skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use both in my day to day work. My takes right now:

Roles/Permissions in GCP is just done better. The whole system of having to switch roles to be able to see stuff across multiple accounts in AWS is opaque and confusing. TrustPolicies are powerful but feel unnecessarily complex for almost every use case. Google has its own warts around permissioning (doing things often requires an opaque role that you have to look up, the error message is often unhelpful). However, it’s better than unraveling the series of permissions needed to, for instance, have an app pull from an S3 bucket in AWS.

AWS sucks at naming things. Everything is some nonsensical acronym that only makes sense to salespeople at Amazon. When you wonder what Google’s load balancer product is called, you look it up and it’s perhaps unsurprisingly called Elastic Load Balancer.

Another plus for Google: Having IAP as a first class citizen is a nice way to avoid having to set up bastions etc when prototyping.

On the other hand, we just spun up a Karpenter instance in EKS, and according to my colleague it’s much better than Google’s Autopilot product.

Also there is a whole industry around getting support from Google, lol. We use DoIT at my place of work, which is a company whose entire business is to pool together customer accounts for volume pricing and white glove support from Google. Interestingly, the cost savings from volume pricing are so significant there’s no cost to end users for using DoIT.
Can chatgtp ride a bicycle? Can you ride a bicycle? If you ‘d never rode on a bicycle before - do you think if you read enough books on bicycle riding, the physics of bicycle riding, the physics of the universe - you would have anywhere near as complete a model of bicycle riding as someone who’d actually rode on a bicycle before. Sure you’d be able to talk a great game about riding bicycles - but when it comes to the crunch, you’d fall flat on your face.
That’s because riding a bicycle involves a large number of incredibly complex emergent control phenomena embedded within the marvel of engineering that is the human body - not just the small part of the brain that handles language.
So call me when LLM’s can convert their ‘world models’ learned from statistics on human language use into being able to ride a bicycle first time. Until then I feel comfortable in the knowledge they know virtually nothing of our objective reality.
You have a bucket of widgets, and so does everyone else to varying degrees. Each widget is really worth a dollar, but you paid $12 on average for yours because widgets were in demand at the time. Nobody really needs all their widgets right now, so there is little to no demand. You can either keep holding your widgets and keep them at a $12 valuation on your books, or sell them for an $11 write down. If enough people sell their widgets at $1 then everyone's widgets are magically worth $1 too, and everyone is fucked.

Bay Area commercial real estate right now is like holding a bunch of jumbo mortgages in 2007.
Dread and making an entire media functionally unusable is the point?
There are startups intent on putting guardrails on AI. Anthropic is one example.

https://anthropic.com
Probably the more important story:

https://calmatters.org/commentary/2023/02/budget-deficit-may...
Yep it's been hard to find messaging to describe it. We start with walkie-talkie so it's understandable from the getgo.

We used to do "Real-time voice commz for teams" but it didn't click for people.

Thanks for the feedback! We are thinking through composing audio clips instead of just broadcasting immediately. From there, can imagine a world where we undo send. All to reduce anxiety and enable more free-flowing conversation. However, it may have the opposite effect, which is why we want to keep it simple for now.

Appreciate this regardless! Especially the analogy!
Cat pictures and videos are often shared across the Internet. Many of these files display feline subjects interacting with boxes and other containers.

Since there is currently no compact notation for describing such media, this document details a standard notation to describe the position and interaction of cats, containers, and related subjects pictured in these images.
Open source and scientific communities are catching up, throw them into the pit as well, right?
Gosh, thank you for getting to this before I did. The first thing I said when I saw it loading tens of GB from the disk on each run is, is there some reason they're not using mmap?

This isn't just a matter of making the 30B model run in 6GB or whatever. You can now run the largest model, without heavy quantization, and let the OS figure it out. It won't be as fast as having "enough" memory, but it will run.

In theory you could always have done this with swap, but swap is even slower because evictions have to be written back to swap (and wear out your SSD if your swap isn't on glacially slow spinning rust) instead of just discarded because the OS knows where to read it back from the filesystem.

This should also make it much more efficient to run multiple instances at once because they can share the block cache.

(I wonder if anybody has done this with Stable Diffusion etc.)
This seems like an April Fools prank given the limited amount of details... is it?
> My problem is the ARM chip and how likely I am going to have problems running a non-blessed OS on the thing.

ARM shouldn't be a problem for a long time; there's a huge number of boards out there using that architecture and most of them are well supported by Linux.
Here are some Armbian images: https://users.armbian.com/balbes150/opi800/
The user is reliable and a regular Armbian contributor/maintainer.

> zero real applications for the thing other than a cute novelty

I think the main selling point of these devices is for kids to carry them in their backpack when they study with their friends, so that they have all their stuff in a single device that is more usable and safe than a cellphone and needs only a video connection, without messing with the family computer.
A relatively low cost independent device with exposed gpio ports could also have some uses in a lab to drive external hardware, microcontrollers programming, etc. If I had one I would probably use it for such tasks, including audio measurement by adding an external sound card.
Loopt was a failure. Political skills. It's a stream of PR, not anything operationally applied, or performant.
You mean early D&D where there's an invisible moon with cat samurais, gnomes have a flying city, and there's a giant robot somewhere. (I.E. everything in the Mystara setting)

There was always comdey action in D&D. Just like there was always horror genere in d&d and survival.
Show HN: A Google Reader-inspired RSS reader
It’s a good comparison. And once again tech enthusiasts are confused and outraged that the product people are getting credit for tech they didn’t invent. Once again missing the forest that people buy products, not tech.
> Curry is a South Indian word referring to vegetables originally

Not exclusively to vegetables. It originally comes from 'kari', meaning 'blackened' or 'burnt', and referred to cooked vegetables and meat.

1. https://www.etymonline.com/word/curry#etymonline_v_491
Yep I think we fail to articulate this well in the site. Flowy is a place for you and your core team (typically 3-8 people that are absolutely critical). The 20% of folks that you spend 80% of your time with, to focus and execute with.

You choose who you hear. No notifications for anything else. No global presence as that would bring back the "always-on" feeling of slack.
I'm arguing against the point that it clearly did have the easiest syntax compared to the competition back then and not because Google was using it.

Even if it doesn't have the best syntax now (which I doubt), the tooling and libraries make it a better choice over any language that have an edge over python syntax.
The proposed Death flag, or DTH for short, uses the fourth flag bit in the TCP header to indicate likely termination of the TCP session.

The flag allows applications to prepare for abrupt session terminations. Network engineers find this feature helpful in identifying the one or more root causes of TCP RSTs. Critical end users can use the information to better understand TCP narratives.
I'm really curious what plans you are looking at. From what I gleam on covered california out of pocket max are no higher than $8700 for most silver plans, some as low as $900. The plans offered seem pretty comparable to private corporate plans imo, and the premiums are affordable considering what is being offered. It would be easy to negotiate for a salary bump to cover your anticipated healthcare costs for a startup in tech I would imagine.
It's been superseded by mpv.
> and logged everything in my through-the-browser CRM at blazing ISDN speeds.

Nowadays every single click on sales force takes a painfully long amount of time - sometimes several seconds but it compounds into making it feel like you’re wading through molasses.

Salesforce “lightning” has got to be the most ironically-named product in history - it’s a slow, painful clusterfuck which makes me miserable every time I have to use it.
I bet the snacks and legroom aren’t much better on the commercial options… but this seems pretty wasteful regardless. Let intel staff take commercial and let the commercial airlines improve the service on these routes for everybody else
I've never seen so many "experts" speaking from a position of complete ignorance than I do on Hacker News.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35392288.
> to release their internal chatbot months ago

I’m not sure that would have been wise. Bard clearly isn’t ready.
Enhancing Large Language Model Completions with Dialog-Enabled Resolving Agents
You have obviously no clue what "theory" means in that context. Playing with LLMs has so far demonstrated very little. Yes, these language models are subjectively impressive, but that's exactly what they have been designed to be. Usefulness is a completely different metric and it will be much harder to demonstrate convincingly.

From a pure programming point of view, the situation is simple: Even if a LLM could translate human language into working code, it just becomes another compiler and the input just another, admittedly novel, kind of programming language.
Great point! We are thinking of switching to usage based for startups at the start. A metering system so that you only pay based on what your team uses for that month in terms of our infrastructure costs, which should be minimal I hope.

Thoughts?
That would be cool! Thanks for the positive feedback, really appreciate it!
India hunts for spyware that rivals controversial Pegasus system
I wonder what it would be like if you fed it in all the transcripts of Virginia Satir’s sessions. She famously recorded a lot of so there would be a decent corpus of work. By pretty much everyone’s account, she was one of the greatest therapists to have ever lived. People who met her seem to talk about her the same way they do Jesus.
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Hi,

I’m Dom, co-founder of Five.

We’re a self-funded low-code start-up from Brisbane, Australia.

If upon hearing “low-code start-up”, your reaction is “Another one!?”, give me three bullet points to explain makes us different:

1. We’re not a visual programming tool. We’re much more like a dev tool or IDE with full-code capabilities. For now, you can write JavaScript or TypeScript functions (with Open AI's code review & debugger), or SQL queries. In the future, any language that compiles to WebAssembly can be used in Five.

2. You can deploy your application from inside of Five. We give a full-provisioned MySQL database, as well as dev, testing and production environments for each application.

3. Five creates the UI for you. That's where the low-code parts come in. If your wrist ever got sore from dragging-and-dropping elements in a WYSIWYG application builder...well, Five is the solution. Our focus is on backend engineers who want to go from MySQL DB to web front end quickly.

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> The "conscious superintelligent AI" is a scifi LARPing game that some people are getting paid to play

Thinking our meat brain's consciousness is somehow special, and our intelligence can't be surpassed by a machine, sounds much more like a religion to me.

AI researchers are working towards making intelligent machines. Why are we supposed to believe that - if they manage to achieve their goal - these machines won't surpass our intelligence?
Modern Italy is, in many senses, a failed state. Frequent turnover in prime ministers and corruption are just 2 signals.

It might be worth getting a SIM and/or VOIP number from a different country and a different country code.
I agree in general, though I think you're being too optimistic about GPT4 finding and fixing its mistakes. I haven't been using it much, but the only thing where it performed flawlessly was translating a simple song into Spanish. At the same time, GPT is a total sycophant and this makes it rather hard to work with. Whenever I give it feedback it agrees with whatever I have said and then proceeds to produce paragraphs of text which include several contradictions of the things we've "agreed" on.

I think the "stochastic parrot" idea is too harsh, but it does reflect that GPT is fundamentally incapable of looking at a small block of text, turning it into a set of logical facts, and recognizing if those facts are consistent or not. I think it is something that is possible to build with a refinement of GPT, but I'm not sure it can be done simply with glue code.
> it's not difficult to imagine something slightly smarter than bitcoin

I'm not saying there aren't risks from AI, or that they shouldn't be considered. But risks like the ones you're alluding to are not going to be affected by a 6-month moratorium.

The problem is that the people yelling loudest about risks are not talking about plausible problems like the one you mention, they're worrying that an AI will decide to take over the world and reuse the atoms that make up humans for its own purposes. The first reply to LeCun's tweet is a leader of one of those cults.

If people make the mistake of listening to them, we're more likely to end up with problems like the ones you're describing, because we'll be paying attention to the wrong, imagined problems.
AI is not an abstraction. It's rational to be hand wavy about future value, it's already materialized. AI is basically an applied reseaarch project, he should be more like a Dean herding researchers and we should take him as that. In a previous era, that's what it would be: a PhD from Berkley in charge of some giant AT&T government funded research Lab thing. He'd be on TV with a suit and tie, they'd be smoking and discussing abstract ideas.
Haven't looked into it, but it sounds like it would work similarly (with some nice benefits such as also being able to easily store other metadata/etc). Feasibility would depend on how quickly the indexes and such load, and the resource consumption associated with opening/closing dozens of them at a time 24/7.
In my screwy case there are hundreds of thousands of zip files which are randomly accessed on the fly to grab one or two thumbnails at a time. The random access speed on unloaded files is critical, and for zip files it's extremely quick.
Thank you! Every team is a small team, even within a big company, but you are right, small teams in international countries who need to move fast is the lowest hanging fruit at this point in time.
That's my preference as well, and I think it represents a fairly large contingent of players.

But the podcasters and streamers lean heavily to action comedy, and I think that's what's in the popular culture as far as the game goes.

Given that, I can't blame the movie for not playing it straight.
This is why we need webrings again. It shouldn't take stumbling on a random internet comment by someone privy to the newsroom drama to figure out where the good journalism has ran off to.
It reads, sounds, and looks really cool.

We live in interesting times.
I think the point of the article, and it is a very valid point these days, is that it is the ease in which we turn to the pitchforks that is the problem that truly needs to be addressed.

“We need to put our focus on transforming society to be able to deal with this.”
There’s plenty of evidence that he has no equity. I’d love to see contradictory evidence, but without that, just refusing to believe things based on intuition isn’t great.
> could you not split it up over multiple, smaller drives then?

Well, you could create multiple Google Accounts and create all the files in the same Drive with sharing enabled, because the limit isn’t on what is in one user’s Drive, but what one user can create across all Drives.
Is your argument that we're far away from developing a "conscious superintelligent AI" or that it's not possible in principle?
That is true, but on other hand management in growing economic environment does not aim at actual efficiency. But to apparent efficiency. And more people is still more power. Including having your own managers under you. I don't really see this dynamic changing.
He used a paperclip to deliberately override a short in a vintage machine's power supply, with predictable (bad) consequences, as I understand it.
Ask HN: What user-facing documentation tools for a startup?
We need to add documentation to our new SaaS app, which is a rails app. What documentation tools have you all used in the past for customer facing documentation? Preferably ones that a non-technical user can use.
If you can get to somebody's Echo and short that capacitor to dump the rom, chances are good that you can also just walk up to their wireless router.
Not sure I would ever trust the safeguards enough to think this would really be a good thing.

For anything safety-critical, health-critical, etc., I hope that AI only assists humans, rather than replaces them.
Tell us you write C++ without telling us you write C++.

I write C++; the post was hilarious. You're just being salty.
> When using this tool, it is good practice to hash the password for the wireless network before storing it in the configuration file (encrypt it in a way that cannot be reversed).

This is bullshit. The device ultimately needs the wifi passcode in plaintext. What this person is asking for is obfuscation and cryptography theater, not real security.

Of course if you root the device you can read the wifi passcode. This is not shocking.
Hmm. I don't agree that all killing is murder.
> There doesn't seem to be enough good ML engineers

What do you mean by this?

> Recently there has been a lot startups that are just thin wrappers around OpenAI API, there isn't much innovation going on

Are you implying this is because there aren't ML engineers involved so it's just (comparatively) laypeople making products around existing tech?

I'm curious what you're driving at - my perception is that the ML engineer market is pretty saturated now
> because a CD* isn't a deposit.

What does CD stand for?
Ah, that makes sense. Completely understandable:)
Users → revenue

Working API → users

Therefor:

Working API → revenue
In an ideal world that's true, but a lot of really bright kids wind up becoming educationally restless, and fall into traps of not seeking higher education because of how slow it is. Also due to them being quite gifted, they develop some of the worst study habits due to the rest of the classes holding them back. When push comes to shove and they actually need good study habits they tend to opt for dropping out or drugs to push through. Lots of gifted kid papers about this phenomenon.

Thankfully there are some programs now where kids like that can still thrive under a job+degree hybrid (and no I don't mean that one co-op semester). The work gives them real experience and a faster pace, the degree secures a stable foundation to provide that work context. So maybe when OP is of age the programs will be less limited and accept more students.
I’d guess piña coladas, getting caught in the rain, champagne, making love at midnight in the dunes of the cape, and bars called O'Malley
Microsoft doesn’t have $10 billion from the CIA. They’re splitting military cloud contracts with Amazon and other startups, but it’s just the same thing as corporate contracts
Talking about perspective, do you maintain your prediction[0] that no meaningful business cases will emerge from generative AI?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34197033
The customer is always right - except when I think I'm smarter than their stated needs.
Good luck finishing that on a tourist visa! Plus, camping is prohibited in France, so you'll need to walk to a town to crash every night. Huh!
I'm aware of Weiss' involvement, but I'm not sure why her involvement would discount anything. As far as I know, her views "doesn't fully match" what a left-leaning person should supposedly hold. I'm not sure how that's a problem, or what scandal she has been involved in that's so bad that it warrants dismissing anything associated with her.

As for Rufo, I've heard of him in passing, but never engaged with his content. Regardless, I think it shouldn't be a problem since FAIR is supposed to be non-partisan. Given the membership of the other liberals I've mentioned, Rufo's presence shouldn't be a problem, since everyone mentioned has a stake in the organization.

As for the "anti-trans" aspect, I just googled and can't see how FAIR is "anti-trans". The current mainstream trans activists are rather dogmatic, asserting that gender-affirming care is medically credible and well-established, and any discussion otherwise is "harmful" and transphobic. As far as I best know, the evidence base for gender-affirming care is incredibly dubious, and UK and other European countries have responded accordingly by pausing such treatments. It does make sense then for FAIR to have an interest in this, since said activists have exhibited intolerance, silencing their opponents under the guise of social justice in spite of the fact that the facts aren't in their favour. This is as best as I know about accusations of "transphobia" that are levied against FAIR, and honestly calling them "anti-trans" on that basis strikes me as nonsensical.

I can't comment on FAIR's supposed origin as an "anti-CRT" organization, since I don't precisely understand what that means (e.g. are they against CRT because of some unsubstantiated moral panic, or are they simply against CRT-centric approaches towards activism for equality, or something else). As you can see, some interpretations for "anti-CRT" ain't great, some interpretations of it sounds reasonable. It would be great if you can provide some sources for me to follow up on and better understand this.

For the record, I'm not asserting that FAIR is a fantastic and faultless organization as I do not follow or keep up with them. Hence, my views are not an endorsement of their work. I'm simply disputing the claims you've made about FAIR (supposedly conservative, anti-trans, anti-CRT), which doesn't seem justified by the information and news I can find about them online.
Because of SF's structure with its board of supervisors, I don't think tech had much influence in SF outside FiDi/SoMa/Mission Bay.

After this (SFUSD's delay of algebra 1 has created a nightmare of workarounds)

https://www.sfexaminer.com/forum/put-algebra-1-back-in-eight...

It's pretty clear tech isn't making the rules.