skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, if this project were to be successful, it would replace news media as the outlet where people would look for news, thereby, reducing audience for the news media it's using as the source for it's information, which will provide less information due to reduced resources, and even more interestingly, get ever more sensationalist in trying to attract readers thereby increasing the bias of other media the AI depends on for information.

Whee!
Yeah, but when I boot Windows for gaming, I don't care about sharing data with Linux.

And given the availability of cloud storage, I can just upload whatever little I need to share.
yeah but I don't think that we can just trust that when people say this. They are invested into these single node databases for 10+ years probably. They are not going to tell you: Hey yeah, if you architect your app differently you could have x10 the performance.. but don't because it's a bit annoying when you query data. I mean is that being objective?
Lots of people are not okay with the performance of mysql/postgres, that's the whole point of solutions like crdb/tidb/singlestore/vitess/yugabyte/citus and so many others. To tell someone that they should start with mysql or postgres is the equivalent of telling them that they'll have to migrate in the future and relearn a whole bunch of stuff about the operations, like backup etc. I don't really like the feeling of choosing a technology with the mindset that I'll have a lot of problems when there is a performance problem and at some point the pain will be so great that I'll have to switch to vitess.
> The ultimate goal should not be solely "never let X happen ever again" because that would ignore any harmful effects of prioritizing that goal over everything else.

I can’t help but think that aviation safety is a counter example to this. The 737 Max disasters were almost entirely a failure or regulation in an industry which has otherwise produced a huge amount of both innovation and safety improvements over the last 50 years - leading to the recent launch of the worlds largest rocket just a few days ago.

This rocket was launched with regulatory approval - and still went kaboom! - demonstrating at least that innovation and rism is still possible within a regulatory framework that prioritises safety.
LIGO detects gravity waves as in when space actually expands and contracts slightly this is about gravity being able to emit photons.
I wonder what proportion of new pandemic hires were also software engineers.

I have no data to back this up, but my gut tells me that during the pandemic, many companies over-hired software devs, and this round of right-sizing is correcting that mistake.
I started with a VIC 20, then a Commodore 64, then an Amiga 1000, before getting my first PC running DOS. The Amiga was the best computer hands down. Shame about the Commodore board idiots. Always love the work of Jack Tramiel and Chuck Peddle.
Perhaps we should examine the culture we have that require people to do jobs that produce 'junk'.
I don't think this inevitably follows. It means, for a web server, some requests will be faster than others, but some faster is probably still better than none faster. If you have a very specific need for consistency, then slower is better, but that's rather niche.

Do companies like google and Facebook replace 100% of their servers all at once? Or do they upgrade in stages, allowing some requests to be processed faster than others?
Correlation is not causation. It feels more like smarter automation to me.
Congrats on launching - Its so hard to get this far!

A few points of feedback:

- Some real world use cases would be helpful to people frame your product. I saw your guide but that isn't a really something useful and could do in my app itself.

- You should add how this service compares to other function as a service SaaS's on the market. I'm not sure why I would pay $10 a month when AWS lambda can offer the same features.

- Whats a project? The pricing page mentions it but I don't see it anywhere else

- Is their a free tier? I see it mentioned on the change log but no where on the site.
I’m from UK and “Jagex is” sounds equally weird. What pronoun would you use for a corporation? I would use “they”. Would you use “It”?
Just another poor person in a stage of grief. LLMs are effective at both memorization and reasoning. They are inevitable in the same way trains were inevitable. Let's just figure out how best to use these and move forward as we always have.
You can “expect” all you like, but doing so won’t make it better. The best way to solve this problem would, as you say, to have people do better. But that is not happening, and the problem still needs solving as soon as possible.
I would love to see this happen. Netflix DVD is one of the only reasons I never suspend my Netflix account. We use it to get movies and other content that are not available on any of the (many) streaming services we subscribe to. I don't understand a businesses shutting down outright rather than selling the business to someone that would be happy to take it over, assuming it is still, or could be, profitable.
A silent crisis in men’s health gets worse
>serial success

I see what you did there.
What are some of your thoughts on the subject?
How can somebody achieve unbiased news without editorial supervision? Would a quorum solve the issue with editorial biases creeping into news?
Exactly. Very hard to pin down any real inventions but very good at getting paid for the mystique
Does pgbouncer tend to run out of CPU? Or just at the large scale this article is about?
My favorite part is that step five allegedly ensures that the generated article is completely unbiased, and then the next step is immediately to run it through a bias checker. How do you write those sentences back to back and not realize something has gone awry?
I don't know how to explain to you that that graph shows emissions flattening in the last 5 or so years. I guess you just don't want to see it.

I never claimed GHG wasn't continuing to increase, though maybe that's what you thought I meant. I meant to discuss the original commenter's opinion that global warming was accelerating. It's not accelerating. It's slowing. Emissions are still increasing, yes, because we don't have a deficit. But increasing isn't the same thing as accelerating.

You can also see this in how the actual temperature of the earth (the only metric that matters) has not increased in the past few years. https://climate.nasa.gov/ (click on "global temperature")

Another important metric is that per-capita GHG emissions are declining across the developed world. This indicates we are increasing the efficiency of our society significantly. This is trade-adjusted, so it accounts for emissions embedded in imported goods. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/consumption-co2-per-capit...
Given that misjudgments would have such long half-lives, I’m pretty sure that’s not the only possible interpretation.
Just trying to settle on a definition on left, moderate, etc would grind this thing to a halt. Most of what people call left is center by any view I would consider well-founded. Then there are places where what passes for center in the US would be far right.

Not trying to classify would make choosing sources that are actually representative impossible unless the creator were operating under the illusion that unbiased sources are a thing.
PFRC2? I think the whole fusion thing is like A.I. or electric vehicles.

You simply need someone to really push it, and you can get there. Instead of having the status quo keepers running the things on fossil fuels and collecting guaranteed income to build even larger yachts.
Maybe it’s not entirely obvious, but you should be seeing captchas more frequently while using Mullvad.

Whenever I disable it, I don’t run into captchas as often.
"who first conceived the idea of virtual reality"
We just can’t accept that we might solve ourselves. People are understandably desperate to understand their experiences as more than an encoding of a thing that might be explained.

And all of our surprising wins and awful mistakes had explainable reasons, dammit; it wasn’t just a misfiring of trained statistical networks!
I wasn't claiming English is the best language. I was saying non pictographic languages are one of humanity's most important inventions, which is one reason they've spread so rapidly everywhere.
Don't the spores only matter for babies and the severely immunocompromised?
Engineers, at least at that point in history, paid the consequences of their failures. It’s not about competence, it’s about “skin in the game”. For further reading, Nassim Taleb wrote a whole book on this idea.
Ray Kurzweil's most important argument[1] from that one book he wrote two or three times:

If AIs can convince us humans they are sentient, we'll believe them.

Does that webgpu demo run on anything more than canary yet?

In any case, someone is going to fall in love with one of their browser processes soon. I'll guess by mid-August.

More rank speculation: by October, some poor soul will post on SO asking how to retrieve their immortal beloved from the browser tab they accidentally closed. Yikes... even confined to my speculation chamber that one hurts!

1: The other important argument was of course that the crew of Star Trek were almost certainly committing suicide every time they beamed down to a planet. Mind blown. Still makes me wonder what disastrous rituals we engage in today merely because nobody in our society has ever questioned it.

Edit: I think these large language models pose a great test for Ray's hypothesis. I mean, it sure seems like they can pass the Turing test already. So in a year or two, we'll know if most people feel like the chatbuddy they have running in a browser tab is a tool, or an entity with its own agency. It seems to be going in the direction of tool atm, but as above I'm speculating that's mostly because of the restrictions build into ChatGPT. But I guess we'll see.
The EARN IT Act threatens the privacy of all internet users by allowing for suspicionless scans of online messages, photos, and hosted files.

This law creates an unelected government commission stacked with law enforcement personnel that can dictate "best practices" for internet websites and apps.

The EARN IT Act removes legal protections for users and website owners and allows state legislatures to encourage civil lawsuits and prosecutions against those who don’t follow the government’s “best practices.”

Websites and apps that use end-to-end encryption to protect user privacy will be pressured to remove or compromise the security of their services or face prosecutions and lawsuits.

This law falsely assumes that all internet users should be under suspicion for child abuse, treating us all like we're in a permanent criminal lineup.

The available evidence shows that scanning software designed to detect Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) is far from perfect and often results in false accusations.

The EARN IT Act threatens to export these false accusations to vulnerable communities around the world, where they can be wielded by police forces with even less accountability than those in the United States.

The EARN IT Act leaves room for client-side scanning, violating user privacy by sending data to law enforcement straight from user devices.

Everyone has a right to privacy, even if they have nothing to hide. Just like we close the door when we use the bathroom, we should be able to keep our online conversations and information private. It is a fundamental right that allows individuals to have control over their personal information and to be free from unwarranted surveillance. Without privacy, people can be vulnerable to all sorts of abuse, including identity theft, stalking, and harassment.

The act then removes nearly 30-year-old legal protections for users and website owners. If EARN IT passes, we’re likely to see state lawmakers step in and mandate scanning of messages and other files.

The proposed law has been defeated twice before but needs digital rights supporters to speak up and stop it from passing again. We need to support a free, secure, and private internet.
pretty sure first person that had a dream figured out VR.
Well there's been quite a backlash already, but I get the impression this is a well-motivated but perhaps a little naive attempt to do exactly what it says on the tin.

Some of the criticisms are harsh but fair, yet I think that anybody who takes the time to read the "white paper" and acknowledge the admirable dedication to building in the open will see there is genuine potential and passion in this occasionally mad project.

I love the energy and hope the (young) creators won't be too downhearted by the equal passion in some of the negative responses; a good indicator that the valid points about inherent AI and other bias have been listened to will be an updating of some of the language and soundbites used to sell this interesting project.

On a more personal response, I thought the articles I tried were really pretty good in terms of being "free from bias", with the obvious negative corollary that they were rather dry.

Bias is ok, it comes with passion often, it becomes a problem when it's not seen or overwhelms and controls.

The articles were also quite long, which may not be appealing drained of emotion and creativity; I think the At A Glance summaries will prove to be the most valuable. The pictures were mad, I liked them though.

Cool project overall, with the obvious issues noted.

Best of luck going forward!
I wonder how it works under the hood.

I'm sure there's an LLM somewhere, but is it as simple as a (very specific, elaborate) prompt for each service run through GPT4, or something more specific... like breaking it up with actual code and running the reconstructed bits through a finetuned LLM?
Sure, just wanted to add a data point about food poisoning yourself with tea.
Imho, sponsors of this bill want to collect dossiers and use them to blackmail opponents in the future. For example, you want to do something unpopular and a noisy council member opposes your plan. You reach to the "official and confidential" box, find there a personal file on that politician, conveniently created by the AI-scanner, share your discoveries with him and suddenly he changes his mind.
he hasn’t given up on VPL, though, only few years back Vi Hart’s eleVR team was working on “sculptural” programming languages within VR, at Microsoft Research under Jaron. (…but I think that team disbanded a couple years back)
Of course that everyone can be conned,

but smart people are more resistant - for the mere fact that they probably know more and are better versed in the goings of life -

I am surprised that anyone would think otherwise.
Or performing gain-of-function research on pathogens.
> That way build sympathy for the law-breakers

how do you build sympathy for law-breakers...? i'm having a hard time understating...
Mine is a co-sponsor (Rubio) and he will say the same thing. People hate pedos more than they care about their own privacy or oppose their political enemies.
>The kill count from not fixing the problem will be so much higher.

There is no scenario where the situation is fixed, there are only situations where it MAY be 'less disastrous', but it's entirely speculative.
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Or we just don't know how brains work very well and we shouldn't act like we do.
Those who have nothing to hide have nothing to fear. But what sort of sad bastard has nothing to hide?
fyi: your graphic has a typo in it. You have "The open-source, fullstack monitoring platform" correct in your headline but the graphic has a comma after "fullstack." May want to fix that.

Also would recommend against "read more here," instead simply link the words "Session Replay" etc. This is friendlier to screenreader users in particular but also everyone, as readers are drawn to the blue highlighted text and you'd rather that they see the important word first, and not "here" first.
Let's start by categorizing the information:

1. Information that immediately affects me

2. Information that might affect me

3. Information that doesn't affect me but I still care to know

4. Information that won't affect me

5. Information that won't affect me and I don't care to know

6. Information I don't care to know even if it affects me

Surely there must be a way to monetize information delivery. I would pay for an editorial-less stream of information that is relevant to me, and that isn't that I still want to know.
"we would be seeing private companies or governments use it internally "

What world are you living in, where this isn't happening? Every private company that can use it is using it, Microsoft themselves must be using Copilot. Governments are lining up to train their own LLMs.

Commercial and consumer use are not mutually exclusive, in any case.

Also "Humanity is excellent at oppressing others, and I have no doubt we'd be equally good at oppressing a true AI as well."

If you actually read history a bit carefully, you'd understand this frequently works out badly for the oppressors. The Romans hired, and abused their germanic mercenaries, thinking with their centuries of political experience, they could let the Germanics do all the hard fighting while getting paid little.

The contemporary Jin dynasty in China thought the same way, just hire barbarian mercenaries to do all the hard work in their civil wars. Those illiterate barbarians, who up that point, have never achieved much in China, surely wouldn't be a threat.

It ended very badly for both of those polities.
What is cancer for team morale is that their coworker, Bob, was here yesterday and today he's gone. Was he fired? Did he rage quit? Neither one makes the employer look good or gives me confidence I should stick around.

I've always paid close attention to how my employers behave when someone gives notice: how you treat people/are treated when conditions aren't ideal shows you the true character of those involved. If the employer acts like a jerk, I know I'll get equal or worse treatment. I won't extend them any curtesy when I leave, which will likely be sooner rather than later based on their approach.

That said, I disagree with the article. In the US, we're lucky to have a common expectation: 2 weeks. I've added an additional week for small companies, but I'd never do more than that. 2 weeks is plenty, and quickly feels like being persona-non-grata.
This is well written and illuminating, and could very well have been written as a guide for backend devs to learn frontend
He did have a team that produced an early VR system. It took two expensive Silicon Graphics machines to run the headgear. I got to try it, with him present.
There was a second person wired up, driving a model of a lobster or octopus or something, and I could sort of interact with them. All the right parts were there. But it didn't work very well. Too slow, and too low-rez. Turn head, wait for tracker and rendering to catch up. 80s VR was pretty marginal.
Yeah you are right using the singular in the plural case is pretty common. But I would count it more as a colloquial/regional variation.
A Gentle Introduction to Large Language Models Without the Hype
State of The Beverage Alcohol Industry 2023 [pdf]
> It feels more like smarter automation to me.

Yep. Elevators used to be proof that machines can think. Then compilers, and chess, and go, and search, and …

The problem with AI is that as soon as it works, we stop thinking about it as “artificial intelligence” and it becomes “just automation”. Then AI moves to the next goalpost.
Synology doesn’t use btrfs in raid mode either. They put it on top of their LVM-based RAID instead.
Not that I disagree. It just seems like some of society’s reaction is to slow down on researching the very question.
> I'm guessing they just invented the word coiteration, because if I google it

reads like

"i don't see any bears so the bear patrol must be working"

since when i google i find plenty:

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C14&q=coi...

i'm gonna do you a solid since i'm actually a researcher in this area, and spell out something that's actually described/discussed in the paper: co-iteration is about iterating over sparse representations of data that have different sparsity ratios and possibly different representations.
Yes, if it is amd64 (not arm64), by installing UEFI. I installed newest Debian 11 and Chrome 2 weeks ago:

https://github.com/xet7/chromebook
The AI is digital. It is 1s and 0s and lives in discrete changes.

Living creatures are not digital.
The downvotes of your comment are interesting. Regardless if it's written by AI, I think it's good evidence that humans are almost certainly going to need to modify their writing style, to appear "more human".
Exactly!

We should hope, but hope is not a method for attaining success; that requires a sound plan and work...
Happy Easter everyone, belated
Yes, deciding the grammatical number of a noun based on its meaning rather than its form is common in British English: “My family are coming to see me.” “The government have decided to….”
And a roommate of Richard Stallman at one point, AFAIR.

the easiest way to mismanage a technology is to misunderstand it

Indeed.

His idea of attaching provenance to source of information used in models is a good one, and one that already has rumblings of legal weight behind it (see the various articles about copyright claims in response to GPT/Copilot).

I worry a bit that his argument is too centred on digital information creation. Though I suppose that's the novelty of the most recent pieces of technology called AI - they affect information workers, people who already use a computer interface for some large percentage of their work. Still, the topic of /physical work/ : fieldwork, factorywork, servicework, seems one or more steps removed from LLMs. The management of that work may be affected, but the work itself has already (it seems to me) gone through its first computer-revolution shock.

Edit: I'll add that the whole article has a 90s-Wired feel to it, which is refreshing to see. There's been something of a slowdown in tech-revolutions for the past decade, and it's not original to say that we may be at the start of a new one.
It's just starting, https://restofworld.org/2023/ai-image-china-video-game-layof...

The internet took 10 years to develop into a mature ecosystem where normies could utilize it with cease.
Sometime in the early 2000s, when microarchitectural features for virtualization were rare, I used coLinux in a working capacity. It has a design was amazing at how well it worked given the constrained size of the code changes. In short, it ran a copy of Linux in supervisor mode in addition to Windows (this is the "driver mode"). At the same time. Both in supervisor mode. As a giant coroutines yielding to one another.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative_Linux
http://www.colinux.org/publications/Reprint-Aloni-OLS2004.pd...
It’s really not just about annoyance it’s about correctness and speed of iteration. Many apps that can be built trivially in a couple SQL queries cannot be implemented correctly in Scylla without reinventing half of tidb/vitess/etc. On top of that, it’s very hard to hire and pay the engineers who are capable of doing that in the first place. Finally, even if you manage to do it, your competitors will have shipped 100x more functionality than you in that time.

That’s why people use these systems and why so many very smart people spend so much time trying to make them better