skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not even related to tech or field maturity.

Web apps are complex beasts. A junior architect cannot design a safe and maintainable skyscraper (hell, they probably can't even design a proper two-story home without making mistakes) and architecture as a discipline has been with us for centuries.

A modern, new product is even harder because it's often uncharted territory (it's almost a miracle we can build them) not because of the maturity of the field but rather because if you're building an app instead of deploying an off-the-shelf solution it's because you need to explore the trail... If you want tried and tested just deploy WooCommerce or whatevs in a plain-old web hosting!

Designing something completely new is, by definition, off-limits for a junior in any field.

This guy's been building bunkers and dams for years and somehow expects to transfer his knowledge to design a skyscraper? Would he expect a webdev to be able to design and build a brand-new LLM and deploy it in a scalable fashion from scratch?

I understand the desire, but it's unrealistic, especially considering the ever-growing affordances that an app is expected to have in 2025.
And assuming the xAI stock they traded their X stock for is worth anything.
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The assertion that Musk built Tesla, SpaceX, and SolarCity is peak absurdity.
I grew up on a computer, I was a child around the time you're describing, but was on the Internet & toying around on the computer. It kicked off a lifelong passion for technology & computers.

I would be hard pressed to say computers & the Internet are a net positive for the world. For me personally, they unlocked a passion & interest I haven't been able to find in any other domain. I have plenty of other interests & loves, but anything to do with computers is my passion.

For the rest of the species, where a computer is either a means to an end, a necessary evil, or a way to brainwash yourself, I don't view computers as something beneficial. The undiscerning get sucked into YouTube black holes & allow themselves to be swept up by bullshit they read on Twitter. It gave a platform to the absolute worst people among us, which would be fine if people would reject the garbage they're spouting.

Our collectively stupid ape brains aren't ready for computers. I believe we (the royal "we") moved too fast & poisoned our shared, objective reality. And that's all before I even start talking about the people intentionally making life worse with technology. Your Zuckerbergs & Musks & Ellisons, the people who use these machines as tools to spread suffering & chaos.
> Twitter was making around $500 billion a quarter before the Apple ad targeting changes

From https://archive.is/rfBcg:

> Advertising revenue was $1.14 billion during the quarter ended Sept. 30 [2021], in line with consensus estimates.
What ever happened to early stopping?

I see so many papers where people train neural networks with half-baked recipes. I think I saw early stopping first around 1990 but it is so often for people to pick some arbitrary number of epochs to run. I have to admit I never liked the term "early stopping", I think people should have called it just "stopping", because it makes it seem optional.

Back when I was training LSTM networks it was straightforward to train nets reliably with early stopping...
It's very beautiful, lovely work. Sleek and shiny, it's a device that begs for interaction, which is important in something that you'll be engaging with every 24-30 minutes. I would like a version of the display to show grains of sand falling through a digital hourglass.
If it’s an all stock acquisition did it generate any liquidity?
What’s ZFS? That doesn’t sound like a Google internal tool I’ve ever heard of.
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I had good results with the built in macOS noise canceling.

https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/use-mic-modes-on-yo...
Just FYI, you can't expect intelligent conversations on HN about anything related to Elon Musk. A small vocal group really hate him, and we know that passion (especially if politically motivated) retards intelligence.
https://archive.is/i3DHj
> I can guarantee you if one jurisdiction limits AI training via copyright law, another one won’t, and it will have a huge competitive advantage as a result.

What is the competitive advantage of using chatbots, exactly?

Any advantage from ML that I can think of comes from advanced applications that require pre-existing knowledge, like biotech, metamaterials, etc.

— I fail to see how being able to use ML to cheat on a test or to avoid learning something (including command of own language) provides an advantage.

— I can see how requiring an LLM trained on unlicensed work to be opened up and free for everyone to use could provide an advantage.

— I can see how lack of regulation in this industry could result in a quick reduction of the number of jobs in a number of industries and therefore be a disadvantage to the economy, in the worst case benefiting a small number of for-profit corporate operators.
Google earth just went through an entire rewrite in order to migrate to flutter. They are building an entire operating system around flutter.

You’re making shit up. Take the L and move on
Why wouldn't it feel right? What an odd thing to say.

From HN comment guidelines:

> The most important principle on HN, though, is to make thoughtful comments. Thoughtful in both senses: civil and substantial.

Your claim that this is fiction, without any evidence or "proof", as you put it, is neither substantial nor thoughtful.

I am genuinely curious as to why you would make a splash in the comment section with this and then not explain yourself.
GCC 14.2.0 on PowerPC Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger
I will agree that AI is the limiting factor, it puts Apple in a very odd position where they can’t throw developers at a problem to make it better in the traditional way. You can’t prompt engineer your way out of some of these issues. I know they’re working on various other AI initiatives as well so I don’t wanna pretend that all they’re doing is prompt engineering.

All that said, Apple deserves to be smacked hard for how much they pushed AI in the new iPhone while having delivered practically none of it.

Lastly, who thought it would be a good idea to update Siri’s UI without updating Siri’s capabilities? I can only imagine how they’re going to pitch the “new Siri for real this time” when the UI hasn’t changed.
In the researchers’ publication, they didn’t substantiate the claim that chimpanzees are doing engineering (actually they didn’t even define what engineering is or why it would be significant if the chimpanzees were doing it). They document some interesting tool-making behavior, that the chimpanzees are somewhat picky about the material properties of the sticks they use to catch ants.
Many numbers in this sphere can seem arbitrary:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/14/business/elon-musk-420-tw...

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musks-humor-jokes-over-...
Theres a couple million works of poetry sold every year. If you have real faith in this study, this seems like a trivial way to make some millions. Why don't you put your money where your mouth is?
Selling tokens is likely to be a tough business in a couple of years
It’s broken bc google has spent 20+ years promoting garbage content in a self-serving way. No one was able to compete unless they played by googles rules, and so all we have left is blog spam and regular spam
No you're right, this is basically just phishing.

However, I think there is a real possibility that the Signal code (of which the public appstore versions are NOT fully open-source) could be modified to save/transfer messages after they have been decrypted, basically circumventing the whole point of e2ee... which is why having control over the client code is essential.

I suggest either building Signal yourself, using only verified reproducible builds without any binary blobs, or switching to the Molly-FOSS fork.
Maybe I should have been a lawyer.
I take calipers to my boss’s forehead veins and see how pissed he is routinely throughout the day
People have been trying to bypass CUDA and even PTX for a long time. One long rundown of optimizing gemm on NVIDIA hardware (https://salykova.github.io/sgemm-gpu) mentions 'maxas' (https://github.com/NervanaSystems/maxas/wiki/Introduction) - which was really a step forward in this space. I still blame Intel (buying NervanaSystems) for killing it...
Yes, but, if this is a public website that anyone can use, then an abuser using your TURN server for other purposes can also grab a single-use credential from the site, making it a bit pointless.
The Effect of a Swimming Pool as Tuned Mass Damper [pdf]
Indeed.

I tend to like quiet visual timers, though.

Something like:

https://i5.walmartimages.com/asr/63f18bde-f179-4b8e-a32a-8e4...
Oh boy. Get ready for the zealots
"OS is meant for: getting out of the way so you can access the apps."

When I first got into computers an operating system was primarily known as a file-loader — a way or mechanism to load one's apps. Take CP/M as an example.
Of course that's an easier solution to the problem.

OP is quite clear in the writeup that this is a project for the sake of trying new tools to make something for a friend.

A fun hack need not be constrained by meeting a real market need. It can just be fun.
What does this mean?:

> bknd runs directly inside your frontend app — no separate backend required.

> It supports Postgres

How is the postgres credentials kept secret from the client?
IMO you should have a healthy test pyramid which contains both types of tests. At the very top should be a smallish set of tests that are as real as possible and it's ok if they are a little slower. At the bottom you have more fine-grained tests that focus on one unit (classes != units) and tests it quickly and in isolation. Ideally we get this isolation by designing good interfaces (not necessarily in the Java sense) and can just not hook it up to real collaborators (maybe we pass callbacks to the email API or have boring glue code that just passes the return value on to the API) but sometimes a test double is ok. If we use a test double for network interactions to third parties, it's another great idea to replay recorded responses with something like Ruby's VCR which at least allows us to exercise the client code in medium-priced tests.

This allows you to get very quick feedback while in the weeds but also gives us comprehensive test coverage.
Implicit conversion is not obviously that convenient for scripting. The JS community has largely moved to anti-recommend implicit conversion, such as by basically striking `==` from their vocabulary.
Rather than getting into the nitty gritty details of monetization, when we ask ourselves if OpenAi can nail product like Facebook did (I guess) to become the next tech giant, I think we have to ask whether it's even possible when the tech industry is as established as it is.

You would think existing megacaps would be all over any new market if there is a profit to be made. Facebook's competition was basically other startups. That said, Google seems to be dropping the ball almost as bad as Yahoo.

But sure, if there's absolutely no way to make money from consumer AI then that will also make it hard for oai to win the game.
The answer to attacking speech you don’t like is not to censor that speech but provide more contrasting opinions to that speech.
Steve Yegge's (in)famous Google platforms rant and his other early essays is a counterexample I would think. It was taken down long ago but there's an archived copy at https://gist.github.com/chitchcock/1281611 .
Please read the first amendment:

> Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

It precisely says the government cannot limit your speech and is intentionally silent about everyone else.
Windows needs to be taken away from Microsoft and made into its own company. It's the same anticompetitive monopoly tactics from the past.
Rhis raises it back to the original level (although entirely based off the absurdly overinflated value of Grok at $80 billion. VCs…)
Yeah I’d agree with that as well
This is likely why the TPM2 requirement is a thing for Windows 11: Microsoft wants to migrate all Windows users onto a hardware base with nigh-uncrackable security/DRM protection, such that everything from power on to application is signed, approved code. For "security".

And people will buy it. Because "general purpose computing" is a niche feature for nerds. (Astronaut 2: Always has been.) And it presents enough problems and extra work that most consumers woyld gladly give it up. Most consumers just want something thet can do Facebook/Excel/Spotify/Netflix/games with.
> I haven't read a good explanation for why it is so.

Iberians bred with the people they conquered. The Spanish in particular practiced an intentional policy of breeding a caste of illegitimate mixed-race offspring that would mediate between the Spaniards proper and the aboriginals they had enslaved.

In the Spanish colonies, there emerged a project to “Mejorar La Raza” (literally: to better the race) by encouraging breeding with those of a fairer complexion than oneself. I suspect (though have never confirmed) that this attitude was primarily fostered to encourage women to more readily breed with Iberian men, but in the present day the attitude is quite prevalent among both Latino men and Latina women; Latinos fetishize white features, which are associated with being not only high-status and wealthy, but also simply beautiful in their own right.

The Americans largely arrived after small pox had substantially reduced the native population, and subsequently followed a comparatively genocidal path of historical development. They did not tend to breed with the natives they encountered, so they have a far lower proportion of aboriginal ancestry. At some point between the late 1800s and early 1900s, they developed a romantic appreciation for Native Americans, which later leads to the common trope of every American family claiming to have a Cherokee great great grandmother on their mother’s side. Since the 2000s, the common trope is that all the growth in these tribes has been from white-passing people looking to cash in on affirmative action; this is not an undeserved stereotype.
> easiest country in the EU for immigration?

Since the Mediterranean crisis and the Ukraine crisis: none. Although Ireland won't impose a language requirement so you might start there.
Do you mean it shows something you've already chosen, or it interprets and plots what you're making up in the moment?
No need for this? Your glib dismissal belies the passion and dedication involved in this genius masterwork. Nobody ever "needs" art, but surely it enriches our lives.
Useful search unlocked the web. I will take that over LLMs in their present state.
It's indeed from 2018 and may therefore not be state of the art, but, it's really nice to read something like this: it cuts through all the marketing hype and pseudo-science-reporting articles written on cutting edge semis of the 21st century.

Getting an accurate idea of how things really work down at that level is very refreshing.

Also, it scratches an itch I've had for a long time, namely to understand how much quantum mechanics is really needed to accurately predict/model modern FETs.
I think you're misunderstanding. He doesn't mean suffering in the sense that "bad things must happen to me before I have something to write about". He means that the act of creating something from nothing is in itself a difficult process in which the creator 'suffers'. You can rarely just create something easily out of thin air. Most of the time you have to put in a significant amount of effort and feel repeated frustrations before you write something good. This seems clear from the second and third parts of the sentence (after the first and second commas).
> When Florida was captured some were lucky enough to be evacuated to Cuba and other Spanish colonies

Interesting. Do you have any further reading on this topic? I had never heard about it.
> Part of being a democratic society is that people are generally able to respectfully express themselves without fear of being punished for unpopular opinions.

Well, yes, but I'd say the more important part is that students are having their visas revoked and being pulled off the street into immigration detention because of social media posts.
I think that long before that developers will still be targeting the windows APIs, even if they're not intending their software for windows.
It's fine because they don't say they're not evil anymore.
Watches that are already on most people's wrist work great too!
Very few weapons could cause significant damage to someone wearing plate armour though. Steel swords didn't do much either.

Maces, war hammers, pollaxes and such were quite effective because armour doesn't protect you against blunt force. Inca or any other Native Americans didn't really have enough time to adapt before it was too late (especially with the epidemics hitting them so hard).
My realistic scenario…

https://chatgpt.com/share/67e808f0-a3a4-8010-b97b-58c07d69f6...
I think it varies by geographical zones. While the Incas were a violent empire, it seems the Caribbeans were indeed populated with peaceful communities?
I don't think so, no, I was just applying the framework proposed in the comment I replied to.
> But much of life is empty of meaning and devoid of purpose

Maybe life is empty to you. You can't speak for other people.

You also have no idea if pre-modern life was full of meaning and purpose. I'm sure someone from that time bemoaning the same.

The people before modern time were much less well off. They had to work a lot harder to put food on the table. I imagine they didn't have a lot of time to wonder about the meaning of life.
Do you know how they managed to inject stylesheets into every page bypassing CSP?
I'm deeply sceptical of the "tortured artist" trope. A huge proportion of the greatest songs in the American canon were written by professionals, in what amounted to a factory system. They came into work, sat at a piano and just wrote, day in and day out. We are for whatever reason drawn to the romantic notion of the artist as divinely inspired genius, but I think that profoundly diminishes their skill and work ethic and the importance of professional communities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brill_Building

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin_Pan_Alley
What is iAnal? Does it mean what I think it means?
>> Sounds like you want a completely isolationist trade policy

> No. You made this up.

Okay - then square the circle for me. How do we buy things that China makes and be 100% sure none of that money goes to buying weapons to be used against us? Extend that to every business we deal with outside the US. The only way to get to the point where we're not know for sure that we no longer "pay for people to arm themselves against us" is to never trade with them.
It depends what you want from the poetry. If you want to read something that sounds nice and pretty or if you want something with deeper meaning and substance that requires you to think a bit more about what you're reading. I can see how ChatGPT could produce the former, but I doubt it can manage the latter.
Hello there! Can you tell me what are you running it on? This way, I can look into it. Thanks.
Because those books are mostly sold because either:

1. Readers wanting to virtue signal. Either to others or themselves

2. Authors + Publishers marketing
In attempt to have better "chat guidance" I occasionally ask an ignorant leading question, on purpose. This either helps llms fix inconsistencies in their previous answers, OR makes them agree on something that I made up unknowingly and fall into the universe where it's true.

That's not surprising though, and you can see it after a short while. What surprises me, is that people fall for it and take the ignoring position of being astonished by everything else llms do. I guess many people are just gullible by design and this tech, also naturally, abuses it to the limit. It is sort of an inevitable bubble. We also ignored the vulnerability that speech naturally is for way too long and this is gonna bite next generations hard in the ass (ignoring what power/business structures do with speech-based technologies right now, but that at least can be caregorized as humanity as usual).
I usually see a lot of respones to this kind of thing that dismiss it as wishfull thinking or "coping", but consider that this also applies in the opposite direction: wouldn't it be convenient/reassuring if these talented people where brought low by technology, if we could be absolved from practicing.

And yet Midjourney has been out for a while and very few of you have used it to make succesful games or webcomics. You can cope by telling artists the future will bury them, but they at least will have had their moment in the sun.
Apologies sir
What is the harm in a test only path in production? If you are an embedded systen with limited memory there is obvious harm but most code isn't that. There are other possible harms but they are less obvious and may not imply. There are also many different ways to implement this.

i did something like this where in production I have if function pointer isn't null return the result of it instead of running the production code (and an unlikely compiler directive on the if). The function itself is implemented in a test only shared library so the cost to production is low. If you can break in you can set that function - but if you can inject arbitary code we are already sunk.
Clarify?
> And yet part of me thinks it was totally awesome. That portion of my brain that grew up on Total War and Civilization games thinks the concept of a small number of hyper-technologically sophisticated foreigners led by a verified psychopath waging war on an empire of pyramid-dwelling, polygamist, slave-owning, human sacrificing pagans with the fate of a largely uncharted landmass at stake is incredibly cool. And no one can convince me otherwise.
Do you really believe that these lower-ranking soldiers are going to sit idly by while they watch their family members get raped and executed (because that's what lawless paramilitaries do) on the nightly news?

Some light reading --> https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/deploying-soldiers-on-a...
> The recent productivity has been so high, it has the effect of making my previous efforts seem sort of pedestrian

Fantastic!

Agentic task-offloading is already here; it is just unevenly distributed.
A guide on how to prompt engineer voice AI agents
I put together a guide on prompt engineering for voice agents. It breaks down six core elements. Feedback welcome, what have you found works best?
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