skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks interesting! I've been looking for a tool like this for a while now, I'm definitely going to try it out.
“Many of the jobs we do today would have looked like trifling wastes of time to people a few hundred years ago, but nobody is looking back at the past, wishing they were a lamplighter. If a lamplighter could see the world today, he would think the prosperity all around him was unimaginable. And if we could fast-forward a hundred years from today, the prosperity all around us would feel just as unimaginable.” Loving the techno optimism.
Maybe the dogs should write their own history books.
AI is going to revolutionize humanity!

Sam Altman is the last guy we want helping lead that revolution.
I had heard at one of the talks last week, organized during the UN General Assembly, that "China is only 6 months behind the US [in AI]".

Thats barely anything.
It took me about 3 months to get through the worst of the withdrawals and noticing sleep improvements.
Intelligent Pottery Wheel Machine Design to Improve Quality and Efficiency
> Although it will happen incrementally, astounding triumphs – fixing the climate, establishing a space colony, and the discovery of all of physics – will eventually become commonplace.

Paging Dr. Bullshit, we've got an optimist on the line who'd like to have a word with you.
Yeap, so I added the instructions on Gumroad's page (where you download the 3D file). I printed it where the bottom is touching the plate. And support is minimal supporting the tilted part of the model.
macOS Sequoia change breaks networking for VPN, antivirus software
This is magnificent, congratulations!
Consider that this work may contribute to us being able to take better care of nature. Live our lives with a lower negative impact. Sometimes study or work tangential to a goal leads to greater discovery in service to the goal.
> "Meritocracy" starts to become sort of a misnomer at that point.

Even if the variance is so high that it becomes a lottery, it still looks better than any alternative people have come up with.
> they switched to SaaS as their main model, stopping support and updates for the FOSS version.

and then someone usually picks up the Last open source available and forks it. thats ownership.
happened so often already it's a pattern.
The most interesting bit I find is the time period mentioned until super-intelligence: “thousands of days (!)” aka 6-9 years or more?

With the current hype wave it feels like we’re almost there but this piece makes me think we’re not.
Programming Book Covers at O RLY Books
Custom and _competent_ AI tutors will be a game changer for education.
43 years ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZVpR3Pk-r8
from a quick glance at the text i think he means legally institutionalized private property or equivalent.

but he as an anthropologist has argued in other venues to revise historical origins of various concepts like currency and debt based on available evidence rather than academic myth.

which is an earliest known origins argument based on available archaeological evidence rather than true earliest origins or mythologized origins for propagandized explainability. Of course this isnt relevant to your dog point, but just to contextualize a reoccurring theme of Graeber.
When I was I preteen in 1980s I loved MAD. I even had a collection, I resisted the urge to fold the back page just to keep them nice and instead folded the back page of a copy in the grocery store
This is painting a picture of a utopia. I'm not sure about that.

The entire AI trend - long term is based on the idea that AI will profoundly change the world. This has sparked a global race for developing better AI systems and the more dangerous winner takes all outcome.
It is therefore not surprising that billions of dollars are being spent to develop more powerful AI systems as well as to restructure operations around them.

All the existing systems we have must fundamentally change for the better if we want a good future.

The positive aspects / utopia promises have much more visibility to the public than the negative effects / dystopian world.

ARE WE TO pretend that Human greed, selfishness, desires to dominate and control, animalistic behaviour, use of technologies for war and other destructive purposes don't exist?

We are living in times of war and chaos and uncertainty. Increasingly advanced technology is being used on the battlefield in more covert and strategic ways.

History is repeating itself again in many ways. Have we failed to learn? The consequences might be harsher with more advanced technology.

I have read and thought deeply about several anti AI doomer takes from prominent researchers and scientists but I haven't seen any which aren't based on assumptions or foolproof. For something that profoundly changes the world, it's bad to base your hopes on assumptions.

I see people dunking on llms which might not be AI's final form. Then they extrapolate that and say there is nothing to worry about. It is a matter of when not if.

The thought of being useless or worse being treated as nothing more than pests is worrying. Job losses are minor in comparison.

The only hope I have is that we are all in this together. I hope peace and goodwill prevails. I hope necessary actions are taken before it's too late.

A more pragmatic perspective indicates that there are more pressing problems that need to be addressed if we want to avoid a doomer scenario.
I honestly can't think of any drop-in libraries that would give you much .NET (wow that name sucks to type on mobile) doesn't already give you, though if you're struggling with a particularly slow implementation of something the Rust version is likely faster. I think the more useful case for Rust here is rewriting the heavier or more error-prone parts of your own app logic in it.
There's also a more direct approach than the one described in the article:

"Robbers force people to unlock phones, banking apps at gunpoint in trendy Chicago neighborhood"
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/robbers-unlock-phones-b...
Underrated, make this into a submission?
Is it missing a license?
Taken from the ancient tongue twister: soft cells and seashells by the sea shore.
In case you didn't know, The Onion is back in print:

https://membership.theonion.com/
Show HN: Code retrieval findings from a real-world benchmark
While building our OSS chat-with-your-codebase system, we faced so many choices: chunking strategies, embeddings, retrieval algorithms, rerankers, etc.

Since we don't want to make decisions based on vibes, and because academic benchmarks are somewhat contrived, we made our own. Our dataset consists of 1,000 questions about Hugging Face's Transformers library, where each question requires 1-3 Python files to be answered correctly.

We started by comparing proprietary APIs for the various sub-tasks involved in an AI copilot. Here are our initial learnings:
- OpenAI's text-embedding-3-small embeddings perform best.
- NVIDIA's reranker outperforms Cohere, Voyage and Jina.
- Sparse retrieval (e.g. BM25) is actively hurting code retrieval if you have natural language files in your index (e.g. Markdown).
- Chunks of size 800 are ideal; going smaller has very marginal gains.
- Going beyond top_k=25 for retrieval has diminishing returns.

We're just getting started and plan on continuously sharing our findings with the community. Go OSS!
Tesla seeks to work to standardize a new high-speed/low-latency fabric (be that TTPoE or otherwise) for AI/ML/Datacenters however theres nothing inherently abject about TCP as it exists today. RDMA over Converged Ethernet suffices perfectly well for whatever an "AI/ML/Datacenter" is and if we're being fair, the lackadaisical approach to the documentation suggests that they may not be taking it as seriously as they could anyway.

If Tesla were really seeking to shake things up they wouldnt have picked IPv4 to do it when the newest release has been around for nearly 30 years and has latency reduction baked in.

this smacks of a pandersome attempt from a company that sees the quite mandarin writing on the walls and has decided (in true Muskovite fashion) they too are just a misunderstood font of futurism.
Strong agree; 7/10 is a ludicrous score for a device that takes a heat gun and a proprietary screwdriver to open.

It is my opinion that iFixit is starting to turn from being actually hacker friendly into something of a mouthpiece for too-little-too-late corporate-sponsored initiatives designed to curb right-to-repair efforts. The money coming into their business from corporate programs is evident, and it's evident they are strongly perusing that market. I'm not convinced it's going to be a win for consumers though.

I found the recent release of their soldering station at $300 to be particularly distasteful. If you want to spend that kind of money on soldering tools, go for Metcal. Otherwise a Pinecil and a USB-C power bank give you exactly the same quality and control for 1/4 the price.

The electro-release adhesive is cool as hell though; no denying that.
The sentiment to me is “we need unlimited compute and data” both of which are clearly limited. There is definitely more technology to invent and understand in order for us to do more with less
It means "countryside or not"; that is, measuring whether a location really counts as being in an urban vs a rural area.
Several counties in Maryland (the non "yee-haw" ones that border the Chesapeake) have banned plastic bags.

Styrofoam has been banned statewide for several years.

The amount of plastic and expanded polystyrene foam trash I pull out of the water and off the shore on Bay Cleanup days has fallen so drastically that it is almost unbelievable.

What hasn't fallen is the sky. Or our freedom. Or the ability to clean out litter boxes.

I'm a watershed steward and meetings and networking events I have found that my experience has been shared with almost every other steward I've talked to. Even those who look after waterways outside of the bag ban area have benefitted because most of the population lies within a bag ban area.

If single-use plastic bottles were banned there would be practically no plastic debris in the Bay.
So? If it's too long, then pay it off early. If you can't then you'll understand why it was 30 years in the first place.
The future will be abundant, because deep learning works. To achieve that, we need to be calm, but cautious. And, we need to fund infra (chips and power) so that AGI isn't limited to the ultra-wealthy.

My take:

* Foom/doom isn't helpful. But, calm cautiousness is. If you're acting from a place of fear and emotional dysregulation, you'll make ineffective choices. If you get calm and regulated first, and then take actions, they'll be more effective. (This is my issue with AGI-risk people, they often seem triggered/fear/alarm-driven rather than calm but cautious)

* Piece is kind of a manifesto for raising money for AI infra

* Sam's done a podcast before about meditation where he talked about similar themes of "prudence without fear" and the dangers of "deep fear and panic and anxiety" and instead the importance of staying "calm and centered during hard and stressful moments" - responding, not reacting (strong +1)

* It's no accident that o1 is very good at math physics and programming. It'll keep getting much better here. Presumably this is the path for AGI to lead to abundance and cheaper energy by "solving physics"
Real World Performance Gains with Postgres 17B-Tree Bulk Scans
YOU! My mom would always come home, and claim it "was that way" when she bought it for me.

I thought she was doing it.
But it was you.
Likely you're in a blocked IP address range.

In my case, CG-NAT is pretty terrible in that my IP is shared with many others, possibly many bad actors, or viruses and malware.
Leftists (Graeber was an Anarchist) distinguish personal property from private property. Personal property are your personal effects. Your clothes, your car, your desk, your pen. Private property is the ownership of land and, later, industrial means of production. Things which have been historically used in an allegedly communal context, or worked on by communities of people, but their product is privatized for the person who provided the capital for the land or industrial tools.

I don't agree with this view of economics, but this is generally the line of thought among leftist thinkers
California sues ExxonMobil over its handling of plastics recycling
It is for Manchester Mark II, which is very similar to Ferranti Mark I, so both titles are correct.
If you read the post, you'll see that OP was inspired by a similar design (which is linked as an embedded YT video) but designed his own to fit his other needs, i.e. making the back part a tray.
Nice. I saw Scott's original design and thought it was very classic but wasteful of filament, and this one feels like a good replacement for my current MagSafe stand (which is also 3D printed).

I would like to see a parametric version for older iPhones, though (I have a 15 Pro, but there are others in the house...)
You're willing to make others pay more for food*
> you still can't walk into their office thousands of times per day

why not?

Esp. if that receptionist is an automaton, and isn't bothered by you. Of course, if you end up taking more resources and block others from asking as well, then you need to observe some etiquette (aka, throttle etc).
There’s not a single discussion going on in American politics at the federal level that is not some version of the US circling the drain (I’m American). The bright spots (state/local level) are very limited (psychedelic therapies research comes to mind).

Abroad there are some bright spots, though Americans will sparsely here of them:

1 Taiwan’s civic tech - using software to aid in crowdsourcing democratic options and discussion

2 Amsterdam’s circular economy project - investing in comprehensive analysis and rule-making focusing on reducing waste of all kinds - construction, pollution, consumables etc

I’ve looked at these last two personally, here’s a short list of similar projects (from chatgpt) if you’re interested

Barcelona Superblocks

New Zealand Wellbeing budget

Estonia’s e-governance

South Korea Smart City initiatives

Finland’s basic income experiment

Portugal’s participatory budgeting

Also El Salvador’s interests in Crypto is … interesting though too early to tell if this will be of real benefit to citizens at scale.

Historically all great “empires” have all fallen, and the US is right on pace for academics who study these things - our descent has begun. However there is one thing that’s different now. The speed of tech development will begin to outpace all other human forces that shape our civilization.

Taiwan is the leader in using tech for enhancing democratic participation. Can’t stress enough how valuable that might be if used correctly.

And of course, AI should accelerate the bioengineering, geoengineering, and perhaps some type of financial/economic engineering that could pull us from the brink.

I’m hoping that an AI future may make us happier and more sovereign, but the momentum towards a corporate techno feudalistic dark age, where government, citizens, and institutions are all bought and paid for by private mega corps, is growing.
There was a lot more innovation in Europe, particularly in military technology, in the 17th-19th centuries, due to many smaller states competing against each-other, compared to the Ottoman Empire and China. That's why Europe was able to so easily subjugate China.
If a person is so productive that he can do in 3 days, what others can do for 5 this person can go to the owner and negotiate directly. No need for government to enforce a thing. I know some highly skilled programmers that are on 10 hours/week paid retainers. No unions or governments helped with that.

Also if the economy wasn't global and each country lived on an island may be this "might work".

However, suppose you own a company in the country where you are mandated to employ people no more than 4 days/week. You are upright citizen and are supportive of the regulation. But your competitors, those greedy bastards, use low-paid offshore labour and undercut you in price or in time to market. Their costs are lower, so they're stealing a market share from you. The government has effectively increased the price of the labour in your product by 20%. What would the effect be for a person who wants to work 5 or 6 days, or 7 days if he'd like, he can't do that. He can't sell more than 4 days of work to 1 employer and would need to find a second job or start working as a contractor paid by project, not by hour.

With the global economy & AI tools, the IT sector is especially vulnerable. Your job will be outsourced as long as the company finds a way to do it cheaper. It's either this, or bust. But IT jobs aren't don't have the constraints other material goods have.

No legislation is stronger than invisible hand of the market. It's time to grow up...
As a novice with Rust maintaining a cross-platform library written in Rust, I've found panics/unwinding is one of the most annoying things to figure out in the builds for various platforms.

I'm using nostd and panic=abort to keep the library small (around 200kb after being stripped), but it's really not a well-supported setup.

Depending on the platform, I get an error that the _Unwind_Resume symbol is not defined (despite it not supposed to be needed), or if I define it myself I get a duplicate symbol error on other platforms. I ended up linking to gcc_eh on Linux just to avoid the issue.

I just find it strange that out of all the possible issues with using nostd, unwinding is causing the most issues.
Stuff doesn’t stay put on the ISS either. Even if you could let go of something with zero velocity relative to yourself, there are air currents to keep the air safely mixed. Astronauts have Velcro to keep stuff in place. Special fireproof Velcro, IIRC.
Water is given or taken. It does not transact.
> I think small reactors are our last hope for net new nuclear

Sizewell C appears to be moving along; nevertheless Ed Milliband has not vocally supported the project (despite the junior minister Lord Hunt visiting the site last month and Keir Stamer visiting last year).

What is most curious is that the announcement of up to £5.5B of extra funding (taking funding up to £8B so perhaps 1/3 of final project cost) until the final investment decision was not performed by a minister; usually this level of investment would merit a great fanfare.

https://www.sizewellc.com/news-views/keir-starmer-hpc-visit-...

https://www.parallelparliament.co.uk/lord/lord-hunt-of-kings...

We will seek to extend the lifetime of existing nuclear power plants while supporting the completion of new sites, such as Sizewell C.

https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/sizewell-c-to-receiv...

Sizewell C joint managing directors Julia Pyke and Nigel Cann said the Devex Scheme is “significant support from the government and it further strengthens the position of this project, which is now full steam ahead”.
>We can say a lot of things about what may happen next, but the main one is that AI is going to get better with scale.

Could anyone elaborate on this? Further down he talks about the necessity of bringing the cost of computing down. Is that really the bottleneck?
To paraphrase Goggins, "Who's gonna carry the cabbage?"

While it's true there are a lot of jobs obsoleted by technological progress, the vision of personal AI teams creating a new age of prosperity only makes sense for knowledge workers. Sure, a field worker picking cabbage could also have an AI team to coordinate medical care. But in this brilliant future, are the lowest members of society suddenly well-paid?

The steam engine and subsequent Industrial Revolution created a lot of jobs and economic productivity, sure, but a huge amount of those jobs were dirty, dangerous factory jobs, and the lion's share of the productivity was ultimately captured by robber barons for quite some time. The increase in standard of living could only be seen in aggregate on pages of statistics from the mahogany-paneled offices of Standard Oil, while the lives of the individuals beneath those papers more often resembled Sinclair's Jungle.

Altman's suggestion that avoiding AI capture by the rich merely requires more compute is laughable. We have enormous amounts of compute currently, and its productivity is already captured by a small number of people compared to the vast throngs that power civilization in total. Why would AI make this any different? The average person does not understand how AI works and does not have the resources to utilize it. Any further advancements in AI, including "personalized AI teams," will not be equally shared, they will be packaged into subscription services and sold, only to enrich those who already control the vast majority of the world's wealth.
Dupe, but it's been quite a while. Can I get some crowdstrike and LLM please :).
But why a desktop app? A simple website would do the job
They did.

> Elecrow's CEO has responded directly to Geerling and offered compensation to Geerling for the issue
This is a cart that can climb on its own - which means the person pushing it can climb independently. There's a class of conditions where this combo can work, and wheeled cart won't. Whether this class of conditions is something you'd encounter in practice (as opposed to adapting things to make an existing alternative usable) is another thing; I outlined some potential niche use-cases here[0].

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[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41627135
Do you have concrete examples of research that could be conducted if the money were invested into "space science"? I doubt that it would improve the speed of progress by much - ESA already has a budget of close to €8bn, and the increase in speed of progress is rarely linear in respect to investments, unless some necessary threshold is reached.

I'm not saying that no such examples exist, but I need concrete examples. Possible new research for the FCC is pretty well defined, meeting similar requirements should be easy if there really are so many better places to invest the money.
Was PRIME juice the inspiration for the South Park CRED drink? Or is it just the latest brand to exploit this marketing channel?
Why are the violins the biggest section in the orchestra?
i mean, surely you can have tweak the license (i.e., have the wording be a "variable" which is set at the point of agreement).

It doesn't have to always be at 1%.
Meh. I would rather see terrestrial spider drones with powerful magnets swarming to create a magnetic levitation platform for the pallet. No downdraft, much higher capacity. The drones can go recharge themselves at a nearby base station and scurry back.
https://archive.is/STBYu
It actually seems like they restored it to its original style. It was painted over to make the sheep look more sheep-like. The "new" restored version is actually how the Van Eycks painted it.[0]

[0]: https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20200201-is-this-the-fir...
Pricing feedback: That's $13/yr more than the full-blown Day One premium service.
My only experience with real-world LLM use is by devs at my workplace (where we develop advanced deep learning systems). We went through an experimental phase where most devs tried it out.

These days, all but one or two have stopped using it. On the whole, few felt that the upsides were worth the downsides.
> Completely unhinged in reality, utterly ignoring human nature, disregarding whole human history and so on.

Unhinged from any concrete counter-critique, latching on to nebulous nonsense like “human nature”, hand-waves towards “whole human history” as if that means anything. That’s your comment.
Not really, until you go “well, what’s magnetism made of?” and the answer is “a field!” That’s pretty nonsensical.
This made me laugh _really_ loudly, thank you
Right, that's what I meant. "Opt-in by default" to me means that the default is to share my data, but I can see how that could mean the reverse. Thanks.