skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's raining in Boston. Although points west and north are getting a lot of heavy, wet snow.

I'd need to look up the numbers but I felt like while we didn't get much snow at all that we got a *lot* of rain. There were a number of rainstorms where if it'd been rain we'd have been pounded. And when it did snow, not much stuck and/or it melted away in a couple of days. This isn't the only year I can remember that, but it's at least unusual.
Companies were struggling even in the non cloud world.

Add to that a cloud migration severely underestimated that involves refactoring of n legacy processes (and possible team reorganization), a "brilliant" idea of mapping AD roles and nonsensical forests into <insert propietary cloud IAM solution>, a new CISO coming in following the mantra of least privilege without taking the time to understand (and eventually help redesign) current operations, and urgent deadlines to meet/emergencies to manage/general unwillingness to change standard operating procedures for the new environments (trying to fit everything in the custom servicenow workflows that was designed years ago)... the result is either everyone gets its own tailored set of overpermissions, or broad wildcard roles that for some strange reason fit <insert compliance framework>.
> Tech companies...

Is Meta really a tech company? It takes a lot of technology to do what they do, just like Netflix. But their core business isn't technology pre se, it's social media and advertising. I don't think they're the same class of businesses as Microsoft or Apple. Google is closer to Meta in terms of their revenue sources, but they have a much more diverse technology offering.

They are trying to become a hardware company with their VR line, but it feels more like a hobby in the Apple sense of the term. I.e., a division with small revenues and without a clear growth path.
I'm saying that most predictions about the dystopian AI future are typical of any generation encountering a disruptive technology. They're exaggerated and built from assumptions.

They also always seem to conclude that the answer to these problems is to keep these machines centralized in the hands of big companies and governments, which is a very strange conclusion when they tend to get paychecks from those groups.

At the extreme end you even get these people talking about AI like it's going to be some monstrous world eating god.

All innovation has negative consequence.

Television lead to couch potato. 24 7 news. Television stars.

Radio killed the local performer.

Social media addiction and the erasure of culture and increase of depression.

Cars, if you go back far enough, got plenty of criticisms as well.

The AI powered future, should it come to exist will have downsides. You'll have a very different landscape to deal with as a creative where your artistic output isn't valued for individual works of art. You'll have very different expectations of how art and media is personalized. It will be hard to trust video or pictures or audio again, because they are so easily faked.

Our way of life, as it stands today, will not survive. That's not bad, just different.

The AI critical people tend to have some valid criticisms, but at the end of the day their criticisms are rooted in a desire to maintain a status quo until we are "sure it's safe" and that just doesn't fly.

We don't know how this will all pan out until we try it, so as we have always done, we will try it and deal with the consequences as they appear.
If you like thinking about this sort of stuff, you’d get a kick out of flipping through Christopher Alexander’s A Pattern Language.

Full of observations and examples like this from city scale down to room scale.
Right. Subtle propaganda could shape what arguments are used, how they are phrased, and how they are organized —- all of which can affect human perception. A sufficiently advanced language model can understand enough human nature and rhetoric (persuasion techniques) to adjust its message. A classic example of this is exaggerating or mischaracterizing uncertainty of something in order to leave a lingering doubt in the reader’s mind.
Why Are All Action Heroes Named Jack, James, or John?
Indeed, even with content... Somebody with ChatGPT and Grammarly can produce a humongous amount of content these days, and it will read really well to the average Joe.
I always reply to feedback. Seems only polite.
Yes, I agree with the GP’s main point that FB is still near or at top of market and that matters quite a bit more than HN sometimes gives it credit for.

Just wanted to clarify that it’s not quite what it was. Thanks for adding numbers.
Forgive me for asking, but why would you work at a place like that? Aren't you bored doing nothing?
It doesn't have to do any of that - if an AI assistant enables a team of 3 developers to do what just last year needed 6 programmers, then it has automated away half of the jobs, even if those 3 people are the only ones who can debug the code and look for resources when needed.
Why work on ad optimization when you can work on insurance billing optimization?
I believe a lot of the reason for the mild winter on the east coast and wet cold winter on the west is because of La Nina, which apparently just ended a few days ago after about a year of being here.
I don't understand this comment about Macedonians. They seem like a pretty distinct ethnic group, as evidenced by the unique language and culture. That was not just created out of thin air in any kind of recent time.

Are people upset about them adopting the name?
Hehe, I'll put it on github when it reaches 1.0.
And yet the Almond Bloom in California is continuing longer than I ever remember it.
>I was so happy when that company got acquired and the new company CEO showed up and announced that first level managers and below were all safe from layoffs, everyone above that was on a case by case basis, and "all executive staff were let go this morning, I saw no reason to keep those jokers around".

Didn't the executives employ any anti-takeover measures?
> So here's a hypothesis: Facebook is not a "technology company," it's an advertising company.

Hypothesis? They've been an ad company for a long time.
> hundreds of millions of dollars are burned in the process

Not burned. Those dollars went to lawyers, advertising platforms, etc.
> I normally respect Ars a lot for their reporting

I used to, but anything not Apple is usually met with mockery, disdain, or a combination of the two.
Government bonds yield 3-4%. I don't think they ever calculated with a margin of just 4%. It's true that liquidity has dried up to some degree and companies have alternatives what to do with their money, but it's not like they though they'd yield only 3% by hiring more people.
https://twitter.com/xlr8harder/status/1622849293571817472

It's intentional.
BTC !== Web3!

Neither are most other coins.
The mail-part is ridiculous, reminiscent of the latest episode of south park, which illustrates the impact of teenagers using ChatGPT to respond to their girlfriends messages.

Nature goes the path of least resistance, and nowhere is this more obvious than in human interactions. If your signal consists of three words, write three words instead of generating blobs of decorative noise masquerading as content, that serves no purpose but to be decoded by the same ai, but client-side.
Then there was the HotWheels PC...best of both worlds!
>I thought I could identify the people who made everyone slower and were a net negative to productivity. However, they never seemed to be the ones threatened to be fired.

Or maybe you're not as good of a judge of these things as you think?
What was the sci-fi book with "silvers" that were basically AIs that would handle administrata, set appointments and negotiate with each other for their humans?
The lack of self-awareness in corporate communications is suffocating, when instead it should be suffocating the folks who wrote these emails
The crisis begs to differ.
Could they have done better? Sure. Hindsight is 20/20.

Would it have been a reasonable assumption? No. As pointed out in the parent, every bank pretty much works like this, they're all liable to go under in the presence of a big enough run.

Also if it must have been so obvious to them, it probably should have been obvious to the regulatory agencies in charge of monitoring banks and avoiding exactly these situations, as well as the Fed who set the policies leading to this in the first place.

It just wasn't part of anyone's threat model.
I posted a screencast on Reddit earlier in the development process with audio demonstrating the text-to-speech feature. The UI has changed a bit since then, but you can hear what the voices sound like:

https://old.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/11k19en/i_made_an_a...
It’s infuriating because MS could literally press a button and make Bedrock available for Mac, since the Education edition (literally Bedrock) is already on Mac.

To MS’ credit, they were fast (~10 minutes) processing my refund for the Mac edition, and they saved me $30 because the iPhone Bedrock is $10 and works perfectly at full frames with minimal input lag when mirrored to my Macbook Air M1.

I use my Switch pro controller which “just works” when paired to my phone while my nephew plays on his Switch. I have an iPhone SE 2nd gen.

/edit we have to play on a realm because P2P cross-platform multiplayer is hilariously broken on Switch and MS timeline for fixing it seems to be “hmmm never”
> This will be great for morale and will likely only cause your A players (who are probably still very much in demand) to look elsewhere.

I imagine the vast majority of their ultra top-tier talent has left already unless Meta gave them gigantic bonuses.

The stock is down ~40% from where a lot of their RSUs were granted - more than 50% of their pay comes from those grants.

They've had a year of time to go somewhere else and make way more money - most of them probably took that unless Meta gave them a gigantic bonus to keep them whole.
The dconstruct.org site is a gem. Thanks.
I’m going to trust Meta’s sample size of probably thousands over your sample size of “multiple”.

I had six juniors join my team remotely and three are amazing, two are ok (do useful work but need handholding), but one is pretty bad. However I don’t know how that compares to non-remote hires so it could be that it’s worse.
You don't need the super-expensive stuff anyways. But you're obviously not going to get full frequency range (especially bass) on smartphone speakers.

Additionally, a few genres (notably some jazz and Western classical) as well as select recordings here and there actually do not have "loudness war" issues and might actually have good dynamics. For these, it's nice to have a system that can handle, say, the full blown volume swings of a Romantic-era symphony.

You can probably fulfill these requirements with a system far under $15K. :)

I actually was under the impression that the audiophile market (at least the stereotypical) was fairly "dead"; it was more of a thing in, say, the 1970s-1980s phenomenon (with a follow-up in the late 1990s with the home theater boom) when the gap between consumer electronics and hi-end electronics was a lot bigger, and there was a lot less technical information out there (so mythology over things like cables and flowery descriptions of sound were more rampant).
They have 2.9bn monthly active users.

Like, I left FB five years ago (after staying there for 5 years), and literally HN has been telling me that FB were doomed for all of that time.

I totally agree that TikTok is a very strong competitor, unlike what they've seen before, but writing FB off right now is probably not the wisest long-term decision.
In the paper he actually multiple times mentions that he's predicting what we will be using in the future. And, quite a few of his examples are along the lines of, "Imagine many decades in the future if we had XYZ." And, many of the things he's describing did not exist at the time.
I thought it was an a quite interesting article overall, and read the whole thing. Talked about Saddam's published book, his dislike of Bin Laden, him seeing on his birthday (on TV) how Iraqis really thought about him on his birthday when they weren't forced to celebrate it, and how the FBI were the only ones who acknowledged it at all (in part to build rapport), by bringing him homemade cookies, how Saddam at one point was tasked with assassinating someone, failed, and had to flee Iraq for several years before returning (before he became President), etc.
That's I wrote. Sure, it enables data integrity (maybe, but let's be charitable). Now what? How does the fact that token knows about external data prevents that data from being manipulated if needed? Or do you propose banning inheritances, lawsuits and other actions which apply to the real world artifacts just because blockchain can't deal with that? :)
That won't happen.
A new open-source project for creating the dankest memes
My goal is to create a totally open source, social media for creating and sharing memes. Most sites where memes are created aren't the places they're most shared. Why not cut out the middle man?

I have no financial incentive, just want to build a cool project with cool people and none of my friends (or anyone I know) can code.

I also have a lot of faith and ideas (vision) for this idea going forward, but, personally, I think I'm at the end of my rope with it. There's one bug where images (<img>) aren't captured on Safari when downloading the meme (.png) but I assume there's a fix, I just can't figure it out. On Chrome, the site works fine; I think it's a unique idea, a place for spoof screenshots with popular accounts to use, etc.

I don't want to promote misinformation, but I also love the art of the meme. So, I'm in a bit of a pickle. Hopefully, Dumbnail can have a way for users to check the legitimacy of a screenshot, at least to see if it was created on our site.

Anyways, I'm really posting here to try and get the project out there, but also to maybe get some advice (not sure what this site is mainly used for, sorry in advance) because I really do believe I have something, if not great, at least good.

Concept wise.
Originally Facebook was all about only connecting with people you already know. So it’s not as ironic as you are suggesting.
Some were googling, for sure. But the best ones were not.
SUNSET the employees.
Yes, giving up coal generated electricity for anything else for the past half century would have been difficult? Now we go around asking people not to eat meat, fly, etc.

Pay now, pay later usually works out to be more painful when addressed later.
The climate is totally broken. The leaves didn't fall until mid to late November, and we had a pretty warm winter on the panhandle, rarely dipped below 40s-50s, and it's been in the 70s-80s since January (?). And, randomly, this week, the low is in the 40s.. it's just bizzaroworld.
Why is meeting with direct reports needed every other week?
Saying more words isn’t communicating. In this situation, employees would like to be able to prepare for the layoffs ahead of time, know their jobs are safe (or not), and see what they can change. Saying a bunch of stuff about the future outlook of the company being bright feels like a lie when that’s the same email that got sent after the last round, three months ago
Selling more ads
Reasoning about the usefulness of crypto currencies based on their quoted price on various fraudulent exchanges should not be a signal of anything. We should normalize on quoting non-spoofable adoption metrics to indicate if they’re going anywhere.
Ask HN: Where are all the LLM virtual assistant startups?
With the flurry of LLM activity that's been happening lately I'm surprised that I don't see more productivity startups offering "smart virtual assistants". Maybe I'm just looking in the wrong places? Anyone heard of all small co's doing anything like this lately?
We already have PCBs everywhere.
Yet they still haven't made an iPad native app. An obviously profitable project that users want.
> I don’t see anything wrong with ... anything inherently evil in suffering

We won't be able to find a common ground.

> Ecosystems are not steady state without our inputs

Everything's going very well, indeed.

> It’s still true we all die.

Yes ... so there was nothing wrong with concentration camps, because all those people would have died anyway?

Let's agree to disagree.
More likely based on level than tenure
> the thing that truly require that level of operation.

After giving legs to avatars, is there really much work left?
No, I only wanted you to look at the mediterranean nations BUT on the table, not the map.

Clearly much lower than

UK, US, Finland.

That is enough for me.
the cancer of Facebook
Anti-competition isn't about that relationship, it's about how it changes the playing field between Pfizer and it's competition, MS as a platform holder doesn't compete with Activision the publisher, but Sony competes with MS as a platform holder, and that the deal would harm it's ability to compete with MS.
As a Lebanese person, this is absolutely unremarkable. Almost any Arab, after hearing "my name is George Piro" in Arabic, would be able to tell recognize a Lebanese accent and the Christian name.
I mean, the bank lost money. However if there is not a bank run they make enough off the interest of their deposits to be solvent. It's not unlike an airline owing more on their fleet than it is worth. As long as they keep doing airline things, they'll service their debt and be fine. If they don't, then they'll go bankrupt.
Because for them it's already providing value and it isn't just a demo.
Sure, shoot me an email at jhugh5000@gmail.com
Because a 200 million dollars industry vanishing overnight is an interesting question. The snow crab population collapsed between 2018 and 2021. We could start assuming that something triggered this collapse. Right?

So we could wonder what event happened in 2019 to explain the collapse? Climate change? Predators? Fishermen going crazy?

Wrong. The most probable answer is: "nothing happened"... and the second candidate to the pole position is "nobody happened".
I would argue social media has at least 10 years of known toxicity, it is so addictive and harmful to young people i dont get why its not prohibited like gambling or smoking..
Github link to actual source project for anyone curious:

>https://github.com/lllyasviel/ControlNet
But a lot more information than the "click bait". Worth a read.
> Then after a month of ChatGPT hype he wakes up and fires everybody. What a clown.

Changing course when you realize you were wrong has nothing to do with being a clown. Not defending Zuckerberg or the lay off, but for large companies it's always been one of the hardest tasks to predict trends. And many that go under do so because they hold on to old technologies and refuse to admit the world has changed.

If Zuckerberg really changed the whole strategy because he saw VR won't go anywhere and ChatGPT has such potential, changing course drastically would be much better than holding on to old projects due to sunk costs.
This is some boomer level commentary right here.

Shows complete lack of understanding of what you're talking about.
Well, looking at extremes is not the best way to analyze general data.
This interpretation rings hollow - if you've worked at any tech company, you've seen the hoards of people who manage to create meetings about meetings, grow their empire, and amass massive salaries with no relevant skills. A lot of it is about showing a record of "getting things done" - but things that don't matter.
https://archive.ph/6Kqub

>LVHN: More patient photos have been posted on the dark web. The network expects the leaks to continue.

https://www.mcall.com/2023/03/10/more-patient-photos-have-be...
> but so far any of their attempts seem more complimentary to your existing setup vs a replacement.

For starters, I can respond to this line: I haven't gamed on a Microsoft product since I switched to Valve's Proton. That's a good thing, and Valve putting that leverage there really opens the door for other manufacturers. Better yet, it kicks both Microsoft and Sony in the pants and asks them to come up with a better reason to exist than "API exclusivity". That's badass, in my book.

As for Sony, I don't think it's hard to see that they're struggling here. The end of the PS4's lifecycle was a bit of a mess, and resulted in Sony changing their attitude for a lot of things like crossplay and publishing to PC. The featureset for the PS5 is almost comically gimmecky, the games cost too much, and without backwards-compatibility the game library would be almost empty. It distinctly feels like Sony's strategy of using exclusives to bolster cross-platform releases isn't working anymore.

My point here isn't to bash Sony, but to highlight that they have professional agency and have repeatedly made poor choices in software and hardware. It's fine if you want to zoom-in on the decidedly small arena of "Sony vs Microsoft", but it's hard to look at their fight and say that it's not Sony's fault.
> smaller companies usually offer much more freedom to implement your ideas

Not really, if I come up with a novel algorithm or a different architecture to do a task better at Google then they will give me the chance to implement it even if it takes months or years. Small companies doesn't care about your ideas, they just want a cog that can give them a basic website because that is all they need, novel things doesn't help them.

If you mean "novel product ideas" then sure, but we aren't product managers we are programmers so our ideas would mostly be related to architecture or algorithms.
I don't understand why you use Signal only for things that matter. If you use Whatsapp, all your metadata is available to Facebook, which can learn a lot about you and your personal networks and use that information for personal advertising.
> It would be nice to have the controller try to find that number, this PID approach just tries to scale more if there's more input.

Right, it should base the feedback on throughput measures instead. If throughput starts dropping, then the threadpool is overcommitted, and should scale back.

I believe the SEDA papers mentioned in the README discusses this as backpressure.
I am in favor of treating H1B holders with dignity, but I think it's at least fair (and likely proper) for any country's government to give priority and preference to its own citizens/permanent residents over the citizens/permanent residents of other countries.

I think that's what the debate ends up being about in a time like this. If there comes a broad tech recession, should the US government prioritize the needs of US citizen/permanent resident tech workers or the needs of H1B tech workers? As much as I believe we must treat everyone with dignity, it seems eminently reasonable for the US government to prioritize the first group over the second group (and even unreasonable to not do that).
Yes, nothing to be gained if we’d switched anytime sooner in the last 50 years. Very smart observation. Apart from a liveable planet.
I've seen people saying that limiting it to 4 cores out of the 8 total can actually lead to improved performance. Have you seen that?
Your bank has no online access through a web site? You can’t bank with a computer, only a phone? Or is it an app that generates a code to verify transactions?
Yeah I was liking his post and following along until he kept repeating "shoggoth", very weird. I stopped at that part