skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure how well it fits the timeline (i.e. x86 images for the Android emulator becoming popular due to better performance than the ARM images vs. actual x86 devices being available), but at least these days a lot of apps shipping native code probably maintain an x86/x64 version purely for the emulator.

Maybe that was the case back then, too, and helped with software availability?
I'd like to throw Pocketbase into the mix. Has made my life so much easier.
Worst auth experience: Firebase on NextJS. Never again.
I got the text message warning of the price increase and I have several lines.

Months later my first bill came and they only increased the price on two apple watch lines by $2 a month each so $4 per month increase on a monthly bill in the hundreds. Seemed rather silly actually as I thought I would be paying $40-50 a month more like the someone in the article described.

I thought I would have a much bigger increase, so clearly they have the ability to track which contracts were valid during the period of sign up and that’s encoded into their billing system.
As an addendum to this comment it’s well worth noting that it applies to the US as well as the other more current examples.
That reminds me of Flickr, which took my monthly fee with the promise of lifetime storage for uploaded photos, even if I stopped paying. Of course, they broke that promise. I don’t use them anymore, but some of my friends still do, despite the betrayal of trust.

The backstory is that the company was sold, but I don’t think that’s an excuse. If a buyer is allowed to purchase the business and keep the name and customers, they should take on the previous obligations. Otherwise, they should call it something else or make customers re-register.
If you offer a programmer a deal where you make their code x% faster on average, never slower, and the actual speedup depends on a huge number of factors making it really hard to reason about, they'll take it 99.99% 0f the time.

It seems to me that the entire stack is built on this assumption, making life incredibly difficult the other 0.01% of the time.
Chinese room.
It’s a made up scenario that has never been documented to happen with a major OSS project. The solution seems like an incredibly poor fit and this justification is retroactive. The notion that they are actually doing the Russian maintainers a favor is ridiculous.

When a society starts shadowboxing figments of its own imagination, that is not a good sign for the health of the society.
It does replace the booster stage but it the 2nd stage isn't the satellite with its orbital corrections boosters to fine tune things, it's a rocket which provides 75% of the delta-v. The booster stage replacement doesn't even (propose to) get the 2nd stage to the Karman line without fuel, much less something to orbit without fuel like the title reads.

Replacing the booster stage is an interesting proposal, it's just not what the title conveys.
China Extends the "Great Firewall" into Space
In Defense of "Surveillance Capitalism"
Just yesterday I had an instance of a user being confused by a link that would probably have made TFA's author happy. This isn't the first user to be confused by these supposedly-clearer links. I'm going to be adding a 'Click Here' text very shortly.
Yeah I came here to say something similar. This is ARM's game to lose, and they need to remember that their architecture was in the same situation as RISC-V is at some point. The only thing that stops RISC-V right now is that everyone is focused on ARM. If ARM gives their IP users a reason to switch by raising IP costs or making bad architecture decisions then RISC-V will take advantage of that to make inroads. History is full of incumbents that go on to lose their entire market when they get complacent.
You should definitely try a different store or employee. I’ve heard nothing but great things about the patagonia lifetime warranty.
> if AI gets even just 2 orders of magnitude better over the next two years

You realize this means '100 times better', right?
Boeing and Airbus use Russia's expertise to develop their airplanes
"Anyone who still thinks in 2024 that LLMs have actual intelligence, or are anywhere close to AGI, is a lost cause."

Or they are a double digit percentage of those that hold a VP or higher title.
So I guess when LLMs play chess at 2800 ELO (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.04494) they are just taking a vote on what top grand masters would play in the given position.

I wonder how you would explain it when they play above any human level.
Many years ago, I made an emacs script that plays back diffs between files as live edits in the emacs buffer: https://github.com/nma83/diff-actor

My nefarious intent was to make my screen at work look like I am editing code from remote login :).
PS: the aciinema link for the demo video is dead right now.
I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further. --Darth Vader

Seriously though, this is one of the things that we need strong consumer protections for.
Asia just has more people and density. What would the congestion be if each small vehicle was instead the size of a full-sized car or truck?
> Monomorphization is necessary for the most efficient code.

That is not always true. Monomorphisation also leads to code size increase, because the function is compiled for each type. This may decrease cache efficiency.
From experience, the intuition from deep learning and training CNNs holds.

The networks pick up on style, layout and common patterns in increasing complexity to solve the next token.

Very fascinating to watch and if we plug all the holes in an LLM model we can approach a tool that might as well be intelligent since it gets the job done due to the sheer amount of capability encoded in its weights...

True intelligence is still a work in progress however.
I agree! I was just taking issue with the overly broad claim that being behind NAT only lets you consume, not create.
I was going to comment this but he actually mentions Michael Hickey in the article. He says he banked $60k towards building a tiny home in 146 days living in his car, doing Doordash etc., and posting/streaming a lot of social media. I believe there are many days where he says his income from views is higher than his delivery work but gotta have content to film.
The author seems stuck in this old line of thought that elevates human cognition while ignoring how much of what we call "thinking" is pattern recognition on some level anyway. Our own cognition can be reduced to probabilistic patterns if we’re being ruthlessly materialist about it. There's a sort of intellectual laziness in dismissing the utility of the models just because they're "not thinking."
At my last project, they did "service oriented development" and everything was either a service, a viewmodel or a test. For example aLogService, a ValidationService, or an AggregationService.
Show HN: Srcbook – Self-hosted alternative to AI app builders
Today we’re releasing a full AI app builder in Srcbook. We released our TypeScript notebook a few months ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41291700) and the response was encouraging, but we kept hearing that people wanted to build interactive apps.

Today we are releasing just that. You can think of it as an open-source and local version of vercel’s v0. We actually think of it as something in between an IDE and that, because we believe the code matters and don’t shy away from that: you can view and edit the code in a full editor, but prompt your way forward if that's what you prefer. When the AI makes changes you can review the files diff like you would a GitHub pull request, and toggle between versions to view the visual diff.

Try it now: npx srcbook@latest start

It’s surprisingly good at building apps, especially with the latest claude model sonnet3.5 that came out yesterday. Here’s a video showing building and iterating on a ticket tracker MVP in a few minutes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYOmzasvP74

Key features:

- bring you own API key

- diff viewer

- apply/undo mechanism to see the visual diff

- export the code

- code is OSS under apache2
The argument around this that drives me the most insane, someone tried to argue with me that "how is this different than how we think" or "how do we know its different than us" or some variation of that.

As if because we can't prove it, it means that we should just assume it is doing something.

Then showing an example of it explaining a simple script as if that really proves anything.

The other one is "well humans make mistakes too". Well yes, but until now we generally expected that computers don't make mistakes or if they do there was something wrong with how it was coded. That assumption is now not only wrong, but we have to deal with the speed that AI can be wrong and how people are already comfortable with it manipulating data.
What about when capitalists in their old age get bored and roleplay as moussolini?
A Deep Dive into German Strings
Curious question, what ever happened with the OpenAI drama with trademarking “GPT”. I’m guessing they were not successful?
This kind of argument, together with the "Stochastic Parrot" argument falls (in my opinion) under the category of dangerous half knowledge. Somebody read the wikipedia article on LLMs and thinks they know inside out how they work. Whereas the engineers working on these models say that they don't really know why they work / what it is that is manifesting in the different layers during training.

Yes, LLMs predict the next word, but so do we. I, at least, when I reflect on how I form sentences, also start with something and the next most likely word comes out next. You can see that happening a lot when somebody talks and then stops (searching for a word) and another person helpfully suggests the word they're searching for. If our way of talking was completely different - no next word prediction, another person shouldn't even be able to do that.

I'm not claiming that current models have feelings or a deep understanding of the subject matter. What I'm saying is that there's (high likelihood) more going on here then just the simple statistical trick that this article and others like it tend to focus on.
Only because environmental damage and human rights violations are externalities not modeled in capitalism.
I'm seeing this trend as well. It is getting to the point that I can not see my primary doctor without a 2-3 month lead time and specialist referrals are often 2-3 months as well.

Hell, I recently had to find a new dentist because the one I had been going to for years suddenly had 4-6 month lead time if I needed to reschedule a routine cleaning.
It takes like two years to get in with a rheumatologist, or get a psychiatric evaluation where I am in the US, and other, less in-demand specialists are easily 6-9 months from your initial referral from your primary physician. I think it took about ten for my first dermatology appointment.

ER visits are an all night endeavor.
> Anyone who still thinks in 2024 that LLMs have actual intelligence, or are anywhere close to AGI, is a lost cause.

FTFY: "Anyone who still thinks in 2024 that LLMs aren't intelligent, is a lost cause"
Our team is small and we use:

git hooks from https://pre-commit.com
git-conventional-commits to enforce standardized messages
linting
github branch protection rules
CODEOWNERS file and PR templates to speed PR creation

One issue we still have is that in this particular organization, different teams have different standards, and we have to deal with those differences which causes annoyance but not really much more.
This is a bad and shallow article.
Critically, n-gram models are literally just counting in the way described. If you can't account for the difference in behavior and performance between a LLMs and an n-gram model of either similar parameter size or based on a similar number of tokens, then saying that LLMs are "just" counting votes is misleading.
Voting is not the only way that people let their preferences be known. If the President owed a huge debt to Stein supporters, they'd be aware of it. Ranked choice voting could make that "official" in some sense, but it's not a secret now.

All politicians put a lot of effort into trying to figure out what positions will appeal to voters, and assemble a coalition large enough to eke out a majority. It won't be as simple as "adding policy positions from Candidate X and gain their voters". Every policy position change attracts some people and loses others.

People seem to hope that an alternative voting system will turn up some massive groundswell of support for their specific policy, that is somehow being ignored solely because of first-past-the-post voting. That's simply not the case.

Stein's policies just aren't all that popular. Maybe they're more popular than you might infer from the vote total, but that's not what a vote is for. A vote's job is to determine a sole winner. For making finer distinctions, there are many better tools -- focus groups, polling, reading social media -- and they do indeed do that.
I get that assembly gets you closer, but does it actually give you the guarantees that you need? Do you have detailed documentation of what instructions and patterns you can use to avoid timing and other side channels that applies to many CPUs that implement an instruction set?
“This particular sufficiently advanced technology has been around long enough now that it is no longer indistinguishable from magic.”

I wouldn’t say that. They don’t even really know how it works. Papers are periodically written challenging a fundamental claim about them, like in training or reasoning.

What we do know also isn’t clear or formulaic enough for reliable predictions of model behavior. That’s why they do all the “YOLO’s.” It is more an art form than a science.

I think a few principles about them are well-understood. We know how to assess what models can and can’t do well. Past that, there’s a lot of unknown in them. Both the experimenters and the field of mechanistic interoperability are trying to figure out the rest.
Every time I see this take, I am caught by the subtle arrogance that we are doing anything meaningfully differently in our own minds.

Hyperbole aside, I do think we do more than an LLM with our reasoning abilities, but it I suspect it is a mash of these capabilities that result in what we think of as our consciousness. I am almost certain there is a part of our minds that is "just couning votes".
Huawei has 22% market share in China which has its own ecosystem, so apps can be converted. Even for Xiaomi and BBK it will make sense to have few China only Harmony phones to hedge against any action by US against them.

Countries like Iran, Russia can be next target for obvious reasons.

In SEA likes of Grab and Gojek can be financially motivated to create apps. If they get a 4-10% marketshare it will make sense for Meta to port its apps to protect its position.

YouTube will be a blocker as Google has strong reason to not support any alternative platform even if it will make sense for the App. Same happened for Win Phone earlier.
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You might know that you won't have to pay more than $X, but you generally can't find out beforehand the theoretical cost of the procedure as billed to the insurer. So if you're on the hook for any fraction of that (as in your second scenario) then you're very much in unknown territory.

There is also the question of how well you really understand the terms of your insurance policy, which can be extremely complex.
> Bullies, weapons, power. It's not pleasant or delightful, but it is necessary.

At least some are honest and know that the power affords an escalation in hostilities which oft times are far beyond "necessary".

I lied to myself, and a favor to you readers, when I repeatedly wrote "Israel destroyed" or "the IDF bombed". I should have written "Your cousin destroyed", "Your friend from high school bombed", "Your colleague aimed and snipered". And so on.

The mask of crimes unfolded here is not so trivial, a huge part of the Israeli public takes part in it, and as we know from the first days, hundreds and thousands of them also document themselves in the act, and many others openly call for their extermination. But the majority is not so arrogant and explicit; The majority simply enlists for hundreds of days of reserve "because the country needs to be protected", goes and commits crimes unconsciously, half-consciously, with a silenced and suppressed conscience.

There are a thousand other reasons and excuses, but again, all the reasons and excuses crumble in front of 16 thousand dead children, of which 3,000 people under the age of 5, identified by their names and ID numbers, are crumbling in the face of the destruction of all civilian infrastructure, which does not and cannot have a purely military purpose.

https://idanlandau.com/2024/10/22/%d7%94%d7%a9%d7%9e%d7%93%d... / https://archive.md/YpcJM
We didn’t prevent massive consolidation since either.

World wars caused things to fall apart too; didn’t prevent Bell consolidation.

We didn’t prevent religious over consolidation.

What’s going to stop people from undoing the mess now and remaking it
Don’t explain, just fix this compatibility mess already! :)

I’m a humble application developer, I don’t want to know how smart you are, i just want things to work and not screwing my mind and wasting my time on stupid and vague exceptions.

(it’s all rhetorical, not directed to OP obviously)
What's the logic of the first sentence? I can't parse it - is that it should be illegal for intelligence agents to be heads of state? Or is it that states with powerful armies shouldn't have former intelligence agents as heads of state? Or what?

As for the second question - why is every generation of the left charmed by a different set of psychopathic terrorist groups?
>drewdevault.com

The guy recently outed as a pedo who tagged drawn images of pre-pubescent girls being sexually assaulted as "happy sex"? Yeah I'm not visiting that site.
But what does it *really* mean to think? Are we sure that our own brains aren't "just counting votes" themselves?

This is like saying that machines are not making chairs, they're just nailing pieces of wood together, which is, in fine, what a human does.
As I understand it, Rivos hasn't actually shipped anything; from https://www.rivosinc.com/technology:

"Rivos has not yet revealed details of its products or technology publicly."

Great that they're working on that, but when discussing the _current_ state of the RISC-V ecosystem, I think they can be safely ignored until such a time that they actually start shipping stuff.

It seems Ventana has shipped the Veyron V1, but I'm having a hard time finding concrete information on that in a quick search (other than from Ventana themselves), so not entirely sure what the status of that is? Their V2 chip is planned for 2025.
I thought it was quite good; an entirely approachable explanation that nonetheless gets across the essential limitations of the current approach to AI:

When working well, they provide existing answers to questions, rather than thinking up new ones.
I wonder if you'd have luck in small claims court.
xml != html so you can't just plug an xml parser and a schema together and call it quits.

Plus, there's things like browser support, relative paths, and content embedding to consider, which always made dedicated products like Adobe's (Macromedia's?) DreamWeaver hit-or-miss (on top of being a very clunky way to edit some tiny text files).

As for why it took so long...well nobody cared enough, and everyone "just used scripts" i.e. Django, Wordpress, Ruby on Rails, etc, to get that "good enough" experience + access to testing. There's no reason this couldn't have been done back in 2014 when LSPs were first just starting to come into being...
This came out the same year as the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey" and at the 10 minute mark in the video they have a program "singing" the same song as HAL 9000 in the movie, "Daisy Bell".

I wonder who inspired who, assuming it's not just a coincidence.
Would love to hear your thoughts on our own product in the space:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41926067
Show HN: I wrote a guide helping you to write better JavaScript than AI
I agree, but also you have to mention, that knowledge is based on deduction. There is cause and effect, there are simple, logical rules and by "counting votes" you simply keep record of those rules. If you will, fantasy is just the way how you iterate through possible realities. And that's nothing that a ai is not capable of.
> But people won't know where to click?

> It's not 1995.

I agree in principle with the article. But I have spent time reading help desk tickets so I know that average users often don't know where to click unless you push their nose in it. I can't count how many times users have said "I was afraid to click the link" or "I don't know where that button will go" because the UI presented links and buttons with meaningful titles instead of imperative commands. I just have to watch my parents try to navigate a web site to feel deep humility about how I think people use the web. They got stuck in 1995 I guess.

This kind of advice should come with A/B testing on actual users. I think we would all facepalm at the results.
Despite picking up computers at a young age, that was in 1995, nearly 3 decades after this moment. It still blows my mind at what we've been able to do with the power to simulate and visualize everything around us. It's something I do think "modern society" takes for granted - that there's so much about the world that we JUST learned about, or at least finally had a way to translate theories into a format digestible to everyone.

I wonder how as we learn to design out large scale AI systems future generations will think about how obvious they are to them but were actually revolutionary to us. For example if the multi-LLM agent simulations we're seeing with Interactive Simulacra[1] will spark new theories about how we should communicate with each other.

[1] https://github.com/joonspk-research/generative_agents
Spat my tea out on that comment!
I think that's the point. Advertising anything as such should be the contract. It's unambiguous to everyone except the person who's paid to be confused.

Stuff of the form

Claim A*

* Actually not A

Should be illegal. Someone buying a product isn't a lawyer and shouldn't need one. Fine print in take-it-or-leave-it contracts that don't encode a persons reasonable expectation of the purchase agreement should be thrown out and labeled deceptive advertising.
TBH I hate these kinds of articles, because they usually always say the same thing in a way that I feel is wholly unconvincing. E.g. they say "all an LLM does is XYZ, but that's not really thinking", but then they don't make any cogent arguments about why that's not "really thinking" beyond basically just "vibes". As another commenter noted, presumably our neurons are capable of thought, and in many ways they're just "counting votes" as well.

FWIW I don't think LLMs are "thinking", but that's because as I've used them more and I run into more of the very specific types of errors, hallucinations and constraints that LLMs make, I get the stronger sense that they're really more just "pattern matching" in a way that's very different from human brains that don't have the same limitations. But that said, even my thought here is more of a feeling I get when using LLMs, and that feeling is certainly no more worthy of a blog post than I think this article is.
> Russia, China, Iran, North Korea... and everybody else.

Something is happening in Kazan as we speak. In attendance are many among your "everybody else", many of whom have no great love for any of these four. It is worth asking why this might be.
It's a shame because Fuchsia would go a long way to solve the Android update mess that's partially caused by how Linux does drivers/kernels for ARM and that Android was never made to have generic updates like desktop operating systems, much of the design stemming from the embedded world it was originally made for.