skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Had to look it up, that's great thanks:

> I distinguish four types. There are clever, hardworking, stupid, and lazy officers. Usually two characteristics are combined. Some are clever and hardworking; their place is the General Staff. The next ones are stupid and lazy; they make up 90 percent of every army and are suited to routine duties. Anyone who is both clever and lazy is qualified for the highest leadership duties, because he possesses the mental clarity and strength of nerve necessary for difficult decisions. One must beware of anyone who is both stupid and hardworking; he must not be entrusted with any responsibility because he will always only cause damage

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_von_Hammerstein-Equord
I am also interested in this! I really want to know who is doing this scraping, and why are they doing it badly relative to search-engines? The argument that I've heard is that search engines have a vested interest in keeping sites up, whereas ML companies do not, but that seems a little too mechanistic -- some of the mistakes in load aren't good for the scrapers resources, as well as the scraped.

My working theory is that rather than the big AI companies, this is mainly a rash of Asmall I startups (globally) who don't know any better and are just writing poor tools, and also think that "unique data" gives them an advantage. So this is more about a flood of capital to (frankly) incompetent groups, that will empty out when the boom busts. But I can see the arguments on both sides. It would be great to know the facts!
This was Naperville, IL. So that kind of behavior is very risky.

You could get sued for 10 million dollars. Or these days, deported to Aurora.
What the $660M Greenpeace verdict means for U.S. activism
This may not be apparent to an english speaker as the language has a rather fixed set of words, but in German, where creating new words is common, the lack of linguistic creativity is obvious.

As an example, let's talk about "vibe coding" - It's a new term describing heavy LLM usage in programming, usually associated with Generation Z.

If I am asking an LLM to generate a German translation for "vibe coder" it comes up with the neutral "Vibe-Programmierer". When asking it to be more creative it came up with "Schwingungsschmied" ("vibration smith"?) - What?

I personally came up with the following words:

* Gefühlsprogrammierer ("A programmer, that focuses on intuition and feeling.")

* Freischnauzeprogrammierer ("Free-mouthed programmer - highlighting straightforwardness and the creative expression of vibe coding." - colloquial)

Interesstingly, LLMs can describe both these terms, they just can't create them naturally. I tested this on all major LLMs and the results were similar. Generating a picture of a "vibe coder" also highlights more of a moody atmosphere instead of the Generation Z aspects that are associated with it on social media nowadays.
AKA fiction
That LLMs are by definition models of human speech and have no cognitive capabilities. There is no sound logic behind what LLMs spit out, and will stay that way because it merely mimics its training data. No amount of vague future transformers will transform away how the underlying technology works.

But let's say we have something more than an LLM, that still wouldn't make natural languages a good replacement for programming languages. This is because natural languages are, as the article mentions, imprecise. It just isn't a good tool. And no, transformers can't change how languages work. It can only "recontextualize," or as some people might call it, "hallucinate."
That’s what grid battery storage is for, obviously.
Yes they are. That's what she meant: society doesn't exist and families/individual people do. The distinction is that you can ask a family or a person to do something and decide if they did it or not. You can't ask "society" to do anything: what does that actually mean? Who does it? Everyone can just point the finger at everyone else.

Thatcher was making this argument because in the 1980s the [British] left was still very Marxist, so they tended to demand extremely expensive things and when challenged as to who will do/pay for that they'd answer with society. It was a form of rhetorical evasion because what they actually meant was "someone else but not me". Thatcher was railing against that tactic by pointing out that there isn't some specific entity with a big wad of cash you can go to called Society and ask them to do something. Society is your neighbours, your friends, your coworkers, your family, it's you and everyone around you. So if you say society should pay, what you actually mean is the people around you should pay but not yourself, without being willing to say so clearly.

Arguably the post-Marx neo-left actually did listen to her and stopped talking like that. You didn't hear people like Tony Blair claim that "society" would pay for their latest ideas. But the old left were never willing to give up the stupid linguistic game playing and reacted by fully stripping her words of context, to try and make it sound like she rejected the idea of bonds between people. Which is not only not what she said, but the conservatism she stood for was all about the primacy of friends/family/workplace/church/social clubs etc, vs the alternative Tony Benn style worldview in which the primary organizing unit of people was either the state or the unions.
Good catch. If put into stock market, It would be closer to 55-60 years, adjusted for inflation.
> So let's say we continue along this trajectory and we finally have a model that can faithfully reproduce and identify every word sequence in its training data and its training data includes every word ever written up to that point. Where do we go from here?

This is a fundamental misunderstanding of the entire point of predictive models (and also of how LLMs are trained and tested).

For one thing, ability to faithfully reproduce texts is not the primary scoring metric being used for the bulk of LLM training and hasn't been for years.

But more importantly, you don't make a weather model so that it can inform you of last Tuesday's weather given information from last Monday, you use it to tell you tomorrow's weather given information from today. The totality of today's temperatures, winds, moistures, and shapes of broader climatic patterns, particulates, albedos, etc etc etc have never happened before, and yet the model tells us something true about the never-before-seen consequences of these never-before-seen conditions, because it has learned the ability to reason new conclusions from new data.

Are today's "AI" models a glorified autocomplete? Yeah, but that's what all intelligence is. The next word I type is the result of an autoregressive process occurring in my brain that produces that next choice based on the totality of previous choices and experiences, just like the Q-learners that will kick your butt in Starcraft choose the best next click based on their history of previous clicks in the game combined with things they see on the screen, and will have pretty good guesses about which clicks are the best ones even if you're playing as Zerg and they only ever trained against Terran.

A highly accurate autocomplete that is able to predict the behavior and words of a genius, when presented with never before seen evidence, will be able to make novel conclusions in exactly the same way as the human genius themselves would when shown the same new data. Autocomplete IS intelligence.

New ideas don't happen because intelligences draw them out of the aether, they happen because intelligences produce new outputs in response to stimuli, and those stimuli can be self-inputs, that's what "thinking" is.

If you still think that all today's AI hubbub is just vacuous hype around an overblown autocomplete, try going to Chatgpt right now. Click the "deep research" button, and ask it "what is the average height of the buildings in [your home neighborhood]"?, or "how many calories are in [a recipe that you just invented]", or some other inane question that nobody would have ever cared to write about ever before but is hypothetically answerable from information on the internet, and see if what you get is "just a reproduced word sequence from the training data".
didn't he mention that he got fired from Pinterest?
Cognitive dissonance, lack of critical thought, and self-introspection is an outcome of the Conservative push for education elimination.

This is exactly why Conservatives feel educators are evil; they work to enable the ideals/traits in individuals which run counter to what’s most successful for following Conservative ideology.
I'll never forget you, card_zero.
Good luck getting past imperva

If you thought cloudflare challenge can be bad, imperva doesn't even want most humans through
Works fine for me in Firefox for Android with uBO.

The music is quite sparsely melodic though and easy to miss
Older people in europe also tend to smoke which probably keeps weight down.
Is NVIDIA's JIT-based approach here similar JAX's, except targeting CUDA directly rather than XLA? Would like to know how these different JIT compilers relate to one another.
These weird cases are not because JavaScript is bad, but because it has to be backwards compatible. So where other languages can just delete old quirks from the language, JavaScript has to keep them in.
Is a 5,000-line function worse than 500 10-line functions?

(Locality of reference.)
Recent big thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43422556
> [HP's] own fault-tolerant systems

Which were these? I didn't know HP had a fault-tolerant line.

I know Compaq purchased Tandem Computers with their fault-tolerant NonStop systems, and they intended to port it from MIPS to Alpha.
American prepared food has on average, almost twice as much sugar as in Europe, largely due to differences in regulation.

Americans walk less than in Europe, making less than half as many foot trips as Europeans, largely due to differences in infrastructure.

Americans visit the doctor less often than in Europe, largely due to the lack of universal healthcare all other high-income countries have.

I think obesity might be the symptom, not the actual culprit.
As someone who lives part-time in Europe (and they can be mostly lumped together because of shared culture and the EU, but I spend significant time in 3 EU countries in addition to living 6 months of the year in a single one) but raised in Canada...

- Europeans have access to better quality food. Good vegetables are the rule as opposed to the exception, commodity meat is better quality and high quality dairy is cheap.

- Europeans walk, a lot. As most towns existed before cars, they're all built for walking. Mixed use neighbourhoods are the rule rather than the exception. Europeans are also far more social and that often means doing physical activities with your friends (I play football and futsal with a group of guys from the village, ages 25-60).

- Europeans do drink a lot, but it's in moderation, if that makes sense. Less binge drinking all at once, more drinks during meals and spread throughout the week. We all know the liver processes alcohol at a specific rate so this is less damaging to health.

- Universal healthcare. Even the EU countries with mixed public/private systems make it universally available. Insurance rates far more reasonable, less strings attached. Unlike in Canada, we have a paediatrician in Europe. We can see a doctor same day without resorting to the ER. Appointments can be made typically next-day, although I've heard of waits that are several days in the city. Versus Canada where we can't even get a family doctor at all and need to go to the ER for anything.

- Stress. 5 weeks vacation. Employee-friendly laws. Active, social lifestyle. Everyday necessities are far more affordable. Rent isn't 60% of the average take-home income (unlike Canada).
It's most certainly not true. It's the ol' "fiduciary duty" canard. Because it's cheaper to make a product by shoving infants into a meat grinder, the company has no choice but to go buy a meat grinder and start stealing babies because they have a "fiduciary duty to shareholders".

Shareholders can sue, yes, but in the U. S. you can sue anyone for anything, and "suing" is not the same as "winning".
>the First Amendment . . . applies to all people under the jurisdiction of the United States.

Not according to the Supreme Court it doesn't.
In this case it seems like the person who submitted it to HN just used an incorrect title, so not that bad in the grand scheme of things.

My reply was more directed towards the "Why is everyone in here with pitchforks?" in a general sense, as it wouldn't have been the first time I read about someone not understanding why people who do "open source" would like the existing meaning to remain.
Agreed, I really liked how the site looked. I thought it was really slick and I am blown away by the how easy the author added extra information in a blog post. Nice work!
Polymathy in Decline? (2017)
Why? The Lenovo Legion Glasses 2 documentation mentions the virtual image appears at a size of 126" at a distance of 4 meters away: https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/accessories/acc500372-legio...
why is that impt to you? just trying to understand the problem you couldnt solve without a C-like
Maybe the Octalysis Framework? That is the most well known material that covers this tangentially. There are a good number of whitepapers on this type of research in Adtech/Social Media, though you need to know the specialized language they use to search for it.

This is not a new concept, in fact many games and apps use this research which includes sophisticated operant conditioning to induce associations, which then later trigger dopamine spikes through those associations.

Its why people who spend most of their time gaming or using their phones start acting like junkies. Its completely destroyed the dating scene because they do this in dating apps. Nothing is a bigger turn off then dating a junky, and they often don't even realize it.

Much of this type of game design material has been rebranded from its original contextual use. It originates in PoW torture camps during the Korean Conflict, and narcosynthesis/narco-analysis was known all the way back to WW2.

Victims are easily controllable, misled, and often gullible, since rational thought is greatly reduced as they fall into an involuntary state of hypnosis and become highly suggestible.

Brain development to combat addiction also doesn't fully develop until your early 20s for most.

You see this element embedded in almost any FPS that has an audio trigger associated with a headshot. I know for a fact BF1942 did this with a cha-ching sound. Games, and apps too.
It’s possible, and a lot of people find this contentious.. that he is not smart and has surrounded himself with dumber sycophants this time than last time
I appreciate your analysis, but another way to consider this discussion is that asserting the existence of "rights" is an unsupported conversational maneuver that frames the debate. The grandparent is defining a concept into existence, which is a questionable move IMO, despite being tradition.
I was working with a startup here in Montreal building an online social sweeps casinos. One of the bottlenecks we faced was taking the decision to build games internally. First shot in the foot was a in-house game developer hire wich got paid 250K USD to develop our own proprietary slots game using Playcanvas and failed after 6 months.

All the work went down the drain except for the class components he had developed which we shared with a external game developer agency on a very "cheap" 100K contract to develop slots, plinko and a 3 other other games. I left my job last week and I'm sure the agency route isn't successful however they decided to go with the game providers route which take 6-7% of the net GGR.

During my time at the job, I decided to develop my own Plinko game hoping to get a raise or up my position in the company however quickly realized I was capped. So I thought pushing this as a standalone game would get me solid experience and potentially the opportunity to monitize my game.

So I took my time to build the plinko game ( took me 6 months) to get where I'm at and I'm almost loosing hope that I can make money out of this!

It has a crypto deposit and withdraw system, provable fairness (not fully plugged in yet) and a completely different gaming experience compared to the other plinko games. All I need to do is purchase a domain, set up mainnet(real money) mode and run a few stress tests. Should I give up and move to the next project or should I run it ?
In Germany it is different.

- failure to render assistance ("unterlassene Hilfeleistung") up to one year in prison or a fine

- Exposed to a life-threatening situation ("Aussetzung", § 221 StGB) – If a person leaves someone helpless in a life-threatening situation, they could be sentenced to up to 10 years in prison

Edit: Also note that murder would often give you 16 years in germany even though it is called live long.
Thanks for your response. webhooks are literally the last thing documented, which says to me that it isn't a focus for your product at all.

I used to work for a company that used long running listeners. They would more often than not, get into a state where (for example) they would need to upgrade some code and now they had all these long running jobs (some would go for 24 hours!), that if they stopped them, would screw everything up down the line because it would take so long to finish if they restarted them that it would impact customer facing data. Just like DAG's, it sounds good on paper, but it is a terrible design pattern that will eventually bite you in the ass.

The better solution is to divide and conquer. Break things up into smaller units of work and then submit more messages to the queue. This way, you can break at any point and you won't lose hours worth of work. The way to force this to developers, is to set constraints about how long things can execute for. Make them think about what they are building and build idempotency into things.

The fact that you're building a system that supports all these footguns seems terrifying. "Usually recommend" is undesirable, people will always find ways to use things in the way you don't expect it. I'd much rather work with a more constrained system than one trying to be all things to all people. Cloud Tasks does a really good job of just doing one thing well.
Is there another option besides memfd_create? I'm currently using those to implement a circular buffer that avoids having to reconstruct objects if they happen to cross the size boundary by mapping the same memory twice consecutively into the process space.
> If the language needs a linter to keep otherwise-competent developers from introducing potentially maddening bugs into the codebase, it's weird.

This is an odd way to phrase things. A better way to look at this is that there are programming tasks which can be easily automated and tasks which cannot be easily automated. The ones which can be easily automated should be, so that humans can focus on the ones which cannot be easily automated. Do you not run automated tests, since those same tests could be done over and over by hand?
> I (sort of) understand the idea of flagging stuff you disagree with

that's not what flagging is for; just don't upvote if you don't like it

flagging is intentionally trying to make it more difficult for other users to see it
Biology over environment over willpower.

People from skinnier countries move to the US and get fatter. It's not willpower keeping other countries skinnier (to the extent they still are, even) so it'd be weird to expect that to work for people who've always lived here.

But you can hack biology, or just be born with lucky biology, and beat environment.

You hypothetically can with willpower too, but in practice, over any meaningful sample size and longitudinally, no you can't.
Boost? It'll create millions of jobs in robotics. Making us billions and billions
> I think and under studied aspect are kids who got access to a lot more money than normal typical kids have, and the results such wealth brings.

As opposed to the kids born on planets without atmospheric oxygen, of course. Those kids don't stand a chance.

There's always some advantage others have. Money, good looks, distribution, connections, right place right time.

"Wealth inequality" isn't going to disappear overnight, and lamenting about it won't get us closer to success.

We're all dropped into the Darwinian gradient landscape. Some of us have better starting positions. While we sit and wait for policy decisions to make things easier, our job remains to find gradients that aren't too steep, aren't over-explored by the masses, and that give us some modicum of joy to spend our lives upon.

The minnows and gazelles have it much worse than us. Praying mantises, anglerfish, and the hosts for the parasitoid wasps are practically living in a daily Kafkaesque horror. Meanwhile we're in our own dopamine drip Disneyland with near-infinite degrees of freedom and plenty of years on the clock (for most of us).

Seneca said some good things about this.
There could be multiple causes.
Yes, I know. You don't need to tell me that.
lol, this interaction may possibly become known as "grooming the AI"
But they do? If businesses suddenly have to spend more money on advertising, where does it come from?
About 10 years ago I worked for a startup that used a sales agency. Unfortunately it did not go well, in the nearly 3 years I was there they never made a single sale.

They didn't understand our product and had no desire to understand our product. I advocated to end the contract with them, but management refused.

So I think I would want some verbiage in the contract that says I can just walk away if I don't think it is working out. I understand you need to protect your interest too, but I wouldn't want to get strung along by someone who is just not willing to put in the work.
> It's cool that Nvidia made a bit of an ecosystem around it but it won't replace C++ or Fortran and you can't simply drop in "normal" Python code and have it run on the GPU.

While its not exactly normal Python code, there are Python libraries that allow writing GPU kernels in internal DSLs that are normal-ish Python (e.g., Numba for CUDA specifically via the @cuda.jit decorator; or Taichi which has multiple backends supporting the same application code—Vulkan, Metal, CUDA, OpenGL, OpenGL ES, and CPU.)

Apparently, nVidia is now doing this first party in CUDA Python, including adding a new paradigm for CUDA code (CuTile) that is going to be in Python before C++; possibly trying to get ahead of things like Taichi (which, because it is cross-platform, commoditizes the underlying GPU).

> Also, here's Nvidia's own advertisement for Python on their GPUs

That (and the documentation linked there) does not address the new upcoming native functionality announced at GTC; existing CUDA Python has kernels written in C++ in inline strings.
It is called being the bigger person.

The comment above was clearly constructive criticism. If you want to be taken seriously, don't recite name calling (if you are going to resort to name calling, at least don't join the mob and be original).

I along with a large portion of people who saw your comment immediately wrote off what you said because of name calling. You could be a nobel prize winning economist well versed in tariffs, but if you make fun of the person you disagree with because of his spray tan, then you just seem like a foaming at the mouth radical that can be ignored.