skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Political people are the worst. This is a clear case where a suspension is necessary, but since a leftist journalist was soliciting hacked material from a rightist journalist, its controversial. Politics makes otherwise rational people act like zealots.
Review: PCEngines APU6 with SFP (2021)
The cat's out of the bag now, it doesn't take a genius PM to work it out. Maybe a genius PM could've worked out how revolutionary generative AI is going to be pre- chat GPT release but I really doubt that a random MBA who knows nothing about AI can do that. Every single day there's a cool new AI application. The problem space is fairly fleshed out. It's a matter of executing.

How do you make enterprise tools better? (Photoshop + AI, Code + AI etc.)
How do you make consumer tools better? (YT tools + AI)
How do you make search better?

etc. etc.
what's your skill set? did you lower your salary requirement and look in other industries?

i'm a software dev. i got layoff many times before. what i do is lower my salary requirement to get a job then start looking for a job with better pay within 6 months to a year so it doesn't look like i'm job hopping.
They cost a fair share, and Commodore didn't really keep the required momentum after the A1000/500/2000, but most advanced computers of their time cost a bit of money. It's hard to say they didn't make a sizable dent, when both Commodore and Atari held almost the entire European 16/32-bit home computer market of the second half of the 80s and the early 90s. Additionally, both had tons of productivity software next to their massive game libraries.
cute talking point. but it actually turns out that Google was helping them. see the countries that have implemented laws demanding that Google pay news outlets, the news outlets got dropped and their traffic plummeted, so they demanding things go back the way they were before

Of course, critical analysis is beyond the average know-it-all who gets their opinions from headlines with no real analysis
If I remember correctly from reading those who tried, the problem with 'viable micropayments' is compliance. If you cut on it and make transactions cheap, your service will be heavily abused for fraud and laundering. Preventing that makes transactions cost nearly as much as traditional card payments, thus not viable.
If you try sending emails to that email list of your subscribers yourself, those will most likely land in the spam folder.
While these may be truly global, I don't know that all "GPS" satellites are. They reference a specific brand of satellites. Their website mentions that this satellite only services the asian pacific region.
The article says GPS but it looks like they are using a special satellite by Inmarsat rather then the USA military GPS.

I've very unclear why they are using this one specifically rather then GPS or GNSS. Or even a combo if the Inmarsat has uniquely good properties?
> Have you ever seen a search warrant involving anything technical/electronic executed?

What jurisdiction is your experience within?
I wonder if this change has any implications for the TensorFlow vs. JAX situation/transition.
IIRC I read that DeepMind mainly used JAX, but not sure about the Brain.
Any insights from the people in the know? It seems JAX is the future, but TF dominates current production stacks.
If COVID was to be worse on young, healthy people, instead of elders and debilitated, we'd be in serious trouble today. It was very badly handled...
It's like bragging about earning a good salary and then it turns out that you work for your dad.
Hey Simon! I've been digging your writings on LLMs lately.

I've been having some decent luck with some of the approaches that I've discussed in the following articles and projects:

From Prompt Alchemy to Prompt Engineering: An Introduction to Analytic Augmentation: https://github.com/williamcotton/empirical-philosophy/blob/m...

Writing Web Applications with LLMs: https://www.williamcotton.com/articles/writing-web-applicati...

https://github.com/williamcotton/transynthetical-engine

I'd love to hear your thoughts on the matter!

One of the techniques that I've found for reliably returning JSON is... ask for multiple responses and then use one of the responses that successfully parses!
Google has (or until very recently had) some of the best researchers in the industry. Google's problem isn't developing new stuff, it's turning stuff they come up with into a viable product and then developing a market around it. All of their most successful products (search, gmail, maps, youtube) were developed at least a decade ago. They've come up with decent technology since then, but they seem to have developed a catastrophic inability to actually build a business around any of it. The failures of Google+, Duo/Allo, Inbox, Stadia have nothing to do with technology and everything to do with managerial incompetence.

Google could be sitting on the most advanced AI on the planet, but none of that matters as long as they're under the current leadership.
And that's the last thing they probably contribute with how that turned out for Google
I want to see the training set for this
> right now he's tweeting like a full-blown transphobic maniac on Twitter

Are you sure? Seems he's mostly been tweeting about SpaceX and Twitter: https://twitter.com/search?q=from:elonmusk&src=typed_query&f...

I can't see any recent tweets that match what you describe.
I agree with this. Last decade was golden age of AI where all major players including Google brain, deepmind, FAIR, Microsoft Research contributed a lot. To honest OpenAI had the least intellectual contribution of them all except of few marketing material masquerading as papers. From now on we can expect all labs to secretive and not publish anything. This is really bad considering all this models are black box and research is needed to understand them better. Hope government comes into picture and forces this labs to explain details of each model
Get help from ChatGPT anywhere you type
You could just as easily argue "chlorine gas can't cause harm; see, if it's hermetically sealed inside a canister, it's perfectly safe!"

Or "I didn't hurt those people; all I did was open the valve on the chlorine gas canister! It was their own breathing that hurt them!"

> Not even the court case tried to make this claim. It claimed the harm was caused by the poor judgment of people in the man's life.

You're going to have to provide specific quotes, because reading the article, I can't see anything that looks remotely like what you say here.
> Can somebody who actually knows what happened fill us in? Because saying you depended on one satellite for GPS makes no sense.

I have no real knowledge of this, but maybe they were relying on that satellite to transmit DGPS corrections for their region or something, to improve accuracy.

Edit: Found this while replying to a now-deleted comment:

Even if it's not exactly DGPS, it seems like it's some kind of accuracy-improvement service:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2023-04-18/inmarsat-i-4f1-...:

> He has got a workaround for now, using the old free-to-air GPS that is a lot less accurate, but he said he was disappointed with the lack of information on the outage.

IIRC, regular GPS positions have an error of at least a few meters, which is not good enough if you're trying to plant crops.

Edit2: Just digging around, I found this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNSS_augmentation#Satellite-ba...

> The Australian SBAS [Satellite-based augmentation system] using Inmarsat 41, which famously suffered a failure in April 2023.[6][7]
I’ve never heard it in the USA outside of in old book titles. I’ll add The Compleat Enchanter by L. Sprague DeCamp as another prominent example. That’s from 1975 and probably a conscious reference to The Compleat Angler, along with a pun on a prior anthology called The Incomplete Enchanter.

Even the examples cited in the article seem like they’re out of older books deliberately invoking antiquity with the spelling. The only recent example (Bova, Mars, 1992) is from the SF/F genre where esoteric words like that get batted around more in general.

So I’m going to go with that being about as common in US English as UK—used for effect only.
When a post is flagged enough by users, it's hidden without interventions from mods. They can bring it back, though.
APU6 (SFP) model review: https://ipng.ch/s/articles/2021/07/19/pcengines-apu6.html
Hey everyone time to show your political affiliation. Are you red pilled/republican or right of centre, maybe you get your news from Fox. let’s praise Elon for an amazing test flight.
If you’re progressive, left wing, get your news from msnbc, lets join together in mocking a gigantic failure as Elons rocket explodes in the morning sky.
There is no need to investigate the facts, pick a side and let rip.
Best advice I received when going through parts of life where I was overwhelmed with brain fog: "slow motion is better than no motion."
I’d argue they’re more foundational.

If some code could use a b-tree but the dev doesn’t know about them, they can’t do much damage — they’ll use a less optimal tree.

If some code needs a state machine but the dev doesn’t know about them, that code will have so many bugs.
As others mentioned this sounds unrelated to GPS. Have any colleges been working on a local and self hosted server / transceiver to control tractors and remove this single point of success? Maybe even take GPS out of the equation by having perimeter or fence-line beacons to create a virtual map for the tractor? Bonus if someone made a kit to retrofit old tractors. I could have some fun with my 1947 Fordson 2N driving itself.
What indicates that Google is "too scared" as opposed to merely lagging behind?
Is there anyone who has successfully productized AI? ChatGPT isn’t a profitable product, at least not yet. Google Photos and Spotify recommendations are the best AI products I can think of with clear revenue, and in these examples AI is just a cherry on top of a product people would use anyway.
https://i.ibb.co/Lpxzz2V/%20.gif

It takes up a lot of vertical screen space and the scrolling behavior is really annoying. I know, I know, pagination is old and crusty and no one uses it or whatever, but I do and it helps me navigate threads (especially long ones) a lot easier. It's the same problem as reading a long book on an ebook reader. Sure, if you're reading for pleasure, then an ebook reader is fine, but for reading something more technical, being able to go back to specific "checkpoints" is really important.

Comparatively, crusty old phpBB can display 4 posts in the same space that Discourse uses to display 1 and it has pagination. Yes, you can change the theme on Discourse to fix the overuse of vertical space, but the theme it ships with is going to influence how people theme their Discourse instance.
I can guarantee you’ll leave with none of those things if you leave
What an insane dependency tree, that driving a truck in a field to plant some seeds requires a computer operating in space. I really hope there is a push-back on this unbounded complexity. Mind boggling.
It seems like that being an incredible software engineer is more important these days, look at Greg Brockman’s background.
Thanks for this.

Buzzfeed News was amazing real journalism at its finest.

It’s demise goes to show that humans do not want fact-finding journalism.

Even highly paid humans like HN developers refuse to pay for journalism so…

…what we’re left with is entertainment such as Fox News and the others.
would love to have CozoDB be a part of llamaindex too! have a bunch of integrations with existing vector db's https://github.com/jerryjliu/llama_index/tree/main/gpt_index...
That's API, ChatGPT is different.
Who are "people?"
Get your iron checked. I had iron overload and the food at Google nearly killed me.
Musk recruiters for X.ai must be salivating.
I have no idea how often it happens, but I have read anecdotal comments on HN about people having it done to them. Not too long ago there was a person. I can't for the life of me find it now, but some time ago on HN there was a person whose account got banned for upvote gaming, but it wasn't actually him. Fortunately dang let him make his case.
Now powered by gpt4....slower, much better results
It's also incredible advertising for western arms manufacturers, especially after several decades of them basically being the bad guys in the public's eyes.
That . It might not be a priority, but that still doesn't make it unsolvable.
Wow, looks like you lost that bet! They indeed shred that envelope.

"Put the money in an envelope together with the payment token and send it to us. We will open the envelope, add time to the account (corresponding to the amount of cash sent), and then use a shredder to destroy the envelope and its non-money contents."

Source: https://mullvad.net/en/help/no-logging-data-policy/#payments
Such as the humans
He worked on TensorFlow. So even if the doesn't do ML research himself, at least he works on the tooling.
>> Overall, I am not convinced this will be massively beneficial. I don't trust Google's ability to execute at scale in this area.

Yes the team which literally created transformer and almost all the important open research including Bert, T5, imagen, RLHF, ViT don't have the ability to execute on AI /s. Tell me one innovation OpenAI bought into the field. They are good at execution but i havent seen anything novel coming out of them.
You joke, but an Emacs with framebuffer support and with everything statically build would be Stallman's dream: a next-gen LISP Machine.
Great if you want italians to get a stroke upon reading that you're putting bacon in carbonara, as well as your arteries dying at the thoughts of the sheer amount of pasta you've just made.
The What I've Learned YouTube channel recently did a video on this! https://youtu.be/Yehk_h_Uj6k
serendipity at it's finest - been trying to find the best bank for a holding co literally during today
Remember Xerox PARC and the GUI.
This is not the USDOD GPS. This is Inmarsat's DGPS service that provides ~1-2cm accuracy. Which, if you're driving between rows of produce can be the difference between harvesting or crushing crops.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_GPS
I give up ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Paul Krugman Explains His Alien Theory for Fixing the Economy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdgAwaM1V8w
> expect that this comment will be massively downvoted and flagged

Well, yes. It’s in the guidelines: “Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.”

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
At least the path to profitablity is super clear though: selling GPT-4 access. What's the path to profitablity on AlphaGo or whatever?
Michael Schumacher's Family Will Sue over 'Deceptively Real' Fake AI Interview
Thanks so much for chiming in, glad you liked the lime green!

I definitely remember some RuneScape stuff on there, I played it a lot in the early 2000's myself.
Uhm, Alphafold?
I'm not at all suggesting that GP should be downvoted, but just because a person ran a site doesn't mean they thought of and tried all the possibilities for making it work. Do we want to blindly accept all the advice friendster and digg have to give us? Should we accept everything Musk has to say about twitter, or should he simply listen without objection to Jack Dorsey?
And here I thought that Google would achieve AI supremacy because of all the data they have been vacuuming for decades, turns out they haven't even thought to utilize it?

How did they drop the ball so hard? OpenAI has been around for less than a decade and as a smaller team with less resources was able to make a better product.
Ah, classic damned if you, damned if you don't.

Search is being ruined by the pursuit of maximizing ad revenue but AI research is being wasted because it's not used in pursuit of maximizing revenue. Can't really win, huh? There should be nothing but gratitude that Google uses its ad revenue to pay for research that greatly benefits everyone.
You should start your own farm and scale it to feed tens of millions of people, simply by driving a truck in a field :)
That was the starting point of my undergraduate independent seminar topic.

Back then the complexity was even more mind-boggling, as I had barely any appreciation of the object-oriented world, and the idea of pushing all that into the micro-architecture was really hard to get my mind around, let alone talking about it to a class full of fellow students.
Proton launches an end-to-end encrypted password manager
Right but Ilya is the Chief Scientist of OpenAI not Greg Brockman
Google still researching lol
I asked an LLM to rewrite Rilke's Panther and take the role of the panther
Weird that someone got as far as finish building one without checking how they are built properly. (i.e. usually they'd be built so that you can escape into the lower-security zone in an emergency)
Getting access on their friends’ devices at least limits the amount of time they spend sucked into it alone - maybe my mother-in-law had some similar reasons for not allowing a TV in the house, but not particularly fretting over her kids watching TV at friends’ and relatives’ houses.
This announcement, including the leadership changes, sounds more like they've shut down DeepMind and moved everyone over to Google Brain. Keeping the DeepMind name for the new team is a clever trick to make it look like more positive news than it actually is.
If someone's life is on the line, right now, yes.
Most of the "Banks" listed are not banks, but products offered through other banks. e.g: 'Qapital is not a bank. Banking services provided by Lincoln Savings Bank, Member FDIC and other partner banks'
You can put devices in the field that substitute for the GPS satellites. But you have to know where the device is! So it'd have to have been installed before the outage.
Polish one very realistic on the other hand
MDMA was originally named 'Empathy' for a reason. Establishing an empathetic bridge with a spouse or significant other can have lasting effects which can clear a log jam of grievances. And as with all psychoactive medication, therapy is often part of the treatment.

Obviously, self medicating to perpetuate avoidant or maladaptive behavior is generally considered drug abuse and never recommended.
This already got discussed a few times recently:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35534211

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35279274

I wish the writeup was a bit more concise - it looks like they are working on faster low level matrix multiplication libraries, which is very cool, but it's hard for me to understand exactly what the approach or novelty is. They're supposed to be announcing something soon, I look forward to a clearer picture of what they're doing.
DM and "Open"AI took two different approaches to AGI, with the former taking a bottom-up first-principles kind of approach, whereas the latter embraced the bitter lesson[1]. I don't know which approach GB took, but it looks likely that it was more of a support role to the core business instead of upsetting it.

[1] http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html
Of course he is someone any technology organisation would want to have as a resource. But probably not as chief scientist or ceo of an ML company based on the available evidence
I’m just going to throw this out there but the DoD hires a lot of civilians for IT work and if you look online you will find it’s very well organized and there were quite a few jobs last I looked. Good luck
Bit of an unfortunate name collision with VSCodium https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium which is an IDE based on VSCode and in many contexts is simply referred to as "Codium".
I have a Xeon D1521 board that I use which does support ECC. It was under $500 when I bought it, but can't find it now. Supermicro does make a mITX board around it with 2x10GbE for $800. Asrock (which made the board I have) sells a uATX one in mid $500 range (I think I spent $499 on mine[1]).

1: https://www.asrockrack.com/general/productdetail.asp?Model=D...
As a fairly lower class rural kid I had internet in the late 90s. I was just lucky my dad decided to start up a local dialup ISP and sell internet to farmers.
For what it's worth: as a fellow parent and handicapped of sorts - thankfully from a corner of the world with a better social safety net than you seem to "enjoy" over there - I always get tremendous value out of reading your posts. I'm pretty handle-blind on this site, so your name is one of the few that stands out, not only because of your excellent writing style but just as much your against the grain-views that quite frankly helps _a lot_ in keeping my "stupid Americans"-bias in check. Thank you!
Before the anti-Musk cats get too wet, Elon Musk has said, and I quote, "If we get far enough away from launch pad before something goes wrong, then I think I would consider that to be a success. Just don't blow up the pad.": https://edition.cnn.com/2023/04/16/world/starship-spacex-lau...
Another Google AI announcement with no product in sight
This is not correct. Both DeepMind and Brain had/have separate applied groups. A lot of Brain research was/is not product focused at all. Transformers I'd say are more impactful than any other research innovation in the current AI boom and came from Brain not DM. DM does do great PR.
I quit my last job in Jan 2022. Thankfully, I had about a year worth of savings, so I decided I'd do what I had never done before; take up the job search with the goal of finding a position that was:

0) remote

1) highly technically challenging

2) supported by an extremely competent team

3) payed great

I interviewed at every company I could find that seemed to fulfill those requirements. I averaged 0-3 interviews per month for just over a year. If I'm remembering correctly, I typically did between 0 and 5 applications per month.

In the end, I found a position on the software team with a company bringing up new silicon for accelerating deep learning inference. It fulfills (1) and (2) in spades; I've never done hardware before (let alone TFLOP scale semiconductors), and the team is largely 30 year+ career engineers. I had to cave on (3) .. I took about a 50% pay cut from my last position, which was hard to swallow, but I still make a very comfortable living. I'd do it again, without even pausing to think about it.

I had multiple offers over the year I was looking, but didn't get one that fulfilled (0) through (3). I had more trouble than usual getting offers, but I was also much more stringent in sticking to my 'morals', which I think was the major contributor. In terms of comp, the offer I accepted was the worst, by a lot. Most offers I got were for >200k USD, with options, and generally mediocre ancillary benefits (which I mostly don't care about).

To keep myself busy during my job search I have a few long-running side projects, which I payed significant attention to. I also traveled a fair bit, and spent ~8 months in Central America where I learned to surf, and speak very broken Spanish.

> How have your feelings about the industry changed?

From what I can tell, the demand for folks who are highly motivated to do interesting and challenging work has not waned.
> the few trials it is planning have already drawn a firestorm of criticism, especially one intervention that experts and advocates say may actually make some patients’ long Covid symptoms worse.

> Instead, the NIH spent the majority of its money on broader, observational research that won’t directly bring relief to patients.

Doesn't one kind of follow from the other? If the interventional studies all get hit with a "firestorm of criticism", then all you're going to be left with are the observational studies.
Well, back in the day you could run Emacs and a Scheme interpreter (MIT Scheme) as a textinfo format under an i386 just fine. No X, of course.
They're going to be decommissioned eventually, giving them to Ukraine just speeds up the decommissioning process and saves taxpayers money. A Win-Win for everyone save some Wagner mercenaries and unfortunate mobiks.