skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the hierarchical structure of the visual system is a completely emergent property of the fact that the visual brain is a three dimensional object encoding a 2 dimensional objecr efficiently by maintaining the spatial relation present in the data in the representation until you have finished using it.

There's simply nowhere for the computation to go.
Your first job would have been at the tail end of the dot com bust. That was a fairly tough time to start. By 04-05 tech was back and has been ever since. Tech didn’t see layoffs, like we are seeing now, in 2008.

So you have 1, maybe 2, data points?
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> This year seemed like something was off

I feel like the elephant in the room here is crypto? There was some frothiness between 2009 and now, particularly around businesses with intensely negative unit economics (see: Uber, WeWork) and their sustainability. A lot of the prognostications around a crash then was specifically skepticism about these companies commanding sky-high valuations without line of sight to profitability, but at least there was some fundamental value there.

Then we started going even frothier and abandoning even the pretense of fundamentals with the crypto and NFT fad. That was a lot harder of a bubble to keep going.

My read is that the crypto bubble burst (as it very well had to) and it (along with rate hikes) triggered a general re-evaluation of tech that included all of the perennially unprofitable companies, and taking them down several pegs.

Unclear where we go from here - but IMO the skeptics from 2009 were right on their merits (even if spectacularly off on the timing), and it took an even dumber, even bigger bubble built on top of it to cause the industry to fall over.
This strategy won't work if no one is organizing the work ahead. They can't be coding full time and administrating a project as complex as a modern browser. Especially not when competing against a complex beast like Chrome. (Though I do agree there may be too much money going into admin.)
Stock buybacks account for about ~1 trillion of corporate spending and are taxed at 0%. Dividends are taxed as long term cap gains.

I’m of the opinion that they should either be outright not allowed or taxed according to long term cap gains. Since they’re just used as a loophole to give back to investors tax efficiently.
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Same, it's weird that this hasn't already been mentioned. They launched untrackable trash into space and got fined for it, nobody should trust this company.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-satellite-fine/fcc-fi...
Very well-played. (I had to check the URL for good measure)
Apologies for the throwaway account but it's for obvious reasons.

I work at one of the mega-cap tech companies and manage a large team of engineers. It's extremely clear to me based on various pieces of information that I have access to that we'll be having a significant round of layoffs sometimes in the next quarter or two, yet I have zero involvement in the process. I suspect that at some point I'll be officially "told" that it's happening; perhaps the morning of?
what are you saying exactly? most of the companies that fire people now are seeing their highest revenue ever in their history.
I don't think that's a meaningful distinction. Many effects in classical physics are just previously poorly understood quantum effects. The distinction has more to do with when they were discovered than what causes them. Electricity is a good example. A large reason why electrons act collectively the way they do is a direct consequence of the pauli exclusion principle.
Also, to pile on, if I use my brain to read GPL source code and then type it in again on my own, I'm pretty sure I'm guilty of violating copyright.
My wife's SMB+personalized email is on the Exchange Online (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/exchange/compa...) Plan 1 for JUST THE EMAIL for $5.51/mo. Funny, the plan right this moment is $4.00/mo, I wonder why we're paying extra? Probably not worth troubleshooting though, the service is worth it.

Anyhow, I helped her transfer the email from Network Solutions to Microsoft, it was reasonably well documented with guard rails on both sides. It's been rock solid for over a year now. She has a hotmail account for junk and Microsoft account stuff.
That oughtn't be controversial, in fact I wouldn't even bother with 'on steroids', implying it's a slightly different/morphed thing. The way I learnt it (very slightly, at university, not a particular focus) it was abundantly clear it was just stats.
> One thing I can say for sure is that GPT-3 has a known bias where it only views the text within a certain window. GPT-3 is physically unable to "read" a book, it can only use a certain window of text in order to issue its "most likely continuations". Therefore, anything outside of that window is as good as something that never happened from its point of view.

This description reminds me of simple Markov chains. You just ingest a bunch of text taking a window of, say, 10 characters and recording all the possible continuations thereof. So you might get [This remind] => "s" or such. Then you reverse that by picking a starting node and spinning text by picking a random continuation as you slide the window 'forward' to output.
> but since it doesn't have a fundamental understanding of the patterns/objects like arms, it just blends many images of arms together and create things like 3 arms.

But it rarely would put out say 8 arms. And the repeat artifacts are miles ahead of earlier stuff like clip draw or disco diffusion. So it does seem to have some idea of what's going on, just isn't perfect yet. It gets much worse without the 512x512 resolution, if you push both dimensions it loses scene coherence a lot more.
The market works in mysterious ways :). That also explains why ElectronJS is so successful.
I don't have much faith in Qualcomm putting out a decent ARM processor any time soon. They have coasted for a while on pricey contracts and patents and their recent processors for the last few years are nowhere close to the M1 in performance, let alone the M2.
I get your point, but I also think it depends on what you mean by oversimplification. Of course there is _a lot_ of stuff going on and things like SD capture all kinds of information, not just what I described, however, any way you want to describe it, capturing all the "constraints" and real life knowledge to perfectly create realistic images with all the details and all the higher abstractions correctly is not anywhere close I think. Also it's not only to always get 2 arms, it's to - at the same time - also get 2 ears, 2 eyes, perfect pupils, perfect fingers, perfect trees, perfect chairs, all simultaneously (if it is to be used at least in the mainstream) - etc you get my point.

I also don't think there's anything wrong with the model architectures in themselves or the data, nor that it is impossible, only that it is hard and as you say I think it needs a lot of data and clever engineering to fix mistakes. It may even be possible to fix most mistakes, over time, which would be pretty impressive imo, but the absolute limits of what a model can produce/"contain" with our hardware is kind of an open question though interesting.
Any human referee would declare KataGo the winner in any of these games, just like they did in the Robert Jasiek vs Csaba Mero case[0].

> But KataGo was trained under (modified) Tromp-Taylor which we also evaluate under, so we think from an AI security and robustness stand point it's interesting that it fails at the rule set it was trained on.

Have you done anything in particular to induce this, or is it just the case that KataGo is completely incompetent at evaluating what constitutes a pass-alive territory?

> That part is still a work in progress, we've only got it working against a victim without search for example

That would still be amazing. KataGo without search is still a beast.

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By the way, your website is weird:

1. "strength of a top-100 European professional" - Europe doesn't have that many professionals?

2. "Yet our adversary achieves a 99% win rate against this victim by playing a counterintuitive strategy." - Well, if your main goal is to leave a stone in your opponent's territory, this strategy isn't very counterintuitive?

[0]: https://senseis.xmp.net/?DisputeMeroJasiek
I'm using simulate as a synonym for model. For any biological model at the atomic, molecular and protein levels, accuracy is key for useful models. What I'm saying is that accuracy at that level is a hard problem in computing and biology, and even simple protein interactions are hard problems.
Is it not in the agency of the developer to hit the save button?

It seems like GitHub Copilot can spit out copyrighted works all day but the person running the text editor has to "choose" which Copilot output to actually save/commit/deploy.

Does it really matter that much "how" the text in your text editor gets there? You write it yourself or copy/paste it or have Copilot generate it. Ultimately the individual that "approved" it to be saved to the disk is the one violating the copyright, Copilot is just making a "suggestion".
"They are completely unable to sell bonds now. At this point, they are being forced to buy their bonds in order to keep the market for their bonds from total collapse."

This isn't true though. there is still large over-subscription on guilt auctions. https://www.dmo.gov.uk/data/pdfdatareport?reportCode=D2.1A

interest rates are higher that is true.

yes there was a period of buying guilts, but Bank of England has reversed this now and is going through policy (incorrect in my opinion) of quantitive tightening and selling what it 'bought' during QE https://www.ft.com/content/64e5dcdd-42a8-4013-a3bd-75a62cf8e...
Yes, Zortech C++: about 1991 IIRC. If this was not the first commercial compiler available on Windows, it was one of them.
we know, and they eat walnuts
Crackpot Theory: Copilot (and by association many ML tools) is a form of probabilistic encryption. Once encoded, it's virtually impossible to pull the code (plaintext) directly out of the raw ML model (the cyphertext), yet when the proper key is input ('//sparse matrix transpose'), you get the relevant segment of the original function (the plaintext) back.

We've even seen this with stable diffusion image generation, where specific watermarks can be re-created (decrypted?) deterministically with the proper input.
It's not something to dismiss but it is something that has already been addressed. Authors Guild v Google. Google Books is built upon scanning millions of books from libraries without first gaining permission from copyright holders, this was found to not be a violation of copyright.

Building a product on top of copyright works that does not directly distribute those works is legal. More specifically, a computer consuming a copyright work is not a violation of copyright.
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We are hiring multiple engineers and product managers in the coming months, but we really just want talented technical people, so if you bring a skill set that you think can help us build a data-intensive and analytics heavy product, let’s chat. (I’m phil@ - email me). We’ve hired many times from Hackernews (including 3 in the last few months) and would love to do so again!
I hate to generalize but in my experience, goats NEVER use consistent file naming.
I'm not saying it's not good or that it lacks synergy, I'm just saying the EV part isn't important for the specific goal of an electric off-grid experience.

> And IF they solve highway self-driving to the point you can safely let the RV drive and self-recharge overnight... oh my god.

A moderately optimistic estimate for power production is about 1kWh per square meter of panels per day. With a 25 square meter roof, and saving 80% of the power, that's 20kWh and probably gives you 20-40 miles of range.

(If you meant driving and recharging overnight via plugging in, then sure that's cool, but self-driving with stops at stations isn't inherently an electric-exclusive experience.)
There has to be a reasonable context here. Even if it’s trained on proprietary code it rarely ever is inserting that code directly in a way that is at all relevant to how it was used in the past.

Obvious licensing needs to be respected and it shouldn’t be hard to solve that problem. But 99.9% of code isn’t some unique algorithm, it’s gluing libraries and setting up basic structures.

Most of the examples I’ve seen done line up with the reality of code completion tools. Code is rarely valuable when broken up into its small parts.

Even copying a full codebase is rarely enough to draw value from… there’s way more to a software business than the raw code. But that’s a different problem.
How precisely does that protect you from the people who are seeking those out? Filtering your feed doesn’t cause them not to vote against their interests, firebomb your store, or attempt to assassinate leaders.
What kind of interactions?
Heh, I actually interviewed with Reify during my last job search (where I ended up taking the job I was eventually laid off from). They weren't interested back then :/
The EV's Vehicle-to-Load (V2L) capability is pretty awesome. You can use it to power your campsite as if it's a mobile power generator [1].

[1]World’s first car-powered hotel set to open to guests:

https://www.hyundai.news/uk/articles/press-releases/world-s-...
I just checked: I just followed the URL
to a Microsoft site you gave -- somehow
that is not the URL I followed in the hour
I wasted.

I checked my notes, and I did not bother
to keep the URLs I did follow. I take a
LOT of notes, but I'm in a hurry and do
not take notes on everything, especially
things that don't work.

Okay, I'll try to get my standard Web
browser Firefox to tell me what URLs I did
visit. From that Firefox data I see that
I visited:

https://partner.microsoft.com/en-us/membership/compare-progr...

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/partner-center/mpn-create-...

So, each of those URLs led to many Web pages.

Then on page

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/arm/dev-kit/#devic...

maybe I saw:

"Device specifics

32GB LPDDR4x RAM and 512GB fast NVMe
storage

Snapdragon® 8cx Gen 3 compute platform

Ports: 3x USB-A, 2x USB-C, Mini-Display
(HBR2 support), Ethernet (RJ45)

Made with 20% recycled ocean plastic

Available in the Microsoft Store"

If I did see this, then I wondered
what the heck

Snapdragon® 8cx Gen 3 compute platform

was. I still wonder what the heck they
are talking about.

A "platform"? A "device"? Even with a
lot more work, Microsoft would have a
tough time being more obscure.
It does when one is a standard convention compatible with all programs whereas -o does different things for different programs. For example, grep -o foo will print only the parts of the input stream that match "foo" but grep > foo will write to the file foo. Some commands don't even have a -o flag like "cat" but output redirection is still always an option.
The comparison I would draw is it's a statistics based search engine for code.

Sometimes the query is the first half of a small statement that we can fill in with common patterns. Useful, fair.

Sometimes the query is a signature like `fn fast_inv_sqrt` that copies someone's code and doesn't attribute it.
it is essentially a weighted sum of your code and other copyright holders code. Do not let the mystique of AI fool you. Copilot does not learn, it glues.
> You see this anytime e.g. a high profile athlete "weighs in" on complicated geopolitical matters, when in reality their opinion on that matter should count next to nothing in most cases, unless in addition to being a great athlete they have also established a track record (reputation) of being expert or insightful in international affairs.

I apologize for multiple replies; I'm not stalking you. It's just an area I'm interested in and you're hitting on many ideas I've kicked around over the years.

I once got paid to write a white paper on a domain-based reputational system (long story!), based on just this comment. I think it requires either a formal taxonomy, where your hypothetical athlete might have a high reputation for sports and low one for international affairs, or a post-hoc cluster-based system identifies the semantic distance from one's areas of high reputation.

And reputation itself can be multi-dimensional. Behavior, like we've talked about elsewhere, is an important one. But there's also knowledge. Can the system model the difference betwwen a knowledgeable jerk (reputation 5/10) and a hapless but polite and constructive novice (reputation 5/10)?

So if your athlete posts about workouts, they may have a high knowledge reputation. And if they post about the design of stadiums, it's relatively closer to their area of high knowledge reputation than international affairs would be. And so on. And independently of their domain knowledge, they have a behavior reputation that follows them to new domains.
To be clear I am 100% suggesting that advertisers, staff and others participate in silencing this speech. Reddit is actually a funny example because Reddit admins have been accused by multiple subreddits of stepping in and forcing new rules to be instituted in subreddits.
Indeed, they seem to be dealing with a tough situation really well.
I was always told obfuscating the dates and/or going with a "functional" resume just screamed "old" :)
Outlook is terrible, regardless.

I've been using it on and off since the 90's and it feels like it gets worse every year, the current iteration is barely usable.
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I had a similar thought, although I ended up actually trying out Microsoft's full O365 suite instead since I figured if I was going to end up paying for something, I might as well consider alternatives that might be less flaky than Google's commitment to products.

Sounds like Outlook wouldn't have been a good choice with this feature getting killed, but O365 was a whole different kind of hassle. For my incredibly simple setup, it was amazing how complex Microsoft managed to make it. I have never had to read so much documentation in my life to do what were intuitive tasks in G Suite's interface. I ended up abandoning it for Cloudflare+Sendgrid which met my needs and was simpler to set up despite involving two different providers. Honestly I think configuring my own mail server from scratch would have been simpler than Microsoft made it.

All that to say, my impression is that Microsoft is not really interested in serving the power user or small team market and is comfortable with a feature set and interface intended for what would otherwise be an Exchange admin at a Fortune 500. Maybe a slight exaggeration, but I get it from a profit margin standpoint at the very least.
Can't, legally - now you can do 25yr old Japanese Kei-Vans but then you also need to support 25yr old Kei Vans, and that is far from a HN esqeue startup of an SAAS.
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Ok then, you didn't need to say it.
Biggest ever investigation by the Information Commission. No CA were not involved.

If you understood the political situation at the time, then it was all but obvious there would be a massive anti-establishment vote, facebook ads or not.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/oct/07/cambridge-an...
Could you be more specific please?

Do you mean something the Batik library could do?
The thing that gives me incomfort is the knowledge that we have a turing-complete language to manage display preferences.

It’s not accurate to imply what CSS does is only “managing display preferences”.

CSS is the presentation (color, layout, typography, animation, speech) and state management layer for HTML and SVG, among other markup languages.

I much rather have agreed upon specifications instead of having to invent hacks and work arounds for things that should be standard in 2022.

It took 20+ years to get layout based on columns and rows (CSS Grid); before that, layout comprised of hacks (floats, absolute positioning) and features being misused, like tables.

Container queries, CSS Nesting and the parent selector—-:has()—-results in less and easier to understand code with fewer hacks. It also means doing more without reaching for JavaScript.

CSS is in a good place finally and I for one hope it continues.
> It is not directly using your code any more than programmers are using print statements. A book can be copyrighted, the vocabulary of language cannot. A particular program can be copyrighted, but snippets of it cannot, especially when they are used in a different context.

So what? Why shouldn't we update the rules of copyright to catch up to advances in technology?

Prior to the invention of the printing press, we didn't have copyright law. Nobody could stop you from taking any book you liked, and paying a scribe to reproduce it, word for word, over and over again. You could then lend, gift, or sell those copies.

The printing press introduced nothing novel to this process! It simply increased the rate at which ink could be put to pages. And yet, in response to its invention, copyright law was created, that banned the most obvious and simple application of this new technology.

I think it's entirely reasonable for copyright law to be updated, to ban the most obvious and simple application of this new technology, both for generating images, and code.
I bring the steroids thing up because it's only relatively recently that we've had the massive computing power at our finger tips that we do now. We discovered the foundations of our current ML techniques a relatively long time ago, it's only been recently that we've been able to throw data centers full of powerful GPUs and whatnot at them.
> I didn't imply whether it was good or bad, just that the product you're describing already exists.

A product exists with those properties, but not something like Twitter.

> It's a platform problem.

It's not. I don't use stuff like 4chan because it's not of interest to me but it is of interest to others. There's zero requirement for Twitter to be a universally acceptable platform (that delusion is why there continues to be issues around moderation), just like 4chan needn't cater to everyone.

> There are already unmoderated, "you do the work, not us", "advertisers have to know what they're getting into" platforms

Right. And there's no requirement for Twitter to offer advertising. That's why I think it'd be wise for them to adopt a pay-to-play model instead of chasing that rabbit.
The irony is that this writeup is on Yahoo. The original tech giant to be paved over and forgotten. Not a single thing that was invented or acquired by that company bore any fruit.