skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep - had this discussion today. The problem is that building high quality modern 'AI' tools requires a metric assload of data. Right now everyone is running around scraping the Internet indiscriminately for that data and building the best things that they can. The next step is that the creators of said training data want their cut, and the lawyers step in and shake out the industry for the next few years. Precedent is set, laws are made and content creators get to license their data for training these AI models.

Once those laws are in place, the moat is dug - and large corporations with access to capital vacuum up good training data in bulk. The whole time loudly proclaiming that they're 'empowering creators' and 'rewarding original thinkers.' Now the large corporations have the largest and best datasets tied up and neat, deep moat. Any startup wanting to challenge the incumbents could have significantly better models, but without access to the same quality and volume of training data, they'll be at a massive disadvantage.
Chrome has a a USB interface; I'm guessing identification and ejectionnis required functionality fir dual-mode USB devices that may present as storage devices foe driver installation.
The purpose of this ball is to get media outlets to play a story about Wilson basketballs. It’s a marketing play, not a product.
Subway hasn't regularly dropped produce more than once a week for years. It's not fresh like the business model / motto used to say/be.

That phrase should be retired.
Instead of going back to Twitter, I just took some time to disable boosts from the noisiest people and it already did wonders to S/N.
So hopefully the Chrome store review process is the nanny they need.

The only thing that has permission to read and modify website data on my browsers is my password manager. I trust it. Without that permission it could not operate and provide me immense value. Yes, I would be hosed if it got pwned. It's a calculated risk on my part.

One cannot live in a world where we have the benefits of browser extensions and also disallow all behavior that could ever possibly be used for bad. It's an inconsistent worldview.
Please dont make up alarmist analogies to try and support your point. You introduce unnecessary points of confusion with 1) whether your scenario even fits and 2) whether the outcomes even make sense.

Stick to the actual situation wherever possible.
You also have an agile option: release early and often! Use the feedback you get from users/customers to decide what to do next and when to stop.

The problem with waterfall approaches to "fixed" endpoints is that at the beginning of a project you know the least. It can be comforting to imagine that you can fix an endpoint up front. But most projects worth doing result in a lot of learning along the way. I have heard of very few projects that did their 1.0 release and were so successful that they just stuck with that release forever.
Well yes, because there was no welfare state or income taxes.
This doesn't seem like an effective counterpoint to me; it feels like, to put it harshly, the same sort of conjecture crypto enthusiasts use to point out how Bitcoin will be used to fight the man. The average american is now way more productive but those gains they thought we would get with the advent of the computer (4 day work weeks, 5 hour days) never came; instead Americans work the same, produce more, but get a fewer piece of the pie. If anything I expect these trends to continue as AI becomes more commonplace.

In other words, why is this time different?
I agree. I think it's imperative, but will come piecemeal...one industry at a time, and always too late.
Side note: Under general relativity there is a coordinate system in which the earth is at rest. Not a very natural system but mathematically existing.

And part of a meditation practice is seeing how the reality of your experiences is more like the reality of a co strict and less like the reality ofm
Here's an instance at the University of Paris of students behaving as hooligans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1229_University_of_Paris_strik...

And these guys kinda sorta originated as students (student clergy mainly): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goliards

And in general the students had a lot of power https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/8956... (this PDF has a lot of examples):

> Both students and faculty enjoyed a number of privileges from the state in the Middle Ages. Most of them were not new. From pre-Christian Greece, teachers and students had been free from taxation, free from military service, and in many places free from arrest and trial by civil authorities (Norton, 1909).

> But these privileges did not automatically come to students and faculty. It was because they did not enjoy the same protection as citizens of Bologna that the foreign students organized themselves into nations. When they gained power, the students were almost insatiable in their demands.

> The townspeople were cowed by the students and the professors, both of whom used the migration as a threat to force compliance with their wishes. Threats by students and faculty to move to another city were by no means hollow. Migrations were quite common during the Middle Ages. Most of the major universities of Europe were begun or developed by professors and students who had become unhappy at Bologna or Paris.

An earlier incident at Paris:

> In 1200 a battle in a tavern at Paris resulted in several students being slain by police. The king, fearing the students would migrate, condemned the police and ordered the burning of the homes of the citizens who had fought the students. He also decreed that in the future police must hand students over to the church for punishment, and required that Parisians take an oath not to harm students and to report anyone seen harming a student.
2) The common opinion is that it's a rainy day fund. The church has a lot of expenses, including lots of real estate and fancy buildings worldwide. If there was a drop in tithing or a major economic recession, they want to be able to weather it for an indefinite period.

4) Nothing major has been done. Last year, there was a church policy update that states

> ...using friendship or a position of trust to take financial advantage of another is “a shameful betrayal of trust and confidence. Its perpetrators may be subject to criminal prosecution. Church members who commit affinity fraud may also face membership restrictions or withdrawal. … Members may not state or imply that their business dealings are sponsored by, endorsed by, or represent the Church or its leaders.”

(https://www.thechurchnews.com/2021/3/31/23216752/updates-gen...)

But that's the whole of it. No recent major sermons call out MLMs and their ilk.
I had a 1.6M$ Chrysler Concorde :-) I sold 1000 shares of SUNW in December 1994, which gave me enough money to buy it for cash, which was really a huge deal for me. The stock then proceeded to split twice.

On the flip side, when Freegate was acquired, I took some of the stock I had that wasn't "locked up", sold it to buy a Subaru Forester for cash in 1999. Two years later that car was worth about $87.50. (at the value of the stock).

Those experiences definitely helped me appreciate that Stock != Cash.
Gotta love critics, they're never at a loss: are AI risk people upset by the endless rise of DL scaling? Then they're "imploding with despair about AGI"! Are they not upset or not doing [thing critic just made up with less than 5 seconds of thought, such as taking out debt or assassinating AI researchers]? Then, as I am told daily on Twitter, they don't really believe any of it after all!
If software companies sold knives, this is how it would work:

You market them as iButter knives. They are actually carving knives. Half of the users are 14 years old.

You give the knives away for free, but the knives steal 1% of any food they cut.

Sometimes butter knife needs an software update in the middle of cooking.

If you sharpen the knives you lose warranty. Company says you should buy a new one regularly.

They come with a bug, when iButter knife is used on Cheese, they spontaneously transform into chainsaws.

The company says it's not a real problem because using iButter knife on anything else is against EULA
You could easily grant employees "in the money" options that have a lower risk profile, and similar characteristics as RSU. This is effectively what an RSU is anyway, an option with a strike price of 0 that vests+exercises at some point in the future. Not to mention most startup options are granted at 409A valuation, which in most cases is below actual market value.

No meaningful difference between the two for the context being discussed above. Different tax treatment. Believe whatever you want though
These topics on HN (where I know the industry well) make me realize how stupid I must sound when I have strong opinions on things I have nothing but anecdotal experience with. It's humbling to realize that I must also say things that are on par with "can't chatGPT do their job" or "all they do is make slides".

In aggregate and over the long term (~100 years or so in the case of consulting), most services find a fair market value. If McK is a ~$15B company running at ~30-40% margins, it is likely delivering some value to someone who is willing to pay for it. That value may be overstated to people not paying for it, or they may not understand the value because they are not faced with the same challenges as the typical McK customer.

...and that's ok, they are not the intended market.
Great comment, spot on. Incentives drive behavior. This explains it correctly and cogently.
> Why not hire contractors or contract-to-hire for those bursty work needs?

To start, it's not legal. If the people you are hiring are doing the same work as full time employees, with the same work structure, you're not supposed to hire them as contractors.

> Or spin up a separate company and buy services from them?

I mean, companies certainly do outsource to third parties for "bursty" needs, but if you think this is going to be an important core part of your business going forward, why would you go through the organizational complexity to spin up a new entity? How would you explain this to recruits? "Congrats, you've been hired by the slightly shittier version of us, and when layoffs come you'll be the first to get cut." I mean, companies do actually kinda do that, but it's very much a hierarchical system - anyone with the ability to get hired by "main company" is not going to take a position with "shitty clone".
You're kind of an ass but this is very funny
Having done entire startups with release-early, release often approaches, I disagree. Customer feedback, used well, increases efficiency because you can test customer and product hypotheses, allowing you to stop working on the things that aren't worth investing in.

Is it true that you can be incoherent like this? Sure. But people doing waterfall approaches can also build incoherent projects divorced from actual needs. But it's perfectly possible to build a solid product and a good business model releasing early and often.
I estimate each year I spend one month coding and 11 months supporting, integrating, documenting, packaging, releasing.
NVIDIA very much doesn’t want that, but it sees the writing on the wall and needs to secure its future revenue stream when game streaming becomes fully viable for all.

GeForce Now at the 4080 tier costs $20 a month an RTX 4080 costs $1200>… if you live within the coverage area where you can stream at 120-240fps it’s almost a no brainer since the price of a high end GPU is 5-6 years of service in which you’ll get an upgrade every 18-24 months.

What NVIDIA lacks is deals with publishers or its own gaming IP.

I think that Google killed of Stadia not because it thought that game streaming is a dead end but because it calculated that it already has lost the fight to Microsoft and maybe even Sony since both of them now have racks or consoles to stream games from.

NVIDIA is just looking for a life raft because it can’t drop out of its primary market.
> whenever agile project fail, agile shaman say "you didn't do agile right!" grug note this awfully convenient for agile shaman, ask more shiney rock better agile train young grugs on agile, danger!
Two main things have kept me away from Blazor:

* Unclear state management story in Blazor WASM. There is a flux lib for Blazor but.. Ugh, I'm spoiled by MobX. Another project, Cortex.Net, inspired by MobX and uses Fody to make seamless fine-grain change subscriptions looked promising but the project did not gain traction :(

* Unclear runtime extensibility: How can I "plug-in" Blazor components that were not present at build time? That's a ASP.NET challenge in general TBH.

I REALLY want to want to use it though. That sweet, sweet isomorphism.
> We don’t have any obstacle left in mind that we don’t expect to get overcome in more than 6 months after efforts are invested to take it down.

Tell a robot to do something new and have it do it.
When AI provides value that formerly would have been provided by workers, that change allows capital to capture a larger share of the revenue. If this isn't counter-balanced, I think we have to call on the tools that Piketty and others have been advocating: institute wealth taxes, create giant sovereign wealth funds, and give every young person universal inheritance. If we really believe that AI will create a bigger pie, but exacerbate inequality, then let's build better tools for dealing with inequality.

But the other side of this is that large corporations will have the upper hand in AI only if the success of that AI is dependent on their other advantages (like having tons of data about all of us). The fact that model architectures are getting somewhat universalized seems to suggest that eventually there may be some highly reusable building blocks that will provide good outcomes ... when trained on enough data with enough diversity. And that data comes from everyone; if we insist on different data governance principles, we could support an ecosystem where anyone can create, train, and run their own AI services.
Can confirm. Steer clear of Nx.
> We don’t have any obstacle left in mind that we don’t expect to get overcome in more than 6 months after efforts are invested to take it down.

Are there any institutions that share this belief? I don't think there was a Kanban board and all we were needing to do was to move the "obstacles" into "done" and then be ready for AGI.

Also lesswrong is generally one of the most absurd websites in existence, when it comes to users. Don't state specifically what's left to create AGI because it could be an "information hazard"? Give me a break.
I snorted...stealing that line for future use :-)
You win the interwebz for today :-D
74% of all users? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_syste...
I'm one of those people, but I still prefer 4 days. I can then work on something else on the 5th day which I normally wouldn't get to do and keep my weekends for relaxing and not side projects.
Forbes 400 Self-Made Score: From Silver Spooners to Bootstrappers
> You could probably say this about anything that improves productivity.

AI does not improve productivity in the technical sense. Productivity improvements are the result of using better tools. I would classify better tools as force multipliers. AI is a force replacement as far as I'm concerned. If I'm using stable diffusion, I'm not painting, I'm writing prompts and hoping I get what I want. It's as far removed from the actual practice as it can be.
Reddit's astrophotography community is top-notch. The comments sections are often more interesting and informative than the headlines and photos.

Truly some pockets of gems in the rough on that site.
Out of curiosity, how long have you been in the workforce?
Definitely not exactly the same. Kanji and Hanzi are two different character sets - they overlap a lot, but each has common everyday characters that aren't in the other, and sometimes the "same" character is in both sets but written differently in various languages (e.g. 骨).
One baby aspirin a day can make the same claim, for probably a similar (compromised/elderly/older/comorbid) population,

https://nortonhealthcare.com/news/baby-aspirin-heart-heart-s...

No cited myocardial side effects from the aspirin to my knowledge, though the risk of internal bleeding is higher.

It has taken many years of clinical experience to refine and validate the aspirin recommendations. The COVID vaccines are really just out of the starting gate…nice to hear, but I’d like to see a comparison with other (less invasive/more benign) treatment options, e.g. think you have COVID, start taking baby aspirin.
I think the problem here is that politicians are mixing what happens in schools and what happens in the public. The public sphere has a bunch of people and interest groups very vocally airing all of the dirty laundry that they can find. And this will rightfully never change as long as we have a free society. I hope the vast majority of schools are more academic in class (especially K-12, there's room for more leeway in college as it's important to provoke and teach critical thinking).
Is it possible that AI is the real reason for a lot of these layoffs?
In anticipation and to force internal adoption of AI assisted workforce, they now have immediate need to replace the workforce they just laid off.
Companies can invest in AI with the money that would have went to tens of thousands of salaries and benefit packages.
The content on the modern internet should more or less already be proof of the headline.

That said, the idea that $60 is sufficient to disrupt multiple selected datasets is quite interesting, and then leaves me to wonder how the largest AI companies are presumably already aware of and defending against this - how much do you think it would cost to meaningfully attack / poison ChatGPT?
If you know of any material that's available on the internet I would be glad to read it
They just named the owners son some made up executive title.

It's not like executives are where they're at because of some exceptional skill.
I think I'm like this. I've pushed myself fairly hard with technical work in the past, and got up to about 80 hours a week for weeks at a time, but about 50 is my useful maximum without diminishing returns.
Social media for lead generation still does wonders
Decided to commit to social media lead generation for just 2 days and spend $0 on ads. This is what happens when you go all out on Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, etc. and then get 1000+ views and 70 signups!
I worked at bain..

The main purpose these companies provide is to rubber stamp decisions and claim that experts made them
I guess you really can't get less wrong than this...which makes them right!
Yes it is. And yes he is. Nonetheless, it doesn't discount the idea. The science says those generic blue disposable masks aren't virus-stopping. For all intents and purposes it was wearing nothing. Why do you think there was a time when Fauci was pushing the idea of wearing two masks?

How could they not have known that prior? The masks are rated for efficacy. The sizes of viruses known. These things have nothing to do with Stephens.

Sidebar: This is the second op-ed piece from a major publication that asks questions of the handling of the pandemic, but from less than ideal authors. Why is that? I feels like a "soft launch" of what will eventually be the left-leaning mainstream media finally admitting they over-sold "the science" that wasn't actually science.

https://www.newsweek.com/its-time-scientific-community-admit...
> AI Is Useful for Fascist Propagandists but Probably Terrible for Anyone Else

FTFY
The problem isn't that AI fraud is hard to deal with when they're found. The problem is that there's so much of it that the AI fraud itself is acting to exclude real voices by drowning them.
That’s called an SLS machine and is way more expensive than household FDM (filament) and SLA (resin) printers.
It predates modern ML, but that's what Suzuki-kun does:

https://www.gavo.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/ojad/
Not my experience over a decade or so, but sorry it was yours. Sounds awful.
I would be curious to see a company do 5 out of 8 instead of 4 out of 7.
To be pedantic, the US has never been a democracy, it has always been a republic and it was built in to give land equal or more power than individuals. Though I don’t deny that it seems to be either in or approaching a failure mode (though perhaps the observant may notice it never worked as it was advertised even from Day 1, there was never really a success mode).
Without any explanation as to why, the article references several developments in robotics that have seemingly zero relation to its primary claim as evidence in support of its primary claim. Color me unimpressed and unconvinced.
> We sandbox apps to prevent them from reading each others data.

This is also true of web extensions. I suspect you've never developed one. You can't read another extension's data. It's also not true on desktop platforms. The user is still the security domain in desktop computing.

> As well as almost all regular software is backed by some large company with legal presence to hold responsible. The same can not [sic] be said for most extensions.

Is this true? All the browser extensions I use are published by a real legal entity that can be sued if they are negligent. What corner of the web are you on?
> Why is there no mainstream browser with an "Enable Tor" button?

Brave has it. I know you said mainstream, but just wanted rep them since it's the best browser on the market.
Better scrap the last 50 years of privatization as low-key racism.
I went down this rabbit hole on another RTO thread. Bottom line, it’s all a matter of feeling. Management wanting RTO feels it’s more productive for the org. WFH advocates wants remote work because they feel that they are more productive at home. Reality, both sides cannot really provide a lot of hard evidence to support their position, but the only position that really matters is the company’s position. If they want to RTO, it’s up to the employees to sell the company on WFH…and then be able to deliver measurable results exceeding expectations.
It seems like most people use the NHK pitch accent dictionary (there are TSVs of it online). I don't feel like it's particularly "pirated" though, can you really pirate the way people actually pronounce words?
Alarmist? In Britain we have sent ~800 innocent people to prison because a programming error said they stole money. The software development company testified in court that their software was great, despite many inconsitencies being pointed out.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal

I think it should be obvious that a poorly designed product can do much more damage than it costs, both through stolen data and by causing legal action

As software intrudes into physical world, the potential for damage will keep growing.
It’s not even just popups though, it’s the entire computer-using experience. Installing update 1/5. Log in to unsubscribe. You need to open up your 2FA app to access the password. Respond to this message. Your free trial has come to an end. iCloud is almost full. Would you like to install updates now or later? Our privacy policy has changed, accept? Rate and tip your Uber driver.

I’m mixing between phone, computer, apps, and websites but the point is the same. This software demands that I solve their problem right away before I can do what I wanted to do.
> it would be nice if there was a safety net in place to help people recover from having their jobs automated

Forgive my ignorance but is this not the whole point of civilized society? Social safety net are what my taxes are supposed to be for isn't it?

I'm from Europe living in USA and the discussion around "What if there were some way to pool our resources to help those in need" is always ... interesting.