skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course some people do. I know plenty of people view ex-FAANG candidates at least cautiously. Several of those people are now founders/CxOs at reasonably successful tech firms. Career FAANG people tend to have a polarising effect where they can be very good in some areas but have huge blind spots in others.

If you don't think this is true then I encourage you to look at the comments any time someone relatively senior coming from outside FAANG asks about being down-levelled when they start. There are always a few slightly too haughty people talking about how that outside experience doesn't translate and a different skill set is needed at high levels in a FAANG-style organisation. That's true - up to a point at least - but it goes both ways.
No, the grandparent poster was right. That’s other agencies, not the intelligence community. He’s right that the cloud I was thinking of is on prem but with Amazon personal (that are cleared).

So not the greatest analogy. But still I think most doctors, lawyers etc should be okay with their own cluster running in the cloud.
I am sure the uber-drivers felt the same way when we got the first glimpse of CNN driving a car back in the mid-2010s. Almost a decade later and we have now accepted that self-driving will not happen within this decade and without another leap in AI technology.
It is going to be similar to manufacturing in America. Instead of thousands of workers building a car, you have 100 workers building a car assisted by robots.

For example in the corporate world, you have people whose jobs will be semi automated. Some that come to mind is instead of having a PM managing 1-3 projects you will have an AI assisted PM that can now manage 10-15 projects. Another example is an entry level engineer who usually works on well defined tasks. They will be able to type in plain English what the feature is and have most of the code generated for them.

I think the next generation of startups will be built on architectures that the LLM can understand easily and a lot of research will go into that. For example, maybe an LLM is really good at understanding micro service architecture or something.
That's one of the definitions of the Singularity. Assuming it doesn't quickly hit diminishing returns, at that point in time, you would get a so-called "fast takeoff" of superintelligence.
I think you are making a distinction between positive rights and negative rights; not human rights.

If it was supposed to be a a well-defined set of core things, where are you drawing that set from?
They were just examples.

Isn't all programming just syntactical tricks?

We have a fundamentally different view of these things. Mine is serving me well. Yours isn't challenging mine.

Let's agree to disagree.
Hyperconverged is all about software defined storage and compute. You can create those service boundaries all on one cluster and pool like nodes together to create one big mesh of compute and storage. The precursor were things like EMC and NetApp storage clusters which typically had 2-4 "compute nodes" with a rack full of direct attached storage. This created a massive problem come upgrade time, and the term was called "forklift upgrade" [1] for a reason. With HCI you can add and replace single boxes as needed.

Also, latency is not an implementation detail for a lot of data-intensive workloads. We're talking differences of 1-10ms latency for Network Storage and 250-500µs for a local NVME SSD.

[1]: https://www.architecting.it/blog/what-is-a-forklift-upgrade/
Hell, Twitter's reliability has been atrocious for a long time.
Dreaming Spanish is well reported for Spanish learners. For other languages it is harder to find something.
Sounds like an easy problem to solve if this is actually the case.

OpenAI just has to promise they won't store the data. Perhaps they'll add a privacy premium for the extra effort, but so what?
Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose.[0]

[0] https://americansongwriter.com/me-and-bobbie-mcgee-by-kris-k...
dang commented on this in the GPT thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35157344

>All: our poor server is smoking today* so I've had to reduce the page size of comments. There are already a thousand comments in this thread but if you want to read more than a few dozen you'll need to page through them by clicking the More link at the bottom. I apologize!

>Also, if you're cool with read-only access, just log out and all will be fast again.

>* yes, HN still runs on one core, at least the part that serves logged-in requests, and yes this will all get better someday...it kills me that this isn't done yet but one day you will all see
Thanks, longer piece on that: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-40593353
You are absolutely right. That's what I said in my sibling comment so I'm not sure what's backwards. However, if your millions of little topics don't fit on a single machine - what do you do? You need a fat pipe. Hence you put your little topics into the fat pipe, send over the fat pipe to other mqtt brokers that need to disseminate egress.

Example - you have 1 topic with 1 producer and 20M consumers. Each consumer is a tcp connection. Say that you can do C1M happily, you still need 20 brokers to serve egress for all your connected clients. Now imagine that you have 100 brokers, 100M connected clients and your connections are randomly distributed over your brokers. You don't want to route every message to every broker because. So you need a fat pipe and some middle man that knows which brokers a message must be routed to because there are currently consumers connected to those brokers waiting subscribed to topics and waiting for messages. As someone who works on MQTT, you for sure understand the problem.

I have never heard of Eclipse Amlen. However, I am working with MQTT and Kafka since 2012 and have seen a nation-wide successful MQTT rollouts where MQTT and Kafka worked in tandem to solve exactly the problem you are talking about - millions of little concurrent connections distributed over a large fleet of devices for sub-100ms round trip.

It's not a competition, it's a coopoeration.
"it does remarkably well in smoothly guiding you towards new keywords/concepts/ideas"

Are you more effective at finding such new keywords/concepts/ideas with ChatGPT's help than without, or is it just that style of learning or its novelty that you prefer?
ChatGPT, unlikely. But with that said, we're already using AI optimizers to make better versions of AI chips like the H100, so take that with what you will.

Current GPT context is too low for this, I believe. We'll have to have something a little closer to AGI for this, and I'm unsure if a cyclic working memory (come up with an output, review the output, review that output, output) will get us to AGI itself. We still need selection functions that bind AI to the real world and not the dream state it lives in. Maybe just hooking it to compilers and allowing it to run test functions will get it a lot farther in self learning, but again, no one seems to know at this point.
And some, like MullvadVPN, don't even ask for common PII. No usernames, no email addresses, no passwords, no persistent billing information.

They could claw some information from certain payment providers (like if you used Stripe to top off your account) if they wanted, but you can pay your bill by putting cash in an envelope and mailing it, if you wanted to.
Genocide... seems like words don't have the same meaning that they used to. Killing soldiers is not genocide. You had people (probably yourself included) calling Russia's actions "genocide" a year ago already, long before the gloves were off in September (after Daria Dugina was murdered and the truck bomb attack damaged the Crimean bridge). What's it been after that, super-mega-genocidal? Give me a break. Genocide is nothing but a buzzword in this context.

> Here are several hundred instances where Russian politicians and media figures called for genocide

By that account Putin is a humanitarian hero, given that the actions of Russia have largely gone against "the wish of the people".

It also makes the shouts for "regime change" quite ridiculous - what's that supposed to achieve if the alternative regime leaders are among those quoted in the article? A more "true Russian" regime?

Should we make this fair, maybe I should put up a collection of what various Ukrainians have been saying about Russians (long before the 2022 invasion)? There is a lot of material there...

> If the United States invaded and tried to annex... [snip] ...people's tones would be very different.

Funny that you would bring that up. In fact people's tones are very different. I don't remember seeing people calling out "genocide!" in any of the war campaigns of the United States (Iraq, Libya, Syria, etc) that actually killed a lot of civilians, nor have I seen any calls to ban American athletes from any sports events, nor have I seen any suggestions for sanctions. The hypocrisy is mind-blowing.

> In the above link there are several hundred official statements from Russian politicians confirming that they indeed do want this.

And very few of the quotes are by Putin and the ones that are there are quite mellow. So again, if he's the "tyrannical dictator" that the west tries to portray him as he should instead be seen as a hero for moderating Russia's actions the way he does, wouldn't you say?
What, you don't enjoy saying four twenties ten and seven?
If you think things in the US are anywhere near comparable, you're severely underestimating how prevalent and severe this sort of retaliation/harassment is in India.
Reddit successfully killed most if not all web forums, and reigns supreme over that. Nothing even comes close; but some twitter/discord groups might be the beginning of the end.
Turing's thoughts on this matter seem to grow ever truer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMxbSsRntv4
Even that has an ad at the end, lmao.
All programmers that use AI just got a boost. I tried it and it is amazing, it writes complex code on demand like I never seen before. But competition also gets the boost. So now we have to compete with devs armed with GPT-4. Humans are still the differentiating factor, what company will use AI better?
Nuclear 40 years ago was the right choice. France did it not for the environment but for energy security. The Messmer plan today would be renewables.

The problem with nuclear is that it is extremely expensive, 5x the price of renewables, and slow to build. For every dollar spent on nuclear energy today, we are prolonging the climate emergency.
The old truism is that "in the short term things change less than you expect, and in the long term things change more than you expect".

I'm wondering if we're going to get into a circular problem of information "purity". At the moment these models are trained on entirely human created content (because that's the only thing that exists). That training data is therefore roughly as true as it can be.

But what happens when significant portions of the internet have been generated by LLMs? What happens when other models are unwittingly trained on them? Do they, very subtly just become worse and worse? Does the prevalence of these models mean that people write material less and less - exacerbating the signal to noise problem even more.

Basically, these models are just really efficient at recycling things that people have written. What happens when nobody writes much and it's just recycling things produced by a model?
Yes this is why I specified “having a friendly chat with a normal person.”
Do animals get to consent and understand the possible outcomes? Why shouldn't they get the same conditions?
Would make a good movie
> Pine64 dumps a lot of responsibility on their user base, but in their defense they do list nearly everything they sell with warnings about how they are for developers willing to put in the extra effort.

That's no excuse for problems in order fulfillment, poor communication of delays, and months of silent treatment when cancelling. The whole experience resembled buying from a flaky unresponsive ebay seller.

It's just not operationally well run in my experience, YMMV.

The disclaimer is acceptable for things like dead pixels or poor/unstable driver support... I'm not referring to anything along those lines.
And then when they see you slightly confused they inevitably just say it in English.. rendering your months of using Duolingo pointless
The US shouldn't have shut down the FFTF. Had we not shut down advanced reactor development we could be 15-20 years ahead of where we are.

Talk about Gen 4 reactors started around 2000, test reactors and development projects for Gen 4 reactors are going into high gear.

https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Chinese-molten-s...

It would be nice if these were coming online in the next 10 years but don't think our need for energy suddenly expires in 2030 or that we'll be completely happy with renewables by 2040.
Agree. I am also afraid of the same. That is the reason I have started sharing here on HN. Just my little effort to save democracy.
Looking up react plus react-dom version 18 when minified and gzipped is... less than 50KB total? Do I have the wrong number?
My Dad was in banking in the UK and told stories about inter-bank transfers in London in the 1930s that were effected by two low level employees physically exchanging documents. He said he was always very careful to get a firm grip on the receivable briefcase before releasing his grip on the deliverables.
> nuclear over-regulation

Ah yes, the classic too much regulation.

I'll just leave you with this. There's too much to quote from here, but here's just one excerpt. The post has numerous examples of very concerning issues.

> When valves leaked, more leakage was allowed — up to 20 times the original limit. When rampant cracking caused radioactive leaks from steam generator tubing, an easier test of the tubes was devised, so plants could meet standards.

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna43455859

> The proposal comes as most of the nation’s nuclear power plants, which were designed and built in the 1960s or 1970s, are reaching the end of their original 40- to 50-year operating licenses. Many plant operators have sought licenses to extend the operating life of their plants past the original deadlines, even as experts have warned that aging plants come with heightened concerns about safety.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/17/climate/nrc-nuclear-inspe...

> The nuclear industry is also pushing the NRC to cut down on safety inspections and rely instead on plants to police themselves. The NRC “is listening” to this advice, the Associated Press reported last month. “Annie Caputo, a former nuclear-energy lobbyist now serving as one of four board members appointed or reappointed by President Donald Trump, told an industry meeting this week that she was ‘open to self-assessments’ by nuclear plant operators, who are proposing that self-reporting by operators take the place of some NRC inspections.”

https://newrepublic.com/article/153465/its-not-just-pork-tru...
Everybody is talking about how expensive nuclear is, and how wind and solar is a much better option.

But that assumes we can actually mine all the copper, nickel, etc that we need. And do so without destroying fragile ecosystems and polluting regions where the mining is being done.

This was a great video about how dirty the copper mining in Chile is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNUbroQ2XZ4.

All I'm saying is, I don't think there are any free lunches to be had. To get off fossil fuels is going to be expensive whatever our energy mix is.
> A senior engineer can easily make almost triple that today.

Salary? Easily? Where?

I've been browsing a lot of staff and principal jobs on LinkedIn recently. Some Crypto firms are around $300k, and I've seen one or two Fintech with specialized knowledge at $400k, but by far the majority are in the $200k region.
> What we really need is a model that you can run on your own hardware on site.

we won’t have that until we come up with a better way to fund these things. “””Open””” AI was founded on that idea, had the most likely chance of anyone in reaching it: even going into things with that intent they failed and switched to lock down the distribution of their models, somehow managed to be bought by MS despite the original non-profit-like structure. you just won’t see what you’re asking for for however long this field is dominated by the profit motive.
I have no confidence they've achieved an acceptably low false positive rate.
Anonymous people regurgitate the thoughts of well-known individuals such as Paul Graham and Joel Spolsky. The fact that their thoughts are regurgitated is a testament to how well known they are already and how much their content is read by other people. Nobody is going to steal their limelight only on the basis of paraphrasing their ideas. However, if someone does write original ideas of their own, they may gain some notoriety for themselves.

Now imagine that Paul Graham and Joel Spolsky were able to read everything being written by every anonymous unknown on the internet, and create content paraphrasing any and every original thought that was created by anonymous individuals at will. How do the original creators of these thoughts have any chance to succeed on their own merit, if Paul Graham and Joel Spolsky (who everyone knows already as sources of ideas) are able to write the same stuff as soon as the anonymous person has made it public?
He didn’t do anything legally wrong. He didn’t consider the practical implications of deposit banking. For most of us our balances are low and things just work. Pulling $1M can be problematic if not planned in advance.

Kinda what happened to SVB. They’d likely have been fine if they didn’t tell people they needed money.
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I skipped it because you mentioned that part. I was merely trying to complete it.

The United States went to the moon in 8 years.

Where does “zero progress” come from?

The same article lists projects.

We’ve all heard of TerraPower, for example?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TerraPower
I'm worried when kids and teens see the capabilities of LLMs they will no longer be motivated to learn skills that the LLM easily demonstrates. Being able to write at the level of a college graduate used to be worth something. A person who was artistically talented used to at minimum derive some social benefit from the skill.

Writing and visual art are both skills that take a long time to master. Part of the pride and pleasure people feel from mastering those skills is the time they put in. We're diminishing activities that nourished people's souls for hundreds of years.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31948881 Design lessons from guitar pedals

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34025929 Vim pedal
very smug. you wont feel so smug when it doesnt hallucinate or commit logical errors in a few years.
Honestly the current content is not doing the platform any favors. Who wants another social media option that ranges from the inane to the toxic?

Reddit like forums, open source self-hosting, federation, these are all good points but people need to see how they make a difference in practice.

Mastodon somehow managed to be seen as a less toxic version of twitter, though it might be mostly peoples wish than anything intrinsic to the platform.

But all new entrants in the fediverse party will have to think how to convince people that social media are actually worth the hassle
Doesn't that happen all the time with actual humans?
To expand on this, nuclear risk is significantly underestimated:

> Despite significant reforms following past disasters, we estimate that, with 388 reactors in operation, there is a 50% chance that a Fukushima event (or more costly) occurs every 60–150 years. We also find that the average cost of events per year is around the cost of the construction of a new plant.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221462961...
> They will not allow their AI as a service without data collection.

Why wouldn't they?
If someone is willing to pay for the privilege of using it.
Bay Area remote workers at top paying companies aren’t competing internationally so much as across the US. Wages might go down across the board vs going up in other places due to the race to the bottom nature of these things. But housing and stuff will likely continue to go up.
Really enjoying my Chase Bliss Gravitas :)
What it kind of boils down to is: is it a tool, or an entity? One could argue that IDE's and Compilers each revolutionized the world.
I like to separate my politics from my technology.
Depending on the context, I often read FAANG to mean "a large tech company" rather than literally Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Google.

E.g. Stripe, Uber, Square, Microsoft etc would count towards "FAANG".

Do you think the environment at FAANG specifically is that different from other large tech companies?
Reddit's majority share holder is a massive publishing conglomerate. Why would they IPO...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance_Publications
Uh? To me they're just a convenient quick way to install stuff that I don't want to install system-wide, if I want to do some quick experimenting.

The normal, permanent, stuff gets installed system wide the normal way, with apt.
So don't use it to fill that gap? It's a tool so use it for what is good at, and don't try and hammer in screws with it. If you only program with libraries you are already an expert in, in languages you're also already an expert in, it might not present much value to you. For those that aren't already experts in both or either (say, when learning a new language at a new job), it's already great help.
> Some will say that we should be paying people differently based on different geographical locations. I know there are thoughtful people who pay folks differently based on their zip code, but (respectfully), we disagree with this approach. Companies spin this by explaining they are merely paying people based on their cost of living, but this is absurd: do we increase someone’s salary when their spouse loses their job or when their kid goes to college? Do we slash it when they inherit money from their deceased parent or move in with someone? The answer to all of these is no, of course not: we pay people based on their work, not their costs. The truth is that companies pay people less in other geographies for a simple reason: because they can. We at Oxide just don’t agree with this; we pay people the same regardless of where they pick up their mail.

That was an interesting take on geographic pay differences.