skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is why I am a libertarian. Regular people don’t want to kill each other, but these memes cause their governments to perpetuate violence. Literally everything about these concepts and games is not worth harming millions of people. And if you were in the war zone, you’d want an end to the stupid conflict. But people who aren’t, seem to think nothing of bringing violence and volunteering other people to die for some geopolitical concept justigied by some allegory where countries are anthropomorphosized.

Just to illustrate: when Ukraine and Russia were part of one federation, the same exact piece of land, Crimea changed hands from Russia to Ukraine. But back then they weren’t independent countries and it wasn’t a “matter of territorial integrity”, but just an administrative change involving road signs and local flags etc. so no one killed each other over it. Today, lots of people would support Ukraine and her allies introducing violence to Crimea, a region that has none, in order to “retake” it.

I find this obscene. Humans just want to live peace and security, go to work, date, love, etc. When push comes to shove, this or that flag isn’t such a big deal to regular humans, and historically they have changed a lot so why kill for it? But the current international system is based on Countries with borders that are supposed to be eternal. For this principle, people now are ready to support killing in a never ending war because “what if someone broke into your house and stole…”

Kosovo set a precedent. I would of course like to see Catalonia, Kurdistan get at least some more autonomy after their referendums. I’d like tk see Hong Kong get it too, and HN was sympathetic to those guys because we see just how different China was to HK after 100 years of being a British protectorate.

Well, autonomy isn’t very bad for the host country and the Minsk II agreements gave Ukraine sovereignty and control over all its borders. Why not just accept this diplomatic solution? Ukraine did, but now we learn that both Ukrainian presidents “never intended” to fulfil it. Why? It is maddening to me. The people of Ukraine suffer because of the political class, and I include Putin in that.
I'm surprised it's only 10%. This morning was a very strong rally for beleaguered banking stocks and CS didn't budge an inch.
Maybe the manager AI and Employee AI can generate each other responses and the actual humans can have a 1:1 free of the formalities?

Humans are amazing in breaking the system for convenience and profit.
Downloading Data in SwiftUI with URLSession and async/await
They’re quoting Barney Frank, an ex Signature Board member. Of course a failed bank’s Board will blame everyone but themselves.
Contagion is spreading now. It’s interesting that we’re calling it “contagion” isn’t it? I think the real problems are deeper, like cancer, and it’s systematic. This isn’t just a light cough with some sniffles. We’re talking a body riddled with pus-filled tumors.
By that same token, we're all only talking about what people think they should want, and not necessarily what will really benefit them. By extension, the argument becomes that it doesn't matter how well people are informed, only that they act on the limited information they have. I prefer to emphasize efforts to inform the public better, rather than leaving them out to dry when their hopes are not reflected in the outcomes of such things.
Wow, so much negativity towards this announcement. This reaction is genuinely surprising because I found this post both inspirational and insightful. I hope there are others who feel the same way!

Maybe we can start a discussion on the content rather than our emotions from the headline?

Some of the best parts here:

> Today many of our managers have only a few direct reports. That made sense to optimize for ramping up new managers and maintaining buffer capacity when we were growing our organization faster, but now that we don’t expect to grow headcount as quickly, it makes more sense to fully utilize each manager’s capacity and defragment layers as much as possible.

> A leaner org will execute its highest priorities faster.

> we’re focusing on returning to a more optimal ratio of engineers to other roles.

> I think we should prepare ourselves for the possibility that this new economic reality will continue for many years. Higher interest rates lead to the economy running leaner, more geopolitical instability leads to more volatility, and increased regulation leads to slower growth and increased costs of innovation.
My worry is verification of facts. What if the model summarized incorrect facts, and it gets added to the medical history? How can doctors easily verify and fix things?
> they've never had democratic traditions

It's not as much as having democratic traditions - it's simply that these countries are composed of a bunch of tribes, and such tribes have no intent of working with each other - the majority would crush the rest and have no problem about it.
I don’t think he’s brilliant or anything (getting into social media at that time was pretty lucky), but if I had a billion dollars and a successful company, I’d be looking for the next big thing too. Keep the good times rolling, and also, exploring is fun.
That's a nice idea, but Blue Iris in particular, while being affordable and while not requiring a subscription, only runs on Windows. Keeping a Windows system running 24/7 is a whole chore in itself.

Got any suggestions for OSes that are easy to secure and easy to run 24/7?
> Last i heard, china is also being limited in acquiring advanced electronics :

In the short term, I'm sure China will be able to get whatever chips it needs (for military applications, at least) that are available on the civilian market, they'll just have to setup front companies, etc.

In the medium to long term, this will motivate China to build the capacity it needs. It might ever exactly be cutting edge, but I'm sure they'll get close enough that it won't matter too much.
I wonder if they will let the AI on the receiving end access the original text that the sender wrote to get better results. Presumably Google will store the pre-BS message.
It doesn't prevent the manipulation, but it does assist in detecting it. If someone manipulates the off-chain data, then when that off-chain data is hashed and re-verified against the hash stored in the NFT on-chain then there will be a mismatch in the hash values.

Let's suppose that the off-chain data is a PDF containing all the information for the property deed. If the hash values don't match then it means the PDF should be disregarded. If the off-chain data was kept in multiple locations, then one could potentially still retrieve a good copy of the PDF whose hash matches and then can be trusted.

Now, just because a blockchain can be used as the system of record for property deeds does not mean one wouldn't need to still have laws and other organizations enforcing that system of record. The blockchain is just a tool that makes some aspects of the record keeping easier and opens up some interesting possibilities as I've outlined in other comments of this thread.
You are welcome. I remembered them because they said that they support FOSS projects.
Look at the section on being lean. He talks about that a lot
https://archive.is/sqnKS
kinda like the Chomksy op-ed, though you could argue that Chomsky never technically tried to build an AI
This is exactly what the Aperture project is solving:
https://github.com/fluxninja/aperture
Not in England, Wales, Ireland and Britain's American colonies, which all made the change of the new year from March to January in 1752 alongside the switch to the Gregorian calendar.

Scotland made the change in 1600.
“Do you care to know why I sit in this chair? Why I earn the big bucks?

I’m here for one reason and one reason alone. I’m here to guess what the music is going to do a week, a month, a year from now. Nothing more. That’s it.”
Upwork Business Model
No.

It's still a userland app.
Could you explain this joke please ?
It it unfortunate for those people, but it is great for society as a whole that Meta is no longer wasting 10k engineers on their stupid ad platform.
At any point democracy exists
Except this was a disease spread deliberately in order to make more money
Show HN: Write Language-agnostic functions with WebAssembly you can use
Hey y’all, we’re really excited to share that we’re launching a new free, open source tool called Scale. It’s a highly-performant WebAssembly function runtime that enables composable, language-agnostic software development.

TL;DR - Scale allows you to write functions in any language, then use them in any other language. It’s pretty exciting.

We currently support Go and Rust, but TypeScript is coming soon and support for a handful of other languages is already in the works. We’d love to hear any feedback you have, so let us know what you think!
Tech is still valued as growth stocks compared to other sectors. If you look at the EPS, its trending down and growth is negative.[1] That's not "doing great" for what most investors expect out of a relatively mature tech stock that doesn’t pay a dividend. In other words, why would I pay growth-stock valuation for something that isn't growing its earnings?

(obviously, the analysis is more complicated than this, but you can see why investors may not think things are going gang-busters over at Meta)

[1] https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/META/meta-platform...
Silicon Valley, once the underdog, is now too big to fail
> Calibrating speakers and room multipath should not be gatekept with $1000+ hardware.

Not really that expensive:
https://www.parts-express.com/Dayton-Audio-OmniMic-V2-Acoust...

https://www.parts-express.com/search?order=relevance:desc&ke...
Will you make sure to reach the top of the tree? The cherries picked there are sweetest.

In any serious accounting, you would find that people generally do not understand the implications of their vote before they cast it.
You assume this email is for the people who will be affected by the layoffs. It is not - it's for the investors and leaders who stay around. Empathy isn't part of this decision or the way it's carried out, unfortunately.
> Yudkowsky has a very shallow understanding of machine learning/AI, but loves to write in a conspiratorial way with in-group terminology to make people think that he's onto some dark secrets.

Perhaps I am a little behind the times, but what are reasons/achievements/credentials behind his huge, prophet like status within the cult of rationalism? Beyond writing a popular Harry Potter fanfic, I mean.
Can't read the words "Nord VPN" without hearing it in my head as Richard Coffin from The Plain Bagel.

Which is ironic as previously I had trouble separating it from Critical Role thanks to the ad skits Sam Riegel used to do.
Yeah but let's wait and see if it actually ends up being any good. Also, you could use a similar argument to say that Feedly has no reason to exist while Google Reader was better, but we all know how that ended.
Longtime manager of technical people here and can confirm the "oh yeah one more thing" is where so much of the really good stuff comes up.

No matter how explicitly you state it, ask for it, overcommunicate that you're approachable even if seemingly busy... people are averse to the impression that they're interrupting their management even when they have something important to discuss. When you create the space and have even that quick 10 to 15 minute chat every couple of weeks, you're creating space for your people to have your attention without worrying about getting your attention. And people often take advantage of that path of least resistance.

So many of the most important conversations to have with the team are less about their output and more about things they've got going on or need to know _despite_ their output. All the standard sprint metrics are just one piece of the puzzle.
> It can't grow like it once did

1 in 4 people on earth is using FB every day. They simply can't grow more too much.
How We Deployed PostHog on Kubernetes
Last month PostHog announced that it was sunsetting support for its platform on Kubernetes. It’s not surprising considering how many moving parts users need to figure out when self-hosting the application. The timing for us was coincidental since our engineering team just spent a large chunk of time figuring out how to add it to our marketplace for our users. We thought it would be a great time to outline how to self-host PostHog on Kubernetes (and how our engineering team went about adding the application to our marketplace for users to deploy the OSS application on Kubernetes without the complexity).
I suspect they'd correctly identify the respective cost of labor as the key reason.

No amount of polluting LA is gonna make American labor cheaper than China's.
There are so many regulations and certifications to do that there are no chances anyone will have money and time to do all paperwork to host it on-perm. Because of these regulatory reasons most hospitals use so old systems that it surprises no one to see Windows XP with IE6 there. I had the pleasure myself of fixing a Material Angular bug that wasn't displaying form fields validation correctly in IE6 only 2 years ago, and that was for network of hospitals in Canada, US and Germany. Effort to allow them to use anything newer is too big and there are too many documents to review. It's simply cheaper to keep WinXP and IE6 running for as long as possible.
NASA planning to spend up to $1B on space station deorbit module
I wonder if it's that kind of consolidation of business that causes, well... all of consumer webcams to suck. In particular, it's super hard to find a quality lens with narrow field of view. I don't need everybody on the meeting to see all my walls and hallways; I need a "50-70mm equivalent" lens to show my portrait, that's it! I have no idea why wide-angle lenses are the norm that they are. Digital zoom of course just compounds the already low resolution and crappy quality of pixels. And let's not even talk about noise and dynamic range :-/

A $30 webcam is a miracle of manufacturing efficiency and one shouldn't expect much out of it. But I'm in the "Shut up and take my money" segment to get a quality webcam (since I use it at least 4hrs a day, every day), but it just doesn't seem to exist (I did run a proper camera with a f/1.8 85mm lens for the first year of Covid, but as great as the results were, that was just a logistical pain and overkill).
Technically interesting but solving the wrong problem.

Doctor's already today spent too little time with their patients to understand diseases holistically enough.

Adding technically between these 2 will make treatments in most of the cases worse, not better.
Domain specificity is a killer advantage when fine-tuning! For Whisper in particular, fine-tuning with actual medical speech gave us an immediate strong advantage over competing APIs.
Murder is a bit hyperbolic isn’t it?

These animals have been raised solely with the purpose of being eaten. They would have never come in to existence otherwise, and their death is happening to feed people.
The tone of this reply is excessively snarky.

You clearly have a personal bad experience with your doctor - but that doesn’t mean that this potential product is a terrible idea.
You can notice the compression at the edges of the audio, like vocals or cymbals. Linda Ronstadt is one singer who's voice makes compression obvious - her line turns into a hacksaw blade on some songs.

That said, every system has distortion - the question is what sound do you like/want. Do you want a sound that's more forward or more laid back? Do you like more midrange? Vocals?

Audio also becomes more complicated because of hearing loss. I can't hear anything over 12-13k, so I'm sure that's affected my audio setup at some level.
They list it under their "legal documents" page: https://www.nabla.com/docs/business-associate-agreement
I assure you that if you scramble the weights of a neutral networks, the model will perform poorly... Training something new cost millions of dollars in accelerator and research salary, and evaluation ('verifying') is a big part of the work.
Please chill, stop with the insults and go learn something.

I have ignored your attacks and continued to provide data and enough math to understand my perspective (and refute it with math and physics if desired). I have used articles you provided to show I am likely right. I am more than open to dialogue and a discussion on any of this. I am more than open to being wrong. That cannot happen if you refuse to engage in conversation.

Rather than repeat myself, here's the parallel thread where I use your own article to, multiple times, show you that your perspective might not be aligned with reality:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35131368
I received two emails from them today, and I found them useful.

I like that they made it clear that with the previous pricing, they lose money. With the new pricing, they still lose money with the early adopters.

Overall I see that as an experiment: can one create a paid search engine, or are we doomed to keep the ads/tracking businesses? I pay to say "I believe there is a market".

I understand that some may not afford it, that's ok. I don't understand those who leave Kagi just because they adapt their pricing. A bit like "I want a paid search engine, and I can afford Kagi, but instead I will go support a free engine because the former is not yet profitable".
I feel uncomfortable knowing doctor would use anything like this.

How are 2 party consent states handled?

Is this HIPPA compliant?
Amazon unveils Project Kuiper terminals for services starting in 2024
You do get to switch to both other doors. One of the two remaining doors is a goat, and it is opened for you. Another way to phrase that is getting to pick both doors and the goat doesnt count against you.

The Monty Hall problem distills to simply "would you like one or two doors, (if the prize is behind any door in the set you pick you win.)"
Definitely agree. I’be never read a post from CEO level explaining very specific reasons and goals for their actions.

I’m betting on Zuck here, and wish I could get this same level of specificity at my company.
People don't like not being paid for work done in the past so long ago they asked politicians to make laws with the aim of deterring wage theft. A good way to create a strong deterrent is to put managers and owners in jail or take their personal money. Absent that bad actors would run up unpaid wage bills then close the corporate entity and escape undeterred.
What if your A players are tired of carrying the load for the B and C players and cherish this news?
@JumpCrisscross is there a way to email or signal you?
Er, yes I know, I use rust every day as a primary language. I was just giving an example, not claiming it wasn’t documented.
This is an area our team has been working on for the last couple of years — applying control systems principles to prevent metastable failures, overloads and so on.

Blog by DoorDash team - https://doordash.engineering/2023/03/14/failure-mitigation-f...

Project - https://github.com/fluxninja/aperture
>Will my self-driving car also take unneeded detours through pretty places, making it take longer to get where I'm going?

No, but it may take a detour through the local McDonalds drive through because they sponsor the self driving car company.
How is it anti-competitive? Google provides you the browser (for free) and it has some features that make their own products work better. Should they also remove the browser sync feature that uses your Google account?

If you don't like that they have Google specific features, just use another browser. Since most are based on Chromium anyway you'll get similar performance and functionality.
Such an uninspired use of the term. Google is so used to spreading SEO , now they want to choke every office with well-written noise. This is using AI to make me waste more time, i don't want that

Instead i want

- Intuitive interfaces to respond to the email with a few clicks and a short laconic email (I don't want to waste other people's time)

- Specialized text generators for legal purposes, which create provably verifiable and consistent documents

- Expert systems that doctors can use and trust

[AI: Expand this to a 70-page diatribe]
Democracy consists of more than ignoring the past century of psychology research.
> I found this post both inspirational and insightful

Are you a venture capitalist? Most of us are rank and file employees.
> Computer proliferation is not an existential risk.

AI is created and run on computers so AGI risk must by definition be a subset of computer proliferation risk
Yeah... I'm moderately active in some Libertarian groups, so do see a lot of left-libertarian and anarchist views, though I don't quite share them... I'm probably a bit more conservative/statist than a "pure" libertarian, again on the point of pragmatism. But I do believe we've become so statist, and I feel propping up corporations is an extension of the state, not limited because of it (executive/board liability especially).

I just feel there's plenty of room for closer to libertarian solutions without expanding govt, and in some cases actually reverting to prior state in terms of dealing with certain issues. The lack of accountability is probably the single biggest issue I've seen in the past few years. The lack of limits on patents and production around patent protection, extension and licensing is also very concerning.
What are you going to do with them?

Why do you jump to this straight over "less fossil fuel consumption?"
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Last time I went to the doctor, he charged me $300 to google symptoms on a computer.

Would you be upset if someone were to ask you to help with their code and you needed to Google for documentation?

It's not exactly the same thing, but it's a similar situation.

I do tend to agree with you on the rest of your concerns, especially info being used that the patient has no way to verify - but that seems tangential at worst to the product in it's current state.
Meta to Lay Off Another 10k Workers
Nuclear weapons? Leaded petrol?
That's wrong since like KDE 5.10.
Better test first before assumptions
Don't you think Bing's search revamp will also eat into the FB ad business? IMO, there is enough contextual info supplied by users during queries to better target users with injected ads than competitors.
I wasn’t complaining about anything. I was simply giving an example of a library that behaves in this way.
So Google also isn't tech company. Their core business isn't tech but also advertising after all.
Using your logic there are almost 0 pure tech companies.
And where does the government get money from?
Related: proving that your fake $50 16TB USB drive really is fake. Really clever malicious firmware would notice your script is writing the same 100MB over and over (or the same 25K block checksums over and over), and would successfully trick your script.

Different threat model, though.
Well, you see, for my side it’s Different…

More seriously, are we going to have a put disclaimers on an all encyclopedic articles that “standards of conduct were much different then”? How much pretext then becomes necessary?
But the recipient doesn't have to read and think through it, they can just have the same AI summarise the email. Google could even store the original prompt and use it as context for the summariser.
Heh, “right” to privacy.
I'm right outside Philly, and this is definitely the mildest winter I can ever remember. It's only snowed enough once that we had to even get the plows and shovels out, and that melted right off like the next day. Other than a few snow flurries here and there, it's been exceptionally mild.
Wow, lots of haters in this thread. Having doctors spend less time with clerical/administrative work needed to record conversations will free up more time to focus on patients. I assume the generated note text can be easily modified by the doc if necessary, but saves them the bulk of having to type things up and remember everything that was discussed.