skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a few particular problems here... "The internet" is pretty much everything that you're not physically present at. Any form of communication not in person is subject to the same rules. That TV broadcast... no idea if its actually real. Someone calling you on the phone... Yea, the voice replication AIs are insane these days.

The things that used to bind societies together are quickly falling apart and will lead to distrust. Culture can quickly break down that way. Humans require culture to exist in our modern world of convenience. For example businesses require trust between each other to have exchanges for resources. You know, resources like coal for power. Or long term chemical supplies so we can keep chlorinating our water.

The Foundation series had humanity breaking down because our systems got to complex and we stopped learning. But I think a bigger part is for us at least, is we'll stop trusting anything we see or hear.
Ask HN: Books to Read?
Trying to round out my reading list. What have you read recently that was interesting? I'm looking for all genre's: fiction, non fiction, technical, non-technical, anything.
I don’t think the parent was suggesting that you need to listen to 36 hours of lectures before listening to classical music. Just that for people who have any interest this could further enhance your appreciation. Seems like a reasonable suggestion to me.
This happened to me when I turned 30. I was like "wait... I'm not the young person anymore. Most of the people here are younger than me"...

Now I'm 41 and it's weird to be working with 21 year olds. Not bad but you just have these funny cultural differences.
anyone uses it yet? I probably don't need that much performance - maximum I've seen over the systems under my management was ~ 80k RPS on Redis
I think that's not necessarily true. They can do what was done for SVB and backstop deposits, but take over the bank if the insurance kicks in, firing the managers and wiping out many of the investors. That's probably enough to prevent moral hazard.

The bigger issue is the concentration of deposits and potential suppression of investment.
Made a Flappy Bird clone with GPT4 and Midjourney in under an hour
Home button? My iphone doesn't seem to have a home button. The way I've gotten to the home screen is by a gesture flinging upwards from the bottom.
It seems inevitable that [conservatives] will be complacent until it's too late.

Let's not white-wash the problem.
I was using Chat GPT to learn rust but most of the examples it generated were pretty old (mysql 4 vs now at 21).
Most of the time if the game was good and it’s been abandoned, someone will make a remaster or a modern take on it which now works on modern systems again
A Supreme Court case doesn’t make law, it interprets a specific set of circumstances according to existing law. So, if Congress passes a new law that invalidates the interpretation the Supreme Court uses in the case, then the case no longer applies (unless the case was decided on Constitutional grounds).
Would you mind to share which mobile device you are using? Asking because it seems to work well on Android and iOS devices that I have at home.
what's wrong with it
Nobody actually really knows what LLMs or ML models in general learn.

This is a high level overview of basic training of a model.

You give it a task and a structure (the architecture) to learn that task. The model tries to perform the task. It fails horribly. However, it gains a little bit of of something from the attempt. That something is used to adjust the weights/neurons/parameters etc. What some misunderstand a bit about weights...they're not copies of the training data. What i mean is, the model is going to be the same sie whether it's trained on 2 images or 200 million or 2 billion. You can think of parameters as configuration settings of sorts. after every botched attempt, the settings get tuned. on and on and on until training is stopped for whatever reason.

What is the model learning ? What is happening to the weights exactly? What is being shifted and why ? What are the weights actually doing ?

Excellent questions. Too bad nobody knows.
Are they keeping their headquarters in downtown SF? It has not been used for a while and fairly nice
Amazon Deepens Tech Sector Gloom with Another 9 Thousand Layoffs
Higher optical in-flight data-center information density using multiple all at once spectrum optical network physical layer gives Google a comparative and competitive edge. Maybe Google needs to find leadership teams that appreciate the power of A.I. and the information as they do in part but not whole have the edge on Apple or Microsoft. Not what you know but who you know in office i.t. data politicking wins the day so maybe the answer to A.I. can only be Microsoft even if Apple is better but the iPhone/Nexus/Pixel proved other wise and Microsoft failed in that department despite their enormous appetite for risk at failing to do-over where others have had cyclical success.
Jack welsh school of management: you've got to reward the top 20% and layoff the bottom 10%, about once a year. this is very much possible when there's an oversupply of labor.
Or put the EOL in the final OS update for that phone, with a permanent status icon / notification warning that the device is EOL. It's not like they decide at their morning stand-up, "hey, Pixel 2 has been out for a while; anyone object to killing it off today?" There's plenty of time to roll that sort of thing out, however it works under the hood.
No.

There is more to 'AI' than LLMs, which is the current hype thing that everyone here is screaming about.

Seems like they are easily impressed by glorified bullshit generators hallucinating on basic questions than trustworthiness in AI.
Funny, it comes off as tongue in cheek and charming to me. To each their own I suppose!
What do you mean? The EU is the third largest GDP and half of the GDP is just comprised of France, Germany, and Italy all of which has a dwindling native population, and its growth propelled by easy immigration within the EU.
ADIEU as well (with an E to boot).
Hanging put with her coworkers as she ages out of the dating pool will surely be fulfilling.
Thanks, yeah, this is really interesting to me. Based on your comment I tried the following test (this is the free version of ChatGPT):

Me: I would like to play a would game with you. I'm going to tell you a made-up word, and then ask you a question about it. Ready?

ChatGPT: Sure, I'm ready to play! Let's get started.

Me: Does the made-up word plukatoon have the letter e in it?

ChatGPT: No, the made-up word "plukatoon" does not have the letter "e" in it.

-- Note, at this point I was really surprised it got it right. I chose "e" thinking that it would default to yes given the popularity of e.

Me: Correct! Does the made-up work ziddlebum have the letter e in it?

ChatGPT: No, the made-up word "ziddlebum" also does not have the letter "e" in it.

-- OK, proof that it's "not perfect" as you point out

Me: Does the made-up word folladel have the letter o in it?

ChatGPT: Yes, the made-up word "folladel" does have the letter "o" in it.

-- Edit, and finally:

Me: How do you spell the made up word "platoggle"?

ChatGPT: The made-up word "platoggle" is spelled as follows: P-L-A-T-O-G-G-L-E.

OK, so that last one TOTALLY blew my mind. I'm guessing it's never seen the word "platoggle" before, so even if it learned previous spelling associations with other tokens, it couldn't possibly understand how to spell "platoggle" if it's treating it just as a single, never-before-seen, opaque token, could it?

The more I play with this stuff the more existential crises I have.
I agree here. LLMs aren't going to destroy the world, but they may do a hell of a job destroying society.

Now, once we have a continuous learning feedback loop AI, especially one that is multimodal over many dimensions, that's when things can quickly spiral out of control.
Yep, it works with Lmod (https://lmod.readthedocs.io) and environment modules (https://modules.sourceforge.net). See the tutorial on setting up modules for what the integration looks like:

* https://spack-tutorial.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorial_mod...

AFAIK environment modules are implemented in TCL, not perl. The original was in C with an embedded TCL interpreter, but when CEA revived the project w/version 4 in 2017, it was all in TCL.
Amazon Layoffs Reach Second Round 9000 More on Top of 18,000 in January
yes definitely home page. it’s the first thing i looked for, didn’t immediately see, hit the back button.

i would also consider a trial pic for free tied to email.
> my rights would still be violated if you published it.

I would think that depends on how I gained access to it and whether my work was transformative or not. Merely publishing a copy is a clear violation, but publishing an annotated critique of the work might not be. Public interest may bolster this, and expectation of privacy may tempter it.

> to assert my right to control it.

If you sold it to me then those rights don't exist without a separate contract. Copyright is a two way street.
I wrote games. Originally in BASIC, for the the common 8 bit machines (PET, TRS-80, Atari). But also (hand assembled) machine language.

My early ML adventures were terrible. My early Space Invaders clone was awful. For SI, I couldn’t figure out how to tell one alien from another. So I stuck a different character in the middle of each one. Just dreadful stuff.

Moving on to college, I moved from a lowly 8 bit to a multi user mainframe. And from BASIC to FORTRAN. This certainly alters one’s perspective on what a computer means.

Nevertheless my friend and I tried our several attempts to write a rogue clone. We wrote that at least 4 separate times, across different mainframes and time share systems. Arguably our most successful was in our second Pascal rewrite (our first stab in Pascal was also dreadful). But we kept running out of resources.

Write to your passion. Because when you write to your passion, you focus on making it work. And when you find you can’t make it work, now you can focus on making it better.

None of those projects over all those years were ever finished by any stretch of the definition. We were far to busy making stuff up and breaking things.
Sounds great tbh, reality fucking sucks and maybe fantasy won't be such a fundamentally broken shit show. Here's hoping.
I once read Aaron Copeland's What to Listen for In Music. Very good.
Android's security advisory page shows what vulnerabilities have been found in the wild. Security researcher Maddie Stone from Google's Project Zero:

https://twitter.com/maddiestone/status/1395004346996248586

Not sure what to say about encouraging users to throw caution to the wind. We got to this point of such good exploit mitigation because it's good for everyone for these devices to be secured.
You are mistaken.

The money behind the $250k isn’t magic and can’t just be multiplied like that. each FDIC-insured bank pays a premium for each qualified account. 10x the accounts means 10x the money into the pool. So it scales logically.

This is a separate issue from the recent trend of the US federal government helping ensure that all deposits, even those beyond the limit, get assumed/recovered.
Except it's really not that easy. The fed has 250billion and there are 19 trillion of deposits.

The fed has already been using a lot of that 250. And this is likely not over. Not to mention this seems like it spread overseas
As far as I understand implemented policies refers to policies that are currently taking effect (comparable to policies and actions in climateactointracker prediction, the difference between the numbers is probably due to difference in modeling). Lots of NDCs and targets are to be implemented later and there are economic and political intensives to implement them at least to some degree. That's where 2C comes from.
That’s a ridiculous just-so. What happened when the FDIC raised insured deposit amount to 250k?
proof they're the same person (screenshot from one of their livestreams): https://0x0.st/H-Uq.png

/home/marcan and /home/lina on the same box.
That is one way to look at it. The other way is that vue/svelte/solid do not have a way for them to be used incorrectly
Your comment seems pretty unserious, but modern monetary theory (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Monetary_Theory) adherents assert that the point of taxes is not to "fund" anything, but to engineer incentives, redistribute wealth, and remove excess money. And that, yes, we should simply print money, to the extent that we need to, subject to the constraint that excess money causes inflation in specific circumstances.
if all you wanted to do is look around, it is understandable why giving up was this easy.

honestly, if github and HN suffice for all your social needs, you probably dont need anything else.

microblogging is not for everyone. but for others, since twitter is just no longer viable, people have been migrating to something that can't be just bought out by yet another rich asshole. plus privacy, extended control over your own data, and all that other nerd shit no one cares about.
It was a NVMe disk, so it required all cores to saturate the device
Another step closer to The Great Logging Off.
On Tinder and other dating apps, I see lots of women using very obvious filters that just make them look sort of blurry and pale and I always swipe left. I just question why they would go for filters that are so obviously filters. Everyone knows that's not what you look like, and it doesn't even look good. But now TikTok has these new video filters that can add makeup and look very realistic [0]. Can make women go from ordinary looking to supermodel. Follows the person's movement flawlessly.

Unfortunately, when technology like that becomes more common, people are definitely going to be tricked, and feel tricked. It's going to be awkward going on a date and the person looks nothing like what you expected... Awkward on both ends.

At some point... The online reality might become so fake, with disinformation generated by bots, generated images and videos, fake dating profiles (that are actually also just bots)... I wonder if it's going to spur some kind of reactionary movement. A movement to disconnect from the internet completely, or at least so socialize more in real life. Maybe some bars and pubs where you have to check in your cellphone at the door. Offline cafes.

[0] The new TikTok makeup filters in action:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tw2euJzOk60
One of the best? It's the only good one.
A bit silly to link a page about malware that Play Protect prevents, largely local privescs that are being detected by the OS or Google Play beforehand.

An average user installing apps from Play Store has nothing to worry about for those. That's kind of the point.

It's great for these devices to be patched - I'd love it if Google would take more control over the ecosystem to be able to patch this sort of thing, but it's much worse for users to just throw out otherwise working devices with limited-to-no real-world security issues.
Still a little uncanny tbh.
This is essentially a tax on wealth stored in the form of dollars, right? Which some folks would generally be in favor of, if not for the fact that the super-wealthy tend not to store their wealth in the form of dollars sitting in a bank account (or mattress). Seems rough of retirees and other folks on fixed incomes.
That's rather wholesome. Unfortunately, 4chan is barely a Chinese cartoon board anymore, /pol/ seems to have the most external influence which reflects poorly on the whole site.
Building Toolchains with Guix
Cool idea and I think it has serious uses but these aren't professional headshots, these are borderline emoji's of ourselves.

It would be great if you could adapt the output to be more realistic.

I'm personally not a fan of beautifying our pictures.
pretty quickly llvm/ai support is going to be more on the level of electricity itself. like a utility.
Interesting application, but I'm confused on the licensing.

> All images produced are released under the CreativeML Open RAIL-M license.

How does this work, legally?

Are the rights to the likenesses of the person in these output images being licensed by someone under the CreativeML Open RAIL-M license?

If so, to whom is it licensed? And by whom?
I interpreted "establish truthfulness of arbitrary statements" as referring to the challenge of telling things like if a statement like "mars has a population of 12 million" is truthful or not, given the available training data for the LLM.
It's absolutely the first one. The series of publications related to the GPT family of models show a steady history of unlocking new capabilities just by reducing token perplexity. In the limited info provided by the GPT-4 press release pdf they gave the example of 'Hindsight Neglect' as one that was automatically unlocked in the move from 3.5 to 4.0. I guess wordle is another one!
It turns into a "noob trap", where people (at first) see a bunch of perfect profiles and get discouraged, only finding the cracks in the facade if they stick around.
Have you never used colos? They literally tick all the boxes and it would be one of the worst colos I have ever seen to not have 3x9’s.
Very excited to give this a spin. Congratulations!

Any plans to enable the tool to edit code for me? For example if I ask for a suggestion on how to fix something, could I just “accept” the suggestion and have the changes made to the file?
Um, no? Most of the RCE's I'm seeing are at the OS level and would require upgrading to a newer Android OS version that older devices won't have support for.
I doubt it: they may be behind in the LLM space but LLM's aren't everything.

Don't forget Google has DeepMind: https://www.deepmind.com/. Its board/video game AI surely beats GPT, and its interactive agent / AlphaCode AI at least compares. They also have Imagen (https://imagen.research.google/) which is among the top image generators and one of the couple video generators out there.

Also, it's only been a few months since ChatGPT and the LLM explosion. They are surely doing research on LLMs, they just haven't released it as a consumer tool like OpenAI has.
Apple Podcasts is insane. I now am getting pushes for episodes that I can't play because I don't subscribe to THAT podcast.

What happened to Apple not allowing advertisements in their notifications?
No, it is all housing.

Every study shows that the overriding cause of homelessness is the lack of affordable housing.

Is there drug use in homeless populations? Of course, there’s also a ton of alcohol use as well. Is it the cause of homelessness? No.

Because we have statistics from other states with much higher drug abuse and OD stats that have lower rates of homelessness, because the driving cause of homelessness is not being able to afford a home.

Hell even HN had a post on this a week or so ago, the dominant factor - more than laws, environment, social support - is housing costs.

The other thing people don’t acknowledge that the denser your population the more compact - and so pronounced - the homeless populations become. A few years back there was an article about how Boise didn’t have the SF homelessness population due to punishing the homeless. Except statistically they had basically the same number, but doesn’t have anything like the population.
Amiga Workbench used a similar color scheme.
LOL. To be fair, his behaviour is extremely weird so I don't blame you for being confused by his insane bullshit, as I was at first.
To fully patch, yes, but the point is that Play Protect is detecting them before installation before they can be exploited, ie: on submission to Play Store or on installation on devices.

Yes, this is still a risk - if you tend to install random apks from the internet and disable Play Protect or run across an undetected modification of the relevant exploit code. But most users don't do that.
One reliable way to carry on a paid service after your own death is setting up an estate or trust which pays living people to ensure everything stays online.
The problem is confounded by what exactly you are measuring. You can't measure crime directly, but you can measure arrests/tickets and reports of crime. Various municipalities even try to adjust their crime statistics by making it harder for some victims to report petty crime.
It is part of the larger Amazon layoffs announced today though: https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/update-from-ce...
Second this. Rust also follows some habits of C++ like verbose syntax and accidental complexity. There was an article recently where a Rust port of a C++ application ended up being comparable in lines of code.
that one is old and missing aarch64. here's the latest https://github.com/ares-emulator/ares/tree/master/libco
How do you distribute equity?

My idea: Map shares to dollars. So if you get a paycheck for $100, you get newly created 100 shares.

So the people who get paid more get more equity, equity accrues according to how long someone is with the company, and everyone who contributed to the company in any way owns equity.

Main problem is inflation. Later employees will get more shares for what is effectively the same pay priced in older dollars.
"Engineers hopefully not affected" - HN
That would be akin to giving each of the 'plugins' your GPT API key and pay the usage bill directly to OpenAI. The plugin developers would still want $$$ for the app even if the GPT usage was excluded though.
I've tried all sorts of parameters including those exact ones. As for the huggingface stuff, it's not exactly clear how to use it without going down the python dependency rabbit hole. I am not confident I could get the correct python packages all together on Debian 11 to support running it. The llama.cpp stuff is very simple to compile and run comparatively.
Really hard to separate timing from leadership. Bezos got to spend spend spend on moonshots and the market rewarded him. Then Jassy took over, interest rates rose, and all of a sudden the goalposts had moved.
Huh, that's somewhat comforting, I guess. And all image codecs etc. are statically linked?
I stuck with Apple podcasts for a few years because I wanted to be able to sync progress between my Mac and my phone.

That basically never worked and in fact kept resetting my progress. Eventually I got so fed up I realized I wasn’t listening on the Mac anyway because of it and switched to Overcast.

Pretty quickly I regretted not switching earlier. I’ve been using it very happily ever since.
Hmm.

Would it be easy nowadays to just have a software service that split up an account into n accounts of less than $250k, and then presented a single interface to all of them?

I guess individual purchases over $250k would be a problem, but I guess a short-term gather operation could be ok, as long as you aren’t too worried about a bank run while that transaction was occurring.
Just because you have nothing valuable to steal from your house, doesn't mean you shouldn't make sure the front door is locked!
Well, I think you write the 35 page business plan.

Then if you can't impress people with your 35 page document, back to your day job.

Getting excited about a subpar startup idea seems like the biggest point of failure.

> I think you've missed a lot of developments in the last year or so...

Trend vs business cycle.

The long term trend is the world's accumulating vast stores of capital. And capital has to be deployed.

Once the current business cycle is over, the capital saturation will mean Silicon Valley VC idiocy will resume.
2023 Layoff Tracker: Amazon Slashes 9000 Employees
Why does it need "write" permission?
Same issue for me.
There's a theory in economics called "sticky wages". Salaries don't decline due to layoffs or temporary economic downturns.
> Are you fixing my writing? Thanks ;)

Not fixing. It was merely a recommendation. Wasn't sure it would help, but if it did, I am glad!

> What is your take on that, what do you think?

Not sure what you mean. Are you asking for my opinion on the original comment?