skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't mean to post all my interactions, but here's one more. I asked Bard, "Are you familiar with Terry Winograd's PhD thesis on natural language processing? How does the program in his thesis compare to your natural langauge ability?"

Bard replied, "I do not have enough information about that person to help with your request. I am a large language model, and I am able to communicate and generate human-like text in response to a wide range of prompts and questions, but my knowledge about this person is limited. Is there anything else I can do to help you with this request?"

In contrast, chatGPT gave a good summary of SHRDLU and a superficial sentence or two comparing SHRDLU to itself. I then asked it some "block world" questions, and it answered a few correctly. 'Assume there are 3 cubs, red, green, and blue. Can you stack the red cube on the blue cube? Assume there is also a yellow pyramid. Can you stack the green cube on top of the pyramid."....

I can't pull up the exact chatGPT query I used or the reply. Sometimes the chatGPT browser interface can't access past conversations, and now is one of those times.

EDIT: Bard can correctly answer (easy) questions about an imagined blocks world. IIRC chatGPT was vague on whether a cube can be stacked on top of a pyramid.

Assume there are 3 cubes, red, green, and blue. Stack the red cube on top of the blue cube, and describe the result to me.

BARD: The blue cube is now the bottom cube, and the red cube is on top of it. The red cube is touching the blue cube on all six sides. The blue cube is completely covered by the red cube.

Also assume there is a yellow pyramid. Stack the pyramid on the green cube and describe the result to me.

BARD: The yellow pyramid is now resting on top of the green cube. The pyramid is touching the green cube on all four sides. The green cube is still visible from underneath the pyramid.

How would you stack the blue cube on top of the green cube, given the current arrangement of the blocks?

BARD: I would need to move the red cube off of the blue cube first. Then, I could stack the blue cube on top of the green cube.

Can a cube be stacked on top of the pyramid?

BARD: No, a cube cannot be stacked on top of a pyramid.

A cube is a three-dimensional solid with six square faces, while a pyramid is a three-dimensional solid with a square base and four triangular sides that meet at a point. The two shapes are not compatible for stacking.
Also as long as you don't mind below market rates and job security tied to federal budget allocations. Or your paycheck disappearing for an unknown period of time whenever there's divided government.
Gore's approach of splitting factories resonates with me.

Seems like a good point to split a business unit based on function or something. Do some Conway's Law hacking. If that's not possible, then simply horizontally partition.
Some number theory results about sequences and progressions can be applied to create more efficient algorithms to approximate the solutions to multi-dimensional integrals that come up in physics (especially solid state physics on lattices).

Solid state physics problems of that sort are used in the process of engineering new materials (e.g. a more efficient dielectric for capacitors, a magnetic material that can store magnetic memory data at higher temperatures without destablizing, a higher temperature superconductor, etc). Idk if this particular result has such an application, but I wouldn't be surprised if it did.

In addition to solid state physics, "special functions" show up in many areas of applied math and physics, including the design, calibration, and data analysis of/from MRI machines and antennas. Many special functions including the hypergeometric functions can be approximated more efficiently using fancy number theory algorithms.

There is also a broad category of physics and chemistry problems that are best solved by Monte Carlo simulations, and sometimes Monte Carlo approximations can be made using many fewer iterations by choosing a set of points within the sample space that satisfy number theoretic constraints.

Also, physics models often inspire machine learning models so it's not impossible that some niche ML algorithm could eventually benefit from a faster algorithm that uses this result or a derivative of it.

None of these directly answer your question about a definitive application for this particular number theory result, but I hope it gives you an idea of what it could potentially be used for. The closest analogy I know if is that certain multi-dimensional Monte Carlo integral approximations can be done orders of magnitude more quickly if you choose lattice points whose coordinates satisfy some similar-ish constraints to the ones described for this problem.
AI Is Coming for Software Engineers
Feels like a nice dream interrupted for most of the googlers. Probably they felt tenured and even 6 months of severance cannot assuage the hurt feeling. Looking around and doing some reality check might help. Every company is trying to improve the bottom line when the topline is not moving up. The layoff didn't just happen this year, it has been in the corporate world all the time.

If there are true friends in the company then they will find a way to reach out. Others are just lunch/coffee buddies and they might be already enjoying their pastime with someone else. Find a way to put this in the rear-view mirror as soon as possible.
look at the tweets that supposedly started this sentiment train, were they from crypto bros?

Short answer: No.

Long answer: No, they were VCs.
He's not saying that he and the AI have the same rights, rather that he and the person running the AI have the same rights.
Restored or imagined?
> This has happened at my company that is now 35 people. Too many managers that have fractured communication.

How many managers do you have for this to be a problem at a company of 35?
Software/hardware co-evolution. Wouldn't be the first time we went down that road to good effect.

For anything that can be run remotely, it'll always be deployed and optimized server-side first. Higher utilization means more economy.

Then trickle down to local and end user devices if it makes sense.
I have lost with attempt to find what is CD index. I suppose something might be wrong with the metrique. If you have read the paper and realize that something excternal is needed to understand it, why you did not tell this?
Syntax highlighted text editor using Hiccup
Might be worth trying :-). BLE has the lower data rate so the transfer takes overall longer, though. Wonder how that adds up.

I already have tuned things to lower the RF power output of the esp32 Wifi habitually - there's a Fritz Wifi repeater just across the room in a corner with near line of sight, so the little thing doesn't exactly have to strain to reach the hotspot.

Also curious how the optimized -S3 and the upcoming -C6 do in the various transfer/power equations.
It's interesting that this particular CJR report is being cited when its editor has engaged in the very same conflict-riddled, shady practices being criticized at Rolling Stone. Investigative journalist Duncan Campbell, who was commissioned to write a precursor to the cited piece, has more details [1].

[1] https://bylinetimes.com/2023/02/07/who-watches-the-watchdog-...
> Within the past 12 months, our employee count rose above 150. With that growth, the organization has changed in ways that we didn’t anticipate.

In 2023, you might write this so that it doesn't sound anything like recent tech layoff memos.
I’m more inclined to call it the Age of Disinformation
And you can't talk about quasicrystals without mentioning this mesmerizing animation https://www.jasondavies.com/animated-quasicrystals/

For extra added fun, try blinking while looking at the animation
I worked in Cloud from 2015-2023. I was personally hired by Amit Singh, who was the first "CEO" of "Cloud", back when it was just "Google Apps" + GCS/GCE/GAE. About 8 months later Diane Greene was brought in to scale the business because the org under Amit was too googley. Literally. Google's legacy culture of engineering meritocracy and ICs who vote with their feet on the "best" projects was not conducive to becoming an enterprise technology company. Diane brought in Diane Bryant as COO (from Intel) and PH Ferrand as sales president (from Dell), and while PH gave it a good try on the GTM side, Diane left after barely 6 months and there just wasn't enough enterprise experience across the org to make things work. Diane was likely brought in at least partly because she is googley, and her VMWare history probably looked like enterprise software success, but she was too googley to turn the ship and he org flailed for a couple more years. Then the board appointed TK, who absolutely knows 100% how to sell to enterprise. He spent 2 years almost exclusively hiring senior staff from outside: Microsoft, SAP, AWS, IBM, Salesforce, Oracle, etc, and rebuilding something that looks roughly like if Microsoft went back in time 20 years.

The upsides are that the business has grown mightily and Cloud is now almost exclusively market driven, at least on core products/services. The downside is that he broke the culture and alienated thousands of googlers whose advancement opportunities were essentially eliminated. Because of the hiring needs, the bar is much lower now, cronyism is prevalent, and politics+bureaucracy get in the way of progress.

During my years at Google, I sat in The Quad, Tech Corners, Moffett Park, and then back at Tech Corners, and spent time in many of the rest of the bay area offices. I will state with confidence that the Cloud offices do not feel "googley" when you walk around the cube spaces. There are few decorations, no buzz, not many people who appear to be enjoying themselves, very few tech talks, guest speakers or events, etc. Just taking a walk around the MP, Matilda or TC campuses and then visiting YT in San Bruno or one of the Android teams in MTV is a stark difference.

Cloud is not googley. Let's see if the consumer-oriented PAs can keep that alive.
I think the "dynamic so had to be slow" assumption has been quite badly savaged by luajit and the various javascript engines. "Assume stuff doesn't change all that quickly and recover transparently if it did" goes a long way to statically compiling dynamic languages. Worst case the parts that actually do very dynamic things end up interpreted, but that's stuff you otherwise can't do without writing an interpreter.
When something becomes much cheaper than it was before, people tend to find much more uses for it. In game development, for example, amount of money that could be spent on art almost always amount and quality of content; if art becomes 10 times cheaper, a typical indie game will have 2 times more different pieces of content with 5 times variants of each.
So? What is the point of living?

:-)
> a prompt is somehow a recipe and not a novel expression that merits copyright

Is it not? Does typing in 'cat' in SD, as millions of people will, count as novel expression?
I’ve been thinking a lot about how AI can reduce some of the world’s worst inequities.

But he fails to mention in the risks how AI can also be a cause of increase for some of the world's worst inequalities due to failure to have representative datasets, or simply by creating an ever increasing technological gap between classes(just 2 off the top of my head).
I'm willing to bet that if someone can social engineer their support staff into opening a console from their corp address, yes (in a way lol)
Well, I guess this is why startups are so cool.
I've offered, but she declined. She really likes sales and coupon offers, extensions for cash-back that are based on tracking, etc. Someone else said it best about their spouse on another thread:

"...whenever a website doesn't work for any reason I get an earfull about my 'damn adblocker'..."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30150762
> This is like saying, the transportation of <city> has massive power to censor where people can travel about within a bus.

They in fact do and land value (hence real estate), is deeply impacted by transportation reach and frequency decisions.

It also creates a corruption issue with businesses trying to influence politicians to make changes in their favor.
Latex is "typesetting-complete". This language is not, so it's not a replacement. For instance

* The syntax does not use escape sequences for functions/symbols, i.e. phi instead of \phi or floor instead of \floor. You will inevitably run into situations where, for instance, you want to write the letters phi, and have to resort to some ugly hack to write the natural language. This is not okay.

* There is reasonable syntax for text-formatting in bulk (whole paragraphs), but if you want to format a single word or sentence, the syntax seems to involve way too much work.

A side concern: This uses a mix of markdown-style formatting (asterisks for bold text) and programming style formatting. Personally, I think this makes it difficult to visually parse complex documents.
For playing around, sure. For serious work though you probably need control-net in some way, otherwise you end up with a bunch of images which are great on their own but make no sense together.
it's fun to try to find flaws in content blocking.

interesting datapoints: it will block some sexually suggestive prompts regarding women (a woman swimming in milk) but not for men (a man swimming in milk)

changing milk to "almond milk" got the prompt accepted but then blocked before showing image

refused any prompt with the word "bikini" (even for "on a statue") or "full body visible" (even if clothed)

I got suspended for the prompt "full bodied man" after "full bodied woman" was blocked.

Suspension says for violating content policy - I never asked a single time for anything explicitly sexual. Never asked for nudity, nakedness, sexuality, or anything like that. Never asked for a bikini or other revealing concept on a human. Only possible implications of sexual nature were "in milk" which it clearly found sexual, and "swimming" and only because it implies lots of skin showing.

In one instance, it showed a topless woman swimming, but breasts were blurred and had skin-colored nipples and basically looked like Barbie, and had shadows where nipples would go.

I am guessing it checks content two ways: both in the prompt, and then a second time on the actual generated image before displaying it. Which is smart.

I am guessing my suspension was based on blocked images, regardless of what I was asking for.

It's interesting that it also seemingly censors anything it detects as looking like nudity, but also in one case still displayed the censored version. or maybe it just happened to generate something that looked censored and therefore didn't trigger the nudity check
You completely missed the point. Apple has no control over third party software. Blaming the machine for bugs in third party software is beyond absurd. To get bugs fixed, one must submit bug reports to the developer. Blaming hardware manufactures won't accomplish anything.
>(2) the public's willingness to unquestioningly consume everything that such media produces.

What? The predominate pattern today is nobody believing anything the media says. Nothing is true. The earth isn't even fucking round.
Can you elaborate why you think this is the most notable feature as opposed to others?
because the mixing the article talks about it transmission oil and coolant.

When a passageway cracks in a cylinder head & engine oil becomes "milkshake" that is the mixing of engine oil and coolant. Two separate kinds of oil in different places.
This looks neat! So it's like super-charged intellisense for something in your code? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35251029

Looks helpful! What else is on the roadmap?
Why requiring college degrees for jobs that don’t need them is a mistake
The key point here is loyalty, or solidarity perhaps, if we're go with the military analogy.

"Google cares deeply about making xyz more ABC." We know this is, at best, flowery language. "Google" can't care about xyz any more than an inanimate object can.

Maybe that's an exaggeration, but I do think personifying an organisation to a think that "wants," "loves," or "believes" is disingenuous. That's not the case, necessarily, for a smaller group.
You said it yourself -- it's the difference between a suspicion, aka hypothesis, and theory, aka explanation based on evidence.

The problem with conspiracy theorists isn't that they think unlikely things might have happened, it's that they are 100% convicted that unlikely things are the only possible explanation, and (typically) that any evidence to the contrary is just part of the conspiracy.
Interesting. I missed that one.
Nvidia don't want consumers using consumer GPUs for business.

If you are a business user then you must pay Nvidia gargantuan amounts of money.

This is the outcome of a market leader with no real competition - you pay much more for lower power than the consumer GPUs and you are forced into ujsing their business GPUs through software license restrictions on the drivers.
Are you a 17yo from Pakistan? Otherwise, if you're going to dream, you may
as well dream bigger than a cubicle at Amazon.
Well, in earlier (and better?) times, copyright infringement enforcement was in line with the profit one made from infringing.

When copyright was drafted, the idea was to protect a publisher (and his pipeline) from someone just selling cheaper copies. This was changed when our friends at the RIAA would win cases against music infringers but then were able to collect $0.00 because the infringers weren't charging or making a profit. This needed to change to discourage infringing (rather than, adopting a more reasonable pricing structure).

Looking at it through that lens, VidAngel was a commercial entity looking to profit on the (performance?) of the streamed videos, where the Internet Archive (to my knowledge) doesn't charge patrons for materials, akin to a library.

IANAL, but it seems feasible to me that the judge could agree that IA is in complete infringing territory, but COULD assess a fine of $0.00 as that was the "damage" caused. I think the preferred outcome is that he finds for their theory of fair use, as that allows all libraries to continue as they are today without fear another venue could assess a non-zero fine.
There isn't, but this one provides a good overview.

https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/fzf-linux-fuzzy-finder

The tl;dr is that it provides terminal fuzzy finding that can be plugged into just about any task that involves finding things.

I use it many times an hour, it's the main way I navigate files and buffers in nvim, it's how I find files in my projects, it's how I select sessions in tmux.

I'd be lost without it.
Sharing my dinner with 5 people would make me very grumpy.
I like your analogy, but I need help seeing how it applies to Consider Phlebas. From my perspective, the story is pretty arbitrary. The aliens have arbitrary features that have no internal reason for they must inevitably be that and not something else. Similarly for characters and plot points. There's a ringworld, but with none of Niven's exploration into the nature of a ringworld. (Fair enough, just borrow from Niven, it just doesn't add any juice.) The gambling game and island cult are interesting, but both are deeply grotesque and kind of counter-examples of treating people well. The Culture seems like Progressivism plus American self-assured knowledge that their system of life is obviously the only right way to behave. (Not arrogance, which is putting down others, or cockiness which has naivite, but just the lack of introspection to even see other perspectives. It reminds me of the smart bombs the US talked about in the Iraq War, as if a "righteous" war with weapons that only killed hostiles and not innocents is morally acceptable. I'm somewhat sympathetic to that idea [assuming it were implementable], but I can also see how that is not terribly compatible with the idea of a peaceful nation promoting democracy, but the messaging did not seem to have any cognitive dissonance.) I do think managing to make the Culture feel like modern America, but two or three decades prior is pretty impressive, but I don't see what extra juice there is. There is no critique of the Culture as far as I can tell (or any justification, for that matter), it just IS and everyone else has to deal with it.

I guess I just don't see where any extra juice is going to come from. Canticle for Leibowitz has a beautiful meditation on human nature. Diaspora shows several very non-arbitrary forms of life, discusses disobeying a person's expressly stated values to save their life, and touches on the consequences of immortality and immortality alone. In comparison, I struggle to see how Consider Phlebas is anything other than solid C-grade sci-fi.
Computer latency numbers in human terms
Because it accomplishes nothing. Apple has no control over third party software. Software developers fix their bugs, not computer manufacturers, which is indeed a silly expectation.
I can't believe something like this doesn't exist yet. I've tried adding other onboarding tools and it's always been so clunky, and this really hits the right spot.

Love it!
HOLY CRAP! this is a good statement.

As someone who has sat in front of a computer daily for nearly 30 years, this really hit me.

I am REALLY good at maintaining a no-ad/no-spam experience for my self with high-density-information content, that I almost never see ads.

My viewing is clean, I have never been accidentally rick-rolled, I have never seen TG1C, TubGirl, etc... no Ogrish or other crap...

I am my own 'curator'

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But yeah - if you dont take time to set mental-health-boundaries against the internet - then the internet is the same as the experiments when they just plugged in a machine (win98? xp? cant reacall) - pwnd in matter of minutes.

Thats the same as your mind.

put mental firewalls up.

Be open to positive content, but destroy negative impacts on your mental health with impunity.
By "chance", do you mean "actual, plausible chance ... say at least single digit percentage"?

No

If by "chance" you mean "in a hypothetical alternate universe where crypto 'influencers' actually exist, AND people care about them" ...

The answer's still "no"
It's been funny watching the "it's just a statistical model" crowd who were always quick to chime in (when that's not what 2016 deep learning was) now doing a 180 degree turn to "how do we know the brain isn't just a llm" or whatever silly confused by a mirror opinion they have now, when despite obvious advances in scale, theres no fundamental difference in the models. The only takeaway for me is that people love to passionately misunderstand anything that gets called AI.
I feel like it's not that it never happens to me but that I quickly leave and forget the site that blocks me. Non-survivorship bias.
That is why I can't work with others. I normally will eat one pizza all by myself, to the shock of everyone else around me. There is a downside to a fast metabolism (I know a lot of "fat" people who would still gladly trade downsides)
> I doubt some Golden Age of news objectivity ever existed

Maybe that's because you haven't read any of it? I mean, it's hard to find on the Web these days. And easy to find counter-examples even from that period.

Just like it's easy to find some Victorian-era pornography and leap to the conclusion that everything then was just like now.
My main problem with vim is navigating and manipulating files rather than text.

I use vim fairly frequently for quick edits and small changes but as soon as the scope of the change starts to span more than one file vim starts to feel really frustrating really fast (to me).
Any mention of Lobachevsky requires this:

https://youtu.be/gXlfXirQF3A
The problem is that GPT-3.5 is so cheap, and the results that you get out of it are still quite a bit better than LLaMA/Alpaca. There just doesn't seem to be any solid economic reason to run it locally except to keep inputs and/or outputs private.