skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 1. Sales -> You can hire a lot of sales people if they're generating enough business to cover their own salaries

It won't be long before GPT-3 or its successors will be putting many people out of a sales or support job.
Your VAR should be doing a lot of that work for you - sure you need to understand licensing but if you have a good rep they should be providing you with up to date info on all of this.

HDD replacement is trivial and some COLOs can even do it for you - and any good vendor will have a thing setup where your appliance automatically notifies them and a new drive is overnighted to your COLO. Sure - maybe a few times a year you drive out to swap a drive.

If you do not have good monitoring setup then that is entirely fixable - there are many stellar solutions these days out there. Hardware is easier than ever.
I personally was infected by it when I was studying at university! It came in when QIP updated... and I did have Delphi 5.0 installed at that time.

Quick googling tells me this happened in August, 2009... which was 13 years ago. Quomodo fugit tempus!
People are the most important part of any operation! That's the last thing you want to cheap out on.
Pretty much everything made in Hollywood is done as a tax write-off. That's the core of the business model: write-offs and incentives.
winget does almost exactly this. It detects apps that are already installed on your machine and if it can find a match in its catalog, it can upgrade it. (Of course you can install/uninstall via the tool if you have a fresh box).

`winget upgrade —-all` from a command line (assuming your Windows is reasonably up-to-date, otherwise, https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli to get the latest release manually)
You can't have a business model of "become rich and then use money for X". Business are how (a very few) people become very rich.

Moreover, there are very rich people already, like Warren Buffet, Bill Gates and Elon Musk, funding projects for doing good like world hunger, education and "AI Safety". And Open AI was a project of this sort of thing, originally. The thing is that even very rich people demand that the enterprises they give money to be as self-supporting as possible and their money is spread fairly thin. The only way Open AI could become an AI development shop, employing many top developers, was to have the financing level of a commercial company. Which means it constantly puts out products that don't seem like they can make money because AI algorithms don't seem to controllable - Open AI seems to only be able to have the first implementation of X, not the best implementation. Once the basic idea is out, someone else can produce a similar thing with a budget that doesn't include a research team.
I adjusted for inflation in my numbers above. The median 2001 home cost $180,000 in 2001 dollars. $300,000 in today's dollars. Someone who could purchase a median home in 2001 cannot purchase a median home in 2020 without increasing their monthly cost. Using Google's mortgage calculator and punching in those numbers at 7%:

$1,996 / month in 2001 vs $2,972 / month in 2022

That's in today's dollars, accounting for inflation. Almost 50% more. Feel free to point out an error in my math.
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I think the confusion comes from...

For some, the confusion comes from "wow, that's about half the headcount that Microsoft had when I started in the mid-90s, and MSFT was building, selling, and supporting Windows, Visual Studio, Office,..." Perhaps DocuSign's products are, in fact, about half of Microsoft's big three products, but of what I know of DocuSign it's still a big number to me.
> A big reason why my pay increased substantially is not because of bonuses or loyalty but because I asked new employers for way more than what I was paid before, and this worked in part because their job posting didn't include a salary range, thereby not leading to a situation where I ask for what I think my time is worth ...

Nothing stops you from asking for X+Y when the stated rate is X. All it does is give you a free floor of X in case your original amount was less than X.

> ... and get laughed at because it's beyond a listed number they will inevitably low-ball on.

Grow a thicker skin and laugh right back at them.
Wikimedia Commons recently introduced a new MediaSearch feature (everything there is free by definition): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MediaSearch
I read lots of popular science and I'd love to have colored illustrations or the occasional photograph rendered in color.
That's 300 5-person teams, seems like still a lot.
Alright, that's indeed incredibly foolish of them. I hope the new HIMARS package will sweeten the insult at least a bit :^)
AGI and what we're talking about here are completely different.
I'm fairly certain that BUD/S doesn't cover diving to the depths of those pipelines. Initial SEAL dive training is focused on open circuit compressed air and oxygen rebreather equipment. Deep, covert demolition missions like this would likely have to be done on a Mk16, and most SEALs lack that specialized training. I doubt the US Navy actually sabotaged those pipelines, but if they did then the diving was more likely handled by EOD or MDSU personnel.
Oh cool, now Meta can fish for any and all pending ads for attack vectors and somehow get it leaked to their opponents.

Well done, Facebook. Well done, Meta.
Scientists create AI-powered laser turret that kills cockroaches
I spent 3K on a 65" 4K conference room touchscreen monitor. Rather than having a built in smart TV function it has a dock for a SFF PC.

It lacks a tuner and don't think it does HDR but it does have surprisingly good sound.
Dang! I missed that. On point. I never thought of that as "deepfake" but the tech is definitely related and I think you are right.
In this narrow definition, a politician is a person holding or running for elected office, and a political party is a specifically registered organization that is formed with the express intent of organizing voters and politicians, such that the voters vote for the politicians. There's a list on Wikipedia [1].

Of course, this narrow definition leaves out a lot of political issue ads that don't mention candidates or political parties by name, but are still very much political. Things like "support / oppose access to guns / abortion / health care / immigration / education / clean water / fair elections / military service / communication / electricity / there's a lot of other stuff" are quite often political ads without necessarily being tied to any particular candidate or party.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_t...
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Because Marcus isn't a practitioner and never has been. He's a public intellectual from a different field acting like he's an AI expert. You would never listen to criticisms of a Physics theory from a Biologist and you shouldn't listen to criticisms of Neural Networks from a Psychologist.

He's proven time and time again that he doesn't understand the methods at work and doesn't even seem interested in trying to do so.
80k ? Honestly probably does. Our ops team of 3 spends maybe 10% of the time on the managing of few hardware racks we have in our local colocation. There are even months where nothing at hardware/hypervisor level is touched
The Chinese government would likely consider letting COVID rip through the population if they could survive the consequences of an overwhelmed health system and the numbers of dead.
all things aside, it'd be a great ego-boost if someone thought me good enough to impersonate on Upwork
Another time perhaps, as I am currently focused on this crispy golden grilled-cheese sandwich =)
Amazon's Kindle Scribe is a $339 e-reader you can write on
That $80,000 isn't inflation adjusted. Drop would be more like 40%, not 85%.

But current home prices don't need to drop. The average price needs to drop. That means more housing. Likely ends up meaning some drop or stagnation in current prices, but you don't need to shift down 40% to reach the goal.

Housing in my area is only a little above the 80s price after adjusting for inflation. Of course, the 80s price is nationwide average, while my given price is only the local average.
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Plan9 libthread is literally goroutines just without the syntax sugar - up till version 1.5, golang shipped significant chunk of Plan9 standard library with itself. It's also where the saner networking interface came from, as Plan9 was to support networking from start, not depend on quick and dirty port of non-Unix stack like BSD Sockets
Yup, OpenAI is founded by AI-safety-as-a-religion people. They're essentially single-issue voters, who believes earnestly their issue is the only issue that matters. You see analogues of them in e.g. climate change (right or wrong).

This religion definitely has a parentalist bent to it that rubs a lot of people the wrong way. I vaguely recall them floating on Twitter the theoretical idea of whether murdering people to prevent AI-takeover is acceptable, due to how bad AI-takeover is.

Not surprising limiting access, spying on what its users are using their tools for, etc, is acceptable to them.

This is much in the same vein as how for Lenin, the eventual triumph of the working class is so important as to justify a little bit of interim violence, dictatorship, and summary executions.
IIRC (It's been a while since I've worked with their teams) Customer Success was handled by the 'integration support' at Docusign.

If I -also- recall, When I did an Auth0 integration (a few years before that) I worked with a similar 'Customer Success' specialist while evaluating for an integration.

I think this is the trade-off that's happening; By putting integration support under a 'marketing' budget rather than a 'support' budget, it allows for a happier adopting customer base.

I must add however; those examples stand out to me not because it was 'sales-y' but because they were extremely memorable times of a vendor team working very hard to lead our teams into a pit of success. The best analogy I can think of is the difference between someone on a call giving a vague phrase you have to search through API docs for, vs a direct link to documentation complete with verbose-yet-sane examples.
Thanks (to you and the others who helpfully replied). Apparently the web page authors kinda missed that completely!
The above was hardly my first comment on this thread, so no, I'm not saying that.

However, OP has talked to humans, and apparently those humans--with access to more info than we have here--believe OP to be a scammer. (Or don't care enough to act.) Since I don't have access to that information, I feel bad for OP, and hope there's a higher level of humans he can talk to, but insinuating that Apple is a criminal entity seems a bit much.
Yes - but the FOMO industry is too strong.
This is a weird hackernews phenomenon where two sides of a discussion present the technical aspect of the thing they want to do, and are correct in their description of the technical aspects, without addressing the fact that they are talking about accomplishing totally unrelated objectives.

It is probably possible to horde more Youtube videos than you could ever watch, probably including most of the ones that you might ever be interested in. And it is almost certainly impossible for any individual to capture every video which goes through Youtube.

Neither of these seem to address the issue of whether there exist videos which will retrospectively have archival value which are not captured.
Well, the point is to keep that fingerprint isolated to anonymous accounts. I don't mind if anonymous accounts are linked. Luckily I don't write much outside HN, and even less under my real name. I am, however, not under the illusion that this practice makes me safe. It's just something I do out of nervousness, since the only other option is not to write, and I'd rather not give it up.
"Ideas" here being few commonly used words put together barely forming a sentence, not some algorithm, research or deep paper.

Ie. the whole "idea" being "hey, for gai we need something different than this gtp3" tweet, not "idea" as in "hey I invented this new thing I call LSTM, check it out [link to paper, results what not]".
>Lease "Final Space" until 12/31/2022 (Non-Renewable)

This is how the avails are written for licensing to platforms. It even allows for different windows based on territory. This is how you can see content bounce from platform to platform.
The law doesn't appear to prevent negotiating a range higher than advertised. Nor does it prevent the employer from posting a large range.

This should force employers to do a better job assessing what value a position provides and advertising the salary range appropriately. Currently, they know the value, but will attempt to low-ball applicants to the extent possible.
> Amazon did not agree to continue serving the film from now and the heat death of the universe.

That's not their only other choice. They could also let you download the content so you're not dependent on them forever to watch it.
> fix some power issue

> large air-con system

You wouldn't usually jump from AWS to buying up real estate to build your own physical data center.

A sensible first step is to rent a rack at a colocation facility. They handle power, cooling, redundancy, physical access for you.
but then wouldn't one of the switches still be on? therefore one of the lights would be on, so you could correlate which switch was on with the on light?
Diminishing returns? Have you read the Gato, Palm, Stable Diffusion, etc. papers? Progress is racing ahead. Nothing is stalling... the only thing stopping progress from accelerating even faster is data.
you save transistors but not dealing with NaNs and Infs also. you also save some because your comparison operations just use signed integer comparison so you don't need hardware to do those. my guess is that when you combine these effects it could be a net win for 16 bit. also bigger multipliers might be slightly sub-quadratic by using karatsuba or similar.
Companies were, employees were not. That's why this law is necessary. This evens the playing field.
It means that you've never really developed an actual app. And that you haven't ever thought about all the controls and layouts (with their complex interactions) even in the apps you use daily.

No. Menu isn't "the one control". Menu is one of multitude of controls. Go ahead and try and implement a treeview correctly with nested details (including all the necessary keyboard interactions). Meanwhile treeviews have been a part of native UI kits since... the 80s perhaps?

Oh, and since listviews are so "easy" in HTML, can I finally properly animate adding elements to one or removing elements? With height:auto? And without needing to redraw and re-layout the entire page? Right...

Dialog tag? Does it keep keyboard focus inside the dialog, or do you have to write non-trivial amounts of JS to have this required accessibility feature?

And so on and so forth.

And those are just the most trivial things native UIs solved half a century ago.
I don't understand why anyone would like to connect such a thing to their WiFi. An external device gives you flexibility and control. The built-in firmware gives you ads and tracking.
Just curious why would anyone want to buy it.
Is Marcus trying to create the impression that somehow he is a more impactful AI contributor than LeCun? It's going to be a tough sell because I know LeCun's name from his technical work whereas I know Marcus' name from him constantly moaning about LeCun on social media. In what _tangible_ ways did Marcus contribute?
at the large scale sure. at the small scale no. For example, look at all the different implementations of JSONPath in all the various language that do exactly the same thing: take in some JSON, extract some data from a specific point in it based on a string input.

do we _really_ need to rewrite that every time we start a project in a different language that doesn't already have an implementation?

Or, could it be loaded/used via a service or other resource that's made accessible in some language agnostic way?
For my Samsung TV, I connect it to the internet once a year for a firmware/software upgrade.

Outside of that, any TV in my house is connected to an AppleTV. HDMICEC is great.
Willing to make a bet on that?

GPT-3 is great at sounding coherent, but much worse at actually reliably solving problems. I absolutely see GPT-3 like things aiding with sales decks, but... it won't replace the sales person.

There's also a large component of enterprise sales having a "trust" component where you know your counterparts. You're not spending approval-worthy amounts of money after only having talked to a chat bot.
>We're trying to optimize for curiosity here.

No, you aren't. That's the point: you pretend this is the case, but you only allow certain kinds of curiosity - ones that are politically safe.
I've been impressed by Docusign the few times I've had to use it. And I generally hate 95% of the software I come across. Everything seemed to snap into place, was perfectly intuitive. That stuff is easy to get wrong, as evidenced by all the crap out there.
Doubt it. Companies have been using chatbots with NLP for years. This only occasionally works to refer customers with technical support questions to relevant knowledge base articles. Mostly they're just a waste of time. Enterprise customers tend to have more complex support issues.
Right, so maybe 750 developers? If that? Some companies are heaver on product and customer success headcount than others, but I would not be shocked to find out they had quite a few less than 1000 developers and developer managers.
I don't get why you think this is anything other than a very obvious and genuine question that hasn't been answered.

Someone said "ban political ads", and I don't know what that means. Does it mean banning any ad that references a politician or political party? Any ad that references an explicitly political issue? Any controversial issue that's currently a hot political topic?

I want to know what people's views are on this, which is why I asked.
Open core SaaS, similar to ElasticSearch
never, ever give a TV an internet connection, wifi password or dhcp lease.

I realize there are ads on the homescreen of an xbox series x, ps4 pro, ps5, etc but I would much rather deal with those than whatever shoddy operating system TV manufacturers put on their thing.

I have a thousand times more confidence that microsoft and sony will keep their OSes patched and up to date (they have a strong financial/self-interest incentive to do so, for anti piracy reasons) than the junk running on a TV.
Presumably here what happened is that WB revoked Amazon's license but they really should have a system for dealing with this... either having the contract such that they retain the right to provide access to previous buyers, or putting the company on the hook for refunds.

I wonder if the situation is the same at other vendors or if Amazon's handling of taking something off the platform is uniquely bad. Surely there are people who own this through Apple or Google or Vudu or something (as I believe it's been equally pulled from all those platforms) who could weigh in.
Any startups working in the OTA tv space?

I can’t think of any free signal that is easily consumable as OTA HDTV.

It seems to me like one could leverage the data available nationally to discern developing trends regionally or perhaps determine metro regions that are experiencing growth or stagnation by mining the local news broadcasts or other data.
Gary Marcus' contribution to the field is to post the same rant about how it's not real intelligence, every 6 months. Why does he keep getting up voted?
Everyone believes that's an edge case/oddity until they or a business they care about gets banned by the payment processor gods.
It's not waterproof‽

The design is reminiscent of the Kindle Oasis which is IPX8, their other premium offering is the Paperwhite which is also IPX8. The Scribe costs more and isn't water proof. I can't imagine what about the digitzer makes it unable to be waterproof, unless Amazon just thought it wasn't worth it.
You're not including reliability and availability projections, and the intangible cost of transferable skills wrt infrastructure. (ability to hire sufficiently skilled people to run it)
Agreeing to terms without informed consent is not consent. A lay person can't honestly be expected to fully understand a novel's worth of legalese. From a moral standpoint, fuck the megacorps with a team of lawyers foisting such bullshit on people.
Probably right. Can definitely save some production costs at times, even though you'd prefer the actor to be there. And I believe deep faking actor faces over stunt crew faces is a thing sometimes.

You could still get a movie shipped without using the tech tho. Feels slightly gimmicky, but legitimate indeed. Cheers!
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There is no limit to how high headcount can go, for virtually any business, unless something stops it. That doesn't mean anyone is intentionally padding the rolls, either. There is a certain momentum, as more people requires more supervisors and more support and more support for the support. 7400 people have a lot of company computers/IT, human resources requirements, payroll and accounting, etc. More people "requires" more people, in an ever-increasing spiral of hiring...until suddenly there is a hard stop that requires it to not increase, or even decrease.

I have witnessed this in corporate, startup, university, and governmental organizations, so it's not much to do with the task to be done. More people requires more people, until and unless something else requires that there be less people instead.

For Docusign, we have apparently just encountered that "something else".
Wow, I was about to argue against this 'unfairly cynical' take, but it's completely correct.

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(2015) OpenAI's original "Introducing OpenAI Post" : https://openai.com/blog/introducing-openai/ : "As a non-profit, our aim is to build value for everyone rather than shareholders. Researchers will be strongly encouraged to publish their work, whether as papers, blog posts, or code, and our patents (if any) will be shared with the world. We’ll freely collaborate with others across many institutions and expect to work with companies to research and deploy new technologies."

(2018) OpenAI's "Charter" : https://openai.com/charter/ :

"We are concerned about late-stage AGI development becoming a competitive race without time for adequate safety precautions. Therefore, if a value-aligned, safety-conscious project comes close to building AGI before we do, we commit to stop competing with and start assisting this project."

"We are committed to providing public goods that help society navigate the path to AGI. Today this includes publishing most of our AI research, but we expect that safety and security concerns will reduce our traditional publishing in the future, while increasing the importance of sharing safety, policy, and standards research."

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Provides some interesting context to the fact that Elon left the company's board in February 2018 over "disagreements about the company's development."
> Not buying a digital copy where it can disappear is the solution.

There's not always another choice.
Only better option would've been Fahrenheit 451, and only just barely
Programmers will be even more productive when someone comes up with TLA++, which will help you check if your TLA+ code has design flaws.
Sometimes the invariants are obvious.

For example, some sorting algorithms are very complex in the details of their implementation - but they all have the quality that given an input, the output should be the same set of elements, in order.
My thought on timing this is about Responsibility.

I don’t think other options put any or so much consideration about AI impact.

Perhaps we’re just finding out that people don’t care. Yet?