skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see these comments, and I just completely fail to understand this viewpoint. To me, this argument is kind of like the argument against gay marriage: "I don't want other people to have the option to do something that doesn't affect me at all, because reasons".

Don't like interoperability? Keep using what you're using, and be quiet.

Don't like alternative app stores? Keep using the app store you're using, and be quiet.

Don't like choice? Keep using the thing you were using before you had the option, and be quiet.

None of this is about you, at all.
I worked on this project for a week during the FB team matching process.

I had previous Haskell experience, but what struck me was how irrelevant that was.

To their immense credit, they had managed to use Haskell to write an entirely entreprise focused, "boring" business rule backend serving millions of QPS, and people who were not Haskell fans could easily use its sensible DSL to accomplish their goals.

Way too many Haskell projects are about Haskell itself, so this was really fascinating to see.
Discussion (35 points, 13 days ago, 35 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42367981
>going to end up wading through sea of shitty, malware-ridden third-party bullshit

>the experience for mainline apple consumers will get worse because Apple will need to dedicate engineering resources to interoperability instead of feature development.

I'm skeptical, why would interoperability mean this? Concretely? You are free to buy Apple only, to maintain the first party "luxury" experience. Apple adding dev time to make their APIs interoperable means making them more robust and stops them from cheating in their privacy promises. i.e "No sharing personal data with Big Tech, except Apple."

Also, Apple will add headcount if necessary to deal with EU compliance, they aren't a small startup.
> The EU way of open market through regulations doesn’t seem to make anybody happy.

Makes me, and probably every other EU consumer, super happy.
Very much so - I have a Java application running in Elastic Container Service that takes 35s-40s to start (it's not that heavy but it's running on limited hardware for cost reasons). Any improvement without needing to throw more hardware at it would be very welcome.
"saliency threshold", I like that. Yes, this is it. But what is remarkable is that I can get people to believe my delusional thoughts are true because they are so creative and convincing!
GPT-4 is a good generator of natural language in the same sense that Google is a good generator of ip packets.
I'm sitting here with mac/linux/windows machines, and both iphones/android phones.......

What malware laden third party bullshit are you talking about? The stuff that is approved by Apple to be in the iOS App Store can be pretty heavily ridden with ads - especially the kind that pop open the App Store to show you a page selling their crappy app. But since there's no way to install system-wide app blocker on an iphone you kinda have to deal with it. [

I haven't had to deal with malware on any platform in a very very long time.

It would be nice if I could run proper firefox with proper ublock origin on my iphone though.
These threads are my favorite kind of pedantic :)
They hyped them like crazy and haven't discussed them once since then. I agree that the inability to change the model is pretty absurd when the whole point was to "supercharge" specific tasks.

There was even talk of some sort of profit sharing with creators which clearly never happened. I just think the premise is too confusing for many and can still be served by using a custom system prompt via the API.
Do we know LLMs are the path to AGI? If they're not, we'll just end up with some neat but eye wateringly expensive LLMs.
Rachel has been writing about feed readers a lot on their blog the past year (https://rachelbythebay.com/w/ shows 21 results for "feed reader"), so this is part of a whole narrative.

If you're interested in it, I highly recommend just reading from start to end. It's all quite interesting (including building out a whole test service for feed readers to get scored on their behavior)
There's an extension for deletion:

https://nostr-nips.com/nip-09

And experimental support for editing.

I am personally skeptical of these because once you've probably said something, you can ask people to ignore it but you can never really take it back. Still, there is support and most relays will honor your request.
The thing that is killing us is the same thing that is killing capitalism
How often does this happen? I’ve consulted lawyers for an hour who refused to support my case , and was billed nothing
We also could just measure the background noise of the universe and produce unlimited data.

But just like GPS data it isn't suited for LLMs given that you know it has no relevance what so ever to language.
This probably depends on the label and artist, Spotify is also missing lots of stuff. Just wanted to clarify that YouTube Music is not monetizing on old user uploads. Yes, YouTube still has tons of uploads of varying quality by normal users, but it doesn't really make part of "YouTube Music", sometimes it's rare and obscure stuff like 80s cassette tapes or limited edition records that don't risk any copyright strikes, and I'm happy it's there.
Private data is 90% garbage too
Young Americans Are Marrying Later or Never
I was wondering about this one too...

> At best, they say, Orion performs better than OpenAI’s current offerings, but hasn’t advanced enough to justify the enormous cost of keeping the new model running.

wdym "keep it running"?
I think you're both right and wrong. You're right that capitalism has become a paperclip machine, but capitalism also wants AI so it can cheaply and at scale replace the human components of the machine with something that has more work capacity for fewer demands.
In my non expert opinion, advising people to consume B17 (cyanide after crushing it) and Mistletoe is extremely risky. They should consult a lawyer prior to publishing this. There are several other problems with this article but I do not want to lend credence to it by getting into arguments. I say this as someone that absolutely prefers natural and alternate methods of treatment.
But random expensive electronics like a rando's phone is fine?
Americans are more socially disconnected than ever in my lifetime, and I'm pretty old and have lived all over. There's a well-studied epidemic of loneliness and confusion. So perhaps you could refine your terms.
> GPT-4 would already have qualified as AGI about a decade ago.

Did you just make that up?
Every Friday night, a bunch of us friends (usually men) get together, and have dinner at some local joint.

We actually interact with each other at other times, during the week, but the Friday dinner is kind of special.

I'm fortunate to be involved in an organization that includes a great deal of interaction with others, but I know that the norm for men my age, is sitting on the recliner, remote in hand.
One reason may be that it already works with iOS devices? https://developers.google.com/cast/docs/ios_sender
> What malware laden third party bullshit are you talking about?

None. No malware-laden third-party bullshit, because that's just a straw man. If the GP doesn't want third-party app stores, there's a very simple solution to that: Don't install them on your phone.
Everything you said is parroting data you’ve trained on, two thirds of it is actual copy paste
does this mean apple cannot come up with new features unless they support interoperability? Isn’t that taking away the incentive to innovate?
iPhones are not a luxury good by any means. You can waltz right into an Apple Store TODAY and buy yourself a $429 iPhone SE or a $599 iPhone 14. Boost mobile was giving iPhone 12s away for $99. Virtually every carrier has a free-with 2-3 year commitment deal for the iPhone 16.

I live in the US where iPhones were 61.26% of smartphones sold in the US in the most recent quarter https://www.bankmycell.com/blog/us-smartphone-market-share

If you want to be fancy, get a folding phone like a Galaxy Fold or a Pixel Fold. Those do have steep discounts at times, but you're still going to have to fork up $800-1200 or so for them. Or get one of those niche phones like an Xperia 1 or an Asus ROG phone or whatever that costs >$1000 and isn't subsidized by ANY carrier.
I will start off with an uncommon one: Gambling addiction in kids is through the roof, sports betting, crypto betting, csgo skin betting. These are being openly advertised and we will start seeing the first major push towards stopping some of them.

Some of the owners of the most uncommon Counterstrike skin gambling sites are making about $50 million a month.
OpenAI's Next Big AI Effort, GPT-5, Is Behind Schedule and Crazy Expensive
Smart home category will heat up.
I actually liked bitclout, seemed like it would work really well for artists' fundraising for an album release or a tour etc. featured no-fee "tips" of all sizes right next to the like button and kept users addicted with day trading mechanics tied to artists' popularity. Money flowed freely across borders and moderation was going to be handled by clients.

afaik there was never any rugpull of the base currency, but it turned out to be a platform ideally suited to rugpulling and impersonating celebrities. Plus if you thought drama on Twitter was bad just try pinning your bank balance to individuals' reputations and see how well everyone gets along.
I read this poem once, together with someone in her snowy New Hampshire cabin who I was deeply in love with, and it brought me to tears. It’s so beautiful.
If Norway isn’t in Europe where is it? Asia?
That cost real money and requires literally throwing out the old backup (which may or may not be destroyable). Think optical media and stuff like that.
I guess I disagree that price alone makes something a luxury good. Is a 10 year old Honda civic a luxury good (typically around $10-13k) even though there are probably cheaper and comparable alternatives? I would say no? Not a perfect analog because I do think there is merit in your point that there are “actually cheap” contemporaneously manufactured phones (Samsung etc). but still, maybe it’s just semantic or pedantic but when 1.3b active iPhones are out there, to me that indicates it is something other than luxury and more importantly does cross a threshold where there are real reasons to consider larger anti-consumer patterns, even if the consumer is choosing the more expensive option.

Anyways I don’t feel too strongly about this either way, I just think the argument here that the iPhone is a luxury device doesn’t absolve them. Other arguments I’m more sympathetic to is all.
I would put no money on the latter.
> not a suggestion that the lifting principle is required.

But there is such suggestion. In the quoted part of the book I sent above, Uncle Bob uses the words we need: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42489167

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> This is _simply_ an example

You asked where in the book the idea criticized by GP came from, and I only answered. I'm not trying to argue.

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> What part of that would even suggest that they are indicating the most performant, idealized code?

Nowhere. You're the one who asked for "the cost". I'm not in an argument, I'm only answering your questions.
...and power, backup power, HVAC, physical security...
Which Americans, North or South?
maybe because of brexit. wouldn't justify it. just a wild guess
Nothing? The whole thing is a scam.
I can relate with introductory CS courses. I switched to Statistics after ghe first course is a Java class and prof complained that back in his time no one gave introductory programming classes as they expected the students to self teach.

I kinda agreed with him.
I strongly prefer watching kendo over fencing because of that; the human element in fencing is essentially a technicality as far as I'm concerned as just a guy watching.
> One of the use cases for startup time is AWS lambda and similar.

Agreed - I've got some JVM Lambdas that are quite slow to start (it doesn't take many libraries to make a heavy Lambda).

Someone else mentioned SnapStart which I think came out this year but there are enough caveats that I'm reluctant to try it in anger (big inherited code base that has shoved way too much into Lambda).
You mean Chromecast? Which does work from iPhones?
Better Scala Builds with the Mill Build Tool, Functional Scala Online 2024 [video]
Relevant:

Lehman's Laws of Software Evolution - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lehman%27s_laws_of_software_ev...

Studying the laws of software evolution in a long-lived FLOSS project - https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4375964/
You can do that. But I mean there is literally a spot in the .git directory for the work-in-progress commit message. When you later do git commit -a or whatever, it pulls up the message.
> which is priceless

This also isn't true. It'll clearly have a price to run. Even if it's very intelligent, if the price to run it is too high it'll just be a 24/7 intelligent person that few can afford to talk to. No?
Military propaganda media (like Top Gun and Call of Duty) seems to be a double edged sword for the state, since the people it works the best on are also most susceptible to compromising secrets due to their deep seated insecurities.
Again, Frontier Math is private. Benchmarks leaked to GPT-4 are all public datasets on the internet. Frontier Math literally cannot leak that way.

If you don't want to take the benchmarks at face value then good for you but this entire conversation is pointless.
Sounds more like they were (and still are) being sloppy. “be better” is one thing. “runs without fatal crash” is what semi is talking about.
First, they are not same thing. If they would be same thing, russians could speak or understand Ukrainian language (they can't).

Second - I don't have russian accent. I don't even speak russian. I could agree that it can be 'slavic accent' but why attribute it to russia, majority of which is non-slavic literally Asia?
I don't trust anything from fastmail after they bought pobox and forced me onto their new service which fails at the one thing pobox did well--forwarding email. They also refused to give me a refund (prorated or not) for removing the product I was using and substituting a defective one.
'United Healthcare' using DMCA against Luigi Mangione images
Dare I say it, if you convince 60% of the US to communicate on your platform exclusively, you deserve to be hit hard with an antitrust violation.

IMHO iMessage should be broken off from Apple and they shouldn't be allowed to run a messaging platform like this.
I wonder what would happen if we had a time machine and could bring one of those ancient accountants to the modern age. Maybe in just a couple of weeks they would be able to fill in Excel sheets with ease.
I don’t do it, because I don’t find it valuable. I’m kinda confused at why patent poster wants to do this. Just pointing out that git supports it too.
It technically may work, but does it socially work? I've never heard of anyone using this service. Does it have actual adoption?
It will be the year of the grift.

Musk has already indicated they want to neuter the regulators and implement a proper regulatory environment for crypto. But obviously in a laissez-faire way. So I would expect to see a lot of rug-pulling, insider trading etc.
I also have a fairly complete physical collection but no way to scan it. I also have 10 PDFs from 1984/85 which is probably what you found.

I have 97 of the 106 issues so I'm missing 9: Mar 85, Aug 85, Sep 85, Dec 85, Feb 86, Apr 86, Aug 86, Sep 86, Oct 86. The asterisks are issues I have as PDFs.
There are a number of places where mobile devices have replaced a "general purpose computer" - like replacing your internet connection or local/cloud photo storage.

I guess it depends if you believe that these resources should interoperate when a user is paying for them. e.g., the humane pin makes you get a separate internet connection, and competing cameras devise clunky/slow ways to access your camera roll. Competing photo services have no way to sync iCloud, etc. All of these things could work like Bluetooth - be secure and relatively open, but they are not.
Once in France, a bouncer wouldn't let me in a club because I wasn't dressed properly -- so I was waiting outside while my friend went inside to look for someone.

After about a minute the bouncer asked "English?".

I said "Well I speak english but I'm American, from Tennessee". He immediately smiled broadly and opened the door for me to enter.
Not from Europe, but it reminds me of how Amsterdam has been actively discouraging young men from the UK from visiting because they have a reputation for being rowdy and getting in trouble.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65107405
I wonder how Russian and North Korean citizens would feel about a capitalist, representative democracy?
JRuby is such an exciting technology, but I felt like this article was more focused on JBang and Javalin than JRuby, but I get it, the goal was to make it work in JRuby.

Personally, I've been digging into using JavaFX with JRuby, we'll see how it goes.

https://github.com/jruby/jrubyfx

I think that has the perfect balance between the productivity of Ruby and the benefit of the JVM but allowing me to share standalone portable jar file.
I wouldn't say it "works" very well at all currently. With the large influx of users and the no moderation design is making it an insane target for spam now
Hm...Smalltalk is also safe.

So there are obviously different ways of addressing this.
I've never had brew mess up my system and I've been using it and MacOS for over a decade... How can it mess up your system? I think one time brew itself got wedged on updates and I didn't care to bother to figure out what it was, followed the instructions on how to properly blow it away, and reinstalled with barely a hitch.
Where does "almost unlimited" come into the picture though? I see people talking like AGI will be unlimited when it will be limited by available compute resources, and like I suggested, being 'first' might come at the cost of the war chest you'd need to access those resources.

What does it take to instantiate 1 million agents? Who has that kind of money and hardware? Would they still have it if they burn everything in the tank to be first?
I wasn’t aware of others attempting manifolds for this before - just something I stumbled upon independently. To me the “eerie” part is the thought of an LLM no longer using human language to reason - it’s like something out of a sci fi movie where humans encounter an alien species that thinks in a way that humans cannot even comprehend due to biological limitations.

I am hopeful that progress in mechanistic interpretability will serve as a healthy counterbalance to this approach when it comes to explainability.. though I kinda worry that at a certain point it may be that something resembling a scaling law puts an upper bound on even that.
Related Mill: Better Scala Builds (155 points, 7 years ago, 16 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16775545
Mechanical meters either accurately measure use, run to slow or don't work at all. The worse thing that can happen is that other people indirectly have to pay for the missing killowatts. In contrast there are plenty of stories where people get bills 10-20 times what they are used to.

Any half decent programmer on HN knows what to do when something has almost no chance of happening.

Some of these things display only billable KWH while it isn't so expensive to display current consumption too.

You can also measure it twice so that one can (remotely) see two entirely different readings and replace the meter with one that works properly. It could also display the amount of money owed. (estimate) It would make it slightly more expensive for everyone rather than accidentally billing some people truly crazy amounts.

Just like a bank account can have a configurable limit for withdrawals the smart thing to do is to set a limit per day, week, month and have an alarm go off and/or shut everything down.

Say my monthly bill is 200, I don't want the previous 7 days to exceed 500.

Just a flashing led and a 5000 euro bill isn't smart. Imagine diagnosing a server by how fast the led flashes. Imagine replacing the speedometer in your car with a flashing light. You will know how fast you drove when the fines come in.
Haha. Developer of app is russian. It seems that in best russian imperialistic tradition he thinks that anything repotely Slavic is russian.
For an industry that spun off of a research field that basically revolves around recursive descent in one form or another, there's a pretty silly amount of willful ignorance about the basic principles of how learning and progress happens.

The default assumption should be that this is a local maximum, with evidence required to demonstrate that it's not. But the hype artists want us all to take the inevitability of LLMs for granted—"See the slope? Slopes lead up! All we have to do is climb the slope and we'll get to the moon! If you can't see that you're obviously stupid or have your head in the sand!"
That's quite interesting. In the Red Rising series (a somewhat pulpy future dystopian story) chapter length is used in an entertaining way in one of the books. This is one of those POV character series, and one chapter has a long description of one character's struggles to get to a certain place so that they can ambush another, the resulting ambush, a somewhat detailed description of how he struggles to keep his life, and how that relates to the rest of his objectives. The next chapter is one paragraph from the protagonist of the series - an ubermensch-type fellow that is a journal log or something that goes "Encountered light resistance at $ambush_site". Pretty successful show don't tell there of the skill/strength disparity. The next chapter goes to a different POV. I enjoyed that clever trick with the chapter lengths.
You’re thinking of language in the strictest of sense.

GPS data as it relates to location names, people, cultures, path finding.
> Sliding doors in shops/trains/elevators have been around for ages and they include sensors for resistance

Some of these are pretty crazy too.

Here's a video from 14 years ago where a table saw stops fast enough that it didn't scratch a hotdog: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fq3o0VGUh50

So even if this hypothetical robot had saws for hands it could be mostly safe (in theory).
>Everything you said is parroting data you’ve trained on

"Just like" an LLM, yeah sure...

Like how the brain was "just like" a hydraulic system (early industrial era), like a clockwork with gears and differentiation (mechanical engineering), "just like" an electric circuit (Edison's time), "just like" a computer CPU (21st century), and so on...

You're just assuming what you should prove
SQLite really isn't meant to be used exactly like a hosted solution. I don't know who is advocating for this.

If you are sharing your database between processes or machines, you are probably doing "the fancy new SQLite thing" wrong.

If you need to share information contained in a SQLite database with other processes or machines, you can write application-level code to handle this concern.
Antipsychotics are a real bitch, very frequently embodying the whole cure being worse than the illness paradox. Do you take anything for the bipolar?
Who's going to call them on it if it is?
Dude thanks!
"It is illegal to file DMCA notices if you don’t own the copyright (or at least have a good faith belief that you do). The idea that UHC now owns every depiction of the guy accused of killing their employee is laughably frivolous and one hopes that its legal department understands this and these requests are coming from a third party troll impersonating the carrier."
It will be the year of open source AI due to it being only slightly harder to scale up which gives Meta the chance to meet or beat OpenAI.

XR improves a bit more but headsets will still be expensive.

Large movies and video games that cost above $200 million to make will flop around 75% or more.