, but when my son's computer died a couple of years back we bought replacement RAM, Motherboard and Power Supply before realising it was the CPU that had died (didn't have spare compatible parts to try out).

At least we've got spare parts if the other components die now...

In my 25-odd years of building and using PCs (and the odd few servers) I'd not had a CPU die on me, so it was the last thing I suspected. Wasn't until after we'd worked it out that we looked it up and found that it was somewhat a systemic problem with these specific CPUs after ~1 year of use. I was determined it couldn't have been the CPU - until it couldn't have been anything else.

*Although in hindsight I may have acted like one.

Extra story: 20-something years ago I had a slightly misaligned heatsink on AMD CPU which caused the machine to crash after a few minutes of gaming. I took the heatsink all the way off and decided to put my knuckle on the die and boot up the machine. It took what felt like a millisecond for the die to feel 'nuclear' hot and the machine, thankfully, auto-switched off. I've had a LOT of respect for the job heatsinks do since then.

Once the heatsink was properly seated, the machine booted up no worries, and that CPU kept going until it was system upgrade time. Bulletproof!
Bold (IDE): First Year of Development
A while ago, I was using an emulator for a 32-bit processor I was writing code for. To detect access of non-initialized storage, instead of having an out-of-band bit for each word, it stored hex deadbeef in each word before program start and, at each memory read, checked for this. If it was found, the enulator halted with an error.

This was very handy in catching errors. I never saw this particular word actually generated, so it never indicated a false error.
Measuring Software Modularity
You missed this one: "International Docking System Standard
(IDSS)" [0] which I actually read that before answering hence my "required by the docking standard".

You will see that it says: "IDSS compliant mechanisms protect against electrostatic discharge through the soft capture system" which is to say not much.

That’s still more than the previous standard for which the paragraph on ESD just says "RESERVED".

[0] https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20170001546/downloads/20...
They very much do understand words, letters, etc. Why do you think otherwise? Because of one trick question?
the newest 4 nuclear reactors in the USA produce 4500 megawatt hours. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vogtle_Electric_Generating_Pla...

these are newer and more efficient. so they are likely producing more than the average reactor. So its closer to 1.25 reactors worth of electricity.

but data centers are a HUGE driver of electricity consumption.
Home prices have almost quadrupled in California since 2000.

If you bought a house in California in 2000 for $250,000 you are only paying taxes on it as if it is worth $360,000, due to prop 13, even though it may be worth closer 1M.

If you want to move to a different equivalent house that is the same market value, your monthly tax payment would triple so you probably just dont move. If you want to downsize your tax rate would still likely go up.

Even if you bought a house five or ten years ago the same general pattern disincentivizes moving quite a bit.

This lock in effect was not present in California in the 1960s.

Source:https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CASTHPI
If you like Rasp Pi ecosystem you might want to try the Pi Pico W, it's similar in spirit to microcontrollers like ESP32 but allows you to use micropython and has a neat set of peripherals that work "out of the box":
https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/raspberry-pi-pico-w?varia...
I don't want to give actual examples, but I'm talking about published scientists and people I consider to be reasonably good engineers.
Why, skilled workers belong to an American Federation of Labor craft union, and unskilled workers belong to a Congress of Industrial Organizations union, of course. Skilled workers are trained by the union through apprenticeships. Unskilled workers are trained, minimally, by their foremen. And the CIO is a Communist front, say the bosses.

That's the US classic labor history view.
Its worth noting that Google regularly rewrites title tags, so that part is probably not accurate.

https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2021/08/update-to-...
I'm glad you found a way out and if you ever decide to publish that journal I'd love to read it and see if it has any similarities to my own struggles.

I've always felt that if good times make time fly, depression stops it like a black hole.

And I hope you have or will find something to make you feel the struggle was worth it.
Since my childhood in post-1989 Czechoslovakia, neoliberal economists have been touting supposed benefits of "flexible" workforce sloshing around the country, and the US was often given as an example, how amazingly nomadic it is.

I always thought it was preposterous. Why should people (workers) be uprooted and move, rather than capital (money)? The latter is supposedly much easier to move around.

So, I am glad Americans are finally coming to some common sense.
It might be as simple as the regional options that middle-American households can afford have decreased. For example, in 1990, the median home price in California was 10x the median household income in West Virginia. Today, the gap has increased to 16x. Meaning that even fewer West Virginian households can include California as an option to move to as 25 years ago.
Show HN: Like Facebook Marketplace, AI-native
I happen to know a lot of people that would love to get rid of stuff, but don't wanna go through the work of creating listings, even for Facebook Marketplace.

This is a peer-to-peer marketplace where you just snap the pics and AI does the rest... title, description, category, even tags, and even a suggested price. And you can adjust the personality of the listing.

Also, it continually updates your listings based on real-time trends to ensure they stand out and attract buyers.

With features like customizable listing styles, real-time chat with buyers, and dynamic trend tracking, Shopseen takes the hassle out of selling.
Brains do not reason - they are a neural network whose results are defined by their experiences, memories, and sensory inputs.

I'm tired of reading comments from people who keep repeating that LLMs don't think, don't reason, isn't intelligence because it is not human. If your definition of the above is because it's not human, it's quite useless as a comment. We know LLMs aren't biological human brains. So what?

Define what reasoning is to you. Then tell us why LLMs don't reason and why it matters.
Always kudos towards taking a self-hosted-forge approach
No. Singularity risk has them cowed.
There is no AI, there s nothing intelligent in these things. Just call it a complex algorithm that some people feel are useless and expensive to run.
So what do we know about this? The speaker on the Starliner is making this noise. Presumably the speaker is connected to various radios, but they've probably eliminated those as sources of the problem (otherwise they'd have mentioned it rather than saying the speaker is making the noise).

Sounds to me like something along the wire from the speaker to whatever it's connected to is acting as an antenna, and the noise sounds like broad-spectrum radio static, the kind you get during a thunderstorm from lightning. But, it's too periodic (anyone want to open it up in Audacity and tell me if it's actually accurately periodic?)

It would be interesting to know what they were over when they heard it. Or is it happening everywhere? Could be they're picking up HAARP or something.

Also, not the first time strange sounds have been picked up in space: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDQ8WK_oR-s
> Were men better teachers than women of today?

OP is saying that teaching (at primary / secondary level) was one of the few professional jobs available to women so women teachers in that era were more likely to be overqualified.
I didn't.

Israeli is right behind Australia and Poland in terms of defense expenditures. Wanting for funding, they're not.

Would you care to address my comment, instead of throwing fact darts and seeing what sticks?
You are fooled into thinking that producing a set of output tokens which mimic actual human input and output tokens displays understanding. It doesn't.

"How many Rs in strawberry?" is not a trick question. That's about as straight and factual as a question could be.
For it to be a paradigm shift, there would have to be some definition of the new paradigm in the article, but it really only describes what it's not (regular management). Will go out on a limb and say that this seems to be a little bit of self-indulgence by successful people.
Every single person is reading this with a voice in their head asking "why not use an esp32 et al?"

But of course the article is good enough because it's interesting, even if it's not the right tool for the job.
> Once you secure a spot in the workforce it’s pretty easy to hang onto it as an average contributor without much objective measure or comparison against your peers.

There's also the weird "success path" that goes from developer to manager. It's as though the end goal of learning to be a concert pianist was becoming a conductor, or perhaps a concert hall manager.

If your "success metric" is earnings, then "The force of competition at work" for knowledge work doesn't necessarily drive you to practice your Rust development "scales" every day, or to be the best Javascript dev in the team - it is probably a better use of your time to be "good enough" at your developer job, and hone your schmoozing and office politics skills to make the jump to better paid non development roles like "chief architect" of "VP in charge of {whatever}" or ultimately CTO or something.
Default jet brains with some customization to fit with macos shortcuts
I think pg is trying to be diplomatic here by saying that "founder mode" is something to be discovered and taught in business schools in the future, and there may be a sliver of truth in that.

But I think the type of leadership this essay talks about comes from personality traits that are mostly determined by the end of one's adolescence: grit, obsessiveness/perfectionism, and vision.
>At some point these industries should be footing the bill for this infra.

Isn't that what the usage fees are for? If the utility isn't charging enough to pay for the infrastructure and make a profit, it's doing something terribly wrong.

>And why are publicly financed projects basically preallocated for private industry?

Why are you using public finance for utilities there?
Let's just be careful: whether it's Steve Jobs or Paul Graham or Socrates, philosophy devolves to sophistry when the metric is whether you can convince people. The metric has to be whether you're right, in this case for the business.

The solution here, like most dialectics, is to do both: hire people who are not just smart, but who actually care for their part of the business in a way founders wish they could do if they had the time, intelligence, and grace.

As a non-founder, I'm so glad when the founders hire someone who cares enough to get their job done that I can rely on them and focus on my job -- and I aspire to be someone who others are glad to rely on. But from even two steps away, that is indistinguishable from the principles of division of labor and the practice of mutual political respect that strangle companies in bureaucracy. But the two situations are night and day, and obvious to those who live it.

So I think the difference is not whether the founder can reach down a level, but whether they -- or the COO or whoever plays this role -- can arrive on any scene and quickly tell if it's BS. Then when everyone knows BS is not safe and that commitment is respected, they'll find the courage to not play games.

So then a company runs well not because the founder is good, but because people understand and buy into what good means for the business.
>We don’t have the right to tell people if they can’t do drugs. It’s a crime without a victim.

I don't know about others, but I see points like this and it fairly comprehensively invalidates any other points an entity/organisation/etc makes.

Society absolutely can tell people what what's acceptable and what's not. That's almost the definition of a society.

Also it's very much not victimless. Look at the families and especially kids of addicts. The drain on a govts resources (policing/healthcare). On others in society too (drug related violence, car accidents, etc).

Different drugs should be treated differently (weed vs meth, etc) I do believe.
Maybe you are thinking of Homecoming. The podcast and tv series around this general plot: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homecoming_(TV_series)
I'm not sure why I started using dc instead of bc, but I think it might have been because at one point in time bc output a bunch of extra noise that made it annoying to use in shell scripts, so I just learned dc is the standard way to calculate stuff in UNIX and kept on using it that way. I noticed some new Linuxes don't have it installed and I'm always stuck for how to calculate things in shell scripts. I guess people just use Bash nowadays. In any case, thanks to the Gavin Howard dc I still use it today, even on the Windows command line. dc is great!
That’s a great analogy
This is very interesting, thanks for sharing!

So if it takes 1J to do some computation in 1 second (say 1GHz at 1W), you're saying that in the perfectly spherical cow case, it takes 2J to do that same computation in 0.5 seconds (2GHz at 4W).

However, that's just CPU consumption, if the overall system has a static rate of 4W, then it takes 5J (1J CPU, 4J system) at 1Ghz to do the task in a second, or 4J (2J CPU, 2J system) at 2GHz to do the task in 0.5 seconds.

Am I understanding you correctly? Basically, if the overall system's power consumption is similar to the CPU's power consumption at turbo, then it makes sense to turbo, if not, it doesn't?
Better yet, we could develop an artificial general intelligence that achieves consciousness, and decides we're a toxic infestation of the planet, and works to wipe us out. The AI wouldn't even be wrong in its assessment of us.
Willingness to Look Stupid (2021)
Not https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaconda_(installer)
The Israelis have always been realistic about the fact that their access to US arms might be cut off. Hence why they (alone?) negotiated integration rights for their F-35s with domestic systems and munitions.

The greatest loss to Israel if the US were to withdraw aid would be in air defense -- specifically the US leaning on its allies in the region (Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt) to quietly use airspace and basing to defend Israel from missile barrages.

At this point, it seems like Netanyahu doesn't much care what happens in the future, as long as his short-term political survival continues.

We'll see if the hostage death protests change anything, since the Israeli public seems like the only entity that can prompt policy change.
There are more teas in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

For example Kashmiri noon chai is tea boiled in milk for about an hour with baking soda before adding ice. It is then aerated by pouring between cups to make it slightly foamy.
is your bc the bc or is it a bc? bc is a POSIX standard so "a" bc would be as good as "the" bc, i'm just curious. "man bc" on Fedora linux says the author is Phil Nelson
I actually researched it, and it's strongly correlated with the rising urbanism.

Jobs are getting more and more concentrated in large metro areas, leaving smaller cities to whither.

And once you're in a large city, you have fewer reasons to move. Jobs are there, and likely close to each other. So even if you change a job, you probably don't _need_ to move.

This, of course, drives up the price of real estate. People want to be close to there the jobs are, so they compete for the limited space in proximity to large metros. Thus making companies more likely to relocate (or open) their businesses there. Rinse, wash, repeat.

This is not healthy. We are again nearing the historical record for the number of housing units per capita or per household, far more than in the 80-s or 70-s. Yet we're somehow in a "housing crisis".
I've noticed that on HackerNews about 80% of all debates or discussions where people disagree, boils down to a disagreement about the definition of a word.
Isn't that the point of making it `/Users/me/me`?
There was a post here about it, a couple months ago, I think
> And why are publicly financed projects basically preallocated for private industry?

Where I live generation is owned by privately owned/listed companies or for-profit government owned entities (we call these entities a State Owned Enterprise or SOE). The grid is owned by an SOE and local distribution is owned by for-profit corporations owned by local governments (cities or regional councils).

So energy consumers pay for the generation, other than Rio Tinto which has gotten subsidies from successive governments (but this is the last time, we promise) and lower income consumers who get a winter angry payment, and maybe some smaller industry subsidies I am unaware of.