skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
About 10 years ago I graduated with a useless degree in mathematics. My dad was homeless in San Diego and I was tired of being unable to help him when he reached out for money for a hotel.

So I enrolled in App Academy. I got a job at Apple and four months later he's killed in a motorcycle accident.

I quit my job, floundered a bit, found sporadic success in startups, had a few breakdowns, spent some time in the hospital, but always went back to work, back to grinding out Python and SQL and other nonsense.

I hate it, to be quite honest. I want off this damn ride. It would probably help if I had family, friends, or mentors to fall back on, but I don't.

So I keep pushing, keep committing, cursing myself out for introducing more bugs, failing to find the spirit to go on fixing things for big mega-corpo customers. And if I stop, I don't have an alternative means of survival.

So it goes.
mac.com.

I have an OG address that was registered about five minutes after Steve introduced the service.

Network Solutions sold it to spammers, and the rest is history.

Also, a couple other of my emails (and phone numbers) are associated with businesses, so are sort of public record (not really, but everyone finds out, anyway).
> HN always says this

The meaning here is different. What I'm saying is that big companies like OpenAI will always strive to make a generic AI, such that anyone can do basically anything using AI. The big companies therefore will indeed (like you say) have a profitable business, but few others will.
> They can't create anything that doesn't already exist.

I probably disagree, but I don't want to criticize my interpretation of this sentence. Can you make your claim more precise?

Here are some possible claims and refutations:

- Claim: An LLM cannot output a true claim that it has not already seen. Refutation: LLMs have been shown to do logical reasoning.

- Claim: An LLM cannot incorporate data that it hasn't been presented with. Refutation: This is an unfair standard. All forms of intelligence have to sense data from the world somehow.
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In what ways would sign language and Braille be helpful? Just to have them at the ready in case I were to lose my ability to hear/see?
You may need to do

podman system reset

The Linux kernel only gained unprivileged overlay recently. Kernel fuse and fuse-overlay are incompatible so you need to wipe everything.

You may need to set

[storage]

driver = "overlay"

in storage conf as well.

https://docs.podman.io/en/stable/markdown/podman-system-rese...
> The audience might not notice, and could (IMHO) easily be duped into supporting good causes!

What a deranged fantasy this is and yet how often it shows up. The audience will notice. Those who don't and eventually discover your duplicity will never forgive you for it. What you propose is disgusting and amoral, as it has no value, and is designed to mollify yourself by bulling people you clearly perceive as being beneath you.
>... Infowars had a supplements business?
Yeah check out an advert for CAVEMAN. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-ZqD9-W1_8 . I used to like Infowars 10+ years ago (I'm from New Zealand) when the site was a news aggregate site so you could read the sources. Now that it is him just talking I don't visit the site that often. I remember walking around in a small township in Norway (just under 10,000 people) and seeing a Infowars sticker on a road light. So yeah he used to have massive reach, I don't know if he still does.
Chrysanthemum is also my go to. That or “You’re in a desert. You’re walking along in the sand when all of a sudden.. you look down and see a tortoise..”
It worked in pdp-11 version of pascal, long before turbo pascal.
"Idiomatic" doesn't mean "good". It means the normal way within the language. Personally after using both languages like Python with "truthiness" and languages that rigidly require all if clauses to evaluate to a boolean, rigidly and directly, I say the latter is unambiguously superior in practice. The former leads to surprises, sometimes even creating security vulnerabilities when a user can wedge an unexpected value into an if statement somehow.

It has unambiguously been idiomatic Python since the beginning. My opinion is that it is bad, but that's much more an opinion than the fact it has been idiomatic. And to Python's credit, part of the reason why I am so sure it's bad is precisely the experience I gained in Python using it. At the time Python was implementing the principle, I don't think the general experience of the programming language community was strong enough to know that it was a bad idea.

Python's guiding principle right now seems to be the same guiding principle as almost every other language, "let's solve as many problems as possible by adding features to the language". If a year goes by without at least one major new feature, the language must be "dead" or "failing". As the years wear on and so many languages have piled up so many features, I wonder when people will finally look around and realize that all these features, for all their superficial appeal in the small scale, are not generally helping them write better programs, or write programs they couldn't have written before, and often harm their programs on larger scales. There are exceptions. I have a hard time imagining any modern language without some concept of closures, for instance. I could name a few more; some sort of easy polymorphism (there's a few ways to get there but you need to take at least one of them... but preferably not all of them...), some sort of concurrency solution in this era, solutions for memory safety (again, multiple solutions, but you need at least one of them). But so many of these features are, in my opinion, not a net positive, their benefits far smaller than meets the eye and the costs so much greater.
People go and live in a house to get recorded 24/7, to be on tv, for far more asnine situations, for way less money.
I would like to second this. I tried a number of options with my grandpa and they always failed for one reason or another.

If anyone has a solution in this space, I would be very interested.
> They've simply run out of data

Why do you think "they" have run out of data? First, to be clear, who do you mean by "they"? The world is filled with information sources (data aggregators for example), each available to some degree for some cost.

Don't forget to include data that humans provide while interacting with chatbots.
You seem to dislike powerful rich men. It comes thru loud and clear in all your posts.

The sum total of your last post can be summarized as: "They both lost Lawfare Fair and Square, because the system works how it works, and their lawyers failed, and thus they probably deserved to lose, especially because of their wealth and fame, making them probably bad people."

I disagree.

The biggest weakness in our Legal system is that people who think exactly like you do get themselves onto Juries, by saying all the right words, and appearing unbiased when you're absolutely not.
> hallucinates a lot less in science topics

Extremely dangerous for that one detail you will not expect also since hallucination becomes more rare; extremely dangerous in the hands of practitioners non paranoid in front of hallucination.

(Incidentally: apparently, somebody recently lost a house after having some chatbot write the contract. This is indicative of the possible level of carelessness of users.

Edit: I am trying to find that piece of news, but it seems non trivial. Maybe the original reference itself, which reported the news, was victim of hallucination? Meanwhile, I have found this noteworthy piece: firm allows people to have contractual terms presented by chatbot, which presents hallucinated terms, and loses legal action - https://mashable.com/article/air-canada-forced-to-refund-aft... )
Or they become the Webvan/pets.com of the bubble.
Does YouTube recompress older videos?
That's not always an accepted payment method.
I am proponent of Clean and Simple architecture that follows standard patterns.

because they are easier to maintain, there should be no clever tricks or arch.

all software arch should be boring and simple, with as few tricks as possible, unless it is absolutely warranted
> Or Huey Lewis and the News entire catalog?

Under no circumstances can "power of love" be a bad song
As a daily driver of a car, I don't need to know how it works. I know how to _use_ it - get in, turn it on, drive.

Who cares if it's electric or ICE, how combustion or regenerative breaking works, why you need to balance tires, how to change brake pads etc. I take it to the mechanic (IT Department) and they do magic, then give it back to me.

Same for computers. Why does the user need to know about USB 2 vs 3, memory, disk space, multi-threading, ad blockers, etc. Turn it on, use it, and send it out to be fixed when it doesn't work.
Thanks. It reminds me of that event
I first heard this song a few month ago in a Japanese mall. It fit quite well I have to say.
Tether Moves into Tokenizing Stocks and Bonds
Why would you think I don't know how it works? Because I'm calling it a gambling machine and not hyping it up as a prediction market? Is it somehow different from all of the new sports betting sites that have wreaked havoc through the sports industry in a very short span of time? Don't fall for their dumb marketing, it's letting them spread poison.
I even felt that way reading The Onion's article about this and then listening to Alex Jones' rant on Xitter. They sounded like they came from the same writer.
Are you suggesting that everything Alex Jones says is supposed to be funny? And we all just don't get the joke?
This this the point!

LLMs have this unique capability. Yet, every AI company seems hell bent on making them... not have that.

I want the essence of this unique aspect, but better, not this unique aspect diluted with other aspects such as the pure logical perfection of ordinary computer software. I already have that!

The problem with every extant AI company is that they're trying to make finished, integrated products instead of a component.

It's as-if you just wanted a database engine and every database vendor insisted on selling you a shopfront web app that also happens to include a database in there somewhere.
There have been variations of this story going back several months now. It isn't really news. It is just building slowly.
> If they randomly asked about something I have not looked at in a long a while, it could actually look like I don't know it!

Typically the interviewer asks: "Tell me about something you worked on in this list of stuff you provided."

An interview isn't designed to trick you into failing random questions. It's to find out what you care about. You choose what to talk about. :-)

At least, that's how I engage in conversations. I want you to decide what you want to talk about so that I can get to know you.
There is also concern in Eve about fraud and cheating, and not just between players. Individual devs have put their fingers on the scale before and something like a blockchain could make it visible.
I don't think the causation runs either direction. At most, I'd say that a site like InfoWars reflects the division, rather than either causing it or being caused by it.

Divisiveness in the US goes much deeper than that, and long predates both the Internet and that kind of radio program. You could perhaps pick the early 70s as a starting point, with the US deeply divided by Vietnam and Civil Rights, at exactly the same time as real government conspiracies (Watergate, COINTELPRO, MKUltra) came to light.

I'd actually trace it back further than that, through McCarthyism, the Civil War, and back before the Revolution. But there's a fairly direct course between the divisiveness of the 1960s and where we end up today.

I really don't think it would have helped anything to ignore Alex Jones.
Tax strategy is so integral to large corporations' business strategy that "tax strategy ≈ business strategy" is basically a true statement for them.
Probably not, but it's still not 0
Related. Others?

SqueakJS – A Squeak VM in JavaScript - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29018465 - Oct 2021 (24 comments)

SqueakJS – A Squeak VM in JavaScript - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8982251 - Feb 2015 (10 comments)
It depends. If the courts went through the regular processes and he did nothing but defy them, you could argue that on top of the money, he should have been in jail by now.
Then make a full argument, not just implying that "making money from dead school shooting victims" is somehow immoral. Every newspaper does just that! Very low quality comment, not worthy of HN (but of course useful for woke virtue signalling about "how bad is Alex Jones").
Call me old-fashioned, but I don't want browsers to alter the files I've downloaded after I downloaded them. Chrome gives absolutely no indication that it can still access the files I've "saved".
Actually, Moore's Law has been dead for quite a few years now. Since we hit the power wall.
Unfortunately I “think different” and use Windows. I use Microsoft Copilot and would say it is qualitatively similar to codeium in quality, a real quantitative eval would be a lot of work.
I agree, that is slower than the internet connection at my house, which could just host a few TB of spinning rust attached via USB faster.

Before I moved to backblaze I was half seriously lining up a few friends to share a similar setup that would self replicate between our houses and provide a simple restic interface.

Besides, they do charge for egress over a certain threshold so it seems they are also capping how much they can make from some customers. I get that there are probably a few problematic ones, but it seems that the business should be able to figure which ones are causing problems and solve it that way, rather than punishing the smaller customers using them as a storage depot. Customers whichh go years with a low level of upload+transactions under the theory that should the need arise the entire repo can be pulled back down at a few hundred MB/sec in a manner of hours.
>MY PROOF: There's countless, easy to find, Youtube montages of CNN/MSM news anchors spouting the Nazi/Fascism accusation at the MAGA movement.

How easy? "cnn calls conservatives nazis" doesn't really return the results you're suggesting should be there[1].

>If you try to expand my words to mean something else, just so you can disprove that something else, that's called straw-manning.

Relax, nobody is doing that. I asked for proof, you gave me conjecture instead. Simple as that lol.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=cnn+calls+conse...
I think this needs more explanation to know if this is a good argument or not.
When my wife had our children, she (and I) were handed them, stuck in a room, then distrurbed for tests and briefings every 90 minutes for 3 days.

How anyone can recover from something as savage as childbirth is beyond me. It is no small miracle that she was able to walk, let alone care for two new babies and herself (with my help, but there's only so much I can do to assist with breastfeeding or healing of major trauma).

At one point I asked all the nurses to leave and not come back for 6 hours in very angry tones.
Strongly implied but not explicitly stated in here - all these LLMs were able to consistently generate legal moves? All the way to the end of a game?

Seems noteworthy enough in itself, before we discuss their performance as chess players.
InspectMind AI (YC W24) Is Hiring for AI in Construction
I don't think that HBD claims -- at least, those made in reasonably good faith -- are based on genetic determinism. A Bosnian guy from the Dinaric alps is much more likely to be >1.8m in stature than a Pygmy. This is not predetermined as such, it's just that one population has something like +3SD in stature over the other. (An admittedly wildly extreme example!)

Differences in IQ between groups are apparently far more modest, but, however distasteful, it's still possible to speak of them, and it's possible to make statistical statements about them. My position is simply that, on the one side, it should be done in good faith -- and, on the other side, it shouldn't be seen as something heretical.
We Built This City is fun forgettable pop music. Shiny Happy People was wretched from day one. Fight me.
yep, or even just a text model

ChatGPT 01-preview gave me:

User: what is the Math squiggle that looks like a cursive p?

Assistant: The mathematical symbol you’re referring to is likely the Weierstrass \wp function symbol, which resembles a cursive or script “p”:
There are some funny comments that use that term. This one’s my favorite. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25721837
Cursor (cursor.com) is just a vscode wrapper, should work fine with Windows. If you're already in the AI coding space I seriously urge you to at least give it a go.
This is actually a beautiful idea. It'd definitely be possible for music purchased through bandcamp since lossless is generally available for most releases. Commenting to bookmark this.
Personally I am convinced LLMs do have real understanding, because they seem to respond in interesting and thoughtfull ways to anything I care to talk to them about, well outside of any topic I would expect to be captured statistically! (Indeed, I often find it easier to get LLMs to understand me than many humans. :-)

There's also stuff like the Golden Gate Claude experiment and research @repligate shares on twitter, which again make me think understanding (as I conceive of it) is definitely there.

Now, are the conscious, feeling entities? That is a harder question to answer...
The FBI doesn't raid Amish farms for selling unpasteurized milk - that was the state of Pennsylvania's Department of Agriculture. The FBI only investigates federal crimes, and selling unpasteurized milk is not a federal crime. If the Amish voted for Trump believing that Trump could change the regulations of the state's Agriculture Department, then they're as poorly educated as they're believed to be.

The reason crypto is being regulated so much is multi-fold. One, people are getting scammed left and right. Two, crypto is really a debunked 19th century financial artefact masquerading as being "new" and "modern."

With regards to AI, let me ask you this - would you consider Trump and his sycophants to be the "wrong hands?" They're the people wielding the power and calling the shots now. What's to stop them from using the AI that they could make only available to them and using it to retain their own power?

As far as Trump "changing the game", that is true: he's putting know-nothings in position of considerable power. Trump has no idea how the government works, what it does, and how it does it, and you can bet your bottom dollar neither do the morons receiving appointments. Heck, Trump has no idea how a business works and how to run it successfully for the long term! The government will be destroyed due to their incompetence and arrogance. People will think that's great until it dawns on them what that really means. The states are woefully unprepared to take on the functions the federal government provides.

The upshot is China will be poised to take over the world's thought leadership. Maybe your startup could help us learn Mandarin?

Sorry to burst your utopian bubble but the real world we're actually building is distinctly dystopian in nature. Let me know how your tech startup is going to change that and how you think they're going to allow it to thrive.
My first thought on seeing this title was, "this should totally be the name of a programming language descended from Go"
I never stated that. But there is a notable cultural difference between Europe and US.

This goes also further: Many offices which are elected in the US are appointed in Europe (I'm not aware of a European country where population elects state/district attorneys, sheriffs, judges, school boards, etc)
Stepping through code and adding breakpoints is a spectacular way to figure out where to put log statements. Modern code is so abstract that it’s nigh impossible to figure out what the fuck function even gets called just from looking at code.
Spam is already at the level of changing people's default behavior from answering calls that come in to (as I saw described abt younger mobile users) "would rather pick up a live hand grenade than an unknown caller"

Personally, my default was to pick up and is now if recognized contact pickup, if not and I'm expecting an unknown call, scrutinize, then if pickup, only answer with a cough or two — never "hello" or "yes" due to threat of voice cloning escalate to banks.

Spam is universally detested

My assessment is that voice calls are on the verge of going obsolete if the telcos fail to get a handle on spam. Yet the telcos behave as if they have no clue whatsoever and DGAF.
ChatGPT doesn't imagine running code, it actually runs the code, you can see the code it write and some of the output of what it runs, you can see it in the interface screenshoted in the article.
I vastly prefer it to Docker, especially buildah over buildx. Instead of inventing yet-another-dsl buildah allows you to simply use shell scripts (though it does also support dockerfiles). Another thing buildah is really good at is not doing much automatically: you can really optimize layers if you care to.

The Podman ecosystem has given me a strong disliking of the Docker ecosystem, so I'm also rooting for it.
Wait. When I first saw this news on Twitter I thought it was a joke, since it was a tweet by The Onion.
Towards the end of the blog post the author explains that he constrained the generation to only tokens that would be legal. For the OpenAI models he generated up to 10 different outputs until he got one that was legal, or just randomly chose a move if it failed.
Don't see where your parent comment said or implied that the point was for being and life to emerge.
It means that's a really high bar for intelligence, human or otherwise. If AGI is "as good as a human, and the test is a trick task that most humans would fail at (especially considering the weasel requirement that it additionally has to be faster), why is that considered a reasonable bar for human-grade intelligence.
I don't understand the alternative interpretation you're alluding to. Stipulate the validity of IQ or the common g. If group variations in these metrics aren't caused by genes, why are they distasteful? If they are, you're describing genetic determinism, which, again, is orthogonal to heritability.
>But industries want something more concrete and prospectively-acheivable in their jargon, and so that's where AGI gets redefined as wide task suitability.

The term itself (AGI) in the industry has always been about wide task suitability. People may have added their ifs and buts over the years but that aspect of it never got 'redefined'. The earliest uses of the term all talk about how well a machine would be able to perform some set number of tasks at some threshold.

It's no wonder why. Terms like "consciousness" and "self-awareness" are completely useless. It's not about difficulty. It's that you can't do anything at all with those terms except argue around in circles.
Not any more, no, the last open-pit mine at Ffos-y-fran closed in 2023.

There was permission granted a few years ago to build a new metallurgical deep shaft mine in the lake district, but I guess this quashes that.
Anyone knows if there's a chance that the color of your eyes affects how well this feature works?
This mirrors my experience as well. It's so weird. Give us a break!!
Guaranteed Fastest Way to Fix Bugs
I ran into a situation at work today that prompted me to write up a lesson I've learned over my past 20+ years of working in the field. In my experience, both software developers and software testers often don't think about this.
This is great, thank you! Would be even better if it had a little "click here to hear it said out loud" button.
Tiny Tim's "Tiptoe through the tulips" beats that by a country mile. Watch it on youtube and be horrified.
That’s what I get right now