skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The R development community is (was?) consciously focused on single operator managing their stuff on their workstation.

Considerations like repeatable procedures, reliable package heirarchies, etc. were clearly and more or less politely Not Interesting. I spent several years with one of my tasks being an attempt to get the R package universe into Gentoo, and later to RPM packages.

I wouldn't say the R devel community was rude about it, but the systems-administration view of how to maintain the language was just not on their radar.

At the time I was trying to provide a reliable taxonomy of packages to a set of research machines at a good sized university. Eventually, I gave up on any solution that involved system package managers, or repeatability. :)

So if you're a researcher driving your own train, R is freakin' FANTASTIC. If you're the SA attempting to let that researchers' department neighbors do the same thing on their workstations, anticipate fun.
This is because of the CHIPS act. Other than Trump's constant whinging about China, he didn't have anything to do with this.
It logically fits, you're just avoiding and trying to control the goal posts/scope of what's talked about.

You'd prefer we mostly only talk about Oct. 7th and afterward, right?
I'm not a terrorist sympathizer, like I said I side with Hamas and Hezbollah, not Zionism.
I’m just going to remind everyone that all these LLMs were also trained on not just pirated, but all out stolen data in organized and resourced assaults on proprietary information/data, not even to mention roughshod ignoring any and all licenses.
Which AI startup do you work for?
I guess it would be interesting but differentiating pollution from language evolution seems very tricky since getting a non polluted corpus gets harder and harder
Manufacturers for certain categories of products are homogenized, often regionally, whereas the brands maybe many.

Plus, clandestine supply chain attacks fall into 2 categories:

- A. With manufacturer/reseller complicity. (Not many manufacturers choose this because it would harm their business.)

- B. Without manufacturer/reseller complicity, but with logistics interception for sw/hw implants or complete substitution. (This is the method NSA TAO used to load implants into Cisco gear.)
These are pretty good. I feel like jargon like "use case" and "business logic" should also have sarcastic definitions. But I can't be clever this early in the morning.
I'm still scared of flying
Apple isn't the only company in the world that needs CPUs
Something I've noticed over the years based on my experience having consulted for over a hundred organisations is that skilled managers will make their employees work more efficiently, and unskilled managers can only make their employees work harder.

Both methods can achieve higher output but the latter can squeeze out maybe +30% for a finite period of time until the employees burn out, but the former has no ceiling on productivity gains. You can achieve 10x, 100x, or even 1,000,000x efficiencies by not wasting time, using automation, better methods, or whatever. I've had serious discussions where the "work harder" people were suggesting 100 outsourced Indian IT techs for two years to do something I could do in a couple of weeks with some scripting. That's a 5,000x difference, in case you're counting.

The inevitable consequence of this attitude is that to achieve "top performance", some orgs flog their staff like slaves to eke out +60%.
I think a major contributor is actual pain, from the workplace, perhaps obesity, perhaps poor health in general.
I don't think ID checks should be implemented. Few nation states aren't ready not abuse this. The US might be able to, but certainly not most European countries.
Yes I do. In fact, many of the VCs in our industry that I've had to deal with are Zionist terrorists cheering on this attack.
If you're using "sane" as a limiter in your understanding, then you'll never understand.

There are many reasons people try opioids. A large percentage of opioid addiction came from being prescribed by a doctor. Some people try it because they are looking for a way to make their situation in life not hurt so much. It's what their friends/family do. I'm not going to attempt to go into all of the reasons any one has ever used, but you should be more empathetic than your use of sane
> ... compare the frequency of words to those used in human natural writings and you spot the computer from the human.

But that's a losing endeavor: if you can do that, you can immediately ask your LLM to fix its output so that it passes that test (and many others). It can introduce typos, make small errors on purpose, and anything you can think of to make it look human.
You'll want to make sure everything stays up to date in case someone finds a vulnerability in whatever software you're currently using. If you have to expose stuff to the outside world, only open the ports you need to. Only allow access to a specific user with a non-default username (or at the very least disable root ssh access), and use long passwords or ssh keys. I think that's generally the bare minimum, but there are online guides to harden your stuff further like using wireguard and fail2ban and stuff
Is it? Not the kind of retirement I have seen with grandparents (and parents). Retirement in that sense is stopping meaningful work altogether and doing “leisure”. I feel like that is a rapid pathway to senility.
I'm inclined to agree with you however I know a few C++ developers, DBAs etc approaching their 60s who don't have any inclination to do anything non technical. I myself have moved from development to solution architecture. I'm quite surprised how non-technical it is most of the time, although it does require a lot of understanding of concepts which most managers seem to struggle with.
I would say it's a little more murky than that. My anecdotal experience is in the context of Ancestry.com. Effectively, I might not consent to having my information shared but if my uncle, nephew, etc. does it is effectively still being shared.
> The hype is around like content creation and AGI, which is a nothingburger.

Right, which is why TFA specifically talks about "Generative AI".
I knew a homeless guy who abused heroin.

The thing that got him off the street was seeing a dentist, who pulled an infected tooth.

Turns out he was in extreme pain at all times, but didn't know it.

If we'd had universal health care he wouldn't have ended up homeless.
I wonder how much of that is just... how to put it kindly... basically running out of people prone to overdose in the first place?
Will our descendants read about Guantanamo?
There is a lag between policy and results, I don't think you can fairly say that because it's happening NOW it's biden's doing (though i'll give credit to Biden for now ending the changes Trump enacted). But Trump should get credit for completely reorienting our trade policy.
Article seems very US-centric.

The link behind "ongoing debate" only poses questions about the extent of loss in NA.

For Europe and for example, in Germany, the extreme pace of biomass reduction seems to be scientific consensus.

Quote from Wikipedia (sources linked there, but there are plenty in German):

> In 2013 the Krefeld Entomological Society reported a "huge reduction in the biomass of insects"[4] caught in malaise traps in 63 nature reserves in Germany (57 in Nordrhein-Westfalen, one in Rheinland-Pfalz and one in Brandenburg).[50][51] A reanalysis published in 2017 suggested that, in 1989–2016, there had been a "seasonal decline of 76%, and mid-summer decline of 82%, in flying insect biomass over the 27 years of study"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline_in_insect_population...

Now that I've commented on the article contents:

that title led me very much astray in an HN context, until I saw the domain name.

Would prefer for the other type of bugs to disappear unintendedly from human activity.
This is great. Created a character generator & editor for my TTRPG group in about 5 minutes. Haven't dug too deep yet, but it created a working baseline that I was hoping for. Thanks! Will definitely be an eye on this. Keep up the good work!
Pretty bold to cry about war crimes while defending the actions of Israel.
That's why search engines rated them highly, and why a million spam sites cropped up that paid writers $1/essay to pretend to be Aunt May, and why today every recipe website has a gigantic useless fake essay in front of their copypasted made up recipes.
> LLMs are not crazy good because they can generate stories, they are crazy good because they are a very very good interface to humans.

Do you have an example of a tool that uses an LLM as an interface? Seems like that'd be the fastest way to show people this is a superior interface.

We're obviously a long ways away from star-trek style natural interaction with computers, so I'm curious what you're doing that can work today. Aside from straightforward content generation, of course.
It's a pager! Also, there's some evidence for this, as 2 out of 12 killed are children.

And it's not a full-fledged war, yet, as illustrated by the fact that the targets were still in their civilian settings. Generally, this may backfire quite a bit, as in a massuve influx in recruiting. (If the same happened to the US and reservists were blown up by some obscure vector amongst their families and while shopping, what would you expect? Awe and accepting defeat?)
Fun fact: I'm visiting Uruguay right now, and they have fluoridated salt here! (it's iodized as well)
I understand, but I was commenting specifically around the comment "US Manufacturing is reinvigorating" which it is, and which is more general than chips.

I think when the Trump admin renegotiated trade policies (and I'll given Biden credit for keeping them) the economic incentives were rebalanced. I think the result is complex/low volume manufacturing is starting to return to the US, and simple high volume manufacturing is moving to Mexico (which we have a very good relationship with... i'll discredit Trump for being so stupidly aggressive with them in the first few months of his administration though)
Wonder if they will start apologizing for all the other stuff. Like all the other stuff that happened in the name of manifest destiny and the more modern things like the battle of Blair Mountain
I think the statistics he cited actually make that case
Prescription opioids without good controls ended up with tons of folks addicted, then moving to heroine/fentanyl once doctors woke up and stopped further prescription. I don't think anybody can judge deep opioid addiction without walking the proverbial line, most folks fail to ever shed even cigarettes or alcohol.

Second reason, ie compared to Europe is that US society is much less social, much more focused on oneself and inward, and if you fail there, you fail hard and very easily end up on street even from good white collar life. Nobody really bats an eye. Once down, its very hard to ever get up from the street, misery compounds and hard drugs offer some form of temporary 'escape'.
“What do you do?”

“PLEASE”
Ofc. It will still be open by then.
Narcan nasal spray was approved for over the counter last March. The chart’s peak is one month after.
I agree; It’s excellent for rapid prototyping, as its easy to learn/develop and time to deployment is incredibly fast, especially with Posit Connect. However, it’s not ideal for handling hundreds of concurrent users.
> Kind of but not really.

You write this in a tone of contradiction, but as far as I can tell we're describing the exact same thing. I understand why the airlines do it, but it doesn't change what customers experience.
Demo: CSV-App with History
It's fascinating watching someone write code for macOS while only referring to Linux and FreeBSD man pages.

On macOS, 'man ip' gives all the necessary info about raw sockets and IP_HDRINCL:

> Outgoing packets automatically have an IP header prepended to them (based on the destination address and the protocol number the socket is created with), unless the IP_HDRINCL option has been set.

> Unlike previous BSD releases, the program must set all the fields of the IP header

> Note that the ip_off and ip_len fields are in host byte order.
The claim of the headline is also not supported by the evidence shared in the article. As just one example, the article notes that many different strains of bacteria are responsible for caries. This fact doesn't necessarily say anything about the effectiveness of Lantern's treatments - although it might shed light on the mechanisms that make it effe tive (or not).

That's what the clinical trials and studies on the early adopters are for. There's lots of interesting commentary on the early research, such as Scott Alexander's write-up, that are much better than this article.
Please help me understand then, because from what I can understand about the facts here:

1) It was delivered into the pockets of Senior Leadership of Hezbollah, with an incentive for those pagers not to be distributed elsewhere.

2) The explosive yield was very small, of an estimated 3000 pagers; 12 fatalities were recorded, making the death rate about 0.4%. One of which was a child, a relative of a Hezbollah leader. (this is an unjustifiable tragedy, but the only recorded civilian fatality).

3) There has never been, in the history of all warfare, such a surgically precise attack with such a low casualty rate of the civilian population - considering the attack happened at a singular time where it was not possible to get all of the members away from the civilian population at all.

I'm not sure I understand your reasoning, it's not indiscriminate if it's very targeted and very localised.
Haxe compiles to a lot of languages. Some of those language targets are better maintained than others. I've definitely had situations where some usage of esoteric Haxe features (like, deep/complex generics alongside runtime polymorphism) compiled fine to one target but compiled to invalid or incorrect code on another.

(Interestingly, in my experience the C++ target is rock solid. Though that experience is from many years ago.)

In any case, the best source for known compiler bugs is always gonna be GitHub:

https://github.com/HaxeFoundation/haxe/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is...
A major contributor was also Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family, who got rich off getting people started on prescription opioids.
Somehow related, paper books from before 2020 could be a valuable commodity in a in a decade or two, when the Internet will be full of slop and even contemporary paper books will be treated with suspicion. And there will be human talking heads posing as the authors of books written by very smart AIs. God, why are we doing this????
Five hundred and seven Mechanical Movements
Teen tried a suicide chemical he got online, then sought help. It was too late
I think the argument is that stitching things together at a high level is not really coding. A bit of a no true scotsmen perspective. The example is that anything more abstract than assembly is not even true coding, let alone creating a wrapper layer around an LLM
Empirical studies show that governments typically do not introduce policies that result in benefits overall, and the costs of those polices are typically higher than if everyone had just paid a tax that was given as welfare to the small number of workers in the effected industry.

What position is a homeowner in when they decide to hire someone else to mow their lawn? Economic specialization generally a good thing.

US politicians get enamored by industrial policy when they see what happened to the "asian tiger" economies over the past decades. They forget that those nations were so destroyed by war that the "growth" was less due to the policies than to the people's motivation to live in a free and peaceful society.

China is also now the poster child for industrial policy. China had many years of intentional economic suppression in the name of societal harmony (preventing chaos resulting from some regions being poor and isolated and others being rich). In recent years China has managed to use some of the wealth to undertake a social policy (plus industrial policy) of bringing wealth from the coastal manufacturing regions into the agricultural regions, training workers, etc.

Even in spite of all this, China's GDP is still significantly lower than it would be without all the policies, but the societal order is preserved and there is likely greater social stability.

China faces unique challenges in these areas relative to other countries (largely due to geography) which is why it had suppressed its economy so much for so long.

We are getting a glimpse at what a modern approach to Chinese capitalism will look like and it has already left the US in the dust in terms of productivity. It's ironic that the US mis-attributes the success to the industrial policy rather than to the repeal of it.
> it's pretty jarring if anyone can hear it

That's only because you haven't put any effort into sound design. Notification and alert sounds can be horrible like many of the ringtones people choose or they can be pleasant and unobtrusive like certain defaults in various apps. Try browsing some sound effect libraries on various game asset stores, there are many free effects available, and choose something that isn't jarring but is still unique enough to recognize. Avoid sharp beeps and boops or loud melodies, look for ambient sounds like the click of a lock or switch, the swish of paper or fabric, a soft impact sound like dropping a slipper or flip-flop, something you'll notice but won't startle you.
>our AIs may not be very good at learning but our brains are

Brains aren't nearly as good at slightly adjusting the statistical properties of a text corpus as computers are.
And yet it may be the best deterrent we have.
> Hamas is a fundamentalist group

You've offered no evidence to support this repeated claim, and haven't refuted the evidence to the contrary.

> your arguments seem obsessive and misdirected

Not obsessive, just consistent; I could just as well call you obsessive for your repeated excuses of Israel's destruction of Gaza and their murder, starvation, torture and rape of Palestinians.

You have a very Israeli view on history, and it's obvious neither of us are going to change our standpoint, so I bid you adieu.
SEO grifters have fully integrated AI at this point, there are dozens of turn-key "solutions" for mass-producing "content" with the absolute minimum effort possible. It's been refined to the point that scraping material from other sites, running it through the LLM blender to make it look original, and publishing it on a platform like Wordpress is fully automated end-to-end.
There is a ton of hand-waving in this paper, and they include water from electricity generation (which can easily change depending on the source) and the chip manufacturing (which would have to be amortized across the lifetime usage of the chips, still ongoing).

The only datacenters that would actually consume water are the ones using open-loop evaporative cooling, which is not all of them. Over time, they'll get replaced with more efficient closed loop systems anyway.

Water costs money. Datacenters are highly incentivized to use it as efficiently as possible. If it’s becoming scarce, increase the price and they’ll find ways to be even more efficient.
DDR5 doesn't have an In-Band ECC. What they have is On-Die ECC, and is not visible to the memory controller (i.e. error information won't be reported by EDAC), and only corrects 1-bit when they're stored/retrieved, where Side-Band ECC (regular ECC) and In-Band ECC can correct 1-bit and detect 2-bits, and can also correct/detect memory corruption during transit.
No, I don't.

If the US military gives you a laptop, you don't give it to your kids for schoolwork.
You know the term authoritarian cuts both ways across the political spectrum? Not everything is right wing just because it’s authoritarian.
True. That shift would be in the last couple of years. Maybe Vietnam is next China. But this is still an emerging event. What China did to the US already happened.
> Were the pagers military grade

I don't mean to be "that guy", but "military grade" means nothing nowadays. It can mean anything from "made to exactly standards" to "made by the lowest bidder, and likely to fail the minute it's used".
Yes. Here are practical instructions on how to turn it into an even more of a cesspit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=endHz0jo9Ck I think it's now a law of nature that any new tech leads to SEO amplification. AI has become the Degelman M34 Manure Spreader of the internet https://degelman.com/products/manure-spreaders
But it is a 50/50 split, so I don't understand what your concern is.
- WWW

- Smart phones from iPhone and onwards

- CI/CD pipelines

- Containers
Same -- I would have guessed that I read about this in the late '80s.
Great point. And in those faux-Agile environments, you'll definitely sometimes find people just doing the right thing and then finding the right way to lie to JIRA about it.
I'm the same, I brush and floss regularly, occasionally use chx mouthwash, dental disclosing tables and oral probiotics. She forgets to brush sometimes, eats more sweet. She had only one or two cavities in twenty years we've known each other. I've had two root canals and have fillings regularly. Truth be told, she doesn't drink coffee at all, I drink several cups a day. She also doesn't drink much alcohol, I have one or two beers every week. In addition to bad genetics (both parents smokers and developed gum disease) I attribute this to poor oral hygiene when I was a kid, parents didn't really control my brushing, so ended up with a lot of fillings. In contrast, we brush our kid's teeth every day religiously, almost 5, no cavities whatsoever, and she eats plenty of sweets.
Or Al-Shifa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Shifa_pharmaceutical_factor...
I just like that it's normally legible, in that it distinguishes AI from Al and such, which normal sans-serif fonts rarely do. It does this by having serifs, yes, which seems like a lost art among the Usability Experts of the world.
Ok, but what i said is true regardless of SEO, and that SEO has also fed back into english before LLMs were a thing. If you only train on those subsets you'll also end up with a chatbot that doesn't speak in a way we'll identify as natural english.
> the government basically has 2 levers to pull

That’s simplistic and assumes a baseline where the relationship with the government starts at zero.

The company pays taxes. There can be negotiations over the tax rate, which is not a subsidy so much as a ‘tax you less’ type arrangement. This can happen at multiple levels for a company like Apple, even beyond the state/federal thing. The repatriation of billions of dollars of earnings is also in play.
What is the point because I guess I'm missing it. Is a union winning more work from home days for workers as opposed to not having a union and not getting those days not a win in this situation?
New people are born every minute.

They grow up fast.
I don't think a single 100-word email using GPT-4 alone can cost 140wh, even considering how expensive GPT-4 is to run.

If it takes 20 seconds for the model to compose the letter, that means: (3600/20)*140=25200W, a 25200W piece of hardware is used just to compose your email and no other request, this seems wrong by several orders of magnitude.
Pretty easy though, when Israel is clearly being held to a standard that their combatants aren't.

I'll tell you now: I'm becoming more radicalised the more I see the absolute state of discourse here; it's not only polarised: it's completely asymmetric.

It seems that it's not even possible for people to consider that the Islamic side has a part to play in what is happening, and to condemn both parties for the actions that they take, understanding that it's not equivalent in all areas.
How are you realistically able to do this though? It's not like they can't order batches to some neutral-country intermediary and then ship them from there.
>you are not it [,] get genocided.

Wouldn't the singular be 'un-alived', these fucking days?