skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really, really want to disagree with you... not only on a societal level, but on a personal level... And i don't think i can... Watching congress fight over whether a women is a women, foreign wars and a border... Like who thought it was a good idea to give 500 people the power of the purse? Sounds like a quick way to go broke.
Consumer sales vs. B2B sales are different beasts. Absent some titanic shift (e.g. Apple is banned from sales), consumer sales are more durable.

If AI doesn't pan out, those H100s are not going to find a lot of sales anywhere and Nvidia could be back to a gaming GPU company.
> Surely people in South America don't like his hate speeches and outlandish ideas about them paying for any kind of wall either.

Lots of people here who do.

> Generally people are not a big fan of having to deal with authoritarian figures, who could impact their country's economy tomorrow, by doubling down on some idiotic tariffs policy or some other crap that comes his mind.

Welcome to South America.

Every single day, I wake up and I see news of some government official making a comically stupid decision that negatively impacts the entire economy, my future ability to make money and also the worth of the money I've already made. Elected socialists who want to crush us with taxes. Unelected judges with god complexes. You name it, we've got it.

At some point you start hoping a dude like Trump shows up and makes up a reason to sanction your own country. No reason in particular, you just to watch it burn. Because it deserves it.
For the record, a similar move by Anthropic was predicted by several people just four months ago and vehemently denied:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40802334

Yet another "conspiracy theory" came true.
But then you come to the context where driving it yourself is viable and hiring a private chauffeur is infeasibly uneconomical and you've got some trouble.
They don't, the last wave of firearm restrictions was proposed by and passed by republicans to respond to black Americans arming themselves.
Any chance we could just stop raising so many cows and chickens?
Given that it is possible to make a 3D printer out of old dot matrix printer parts and given that matrix printers were introduced in the '70s (Centronics [1] claims its model 101. launched in 1970 was the first impact dot matrix printer) it would have been possible to create 3D printers in the '70s. While the hardware and controlling firmware would have been possible to build back then it would have been quite useless without the software needed to create 3D models to print on the device.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centronics
Does this send code via your servers? If so, why? Nothing you've described couldn't be better implemented as a local service.

Could this tool get a command from the LLM which would result in file-loss? How would you prevent that?
You're right, it could change over time. Thumbs up previously, thumbs down now.
Even just the compute, without even disk, is barely competitive.
> you could perhaps form a nonprofit or public benefit corp and focus on hiring the top experts in the field, devoting all your resources on learning as much about these things as possible, and what the risks and limitations are and how they can best benefit humanity

Which technology and expertise, if you choose not to consider its military implications, will be repurposed by someone else.

If you build militarily relevant technology, it will be used militarily. Even if you pretend while you do it that it won’t. And if technology has military potential, the nature of war and global anarchy is such that it will be exploited for it. That’s just game theory. The game only changes if war, politics through violence, becomes obsolete.
That was very touchy for me; it took 4 or 5 goes to get the floppy in, at least.
The tape worked easily.
(I didn't see the floppy or notebook being able to do anything)
>Even outside of that the FTC is fully empowered to implement the protections that are needed right now without congresses involvement or the president.

You do realize that the FTC chairman serves at the pleasure of the President, right? As such, the new President (or more likely his Heritage Foundation lapdogs) will decide what the FTC can and cannot do.

If it's within the executive branch, the head of that branch (who is that again?) has broad authority to do whatever they want, and Congress' (given that a "veto-proof" majority on any bill is so unlikely as to be impossible) and/or the populace's only recourse is through the Federal courts -- assuming you have the time and money to pay for lawyers and wait for your appeal to be denied by SCOTUS, then you're done.

So good luck with that. You're gonna need it.
Where are the denials?
I think you are referring to slow-wave enhancement wrt "shorten sleep cycles", which probably isn't the right way to look at it.

We've been developing slow-wave enhancement for the past 4 years using auditory stimulation.

The problem with using focused ultrasound to accomplish this (I believe), is that the focal point creates heat, and I don't believe we want to be consistently creating hot spots of neurons in the brain.

Other methods (acoustic, visual, haptic) have proven efficacy by "tricking" the brain into increasing slow-wave delta power, and tMCS (magnetic) coaxes the neurons into a slow-wave pattern - though this is not realistic outside of a clinical setting atm.

Absolutely there is tons happening in neuroscience (lots here in Sydney, Aus), and focused ultrasound has it's place, but as a daily use, I'm not there with it yet.

For treatment of depression, for diagnosis, etc, absolutely. Though in depression treatment, SAINT protocol tCMS is very impressive.
What makes SLS less of a fantasy than Starship?
Man, I do not want to pick up immediately where we left off last time.
Naming rights for a stadium up next surely?
I guess I’m stuck with the immersion blender with the attached cord, which makes the dishwasher impossible
I think Aider does this to save tokens/money. It supports a lot of models so you can have Claude as your architect and another cheap model that does the coding.
That’s why it’s important to have tech that serves you, like a dumbphone. You throw your smartphone away (leave it in your car, leave it at work, throw it in the deep end of your attic, etc), make it really inconvenient to act in these compulsions.

And then you just suffer through it for a few days. It gets better very quickly.
If you invested in private prison stocks, you've made +42%, even more than Tesla!
Maybe a controversial opinion, but screw them for delisting games. Why would I buy these games when they obviously have no interest in selling them? To me, this is a license to go download the ROMs.
maybe in the west, but asia is pretty racist, and the japanese have resisted until now pretty well. we'll have AI before they'll capitulate for any real migration
Normal inflation is wages and prices both going up by a couple of percent a year, which is fine. 20%+ abrupt increase in prices without a corresponding increase in wages, not fine.
> If there's even a half percent chance that a mistake is made, it could be irreversibly destructive

Yes, that’s war. And soldiers with scopes have a hell of a higher error rate than 0.5%.

> scarier is that "the AI told us to do it" is basically a license to cause chaos with zero accountability

Only to the extent following orders is. (Which is, to be clear, pretty unconstrained.)
I think this one is more credible when talking about Germany:
https://inquisitivebird.xyz/p/the-effects-of-immigration-in-...

"The report finds that the total net contribution in 2018 by native Danish people was +41 billion DKK. The contribution of immigrants and their descendants was net negative at -24 billion DKK (Table b)"
It was more like: "Oh crap, here it is." It's not like the community was surprised. Many of us were educated on the principles and understood the possibilities.

I haven't seen anything this big developed so fast in my life. I have used more Copilot UIs than I can remember. Drastic sweeping changes to how it works and integrates. Just amazing. The pretrained LLM community is hot and a lot of people are tinkering again. It reminds me of the PC explosion of the 1980s-1990s.
The tariffs are his best idea, we have plenty of stuff of all sorts but people lack the meaning of a job and feeling important for society.

For example during the pandemic the healthcare workers felt scared, tired, overworked, underpaid...but one thing they didn't feel was irrelevant and unimportant.

Time for steel workers, coal workers etc. to feel the same.

It's also time to admit that more stuff won't make us happier.

Protectionism has always existed and for a reason, it will never become obsolete as long as people need to feel important. And on the other hand free trade will never become obsolete, as long as people love stuff at a convenient price. It's all about finding a balance according to the historic moment.

Free trade has overextended itself and people now want less stuff and more meaning. That's why they came out in droves for Trump
Terraform isn't really declarative. It's declarative right up until the point at which it isn't, where it falls apart. I need a declarative deployment right up to the application layer, which is where terraform fails.
But if you squint then sensory actions and reactions are also sequential tokens. Even reactions can be encoded alongside input as action tokens and as single token stream. Anyone tried sth like this?
I tried to find it, maybe it was another thread.

In any event, I'm not saying I agree with trump that the bill should have been squashed. It just had a lot of provisions and exceptions that one could take umbrage with, if read impartially, which right now probably is a bit too tricky for half the country.

I didn't vote for the guy, I don't like the guy. I find it to be a fascinating mental exercise to hold two opposing ideas in my head without accepting or denying either. I think someone smart said that once, long time ago.

Emotion clouds judgement.
>Wifes license runs out in January next year, eep

Genuinely asking, how does that qualify as "eep"? Is renewing onerous or expensive in Germany? I ask because in the US, renewing a license is usually cheap and done quickly online, except for about once a decade, they require a new photo (which itself doesn't take too long with an appointment).
It's not a good implementation of ownership tags, unfortunately :(
Modulation is part of the measurement process in that case.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lock-in_amplifier
> America's markets doing well is good for everyone. Not sure why this is controversial.

Tossing off that second sentence so casually is what makes me concerned I've fallen for satire.

"After the news, the markets rallied by 10%, led by Confederated Slaveholdings, Missiles & Munitions, Plague Insurance, and Broken Window Fallacy Repair. This rise was only slightly tamped-down by sharp losses like Affordable Health Centers and the Lead Substitutes Laboratory. As all of our viewers are aware, high market numbers are good news for everyone--yes, even that homeless guy under the overpass--and I simply can't imagine how anyone could object to such a simple universal truth."

__________

P.S.: Or, for those who need things spelled-out, some of the independent problems with that claim are:

1. Average stock price goes up does not mean every stock price goes up.

2. A stock price going up is only good for some people.

3. Investing more into a company that repairs/treats a problem doesn't mean suffering is going down.

4. Some activity is actually making harm on other people, especially if there's an imperfect justice system or externalities.

5. Marginal good is not holistic good. Serfs getting more food-scraps from the king's feasting is obviously better than fewer food scraps, but perhaps there's something even better than expanding the kingdom.
I don't want to speculate but I wouldn't be surprised if he planned it all along to run away with customer's money. Not unheard of in the crypto world. Hope he makes it home safe.
Yea, that's annoying as all hell, as is the fact that it takes 5-7 business days to adjust the volume with the stupid swipe-badonk -system compared to a physical knob or button.

And the companion app has ACHIEVEMENTS.
The implicit part of that and all such statements is

"unless you pay for it"

Why is anyone surprised that soul-less corporations that exists only to make money for its investors have no morals? Any morality[1] is sub-optimal[2] and therefore the companies without morals will always win in a free market,

Saying this to users

> I aim to help prevent harm, not cause it.

Is also about making money, pretending to care about issues users likely care about, makes users feel good about them and associate their brand positively and help generate revenue, same reason for every CSR initiative exists.

[1] It doesn't matter if the morality positive or negative like say refusing to serve gays, having any in a free market will always be a loosing strategy

[2] i.e. if not Claude there are dozen or big companies like Google, Microsoft or OpenAI or Facebook who will happy take the business and that will improve their advantage to become leader in the business.

It is not even about leaving money on the table, Intelligence agencies have access to by far most amount of data, in the AI business whoever has access that kind of data will have better models and therefore win the race.

Self regulation cannot solve any of these problems for this reason. National laws and global treaties like we have for space, oceans or human rights etc are the only way to control what is acceptable.
Computers are just electron tunneling machines.
However, the Centronics interface was designed to allow them to build the printer without including a microcontroller in it. (Microprocessors of any kind were several years off.) It wasn't until the mid to late 01970s that it became common to include microcontrollers in printers.

As for the question of software for 3D models, see my overview of the history of that field in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42080437.
That's true, but you're not likely to get much support for such on a site that's basically built on capitalist ideals.
I think you should elaborate. Were you at the University of Bath at the time, or at Catalyst IT Ltd. in Auckland?
Say no more:

https://x.com/PatrickJBlum/status/1854570397179490745
I believe he suggest to establish a chain of smoke signal towers transmitting the bits of our holiday photos to our distant relatives. During the day and when there is no wind of course.

There is no alterntive between storing everything in the cloud and smoke towers.

(still, I assume not the cloud storage is the most energy intensive thingy out there - but perhaps the processing of those for whatever agenda, and else - but the w3 signals are mixed the least. Perhaps this is from some sort of common corporate script book distributed in the MBI courses, from the chapter "how to pretend being serious environmentalist", mixed with the other one "deflect inconvenient/expensive steps into the infinite future or never by forming an interest group")
There's slight solace in that bird flus are much worse as pandemic viruses compared to coronaviruses -- but then again, unmonitored, uncontrolled spillovers are an excellent way to build a highly virulent strain. Also, there's one dipshit who's likely to be involved and is advocating for more raw milk and less regulation around pasteurization and you'll never guess where you might find an excellent vector for bird flu transmission to humans from dairy cow populations..
Generic Pedialyte is great for hangovers and migraines—way less sugar. You can even get the individual powder packets instead of having to buy a huge jug of liquid.
Hmm, tariffs and closed borders might.

I am not saying I endorse either thing, just answering your "not possible" claim. Most things are possible, few things are not.
What Is Agentic RAG?
It used to be desktop-friendly enough to develop on. It's not a purely embedded OS.
I ended up buying a travel bidet because I couldn’t install one at our house for various reasons. It’s basically just a squeeze bottle with an angled head. Works great!
Probably suggesting that cloud storage and cloud server products use energy less efficiently than a more simple setup
Well, much of the people that are “informed“ can be induced to vote against their own interest as well. One could argue that the “informed” people that went through similar college experiences and came from similar backgrounds, listen to similar news sources, hang out with similar people are prime targets for manipulation. Certainly the congruence amongst mainstream news that we’re seeing these days is a sign of that.
And that’s why we don’t delegate that work to devs.
Cool. Every database or data source (e.g. CRM) should produce Iceberg format for you.

Though a little sceptical of embedding DuckDB. It is easy and better to isolate Read/Write paths, and it has a lot of other benefits.
Exactly! You can run it on any server connecting to any Postgres, without installing custom extensions (AWS Aurora supports only a limited number of extensions https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraPostgreSQ...).

The Iceberg tables are created separately from the DuckDB query engine. So you should be able to read these Iceberg tables by using any other Iceberg-compatible tools and services like AWS Athena.
The source is not open, so not open source. It's as simple as that to me.

That doesn't mean you can't allow the modification of your weights, but a model is not open source because it lets you modify its weights.

If we take the JDK for Java. It is open source, but the actually built JDKs of it are not all free to use or modify. It's quite annoying to build those, patch in source from newer ones into the builds of older ones, cherry pick and all that.

So it enables an economy of vendors that do just that, and people willing to pay for the simple act of building the JDK from its open source.

I'm not even sure it makes sense to license weights, they're not part of any creative process, I don't think weights should even be copyrightable. Weights are part of the product you sell, maybe a EULA applies, terms of use. It's like with video games, you're not always allowed to modify the binary (cheating), and if you do, you break the EULA and are revoked the right to play the game.
It is absurd, but also the miracle of modern wealth is that it's not a zero-sum game.

Even if you are in favor of redistributing wealth or ending extractive institutions, a rising tide raises all boats.
Interesting. Never had such an issue with Google. How do they do it?
This is good. I wish it handled you-singular vs. you-polite-plural though.

It would be nice to say "use a casual tone". Or "the speaker is a woman and the recipient is a man".
Well I don't really agree that quantum computers are useful! Not yet anyway.

But in (most) distributed models of computing, networks of computers share bits back and forth. The quantum distributed models have computers sharing qubits. So this seems to be a practical implementation of a system that could solve certain problems (specifically some graph labelling problems) more efficiently (specifically, in fewer message-passing rounds).

Perhaps you're confusing "internet" (a network of computers) with "world wide web" (a set of linked documents)
Nothing wrong with "anti-trans rhetoric" really. The whole concept of "trans" is based on absolutely ludicrous, sexist and homophobic ideas. It needs significant pushback.

When implemented as policy and law, it's awfully harmful, to women and children especially. The "anti-trans rhetoric" will continue until this cult-like set of beliefs is pushed to the fringes of society and is no longer used to inform policy.
Calling people criminals, dangerous, insinuating they eat house pets, etc, counts.

Just like you don't need to say "I hate women" to be a misogynist, you don't need to say "I hate immigrants" to send that message. You just don't.

Also I don't care about Melania. "I have a black friend" type arguments are shallow and worthless.
Sometimes I forget, sometimes I need to run an errand or take the kids to school or any number of things happen.
I don't think it's dumb, I have been saved from disaster too many times to count, by just waiting a little bit after something new comes out, to see if other people start having problems that might affect me.
a rising tide raises all boats.

The analogy to tides is not apt.
> However, uncovering these inter-correlations analytically is too complex to be achieved analytically.

sigh.. I guess that's cool and all, you're exited about your work, that's great. But can we please polish our prose a little more and stop using buzz words like "groundbreaking", "now.. for the first time", "unprecedented" etc? Such distractions seriously undermine the legibility (and frankly, also taint the credibility by negatively biasing readers) of the claims.
You can calibrate your gut feeling, though. You do it, every day, as you go through life. You get a gut feeling that a specific person might be difficult, and you can override it consciously.

But I often find that the “gut” feeling is more often right, and the unexplainability of it comes from the fact that it takes hundreds of little things into account and models future interaction outcomes and presents the feeling you will have in the end as ”gut feeling”.
Your own black box of neural networks in your gut.
Does this mean it's good or bad? These companies aren't exactly the beacons of innovation.
So, instead of taxing fuel, the tax is at the "electric pump" and no money is saved, and the roads still get beat up?

I think the theme is people are tired of spending an exorbitant amount of money of transportation fuel.
Same, I replaced mine with a Suri a few months ago because while brushing my teeth I can't help thinking about the amount of plastic waste Oral B and regular toothbrushes produce. I love the Suri - https://www.trysuri.com
I think I'd call this destructuring, as opposed to patterns and matches, and Python still does it, just not in the function head.

I do wish they went the opposite direction and made the feature better instead of keeping it as a weird assignment thing in the body. The match statement is a similarly unfortunate solution, in my opinion.

Oh well. :)
For real-time systems, QNX should be compared to FreeRTOS, CMSIS/RTX, VxWorks, or, if you after the new cool stuff, Zephyr, perhaps, but not Linux.
> to shape opinion, promote discord, polarisation etc etc in the next generation of youth is a bad thing

I remain unconvinced that people aren't shaping their own opinions by continuing to pursue similar content to what they typically agree with already. And as we all know, at this current time TikTok's algo is indistinguishable from US competitors in the obvious way it buckets people into like-minded feeds + comments.

At minimum we should be consistent in what we claim is the bad behavior. If the algo is really the problem, start regulating all of them and do it now. To do otherwise is hypocrisy.

> who knows how that might be used in the context of an AI-driven future

I'm not sure we want to legislate and set rules based on a "who knows". If the outcome is bad you need to define that bad outcome.