skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was originally 9 months. Here is an email my dad received on June 23, 2005. I replaced personal info with XXX.

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Hi there,

We've noticed that you haven't used your Gmail account, XXX@gmail.com, for quite some time. In order to make Gmail better for our users, we've added a lot of things in the last few months and we hope you'll want to start using your account again. Here are just some of the latest additions:

- Free POP access: Take your messages with you. Download them, read them offline, access them using Outlook, your Blackberry or any other device that supports.

- More free storage (today and tomorrow): Stop worrying about storage. Your account now has over 2000 megabytes of free storage and our plan is to continue growing your storage by giving you more space as we are able.

- 12 more languages: The Gmail interface is now available in UK English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, and simplified and traditional Chinese. If you don't see the language you want on this list, look for it in the future because we're going to keep adding more.

- Rich text formatting: Express yourself with fonts, bullets, highlighting and over 60 colors of the rainbow.

- And lots more, including support for more browsers, an improved Contacts list, and an easier way to send photos.

We're still working hard every day to build you the best email service around. But to keep Gmail great for our users, we may have to close inactive accounts after 9 months. So, we hope you'll give us another chance. To log in to your Gmail account, just visit: http://gmail.google.com.

Thanks,
The Gmail Team

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We sent you this message because we wanted to warn you of your account's inactivity and remind you of our dormant account policies. For more details, please visit our Help Center:

http://gmail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=6563

*Protect your Gmail password and your personal information*

Google takes your privacy and security very seriously. For your protection, Google will never ask you for your personal information, such as bank accounts numbers, credit card numbers, pin numbers, passwords, or Social Security numbers in an email. For more information on how to protect your Gmail password and your personal information, visit our Help page here:
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We sent you this message because as part of signing up for a Gmail account, you agreed to be periodically asked for your comments and suggestions to improve Gmail. If you do not wish to provide such feedback in the future, you may opt-out of receiving Gmail market research messages by visiting:
XXX

(If clicking the URLs in this message does not work, copy and paste them into the address bar of your browser)
The best crises are manufactured.
https://beta.elevenlabs.io/education
This is inspiring work. Thanks for sharing it.
These are called Personal Requests and are already handled as a use case by HomePod.
Oh, boot = those immobilizing devices that police put on parked cars when fines are owed. I imagined one of those damn touch screen cars popping a notification while you were driving, saying to pull over while the car rebooted itself.
Are you blaming them for pushing updates to existing regulations and reacting in a timely manner to the direction the markets are pushing their money into ?
oh wow, thanks for submitting this! I'm literally prepping to give a talk about smol right now so i dont have a ton of time to write, but i made this to articulate what i felt the right balance was between human and ai developer, and, in a smoller way, to solve all my future small programming problems (i make a ton of custom chrome extensions for myself to enhance my experience - see https://github.com/sw-yx/Twitter-Links-beta and https://github.com/sw-yx/HNX), and i think AI greatly lowers the bar for making these fiddly things even with nasty gotchas like the Manifest V2-v3 transition.)

those who want the "big brain" moment, i'd maybe draw your attention to `prompt.md`. that whole markdown file is the prompt now. i developed this in tandem with my smol ai developer. it generates the anthropic 100k context chrome extension shown in the video, but a few things are neatly handled in the prompt, like swapping models as needed.

there's a lot left to do. i have plans for `smol plan`, and `smol developer` needs to be able to install and run its own dependencies. i also definitely want to run a fleet of 5 developers concurrently fuzzing out different plans and checking into git so that i just do code review every 30 mins. that kind of stuff.

yes this runs up the openai costs. but im wiling to pay something to get smol stuff like this off my mind. its not good yet, but its good-shaped.
Ichra: A new way to provide benefits to your employees
.biz is the one I always remember as being scam-central
smol ai enjoyers may also like my other app https://github.com/smol-ai/menubar/
What if someone stands in the cross walk, or is intentionally slowly moving to cause an issue?
Seconded.

I live in a country which fortunately gets Alphonso mangoes from India. On the few occasions I have offered it to uninitiated guests and colleagues (making sure they aren't allergic first), the reaction has been a wide eyed disbelief of how good this variety is. Of course there are other varieties that are good (Langda is a close second).

If you ever get a box at home, unless rules are set and respected, it quickly becomes a free for all and people who hate welding a knife or peeling a fruit quickly become adept at it.

It is that good.

On a separate note: we live in interesting times where I can almost have a culinary-credo like I want to try the amazing food each place has to offer. Someone needs to put a list of these things - fruits, dishes, what have you and we need a serious conversation about how some of us can sample them from far away.
> I make no claims about use of generics making your code being absolutely good or bad, but I do make claims that use of generics can make your code less error-prone and safe.

Right. this is the issue right here. people only see that Go didn't have generics, and they never stop for a second to think WHY Go didn't have them. Generics have an implementation cost for the Go project, and maintenance cost for the Go project, and end user negative impacts in regards to time and memory. but advocates often dont know or care about these drawback, and only howl that GENERICS ARE MISSING until they are added, consequences be damned.

I'm just saying that while generics are useful in some cases, they are not always the right answer, and it shouldn't just be assumed that every language needs them, nor that any non-generic language "sucks".
That's fair enough. :)

I would point out that one advantage the C64 had was thick wires carefully separated. Takes longer for things like tin whiskers to form and kill the SS transistors.

Still, awesome project, and I'll be happy to see more.
Using your logic, I could learn to read a book by saving each sentence to my database. Then, when requested by someone else, I could regurgitate the book sentence by sentence from my db. And also charge the person for it.
These kinds of arguments don’t convince me at all. Show me how it is completely different from what humans do. We regularly put everything we know through the blender to come up with new “creative” artifacts.
This seems to me to be written exclusively from the business operator's perspective. And that's completely okay. And HN is probably an appropriate venue to post it. But if you flip it around and look at it from the customer perspective, it seems to be an argument for a transactional focus. The business is focused on deriving value from a small number of transactions before evaporating into the ether.

Psychologists who study brands tell us that people who like brands like them (in part) because they guarantee a minimum level of quality. Sometimes that "quality" is the lack of expense. I'm thinking of Costco's "Kirkland" brand. For instance, I shop at Uwajimaya here in Seattle because I associate a minimum quality level with their seafood. I buy gas for my gas-burner at Chevron, Shell or Arco because I once got a tank of bad gas from Marathon. I wear Hoka running shoes because my shins stopped hurting after I bought them.

It took years for these companies to establish their brands.

A short-lived company is fine, but if you're competing in a space where there's a competitor with an established brand story, there may be a number of customers who favor a "least bad experience" over your "more great experience." (This assumes you can make something that is a "more great experience.")

David Graber in Debt: The First 5000 Years, notes the correlation to the development of professional militaries with the rise of cash. The implication here is cash is useful for people who invade your turf and steal your things, but credit might be a better idea for someone with whom you want to have an extended community relationship.

Or at least that's the theory.

But what I see from this is "I don't want to bother with establishing a relationship with my customer." This is fine, of course. Even the carpet dealers I drink tea with in Istanbul know our relationship is fleeting.

But if you're going to focus on transactions rather than relationships, I fear that puts you in the quadrant where you're competing on price. Why would anyone trust you if they know you won't be around next month? You can't say it's quality, because quality usually requires a guarantee. Mediocrity even requires a warranty. Neither of these are possible if your company vanishes into thin air every month. The only possible axis to compete would be price. Is that where you want to start out? Competing on price?

Still... I think it's great someone's out there asking these questions and I would love to be proven wrong. Also, adding some data like "what is the average lifetime of a small business with $XXX of capitalization in market YYY?" might make the argument a bit more compelling. I know that data's out there somewhere.
If the base line is 90MB, then it only goes up from there.
Welcome to the Police. They don't serve and protect you and I, only people and businesses with big money.
I don't see why that is inconsistent. Companies doing layoffs keep hiring people, what are the news?
I have some funding available if someone here would like to undertake the project of getting PRIMA into SciPy, although the person must come to work at my university in Hong Kong, as the funding cannot be used online/abroad. I can open a research assistant or postdoc position for the project. My contact can be found at https://github.com/libprima/prima . Thanks.
It's interesting to compare two scenarios. The first is if you feed an LLM solely the works of a famous current author, say J.K Rowling, and ask it to create a new work in the style of her franchise.

The second is if you include all of her works but also throw in every other book written in the last several years and ask it to create a work in the style of her franchise.

Is the latter somehow "better" than the former? I'd personally consider the former to be a clear case of copyright violation while with the latter we don't really have a way of knowing how much of her previous works were included. I'd still lean towards the latter being a copyright violation, and it's where I think we are currently with services like ChatGPT.
How come you make such a disingenuous statement? He has warned about AI risk for 10 years.

https://www.cnet.com/science/elon-musk-we-are-summoning-the-...

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/kzHJ5BRhgkj9CSQ3N/musk-on-ag...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ericmack/2015/01/15/elon-musk-p...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jkRcrM6XKA

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1647601906087329794
Any non-paywall source?

Have the companies stopped hiring domestically? As this seems like normal behavior.
I thought about that too but came up with a workaround: it suddenly appears at that point in the cloud, displacing the puff seen. The puff actually is symmetric about insertion point, but due to the asymmetry of the cloud and the camera angle it appears like that.

Not more of a reach than many debunking chain-of-reasoning explanations, with the exception of the how.

I thought about the second point too, I don't think you need exact synchronization. You just need many more "stutter points" than framerate, and the camera will capture some of them. A way to check that would be to see a longer distance video, and observe other "cloud puffs" without seeing the craft there: you just see the trace of it.
So if you countered with a list of companies in the 1830s that lasted only 3 months, that would be great.
Rails 7 and React Install Guide (2022)
Just heard you on the svelte podcast discussing all the opportunities for AI. And now this. ;)
Why not apply this principle when making laws?
If you need a "we" to normalize something for you, you probably shouldn't be doing something in the first place. At that point, you're doing it for the validation of a generalized other, not serving customers. If you want to do it, just do it.

And people are welcome to do it, but as a business owner I'd much rather find a profitable business/moat and exploit it indefinitely (see Charlie Munger's point about how cola has no taste memory leading to Coca-Cola making for a great business).
My primary argument is that we not only don't have the answers, but don't even really have well posed questions. We're talking about "General Intelligence" as if we even know what that is. Some people, like Yann Lecun, don't think it's even a meaningful concept. We can't even agree which animals are conscious, whatever that means. Because we have so little understanding of the most basic of questions, I think we should really calm down, and not get swept away by totally ridiculous scenarios, like viruses that spread all over the world and kill us all when a certain tone is rang, or a self-fabricating organism with crystal blood cells that blots out the sun, as were recently proposed by Yudkowsky as possible scenarios on Econtalk.

A much more credible threat are humans that get other humans excited, and take damaging action. Yudkowsky said that an international coalition banning AI development, and enforcing it on countries that do not comply (regardless of whether they were part of the agreement) was among the only options left for humanity to save itself. He clarified this meant a willingness to engage in a hot war with a nuclear power to ensure enforcement. I find this sort of thinking a far bigger threat than continuing development on large language models.

To more directly answer your question, I find the following scenarios equally, or more, plausible to Yudkowsky's sound viruses or whatever. 1/ we are no closer to understanding real intelligence as we were 50 years ago, and we won't create an AGI without fundamental breakthroughs, therefore any action taken now on current technology is a waste of time and potential economic value; 2/ we can build something with human-like intelligence, but additional intelligence gains are constrained by the physical world (e.g., like needing to run physical experiments), and therefore the rapid gain of something like "super-intelligence" is not possible, even if human-level intelligence is. 3/ We jointly develop tech to augment our own intelligence with AI systems, so we'll have the same super-human intelligence as autonomous AI systems. 4/ If there are advanced AGIs, there will be a large diversity of them and will at the least compete with and constrain one another.

But, again, these are wild speculations just like the others, and I think the real message is: no one knows anything, and we shouldn't be taking all these voices seriously just because they have some clout in some AI-relevant field, because what's being discussed is far outside the realm of real-life AI systems.
Moral issue? I disagree. This is a simple competition for skilled labor, where one of the perks up for negotiation is the option to work from home. I’m willing to leave my company for another that guarantees my remote work, and I may be willing to accept lower pay in return. My quality of life is that much better without being in the office.
Gartner Says 4 Trends Shaping Future of Cloud, Data Center and Edge Infra
I admit GPT4 is useful, and I have been using it extensively in a fair number of different projects lately. And all it does for me is save time typing. I still have to think exactly the same amount I had to before. I do think its going to improve efficiencies and there will be moderate economic effects, but I also wouldn't say programming is qualitatively a different thing. In a few years, who knows? But the main issue as I see it is that ultimately programs must interact with the real world and solve problems for which there is not an abundance of training data. It isn't that I think it is impossible to build AIs to work in those domains, but I think our current approaches might be slower getting there than the leap to GPT4 encourages us to believe.
I have no idea how the courts will end up resolving this legally. In the meantime I've been thinking a lot about the morality of this alleged theft.

Most of us would agree that duplicating and selling someone's book is immoral. Similarly I think we'd all agree that reading multiple books to learn about a topic and then writing your own is perfectly fine.

So where does an LLM trained on millions of books fall? Personally, I don't find it immoral but I know others will disagree. I'd be curious to hear arguments for the immorality of LLMs trained on copyrighted works.
I have a question along the similar lines. Let's extend your analogy. Someone read all J.K Rowling books and created a work in that style. Would that be a copyright violation? I'm assuming not.

In that case, is that difference here that it's not humanely possible to train on world's information compared to a single human getting inspired by specific works. And hence an algo doing that is violation?
It's all pretty much the same less wrong-effective altruist-crypto grifter-San Francisco sex cult community. sama still grifting with worldcoin, and even before this.
Don't forget themselves, they protect themselves the most.
Journalist has class interests against his competition.
1 year.
I too can't wait for the day where I need to threaten the computer into doing what I want it to do:

https://imgur.com/KQ9oRAh
https://imgur.com/By7mqDi
https://imgur.com/RiYrvXC
Asian and African elephants are both commonly carriers for a virus (different strains of EEHV) which is very deadly to elephant calves of the other species. They used to be housed together more often before zoologists figured this out.
> Google filed dozens of applications for foreign workers to serve as software engineers...

For comparison, Google laid off 12,000 employees this cycle.
I have not heard a single argument why DAW software can not have a web GUI. Do you have any? I'm genuinely curious.
Or when the problem is "how to get as much of other people's money into our hands for as little work as possible?"
A Study of Potential License Violations in Java Projects (2020)
That makes sense, but what does that have to do with how GUI is implemented?
Once you switch to full remote, why not hire from Central and South America at maybe 1/4 the price of a Californian.
Really? I'd call "accomplishing everything you wanted" satisfaction. Especially since the chances are nearly 100% that the time to complete was known prior to the purchase (at a minimum, the information was available).

I wouldn't demand a refund for a movie, for example, if it finished in 1:59. I wouldn't demand a refund for beating my friends in a round of Top Golf in an hour. Nor would I demand a refund if I decide I'm done after spending less than 2 hours in a museum.
I feel obliged to say that piracy is not theft... but more relevantly, I like how AI is showing us more clearly that everything is essentially a derivative work.
I’ve recently started to use Copilot with Sublime text.

It is far from a revolution, but a nice and fun quality of life improvement.

When it works it makes the job a bit less boring and a bit faster, so yeah, more productive and staying longer in the flow.

But I would not advise beginners to use those, if you don’t understand the code, you’re going to make painful mistakes and stunt your learning curve…
damn its almost like they're hiring and firing people at the same time. crazy stuff. shocking.
I think it isn't, and there saying it's impressive how small the JVM overhead is.
What do you think happens with multiple audio and video streams in a video conferencing use case?

Apart from that, I don't see how any of this is relevant to how you build the GUI for a DAW.
You haven’t changed your mind on anything in 20 years?
I think there's "game generators" like that out there, but I don't know any off the top of my head. Good idea, though!
Post updated. Thanks for the feedback!
> Would that be a copyright violation?

Quite possibly, it depends on what specifically is meant by style and the degree to which the new work is transformative.
How is audio processing relevant to how you build the GUI?
The implied “problem” is that these companies are loopholing the H1-B process to hire for positions that American workers were laid off from. Of course, lawyers know how to make things work.

> The intent of the H-1B provisions is to help employers who cannot otherwise obtain needed business skills and abilities from the U.S. workforce by authorizing the temporary employment of qualified individuals who are not otherwise authorized to work in the United States.
> Pichai’s firm filed applications for low-paid foreign workers to come to America and take highly specialized tech jobs.

1. Fire high-paid workers

2. Import low-paid ones

3. ...

4. Profit.
> Back in the day, programs like Napster had everyone believing that we shouldn’t have to pay for music.

Back in the day, broadcast radio stations had everyone believing that we shouldn't have to pay for music.

In 2023, we have youtube to thank for that.

> If I own something, why shouldn’t I be able to share it with whoever I want?

Good argument, especially since many intangible goods, such as MP3 files, are non-rivalrous and non-excludable.
Americans like to think they have a monopoly on skilled programmers. But the reality is that most countries have them and they will do the same work for a fraction of the price. Everything is done over the internet these days so it doesn't matter that much where you are located.
"Set a timer for 10 minutes" works pretty well. Most of the time.
Aka, "Build a moat for me, Uncle Sam!"
"Things Growing Again After Forest Fire"
This looks similar in spirit to my aider tool [1]. But aider is able to both generate new code bases as well as dive in and modify existing repos.

The shared_dependencies.md technique and modal integration look interesting. I’ll have to dig in and better understand how they work.

[1] https://aider.chat/
If you're playing a pin that's sitting in "cups" (prevents it from sliding) a non-tilting shove on the side will in fact lift the corner slightly -- I measured with a 3-axis accelerometer back in the day. Rather surprising...
This is not surprising. Big tech would love to fire 50% of their engineers and replace them all with H1Bs.

Immigrants get shit done.
Midjourney is not in SV, its remote. Stability is HQ-ed in London.

There are plenty of smaller AI startups splattered across the US.