skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, sarcasm is against the guidelines I think, so let's say it was reductio ad absurdum. I'm responding to the idea that gambling+skill is just as bad, or bad enough to also ban. It would make the legislation and policing a lot simpler, close up some loopholes, and would have the side effect of outlawing the stock market, but I'm still against it.
Indeed; but laughing at the scale of someone’s ambition (or vision?) might just mean that one’s own is too narrow or limited. After all, there are lots of narrow-minded, un-visionary folks out there.

Just because there’s an anti-Altman/-OpenAI sentiment on HN at the moment, it doesn’t mean that he’s wrong about everything, nor the people at TSMC are necessarily right.
Do you have an exact read on where the wheels on the other side of the car are relative to a curb when you're turning? I don't, so I give it a healthy error margin, where I'm certain it won't. I'm reasonably confident it wouldn't have made contact without my help, but that's not good enough for my driving standards. That mismatch was consistent enough that I ended up not using FSD anymore, it was more stressful than not using it at all.

Also, tire-puncturing junk tends to build up next to curbs, so there are other reasons for my margin preferences than just avoiding accidents.
In their call for a return to the office, CEOs reveal how little they are needed
Thank you, now I realize where I've had this feeling before!

Working with AI-generated code to add new features feels like working with Dreamweaver-generated code, which was also unpleasant. It's not written the same way a human would write it, isn't written with ease of modification in mind, etc.
> I'm more productive than ever before.

Who are you and what are you being so productive in?

These code assistants are wholly unable to help with the day to day work I do.

Sometimes I use them to remind me what flags to use with a tarball[0], so replaced SO, but anything of consequence or creativity and they flounder.

What are you getting out of this excess productivity? A pay raise? More time with your loved ones?

[0] https://xkcd.com/1168/ (addressing the tool tip, but hilariously, in regards the comics content that would be a circumstance where I would absolutely avoid trusting one of these ‘assistants’)
The fight to save Chile's white strawberry
Let me break down how the media industry works

It looks like you mean: "Let me break down how a certain portion of the media industry that I'm familiar with works."

"The media industry" is vast, complex, diverse, and far more interesting than internet content farms, poorly-run legacy brands, or even most of what's on the internet.
> He’s an expert in the art of PR and spin

Claims that have been not at all in evidence this week. He's applying his "scorched earth nuclear approach" on his next door neighbor, forgetting a few things about nuclear warfare...
> “The winner will receive a vintage New York City Transit item from our memorabilia collection.”

Depends what it is. Long as it’s not something you could steal yourself. Ha!
There's a big difference between those two examples.

Mars is hard but there are paths forward. More efficient engines, higher energy density fuels, lighter materials, better shielding, etc, etc. It's hard but there are paths forward to make it possible with enough time and money. We have an understanding of how to get from what we have now to what makes Mars possible.

With LLMs, there is no path from LLM -> gAI. No amount of time, money or compute will make that happen. They are fundamentally a very 'simple' tool that is only really capable of one thing - predicting text. There is no intelligence. There is no understanding. There is no creativity or problem solving or thought of any kind. They just spit out text based on weighted probabilities. If you want gAI you have to go in a completely different direction that has no relationship with LLM tools.

Don't get me wrong, the work that's been done so far took a long time and is incredibly impressive, but it's a lot more smoke and mirrors than most people realize.
Every hear the term "arms race". This is a constant in history. There precision weapons that don't use GPS. There are various ways to evade GPS denial (I don't know how effective they are). We will constantly be in a race of out doing each other.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggie_Smith
"I'm getting paid so I don't really care" is the most destructive instance a human can take. Why do you think we're about to disrupt the Holocene climate optimum that gave birth to modern civilization?
> I think the problem is the author's attitude.

I am in the fortunate position where Open Source has been a true life changing community for me. I benefited greatly over the years from it, in both life experiences, jobs and opportunities. However the moment in which a project turns from great and fun to a massive pain in the butt is years after you have first created it and the motivation that originally brought you to it might not be applying at the present day any more.

For me the only sane way out was to pass the helm and recognize that there is no path for the things I have created to be compatible with a business model that makes sense to me. (I built libraries and frameworks)

That itself takes a lot of life experience. With all the experiences I gained about this, I would never go and tell someone that their attitude of feelings are wrong.
Of course I'm not talking about averages. Average fast food workers make as much as engineers in some other countries. I'm not sure wages at the low-skill end are much lower in Europe, but certainly engineers seem to be paid less there. I assume that is similar across skilled professions. Comparing the US to Asia, yes the wage differences are across the board.
Yeah, I suppose that would be an issue for creative writing. My focus is mostly on scientific writing, where such mannerisms should be less relevant than precision, so I didn't consider that aspect of other kinds of writing.
Are you including transformer based translation models like Google Translate or Deepl in your categorical AI rejectio?
Fond memories of grabbing a few of these in the little shop within Shimokitazawa station, people watching with my wife as we wolfed them down, then heading off to the train with satisfied stomaches to explore Tokyo.

Are they hard to make at home? I haven't found great/reliable spots to get these in SF. (Where are the great SF spots for these??)
Online reviews are completely gamed IMO. My wife still looks at them, talks about the "highly rated" stuff she finds, and I tell her it's all fake she doesn't believe it.
But why? I mean, just put each prisoner in a separate cell, why would you need more than 1 employee per 20-50 prisoners? Ok, maybe 3, for 24 hour rotation... Make sure you never unlock more than a single cell, and keep guns, lots of guns.
Isn’t even new. Demand Media was doing this 10+ years ago and sites like USA Today were buying content. These days you have companies creating their own sponsored content with platforms like Ceros and the sites just embedding it and cashing the checks. Of course the sites do the bare minimum legally required to disclose its sponsored content.
Open source is a purely voluntary system. So it's not socialist, which requires state coercion to force people to "share."
indeed, that's about the most sane take on sam's plans i've seen so far from players in this craze

if this house of cards collapses, it will be magnitutes bigger than any bubble (be it hype or fraud) we've seen so far.

what a waste of resources and focus, i really can't take vc players seriously any more (from what is left after the crypto hype run)
Ask HN: How do you transition from software engineer to cloud engineer?
I've worked as a software engineer for 5 to 10 years. During this time, I enjoyed working with AWS, GCP, and Digital Ocean. But my experience is minimal. The companies I've worked for all had someone do it full time, or outsourced it.

Most jobs require a lot of experience, and my life situation doesn't allow taking a pay cut to get experience. Many HN comments say that cloud certifications are useless.

What is the best way to approach this?
This is a definitive bubble.

Inference and training costs with $0 free AI models such as Llama which is good enough for AI solutions are all factors that are actually impacting OpenAI. What is not mentioned is that all these costs are quietly suffocating them whilst the company continues to suffer from a significant talent drain.

Companies like OpenAI cannot afford to continue racing their prices down to $0 and will just continue the pyramid scheme of raising billions to avoid bankrupting themselves over the said costs.

These fund raising rounds of A,B,C,D....X,Y,Z can't go on forever as these costs continue to suffocate the company. If OpenAI fails, there will be a horrific AI crash with hundreds of billions of dollars wiped out.
Yeah she was a big loss, a 60s bond girl and all-round sex symbol who went on to completely transcend that label and developed into a serious thespian and RSC/Old Vic stalwart. She absolutely holds her own as the Wife of Olivier's Lear.

I'm delighted she got to work with Edgar Wright before her death and put in a great turn in Last Night in Soho; I'd a big fear she'd peter out with a few Dr.Who episodes in a fairly unceremonious end to a glittering and exremely accomplished career.
Looks like LLM inference will follow the same path as Bitcoin: CPU -> GPU -> FPGA -> ASIC.
And N misconceptions about X, You've been lied to about X, N things you didn't know about X,...
How do you anticipate sama will take being rejected by TSMC?
AI Alignment Problem: a fresh perspective
Setting up repos, implementing a good git workflow and managing a community are some but not all free work a free software developer needs to do besides making the code public.
Maybe our dockworkers and shipbuilders are dragging to extend contracts that they only got due to protectionist laws to begin with. If they had more work to do and more experience, they might become more efficient.
experienced the same with train to museum
The news is the news: it isn't news that the news isn't news anymore.
I often see the LBJ books cited as essential by those who've read them. I'll surely get to them as I enjoyed the Power Broker.
> Don't forget social media. I mean, we have some of the smartest, best paid people on the planet incentivized to use every bit of data they can to hack your evolutionary biology to keep you scroll, scroll, scrolling.

I remember this being said about NYC investment bankers (often Ivy League grads) during the 2007/2008 Great Recession.

Around that time, Silicon Valley upstarts were seen as the altruistic alternative. Google, Facebook, whoever else was getting started around that time, were giving you a "free" service. Whereas Goldman Sachs and company were being broadly (and appropriately IMO) castigated for ruining lives and crippling the economy.

It is interesting to have lived long enough to see the heroes turn into villains.
I’m amazed by how many people are defaulting to Mullenweg’s side in this spat.

I think a lot of people are giving Wordpress.com (the hosting business) the credibility and respect that they normally give to open source projects, but that credibility should be going to Wordpress.org. The way Mullenweg is trying to blur the lines between .org and .com as convenient for his business purposes is the most confusing thing about this argument.
Localless Development
indeed! :D
For their 3rd Birthday the daughter of a friend just wanted to ride the bus. So all our friends and their kids got on the right bus at the right time and place so we were all on the bus by the time the Birthday girl got on.
We had a riot of a time going around our little town, and the bus driver and other passengers all sang Happy Birthday and “the wheels on the bus”

Brilliant idea for a memorable 3rd Birthday!
I see a real risk that we're throwing out the baby with the bathwater and will end up with a lot of useful code hidden behind terrible licenses. Rather than going source available with a dual licensed commercial license, maybe go the middle way of Fair Source[1] which gives you an exclusivity period for commercialization but later turns into Open Source.

Disclaimer: I'm one of the people behind that model.

[1]: https://fair.io/
thank you so much for sharing your story :)
If you have an H Mart near by the sell them in the hot food area.
Almost all large financial transactions or storage useful and active in commerce require KYC or reporting so the magic is the very act of privacy makes it illegal.
And I the only one who doesn't even like automatic grammar checkers, because they are contributing to a single and uniformly bland style of writing? LLMs are just going to make this worse.
The memory of the gilded age was fresh back then, we forgot that those expected to fight were expected to fight for railway and sugarcane barons, poverty and a greatly depressed world. They had no idea of the golden years to come,to temporary moat communism.
I did this when I lived within 20 minutes of a long stretch of sandy beach. Would also work in an area with grass or soft soil. But now that my runs are all either poorly-maintained pavement or rocky, gravely trails, barefoot is simply not feasible.
Show HN: Quadratic – native JavaScript support in a spreadsheet
We built JavaScript natively into a spreadsheet as a cell language. Use JS to analyze and work with data in a high-performance spreadsheet built on Rust and WASM. Quadratic also supports SQL, Python, and formulas.

The goal with Quadratic is to build a modern, high-performance, source-available spreadsheet for everyone. From technical developers to users who have never written code.

Sharing our JS launch with everyone today to see what you build in Quadratic.
You can't define new data structures as such in pure Tcl, as you don't have pointers. And as for cycles, you can't modify an object to add a reference to itself, since the copy-on-write will just create a new object.
The only reason to pay any attention to CNN, USA Today or Forbes is to understand what's on the minds of the corporate oligarchy in the United States. They're just propaganda feeds, the modern version of the tin-horn propaganda blared out by speakers installed in Red Square in Moscow in the 1970s.

This doesn't mean the stories published are false, or even inaccurate - but there's a big negative space in their media coverage. E.g. if culture war issues are amplified, but there are no stories on industrial policy, infrastructure problems, manufacturing job and supply chain analysis - that's deliberate. No, it's not 'what the public wants', it's what the owners of these media outlets want their readers to be thinking about.
Spending time with kids > giving stuff to kids.
Only if you insist on control over minutia over everything else including ease of use, reliability, and simplicity.
gotta prototype the thing somewhere. If it turns out that the LLM algos become pretty mature I suspect accelerators of all kinds will be baked into silicon, especially for inference.
In the first case there are inherent safety constraints preventing it and thus its not available to public to freely use. It's highly regulated. With GPT to writing code, it is already generally available and in heavy use. There are no such life-and-death concerns in the main.

In the second case there are inherent technical challenges to using non-fiat currency and the fx volatility with fiat is wild. There are also barriers and inconveniences to conversion. With GPT writing code, the user can review for quality and still be many x more productive and there is far fewer fees and risk of loss.

It's risky to take two failed or slow innovations and assume that all innovations will be failed or slow.
One of the options is literally a trash can!
https://new.mta.info/document/85441

Or perhaps... a subway seat?
https://new.mta.info/document/85661
That's why my main source of meaningful news is X.

Just follow a few high quality independent journalists and also let the open-source algorithm rank content to show you.
ah the signal is stripped ?
and the upvotes prove mine
When I was a kid in suburban Australia my parents would organize a semi-annual ‘bus-train-ferry’ trip. It was a school holiday tradition where - in hindsight - we’d do the sort of daily commute that thousands of working adults would do every morning…except for a kid the magic of a bus to a train station, a train into the city, and then a ferry across the river was just great fun. A day ticket for a family back in the 1980s? Probably next to nothing, but a priceless memory.
When I heard people talk about writing specs in natural language, I want to ask them if they want fuzzy results too. Like 10x10=20 or having you account debited from x+e money where x is what you ask and e is any real number. Or having your smoke detector interpreting it’s sensor fuzzily too.
yeah that's too loose :D
Nice analysis!

I agree that there shouldn't be a stigma against licenses that aren't FOSS. There's no shame producing software that's not open source, and if you're open about it (ie not calling it FOSS if it isn't), sharing it under a different license (such as the SAMS licenses you mentioned).

Today "open source" is often a marketing term (if any proof is needed, see LLama :), often "let's build a community of users on our discord as a loss leader into our startup sales funnel" term, and ... in a very few cases .. "let's build together, rising tide lifts all boats" thing.
> I am in no way supporting WP Engine (they seem sleazy and I would never host any of my client sites with them).

What makes them sleazy? I have yet to see anything substantive to suggest WP Engine is acting any differently than any other managed service provider.
Ctrl+f Carre - 0 matches? Not particularly strong engagement with the canon. There are spy stories that aren't James Bond!
A significantly worse model that says naughty words.
Campaigners call for unlimited 'climate card' UK rail pass
That is an often repeated but incorrect thing. At the current rate of utilization, the proven reserves of uranium would last for one hundred years. What people miss is the fact that elevating a reserve to the status of “proven” (from the lower status of “probable”) costs money. Mining companies spend this money in order to get loans. Loan interest rates are better if the collateral is “proven” reserves. But the financing needs of these companies are limited by the business opportunity, so there is no incentive to “prove” more than 100 years worth of consumption. If the demand increases however, immediately you will see an increase of “proven” reserves. In the end we can extract unlimited amounts of uranium from seawater for only about 5x the current market price. It sounds like a lot, but it translates in less than one extra cent per kWh. The average retail price of 1kWh in the US is about 15 cents.
> managing a community

No, this is not something that in inherent in "free software", and you don't have to do that for any of your projects unless you want to. And that doesn't make the software any less FOSS.
They don't need to be a bad actor. They just need to be big enough and follow their incentives.

Companies aren't binary good or bad. They go through a lifecycle. Today's young and scrappy startup fighting for the people and the CEO making house calls is tomorrow's big tech with AI chat support.

It's worth noting where a company is in its lifecycle, and what the world is likely to look like if it continues to grow.
It's really easy to find real reviews. The magic trick is -affiliate -amazon. You can add other qualifiers as well.

Try it: https://www.google.com/search?q=macbook+m3+pro+review+-affil...

Reviews financed via affiliate links are just camouflaged ads. So Google should offer a filter to remove all of them.

I add similar qualifiers to almost all of my searches. They make the web feel like it's 2010 again.
> (as we both know that's the only goal of mixers)

Do "we" know that's the only goal?

I've reported every digital currency-related gain or loss I've ever had on my taxes, but that doesn't mean I wanted the guy I bought my llama wool socks from to be able to trace my whole holdings. I know how easy it is to do. I learned how to do it in an afternoon.

Believe it or not, some of us just really don't think the world needs an indelible record of what kind of socks we wear, not because we actually think anybody will care, but because we reject the principle that buying socks should require a data record for third parties.

We might be weirder than you, but that doesn't make us dishonest cheats.
Red Rabbit Robotics: Open-Source Humanoid Robot Under $1000
What 'kind' of AI is it? the article doesn't say.
Indeed. “Feet” was just a more pithy way of putting it. I started buying my favorite shoes no matter the sale price when my lower-quality shoes started affecting my knees, shins, and back.
In Germany, competition seems to work in this case, so it is free. I believe SEPA dictates that an intercommunity transfer may not be more expensive than a transfer within the same country. So if a bank in country X charges you 4€ to receive money from another bank in the same country X, it may also charge you 4€ for receiving money from Germany.
Making a claim with no references to back it up doesn’t require doubters to provide evidence to the contrary.
Global startup challenge announced for Smart City Expo 2024
Well... I have to critique the critique, else how do I know which two thirds to reject?

In theory I'm learning from the LLM during this process (much like a real code review). In practice, it's very rare that it teaches me something, it's just more careful than I am. I don't think I'm ever going to be less slap-dash, unfortunately, so it's a useful adjunct for me.
Copiers have been doing that for years. And yes it causes problems, big ones.

http://www.dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0802_xerox-workcentres_...
I have my reservations about AI but it's hard not to notice that LLMs are effectively a Gutenberg level event in the history of written communication. They mark a fundamental shift in our capacity to produce persuasive text.

The ability to speak the same language or understand cultural norms are no longer barriers to publishing pretty much anything. You don't have to understand a topic or the jargon of any given domain. You don't have to learn the expected style or conventions an author might normally use in that context. You just have to know how to write a good prompt.

There's bound to be a significant increase in the quantity as well as the quality of untrustworthy published text because of these new capacities to produce it. It's not the phenomenon but the scale of production that changes the game here.
That’s a good point. The real world experience they’re analogizing is me putting a bottle of ketchup in a shopping cart at a grocery store and checking out at the cashier. Afterward, I own that bottle of ketchup, not a license to ketchup, but that instance of it. “Shopping cart” and “checkout” imply “buying”, and I can’t think of a counterexample.
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Ask HN: What would you do with a 130 ton locomotive?
Caltrain (rail service provider for the San Francisco Peninsula) is selling their old 135 ton gasoline locomotives: https://www.caltrainstore.com/special-items/p/caltrain-emd-f40ph-2-locomotive-used

According to the website, the engine is disabled and you have to pick them up yourself.

I was wondering what you colud do with one of those beasts and why they are selling them. What would you buy one for? A fancy restaurant / cafe perhaps? This of course supposing that the pavement could handle such weight.
'הבל (hevel)' has the primary sense of vapor, or mist -- a transient thing, not a meaningless or purposeless one.