skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agree with everything you wrote. Gave me the funny thought of how ultimately the AI will just be talking to itself. Someone sends me AI-written documentation to evaluate. I'll ask the AI to respond with feedback because I'm too busy playing Civ. This cycle will go back and forth until one of the AI instances gives final approval, and then the documentation will get posted publicly without a human ever reading it. End users, when confronted with the daunting wall-of-text docs, will ask for AI summaries. The lack of human readership will continue indefinitely.
Pornhub is definitely operating with normal banking.

https://help.pornhub.com/hc/en-us/articles/4419872101139-Ear...
it does, it just works on estimates of percepts rather than bits.

you can think of a perceptual hash as two functions. a perceptual function that maps differing collections of bits that appear the same or similar to the same bits, and then a traditional hash function to ensure that these intermediate values get shuffled.
> data transformers that can transform raw data without coding at all

How do you know this is 100% reliable, per upthread discussion?

We've already had this problem with Excel in various sciences, which while deterministic has all sorts of surprising behaviors. Genes had to be renamed in order to stop Excel from mangling them: https://www.progress.org.uk/human-genes-renamed-as-microsoft...

AI promises "easier than Excel, but not deterministic". So more people are going to use it to get less reliable results.
I've read this many times on HN, Reddit, etc. Last week I just used a VPN. Took 30 seconds to click-click unsubscribe.

PS - During the process I was offered like 60% off if I kept the subscription.
I address that in the first paragraph. You need a lot of money (tensor ops) to make money using LLMs. You're going to depend on the big players no matter what.

I don't think LLMs are good enough yet for embedding into apps - or we (tech employees) don't have enough experience with them to be able to innovate them into an end-user product, but I'm open to being wrong about that.
Where do you get the idea GPT can't create abstractions? And do you really believe it generates more boilerplate than the average SWE?

The more comments I read on HN regarding GPT stuff, the more I realize that many people are willing to put out an opinion on something they do not at all understand.

While I can understand concerns about a flood of automatically generated emails, this is already a significant issue that most software engineers have the tools to address. Additionally, there isn't much difference between composing an email by hand and generating one with an LLM; both begin with a list of key ideas to convey, which are then elaborated on either manually or through automation. It was always the key ideas that are the point.
It's true, I assumed there would be multiple targets, maybe that was misguided?

You probably can't use a single website to send those 20 messages (if it's well-designed with a cool down), as the recipient address is the same. So you need 20 different websites to send these.

What outgoing spam rate is acceptable, assuming you can't reach zero? 1 per 10 sec?
It is overhyped (thanks to every rando broadcasting how amazed they are). There is no causal learning happening. The randos will takes their own sweet time to work it out.
Will we see a stream of substack articles from him? Or will he keep his mouth shut, unlike the other visionary crypto genius billionaire?
It is so interesting to see this line of thinking. I am sure it comes with purchasing power or local spend vs saving culture. I mean I genuinely find it interesting. Because subscriptions pile up. They do.

I saw this phenomenon, with horror, devour/take-over note-taking and journal app scenes in almost entirety (except some open source react native/hybrid apps).
William Gibson once said, "The Future is already here. It's just not evenly distributed."

I tried out Github Co-pilot with Rust and with Elixir. Co-pilot did some things well and other things were horrible. It often recommended Ruby code snippets as Elixir and suggested implementation based on APIs that didn't even exist. When different libraries have APIs and modules similarly named, Co-pilot would share an API as if it were a universal truth. What an underwhelming experience.

Skepticism of AI code generation is the result of trying it out and finding the AI tool failing to meet our expectations. It's not unfounded skepticism but that which is based on anecdotal experience. Herein lies the problem. Programmers are experiencing far better experiences with Co-pilot in other languages. As to what those languages are, I'd like to know, but if you're experiencing the future today, I'd like to know what your workflow involves.
In the US I had to work with unionised workers and they would come in at 7am, do whatever they did and at 4pm they would drop everything and would not care if you needed them to work overtime to finish a project on time. Obviously paid overtime, in case anyone wonders.

In other cases I worked with non-unionised workers and they worked more and they were actually cheaper by the hour.

Tell me, how are unions good for business?
It's beta
Literally every time I've moved up the chain in my career I have done less work. I have seen the same in peers who have surpassed me. I have no reason to believe this changes by the time you reach CEO level.
stop looking at it :)
I've never made extensive use of bookmarks, keeping only one or two dozen, but in the past couple of years my workflow on my personal machine has become exactly as you describe, just typing "n" to get "news.ycombinator.com," not using bookmarks at all.
The article explains bank runs, where many depositors withdraw funds simultaneously due to loss of confidence in the financial institution. It causes bank failures, recession, and social unrest.
After the nukes fly, who knows... maybe those physical books will be the only copies which survive a temporary global disruption of digital technology and industry.
You talk about it evoking the feeling of Star Trek more so than the previous seasons. Which I assume means Star Trek of the TNG era.

And it doesn't. At least no more so than Discovery. It crams in a lot of reference and characters from that era, but it's still an action show set in space.

Even if the first couple of seasons of TNG don't have a lot of bangers, the spirit of the show is still there. I'm also tired of the trope that they aren't good. There's a lot in both seasons that carry through the show. Plus, The Measure of a Man is one of the best episodes of the series.

And that's the thing, when you look to TNG's best episodes, you'll come to episodes like The Measure of a Man, The Inner Light, and Darmok. Where there's either no action or the action really only exists to forward the real central conflict. Episodes which make us question what it means to be conscious, what it means to live a fulfilled life, what it means to be able to communicate with others. You get these meaningful explorations into humanity by forcing the issue through the extremes provided by science fiction.

In this season, we get told that Picard kinda, sorta regrets not being able to be a father to Jack Crusher. But we don't actually get to explore that within the show itself. We're way more concerned with surfing the gravimetric waves. Or the portal gun. Or changelings taking over the crew.

All the real conflict is physical and confrontational. The show is about saving the galaxy, not about what humanity means.
I hadn't had a credit card swiped in years, but it happened to me a month or two ago.

Whoever had my card used it for CashApp transactions (I didn't even know this was possible?), ultimately creating ~15 transactions of varying sizes, all less than $100. It took a while to unwind, and in the end my case was actually denied (!) for 1 of them.

I bet I counted as a new user, with $100+ in transaction volume. :)

Just because of this interaction, my disposition towards Cash App has tilted into the negative, and I literally didn't have an opinion on it before. Regardless of any number-juicing they may have indulged in, their fraud-detection tech has to be better, it's not doing them any long-term favors.
It all depends how much you want to get that last bit of performance and what you are willing to pay for it in terms of power, die area, all that.

And of course every part of it has to be balanced. It makes no sense to decode instructions faster than the system downstream can handle it, particularly if you are wasting resources to do so.

The reason why Intel has so many different implementations of x86 is to meet the needs of different market segments.
Likely a bit lower if you're looking like-for-like, but there are trade-offs that make it worthwhile.

Major consulting companies hire everywhere and have offices everywhere. Excepting the last couple of years, which are looking like an anomaly at this point, FAANG requires one to relocate to NYC/SF/Seattle. There are a lot of bright people who can't make that move, so consulting ends up being a good alternative. In non-HCOL markets, consulting pay is usually some of the best.

Unless you make partner, comp is going to be just base + bonus without equity. Even outside of HCOL, base can end up being higher than base at FAANG, which means when FAANG equity is down big like it is right now, the gap narrows.

Partner at a Big-4 or McKinsey/BCG/Bain will reliably pull $1m TC after a year or two. IMO making partner is easier than making FAANG director. PWC and EY both have 3-4,000 partners, for example. McKinsey has 2,700 partners and only 38,000 employees (a good chunk of which are back-office non-billable). Contrast that with the number of L8+ at FAANG which is usually 5-10x fewer, from what I can gather.

Ultimately if you imagine a 28 year old consultant making $170k in Kansas City working remotely with a FAANG team of 24 year olds making $200k in Mountain View, it's quite possible that the consultant is banking more than the FAANG team, and with a different potential trajectory comp-wise.
While I was an exchange student in Germany, my cohort got a tour of an Audi factory.

That was 23 years ago, though.
This is a fantastic point, and it's what most software businesses have at their core. They just provide the tools to get something else done. A lot of these smaller places are going to be devastated when people become far more self reliant (or I should say reliant on the AI providers) than them.
Glad to hear. I will put it on my list.
That’s surprising - their teams are rarely able to deliver anything useful. It’s easy to fool a bank or insurance company, but FAANG should be able to better spot their technical ineptitude.
Reminds me of something that my father told me:
"Always be nice to nurses and janitors. Nurses run hospitals. Janitors run buildings. Secretaries run offices."
Ah yes, the CEO is slumming it. I would be more impressed if he accepted cafe pay for one month instead.
I agree with the assessment[1] that even if it isn't illegally collecting data it should be banned because it gives China a crucial edge in the development of AI tools that American companies don't have. China is able to freely access Western markets but not the other way around.

[1] https://www.vox.com/recode/23453786/tiktok-bytedance-cfius-d...
At least if you were Transmeta. Not sure they ever made the ability publicly available. That would've been fairly contrary to their core message.
There was meme going around about an executive complaining about why he was buying expensive suits when people see it only in low resolution on Zoom. That is probably a partial reason.

I work from home 100% but I sort of miss office and socializing there. It is easier to discuss a problem over cigarette break/lunch/happy hour than an ad hoc Zoom meeting. I have been working from home since 2017 but I had an office nearby. On days when I felt lonely, I could go to office. I would join company's social events, etc. I made some lifelong friends working from offices.

Yes most of these reasons are personal/social. Not for an increased business value. It is hard for me to see business value when working from an office other than social cohesion and politics.

If companies and employees care about the planet, they may provide better options to socialize over long distance like schedule a lunch hour everyday. Or subsidize working from local co-working places. Encourage and provide support for employees to join local social groups such as sports leagues, neighborhood groups, etc.

We used to have lunch breaks with my other friends who work from home but lately it seems most of them have to work from office few days a week or they just want to work through lunch and get done with work early. I think companies should be encouraging employees to take lunch breaks for healthier workforce.
Book ban attempts reach “unparalleled” 20-year high in 2022
This is good, right? Then a team of <trolls/activists> can all arrive at the same time and order a big pile of 'secret menu' 19-ingredient monstrosities from the CEO.
Is the similarity to a Dragon Curve (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_curve) a coincidence? This post (https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~csk/hat/) mentions a substitution system, which makes me think there might be a connection.
This is cool. IIRC Doordash has a similar policy for at least rank and file employees. I think it’s a great way to understand aspects of a business
I like musictheory.net
https://archive.is/99uax
Jensen Huang: Vector Databases Are Essential for Unlocking LLMs
How significant of is the impairment of executive function here in the tests they gave? It was hard to find/read the data on my phone. E.g were some groups scoring 5% lower than control? 10%?
>"What was the negative impact of the printing press and how did it end society and our ability to pay attention to things?"

That's quite a leap from what I said. I took the stance that there is an element of truth, or at the very least a valid concern. Not that the printing press was going to end society. The tone of the linked article is definitely dismissive, something akin to "why be concerned, look at all these similar panics. We're doing just fine."

>"His warnings referred to the seemingly unmanageable flood of information unleashed by the printing press."

This is exactly what happened. The printing press was fundamental to the Catholic/Protestant schism, enabled political pamphleteering, and is what caused newspapers to come into existence. Yes, society survived this, but the concern was no doubt real and realized. As for "the doom and gloom never materialized", what is fake news and misinformation but an unmanageable flood of information?

>"or the fact you share the same fear actually would lead you to think that this time it's different and tiktok is the technology that'll ruin us?"

You're putting words in my mouth. I do not think TikTok is going to ruin society, but I do believe it is having a negative effect on many individuals within it. You had mentioned "doubling down on the same thing", but I think that is misplaced. Superficially the concern is the same, but the cause is different. There hasn't been anything like TikTok and algorithmic recommendation in the history of civilization, so it would be wrong to dismissively assume the panic will pass and concerns about its effects are unfounded and unwarranted because that's what happened with books, radio, television, and so on.
Chinese regulator accuses chip tycoon of corruption
Eye-catching title and bold claim, but I clicked through on several of the "examples" that the author cites, and I couldn't find any experiments that actually substantiated the claim of emergent properties. Perhaps I am missing something here.
Funny, it seemed like one of the strongest points.

1. It's visual and memorable.

2. It leaves you wondering what the hell Dorsey and "Cash App Studios" were thinking when they promoted these guys.

3. It strongly bolsters their case that Block were asleep at the wheel with respect to criminal activity, probably intentionally.

We all know that Silicon Valley firms are obsessed with not being racist but didn't anyone there wonder what the guys were rapping about for even a second? Or why they'd name an entire song after the app? That isn't in any way normal behavior for rappers. Surely someone watched it and realized that, um, this isn't actually good PR, these guys are saying they use Cash App to pay for all sorts of criminal activity. Why? If it's once to make a rhyme then it's an artistic choice, if it's >1000 times that can't be a coincidence.

To be so blind to activity so obvious that you're literally boasting about it on stage in front of a bunch of bankers implies a massive breakdown of AML obligations. And that would indeed be short-worthy.
How many layers deep can you do with this? Can you index all your data, then ask questions and index those results making them part of the corpus in your index? And continue to do this over and over allowing GPT to get back its own contexts without it even knowing? Would this even be desirable? Would this create a sort of incest problem or would it make for even better semantical results?
>You're just describing supply and demand.

Yes, I am. That's not an excuse for anyone to ignore their effect on it.

>You've provided two hypotheticals that I've never seen borne out in reality.

The second example was taken from what I saw in my youth when an infrastructure project made my region noticeably more suitable as a retirement destination.

>There are 'rich' boutique services everywhere.

No there are not. For example there are three non-chain Mexican restaurants in Bangor Maine and none of them are upscale. I use this example because I was recently in Bangor and reviewed their menus on my phone before choosing which one to eat at.
Quantum Mysticism
Social Media viral coefficient may have been higher with a quieter announcement and the CEO just showing up leverage social media managers.
I’m under the impression the Fortnite drives Unreal and is usually running on advanced versions of the engine not released to the public.
I have trouble seeing how to turn this into a viable business. Will people pay to have their ideological viewpoints parroted back at them? Maybe, but certainly not at GPT-4-level pricing. I also can't believe enough people will be in a position to afford AI queries, but would rather use RightWingGPT over GPT-4 due to some sense that the latter is full of woke bs.
You can always stuff your cash in your mattress if you manage to be enough of a bigot that every financial institution decides you're radioactive. Harder to do that with utilities like water and electricity.

It's worth noting that most US jurisdictions have laws that limit how and when utilities, whether managed publicly or privately, can terminate service. A common example is not being able to cut off gas service in the middle of winter, even if the customer is severely behind on payments.

We don't have to worry so much about the slippery slope you describe because we have already established regulatory backstops that consider utilities different from other businesses.
Apple to Spend $1B a Year on Films to Break into Cinemas
It should be a shift swap. He works as a barista for barista pay and the person he takes the shift from should be CEO for a day for CEO pay. Business Insider says[1] the new CEO's compensation is something like $28 million, so the barista should get around $115k for the day's work.

Maybe then both parties will come to realize whether or not the 3 orders of magnitude difference in pay is warranted.

[1]: https://www.businessinsider.com/starbucks-ceo-salary-laxman-...
"Virtue signaling" is overused but highly relevant here. Absent some proof they've done anything at all to prevent an AI takeover (which surely would have to be open source to be valuable too right?).
In fairness, the literal next line of text up on his screen read "You are about to do something potentially harmful", verbatim. That's why people memed on him, not because he doesn't know what Xorg or GNOME is.

The non-techie folks are fun but they mostly just complain about their iPhones changing overnight and a bad Windows driver update. It's nice to just sorta be done with that rat race and focus on free software, if it's all the same to you.
Weev went to transnistria, stayed the 1 year it takes to get the passport, and then somehow is living in Ukraine off that passport despite the fact it isn't even recognized by Ukraine. There's also several other 'microstates' that recognize Transnistria's passport, so presumably once you have it you can stay in one of those places. If a fugitive doesn't mind living in a bumfuck mountain or desert with nothing but a cow and a woman they'll probably be fine.
And who said regulations are not an inherent part of capitalism? After capitalists have acquired wealth, they'll use it to get the regulations they want.

Sure, you can imagine a society with capitalism and no regulations. But that would be a wish, not something you can bring about (or that ever occured for long).

In fact, when unregulated capitalism is left free things get even worse for the little man and the small business or upstart: they can be crushed with no regulations to protect them. People not liking this doesn't matter. The power is on the ones with the money and the connections, which would be the capitalists, not with the masses who think voting means they rule.

And if we restrict it purely to copyright laws, who said removing them only makes things better? Million creators getting paid because of copyright - authors, recording artists, session musicians, illustrators, movie crews, programmers, etc would beg to differ.
Time-between-requests would seem reasonable except that bots will be crawling your site and others at the same time. This adds a delay combined with whatever crawl delay you specify in your robots.txt for search engine bots so I suspect you may get some false positives. Perhaps you could operate this in a log-only passive mode for a while to log what would have been blocked? The same applies to malicious bots. They can be crawling hundreds of sites at the same time. There is no way to guarantee your site gets the same threads and resources by the bots. Some of the malicious bots are using pools of LTE modems so even their IP's will be spread across a large CIDR block. That said, if you specify a crawl delay of 2 seconds in robots.txt and the bots do not obey this then perhaps it may be worth blocking them.

Allowing HTTP/1.1 for the bots that specify the google user-agent will not accommodate their bots that pretend to be Android phones and may result in Google flagging your site as potentially malicious. Some malicious bot tools will also use their user-agent in attempt to bypass authentication on some sites.
I only create my accounts adhoc because I spend too much time on discussions otherwise.

But my argument was more in sense of contradicting the original argument. No one is an expert just because.

I for myself I'm a cloud architect in a very big company and have introduced a k8s based platform in two projects. One internal on gke and one in a opensource project.

Both are used by 15-20 teams.

I also run k8s at home for fun and in a small startup.

I'm probably doing primarily k8s for 5 years and was a software engineer before.
Apple Seeks India Labor Reform in Push to Diversify Beyond China
look at what the web was 20 years ago and then look at what it is now. I dont get why people in the tech field where there advances every year look at gpt and say oh it does not do this or that like wtf is the tech stagnant will it not improve. You guys should be the ones that say if it can do this today how will it improve what it will be able to do tomorrow. Most advances come when there is war/competition in the next decade 100s of billions will be spend on this do you really think their will be no improvement?