skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Google announced it’s laying off more than 12,000 employees and focusing on AI as a domain of primary importance.

I have had an Android phone since Froyo. I liked it when the functionality was simple and didn't try to inject too much suggestions / AI. Now, Google Photos app is trying to suggest things to print, the Settings app is trying to predict when and how to charge my battery (I just want it 80%, all the time).

The more AI Google applies to my life, the more I want to escape it. I remember, when it was said people pay a premium for Apple products because they want privacy. I wonder if it will also become, people migrate to Apple to escape AI.
Whilst uncommon, employee attacks aren't unheard of in any industry - or particularly unusual. The phrase 'going postal' originates in a period of time where being a postal worker was particularly stressful, causing many such incidents against management; but such attacks are background noise in most industries.
I was just mentioning the KJV as an example because it was mentioned in the article, but I guess that the same can be found about every English translation. I have a NASB translation at home that I used a long time when I still believed in the existence of the super-natural. I read through the Dutch NBG (from 1951) translation (Dutch being my mother tongue) and parts of the Staten Vertaling (the Dutch equivalent of the KJV), which by the way also had a substantial impact on the Dutch language, giving it some new words, but also influenced it grammar. Some of those influences have waned in the past decades. I am familiar with several other translations in Dutch. I understand that after the NBG translation the Dutch society for bible translations has produced two more translations.
I for one would be very interested.
I’m not entirely sure I wanted to see what HN thought. I was thinking if one’s already using rails+aws are there workloads that are not core app functionality, not frequent, but that when they run need to serve a large number of requests that Jets might be the right tool for the job?
…or is it that Matlab’s strength, more than the actual language, are in fact the plentiful proprietary toolboxes?
I suspect it could be a lot worse!

- there’s going to be a museum there

- keeping a lot of original structures and architecture

- creating more public and pedestrian focused spaces is great

Plus as I understand it this was largely driven by the fact that it no longer makes sense to have a market like this in such a central location, far from major road, rail, and sea freight connections. The new location for the market will combine several other major markets (including Billingsgate, which will have moved twice for this sort of reason) [0].

I’ll be sad to see it go, I walk past the market at least weekly, but I think it’s probably a positive change overall.

[0] https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/plans-smithfield-bill...
> There is a huge mistake in this reasoning!

No there isn't. As far as external observers are concerned, an object falling into a black hole takes an infinite amount of time to cross the event horizon. It vanishes from sight because its emissions get red-shifted beyond detection range, but in principle you could still see it however far in the future you care to go, "frozen" in place over the horizon, still approaching it asymptotically.
Humans understand and there is just no comparison. Can an AI make a major novel discovery as humans have? How could they if they don’t understand language?
It's not displaying back the "content". It's training a model with statistics based on the writing that was either paid for by a site publisher in the hope of earning ad revenue, or contributed to the community for free.

If a model was to add attributions to each of its answers, then perhaps the search engine analogy would hold. But, they don't (and right now, to my understanding, can't.)
*what they believe it's the most important document in history (because most have been indoctrinated from a very young age to believe so)
> Clearly you did not comprehend the linked article. Surely a regime that appointed bureaucrats to be stationed locally in their administrative areas for nearly 200 years means it was Terra Nullius all along!

So if an Island belongs to no one, but is inhabited by people, and someone decides to sail to the Island and take orders from their home country. What you're saying is that it now belongs to their home country? And that means the entire island was adminstered and accounted for?

> Your nonsensical comparison to Ukraine just further reaffirms that. Nobody said a word about Ukraine until you tried to shoehorn it with gross disregard of the history of Ukraine.

Doesn't matter if I mention Ukraine or not. You're trying to argue that sending some people in and then saying "this belongs to me because I'm here" is a valid enough claim. If you make that claim you're supporting the CCP and you're supporting Russia. That simple.

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This is usually below the level of abstraction I am working on. I have questions. Before madvise, did people simply assume that a memory page is always 4kiB in size and built that assumption into so many programs? Is that why many programs break? Why did they assume that? Was there at least something like "size of int" or so around before madvise? And if so, why did they not use that?
How it works is we have tied up with many home based dressmakers. We deliver order we get from online to them . Its like uber of personal dressmaking. it also generates work for many women based entrepreneurs.
It seems for some our industry is not boring and tedious enough.
It’s a no-brainer for low margin stuff like gas and groceries. That’s why credit cards offer 10x points or whatever on that kinda stuff. Could totally see e.g. Costco moving off Visa.
Technically speaking, in Judaism and Christianity Abraham is not a prophet (which is a very specific term), he’s instead a patriarch.

And in terms of being the first, that’d be Adam.
If it was only AWS.

Cloud OSes are nothing more than a return back to timesharing in new clothes.

The pendulum has swung back into thin clients, browsers and mobile OSes are the new terminals.
> In general, to my ears “Abrahamic religions” is a forced academic classification, and doesn’t point to any actual spiritual kinship shared between the religions thus classified.

They all share the same god and the same origin story, and even share religious sites. Compare them to any other religion, and they are quite close.
It's a numbered manuscript by Edsger Wybe Dijkstra, one of the most influential members of computing science’s founding generation [1].

The issue stems from the word "index" in the sense of "to count" .. that the first cell is numbered 1 makes sense to some.

What is actually happening is measurement, or the offset from the origin of memory.

The first inch starts at zero on the tape measure and ends at 1, that first inch has an offset of zero.

For all manner of reasons to do with measuring memory as one might measure wood a great many people think in terms of memory offsets.

[1] https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/
> So you are saying we should prosecute MS because co-pilot is distributing the copyrighted work?

yes, isn't that what very many people are saying?
Thats great but if you want to have latest design and personal fit you will have a hard time explaining that to your local tailor :)
The last time I used Yelp was when it asked me to install their app to use the full feature set.
>It's very possible that a judge will rule that AI models do not violate copyright

Would that mean you can simply use one AI (or more) from anyone else to train another AI?

Of course access can always be limited to an API with rate limits and per-request costs, which would make it difficult to straight up copy the whole thing, but it would be hard to justify any legal protections against it.
This “ML learning is not like human learning” fallacy is all over the place lately. It’s stupid, and it should stop.

Humans are capable of both facsimile and imitation.

The fact that ML is able to perform facsimile far better than a human can is not evidence that this is “not the same” learning. Only that ML learning is superior. ML is far superior in feats of both imitation and facsimile.
Also how do you translate concepts that were clearly known to the readers to modern times. Do you entrust that readers have someone to tell them what this would've meant, or do you adapt to something more apt in their language. For example in countries where they don't each bread made from wheat or that isn't a staple, daily food, what do you translate for bread?
> The continuity is direct, both historically and theologically.

Theological continuity would mean that Islam accepts and extends, ie that Jesus is the anticipated Messiah subsequently crucified and risen, not to mention accepting Jesus as the son of God and final prophet.

I have yet to find any Islamic faction that holds that to be true :)
Apple still do plenty of AI, no? Eg the whole horse-detection thing. Maybe it’s something more specific that you dislike?
I think this is exactly right, and also applies to any models based on web scraping. If you're scraping the web and building a set of weights based on language or images that people have developed, _fine_ as long as you release the model without charge and/or at cost (given that the cost of model training in this way is still expensive, earning back expenses is reasonable).

Otherwise every word typed and every image uploaded is contributing to the development of products that will increase the power of mega-corps over time.
Yes, the training is based on predicting a missing word. At first, such a task allowed GPT2 to generate paragraphs that were surprisingly coherent, at the user's request. ChatGPT added a novel ability of conversation.
Regarding timestamps, the training did include many examples of timestamps in JSON format.
I still would pay for good search without ads. Definitely google should make more than me clicking ads, which, in the past 20 years (or however long it is that google has apps), happened 0 times. I know why, but there must be a model that works like that?
So that if it starts killing people at some point, you can debug it or maybe figure out why it has done that.
This is the only issue I have with generative image models. I'd be using them myself right now but I'm too disgusted by how the sausage is made. Once the first licensed, properly sourced models are out, they will get my money or time.
In high school our Shakespeare books had the text on the left and explanations on the right. The explanations were mostly to deal with what you’re bringing up.
So copyright law should be rewritten? It doesn’t follow.
Without the "huge", I was even more curious as I thought it was something about infinite scrolling vs pagination, so adding the word made it less of a clickbait title for me.

...and I suppose if you're not a fan of the trend of paginated content being shortened and split into more pages, then even with the "huge" added, it would still be clickbait as it wasn't what you're expecting.
Glad to see a book by Andrei Martyanov being recommended here. I have read all three of his books. There is no reason to trust or agree with everything he writes, but unfortunately the current trend is to try and suppress any kind of discussion rather than try and understand someone's viewpoint.
I was describing these people’s motivation. It goes without saying that that’s what they believe.
Oh yeah it's definitely still an issue right now! But I think the power of ChatGPT's ability to understand and execute instructions has convinced most people that "prompt engineering" isn't going to be a career path in the future.
I run containerized Vikunja, you can take a look at https://github.com/rounakdatta/homelab.setup/blob/main/roles... for a starting point.
I don’t understand this comment one bit. GoLand is a decent IDE. Go is a fairly fast compiled language, likely to produce faster code than the average AWS workload.
Eh? Have you seen the mess that is the British measurement system?

Distances are in meters if they are short, miles if they are long, Leeds will be 275 miles away from your gas station that would charge you by the liter so would be most other liquids unless they are milk or beer, then you’ll get a mixtures of metric pipes with inch threads and inch pipes with metric threads, when you buy a property the land would be demarcated in acres, build up area in square feet and priced in meters squared… and when you over eat because of all the stress of having to memorize 1000 different measurement units your doctor would tell you that you gotta drop a few stones…
And we use tools to create those too!
> Google has lots of useful products that aren’t advertising-based, but they mostly seem to be loss leaders.

which ones ? I lost track of google products in the recent years
Since a lot of people put a lot of faith in these texts, their importance is not just a mere belief.
Ten years is a lot of time, but is it enough time for the current Koalas package [0] to truly die and leave the name for the next dataframe library?

[0] https://koalas.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Only if the person generating that content is able to earn greater profit than the fine, before they are stopped.
I'm sure this topic is already the subject of much discussion, but from the sessions I've had with ChatGPT, it's quite obvious it doesn't really "understand" very much in the way humans do. At best it seems to understand what question you want an answer to, but it often fails miserably even in simple cases (try asking it how many letters certain words have, or to give examples of words ending in a particular letter etc.).
But sure, eventually it may overcome those cases and make an excellent mimic of an intelligence with understanding. If it's genuinely able to produce output accurately emulating all the sorts of logical reasoning humans can do then it may well be impossible to distinguish it from "the real thing" (whatever that actually is...)
Does Apple use paste or pads in the MacBook air?

Edit: to answer my own question it looks like Apple uses thermal paste but the cooling in the M2 MacBook Air looks extremely flimsey to the point of being almost non-existent. I doubt it will be affected much at all by this.
Like we write Slack/Twitter threads, Vikunja's comment system will easily help you with that. Love its fluency and simplicity!
I picked up the habit of putting a line feed after most puncuation from writing troff(mandoc actually) manual pages, where it is almost required. That it also works in html and markdown is nice.

The main advantage is that you get really nice diffs.
Kagi.com - paid for, ad free, searching.

I don’t work for Kagi, just a very, very happy user.
Well, I don't know. Corporate cultures are quite "sticky", in my experience. If a company is founded to exploit banking automation, I suppose it's likely to go on focusing on that expertise until it doesn't work any more.

So are you saying that CapOne is nowadays completely different from how it was in 1997? That would be an interesting comment. But you haven't actually said anything; you've only snarked.
> ... i can't wait for them to crash completely.

But wouldn't Google, even without search ads (which are only up +4% YOY to $40 bn), still be a hundred of billions behemoth? Sure it wouldn't have a 1.3 trillion cap without search ads but Google is also Android, Chrome, ChromeOS, Google Workspace / Google Suite (which, what, 7 millions of SMEs are using), cloud services, etc.

I don't see Google "crashing completely" anytime soon.
I would do too but apparently big companies doing search right now aren't interested.

To me at least there is no indication that AI will fundamentally change that (unfortunately).
The hammer analogy makes me feel obligated to post this classic: https://gwern.net/docs/cs/2005-09-30-smith-whyihateframework...
central business district.
Last line in the paper:

>Perhaps the ultimate dream is a fully unsupervised learning machine which is given only signals from the world and which finds their statistically significant patterns with no assistance: something like a baby in its first 6 months.

Keep in mind how a baby does with some supervision and assistance rather than none.

Until dreams come true I would think different levels of supervision and assistance would be key to somewhat functional operation.

Once perfection is achieved then the ideal judgement could be made about overall system maturity, and people should be able to plainly see if it is wise to go with less supervision or assistance, and to what degree.
There was a paper here recently which showed there were a large order more locations s for this than previously thought.
20 new AI based products this year? We might need to order some headstones.
> This level of incomprehensibility is worrisome

The brains of other people are just as incomprehensible.
The Stable Diffusion suit alleges copyright infringement, stating that, “The resulting image is necessarily a derivative work, because it is generated exclusively from a combination of the conditioning data and the latent images, all of which are copies of copyrighted images. It is, in short, a 21st-century collage tool.” That characterization is the essence and conclusion of the lawsuit, and one with which many AI designers would disagree.

I didn't expect to be defending copyright law, but the excerpt is ridiculous. It's clear that the images are a product of the prompt and training set. The legal side of fair use and copyrights is best left to the courts, but the real question is how to divide the profits. Because the training dataset is so large and the technology plays such a crucial role, it may not make sense to pay much (if anything) for each individual image in the training set. There's no clear cut answer.
Exactly. And the hills are not actually that far away.
Google tax. Why such patterns are not outlawed?
youtube, GCP, android/pixel.
> Yes, that’s right, people crusading in the name of open source–a movement intended to promote freedom to use source code–are now claiming that a neural network, designed to save programmers the onus of re-inventing the wheel when they need code to perform programming tasks, is de facto unlawful.

This really shows you don't know the movement it self.
People want credit, and sometimes put conditions to use their work(GPL and copyleft), and when the AI doesn't follow these guidelines, then its breaking these copyright laws.

Not everyone is willing to willy-nilly give their code for nothing.
Americans have a weird fixation on translating the Bible. No religion apart from Protestants attempt to interpret holy texts without supporting ancient commentsry.

Jews have the Talmud and other commentaries, Muslims have hadiths, Orthodox and Catholic Christians have centuries of commentaries by saints, similarly Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism and others all have many supporting texts, not just a single canonical one.

Yet Protestant Americans are looking for a "perfect" translation so that they can magically understand a text that was never meant to be a single text nevermind interpreted on its own. It's also strange that Protestants trust the Orthodox/Catholic church to decide what is scripture but throw away commentary by saints, including those who lived through the councils that decided what is considered scripture.
The only significant bit of preprocessing by the language model is tokenization. You can see how it works here: https://beta.openai.com/tokenizer
> They are not any better or worse than MS/Google/Amazon etc…

You sure? I would be surprised if MS, Google and Amazon are the same when it comes to how they handle and use PII. Note that I say that "I doubt", because without having gone the length of issuing a GDPR right of access request with any and all of them it is more of a gut feeling based on personal experience than hard facts.

> What about uploading every binary you run to their server to check if its “approved”?

You are either being dishonest or misinformed.
For one, they don't upload binaries. Secondly, the more important function is checking that it isn't known malware, and thirdly they also do not (no longer) log PII like IP address or user id when performing the check. [1]

1: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202491
I am following the YC playbook to validate the idea before I go ahed and build a functioning MVP, It'd be great if you could drop your email.
> Here are some examples of transformations it can make: Golden gate bridge:

I'm on mobile so can't try this myself now. Can it add a Klingon bird of prey flying under the Golden Gate Bridge, and will "add a Klingon bird of prey flying under the Golden Gate Bridge" prompt/command be enough?
Using Siri is an exercise in how easily frustrated you can be. Most of the commands of misunderstood, the rest of them ends up with the reply "Sorry, I can't help you with that while you're in the car", even when you ask the most basic questions.

CarPlay in general feels like such an afterthought, so not that surprising that Siri sucks there too.
That input is 610 tokens. With the actual prompt and the response let's say you hit 1000 tokens. That would be 2 cents per question then.

Not sure how often do people ask Siri questions but that seems like it would not be a significant cost for one user. If you were to build a service on top of it, that might be expensive though.
The stuff they charge for that makes up the rest of their revenue:

Cloud, Photos, Drive storage, YouTube Premium, etc.
What would be the difference between this futuristic case and:
- Bob kidnapping Alice
- Alice not being found
- Bob's guilt of the kidnapping is proven in court

Bob could claim e.g. that she escaped after being kidnapped and he's no longer aware of where she is.

Alice's dead body can still be found at some point, which could prove that Bob killed Alice; or she can be found alive, but because of any reason did not want to be found.
People have translated the Bible for hundreds of years now. They have interpreted, expounded and preached it for a way longer time already. The problems are interpretation details and questions that cannot be definitely answered because the texts were composed millenia ago. This is a field where GPT is truly redundant.

Also, since it was trained on modern-day texts, it is very ill-suited for this task. And there might not be enough ancient texts to properly train a large model that could be used to extract hidden knowledge.
What's the most painful thing about online shopping?
Companies like Amazon have made online shopping simple and accessible, but I believe that online shopping is still broken.
Finding a product is still a manual process where you browse through products on different websites.
Search on e-commerce websites just doesn't work.
We still browse through category lists while finding our products, like we used to do 20 years back.
That's backwards. Do you think these companies are actually willing to negotiate deals with each artist, content creator, website, and code repository? The scale of that alone would sink their business, not to mention the cost.

Worst case scenario - you're right, they're willing to go through that and the authors actually get paid something rather than nothing.
Dreambooth is what I'm using now, but I think I remember the concept had a specific name, something like 'context transfer' or so (pretty sure that was not the term) and tools that were pretty good at it that came out before Dreambooth. If I could at least remember the term it might be easier to search for them.

Dreambooth is ok at it, but it requires multiple images (you often read 30, but I've actually had decent results with as few as five) to recognize what it's supposed to replicate. I remember there were tools that were more adapted to the workflow "create a humanoid cartoon character with a bunny face", pick one image that you like, and then "now show that same character in scene X, eg teaching in a classroom" or "wearing a cowboy outfit".
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