skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's bizarre to me is how common both these sort of stories are, but also stories of American parents beating their kids as if that's a normal thing. Where are these child protection services in cases of actual child abuse?
No one in my company ever replies to any emails therefore it is now a notification system only that no one bothers to read anyway.

What I need is a Slack bot that does what you want now. Slack is the electronic equivalent of shoulder tapping.
Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems

Martin Kleppmann
Yes real GDP grew by 2.9% annualized from Jul 1 to Oct 1: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=Zsj4
What does going viral on Twitter even mean when no one is using Twitter anymore. That other bots, that don't use the bots API, find your used hashtags interesting?
Brilliant. Would be nice also to see what's playing. When I've scrolled and clicked a lot of songs and realize I like it, I have no idea what I clicked!
Seems to work well on some stuff, not on others. I get that AI is able to correlate things that we can't really detect because we don't experience music as a raw waveform. But the emotion and sentiment in the vocals regardless of music genre is something that can link sings together in a playlist, and I don't see how this could do the same unless it's also considering mood tags (if you can get access to decent quality tags) and lyrics.
From https://twitter.com/StriderMyshkin/status/162141843157589606...

>A pathway to a blazingly fast WSL?
Super sick, thanks for sharing this. I found some really interesting songs and artists to check out later. It's very time-consuming to listen through all the "matches" as many of them are not close to what made the "source" track appealing to me, but that's difficult to quantify for each song. Still, tons of stuff bookmarked and added to my Bandcamp wishlist :)
They run through a seamer right after the filler. I work in the industry. It's a neat process. The can exits the filler, a lid releases and is seamed just after.
Why would anyone respect patents for military hardware? It's for war, where's the respect in that?
Ah yes, "I've personally not seen any _credible_ evidence of anyone withdrawing funds from Wells Fargo, so that means it's never happened". How do you think exchanges are able to function if they can't redeem USDT for USD?
What is a real-time data cache and why do you need it?

Have you ever found yourself re-inventing the wheel as a data engineer to ultimately build some APIs?

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> Ultimately, I was left with the feeling that, like its powerful algorithm, TikTok built its transparency center to show people what it thinks they want to see. The company seems to have realized that it won’t save itself from a US ban on the technical merits of its Project Texas proposal. The debate is now purely a matter of politics and optics. Unlike the tour I went on, that’s something TikTok can’t control.
Same for "duck jump" or "crouch jump" as well (which was technique used to move more silently).
There is no agreed upon definition for life, and certainly no information complexity requirements.
So my bot with a hundred thousand of followers is providing content and thus twitter should pay me for the content I provide right? Since I add value to the service?
You can call it the revenge of the softies. Rock thought it had it all worked out, geometric purity, eternal hardness, high atomic numbers, crushing abundance, first mover advantage. Then comes along Life, a freak aberration, barely indistinguishable from water, chaotic and brittle, ugly and arbitrary in structure, and it starts chewing on the mighty Rock.

Fast forward billions of years: the entire volume of the planet (where temperature allows macromolecules to exist) is alive somehow... Rock retreats to the molten interior
Nice work on this! As people have commented already, seems to provide more "very similar sounding sounds" versus recommendations.

I tried Glass Animals - Heat Waves, and after clicking through the recommended songs it's eerie how similar they sound to each other. As I would let the preview play and start the next song I sometimes thought my click didn't register because of just how similar one song would be to the last (https://maroofy.com/songs/1508562516 for those who want to see for themselves).
Why would they do that? It is their monetary incentive to have a healthy wine ecosystem.

Also, my experience is very much the opposite of yours — even very new games will work basically without a fuss with proton.
Jina AI Cloud Alpha Launch
The problem is that AI will not provide 1:1 tutoring; mentoring will be a luxury limited to the elite classes. The large majority will get the education equivalent of personalized ads.

The true insight and guidance that a good mentor can provide, based on the specific needs of the student, is already rare in academia but still possible - everyone remembers that brilliant teacher that made you love a subject, by explaining it with insights you could never have imagined. This will be missing in AI teachers (though it opens a career for online mentors who monitor students' learning and supplement it in areas where it's lacking).
I beg to differ. It's unbiased people like Carmack who tend to think out of the box. I don't think we can state that he did invent the FPS genre, but at the very least he was one of the initial catalysts.

People who work in the field for a long time tend to have a certain bias towards a solution. Often these people are stuck in a local maxima. Outsiders can offer a new perspective that results in a breakthrough, usually by starting from first principles or looking at different side-tracks that used to lead to a dead end.

A great example is Musk's SpaceX: when he noticed how much he had to pay for a rocket engine, he went back to first principles and said: "I'll just build it myself". Combine that with the insight that a rocket should be able to land properly to make re-use a valid option, and it disrupts a whole field.

And once someone did it, others know it's possible and start achieving it as well.

Sometimes ignorance is bliss. Just think about George "Good Will Hunting" Dantzig [1] with the (in)famous "I assumed these were homework assignments, not unsolved math problems" [1] or Eliud Kipchoge running a marathon in under 2 hours.

"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones."

- John Cage

High hopes!

[1] https://bigthink.com/high-culture/george-dantzig-real-will-h...
South China Sea occupation and island building tracker
We already paid with our data, by wasting screen space for tweets of accs we haven't followed.
does that need hundreds of articles to cover it or one is enough ?
Some years ago, I got so annoyed that I spent days, just sitting there, clicking the next recommended video, that I just decided to block youtube in the browser. I still had newpipe on my phone, and I used pipe-viewer (commandline youtube browser) on the desktop, to look up vids I found on my phone, so I could watch them on a bigger screen.

Later I discovered invidious, and recently the even better piped.

These days I still have youtube blocked, and I use newpipe + piped for my daily viewing. I still watch a bit more than I'd like sometimes, but it is a lot better than it used to be.
Note that Astrée was developed in France, by researchers from Inria. AbsInt sells it packaged as a product (with support, etc), but the bulk of the research was done in the 2000's by researchers such as Cousot.

This is also the case with CompCert, which is still developed mostly by French researchers (with an open-source, non-commercial license), and packaged in commercial form by AbsInt.
He won't retain ownership of it. The banks are already talking about how they'll run Twitter, since they expected him to default on the $300m interest payment the other day.
Yea, the pluralization rules of English are not perfect for programming unfortunately. Even when it works with the `s` at the end, it can be too small a difference visually, making it easy to miss.
It's probably still somewhat detectable by noticing that all requests to ad domains are taking a long time to load while requests to non-ad domains are loading quickly. There will be false positives and false negatives, but I think it can be pretty accurate for people who have good network speed.
right, except that nobody is buying stocks with tether.
The person who doesn't properly care for your dad, complains that he's not properly cared for, and thereby ensures that he gets worse care? That is backwards in every possible way. How is any of that shit legal?
I have a small number of old apps that are self-contained on the device, yet they won't ever get built for recent versions of ios. I'll be happy if I am every able to see those apps run again.
It's too late to edit my post, but the point of the CO2/methane thing is that if we found a planet that had lots of both CO2 and methane in its atmosphere, that is an atmosphere that exists in a non-stable equilibrium, which implies life.
This comment is the only Google hit I get for "take one watch or three". I suspect that quote should be attributed to ChatGPT.
Your points are taken, may rebuttal would be that monero is only worth at most about $3B and that much value is easily captured outside the banking system. It seems like one of those scenarios that will require a gargantuan effort in practice and at best you end up with drug-war style penalties without even choking out the lions share of the value, and even if you do something else just takes its place. It would really pain me to see my country going down that path again, but history does have a way of repeating itself.
I don't think so. I don't know what altitude its at but I imagine aerodynamic control surfaces would not be that effective. F-22 would be better, which is what we deployed.
He’s been going on about AI for at least a couple of years now: https://news.ycombinator.com/

A whole couple of years, eh? Wow, this AGI thing is taking forever!
Journalism under attack: turning a scam from the New Yorker into DIY opportunity
What do you mean by "original mapper"?

DoD started as a community project, most of the famous maps are from amateur contributors (anzio, caen, harrington, chemille, etc).
WSL2 is already “blazingly fast”, and WSL was no slouch either. They are both impacted by storage overhead, which makes that tweet look kind of misguided.
Quite frankly you're extremely unusual. As much as I sound cynical here, the only reason we use open source stuff in our production SaaS is because we don't have to raise a purchase order to get it or go through the whole onboarding process which is a pain in the ass. The money isn't even the issue; it's there and available but it's a bureaucratic shit show trying to give it to people. And the same is true everywhere I've worked for the last 20 years. Yes I know this is wrong.

Business idea: If there was a single corporate intermediatory who would handle all this sitting somewhere we could create a supply agreement with and funnel the cash through to the right people we could probably deal with it. We currently do this via AWS marketplace regularly so we don't have to deal with the paperwork.
Some reason? Storage is not free after all and many tarballs won't be fetched frequently I'd assume.
I agree with John that there are probably other people in his position (great engineers with a lifetime of experience and enough financial resources to focus on something like this for 5-10 years) who could have a go at this and have a reasonable chance at chipping away at AGI.

I also like his frugality, whether it’s optimising for hardware or financials.
If you already have some experience with graphics API, the Vulkan documentation/specification directly from Khronos is pretty well done and covers everything.
Then better to remove such bullshit jobs even further.
I'll concede that my knowledge is incomplete.

In my experience the IRS isn't dumb or unreasonable.

The purpose of R&D tax credits is to stimulate R&D spending. It isn't to penalize you for ordinary business expenses.

The following two scenarios should compute the same way:

1) You operate a software services business. 100% of the development you do is for other people. You bring in revenue and pay your team, which is a straight expense. You pay salaries, and you get taxed on net income.

2) You run a software business. You hired engineers to build software. You sell it in some way to bring in revenue. You deduct your expenses, pay taxes on net income.

Now, our government has decided that companies should be rewarded for doing R&D. This means that, if you were able to demonstrate certain expenses as R&D expenses - you get to claim the R&D tax credit for those expenses. Maybe this is how some companies expense certain employee perks (massages, lunches etc..) that don't get accounted as employee compensation.

There seems to be enough confusion on how to claim R&D credits, that many companies don't even bother:

- https://taxfoundation.org/research-and-development-tax/#Eval...
The whole WiFi ecosystem today seems like answers in a search of questions. What we really need is not speed, but connection quality, interference resistance and, maybe, in the third place - range. For speed we have copper or optic fiber.
Most math wizzes only learn to apply known methods, they don't invent new methods. The AI fields isn't full of people who are creative enough to invent new math methods instead of just applying methods they learned in school.
The “thesis” he speaks about only needs one example to hold, and he is it. So, not much of a “thesis” but a data point.

It is possible to survive a shark attack. Well, yes, but do not count on my to try.
> I love Doom and Quake too, but that doesn't qualify him any more than any other random senior engineer to work on something totally different

This means that people should glorify random unknown senior engineers they don't know about instead being fascinated by the person whose work is available and who created amazing things for past 3 decades?

> From his interviews it looks like he understands little about the technical details of ML

That's how everyone start, they understand a little. We have a person here who dealt with complex algorithms in difficult to master language for 30+ years. It hints at "this person has the intellectual power to grasp AI fast".

> I put him into the same category as Elon Musk

This is like comparing an Olympic winner with random person from the streets, saying their athletic ability is about the same.

Fascination and heroification with Carmack comes with a reason, people who do that are closely familiar with his work - not surface level like "He made Doom and Quake". You sound very jealous.
People say the same thing about billboard and TV advertisement. Yet they work very well.
Which is unfortunate because it has (on a tiny number of releases) instruments and vocal tags. It's just so unreliable. AllMusic is another decent source for tags, but not instruments. It's the age-old problem with ML/AI: data quality. Garbage in, garbage out. If only we could crowd-sourcev listeners and get them to tag music from a list of available moods, instruments etc. Oh wait .. that's exactly the feature that recommendations services have been removing for the last 10 years.
Wouldn’t this be literal slavery?

AGI = a person

Instantiating people for work and ending their existence afterward seems like the virtual hell that Iain M Banks and Harlan Ellison wrote about.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Have_No_Mouth,_and_I_Must_Sc...
I wonder what story would be told to the public to cover this up. Probably US Army would just blame soviets somehow.
Software developer job interview questions to ask
That's a whole lot of gatekeeping right there ;)

Big organizations ruled by money and career-driven people often run into very expensive dead ends without noticing for years (see the last AI winter, there was just too much hype, which then involved too much money being thrown around, which then lead to the usual organizational cruft).

I would also be very concerned about any field in technology, if an intelligent person cannot make meaningful contributions after a few months or years, that would probably mean the whole field is already deep into diminishing returns and needs to be 'unstuck'.
I dislike the ways in which HN submitters post every little twitter thread wrote by Carmack, but this article has some value in presenting a little more in depth perspective on how he is thinking about the AI problem.

Carmack has already entered two spaces of computer technology that he revolutionized: 3D gaming and VR. I trust that he's able to have a similar impact in AI, even if it's through failing at the problem in different ways than relying on ML.
You can right click your back button in your browser and a list will appear of recent history.

This is what I do when stupid, horny websites just refresh the current, stupid website rather than actually going back to where I was.
I'm surprised that the government hasn't started cracking down on unpaid overtime. It not only violates workers' rights, but also means less tax revenue. In other countries it's required by law to pay double for any overtime.
how can it by a spy balloon when the balloon material is white and reflective AF?
Even so, how do you get the 120M previews?
Pretty much yes: my points was that there are plenty of ideas that a rational individual would be convinced of, but that are basically unarguable logically to large parts of the population.

The flat-earthers are an extreme example, but not unique in any way.
Thanks man!

>I think with your background I would opt for a pre-made platform (there are many, don't have experience with any of them) where you worry mostly about the software.

Yeah guess this is realistic.

> Maybe, just use your laptop webcam or a Raspberry Pi to do computer vision, somewhat related to your DS/ML experience.

To be honest I just don't see computer vision as a challenge. Guess the interesting part comes in object manipulation. So if I could get a "good" robotic arm that in theory could make cup of tea. That would be great... It just seems there is nothing available, that is somehow accesible without spending more than 10k on it.
When ever people talk about terraforming planets I just think they sound insane. Like we don't know how a majority of our own planet even works yet you think we can recreate it?

If someone told me that we know more about space then our own oceans I wouldn't be surprised.
Lots of duplicate tracks! Is that costing you more to train? Like, if I type a song I find the same recording on the original album, single, greatest hits and a compilation album.
Yeah sounded weird to me too, I don’t see why artificial intelligence would get deployed in human size units most of the time. The AWS bill won’t be for 5 Amys, and I don’t think people will “dial up” to order them
DoD 1.3 is by far my most played game. Just a perfect fps in my opinion. Anzio and Avalanche were my favorite maps
With RAM sizes not keeping up with Moore's Law, it would make sense to have superfast compression as a pervasive, transparent and Hardware-accelerated feature of a modern OS. SIMD provides hw acceleration to some extent, and is clearly well used by the compression algos, its time that compression becomes 'just part of the furniture' as we're now at the stage where compression is fast enough that it can couple with reduced latency (smaller compressed blocks to load into caches reduces total memory latency) to deliver multiplicative speedups.
I have heard that proofs are a big part of advanced math, so that is one reason I am interested in proofs.

I should have listed proofs as a third topic.
Iran's F-14s come from the Shah era, though the Reagan administration did secretly sell Iran spare parts during the 1980s, as part of a scheme to fund fascist militias in Central America without having to ask Congress for the money.
This is really not a great time to rest an argument on the principle that exchanges function well with regards to dollar cashflows.
Wow. The songs it suggests have such a similar tempo and vibe that when I try it with songs I don’t know I can’t really remember which is which.

I wonder if this app has more potential for the record companies and songwriters in terms of finding copyright infringement than it does for the consumer finding new music they like?
If you need secret sauce to get things to work, you can have the patent invalidated.
It would be great to be able to interrogate the model. For example, I'd love to know what it found to be similar between Sound Chaser[1] and Mellotree Park[2] !

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eks6KcV2ufg

2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYPfbX0DmrE
The homepage is an empty page with just one search box in the middle. It does not work in firefox.
I disagree. I know of plenty of people in the AI field that might as well be mathematicians.
I'm using PostgreSQL and it has a built in encryption library (pgcrypto), so I'll probably use that.
Taking the initial phone screen with candidates
The weird bit is that a lot of software engineers seem to have the idea that their work is one of the the last that will be automated. Looking at the current track and extending it out assuming no unforeseen roadblocks, typical software engineering looks to be one of the most threatened. Plumbers are much safer for longer all things considered.

The obvious rebuttal to the idea that AI will eat software engineering is "we'll always need 'software engineers' and the nature of what they do will just change", which is probably true for the foreseeable future, but ignores the fact that sufficiently advanced AI will be like a water line rapidly rising up and (economically) drowning those that fall below it and those below that line will be a very significant percentage of the population, including even most of the "smart" ones.

However this ends up shaking out, though, I think its pretty clear we're politically and economically so far from ready for the practical impact of what might happen with this stuff over the next 10-20 years that its terrifying.

"60-80% of you aren't really needed anymore" looks great on a quarterly earning statement until the literal guillotines start being erected. And even if we never quite reach that point there's still the inverse Henry Ford problem of who is your customer when most people are under the value floor relative to AI that is replacing them.

I'm not trying to suggest there aren't ways to solve the economic and political problems that the possible transition into an AI-heavy future might bring but I really just don't see a reasonable path from where we are now to where we'd need to be to even begin to solve those problems in time before massive societal upheaval.
I think Iceland has a big (big for Iceland, at least) aluminium smelting industry. They don't have the ore, but plenty of cheap hydro and geothermal energy.
Brenda is described as having a "thick British accent" which is tantalising vis a vis how they met as it suggests she is from the UK, but unfortunately otherwise meaningless as there is no such thing as a (single) "British accent".
Firefox mobile makes it possible to use ublock origin to block ads.
Yep. Does it ever get around to answering the question implicit in the title: what is it that he is going to do "different" to the rest?

Seems more like he's talking to and following up with Altman, "Y Combinator conference" and the rest. Is that "bucking the trend", taking your own "path", really?
Also Frama-C/Eva: https://www.frama-c.com/fc-plugins/eva.html