skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am sorry for the confusion, but I did think it was pretty clear that the important part of "mesh modeler" in my comment was the word "modeler" because in the context it was used as the opposite to building scenes by writing code. I did genuinely forget that there exist modelers that work on splines rather than triangle meshes, but I don't really see the distinction as very important in this specific context.
It's really feeling like AI is the new crypto. Majority of the people hyping up AI are directly benefited from the raise in AI. The same way the people that were hyping up crypto either ran blockchain, dapp, or were VC invested into it.

I don't know the writer of this blog post, but I'm willing to bet he has posts about how crypto will replace the financial system.
Irrelevant to a response regarding both the importance of human rights and the spread of syphilis? I can't imagine an instance where it would be more relevant, I'd be interested to hear why it's not though.
The professor trying to protect our private thoughts from technology
This is an interesting example, because they probably don't use squarespace for it as they are likely more effective with other types of tooling. Whilst squarespace is a great general purpose tool for people who don't know specialized tools, a specialist will be more effective with different tools.

That's where I see the difference in AI as well. A specialist is probably faster using their own tooling rather than muddling through an AI interaction. But the AI gives non specialists the ability to muddle through tasks they can't do on their own, or don't have specialized knowledge for.
Chess is not a team sport.
FAANG salaries are not over middle class and this kind of rhetoric is used to fuel class warfare by businesses and companies among the poor and middle classes.

The fact is that in the modern day even on a FAANG salary a lot of people cannot afford to buy a home of their own. And the salary band at those companies is incredibly wide, owing in fact due to the wide disconnect in salary between engineers, middle management and the c-suite.
There's an anti-productivity link round the front page that answers this well - the amount of useless work to be done is infinite, and growing productivity on useless work only lets you do more useless work.

The more useless work ai is able to do, the more useless work will be asked of it. The ai doesn't have opinions about what it should be doing, so without people to push it into doing the right thing, it's going to be answering a lot of emails
Even that one's a little bit meta, since fewer people are using cash now.
I don't think its because ATMs are so good/functional as much as it is people just don't use cash and deposite checks like they once did.

> “because of industry consolidation and technological change,”
There has to be a tipping point when enough jobs are done by machines that there are not enough wage earners to buy products and services created by these machines. At that point a choice must be made, to either take the machines and lock them behind secure walls to only be used by the privileged and leave everyone else to squalor, or to fundamentally change the structure of society where work and money are no longer core elements. I've got my bets on which one will occur.
Is there any hard data on this? All the other HN threads are telling me that, with the collapse of SVB, the good times for startups are over.
It's usually along the lines of 1GB per TB. Some factors can affect that number but I've found it pretty accurate. Note that's 1GB of RAM that ends up wired to ZFS and never usable by the rest of the system.
Not unless you want a promotion to customer. At my work if you send code from a BU to gpt or any AI they will more than likely vacuum seal you in a test tube.
A bit tone deaf considering the thread is about algorithms that are open.
Clayton Christensen: the way we do Finance must change (2012)
But what’s the benefit if any time you actually espouse an unpopular opinion you will be unmasked.
obesity...the story tries to pin this on COVID but COVID was mostly a fast-forward for obese people (or old people, or in the worst case, both)

there are still some people who think COVID impacted fit people equally...as if it were some random lightning strike

the least obese state as of 2019 is more obese than the most obese state as of 1990

literally no one is making progress

now the rest of the world is adopting the American lifestyle and catching up to us on obesity too

we dramatically underestimate the amount of physical activity we need

we dramatically misunderstand nutrition

next up in the US is people moving from merely obese to morbidly obese - 200lbs+ will be normal...300lbs+ is next-level

HN has this weird thing where they tell me "correlation does not equal causation" so we can't really say obesity is related to diet and exercise

suuuure
Or you've seen the same ideas over and over and once you spot the pattern you save yourself the time. Your approach sounds good if you're young or have infinite energy/time.

Dumpster diving is not a good way to find value even if you occasionally find gold.
The engines certainly gave the USN the out it wanted, but the thing that truly killed the F-111B was the need for a dogfight-capable fleet fighter. There was no way they could have afforded two separate fighter development programs at the time, and Grumman had just the design they wanted ready to jump to.

The NATF program probably would have worked out fine, albeit expensively. There has always been speculation that part of the selection of the F-22 over the F-23 was because the F-22 was considered more suitable for a navalized version - and the comparatively small design differences between the F-35A and F-35C designed later by the same group suggest that a similar amount of work would have been involved in navalizing the F-22. Coatings would have been an issue in the 90s, but would largely have been solved by an realistic service entry date in the late 2000s. What killed the NATF was post-cold war budget reductions and shortsighted policymakers, not technical challenges.

The story of a navalized AH-64 is an equally strange saga. To hear the USN and USMC tell it, you would think it impossible to operate the AH-64 from a ship, yet the RN has done so extensively with relatively minimal modifications to the airframe. Given the small production run of the AH-1Z/UH-1Y program, it's questionable if much was saved. Certainly if you look at foreign customers, the capability/price of the AH-64 has been much more appealing than the AH-1Z.
I just got told by my company this year that they can’t afford to keep up with inflation. I really don’t see how they expect this to go.
"We keep you alive to serve this ship. So row well, and live!"
It's wild host so many companies make doing the right thing extremely hard. I've never been at a big org, and sometimes we are super profitable & trying to make big long term investments in the future, and folks seem to want to rush & smash code & go go go.

My pace has almost always felt a bit off, but I've always hated shipping subpar systems. Whether it's other engineers or some local managers or the business, there's always been extreme pressure in competition with my desire to just do a good damned job.

It's been isolating & draining. Sometimes it's just a matter of spending 3x as long as it would have taken to line up the 300 reasons why at each spot the shit slapdash plan is shit and the good plan is good. Trying to be OK with the process, walking through people who really barely can understand any of... You have to just keep saying to yourself, fine, this is my job, I'm the expert, it's OK that you don't know, & I'm not sure that you do need to know, but here we are & this talking it through is how we're going to decide where we go I guess.
Culitho means “ass”
In Spanish.
you don't want an insured deposit because you are your own back right? libertarian cryptotard
A big disadvantage is that the esp32 has a closed source core.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlsen%E2%80%93Niemann_contro...

This is not exactly what you asked, but it shows that high-level players are using AI to play better chess.
I'm currently thinking I probably won't do a USB mic and I'll get a USB interface – probably the Focusrite Scarlett

Mostly recording vocals as my main instrument is my keyboard which I usually hook up directly to my computer via usb midi
Yes! I feel like a good fraction of the content on Reddit and Twitter are people extrapolating on the world view and psychology of other people on the platform, and comparatively little on the actual content of what was said.
I assume they all see through that, and that the common thread is that they all are paid to be there?

If you stopped paying them, would they stay?
Out of curiosity - and I mean this in earnest:

* What response do you get from the candidate?

* How do you account for candidates who might be faking enthusiasm due to need for a job?

* How are you measuring this enthusiasm within the company (ie are you having high employee survey scores compared to what you are paying them)?

Like seriously the "we are making the world a better place" only goes so far - especially in a climate where employers have shown who they truly care about. And may be you are suggesting that you might not be messaging that you are making the world a better place and instead everybody gets to be a davinci?
realtors aren't allowed on the moon.

and, who knows...maybe a CDL will still be relevant in 50 years. The COBOL of meatspace.
By what metric? I’ve been using it every day since Musk took over and the only time I notice things is when people point them out (and people love to point them out).

By contrast I couldn’t Netflix to stop buffering last night and the last I heard they haven’t had really any layoffs.
There is absolutely moral hazard for depositors. If uninsured SVB depositors had gotten something like 90¢ on the dollar for deposits, every company with uninsured deposits would start thinking about how reliable their bank might be. More due diligence would happen.

Of course, we also would have seen runs on many more regional banks. The "too big to fail" banks like JP Morgan and BofA would only have gotten much larger.
Then the last 20% was the only interesting part in the first place.
You'd win that bet: https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/about

> I believe Bitcoin will replace gold, cryptocurrencies will replace fiat currencies, and smart contracts will upend how we deal with each other.

https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aunchartedterritories....
Which one do you think will occur?
since its seems that the author is reading HN : congratulations for that article. It managed to be interesting on a topic that's written about non stop those days, and the writing style is very good.
I agree.

I should be forced to pay to keep all the arithmetic workers employed, even though we now have calculators that make them obsolete.

Why should arbitrary people be kept afloat in exchange for doing nothing?
I'm rather hoping that rather than unipolar or multipolar world we move towards a nonpolar one with all countries chipping in to protect each other a bit like the UN was planned. That might seem idealistic but there are a bunch of countries chipping in over Ukraine, not just the US.
Seems like landlord continues to be the only secure career path.
I take pride in not making them my own, and that other people will have them after I'm dead, and the books will be theirs. I've been taking care of some books for 40 years now. Plenty of those I got because someone else took care of them for 40 years before me. If anything, I feel guilty when I accidentally buy bad books that no one in the future would want to read.

Honestly, when people who take care of their things die, it's like an explosion of wealth. The things in my place range from the mid-19th century to today. If you let people pick through my shit and take something that looks cool, my death could result in 1000 smiles.

edit: I even take care of the things that I've made. They're no doubt mine, but some of those things will make someone else just as happy as they've made me.
Producing half the steel(which seems highish, but not impossible), doesn't mean it is good steel.

And tools I buy with Chinese steel, do snap like twigs. Other steel does not. Because it's not junk.

Like Chinese steel does.

Because it's junk.
The must hate Welch Grape juice
> Earnings is used to create a valuation of a stock

Is it? Many times stocks perform well at earnings and shareholders still put on a fit and downvote its price.

Conversely, they often upvote its price based on some PR hype instead of actual earnings.
Not even just fighting ill fought plans but whether we decide to execute well or dial it in. The pressure to ship ship ship comes from a lot of places, and relatively few of them have the technical competence to assess, care about, or evaluate code & quality. They don't actually understand what they're pressuring forward, so often.

And most of them face no real consequences. They don't have to maintain or repair some grossly abomination of a system, that's the engineers job. They'll be leading new feature dev new business dev forever & ever.
Yes, the only problem here is if you redistribute those built binaries and images.
Well, one could use IPA. :P
“A socially destructive practice benefits you, so you shouldn’t wish for it to stop.”

Wrong. You should, and I always bite that bullet.
What I find interesting is what professions are concerned about AI. For the most part they appear to be better paying white collar need-a-college-degree type of jobs. Tech, copywriters, marketing, designers, lawyers, accountants, etc. All feeling the heat.

The person pumping gas? Cutting hair? Janitors? Nurses? They, for now, seem to be immune.

As a side note, anecdotally, productive gains have a ceiling. Sure Copilot and ChatGPT free me up to focus on the heavy lifting. But my brain can't run that relentlessly all day. It seems to need to catch its breath.
Until gpt-5 shaves away 17% more, then gpt-6 erases that final 3%.
America: The Build-Nothing Country
> we should call them "Text Inference Models”.

“Predictive Text 2.0” seems about right, and also has the benefit of mapping onto a technology that most people are already familiar with
US intervening with Imran Khan led to this mess.
Perhaps you calculator understands arithmetic indeed!

Surely it can't talk to you about how it feels about it's understanding of arithmetic, well because arithmetic is all it understands. Not language, nor introspection.

Perhaps we don't understand what understanding means.

Or at least we can't really talk about our understanding of understanding, well be because being human is all what we know of.
Honestly, on a national scale (never mind international) we're the lucky ones. A slowdown that mainly hits us is better than a crash that hits everyone.
As a regular IC, the things you do are largely disconnected from whatever leadership is thinking. You have a lot of leeway to do what you want as long as it implements things that leadership cares about.

Eg. You can build a section of a tunnel to be wider where you think there should be a subway station, even if the president's wife doesn't think there should be a station there. Eventually the station will exist
“This parser is getting complicated” -> time for GPU offload to 5000 GPU nodes running GPT-5.
What the end of the public health emergency means for telehealth
It looks like AI is more likely to render knowledge workers less valuable rather than making low skill workers less valuable.

Now if you get AI + Robots (with dense energy) to work together, yeah we’re all in trouble.
It's a rewrite of his: https://www.internations.org/press/press-release/d-40346 which everyone can view.
+1. The JS event loop auto-monad-izing Promises into Haxl [1]-esqe trees of implicitly-batched loads has been a big win for us building on JavaScript/TypeScript.

If I had to move to another language, I'd really want to find a "powered by the event loop / dataloader" framework, i.e. Vert.x for Java.

Also, per dataloader, a shameless plug for our ORM that has dataloader de-N+1-ing built natively into all object graph traversals:

https://joist-orm.io/docs/goals/avoiding-n-plus-1s

[1]: https://github.com/facebook/Haxl
> You are saying that when you stop counting, the diagonal number will be different.

Where, in all my comments, do I say that we must stop counting? You're putting words in my mouth here.

Since we don't stop counting, we never know the diagonal number's full value (unless our order is predefined). All we know is that the diagonal number exists, and it is different from all the real numbers we will ever count.

> If you are going to infinity, there is no side that “wins” (real or naturals). You can always keep generating an additional one for either side.

Of course. I am not disputing this. If we count through two different sets in the same way, then the subsets of values we count through will have the same cardinality (equal to the cardinality of the set of natural numbers).

But there's an important distinction. If we count through the natural numbers one-by-one without stopping, it's possible to exhaust the whole set of natural numbers, such that every single number will eventually get counted to.

Meanwhile, if we count through the real numbers one-by-one, it is impossible to reach all of them. There will always be a bunch of real numbers that we will never ever count to. That's why we say that there are more real numbers than can be counted: there are uncountably many.
What would that even look like? There are far too many variables and nuances to have a comprehensive set of written rules. That's why we have judges.
In short - what’s stopping a computer that has the resources to improve itself from improving itself extremely quickly? See https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/kpPnReyBC54KESiSn/optimality...

Less excitingly, an LLM with access to the web could do things with your online persona or IP that you’d find embarrassing or illegal. Maybe not when it’s slowed down and watched at all times, but will that always be the case once we start doing this?

Anyway the genies out of the bottle and “that’s an unsafe use of technology” is basically antithetical to the Silicon Valley ethos, so objecting at this point seems futile.
It's an awesome museum that's on my bucket list!
I would think their identity is as subject to subpoena as any anon user at any social media service.

From the article:

> Twitter also asked the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California to order GitHub to identify the person who shared the code and any other individuals who downloaded it, according to the filing.

I wonder if GitHub could be compelled to turn over ever IP that did a git clone?
I suspect it could soon be feasible to fine-tune on code with limited open data through a bootstrapping approach.

Give it the source code, a test library and access to a dev environment and with some prompting it could start to experiment with increasingly complex use cases, learning from successful attempts. This would depend on the model’s ability to understand what a successful outcome is so it can define test cases, which might be harder if the output isn’t text but not impossible.

Being able to give a model expert knowledge on an undocumented library or language seems like it could help accelerate adoption of new technologies that might otherwise suffer from network effects as users get used to AI-assisted development. Not to mention automated testing, finding edge cases and making pull requests to fix them, security, etc.

A human taking time to experiment with their assumptions and gain experience with an unfamiliar subject is in a sense creating their own training data as well.
I'm just saying that considering society is providing for your healthcare, collecting socially valuable medical data doesn't seem like an unreasonable exchange to me - but I'm in the minority on that one I think.
But it is not correct that "all the rest" are considered securities.

Also, the SEC does not determine what is and is not a security. That is determined in court. Gary Gensler can give guidance on what the SEC will take to court, but he is not the final word on what is a security.
Until an AI corners the real estate market.
I would love to have a tool to retrieve the hyperlink of the current note so you can organize the information as a wiki. I know it uses URIs.
I think he said it sometimes after KAX17 so around 2022 but honestly I'm not exactly sure since when he doesn't know that much anymore maybe it has been till a few years ago and not 10.

Yeah you're right it's a small group with a lot power. I have no solution to make it decentralized but I'm pretty sure if the solution includes "money" it's not a solution I like.
If you click on the link for VMFXX, it says that the average maturity of the US treasury debt that it holds is 13 days. The average maturity for SVB's treasury holdings, on the other hand, was more than 6 years.
Yeah no. The education system you’re referring to is optimized strictly for performance on standardized tests. From a very early age kids are trained to answer test questions, not to understand those questions or how to apply them in real life. It has been this way in China for thousands of years; their civil service exams were the only way to move ahead of your station in life without connections.

Innovating is not done in polite company in China. If you come up with a clever new way of doing something, there is an extremely high possibility that your superiors will suppress it on the off chance that it could embarrass them (“lose face“).

These big long term plans you’re referring to exist, but in the plane of reality you imagine. There is nothing like a meritocracy in the CCP. That is even more true now than 10 years ago,
because Xi has systematically removed dissenting voices in what you have heard is an anti-corruption campaign. Companies like Blackrock and Boeing are breathtakingly corrupt and are taking us taxpayers for a huge ride. But they can usually do a pretty competent job of getting the job done. They are run by technocrats, who often have an engineering background.

Imagine if the top 10 levels or so of any of these companies were nothing but connected people and their friends and children. That’s what happens to all of these projects in China. China can’t build a 5m chip or a new type of wing or a useful new programming language. Most of the people who could even do that job are either out of the country or unable to be recognized for their work.
Not in legal discovery.
This isn't an original thought, but ... this should be big for medical access in developing countries. The problem there is a shortage of doctors. So you could imagine a setup where you have "nurses" who go through a 6-month training course on how to collect symptom descriptions, put it into GPT-n, and then refer x% of cases to a real doctor.

Whatever the setup in the end, I hope we as a society don't let perfect be the enemy of the good. Having GPT-4 as a doctor is (I assume) better and more humane than having no doctor, and in some contexts that is the only choice that people have.

Maybe the Gates Foundation can work on this given Bill Gates is already close to the OpenAI team.
An interview with Steve Wozniak by Jessica Livingston cured my AI anxiety
The other problem with BTFP is that it makes less HQLA collateral available in the swaps market for securities with similar tenors to those locked in BTFP. In one hand you increase liquidity for the most liquid assets on bank books, and on the other hand you decrease liquidity for least liquid assets on bank books (and private holders of said securities, private $ denom debt > us gov debt).
KMT is broadly poised to win multiple cities this year and they're pro One China, though not communism necessarily.

Also Taiwanese military has some pro-One China elements in it last I've heard.
Might be true, but I think you should look at Nvidias stock price.