skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do people really think the Industrial Revolution was “a wonderful time”? Basically the first thought to comes to mind for me is massive migration to urban centers, along with huge amount of poverty and squalid living conditions and disassociation with your own labor. I feel like that was basically what was taught to me in High School too, not like some recently learned insight.

And I agree with you. Further, the argument about economic prosperity isn’t equal for everyone. And increased worker efficiency isn’t directly (or sometimes at all) linked to worker satisfaction or even increased wages.
AI is being used for all sorts of 'very concrete' and 'very impactful' challenges, and has been for the last decade.
One thing that's not often talked about is how heavily gendered gambling addiction is - with something like 2/3 of gamblers being male[1] and an even more skewed ratio for problem gambling.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4736715/#:~:tex....
No. This is the same logic that I used when I did not buy Amazon and missed that ride. The market is not always rational.
Drug abuse is lower where people have a strong sense of community. Drug overuse is a symptom of a larger issue of disconnection and disillusionment. Legislating drug use is like saying "the beatings will continue until morale improves."
Made me think of a different one, Constructive https://xkcd.com/810/

Which basically is RLHF :)
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I noticed a steep dive in CNN news quality post acquisition. (Around when they fired a bunch of reporters people for claiming Trump lost in 2020 instead of hedging their statements).

Anyway, I’m not surprised. As far as I’m concerned they’re already out of business (just like National Geographic, which currently employs zero staff writers).
Fiendish; the most clever part is that authors who are already slaves to their own creative urges may not notice any change.
Hey.

I was seriously addicted to my phone a few months back.
Started looking for ways to reduce my screen time, but found out that the solutions were way too costly.

I built this app launcher for myself, and shared it with friends and family. Now its open to public.

Hope you get the benefit from it as well.
Excited to get your feedback.
A few years ago when 3d printing was blowing up it was my hope that someone would use an open source 3d printer to make an open source paper printer, but if that happened I never heard about it.
This is already the reality in most of EU and the UK. There are 300kW charging stations all over the place, and a decent EV can recharge in 20 minutes.

I actually prefer this over refuelling, because filling up takes 5+ minutes of my time, while recharging is unattended, so I can plug in in seconds, and go get a coffee/break in the meantime. Chargers also tend to be next to nicer places, near food courts and other retail, which is handy, and doesn't need to be a separate stop on road trips.
The Spanish lottery is actually quite egalitarian and produces distributed payouts for communities. It’s fascinating really - 99 pi did an episode
about them a while back https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/el-gordo/
I guess it depends on what we mean by "AI winter". I completely agree that the current insane levels of investment aren't justified by the results, and when the market realises this it will overreact.

But at the same time there is a lot of value to capture here by building solid applications around the capabilities that already exist. It might be a winter more like the "winter" image recognition went through before multimodal LLMs than the previous AI winter
You don’t know if it’s priced in. Was it priced in 5 years ago?
The 'token economy' is but one facet of an AI revolution. From my perspective, the main point of LLMs has been to simply be marketing. No one wants to hear about protein folding, physics sim, etc.
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Monoculture in journalism definitely matters. News media has a profound ability to shape and direct the discourse in society writ large, and the slow consolidation of news media in some countries is extremely problematic because it enables private individuals to exert undue influence in pursuit of their agenda that may or may not be at odds with the public interest.

In Canada, for example, it's hard to throw a stone and not hit a foreign-owned PostMedia news outlet.
I recommend contacting the local retro computer or cinephile (or generic "geek') scene and see if you can recruit volunteers to digitize them for you. I would volunteer for this, take a crate home and pop in tapes while I go about my normal day.
Is it fully merged to the kernel? I remember a few weeks ago some drama between Kent Overstreet and Linus about it but I didn't go into details. Has that been resolved?

Edit: or maybe it was some drama over userspace tooling, I can't remember tbh.
> I _really_ worry about these tools crippling an entire generation of programmers.

Isn’t that the point? Degrade the user long enough that the competing user is on-par or below the competence of the tool so that you now have an indispensable product and justification of its cost and existence.

P.S. This is what I understood from a lot of AI saints in news who are too busy parroting productivity gains without citing other consequences, such as loss of understanding of the task or expertise to fact-check.
In a sane society, sports gambling would be legal but with a lot of guardrails:

* If apps detect compulsive behavior, they could go dark on your phone for a day/week/month/year

* All bets could have delayed payoffs (e.g. greater than 10 minutes [0]) to avoid optimizing for a quick dopamine hit

* Apps could be linked to a credit score/measure of financial health and allow larger bets for people with higher credit scores, or they could stop you from placing bets if there's evidence of negative impacts on your overall financial situation.

In general, the question of: how can we let consenting adults take risks that they find pleasurable (drugs, sex work, gambling, free diving, etc.) while also limiting the worst harms and/or protecting the most vulnerable people, is under-discussed relative to its importance, IMO.

[0] https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/1822382269669228822
> Me too, but a more optimistic view is that this is just a nascent form of higher-level programming languages.

I like this take. I feel like a significant portion of building out a web app (to give an example) is boilerplate. One benefit of (e.g., younger) developers using AI to mock out web apps might be to figure out how to get past that boilerplate to something more concise and productive, which is not necessarily an easy thing to get right.

In other words, perhaps the new AI tools will facilitate an understanding of what can safely be generalized from 30 years of actual code.
Maybe I'm dimmer than the average techie, but I need both. Much of my current job is frustrating because it's a big company and every new task I encounter is presented with only an example of how the previous person did it. Instead of, "This is what we're trying to achieve, this is how the thing works, this is how we do it," all that ever gets exposed to ICs is the "this is how we do it" part. This makes it impossible to reason about, adjust, and troubleshoot when even the slightest deviation is required. Yes, there is often SOME documentation tasks which are performed very often, but it's often outdated or incomplete. But it's not in a wiki, so not just anyone can updated at any time, there's a whole obnoxious process for updating the docs, which is why they never get updated.

Now that I think of it, this reminds me quite a bit of my time in the military...
You forget the money supply has been drastically inflated due to COVID, et al
> I am not crazy! I know HP swapped those numbers. I knew it was 1216. One after Magna Carta. As if I could ever make such a mistake. Never. Never! I just - I just couldn't prove it. HP covered their tracks, they got that AI for the log files to lie for them.

Why would anyone want a printer that decides to print something different than what you sent it? Aren't these things unreliable enough as is?
Nice bit of sleuthing here, well done. Anyone know where those search traffic graphics are made from?
Y'all are hyper focusing on this example. How about something more vague like FOO obviously being BAR, except sometimes it's BAZ now?

The layman doesn't know the distinction, so they accept this as fact.
And the solutions for these already existed:

- Generate boilerplate : Snippets, templates, and code generators

- Generate extremely simple code patterns : Frameworks

- Generate solutions for established algorithms : Libraries.
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> 10 years? Multiple vendors have 1600w PSUs on market right now

We're going to need dedicated electrical circuits soon
That's a common misconception: They reinvested their money back into Amazon, which when justified with a sound strategy to investors makes sense. It was kept by design at an almost 0 profit, but non profitable != operating at a loss (vs OAI, that has been predicted to loss up to 5B this year).
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I don't think you can understand the 1960s without seeing her glorious movie, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

It captures the tension of social norms and rebellion and, if one pays attention, the natural consequences of unbridled enthusiasm.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXA0N55c3iw
What can you expect from main stream media? It's mostly either propaganda or commercials wrapped up as new stories.
This is silly, intonation and the connection of the words used and the person presenting tell you whether what they're reading is genuine.
> a) Given how geopolitical semiconductors and AI are right now. Why he is running around the world running his mouth seemingly without the cooperation of the US government.

As an American citizen you don't need to cooperate with the US government to talk to other people.
Great innovation. Maybe soon they’ll figure out how to make a printer with drivers that work.
Autoimmune conditions can stem from viral infections, yes. But most of the time type-1 diabetics have a very weak phenotype of the disease, that is to say, the patient has pancreatic antibodies (specifically beta-cell antibodies) and produces them very, very slowly.
According to this source, half of all "new cases" (whatever that means) occurs in adults: https://diabetesjournals.org/care/article/44/11/2449/138477/...
There hasn't been competition to have the fastest chip for 4 generations.
What kind of "evidence" of future stock market movement are you expecting?
I've had a brother for the last 5 years or so but the heads have gotten clogged, everything comes out streaked, and I've put multiple cartridges of ink through the head cleaning routine with no luck (well, some luck -- the print head matrix shows that different heads are getting clogged, but it's always a few of them and there are always streaks). I am looking to replace the printer with one that has integrated heads on the cartridges, because even if it's a bit more expensive it's less awful than whatever this is. Does anyone have recommendations for an integrated print head cartridge + printer? Are they all DRM'd and ultra expensive or is there a somewhat generic or reasonably priced option?
I think all the instances of people saying they like it, are just examples of being trained and accepting the training, to just not be a tinkerer and just use what's given to you by someone else without touching it.

Not only being unable to customize or hack or basically just use a toolbox rather than a product, but being indoctrinated over time, especially new users, not to even think of it in the first place. Pretty much just like commercial software. Why bother running linux in that case? We already have polished untouchable product software.

When I say "unable" I don't count "able by dint of suffering 1000 paper cuts".
I realized after sleeping on this that without verifying the sentiments manually, I don't have enough evidence to make a prediction about HN users' support of UBI. So my conclusions may not have enough basis in fact.

To play devil's advocate for a moment, what if we imagine that the votes went the other way, with 50% favoring UBI, 25% disfavoring UBI, and 25% neutral? And what if HN were left-leaning, and wished to work towards UBI, convincing others on the left to join? What kind of opposition would they face?

* women who are primary caregivers wouldn't want UBI because?
- they make plenty of money already, earning the same wages as men?
- receiving assistance would diminish the perceived value of the money they earn being away from their children, elderly parents, etc?
- they've seen how depriving people of enough income to meet basic needs builds strong communities?
* parents practicing positive reinforcement wouldn't want UBI because?
- taking that money as a handout sends the wrong message to their children, that societies are stronger than individuals?
- they work enough hours already that they have all the money they need to spend quality time with their family?
- it's better for kids to have their hopes dashed than know their parents have enough money to feed and clothe them, eventually sending them to college?
* liberals in favor of government programs, agencies and social safety nets wouldn't want UBI because?
- it might interfere with existing institutions like the Department of Health and Welfare, known for their efficiency and effectiveness?
- it might undermine unions, the Peace Corps, etc that already promote meaningful work and fair pay?
- it might help conservatives, which could undermine leftist agendas like making sure that everyone has a fair shake?

Do any of these pass the sniff test?

After writing this out, I think I can safely say that even without knowing the sentiment towards UBI, we can make predictions about who will favor or oppose it and why. It has to do with empathy or the lack thereof, and how traditional notions like responsibility, community and patriotism have been coopted during the Information Age by moneyed interests in the status quo.

I've kind of reached the point in life where talking about problems till I'm blue in the face does nothing to fix them. I'm more interested now in joining and forming coalitions that bring about meaningful change and give people alternatives that pay dividends larger than the way things are currently.

At the simplest level, we can ask: does giving people who are already rich even more money at the cost of those struggling without enough resources (Social Darwinism) build a more prosperous society? Or does using excess wealth to provide for those in need (Social Planning) heal society?

In these matters, I tend to think that the opinion of a 5 year old child is generally more in line spiritually with the greater good than whatever serious-sounding adults preach, even academics. So I know where my sentiment stands regarding UBI.
What is the multiple over revenues/ ebitda?
What if you say the name of the entity 2000 years later, so they are remembered again? Would they have a 2nd revival? What is the second death timeout?
> My nerd hype died as I used gpt4+ and Claude 3.5+ whatever for coding tasks and realized if a human somewhere in the training data hadn't already solved a programming problem/wrote code for a solution the LLM's are useless for said problem.

See my experience is the opposite, and gpt3 was able to answer questions about the niche Haskell library I wrote better than I was. Unless you posit that there's some secret cabal of people using this Haskell library and writing answers for GPT to consume somewhere in the depths of OpenAIs org structure, it's pretty obvious to me that LLMs are quite capable.
Do you have any concern for the people not as strong as you? do they deserve any protection or is okay if they're just preyed on by the strong?
I think LLMs are more iPhone version one and missing a lot of "all the basic functionality"

Re "all the basic functionality" if you are talking intelligence then you are kind of talking the things humans can do and LLMs kind of do basic language but are not much good and common sense reasoning, spatial awareness and shape rotation, motor skills and running around, emotional intelligence, figuring what people are thinking, planning and probably some other stuff. It'll be iPhone 4 when those are covered.
People hate paying specifically for stuff.

If Copilot came for free and Azure cost a tiny bit more, nobody would even blink.
That's a good point about being easy to externalize the blame. I'd also add on that likely a reason is the emotion of it. People are already emotional about sports and their team. With money on the line, that ramps up even more. The emotional aspect with highs and lows helps people crave more of that excitement.
It’s not snark, our industry is run on fear. If there is the tiniest flicker of potential, we will spend piles of money out of fear of being left behind. As you age, it becomes harder to deny.. 10 years ago, I was starting to believe that my kids would never learn to drive or possibly buy a car, here we are ten years later and not that much has changed, I know you can take a robotaxi in some cities but nearly all interstate trucking has someone driving.

Coding AI assistants have done some impressive things, I’ve been amazed at how they sniffed out some repetitive tasks I was hacking on and I just tab completed pages of code that was pretty much correct. There is use. I pay for the feature. I don’t know if it’s worth 35% of the world’s energy consumption and all new fabrication resources over the next handful of years being dedicated to ‘ai chips.’ We arent looking for a better 2.0, we are expecting an exponentially better “2.0” and those are very rare.
Which is a methanol related health and safety measure grandfathered in as a holdover from the Volstead Act. All first world control have significant hazard analysis and supply chain integrity measures for food and drink.
Legalized sports betting and "weekly fantasy" leagues have severely reduced my enjoyment of NFL football.

Last week in the NFL there was a player that went down at the one yard line and his team ran off the rest of the clock to win. The game was under the O/U but would have been over if the player had gone into the end zone. The player made the choice so that his team could run out the clock without giving the ball back to the other team, and if he had scored then they would have had to kick the ball back to the other team who could potentially (although unlikely) scored a touchdown on the kickoff or in the last few seconds after the kickoff which would have given the other team the game. It was, objectively, the right thing to do in the circumstance.

The NFL analysts (who shill gambling apps) spent more time talking about if the player was responsible for everyone who lost on the O/U, and it just really killed it for me. Every. Single. Aspect is filtered through the lens of gambling. Games show the betting line on the screen and the analysts try to map out potential good parlays for the viewers. It's absolutely nuts and a very (in my mind) clear conflict of interest. It also blurs the line, in my mind, between objective reporting, analysis based on statistics, and paid promotion, and while I realize that sports reporting is probably the least important field in journalism, it's frustrating to see this unholy confluence and to see the impact it has on the ability for non-degenerate gamblers to enjoy the game.
I don't think legalizing it was a mistake.

I think allowing the betting houses and websites to advertise as prolifically as they have been (with very little restrictions) was a massive mistake. Advertising for sports betting is fucking EVERYWHERE.

And athletes, such as LeBron James, who while already a billionaire, decided to take the money and advertise for betting companies. When you've got enough money to convince a billionaire with a pretty good image to advertise for you, something is amiss.
It does not bother me that the Money and Shopping sections of CNN are run with content by another firm that specializes in interest based articles while the core of CNN remains focused on world news.
Thanks for linking to your comment on the Hypothes.is post! Will check it out. I by no means think this (or related ideas) have not been built / attempted. This is an experiment, not meant to be well-funded or even large. But, I take your feedback in good spirits, appreciate the thoughts!
> everything you know and think about spies is wrong

> The school’s first explosives instructor was Bill Cumper, a boisterous character who walked around with his pockets full of bomb parts and “a detonator behind his ear as if it were a cigarette.”

come on. we can acquiesce that people were maybe getting a little crazy with it
The thing is that you can derive the “this is how to do it” from the first two, but not the other way around. While it’s very helpful to have all three, the first two are essential while the last one is not.
Many choices in life have some risk and some odds of failing. Calling them all gambling is plain wrong. Are you gambling that you will not be implicated in an accident every time you leave your home? There's definitely a risk, and a significant number of people lose every day.

Or maybe the odds do matter, as does the existence of a house that manipulates them.
You can also make opensource software, not maintain it, get it forked so someone else will actually do the heavy-lifting, someone who maybe wants to gain money out of it, but he will still get to credit you because of your GPL license.
I guess this globalized turbocapitalist mindset is making you not see open source and free-as-in-beer as what it is: you write code, everybody can read and fork.
So, you can have a 1 million dollar gift, or a 30$ one... it's still a gift. This is what is anti-capitalistic, and I'm sorry you don't get it.
It has been more hit and miss for me, when it works it can be amazing then I try to show someone, same prompt, different less so amazing answer.
Same here hungry neigh thirsty for prompt-2-film

"output a 90 minute harry potter sequel to the final film starring the original actors plus Tom Hanks"
More people need to read this / think this point through. In a post Excel world, could any accountant get a job not knowing Excel? No matter how good they were "on paper". Choice becomes a self aggrandizing illusion, reality eventually asserts itself.

With attention spans shrinking, publishers who prioritize quantity over quality get clicks, which generates ad revenue, which keeps their lights on while their competitors doing quality in depth, nuanced writing go out of business.

It feels like a game of chess closing in on you no matter how much you physically want to fight your way out and flip the board over.
like this idea too!
Capital is spent to acquire more power, not to give power to some random people. This is the reality of the world we are living in.
It sounds reasonable for him because he's a podcasting bro, not a serious engineer or executive
Sports was a mistake, a waste of the concern and attention of billions of people, ban sports.
> ZFS has caching for writes

Not really.

It will accumulate synchronous writes into the ZIL, and you put the ZIL on a fast SLOG vdev. But it will only do so for a limited amount of time/space, and is not meant as a proper write-back cache but rather as a means to quickly service synchronous writes.

By default asynchronous writes do not use the ZIL, and hence SLOG vdev at all. You can force it to, but that can also be a bad idea unless you have Optane drives as you're then bottlenecked by the ZIL/SLOG.