skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ukraine is asking for those guns ... and one of many reason is that being under Russian leadership means becoming poorer and poorer.
I'm getting something similar, Error 405: Unsupported method
These questions are irrelevant. The tactical significance of Finland to Russia is small compared to the resources required to invade it as is. Due to bad cost/benefit ratio it is therefore unlikely for Russia to attack Finland. But now that Finland is part of NATO it has to bear the cost when some other country gets attacked. It's a bad deal.
Who is suggesting ibuprofen for cancer? Come on now. There is absolutely time and place for narcotic pain killers. But there are a lot of doctors prescribing them for really minor things. Few years ago I got vicodin after a root canal. It was baffling
Well, this is the kind of thing HLA does (also see my other comment in this thread about a compiler I wrote), but in practice there's little demand - most of the people who write asm are used to the conventions, and few people who write asm write much of it.
> Russia could also take over all of Ukraine in about a week.

I think that qualifies for a great big [Citation Needed].
They are using it as an example but, if you take all of the training across all organizations it represents a huge carbon footprint due to training. Also, inference isn't exactly free either . Open sourcing your weights and putting them downloadable would get rid of that but on the other hand you have trade secrets that would make you not want to release your weights so inevitable another group will reproduce your weights and use more electricity.
Amazon wants to boost ten generative AI startups around the globe
Agreed, article was about the emotional impacts of working for yourself vs someone else. GP warped that into some metaphor about classism. Cool but unrelated.
Just because that's how most large business operate doesn't mean we should blindly except it as "just how it's done". Everyone has a right to complain about how an organisation is run, and entitled to push them to put employees before maximising profit.

Personally I think society could benefit from being a little more people focussed rather than profit driven.
I'm not OP, but AWS introduced Nitro Enclaves about two years before Nitro TPM, which is a relatively recent addition. It's likely that TPM wasn't available in AWS at the time of OP's original development. Nitro TPM is not available at all on Graviton 1 or 2; only the newest Graviton 3.
In some countries, corporations are seen to be in service of both their employees and their investors.
Data Modeling: The Unsung Hero of Data Engineering
The dog appears to be facing the same way, even in the reflection
There are phones that cost $1000.

Apple sells 70 or 80 million phones per quarter and they are only a small fraction of the market. Android phones sell over a billion a year.
super-exponential?
My friend and I recently built a little weekend project that could serve as some inspiration: https://oeno.chat.

I think one thing to think about is really anything around language. Law, content, customer interaction (email, marketing, etc.). What I really see as the big opportunity here is using it as "glue" to integrate separate APIs and then add UI polish. Doing the thought work of "Oh, if I combine this API with this prompt and then send the result to this other API and use OpenAI to reframe that result and then put a UI on it..." is what is going to make your solution stand out from every other "AI Blog Writer" or "AI Email Spammer" or whatever else.
Maybe? Or maybe you have lost perspective on what purpose money actually serves and whether a model that hyper prioritizes it over the well being of people might not be the best approach.
Okay - wow..
Imagine joining a defense union when your neighbor declares war on another neighbor. The audacity!
I'm on my first reread. Despite some pacing problems, I really enjoy the feelings of hope hpmor inspires in me. That humanity can conquer death and overcome our problems, and that in the far future our ascendants will look back on the struggles we faced here in our cradle with wonder. I have never found another work like it. Maybe hn can recommend me something?
Yes but I think people overestimate how automatable this actually is.
Where we are context depends on if the audience is -

* The next developer to pick up the task where you left off

* Your technical lead asking for update

* Your manager needing an update for his manager

* Product management wanting to know where we are on some feature

* End users wanting to know when the bug fix / feature they asked for will be in their hands

Everywhere I have worked, we had multiple apps/ticketing systems/etc all trying to roll up / slice & dice data to get to the above.

In the end it just turns into talking to management pinging the next level below them for adhoc status.

Why? Because product is too ignorant to open Jira nor maintain status themselves. Because management above the line manager level is apparently incapable of opening Jira either, let alone 2-3 levels up. Also no one wants to hire real project managers anymore to maintain all the different views & send the weekly updates they demand to receive.
Being cautious in order to keep one's IP and job safe during an economic downturn isn't shortsighted, it's playing the long game. AI isn't going anywhere, and waiting and seeing how the legalities shake out and how companies will want to consume this internally is the smart play.

Jumping onto a new technology with unknown risks and getting burned is shortsighted.
I love the skunkworks reference. Every time I see something like this in a 3 person startup, I just want to grab someone by the neck and tell them:

"Bro, your mobile app redesign to Flutter is not a 'skunkworks' project. Unless you are Lockheed Martin, or Boeing, and the project will approach a trillion dollars of spend, has the capability to eliminate millions of human lives, and requires 1000 security managers and 25,000 Top Secret/SCI employees you ain't doing no 'skunkworks'"

Cracks me up.
The utility of effective models (which can be used many times over) likely exceeds the utility of virtually any person travelling anywhere one time. That seems like a poorly thought statistic to mention. It makes me wonder if it’s misunderstood or misinterpreted.
Show HN: IKiBlast – Aggregating the latest AI tech on a user-friendly platform
Hi HN!

I'm a 21-year-old trying to build some new things and I'd like to present you something I worked on with my associate these previous months.

A user-friendly, All-in-one AI platform to access a range of fine-tuned AI chat-based (for now) apps to simplify work, business and daily life. One of the goals was to have a team of expert assistants for every aspect of daily and professional life.

These apps are grouped in different categories such as Writing, Learning, Lifestyle, Marketing, Selling, Working, Publishing and Programming. We've tried our best to make it as easy as possible to navigate and use the various apps (one of the goal was that my grandmother could use it...). This AI platform is designed to be easily accessible and user-friendly, eliminating the need for technical knowledge or experience to use it.

Here's how it works:

1. Start by navigating to the app that will best address your current need.

2. Then input your data in the chat. Whether you're wondering how to cook a romantic diner, write a blog post, create a sales script, or debug code, the fine-tuned AI will give you an answer on point.

3. To provide tailored answers, it does not hesitate to ask you more questions to perfectly identify your needs.

4. And in a few seconds, you have the perfect solution to all your little problems of everyday life and work that ruin your days. (Well at least we try haha)

In addition, it keeps track of your latest interactions so that they are not lost when you switch apps or close the window unintentionally.

All interactions history is kept on your own device so that your data is always in your possession, somewhere you have full control over it.

I agree like a lot of you that new AI apps come everyday and are seen as an easy cash-grab. My take on current AI apps market is that most "over-specialized" tools are bringing confusion to general public.

Instead, we try to aggregate every useful AI apps (and models) on a single platform. Why pay for mutliple AI tools that you will use maybe once in a while when you can have the most useful gathered on the same platform with consistant user experience.

This fully-functional preview version of IKiBlast is still a text-based generative AI platform, but more developments are on the way. A text-to-image is already there and soon for educational purposes and it will enable text-to-voice, and voice-to-text interactions, making it even easier to use AI.

We tried our best to focus on the democratization and the accessibility of the platform. English-speaking users should not have the monopoly over AI. No one should be left behind, that's why we made it available in 6 languages for (we plan to improve the translation) and others will come soon.

We would love to have your thoughts and your feedbacks to improve the platform.

If by chance you connect to it, do not forget that it’s also targeting general audience.
The idea that companies only exist to make money for the owners/shareholders is not a law of nature. Heck it’s not even a very old idea but is probably about 50 years old.

The fact that so many commenters here seem to think it’s akin to a law of nature is an absolutely fascinating study in the effectiveness of propaganda.
I never said anything about AI development.
This goes back to Jim Collins book Great by Choice and the idea of Bullets then Cannonballs.

[1]"First, you fire bullets (low-cost, low-risk, low-distraction experiments) to figure out what will work—calibrating your line of sight by taking small shots. Then, once you have empirical validation, you fire a cannonball (concentrating resources into a big bet) on the calibrated line of sight. Calibrated cannonballs correlate with outsized results; uncalibrated cannonballs correlate with disaster. The ability to turn small proven ideas (bullets) into huge hits (cannonballs) counts more than the sheer amount of pure innovation."

[1] https://www.jimcollins.com/concepts/fire-bullets-then-cannon...
I can deal with assholes who get stuff done. Developers who are consistently making negative progress are harder to deal with.

-10x developers can get the just by promising things people depend on but never deliver.
These were the designations for intel processors in the 90s.
Smithsonian Places 4.5M Historic Images into the Public Domain
Still not "in the wild"; they were arrested in the planning stages, and there is no evidence that at any point they successfully produced TATP let alone getting any of their components through security or whether it would have worked on a plane.

That was one group, thirteen years ago, and since then everyone is limited to 100ml? Forever?
But they were already a programmer, so "low paid regular job" is extremely unlikely. Probably the "worst" they could have done was mid-level dev at a bank in the middle of nowhere making $65-80k/yr, which is certainly doable as half the household income to have a nice middle class life. The math changes in you're in a big city but the income does too.

It's easy to choose destroying your relationships and risking your health when the alternative is poverty. It's not so easy when the alternative is still making twice what the average American makes working in a cubicle at worst.
Russia literally invaded Finland last century
Betteridge’s Law of Headlines
Rails Tricks Issue 1
It's not that simple. There are two points to this

1. There's explicit legislation around moving a role to another company (TUPE regulations)
2. Just because the role goes doesn't mean that that employee needs to leave. You may instead want to let a different employee go and shift the one whose role has disappeared over.
It's strange to see US based workers to bash on Europe based workers who push back for their rights. Even if you don't see any "rights" to fight back, isn't it to your own benefit that someone else is fighting for more rights/better conditions? Why would you sit back and accept to be the scapegoat for conditions that you didn't cause or you didn't have any say over at the first place? The companies are laying of people, because? They are not earning as much as someone says so, while sitting on cash reserves?
> What were the specific list of proposals? The only one you mentioned (voluntary layoffs) is a bad idea because it leads the most talented people to leave.

Roughly, voluntary redundancies, pay cuts, unpaid sabbaticals, job trades, and various other implementation details.

They also presented a range of options for those at risk of, for example, deportation, including those at risk of deportation to face legal consequences at home or conscription. None of these suggestions were accepted.
Realize the game you and your family are playing.

Middle class have 3 paths out:

- Single shot entrepreneurship

- Repeated entrepreneurship with a job (no free nights or weekends)

- Long term, multi generational wealth building over the course of 40-100 years with a mixture of stable career or above

A wealthy family did the above but a generation or two before you or yours & someone else is reaping the benefit. Don't get mad at someone else because of your own families path.
This holds more for managers than for engineers, in my experience.
Maybe I will I'll blog about it. You are the second person to ask for a write up.
I remember long ago a file "cupholder.exe" for windows, which when executed would open the CD ROM tray
It's brutal.

You want to sound like an Office Space character. But in Office Space, there is no mission, there is no good engineering to do. So all the douche-y people who get in the way of work are more pityful than enemies.

But here, you believe in good engineering yourself, and the -10x engineer you encounter get under your skin. So you're venting online about why you hate their guts (in a funny way, for sure, but still the aggressivity transpires)

It's understandable. I met many bad engineers. They're a nightmare to work with. And yes, many will have a net negative impact on overall productivity. Still, coining the term -10x engineer and making an aggressive piece about all the ways they can screw your work life is not exactly healthy.

Yes, I think your post is going to be empowering jerks. What did you think? That this was just a "funny, haha" post? There are many people who are angered by bad engineers in their daily lives. This is just adding fuel to their anger. This is the Jerk effect taking place. This article reads like a jerk venting, and that language will spread to frustrated people. You can already see it in the comments here.
Show HN: Inkdrop (Techstars ’22) AI assistant that reduces meeting time
Hello HN,
I am Antoine and with my cofounder Alberto, we got sick of how many meetings we had to attend. So we started interviewing hundreds of team lead, PM’s, CSM’s and tried to understand why they spend so much time in meetings.

We boiled it down to three problems:

- Bad meeting culture, i.e. not having an agenda, goals, or timekeeping, leading to boring meetings with low engagement.

- No meeting documentation, leading to action items and decisions being forgotten and endlessly discussed.

- Convoluted company structures, leading to a lot of status updates and information choke points.

We iterated on designs to solve each problem and finally presented 3 in our PH launch last month.

- A meeting facilitator, keeping time and agenda.

- A meeting notetaker, writing action items and meeting summaries.

- A “silo destroyer”, answering any question about previous meetings in the organization.

To our surprise, over 60% of the people were most excited about the meeting notetaker. We thought those functions were probably already well done by otter.ai, fireflies.ai and co. (turns out, no. (don’t get me started on how terrible of an experience these meeting bots are))

So we built an extension for google meet, with clear action items, decisions, and summaries that are time-linked to the transcript and audio. (you can try it here: https://rb.gy/1khoq)

Basically, I’d like to know your concerns with using such a tool and who you’d need to convince to start using it.
> that mitigates its sovereignty

What do you mean by Russian sovereignty in this sentence? What does it include?
> BLOOM’s training run emitted 25 times more carbon than a single air traveler on a one-way trip from New York to San Francisco

Less than the cost to send the SF Giants to play the NY Yankees then?

I wonder how many SF to NY carbon units Stanford expends each year to send their various sports teams out to do important work?

This game is fun!
Most of us are guilty on at least one of these to a certain extent
The owners don’t operate in isolation, they live in society with other people.
How did you undervolt your ryzen laptop? I used to use Throttlestop but it doesn't support newer Ryzens
Keeping deadweights leads to most talented people leaving.
So this is pretty racist and I guess the author doesn’t even realize it.
>"We can't breathe in business class. Somebody's got mace or something.”

100ml of mace would be enough though, right? So why the limit?

Also why is liquid a special category? That doesn't make sense either.
In the situation where the workers refuse to work en masse. It's called a strike. They're quite common.
Everything that Russia is doing now it has done to countries like Poland in the past. That's why when we see news about Russia shipping Ukrainian kids to Russia to be "integrated" it makes our blood literally boil - it was the fate of many Polish families as well, my own relatives have stories of their loved ones having to walk back from Syberia after being sent there for "integration".
Maybe his colleagues didn't like Diaz much. I don't approve of such slurs, on the other hand, I am in favor of free speech and people being in charge of their own companies.

Lousy lawyers - ianal, Musk said they were not allowed to present new evidence. No idea what was going on. Certainly there are judgements in the US legal system that seem wrong. It is not a perfect system.
>BRICS surpassed the G7 in terms of GDP

Maybe. Its hard to be sure when autocratic countries lie about their economic data.

edit: for those two with their "everybody lies and are awful" argument (one of the oldest and most beloved Russian tactics whataboutism). You will properly not get it if you don't already understand it - but issues with accuracy has nothing to with doctoring all your numbers to keep the gravy train going. Transparent liberal countries can have issues too, but compared to authoritarian ones the issues a trivial.
> Amazon - It's true the name was the same, but the company pre and post 1998 (Amazon as a bookstore, and then Amazon as an ecommerce site, and then the development of what is known as AWS in the early 2000s) was fundamentally different. The only real similarity is the name.

> Apple - Similar to Amazon in that Apple as a name and company had continuity from now to its beginning, but Steve Jobs started Next which you could argue is the DNA of modern Apple (it merged back with the almost then defunct Apple), as well as Pixar.

These two do not really support your point. The grandparent said:

> There aren't that many entrepreneurs who failed multiple times before succeeding

Starting a successful company and then used that basis to branch out into another successful company does not disprove this point.
I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that the author probably thinks a healthy balance exists between zero communication and spending 100% of one's time playing JIRA games and visibility hacking.
yeah this is why I always work solo. Microservices built by small teams where everyone has a distinct role.
I am so confused by the state of business and employees today. Why don't people just quit? So many of these employees at places like google, treat their job like it's a marriage. Are the benefits really that good?
I think you missed the point.

As middle class you can't fail with your dart, you are either lucky or good with it. Maybe you are part of the latter, but if you miss your shot you are fucked in either case.

Wealthy people can be damn bad with it but keep trying until it works, and if you are rich enough you don't even need to hit the center once and keep going.
There are non-liquid chemical attacks that could be facilitated from something like anthrax to powdered pepper spray. Disallowing liquids does nothing to stop those
A tb4 kvm would be nice. I use a dock with my 2 laptops primarily to split video and USB to use with a kvm I share with my desktop so I don't have to switch out mouse, keyboard, and headset between everything.

I will say my favorite accessory has been my particular KVM that allows me to switch between my dock and desktop with a special keyboard command. Beats fiddling directly with the many buttons I had to press on my monitor to switch video inputs previously.
interesting, in my case I need the events to be inserted in a SQL db, even the real time ones. For instance, I receive Contacts data from Hubspot in realtime, I send those contacts over to Salesforce and I store them in Postgres. Why Postgres? Because we want to keep a history of the contacts, plus we will need to have 1 source of truth for customers data to fulfill various data privacy requirements. How about Kafka for such a use case? Let's say I receive maybe 10,000 contacts per day.
The Kagi Universal Summarizer (which is generally pretty great) gave me this as a summary:

The Artificial Intelligence Index Report 2023 provides insights into the current state of AI research, development, and adoption. Key findings and implications from the report include:

1. Research and Development: The United States and China lead in cross-country collaborations in AI publications, with the number of collaborations increasing four times since 2010. China has also overtaken the European Union and the United Kingdom in AI conference publications, producing 26.2% of the world's share in 2021.

2. Technical Performance: AI models have become more advanced, with the release of text-to-image models like DALL-E 2 and Stable Diffusion, text-to-video systems like Make-A-Video, and chatbots like ChatGPT. AI systems are increasing in complexity due to advancements in hardware, data availability, and the performance of larger models.

3. Technical AI Ethics: In 2022, new ethics benchmarks and diagnostic metrics were introduced to address concerns about AI fairness, bias, and transparency. However, challenges remain in steering AI models to avoid harmful outcomes, such as toxicity, bias, and privacy violations.

4. Economy: AI hiring has grown in various countries, with Hong Kong experiencing the highest growth in 2022. Private investment in AI decreased for the first time in a decade, but AI remains a topic of interest for policymakers and industry leaders.

5. Education: The United States leads in AI-related postsecondary education, with a significant number of AI courses and programs offered at universities.

6. Policy and Governance: AI-related policymaking has increased, with the United States, Spain, and the Philippines passing the most AI-related laws in 2022. Legal cases involving AI highlight the challenges and complexities of AI in the courts.

7. Public Perception: Men are more likely than women to report that AI products and services make their lives easier and trust companies that use AI. Surveyed Americans are most excited about AI's potential to make life and society better (31%) and save time and increase efficiency (13%).

8. AI Talent: The top skills in the AI skill grouping include machine learning, natural language processing, data structures, computer vision, and deep learning, among others.