skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
-14% consumer purchases across the board over last years.

-25% in medicine purchases since the beginning of the year.

Largest drop in meat consumption ever recorded in the last 50 years.

Mass exodus of scientists due to the complete defunding of state research in critical areas.

One of the largest forest fires going on with the national government not providing any assistance, something that no historical precedent, because the president doesn't believe in the state doing anything about it.
> common sense still in beta?

Common sense was relegated to a legacy feature status after "clout" and "fuck you got mine" were released.

It will not see further updates and will be sunset shortly. Sorry for the inconvenience.
> Micro LED Projectors

Is that true? Last time I was reading about holographic lenses, it was a flat white laser backlight fed into a waveguide (the hologram part), and filtered through an LCD. An actual LED projector would have darker darks, but I would much rather have a higher resolution..

It's definitely helpful to hear about the waveguide production problems. Obviously, that's going to be the greatest hurdle; after all, they are manufacturing a completely unique object with very small feature sizes.
It's interesting because one of the points Sam emphatically stresses over and over on most podcasts he's gone on in the past 4 years is how crucial it is that a single person or a single company or a collection of companies controlling ASI would be absolutely disastrous and that there needs to be public, democratic control of ASI and the policies surrounding it.

Personally I still believe he thinks that way (in contrast to what ~99% of HN believes) and that he does care deeply about potential existential (and other) risks of ASI. I would bet money/Manifoldbux that if he thought powerful AGI/ASI were anywhere near, he'd hit the brakes and initiate a massive safety overhaul.

I don't know why the promises to the safety team weren't kept (thus triggering their mass resignations), but I don't think it's something as silly as him becoming extremely power hungry or no longer believing there were risks or thinking the risks are acceptable. Perhaps he thought it wasn't the most rational and efficient use of capital at that time given current capabilities.
The anti-AI stance is what is baffling to me.

I think it’s unfair to paint any legal controls over this incredibly important, high-stakes technology as being “anti”. They’re not trying to prevent innovation because they’re cruel, they’re just trying to somewhat slow down innovation so that we can ensure it’s done with minimal harm (eg making sure content creators are compensated in a time of intense automation). Like we do for all sorts of other fields of research, already!

And isn’t this what basically every single scholar in the field says they want, anyway - safe, intentional, controlled deployment?

As you can tell from the above, I’m as far from being “anti-AI” or technically pessimistic as one can be — I plan to dedicate my life to its safe development. So there’s at least one counterexample for you to consider :)
That's largely true, but there definitely have been incidents/drama in the recent past. Two that come to mind:

https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/statement-from-the-pos...

https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/trademark-actions-agai...

Also worth considering that EDB is backed by Private Equity, and there was some other very recent incident that seemingly directly resulted in OtterTune folding.
Lawyers are the interface between the public and the justice system -- which would exist whether software did or not. It's an access and equity issue: people with money have access to the legal system. People without largely don't.
Authorization for Authorization – Mastering Permissions for Developers
Their conscious? The fact they aren't pieces of shit?

I'm sorry, have we gotten so far up our own asses as a profession that we no longer just excuse unethical behavior, we actually encourage it?
It's very well done in my car.
Oof, no thanks. Part of our resilience comes from each generation observing and learning what the world actually is without all of the dogma from the previous generation. Instilling a set of basics is probably the worst thing we could do to fight against gaming humanity.
Is "Open Source" ever hyphenated?
> If you all love problem solving why aren't you doing anything in this space?

Gonna be real for a second here.

1. I love problem solving in that I love solving puzzles -- LeetCode challenges, system design problems, optimizing things where there are clear wrongs and rights. Moral gray areas make my engineering/math-loving brain uncomfortable!

2. Because I have a high paying job in the tech sector that lets me and my family live comfortably, and so long as I don't read too much news or have to engage with people who sleep on the street, I won't act. Also, all my friends and peers are also upper middle class and give me a nice cushy social bubble that never challenges me or exposes me to the realities of people unlike me.

3. Moral posturing on HN with armchair solutions is easy -- I love pretending that my rationality gained from years of engineering experience somehow position me to have realistic solutions to things like homelessness/gun violence/housing; so I'll comment here with my solutions, but don't dare expect me to ever put any effort into actualizing my solutions.

We are mostly OK living in a city with homelessness, drug addicts, obese people, and poor disadvantaged youth because on some level we believe it was by their choice that they are in the position they are in.
The good thing is, we need to worry about AGI because we already know what it's like in a world populated by soulless inhuman entities pursuing their own selfish aims at the expense of mankind.
I solved this problem by using a GNU/Linux phone.
So making libgen is illegal, but using it to train LLMs is legal? I know there's a whole issue of transitive liability (maybe you couldn't know you were getting an illegal thing from the thief, so it doesn't always make sense for you to to be liable too), but this kind of thing seems to power way too much of my industry for me to be comfortable.
Lots of evidence people just don't want kids, of both genders. Educated, empowered women have less kids, or no kids, and delay having kids when they do have them. Contraception availability is robust, teen pregnancies are down, the population boom was an anomaly. Fertility rates are declining because unintended (~40% annually per the Guttmacher Institute and the UN) and unwanted children rates are falling off a cliff. Maternal instinct in humans is a myth. More support for parents does not appear to increase fertility rates. Citations below.

https://ourworldindata.org/fertility-rate#what-explains-the-... ("Our World In Data: What Explains the Declining Fertility Rate?")

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20230208-the-adults-cel... ("BBC: The adults celebrating child-free lives")

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/why-bad-looks-good/2... ("The Guardian: Why So Many Single Women Without Children Are Happy")

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/may/25/women-h... ("Women are happier without children or a spouse, says happiness expert")

https://www.axios.com/2024/07/25/adults-no-children-why-pew-... ("Axios: Why more U.S. adults are choosing not to have kids")

https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2024/07/25/the-exp... ("Pew Research: 57% of adults under 50 who say they’re unlikely to ever have kids say a major reason is they just don’t want to; 31% of those ages 50 and older without kids cite this as a reason they never had them; 64% of young women say they just don't want children, compared to 50% of men.")

https://www.ft.com/content/838eeb4e-3bff-4693-990f-ff3446cac... | https://archive.today/s6zUk ("Financial Times: Why family-friendly policies don’t boost birth rates")
The Other Bubble
> Assuming UTC for tz is not weird and cron users expect it,

That would definitely be weird and unexpected. My crons are interpreted with respect to my system's configured time zone, which seems way more expected than just using UTC.

Taking a datetime and just assuming it's UTC is often a mistake. It's why the TC39 Temporal proposal (overhauling datetimes for Javascript) won't let you silently do it.
>$193K seems like a pittance compared to the money they're making off of this.

I don't have any special knowledge of this specific case, but it's important to note as a general principle that often the point of these fines is as the start of a process. It creates a formal legal record of actual damages and judgement, but the government doesn't see massive harm done yet nor think the business should be dead entirely. They want a modification of certain practices going forward, and the expectation is that the company will immediately comply and that's the end of it.

If instead the business simply paid the fine and flagrantly blew it off and did the exact same thing without so much as a fig leaf, round 2 would see the book thrown at them. Defiance of process and lawful orders is much easier to prove and has little to no wiggle room, regardless of the complexity that began an action originally. Same as an individual investigated for a crime who ends up with a section 1001 charge or other obstruction of justice and ends up in more trouble for that than the underlying cause of investigation.

So yes, not necessarily a huge fine. But if there weren't huge actual damages that seems appropriate too, so long as the behavior doesn't repeat (and everyone else in the industry is on notice now too).
It needs binaries for both old and new versions for some reason.
A solid series, with descriptions of thought process feeling truly alien. I'm currently enjoying "The Mountain in the Sea" by Ray Nayler for more octopus based speculative fiction
They are (or were) fragile if ANC microphones are pressed against, I think. That was the only possible cause. Good luck avoiding that if you are asleep, unless you sleep like a log and do not move.
Thank you; that makes sense. The original quote referred to "baking apps," and it honestly didn't occur to me that it was a typo!
Legal systems becoming complex predates the emergence of lawyers.

Lawyers have also led significant efforts to simplify the law. For example the American Bar Association has consistently created simple model statute frameworks that eventually are adopted.

Law is complex because society is complex.
Indeed that's the point I'm making.
Ooh, I can't just install packages on machines. Change management is a super important thing and bypassing that to get a utility installed via a package manager would be a dumb way to get fired.

Sure, I get it. You don't work in a company that has this sort of culture, but a large number of us do. And you want us to. Do you want AWS engineers being able to just install whatever they want on the hosts running your VMs? Of course not.
it can be achieved, but at what cost? you need to waste time with css and js to get something latex gets you out of the box.
The question was is there something like latex for frontend, and is the "monospace web" it?
"html does the thing" can technically be a true answer, if you completely ignore any contextual understanding.
I'm looking for a simpler solution, not one that would waste more time.
57% sounds really bad until you read the article and see that it never went below 40 over last 5 years and last quarter is already back at 49% .

Also this gem

> "Since this government came to power, jobs have dropped away. We work twice as hard for less and we have to keep going," said Casal, who has 14 children and 42 grandchildren
Nice lifehack; I'm going to do this. Please share more if you have them.
BricksRL
The people training LLMs have billions of dollars and the people using it to read that can't afford a $300 journal do not.

So training is legal and reading is illegal.
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Women of history: Ennigaldi-Nanna, curator of the first museum in 6th Century BC
> maybe the ADHD medications that doctors and academics often abuse today aren’t as efficacious as good old fashioned cocaine in keeping people working for 80+ hours

Well, I have ADHD and take those meds. They can absolutely work like cocaine in that regard, but I have never intentionally used them like that. Those meds would have to be used very judiciously because tolerance would mitigate that effect quiet quickly.
>Her plan for grocery price controls was about emergency situations to prevent gouging.

Is the US in an emergency situation regarding grocery prices? Has a hurricane hit the entire country at once?

PS - NYC instituted rent control in 1943 as an "emergency" remedy during WW2.
They were far better and more accurate than the $6/hr VAs from Philippines we were using earlier. They were perhaps not as 100% accurate as someone spending half an hour writing out each description, but for our use case, the level of accuracy we were able to achieve with vision LLMs was good enough.
Why do I hear ribbit noises whenever my dad is working on databases?
OpenAI couldn't even align their Sam Altman and their people to their non-profit mission. Why should you ever believe they will align AGI to the well being of humanity?

What happened to all the people making fun of Helen Toner for attempting to fire Sama? She and Ilya were right.
Many of the earlier aftermarket remote start kits were cheap and simple because the vehicles had fewer security features. They are more complex and expensive today, and some are questionable in their implementation.
There's the concept of inducing copyright infringement (a la MGM v. Grokster), so much depends on whether those who train LLMs were inducing libgen's operations in some way, for example if payment or resources were being contributed to libgen.
So-called "gouging" (a propaganda term) is needed to balance supply and demand.
Graphql was what made me hate Gatsby to be honest.

I think Typescript's websites uses it (or used to), and I wanted to fix a bug in the website and holy hell if Gatsby made me dislike the experience..
If you never had really decent wired headphones, you might not be aware that they tend to allow to change the cable by simply unplugging it.
I don't think I disagree with you in principle, although I think these issues also apply to humans. I think even your particular example isn't a very far-fetched conclusion for a human to arrive at.

I just don't think your original comment was entirely fair. IMO, LLMs and related technology will be looked at similarly as the Internet - certainly it has been used for bad, but I think the good far outweighs the bad, and I think we have (and continue to) learn to deal with the issues with it, just as we will with LLMs and AI.

(FWIW, I'm not trying to ignore the ways this technology will be abused, or advocate for the crazy capitalistic tendency of shoving LLMs in everything. I just think the potential for good here is huge, and we should be just as aware of that as the issues)

(Also FWIW, I appreciate your entirely reasonable comment. There's far too many extreme opinions on this topic from all sides.)
> If you've read about carjacking waves in places like Milwaukee and Chicago: that was largely driven by a decision Kia made, which resulted in the nationwide deployment of a giant fleet of "burner" cars that could be stolen with nothing but a bent USB cable.

"A nationwide epidemic of Kia thefts" seems to be a natural consequence of decreased security. However, that carjacking in Milwaukee and Chicago specifically would follow from a nationwide omission of interlocks is not obvious as the vehicles are easily stolen without the need for personal confrontation. What is the connection of Kia interlocks to carjacking in Milwaukee and Chicago?
... except the shadows.
Your Honda almost certainly has HondaLink, which connects via cellular https://www.honda.ca/en/hondalink/hondalink-2?year=2023&mode...
and they're probably selling your location data to databrokers https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/how-figure-out-what-yo...
The obvious next step is to crawl the whole database of vulnerable Kia cars and create a "ride share" app that shows you the nearest Kia and unlocks it for you.
> I make multiple commits in the PR and squash it all on merge.

Sometimes I do that. But sometimes I want the history I've curated in my PR to be preserved without the overhead of creating separate PRs (which then often need to be stacked, introducing problems of its own). In which case, I avoid things like "fixup lint" commits. And that's where git-absorb shines. And saving time is exactly the point! git-absorb helps you curate history faster.

> If someone needs fine-grained history about how exactly a specific feature or bug fix came to be, they can always go to the MR itself and look at what happened there.

That's a lot more work than just reading the commit log. But I agree, one can do this ifneedbe. But it's nice to avoid when possible.
Unless EMG signal processing has had some breakthrough in the past 10 years, it is not a very precise interaction mode. I worked in a lab developing it for quadriplegics to use with the muscle on their temple (we tested above the thumb as well). You can get rough 2-axis control with some practice, but that's with an adhesive EMG pad. Can a wrist band get a clean signal?

For typing, I'd expect you need to combine with eye tracking. So you're back to the Vision Pro UI.

On its own, EMG makes a good button, I'd expect. Maybe 1-axis control.
Reactors like this (and like Bill Gates' Natrium reactor) use HALEU (high-assay low-enriched uranium) which is above 19% fissile (U-235), compared to the usual 5% or 6% in a large pressurized water reactor (e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AP1000).

For comparison, a nuclear bomb or military microreactor (on a submarine, for example) uses fuel that's 90%+ fissile. This difference in fissile concentration is the reason why non-military nuclear reactors can never explode like a nuclear bomb.

The bottleneck for nuclear energy is the yellowcake. This is the uranium that comes out of the ground, which is 0.7% fissile and must be enriched. A pound of HALEU requires many pounds of yellowcake. Conversion and enrichment are also in short supply today, but the centrifuges can be built.

There is a profound near-term undersupply of this natural uranium due to the fact that the mining companies were allowed to die after Fukushima. The mining companies died due to low uranium prices: $16 per pound at the market bottom.

The two big miners that survived (Cameco and Kazatomprom) are together unable to increase supply to match demand. Big new mines, like NexGen's, are years away, and the supply they provide will not close the supply/demand gap. Mining uranium is slow and difficult, even if you have access to good ore.

Alternative sources of uranium are even more expensive to exploit (seawater, phosphate deposits, etc.).

If you want to benefit (monetarily) from nuclear energy, and you're willing to suffer through the EXTREME volatility of owning a niche commodity, one way is through the Sprott Physical Uranium Trust (ticker: SRUUF) which owns 65 million pounds of uranium oxide and purchases more whenever it trades above Net Asset Value. WARNING: this is not an investment for the faint of heart. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.

You can watch the spot uranium market (intra-day bid/ask) here: https://numerco.com/NSet/aCNSet.html

You can see the uranium long-term contract price (and spot uranium price) monthly history at Cameco's website here: https://www.cameco.com/invest/markets/uranium-price
The Atlantic [0] says that it's clearly the Sam Show, if that was not crystal clear in the past. And what's the point of being an executive if one person makes all the decisions?

quote:

The departure of executives who were present at the time of the crisis suggests that Altman’s consolidation of power is nearing completion. Will this dramatically change what OpenAI is or how it operates? I don’t think so. For the first time, OpenAI’s public structure and leadership are simply honest reflections of what the company has been—in effect, the will of a single person. “Just: Sam.”

end quote

[0] https://archive.md/BzzYS
Twitter blocks EFF tweet that criticized bogus takedown of previous tweet [2019]
I don't have a daughter yet, so can't really comment on that perspective. But I've had a great experience with the SF public libraries. I visit the main one near Civic Center pretty often just to use the printer, and honestly I just love being around stacks of books. I haven't been since the pandemic, but the one in Chinatown was always packed with kids studying together, and it was clean.

I grew up going to libraries in the suburbs of Chicago and Philadelphia. Those are some of my best memories. I wouldn't have developed the computer skills or built the career I have today if I hadn't seen other kids, a little older than me, using them. Just being able to spend hours in a quiet, safe space where people are learning for fun— I think it changed my life.
> question that requires logical reasoning

This is the tough part to tell - are there any such questions that exist that have not already been asked?

The reason Chat-GPT works is its scale. to me, that makes me question how "smart" it is. Even the most idiotic idiot could be pretty decent if he had access to the entire works of mankind and infinite memory. Doesn't matter if his IQ is 50, because you ask him something and he's probably seen it before.

How confident are we this is not just the case with LLMs?
If it only impacted automakers they might do it. However if you apply this standard to cars you will have to apply it to a lot of other sectors. After all why stop at car makers. Why should other appliances not get the same treatment like IoT as well? A lot of other companies would hate to have this standard applied to them hence they lobby against it as well.
I feel like my life would of been enriched a few times had that been a viable legal option to pursue :P
There's code, come on! Didn't you see the .DS_Store file?!
If you consider dark humor fun, yes. It was always dark, now it became ugly and dark.
These articles always remind me of that article on egg freezing https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/national/wp/2018/01/27/f...

In early 2017, with her 45th birthday looming and no sign of Mr. Right, she decided to start a family on her own. She excitedly unfroze the 11 eggs she had stored and selected a sperm donor.

Two eggs failed to survive the thawing process. Three more failed to fertilize. That left six embryos, of which five appeared to be abnormal. The last one was implanted in her uterus. On the morning of March 7, she got the devastating news that it, too, had failed.

Adams was not pregnant, and her chances of carrying her genetic child had just dropped to near zero. She remembers screaming like “a wild animal,” throwing books, papers, her laptop — and collapsing to the ground.
It should be possible to physically disable the cellular modem in the vehicle, wherever that is. I have a 2020 Volvo that is definitely online, waiting for me to activate some pricey online subscription that I don't want or need.

Would be nice to have a organized online database of how to disconnect various "smart" devices— cars, TVs, appliances, etc.
Facebook still has 3B happy users.

It's only privileged, highly-paid coastal elites that hate FB.

Zuck, can literally say GFY as they don't matter in the broad scheme of things and innovations.
IMO, the "can't you just" people do this with everyone. I can understand why, as it is sometimes effective at queuing people to keep trying and to find a way.

Unfortunately, the part after the "can't you just" is rarely helpful.
I wonder if the humanity is catching up to the executives here realizing life is short, bullshit not worth it and they made enough to get out while they are young enough
It's probably tied to fundraising. Execs probably have "key person" clauses and need to negotiate stock or secondaries as part of the deal.
I would assume it was 12 of those semi trailer bathrooms