skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There is a very pervasive expectation that LLM's will continue to improve, and it seems odd to suggest otherwise. There is hundreds of billions of dollars being spent on AI training and that number is increasing each year.

It isn't odd at all. In the early 21st century there were expectations of ever, exponentially increasing processing power. This misconception partially gave us the game Crysis, which, if I'm not mistaken, was written with wildly optimistic assumptions about the growing power of computer hardware.

People are horrible at predicting the future of technology (beyond meaninglesslessly or trivially broad generalizations) and even when predictions turn out to be correct, they're often correct for the wrong reasons. If we were better at it, even in the shortest term, where such predictions should be the easiest, we'd all be megamillionaires, because we'd have seen the writing on the wall and invested in Nvidia before the AI craze reached its current fever pitch.
>You have to keep accounts if a business even if not incorporated

Indeed, so this cost is not relevant to the decision to set up a CIC or not
The absolute state of Go dragging down the entire gRPC stack with it. Oh well, at least we have quite a few competent replacements nowadays.
My dad is an atheist but he believes in that. He hates seeing other people happy
I recall some laws in the US (or california?) were based on the size of the company (in revenue $$)

Too bad this isn't the case here.
The AI safety team was really proud of that one.
There is a lot of upside of inviting CCP into your home, for instance...
That's more like V2L, not V2H.
The author of the article is a published author who writes about poverty and addiction - he links to a good excerpt from his book in the Guardian, which might better establish his bonafides for these kinds of claims: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/05/america-dign...
Amazon aware of warehouse injury risk, report finds
Meanwhile YouTube shorts comes preloaded in every android device and can be used by children. With their "lawful" trashy/disturbing content and recommendation algorithm
No drama from my PoV - it's easy to get magnitudes etc. wrong and these are large numbers.

I haven't checked against the GeoPhys journals (I should, but ...), FWiW wikipedia has it that:

In October 2023 the average level of CO2 in Earth's atmosphere, adjusted for seasonal variation, was 422.17 parts per million by volume (ppm).

Each part per million of CO2 in the atmosphere represents approximately 2.13 gigatonnes of carbon, or 7.82 gigatonnes of CO2.

where gigatonne == (US) billion tonne

~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide_in_Earth%27s_at...

That's total, not just the excess portion added in by human activity and sourced from the bowels of the earth via mining for concentrated old sunlight energy.

Still, despite the fractional ppm composition that's a full atmospheric total of 3,301 billion tonne.

Here in W.Australia we move approx one billion tonne of iron ore from the Pilbara to (mostly) China per year. That takes some effort and energy.
Apparently not gambling though, because the gambling lobby has greased the correct pockets.
> The real mark of a non-trivial program is that it doesn't work on the first try.

not true.
It's no surprise that the Washington Post is capitalizing on domestic terrorism for issues that it approves of.

The single reason that it is able to do this is that these outlets were not held to legal account for doing the same thing surrounding George Floyd.

At least they aren't allowing their January 6th rhetoric to cloud their journalistic vision.

There is no "anger at US Health insurers" that is new. Or is otherwise beyond the anger at the way the system is forced to balance itself in any other arena in which fees, costs, and profit are always in relative flux and people can't get it all.

The only novelty in this anger is that someone was murdered and now the Washington Post has declared the murderers issue to be sanctified. Which is exactly what you aren't supposed to do, or at least when you aren't supposed to do it, when you don't want to be seen to be supporting domestic terrorism.

The insurance industry sucks, but it sucks by its nature. Its not "broken" nor widely exploited except in the notion that its existence is a corrupt economic act.

But its current detractors wouldn't dare be rid of it. Oh no, it isn't that bad. And yet, we are in another period of being harangued with direct and indirect sympathies for murder.
Have you experimented with Edwin?

Edwin is a clone of GNU Emacs version 18 written in MIT Scheme.

https://www.gnu.org/software/mit-scheme/documentation/stable...
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Bellingcat Open Source Challenge
Are you sure? The brain plays a huge part in nausea.
> Would be interesting to see what kinds of results it might produce in practice.

I would not be surprised to see that the LLM generating SVG does a UNO reverse, and makes use of little colored squares in a grid to draw a “vector image” where each of the squares represents individual pixels :p
>PS: anything you write on HN can already have been written by AI

Yeah in some broad sense, the same as we've always had: back in the 2010s it could have been generated by a Markov chain, after all. The only difference now is that the average quality of these LLMs is much, much higher. But the distribution of their responses is still not on par with what I'd consider a good response, and so I hunt out real people to listen to. This is especially important because LLMs are still not capable of doing what I care most about: giving me novel data and insights about the real world, coming from the day to day lived experience of people like me.

HN might die but real people will still write blogs, and real people will seek them out for so long as humans are still economically relevant.
Wendy, the bully whippet, would like a word:

https://www.timescolonist.com/local-news/wendy-the-whippet-f...
The numbers are irrelevant for counting time though. It could just as well be A B C D rather than 1 2 3 4. In fact, tabla drummers use words/syllables instead of "counting". Counting measures is completely different as in that case, you're actually measuring something. Counting time is more declarative than measuring imo. Especially when you consider notes between the beats. It's not 1.75, its one-e-and. It's not 2.5, it's 2-and.
This is the kind of people we need to reboot our industrial civilization after the nuclear war. Send him to our New Zealand doomsday bunker.
> According to global Win-Gallup International studies, 13% of respondents were "convinced atheists" in 2012, 11% were "convinced atheists" in 2015, and in 2017, 9% were "convinced atheists". However, other earlier global studies have indicated that global atheism may be in decline due to irreligious countries having the lowest birth rates in the world and religious countries having higher birth rates in general.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_atheism#:~:t....
If you can't even believe that kludgy-shit exists out there in the world, then it sounds like you've led a sheltered existence climbing within a very large engineering department of a well-funded company.

Do you perhaps have any friends at companies which hired overseas contractors? Or system-admins working at smaller companies or nonprofits? They're more-likely to have fun stories. I myself remember a university department with a master all_students.xls file on a shared drive (with way too many columns and macros in it) that had to be periodically restored from snapshots every time it got corrupted...
Amazon Disregarded Internal Warnings on Injuries, Senate Investigation Claims
Ah. I thought you had a beef with the dead.

Ok. I can respect that.

It is just that as I was thinking the dead was the target, it would be better to make sure you get whatever retribution while he is alive.
Sometimes we do exactly that. In general, if someone is trying to kill you, you are allowed to try and kill them right back. It's self-defense.

If you're talking about legalizing vigilantism, you would then have to argue that this is a better system and less prone to abuse than some variant of the existing law enforcement apparatus. Which, if you could do it, would imply that we actually should do that. But in general vigilantes have serious problems with accurately identifying targets and collateral damage.
It looks much better than Sora but still kind of in uncanny valley
this is perfect for the landing page of any website I make

my templates all are waiting for stock videos to be added looping in the background

you have no idea how cool I am with the lack of copyright protections afforded to these videos I will generate, I'm making my money other ways
Drank a lot of absinthe on nye once. I REALLY like the taste. If you like black licorice then absinthe is for you.

Probably placebo: i felt like my head was in the same place but my body was upside down.

This went on for less than a half hour. After initially noticing this felt completely normal. Never brought this up online but never met anyone irl who experienced this from normal boozing.

Sometimes we still get it and i drink it watered down bc its just so dang tasty.
Every company that builds software has dozens of things they want but can't prioritize because they're too busy building other things.

It's not about a discrete product or project, but continuous improvement upon that which already exists is what makes up most of the volume of "what would happen if we had more people".
It doesn't matter.. Until it does.

Having poor quality code makes refactoring for new features harder, it increases the time to ship and means bugs are harder to fix without side effects.

It also means changes have more side effects and are more likely to contain bugs.

For an MVP or a startup just running off seed funding? Go ham with LLMs and get something in front of your customers, but then when more money is available you need to prioritise making that early code better.
Yup, agree:

> The point isn't just to evade being blown up

Should have read "The point isn't always..."
Thank you, that term always escapes me!
I think that generally refactoring attempts have either failed or simply ended up bolting a bypass on the side that only helps somewhat, and most of the rest of the articles on the same site as the submission we're discussing contain at least one example thereof.

Nonetheless, I largely agree with your metaphor(s) as a projection of how a bunch of things are depressingly likely to go wrong in the short term.
I don't think that is the connection here, but being pro-Israel is a good way to get featured in TFP; the editor is an avowed Zionist.
If you say so?

shrug
Our company went through piles of candidates who were not qualified and it took us months to find a good fit after going through hundreds of resumes and scores of interviews.

Except you don't always simply know they weren't qualified. Only that they didn't pass your filter.

I know, I know: In many cases, it's reasonably clear the candidate simply isn't even ballpark qualified. But when we get to "maybe" territory, the recall-precision gap, and hence room for false negatives, is also quite large.
>In 2000 Intel had a huge software moat

"had". That's what helped prop up their monopoly but it didn't last. These days if can't run your software on another architecture, like ARM, you can run at least on AMD. AMD can basically run the same software as Intel. This isn't the situation for NVIDIA vs everyone else, so far.
SD will also generate what I tell it, unlike the corporate models that have all kinds of “safeguards”.
I'd typify Mezcal more as "basically old band-aids and burned tires". I'm not saying this isn't a complement. But "aged and smokey" might be an almost criminally inaccurate description of Mezcal to a lay-peson
This is beautiful!

I've been using an Apple Watch Ultra with my Pixel using some of the same hacks.

0. I use messaging apps like WhatsApp, and Messenger which are multi device. So I log into them on the home iPhone. (WA finally added 'login as companion device' on iOS only a year ago).
1. Pushover to get notifications from any other apps that don't support multi device. (Signal ugh). I used Buzzkill to do the pushing from the android devices. Very reliable once set up.
2. I use Google Voice for my calls and SMS so that was easy to get on iPhone. (No calls though. The watch doesn't support sip/voip calls except Apple's own FaceTime ugh)
3. I spent a year doing cellular on Watch. I joined various family members' premium plans of the big 3 US networks (as well asany MVNOs like Visible) to use cellular on the watch. I paid ~$10/mo via this route. All good.
But I stopped early this year because I found the cellular reliability to be just... piss poor garbage. (This is extensive use across US as well as international travel in Europe and Asia)
It really wasn't worth cellular I realized.

4. I use Apple laptops, so the "watch to unlock" feature is useful multiple times a day :)
It must right? (even if very slightly), otherwise it'd be in violation of Newton's 3rd law of motion.
odd to publish such an article with so many undefended opinions.

for instance, that low-boilerplate is somehow worse than high-boilerplate languages because the boilerplate somehow builds character ("teaches important lessons ... from the start"). this insipidly assumes boilerplate is necessary for encapsulation and modularity. yes, the directness of Python does make it better than Java.

similarly, there seems to be a peculiar theory of learning here: both that learning many languages is a goal, and that you should Do It Right from the start. suppose the goal is to learn concepts, and it's perfectly fine to iteratively use a single language, starting with a simple subset.
https://archive.is/RGEJS
LLMs are tools, learn how to use them. You'll be more productive once you learn how to properly incorporate LLMs into your workflow, and maybe come up with some ideas to solve software problems with them along the way.

I wouldn't worry about being replaced by an LLM, I'd worry about falling behind and being replaced by a human augmented with an LLM.
Hopefully the new law is enforced sensibly, i.e., with much leniency given to smaller defendants, but hoping for that to be the case is a terrible strategy. The risk is certainly not zero as you claim -- all it takes is for one high-profile case of leniency resulting in some terrible outcome (e.g., child abuse) getting into the news, and the government employees responsible for enforcement will snap to a policy of zero-tolerance.

> provided you can demonstrate you're taking whatever measures are recommended by Ofcom

That level of moderation might not be remotely feasible for a sole operator. And yes, there's a legitimate social question here: Should we as a society permit sites/forums that cannot be moderated to that extent? But the point I'm trying to make is not whether the answer to that question is yes or no, it's that the consequences of this Act are that no sensible individual person or small group will now undertake the risk of running such a site.
It's astounding that basically every response you give is just "it can't happen to me". The actual answer to the OP's question for you is a resounding: "nothing".
I've had the most success with numbers from hushed.com. Google Voice usually works but not as reliably in my experience.
Elon Musk moved from South Africa to New Jersey to California to Texas because he wasn't getting the government that he wants.
Directionally, I think that's certainly true for some professions. It is probably the case that it isn't true for software engineering. The biggest reason involves how software, as a business, involves a ton of problem space exploration and experimentation. Most businesses have an infinite appetite for software; there's always another idea, another feature they can sell, another expectation, another bug we can fix, or a performance problem to improve.

Tooling improvements leading to productivity boons ain't a new concept in software engineering. We don't code in assembly anymore, because writing JavaScript is more efficient. In fact, think on this: Which would you grade as a higher productivity boon, as a percentage: Using JavaScript over Assembly, or using AI to write JavaScript over hand-writing it?

Followup: If JavaScript was such a 10,000% productivity boon over assembly, to AI's paltry 40-45%: Why aren't we worried when new programming languages drop? I don't shiver in my boots when AWS announces a new service, or when Vercel drops a new open source framework.

At the end of the day: there's an infinite appetite for software, and someone has to wire it all up. AI is, itself, software. One thing all engineers should know by now is: Introducing new software only increases the need for the magicians who wrangle it, and AI is as subject to that law as JavaScript, the next expensive AWS service, or next useless Vercel open source project.
I can fully appreciate the amount of skill involved here. I'm currently on a journey to make a clock from scratch using traditional clockmaker's methods. I started from pretty much zero knowledge of even basic machining, let alone specific clock and watch work. I'm a couple years in now (working in my spare time between work and family obligations), and I can repair most types of issues with clocks and many watches. But I'm not quite tooled up and practiced in making the gears yet. That's the most major stumbling block currently to my ability to make a traditional clock completely from scratch.
why would an action space be more reliable than screenshots + html, this i don't get. I can think of many use cases it would fail
A few comments:

1. It’s not very fun on iOS, especially because crypto mining makes the screen zoom in and it’s no good. Also the sound for the phone doesn’t work so that’s a big blocker. You probably know already.

2. Later, playing again on PC, I fist pumped when I finally was able to pay my ISP and the network clicked on. It felt like I defeated some boss in Dark Souls. You made that feel so horrible … thank you.

3. I sent this to a friend and he said that the browser was requesting microphone permissions so he turned it off. I didn’t encounter this but I’m wondering what that was?

Anyway I don’t know if I’ll continue to play and try to pony up the six thousand dollars I need to pay my rent and open the door to the endless staircase, but good job anyway :)
You can run in host network mode to avoid that.
Clever marketing by the funeral services industry.

And no, I don't want my last act on Earth to be
inconveniencing people.
This.

When this moment becomes reality - the world economy will change a lot, all jobs and markets will shift.

And there won’t be any way to future proof your skills and they all will be irrelevant.

Right now many like to say “learn how to work with ai, it will be valuable “ . No, it won’t. Because even now it is absolutely easy to work with it, any developer can pick up ai in a week, and it will become easier and easier.

A better time spent is developing evergreen skills.
> When you consider LLMs to be building blocks in bigger, more complex systems, their potential increases dramatically.

Do you have any examples of where/how that would work? It has seemed for me like lot of the hype is "they'll be good" with no further explanation.
Twice as long in practice. But that still only gets you 2 days or so.
>> reviews are easier to find than ever

Nowadays reviews are just a paid marketing. Try to find a true review for a new car. Impossible! Everyone will talk about their feelings, not about the car.

Many even not opening the hood to check the motor. Suspension? No info. I'm interested in how complex is the maintenance, how comfortable is everyday trip. Real gas mileage, etc.
Why are gas-guzzling trucks exempt from fuel standards? (Genuine question)
Ask HN: Why do laptop chargers have data wires?
Chargers should only charge, there shouldn't be any data transfer.
When it comes to security, we should not give something more privileges than it requires to do its job.
Why do laptop chargers have data wires?

Maybe you have heard of usb condoms? It's a usb-c to usb or vice versa adapter where you modify it by removing the data wires which are on the sides. Then there is only power. Why don't the charger manufacturers do this themselves and remove the data wires if there is no purpose for them? It creates an unnecessary security risk by having the data wires.

What are your opinions on this? How do you approach this security threat? Or do you not do anything about it at all?
The benefit of docker for home assistant is the packaging of it, rather than isolation. You can always run a container with host network mode and privileged mode so that it can access everything it needs to the same as if it were running directly on the host.
The funny thing about 3D printers is that they're making a bit of a comeback. The early ones managed to get the capabilities right - you can print some really impressive things on the older Creality printers, but it required fiddling, several hours of building the bloody things, cogged extruders, manual bed leveling and all sorts of technical hurdles. A very motivated techy person will persevere and solve them, and will be rewarded with a very useful machine. The other 99.99% of people won't and will either drop it the moment there's an issue or will hear from others that they require a lot of fiddling and never buy one. If things ever get more complicated than "I see it on a website and I click a few buttons" (incl maintenance) then it's too complicated to gain mass adoption... which is exactly what newer 3D printers are doing - the Bambulabs A1 Mini is £170, prints like a champ, is fairly quiet, requires next to no setup, takes up way less space than the old Enders and needs almost no maintenance. It's almost grandma-proof. Oh, and to further entice your grandma to print, it comes with all sorts of useful knick-knacks that you can start printing immediately after setup. On the hype cycle curve I think 3D printers are almost out of their slump now that we have models that have ironed out the kinks.

But for VR I think we're still closer to the bottom of the curve - Meta and Valve need something to really sell the technology. The gamble for Valve was that it'd be Half Life: Alyx, and for Meta it was portable VR but the former is too techy to set up (and Half Life is already a nerdy IP) while Meta just doesn't have anything that can convince the average person to get a headset (despite me thinking it's a good value just as a Beat Saber machine). But they're getting there - I've convinced a few friends to get a Quest 3S just to practice piano with Virtuoso and I think it's those kinds of apps I hope we see more of that will bring VR out of the slump.

And then LLMs I think their hype cycle is a lot more elevated since even regular people use them extensively now. There will probably be a crash in terms of experimentation with them but I don't see people stopping their usage and I do see them becoming a lot more useful in the long term - how and when is difficult to predict at the top of the hype curve.
It was really not a great phone. It was a really quirky combo of an organiser and a phone that didn't have much of a coupling between them. The keyboard was heavy to press and useless to type more than a line or two.

It was really the worst of both worlds.
I wonder why everyone on here isn’t saying “copyright is stupid”. You know it grants a monopoly?