skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> he proof of ownership would be in the blockchain. NFT X represents X property, the address owning that NFT would technically own that NFT.

On top of that you need many more documents actually linking the actual physical person with that wallet. And additional documents dealing the actual property.

And of course "oh it's just simple record pointing to an address" is exactly why I keep saying that crypto proponents have this childlike inability to imagine anything beyond the most trivial of use cases.

Examples where "the address owning that NFT would technically own that NFT" falls apart and "useless discussion" is the one I'm having, not crypto-absolutists with their trivial cases and increasingly complex workarounds:

- ownership disputes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27212564

- ownership transfer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27217681

> you just hate the technology for the sake of it.

As wrote elsewhere: I've had this or similar conversation many, many times. Crypto proponents can only come up with the most trivial examples, and for anything more complex they rely on magic and increasingly complex and arcane constructions that fall under their own weight.

Edit:

Just in this discussion: we "don't need a centralised database", but we need a centralised database, or an external party to store our data that also needs to be available and accessible by anyone, but also reliable, maybe federated, or a local server, and it's also standardised, but maybe third parties will make it standard for governments, or maybe someone will provide infra to store data, or maybe it will be hash of data that may or may not be standardised, or...

And with all that it still doesn't solve or help any of the complex issues that arise from property ownership.
What maturity? I'm only seeing 3.XX% here: https://www.treasurydirect.gov/marketable-securities/treasur...
Ginseng is an interesting one [0]. It can be farmed without too much trouble, but farmed ginseng has a more uniform, smoother appearance than wild ginseng. One of the major uses is in Chinese traditional medicine, where it's believed that wild ginseng has better properties (exactly what properties and how you measure them is hard to pin down).

This leads to a tension: You can set up an efficient, high yield, centralized farm, but your main buyers will value your crop less. Or you can use "simulated wild" conditions that create a wild-like appearance and charge more, but now you need a very different operation that looks more like forestry than farming and is much more likely to be decentralized. And of course you can still forage, but that has its own limitations (lots of details in [0]).

[0]: https://www.uky.edu/ccd/sites/www.uky.edu.ccd/files/ginseng....
But if the managers were programmers, suddenly everyone would magically want to work instead of fucking around on HN.
is this going to be like Google Duplex, i.e. mostly forgotten, then unceremoniously shut down?
Everything after the first section is definitely written by an LLM, and not one named Zuckerberg.
I heard it. Gonna play something else to get that out of my head.
> It's been struck down three times and, according to her heavily biased opinion, would seriously adversely affect access and choice. The company spent something like several hundred million dollars fighting that proposition and two before it.

All because the (licensed) employees wanted safer conditions for their patients?
Ah good, more terrible things to look forward to.
I would count that as a different kind of power, distinction from soft and hard. Maybe "commercial power"? "Trading power"?

To me soft power sounds more like culture - being appealing to other country's populations.
What's the point? Saving power?

The processor has fixed resource capabilities, if you run it at the maximum the only tradeoff is power. If you don't account for power it's like driving a car with unlimited fuel, why should you use a pid controller to control how many pistons fire if my fuel is unlimited? Just have the engine run idle always.

I mean there's wear and tear on an engine but this aspect of the analogy doesn't translate to threads.

The only other place where I see this is useful is competing tasks. One task needs more resources from a thread pool shared by other tasks. A pid controller can allocate existing threads based off of pressure. Allocating more threads to a pool in this case though, still doesn't make sense.
> is very slow and frequently breaks

True, and the free version does it lot, almost on purpose.

The paid version is a lot faster and doesn’t break as often, but it still breaks (eg. For the last two days, the chat list on the sidebar disappeared and it showed a message saying “don’t worry, your chats will show up eventually”).
>with the end state surely being that both sides of an email exchange are ML models churning away at each other

One can just hope that the ML entities won't start insulting each other. :)
> Indexing into a vector unwraps

That's what it's supposed to do, RTFM.

Use .get() for safe access.
I use it actively and feel like recommendations have improved, at least for me. Ads are a bit more annoying but I've faced zero problems with stability. But I'm only reading, not actively tweeting.
In many places you have 1-2 levels of regular managers, 1-2 levels of senior managers, then directors, maaaybe the first level of VP.
This has been true of machine learning APIs from the early renaissance of neural networks. Computer vision APIs have been used for years to grow datasets and fine-tune models on the data.

As a matter of fact, the API/SaaS business for machine learning 'direct' model results have suffered from this since the early days. Now, what may make more sense and survive longer are full data-storage-oriented platforms, and niche products that encapsulate all underlying model calls, including to publicly available models. Sometimes glue code or even devops becomes the true solid business case of AI/ML apps ;)
Do people use the CloudEvents spec in their microservices? Any alternatives?
Google and Facebook both have too much data about me already, why would I voluntarily give them more? This isn't probably that common of an attitude, though.
I'm not sure I see how this could be illegal. It has a perfectly valid use - interviewees who are deaf or hard of hearing.

Maybe I'm naive or don't have a good enough mind for cheating, but I'm not sure I understand how you cheat at an interview with this. Because you can read the interviewer's question? How is that cheating?
I'm looking forward to seeing some of this make its way to general release, but I'd guess that this post is in the vein of their hurried initial press response to Chat GPT.
Ask HN: Which are some good repositories of organized knowledge online?
Sometimes I feel like browsing an encyclopedia. I wonder if there are some interesting alternatives to Wikipedia, or similar to Wikipedia but domain specific.
You could already do that for years, e.g. droidcam. That has nothing to do with the article though? This is about showing the phone screen on your computer.
But Google's planned announcement was, err, announced, after the Bing Chat screenshots leaked the week before.
That's only because these models are all pretty much the same (?) in terms of architecture, and basically do the same thing. New features, like memory, medium-term planning, and iterating towards a design goal, won't be imitatable in the same way.
Per upthread, I am in favor of extending the grace period beyond 60 days.
And the press. You can assume that internal emails like this are leaked.
Yes, obviously. Who are you trying to dunk on?
Despite the claimed intended audience, that letter isn't written for employees. It is written for shareholders. And judging by the stock price, it had the intended effect.
Personally I don’t think it’s worth the benefits over just having a TOC at the top of the page, as is otherwise customary. It’s different if this is a web site or web app where you have an account, and where users can permanently enable/disable it as an option when they prefer it. But on a public web page for a general audience, it always introduces friction by being visually distracting (because it doesn‘t scroll with the rest of the page), or by hiding due to responsive layout (requiring the browser width to be adjusted, or having to toggle it by mouse instead of scrolling to the top by keyboard), and so on.
> If you prefer to stay on an abstract plane

My post wasn't abstract. I'm just not interested in going example-for-example when my point was never "this literally always works and nothing else ever does", which is the point you seem to wish I'd advanced.

> So I presented three counter-examples.

To what end? The thing you scoffed at and dismissed remains not obviously a bad idea.
You might be interested in these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdIvnIUw0tE

Not sure whether this is more common in the US these days. I know for a fact that a lot of buildings in China are constructed this way.
Ok sure but there’s more to people than raw output numbers. Where do you get info on how they’re doing as people? Whether they’re pulling 12 hour days and that’s why the output looks good or they’re happy as a clam living their best life and that’s why output is great?

Sometimes you gotta kick people to go take a vacation lest their mind/body takes an unplanned vacation for them. Even if the raw numbers are looking great. You’d prefer to have a planned outage wouldn’t you?

And hey, if you don’t need a full hour, it’s okay to make 1on1s shorter! Few people will complain about getting more time back in their lives.

But be warned: The good stuff usually comes out 5min before the end of a meeting when an employee says ”Oh yeah one more thing that’s been on my mind …”. It takes time to relax into that area of concern that’s a little scary to bring up.
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But EPS is doing great for Meta so I have no idea what you are talking about. Their only issue I can see for EPS is that they hired to many in 2020 and 2021, just as I said.
That doesn't seem different-in-kind. Spammed GPT content will eventually infect them too.
Have you every tried to edit the Wikipedia? Spamming it is incredible hard for humans (whether AI is involved or not) because it has a pretty good system of moderators based on the social trust model. The only way to bypass it is to effectively bribe a mod, similarly to how spammers pay for backlinks to increase their PageRank. This is what prevents it from turning into a spam farm, not the lack of text content.
Biden Administration to Restrict Cancer-Causing ‘Forever Chemicals’
Yes, I plan to add other providers soon, and native text-to-speech as well.
This was the most obtuse portion of the entire diatribe, and further cements my rather low opinion of Meta leadership; they have all the data in the world, but have no idea how to make proper conclusions from it.
Oh, I wouldn't expect them to do anything if the download had already started, sure. It would be nice to able to abort, agreed. I misunderstood what you were describing.

But perhaps you (or other readers) might want to leave those settings unchecked so it never automatically downloads, and you can manually tell it to download when you want, when you're in a location you want to. I believe you can have it check for updates and notify you, but not automatically download, too, with the right settings.
Many senior devs over the last decade have been created by boot camps. With the recent lay offs the over supply is becoming more apparent. It is now really easy to hire senior python devs.

Arguably python is so easy that junior devs aren't that far off from senior devs.
"garbage collect some processes" is an incredibly poor choice of words to use in a post about laying off 10,000 people through no fault of their own...
> small tech companies solve challenges everyday

Yes, just not challenges that requires ideas to solve. They are mostly just following the same path every other tech company went, re implementing the same systems. To them it doesn't matter if the system is better or worse, they just want a system since going from 0 to 1 is huge, meaning that they wont give you time or resources to implement your idea, they just want a cheap idea.
Having fresh ideas isn't necessary of having a successful business.

His acquisition of instagram and whatsapp were good moves.
I took the time to read through the only one of those that looked like it was peer reviewed and read the abstracts for the rest.

Survey of Hallucination in Natural Language Generation only provided promising methods for detecting hallucinations in summarization tasks, which are of course much easier to detect. Searching arXiv for a list of non-reviewed papers that sound like they might be related to the topic at hand is fun debate strategy. But no one else is reading this far into an old thread, so I'm not sure who you're trying to convince.

None of these paper prove your claims about hallucinations, and most aren't even trying to. However, even if the errors that I'm saying aren't meaningfully probabilistic aren't hallucinations.
Binance halts deposits and withdrawals for customers in the UK
And you don’t need only the best to run a business.
Isn't that still missing a massive piece of context? What about costs?
> not once does the author explain where all of the inefficiency ... came from

I think you need to RTFA ... it covers all those areas in great detail ... it's is one of the most detailed such posts I've ever seen like this.
Yeah "it is still easier to build trust in person, so they can work together on collaborating via floating Wiimote heads in VR"
This is the policy owner. Policy execution is different tthan making and owning the policy.

Also this means that one person is both responsible for the policy creation and execution. Literally the whole process of "How does one become a root CA for Mozilla/CCADB, and thus all the other browsers" rests on one person. Obligatory XKCD comic goes here.
This is worse — terrified, anxious make-work to appease insecure management with “apps” for AI
> It is exactly the thing I would do if I had any chance that I would loose my job

There is always a chance you can lose your job. There has never been a day since I started working over 25 years ago (well actually I spent my first year saving so it would have hurt then) that I haven’t been ready to change jobs at the drop of a dime.

> And changing your availability and answering a call or chat from time to time does not cost much. It is not like there is any downside to it

You should be doing that all the time regardless.

> And if an A player starts looking around great things sometimes happen. He may get hired at much higher position

That happens most of the time anyway because of salary compression and inversion even if you are just a journeyman “full stack developer”.
Haha, those who can't do, can always latch on by forming ethics groups and related grifts.
It's easy to assume other companies are incompetent, and your company is amazing.

But it's harder to onboard at a company like Facebook than at a startup. Every company could have better processes - but when it takes months for even top-tier talent to be able to do basically anything - it can be extremely helpful to be in person during that time...

And, sure, everyone is different. I'm sure some special snowflake will reply - but it isn't for me!! I'm speaking in general - as Facebook is...
Is LLAMA actually better than Flan T5?
To be fair, i wouldn't be surprised if FB ended up with small team offices in a lot of locations.
It may not be exactly as good, but it's also a 7B parameter model vs 175B parameters for GPT-3.5 (i.e., text-davinci-003). People are running the new model on their phones, laptops, and Raspberry PIs.

People's mouths were watering over the commercial implications of the recent 90% drop in cost for the new ChatGPT model. Now imagine if you can get similar performance on a model that requires <5% of the parameters.
The https://cloudevents.io/ spec describes a event format like this:

{
"specversion": "1.0",
"type": "coolevent",
"id": "xxxx-xxxx-xxxx",
"source": "bigco.com",
"data": { ... }
}

The top level field names have to be all lower case, no hyphens or underscores and cannot be longer than 20 characters.

Is anyone using the spec in their microservices level events or have another public standard they use?
Doesn't make any of this less stupid though.
Last time I tried was with my Samsung S2, and I remember it being a PITA.

Now with newer phones I honestly never tried, but if I could share the screen on the pc I would be able to use AR effects from Instagram and TikTok on Skype/Discord etc.
Should be past tense. What Meta is engaging in now is akin to chemotherapy.
By himself? No. I don't think the precise authorship even matters. It is represented as coming from Zuckerberg, as an official company statement: "Mark Zuckerberg just shared the following with Meta employees". Zuck publicly endorsed it as his views on the matter, regardless of the pedantic details of who exactly wrote which sentences. I don't think it makes much sense to distinguish the author(s) from Mark.

When the President of the United States gives a speech, you don't analyze the speech as if it were the views of the speechwriter(s). Of course the POTUS is just reading from a teleprompter, but the writers are hired by the POTUS to write for him, as is the case with Zuckerberg too.
I don’t think TikTok is any more addictive than the rest. If anything, TikTok doesn’t make me feel missing out if I don’t constantly check the App.

I’m aware of the Chinese thing and how it makes some people feel but IMHO TikTok is healthy in in comparison with the Instagram or Reddit for example. You still can spend hours once in though.

After years of stagnation with Meta, TikTok is a step forward.
I think ChatGPT will include the phrase "difficult decision" and the word "talented" on the task to write a layoff communique. The "flat structure" goes along the Elon "show me the code" rant when he acquired Twitter. IMHO managers are the spotters in the race and drivers are the coders and dev-ops the mechanics. To ask that the spotters have to take a few laps around the course during the race is idiotic right? You can replace the spotters with machines as long as you don't mind a few drivers going up in fiery crashes every now and then. I've seen that implemented. It requires a lot of work-visas.
What evidence do you have to support your claim?

I read the article and it never establishes a causal chain.
Lots of wrong bets out there in time - notably, look at AT&T, they held on to Western and Long Lines, they probably should have divested those and held onto the RBOC's
At some point it's going to beyond anyone "asking" people to do anything. It already is, for some people. Nobody is "asking" you to become a refugee when the place you lived is underwater, or has too much wet-bulb temp for human life; nobody "asks" anyone to starve when they don't have enough food. Pretty uncomfortable things that will occur to people who did not volunteer for it.

The "asking" to give up comfort is an attempt to avoid the later worse consequences that will not be voluntary.
They do qualify. Boot camps generate a lot of noise but there is no doubt that out of that noise there are a lot of good candidates that significantly increase supply by a non trivial margin. Not seeing this is denying reality.

People who can actually engineer in python is becoming more and more common place.
Same here in Virginia. This is exactly how I'd describe it. From what I understand, it's caused by the increasing energy in the Earth's climatic system leading the jet stream to bound further north and further south than typical, causing extremely warm tropical air to make it strangely far north in the summer (2021 Seattle heatwave) and for extremely cold arctic air to make it strangely far south in the winter (2022 DC it got down to subzero Fahrenheit, coldest I've felt in my life)
My view of the future has completely collapsed over the last 6mos-1year. I desperately don't want to live in a world where everything about everyone is fake and augmented. Where everything you look at and interact with is just AI generated or AI controlled.

I can't see how AI isn't going to make the problem of falling social interaction 1000x worse.
Doesn't seem any worse than "battery cages" for chickens. Not that either setup is good for the animals.

What's the solution though? Either people need to eat less meat (and pay more for it) or the global human population needs to stabilize or even decrease a little. Neither option seems popular, so technology fills the need.
Have you ever heard the term "carpetbagger" before?

Folks in the South have grown wary of outsiders because of the some hundred years of history of visitors coming to these states with one goal in mind: to profit. Every abandoned coal mine, every rundown pain clinic, they're all representative of the same system which exploits poor rural Southerners and then turns around to paint them as rednecks and racists. If other commenters haven't spent much time with folks in the South, I feel like they'll never really understand exactly just where that perceived distrust of newcomers come from.
It's really weird to see a blog-length Twitter post.
He’s talking about RLHF - reinforcement learning with human feedback (the process that trained ChatGPT), the training data for which is not publicly available.

And the point is that you don’t need to RLHF as long as you have access to another model that has been trained with RLHF that you can blackbox.
In a real bailout wouldn't SVB continue to exist?
> setting aside 1 billion Swiss francs ($1.1 million).

Billion, million, googol, whatever. For CNN and Swiss bankers it doesn't make difference. Executives assuring that everything is all calm and orderly means how many breaths it has left?
I think you may have some issue with your hardware. I have 3 generations of airpods and they all work with Teams across my iPhone, MacBook Pro and even on my Windows 10 desktop.
AIs of course.
At Meta and pretty much all other tech companies Engineering Managers have to have been decent programmers first, so I'm not sure what you're describing applies there.

Cases where managers are appointed to oversee dev teams without having any engineering experience at all are more common in non-tech companies. Those situations can still work, but rarely work well.
Headline: Update on our year of efficiency"

Translation: We weren't efficient at all
Life imitates art: https://youtu.be/u48vYSLvKNQ
This is nearly getting to the point of "don't use shovel's, think of all the ditch diggers we'll put out of work"

I find places with scan as you shop apps way better than waiting in a checkout line. I get a running total of what I have in the cart, and when I'm done, I just leave without a line.
ML engineers work on products, AI research engineers work for AI research labs.

Skillset is almost identical, biggest difference is having research experience.
Using the waste heat from compute to heat the water in people’s homes
With that logic, you can't say ever any critical remark about a group of people (since they can self-identify as ethnicity XYZ and who are you to say otherwise), because it all gets siphoned into 'that's racism' outrage. If anything, it should be labeled 'ethnicism', in fact thats a proper word so lets be factual.

What about, instead of this totalitarian auto-censorship outrages in anonymous online forums, we discuss actual topics? I wasn't bashing russians specifically mind you, rather pointing out that generally nations that got their freedom way too fast then didn't know how to handle such freedom well. Collapse of CCCP created a massive sphere of such countries. As somebody coming form such a nation and lived during such times, I have unfortunately quite a bit of experience in this regard
FawltyDeps: Dependency checker for your Python code
The pattern here is the popularity over the months i.e. classifying a summer/winter drink
I see, I didn't realize that training data for tuning was not available. Thanks!
The best ones hide it well enough.