skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Mentally it's not too difficult to throw $60 at a digital "Buy" button, but it's much harder to throw those $60 at a "Get access" button.

This is especially true when a large number of games do have a buy button. "Get access" stands out as not being the same as buying when you've bought the rest of your game library.
This guy doesn’t get it. The technology is quickly converging on a point where no one can recognize whether it was written by AI or not.

The technology is on a trend line where the output of these LLMs can be superior to most human writing.

Being of tired of this is the wrong reaction. Being somewhat fearful and in awe is the correct reaction.

You can thank social media constantly hammering us with headlines as the reason why so many people are “over it”. We are getting used to it but make no mistake being “over it” is n an illusion. LLMs represent a milestone in technological achievement among humans and being “over it” or claiming all LLMs can never reason and output is just a copy is delusional.
LLMs set a new minimum level; because of this they can fill in the gaps in a skillet — if I really suck at writing unit tests, they can bring me up from "none" to "it's a start". Likewise all the other specialities within software.

Personally I am having a lot of fun, as an iOS developer, creating web games. No market in that, not really, but it's fun and I wouldn't have time to update my CSS and JS knowledge that was last up-to-date in 1998.
Um...poorly. Mostly the default folders, and then I search and/or remember it. It helps I don't have a profusion of files, though not for lack of effort. Many of the things have descriptive titles, though some don't (ok, a lot don't - I have one file on Microsoft word called something like 'Huh, it finally switched to aptos'; it's a short-story-in-progress with no other mention of Aptos). But typically if I want something I either remember which file it is, go through the titles (and if images previews), or search for a snippet of text I remember (File Explorer in Windows lets you do this).

I remember reading part of Algorithms to Live By that advocated that in general files on computers are a waste of time, given search, since it takes much more time to file everything than to search for it. So there's that argument. But of course I'd be biased in favor of something that justifies my file system.

What we really need is a way to have something be in two folders at once, or at least referrable ("If you're looking for eye doctor receipts, they're under Health" or something). In theory you could duplicate the file and put one in receipts and one in health, but that seems like a suboptimal plan. Maybe ways to put shortcuts to other folders in a different one, so it's still stored under, say, Health, but there's a way to get there from Receipts.
No, TSMC is really that special. Intel has been struggling for a while now.
Two things: OP said they were farmers, or peasants if you will. Now you are talking hunter gathers. To me, they are totally different levels of human development.

And, specifically about the few remaining hunter gather tribes in the Amazon, Brazil has a dedicated govt dept to keep these people safe from outside influence. As I understand, they have made great strides in the last 30 years to keep these tribes safe.
Not sure how this addresses my question? Or is the issue with "not encrypted when there is no password" only a WPA2 issue?
yuck, I had to deal with something similar once, made double fun by the code being a hot mess of JavaScript dung... original dev was on Windows, new one was on Mac and let's just say it was "fun" tracing through all the upper/lowercase nonsense that wasn't consistent anywhere. PHP can fall into similar traps and I think Java as well...
Why do you assume they’re losing money on inference?
I mean, I remember people saying similar things about Google scanning Wi-Fi SSIDs to track their location. There was a point in time where people were saying that was conspiracy theory thinking.
I'm directly responding to a comment discussing the popular perception that we, as a society, are "steps away" from AGI. It sounds like you agree that we aren't anywhere close to AGI. If you want to discuss the potential for LLMs to disrupt the economy there's definitely space for that discussion but that isn't the comment I was making.
I tried and it was so slow the system became unuseable
cool, if someone can make it work with GraalVM, that will open up many more opprotunities for polyglot programming.
> I just think that this will end up the same way.

What will change is that I will know not to buy games that don't have "Buy" button.
>the rate of progress

Let's talk about that. GPT-3.5 (specifically text-davinci-003) was a massive leap over everything that came before it. GPT-4 was a massive leap over GPT-3.5. Everything since (GPT-4 Turbo, GPT-4o, GPT o1) feels like steady incremental improvement (putting aside multimodal capabilities) rather than massive leaps. I'm far from convinced that the rate of progress made with foundation models in 2022-2023 has continued in 2024 let alone from extrapolating that it will continue for the next several years.
Map/Reduce was a hype of the days it was created, but you're perfectly fine not using it. CouchDB has been integrating MongoDB-style queries for a few releases now, and this very release introduces a full-text search engine. Map/Reduce is still there because it just works.

The real shame is that Map/Reduce is simply a toy, easy-to-add bonus when looking at the data structure, but that's not what CouchDB is or ever was about. The one reason it was created is replication and simplistic conflict handling, and it does it perfectly.

The reason CouchDB never took off is that it targets offline-first, something you'll see associated with peer-to-peer systems, but does that only for servers: you're supposed to install that thing through packages, configure a text file, run it with your preferred daemon manager, ... If CouchDB had a simple desktop version you could start in one click and forget about, it would have been way more interesting. Alas.
At this point it's become clear that Sam Altman is an Emissary of the Eschaton (in the Strossian sense)
What a neighborhood where you have deep discussions about psychopharmacology research with your neighbors, incredible.
This has also been studied more since 2017 now that there are a lot more people taking cannabis, and many of these links have been confirmed, although some have not.

It has also been confirmed that heavy use of marijuana has negative effects on cognitive performance and short-term memory even in adults, although these symptoms go away after you stop using.
thanks for all those answers! Slava Ukraini
Threatening to build fabs is not addressed at you but designed to trigger idiot politicians with influence to unlock CHIPS money. The politicians do not know or care if building fabs is possible.
I work in video games, I've tried several AI assistants for C++ coding and they are all borderline useless for anything beyond writing some simple for loops. Not enough training data to be useful I bet, but I guess that's where the disparity is - web apps, python....that has tonnes of publicly available code that it can train on. Writing code that manages GPU calls on a PS5? Yeah, good luck with that.
> We'll build plants overseas if you don't give us CHIPS Act money is a great scheme

The CHIPS act has provisions to help fund fabs in allies.

This is why Biden and Modi announced a Feb dedicated to US and Indian defense systems [0] at the QUAD summit as well as as the designation of the UAE as a "Major Defence Partner" along with India [1] which includes tech transfer conditions.

A significant portion of the CHIPS and IRA is set aside to help with subsidizing international allies tech and innovation ecosystems in order to ensure they don't lean towards China [2]

[0] - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-09-23/biden-mod...

[1] - https://www.reuters.com/world/us/harris-plans-raise-gaza-cea...

[2] - https://cset.georgetown.edu/publication/agile-alliances/
I recently got a reMarkable Paper Pro with the keyboard folio and that's about as typewriter-esque as I would voluntarily choose to get.
I’ll be waiting for these developer benefits to translate into tangible end user benefits in software.
It is in US/Canada's interest to have a shipyard in North America building ice breakers. Even though Finland is a NATO member, if something happens to Finland NATO may need some ship yards elsewhere to build more ice breakers (running 24x7 shifts!) while liberating Finland. Remember NATO (and military in general) needs to plan for all worst cases not likely cases.
The above does not mean the shipyards need to be US/Canada. If they are Finland owned and operated that is fine. So long as the workers and a couple (minor) engineers are local that is enough - in the worst case (Finland's shipyard is taken and all the experts there killed) that shipyard is expanded and has some expertise to build on.
It was already tried in the US. The agreed upon results were that humans want alcohol and the downstream effects made society worse e.g. increase in alcohol consumption, empowering organized crime and corrupting the police.
I sometimes wonder if we’re just very advanced stochastic parrots.

Repeatedly, we’ve thought that humans and animals were different in kind, only to find that we’re actually just different in degree: elephants mourn their dead, dolphins have sex for pleasure, crows make tools (even tools out of multiple non-useful parts! [1]). That could be true here.

LLMs are impressive. Nobody knows whether they will or won’t lead to AGI (if we could even agree on a definition – there’s a lot of No True Scotsman in that conversation). My uneducated guess is that that you’re probably right: just continuing to scale LLMs without other advancements won’t get us there.

But I wish we were all more humble about this. There’s been a lot of interesting emergent behavior with these systems, and we just don’t know what will happen.

[1]: https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2018-10-24-new-caledonian-crows-ca...
Wait, you're upset because they aren't in love with a particular team? Lol I see nothing wrong with this. Do you not fill out a bracket for March madness? It's the same thing.

Edit: down voted, ok
It's not like nobody is trying to compete with TSMC, Samsung and Intel are doing their best, but TSMC are consistently ahead despite all of these companies using the same ASML lithography machines.
OpenAI is closing in on raising $6.5B. Largest VC raise in history
I'm all for noble ideas, but some of them can set a dangerous precedence.

No effing way do I want my printed text to go through some LLM, even if it's just for design/layout purposes.

Just waiting for some HP Clippy-clone with HAL 9000 voice. "I'm sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t print that"
Would those leak or overflow on contestants sleeping bags as per the article?
This is amazing, thank god people are fighting for my rights.
What really gets me about AI space is that it’s going the way of front-end development space. I also hate the fact that Facebook/Meta is the only one seemingly doing heavy lifting in the public space. It’s great so far but I just don’t trust them in the end.
Hey Jdietrich, I posted a while ago about being banned of Airbnb and you suggested to use GDPR to make a request to the DPO. It worked, the account is "unbanned". Many thanks for you suggestion and vive le GDPR (writing you here because my original post was flagged so no more comment can be added).
A useful target might be university networks, although IIRC our university printers weren’t available for discovery. Instead we would send our documents to a special email that would forward it to a local print server so we could get charged for it.
This is why I put a lot of energy into finding brands that are transparent with their materials and that I can trust for quality.

Once you find these brands you can buy stuff without worrying about whether it’s going to suck.

For dress shirts, definitely do Made-To-Measure (MTM). There are a bunch of brands that do good MTM shirts. Look on styleforum.net.

I like Proper Cloth, but have heard good things about Luxuire and Collaro as well. Kamakura as well, but I don’t think they do MTM.

Proper Cloth actually does MTM jeans as well.
I think you use confluence because it integrates with jira, and you use jira because it integrates with bitbucket and your software lifecycle / change control management processes, and you have those because you've got compliance requirements and the tooling needs to be managed by people who don't want to get deeply invested in some complex DSL when a visual workflow builder's "good enough"

See also "nobody uses elasticsearch because they like lucene queries; they use it because everyone likes using kibana and tolerate lucene."

(There are probably people who specifically like features of confluence or elasticsearch; most use it because they like / must use other parts of the ecosystem and feature/product N is good enough)

[edited to finish the thought about jira's workflow management]
Will AI also be on call when things break in production?
case in point amazon kindle and "buy"
I got to work with a lot of tcl while working on TPC benchmarks for Citus

https://github.com/TPC-Council/HammerDB/blob/master/src/post...

tcl makes as an alright shell script language
I'll admit hostile was perhaps too harsh, however looking back to the late 2010s, it seems clear that the attitude was:

- C ABI is good enough for any compatibility

- "Rewrite it Rust" / RESF

- Prioritize language proposals, not fundamentals

I think the attitude as changed somewhat in the last 2-3 years, with more interest in cxx and crubit and crabi, although many of those things are at least partially blocked on stalled language proposals, and largely ignored by the "core" Rust community. I would say indifference and posturing does approach hostility.

There's also consistent conflation of "compatibility with C++" and "rich compatibility with all of C++". Swift is a great example of how targeting PODs and std::vector and aligning concurrency expectations gets you extremely far, especially if you limit yourself to just LLVM.

btw, I really appreciate your Rust book.
> I remember the sea of excrement overtaking genuine human written content on the Internet around mid 2010s.

I mean the AI is trained and modeled on this excrement. It makes sense. As much as people think AI content is raw garbage… they don’t realize that they are staring into a mirror.
Not quite directly through my website, but indirectly via my newsletter, that points to my website. It happened on two occasions, the most interesting of which was on a commission to do a piece of research on data uses in a sector that wasn't directly mine back then.
The person who contacted me was a subscriber and I didn't know them personally. I had written a short paragraph in my newsletter about a recent piece of data research I had carried out; something must have caught their attention as they went looking for it on my website, then contacting me saying "I'd like you to do the same thing for my organisation, can we talk?".
I think there’s an argument that behavioral change is much more difficult that just ingesting the information. (And I’m talking about people who want to change, not some nefarious change instituted by someone else or an institution). Think of how many people want to lose weight but struggle. It’s not usually from the lack of education; there are psychological, social, and environmental impediments to change.

I think the “all it takes is the right information” model lacks a nuanced understanding of human behavior.
*scraper
this is so annoying. i think if you took a random person and gave them the option to commit a genocide, here a machine gun, a large trench and a body of women, children, etc... they would literally be incapable of doing it. even the foot soldiers who carry out genocides can only do it once they "dehumanize" their victims. genocide is very UN-human because its an idea that exists in offices and places separated from the actual human suffering. the only way it can happen is when someone in a position of power can isolate themselves from the actual implementation and consider the benefits in a cold, logical manner. that has nothing to do with the human spirit and has more to do with the logical faculties of a machine and machines will have all of that and none of our deeply ingrained empathy. you are so wrong and ignorant that it makes my eyes bleed when i read this comment
And so you would accept “hey I spun up a react-create-element project, but instead of React I asked an LLM to copy the parts I needed for react so we have another dependency to maintain instead of tree shaking with webpack” as a useful work?
Starshield is just starlink for the DoD to extend siprnet.
Can you jerry-rig something to code on it?
Wake The Tiger faces legal action from over intellectual copyright claim
The novel The Brief History of the Dead explores this idea as if it were real.
> hating on memory safety (for no reason at all) is just dumb (and another sign of his mental illness).

Hah, this has to be peak HN, hating on memory safety is now a mental illness :)

What's next, not liking static typing means you suffer from mental illness too?
A lot of people on Reddit's /r/SteamDeck report that this notice popped up while they were mid-game on Steam Deck. Often leading to (in-game) death.

Last night, I was playing Elden Ring, when suddenly the game screen froze, and then went black. The game's music was still playing in the background. I assumed that it was some sort of crash (notably, the first crash I have EVER experienced while playing that game on Steam Deck). After rebooting the Steam Deck, and finishing my play session, I noticed there was some sort of critical notification on my account, which turned out to be the update to the subscriber agreement. I assume that my game 'crash' was actually Steam attempting to show the agreement update over the game. Thanks, guys!
No apps here. It is just a Wifi-plug and Termux. It reads the battery voltage with termux-battery-status and turns the plug onoff. It does various other things too and there are issues, which I dont remember, so here is the entire program.

import os,json,time
loki="../batcon.log"
f=open(loki,'w')
f.write('ALKU\n')
f.close()
lokinolla=time.time()
alku=True
while True:
b=json.loads(os.popen("termux-wifi-connectioninfo").read())
if b['ip'] == "192.168.1.205":
os.system("termux-api-start")
os.system("termux-wake-lock")
a=json.loads(os.popen("termux-battery-status").read())
if alku:
alku=False
os.system('termux-notification -c "BATCON TOIMII"')
p=a['percentage']
s=a['status']
cur=a['current']
if p<70 and s=="DISCHARGING":
yes=int((time.time()-lokinolla)/60)
if yes>0:
fi=open(loki,'a')
fi.write(str(yes)+" "+str(cur/1000)+"\n")
fi.close()
os.system('curl 192.168.1.156/ON')
lokinolla=time.time()
if s=="CHARGING":
if p>70: os.system('curl 192.168.1.156/OFF')
if p==81:
os.system("termux-tts-speak -l fi LASTAUS EI LOPU &")
if 0!=os.system("ping -c 1 192.168.1.156"):
os.system("termux-tts-speak -l fi LATURI EI VERKOSSA &")
time.sleep(30)
if 0==os.system("ping -c 1 192.168.1.118"):
os.system("termux-volume music 15 &")
os.system("termux-tts-speak -l en YOUR FRONT DOOR IS OPEN! &")
time.sleep(30)
if 0==os.system("ping -c 1 192.168.1.219"):
os.system("termux-volume music 15 &")
os.system("termux-tts-speak -l fi HUOMIO... JÄÄKAAPIN OVI ON AUKI ! &")
os.system("termux-toast -b yellow -c black JÄÄKAAPPI")
time.sleep(30)
else:
alku=True
print('No KOTIKONE')
time.sleep(30)
Exactly. And now, a possibly terrifying question: What if there just is not going to be a "next big thing"?

Population size is about to peak. Up until now, for as long as we know, it has been growing. Starting at the latest with colonisation, we've had more people, more resources, new markets advancing into buyers of new products. Once societies advance to a certain point, they begin to shrink, this is well studied.

Without these growth factors, does it seem likely we'll see something as transformative as the automobile or the internet again?

Possibly bleak and badly informed, but I find it plausible to think that the party is about to end. Most of us here have probably seen what happens to a company when they stop growing. Spoiler: It's typically not innovation.
> Not to mention even the most expensive TVs come with baffingly slow hardware and software. $2k devices can take 10+ seconds to load the menu with 4 options, where you can modify picture settings. Incredible.

Yes it's really curious how much worse technology has gotten in some dimensions in recent decades. Analog TVs would respond to inputs effectively instantaneously - if you changed the channel, the very next frame would be drawn from the new channel. My TV now takes multiple seconds to change channels.
Interesting ideas, it is crazy in games, work, etc. how quickly things go from innovative to table stakes
they are right tho. He is a snake oil vendor and all his A team leaving due likely to his moves and unethical steps taken from day 1 are proof that TSMC is a solid business
The Mac version is probably closest to what you mean, but yeah, an “Access/FileMaker“ type of app, most easily realised by bundling CouchDB and Electron probably, would go a long way. If anyone needs a project ;)
> To quote someone about this:
>>All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life.

So, same as it ever was?

Smoke, nothing but smoke. [That’s what the Quester says.]
There’s nothing to anything—it’s all smoke.
What’s there to show for a lifetime of work,
a lifetime of working your fingers to the bone?
One generation goes its way, the next one arrives,
but nothing changes—it’s business as usual for old planet earth.
The sun comes up and the sun goes down,
then does it again, and again—the same old round.
The wind blows south, the wind blows north.
Around and around and around it blows,
blowing this way, then that—the whirling, erratic wind.
All the rivers flow into the sea,
but the sea never fills up.
The rivers keep flowing to the same old place,
and then start all over and do it again.
Everything’s boring, utterly boring—
no one can find any meaning in it.
Boring to the eye,
boring to the ear.
What was will be again,
what happened will happen again.
There’s nothing new on this earth.
Year after year it’s the same old thing.
Does someone call out, “Hey, this is new”?
Don’t get excited—it’s the same old story.
Nobody remembers what happened yesterday.
And the things that will happen tomorrow?
Nobody’ll remember them either.
Don’t count on being remembered.

c. 450BC
My approach to dealing with lots of concepts is pretty much stolen from how babies learn language.

Grownups talk around non-verbal babies as if they're not there. We refer to all the objects in the room (or anywhere else) whether the baby understands them or not. "How was your day at work?" "Oh it was okay, but traffic was bad so I didn't have time to get my usual coffee." Babies don't understand what traffic or coffee is, and they don't have to. They still eventually learn the language and really focus on the things that matter to them.

At some point, a lot of us try to simplify by reducing the number of concepts we're exposed to, and we try to feel like we understand those fewer concepts. I've switched my approach to just being immersed in the way experts talk about the field, and just getting used to used to not really knowing what most things mean. It turns out you get a ton of information this way. Not only do you learn the vocabulary before you need it (reducing the time required later when you eventually need it) but also you pick up a sense of which things are fundamental (they come up a lot in conversation) and which things are extraneous detail (they're barely mentioned or only mentioned when something goes wrong).