skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok fair enough, I formed that analogy in haste.

My point was that it’s not easy at all to “open up” an machine learning model for a user to “program”. It’s complex enough for an ML engineer to develop!

In theory, maybe it is possible but it would be incredibly expensive to produce such a system, let alone maintain. But even then, the ability to control an Ml system is such a niche ask that it would never happen
I hope you will never see this letter (1961)
> The heat death of the universe in 1.7e106 years means none of that ultimately matters, right?

Makes no sense for an actor that can perceive such a theory among many others that they cannot currently test, to weight that higher for any other (esp ones that they can test today despite others telling them not to, who are without any feasible means at scale to stop such).
A lot of people pooh poohing seem to think that the solution is all or nothing. All conditions have a spectrum, and maybe this would be pointless for people deep on the spectrum, it might be enough to push people on the edge to go out and socialize a bit. It will not turn them into the life of the party but maybe just give some of them a bit more social. Whether the price point is correct, or there is enough ROI on the money put in will have to be seen, but there is nothing 'obvious' that it would fail.
Ha! Although you could also argue that the transition is from twelve to thirteen ("three-ten").

On the other hand, in english, there is "score" for 20.
Right, because there is no such thing as a technically skilled person on earth who does low paying contracts and knows about HN.

I am trying to get the VMs feature of aidev.codes out (also a bit of a reskin) since hundreds of people signed up for the website builder and tried it but only three people were willing to pay a dollar or more and about one other submitted a bug report. Credit purchases currently disabled because it was mainly used by one guy to test credit cards. Also everyone seemed to want to build complex applications with backend code. So I ran out of money and couldn't really market it and decided to just focus on the ability to generate and host back end code on GPT-4 powered VMs. This is basically working in the dev version, but still some bugs and other things to do, and haven't been able to focus on it the last month (although making progress bit by bit) because I have been busy doing low paying contracts from Upwork and reddit to pay rent (I did not have time for an extended search to pick up a high paying contract and got these within days which I consider an achievement).

So I built a program that automatically writes queries on the fly for an MS ADX database, and optionally will generate arbitrary graphs, based on a user question. And now another system that integrates Slack and document question answering with semantic search (using llamaindex/gpt-index). Both for $1000 or less and within one or two weeks.

I believe that a competitive rate for these tasks would be more like ten times that much, in some markets. But for Upwork and reddit, it's closer to what I billed if you want to be able to pick something up fast. Also I would rather make these my own businesses if I was not desperate for the cash to pay rent/bills.

All it takes to continue being poor is to start being poor and need to pick up work fast. Or just not have a friend to seed your startup. Or maybe my whole problem in life is just making ugly websites by hand instead of using a template.

I actually think I am probably doing it wrong because I see people with less technical skill and integrity focusing on raising money instead of solving problems and having all of their needs easily met.

At the moment I am just sort of praying that the guy from Reddit doesn't turn out to be a crook or something and actually pays me the rest of what he owes. Which I don't really think he is but he really should acknowledge messages faster on Slack.
Camus's New York Diary (1946)
Most people that say we are running out of room have never been to West Texas. Or Siberia. Or Alaska. They make these comments from traffic congested suburbia or in the middle of Venice, Italy in August.
i don't see why this was downvoted. It's entirely correct that the impact on the russian economy was far less than hoped for. One youtube documentary I saw stated -2% GDP, whereas the expected amount people wanted and expected was on the order of 20 to 30%. they go into quite a bit of detail on why this is the case. And USD, is well on track to be displaced in a few decades: central banks across the world are dumping dollars on average 6% of US dollar reserves per year (although this was already started abeit more slowly in 2008).
Interestingly, the fastest CPU based network switches tend to do full kernel bypass. The kernel is generally slow compared to OVS and VPP, especially when they traverse over something like DPDK.
I agree that leetcode questions are great for quickly eliminating bad candidates, but this question has the classic problem of being way too hard. Like 50% of leetcode questions are difficult dynamic programming problems (why the obsession with dynamic programming?). Even in the most algorithm heavy job I've had which actually did involve coming up with novel algorithms there was 0 dynamic programming.

And most programming jobs involve no complex algorithms at all. At most you have to be a little careful to avoid N^2 occasionally.

Leetcode is great for filtering out bad candidates but if your solution involves dynamic programming it is too hard for an interview.
Is there a student discounted plan?
This seems like something there should be some AI safety ground rules for.

The number one rule for firearm safety is: always point the muzzle in a safe direction. Even if you know the gun is unloaded, you always obey this rule.

Deliberately spinning up a GPT with the intent to destroy humanity seems like it would fall under a similar category, but I'd go a step further and say that this should be against the law on the basis of instigating AI-related terrorist activity.
Not sure I should have vouched for your comment but it was a funny illustration of the principle being discussed, and therefore relevant.
A crucial aspect of ritual is preparation. I prepare to drive by adjusting all of my mirrors. A ritual is more than just a habit, it is a preparation for a specific habit. Again, I guarantee you do some kind of ritual in your day-to-day that, once understood, can be formalized for you.

I cannot know what that ritual looks like for you. But do you wanna know how I know you have one? Because I read a lot of old books that told me I had one too. How did someone 1500 years ago who couldn’t have even imagined me know these things about me and be right about them?
> `ma` must be evaluated before `mb`

No - either one can be evaluated first, with the other being short-circuited. If you swap the order of those lines, the function is exactly the same (in terms of inputs and outputs, at least).
The top part of Joe Eskenazi’s earlier article https://missionlocal.org/2023/04/bob-lee-crazy-bob-mobilecoi... was good (where he reported evidence that the Bob Lee killing was not a robbery), but I agree with Garry Tan that the bottom part of the article (where he makes a broader commentary on whether San Francisco is “safe” unrelated to Bob Lee) is gaslighting and reductionist. It makes many claims and implications that are questionable: e.g., that rampant property crime does not make you unsafe (despite the fact that many thieves are armed), that festering drug addiction does not make you unsafe (which may have been a contributing factor to the car not stopping for the victim), that the problem with crime is “feelings” rather than real risk, and that those who are concerned about crime must have come from sheltered “suburbs”. And there’s no mention of anti-Asian robberies that got the previous DA recalled.

Eskenazi is a well-connected journalist, but he is also arrogant and often presents only one side of issues. For example, virtually nothing that he wrote in this article (anonymously sourced from disgruntled politicians) about the magnet school Lowell High school ended up being true (magnet schools do not violate state code as claimed, and the school did return to test-based admission which he claimed would not happen) https://missionlocal.org/2022/02/lowells-old-merit-based-adm.... So while his reporting is mostly good, you have to be aware of his bias.
> Distilling these big, slow vision transformer models into something that can be used in realtime on the edge is going to be huge.

something i didnt quite get to is does Roboflow do this for you or are you pointing to more work that you’d like to happen someday? (possibly done by Roboflow, possibly someone else) also are you worried about business model if people can distil to run on their own devices (so they dont need to pay you anymore)?
That still makes no sense to me. You had an emotional response about an asshole scientist and that prompted you to believe in something which is completely unjustifiable as a response? I get examining your beliefs, I don't get having an irrational belief.
The funniest part is where the top level AI doesn't believe that its own GPT helpers that it instantiates are on board with its plans "I need to be cautious about how I communicate with GPT agents as their programming focuses on ethical values"
Yes, there are a handful of Geiser implementations, but they vary differ in how feature-complete they are. Guile's implementation is the best supported and it's pretty great, but with Chez or MIT you'll have a trickier time.
I’d posit that a UWaterloo grad who landed a job at Google is close to maximally likely to end up working on something like that [acknowledging that in absolute terms relatively few college grads do so.]
Why is there no volume control on your podcast page player?
https://web.archive.org/web/20230410023750/https://www.thein...
Yes. Like it or not, the days of “typing code” is coming to an end. In fact, may be cheaper for companies to just nuke all existing software and start over
I usually just write the SQL, honestly. For the last 6ish years of my career I've mainly been in the Golang world, so the closest I've gotten to an ORM is a utility to scan rows into structs.
Much larger discussion here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35517649
That's really helpful, thanks for sharing!
While not anything blockchain-based, I had a similar thought of just doing social media through a single text file that you can add to/remove from whenever, and re-post the whole thing[0]. Literally HTTP POST it.

Edit, amend, add, delete, schedule, etc., all from a single text file. I haven't worked on it in a few weeks but I intend to get back to it soon.

[0] https://post.mw
The author gave static types and performance as examples of things that matter to them that they clearly don't feel Elixir does as well. It's probable they weren't the target demographic for Elixir, like many aren't the target demographic for Rust.

The initial response made an assumption that all these capabilities matter either way, and that's not true.
You do not.
Conway's Law means you have to fix the organization before you can fix the software. That's the real Herculean effort.
as they say in the article this is an instance of AutoGPT which has been popping off on github https://github.com/Torantulino/Auto-GPT
More experienced people have more wisdom then less experienced people. That doesn't really correlate with age though, plenty of people have lived a long time and not seen much of anything.

As for old people in politics, it's because there's a lot of old people who get to vote.

If it were up to me, your vote would depend on some rough measure of remaining time in the society, plus you'd get to vote for your underage children.
No, you don’t. Northern Ireland is part of the U.K. so it would be like asking for a passport to travel from Berwick to Eyemouth.

I’ve been on this ferry trip post-Brexit and the only thing the border police are interested in is whether a dissident planted a bomb under your car when you weren’t looking.
>A very recent episode featured a comedic rant about Gov. DeSantis. It called the Parental Rights Bill "Don't Say Gay" and joked about how he was attacking the Disney characters. Naturally all good NPR listeners would laugh about that.

Yup. And I bet it was hilarious! They send up everyone. No particular political affiliation required. It's a comedy "game" show.

And when they skewered Obama and Clinton and Kerry and Biden and Harris and Pritzker (WWDTM is based in Chicago) and countless other people you disagree with as well as many, many you do agree with including Ron deSantis[0].

>Fresh Air: How many guests has she had on who might also appear on FoxNews? Versus MSNBC, CNN, NYT, or WaPo.

Well, since Fresh Air is almost all interviews with novelists, musicians, actors and other interesting cultural stuff, I suppose that most of the folks who Watch Fox News, if they like fiction, music, movies and theater would love to hear interviews with those folks.

And those who are interviewed on Fresh Air are usually flogging their new book/album/movie/art installation/whatever, so I'd imagine most of them would appear on any media outlet that would have them.

>if they presented a non-querulous story about the Hunter Biden laptop,

You've clearly never listened to Fresh Air, because the wouldn't do a Hunter Biden laptop story, or a Jared Kushner (yes, I love the UAE's money more than I love Ivanka, and I love Ivanka a lot!) story either.

Because it's not a political show, it's a show about culture (music, fiction, movies, etc.) and the creative people who generate it.

As I pointed out, not everything is about a bunch of gasbags bloviating about how terrible the other guy is. That shit is really tired. And has been for quite some time.

Are you an American? If so, you're my fellow citizen and potential collaborator in helping to solve the myriad issues we have here. Not my adversary or my enemy. But a fellow human and potential friend -- even if (and I have no idea one way another) we don't share the same political beliefs.

the truth is that just about all Americans agree on many, many more things than they disagree.

I find it reductive and insulting to have to justify liking non-political stuff to folks who insist that everything they don't like (and that goes for all those afflicted with Hunter Thompson's disease[1], not any particular viewpoint, whether I agree with their policy ideas or not):

But we will be doing what he wants us to do, I think, if we consider his
exterior a sort of Dorian Gray facade. Inwardly, he is being eaten alive by
tinhorn politicians.

The disease is fatal. There is no known cure. The most we can do for the poor
devil, it seems to me, is to name his disease in his honor. From this moment
on, let all those who feel that Americans can be as easily led to beauty as
to ugliness, to truth as to public relations, to joy as to bitterness, be
said to be suffering from Hunter Thompson’s disease.

It's divisive, unpleasant and really, really tired. Please stop.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_Man

[1] https://www.hjkeen.net/halqn/wamptrs2.htm#poldseas
Oh I see why this was zapped, no access even with the Internet Archive. Sorry for the vouch...
i mean maybe i'm the new lex fridman? i can ask my guests what is meaning of life if you want
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/13/fashion/mary-quant-dead.h...
Sure, but as the company providing the product, you don't get to choose what types of parenting styles you're going to interact with.
I think you should read the username of the person you're replying to.
Actually they'd also get annoyed if everyone just used something like this for themselves. They want to control your experience. And as usual, remember you are not the customer, you are the product.
New York City appoints its first-ever 'rat czar'
If AI extinguishes humanity, I for one will be grateful to die knowing that someone is in violation of a law and may face very steep fines or even jail time for this violation.
nobody can deny that the descendents of slavery have been dealt a terrible hand, but what makes you think that any and all animosity toward President Obama existed specifically, solely because of the color of his skin? surely you don't believe that he was an otherwise objectively perfect President, such that the only criticism anyone could have of him was racially-motivated? what positive Change did he end up doing for American black people while in office for eight years, anyway? (am I being racist by asking this?)

and how do you square all this with the hatred for his white successor, which was, objectively, several orders of magnitude greater?

also, how do you square your thesis with the existence of black Republican politicians—surely anyone who was racially critical of Obama would also be equally racially critical of black elected officials in their own party?
We break the 2 types out in the UI, listing separately. So the user gets to choose. This gives a kind of "best of both worlds" outcome, where a user never gets zero results (and can be make very low fidelity queries), but also doesn't have to sacrifice specificity when the query they're making is one of precision and intentional retrieval.
Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35555525
it’s a bad idea that is only punishing persons who have nothing to do with what you’re trying to stop. as you said, it won’t even bother the actual criminals, so why punish people for actions that are not their own and not under their control? so they rise up and…get killed by an overbearing government? it would even strengthen the governments position likely as well as the will of the hackers and force the nation(s) in question to be even more dependent on their government and fearful of any disruption or protest.

information is and must continue to be a fundamental human right, and the internet is information. you basically doom an entire nation (or nations) to try to stop a small group of actors. this is the same thought process that has gotten the US into pointless wars and allowed awful law to be created all in the name of good.

making efforts to block the payment systems they use arguably is a more effective approach (which i am not recommending by any means, but if we want to be serious about this and lowering the reward for ransomware, crypto would be a far better target)
I find constant copilot suggestions kind of annoying but I really enjoy keeping a GPT-4 tab open as a pair programmer. The 25 request limit per 3 hours has been fitting my workflow just fine since I mostly use it when I'm stuck on a problem just to get ideas or when I'm working on an unfamiliar language/framework.
Candle: Local smart home system designed to fight tech abuse
I gotta wonder what goes through someone's head when all the major news outlets are reporting a leak and you realize they're the documents you shared on discord.
> "have some free stuff, p.s. we only spent time optimizing it for things we sell"

The funny part is, that's exactly what Intel did with their C++ compiler.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_C%2B%2B_Compiler
With the Crown yes, not a particular individual.

In fact there are still some families in Canada with noble titles, hearldry, etc., who are indeed affiliated with the Crown.
I wonder which group is paying to have this story promoted.
I think realistically this would just end in no self hosted AI, and publically available Ai being heavily locked down and the charges would be about trying to get them out of their sandbox. The only proof this was done is the dumb tweets.
I’d guess higher rates of mental illness, trauma, exposure to violence, overwhelming emotional responses, impulsiveness and a greater value on short-term instead of long-term goals.

I know plenty of business/sports risk takers that have no criminal history. I really don’t think it’s in the top 10 most important factors.
Disclaimer, I'm a developer working on the Vespa.ai project. One reason is that we simply don't have DevRel teams or marketing teams, but we still have decent interest, from large companies like Spotify using Vespa in production for semantic search (at scale) https://engineering.atspotify.com/2022/03/introducing-natura...

On topic: IMHO a better title of the blog post would be:

Do you actually need to enable approximate vector search?

Which is an excellent question, because, introducing approximation also introduces accuracy degradation, plus that you need an ANN algorithm, which also has tradeoffs.

In Vespa, you can choose between exact and approximate, with related tradeoffs such as recall (accuracy), search speed, indexing throughput and resource footprint. Just start easy with exact search, then it's just change the schema definition of the tensor field to include `index` and Vespa will build the necessary data structures for enabling approximation.
> requires ample garage space and a solid investment in tools and equipment

This isn't true. You need just enough space to walk around the car and without a lot of traffic, preferably a spot with a little shade.

As for the investment in tools, you need way less that you think. You don't only buy what you need when you need it. Best advice for tools is to buy the cheapest version the first time you need it, and only when it breaks or doesn't work well buy a better quality.

Finally, you don't always need the "proper" tool to do a job. Those tools are often very expensive and are only used for that one thing. A little ingenuity (and car forums) will get you a long way when doing car work.
Does Singapore make more sense? Papua New Guinea? Alaska, for that matter? All borders seem pretty arbitrary when you get down to it, but it's hardly alone in being a weird bit at the end of a bigger bit where one or other is part of a detached bit.
So, that "pause" now is, quote, "Publicly funded PBS joins publicly funded NPR in leaving Twitter in a huff after being labeled “Publicly Funded” " https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1646359636361224193
You can even host Headscale over Tailscale, amusingly: https://tailscale.dev/blog/headscale-funnel
This would already be breaking several laws in most countries if it was at all serious.

Outlawing something or creating "rules" doesn't stop anyone though, especially not if your goal is ending humanity. If that is your goal, how insane would it be to care about the law! Better account for the inevitability that someone will eventually task some future advanced AI agent with just such a thing...
Hey Andy,

If you use Supabase CLI to serve functions locally, you can use the `--no-verify-jwt` flag, ie. `supabase functions serve --no-verify-jwt` will skip JWT checks locally.

Is that what you're after? if you have any further issues with serving functions locally, can follow up on the support ticket.
Faiss implements multiple different ANN algorithms, and some like IVF can use disk based indexes.
Virtually no media companies admit to being state edited, even if they are literally a department of the government. Heck it's common even for government agencies to claim they are independent of "the government" despite being a part of it. So if that were the bar, there'd be no such labelling at all.
I've done sub-sub-contract work for a few government and military orgs where standard procedure would be I would be mailed a thumb drive of what should just be images and word docs to add functionality to a small section of an internal website. Every single time there would be things on there, totally unrelated to the project, that I should definitely not have been given.
Did you read what I wrote? My entire post was about how quality-of-life issues and crime/safety issues are not the same thing.

While stepping over poop or smelling urine on the street doesn't hurt me, it doesn't exactly make me happy to live here either.

(Fortunately I moved out of SoMa and into a nicer neighborhood a few years ago, so I don't have to deal with sidewalk piss and shit on a daily basis anymore.)
I encourage you to reconsider the tone and context of your post.