skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AI will operate at 100 or more times human thinking speed within a few years. This is due to the exponential nature of computing progress.

This is problematic in the context of autonomous AI because it means that humans literally will not have any chance of keeping up with developments. It also creates a situation where these agents are competing on the behalf of companies or countries and in order for them to be successful they need open-ended goals, because waiting for human feedback gives the competition too much extra time. So humans become mainly spectators, even for AIs that they are commanding.

Its strange to me that most people are not anticipating hyperspeed AI. When Yudkowsky talks about it he goes to the extreme of millions of times faster performance than is possible today. Maybe that's why people dismiss his concern.

But it is not speculative at all to anticipate 100 or more times human thinking speed. And we are on track to get there in less than five years. Probably quite a lot less.

I think we need to prohibit manufacture of hardware that goes beyond a certain performance threshold.
Bro, if you’re taking real money it’s a real product.

Put that caveat somewhere obvious on the site. “I’m not taking this seriously but I will seriously take your money! Caveat emptor!”
Saved you from what?
Can we rename to Glengarry leads?
I use the https://hckrnews.com/ view. Reverse-chronological order of posts.

(sometimes the site needs a refresh, but works most of the time...)
It would if it explicitly mentioned applying to government agencies, just like how this legislation makes itself applicable.
Agreed. Although there is a comparison made regarding quality and readiness of code from Auto-gpt vs ChatGPT but that's about it. Also, autonomous agents seem expensive, limited in functionality, and somewhat not reliable (based on the article). That hampers the validity of the title from the start.
ArchiveTeam Warrior: archiving as much of imgur as possible
Found this distributed request + archive tool. It’s being used to archive imgur’s content ahead of their big purge. (among many other archival projects)

http://warrior.archiveteam.org/

Current progress on imgur project: https://tracker.archiveteam.org/imgur/
Has anyone actually used Astronomer? Is it worth the incredible cost?
this is a great idea, totally doable with what is out there
DuckDB 0.8
That's true and we have tried different configurations for systems that use HNSW. But for the ease of presentation, we only choose the configuration with the highest throughput at precision 98%.

Here is a figure in our open-source benchmark framework repo that shows other configurations that we have tested:
https://github.com/myscale/vector-db-benchmark/blob/master/i...
Ditto, my managed service at Google threw close to 3k 500s / second when I was still there. Anything from cosmic rays, faulty hardware bit flipping, hard drive failures.

We did, however, aggregate and group similar 500s and those did get looked at, but no way could we have looked at all errors.

The other thing, is that with resilient infrastructure, who cares about an occasional 500. Back off and retry. No harm done.
Cart before the horses? Why would one question error reading merits, if having a very good understanding of how they're produced, i.e. participate in their configuration and enablement, to begin with?
Keeps him in the news. The interviewers need him and he needs them.
carson-katri/dream-textures (Stable Diffusion, Blender)
https://github.com/carson-katri/dream-textures

nv-tlabs/GET3D
https://github.com/nv-tlabs/GET3D

/? midjourney stable diffusion DALL-E "Imagen" comparison
https://www.google.com/search?q=midjourney+stable+diffusion+...

"Google will label fake images created with its [Imagen] A.I" (2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35896000

"Show HN: Polymath: Convert any music-library into a sample-library with ML"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34782526 :

> Other cool #aiart things:
I'm glad Ukraine is able to use these, but they're hardly the ones who "redefin[ed] warfare" this way.

> In its heyday in 2017, ISIL launched 60 to 100 drone attacks per month across Syria and northern Iraq. The group flew a combination of modified commercial drones, most often Chinese-made DJI Phantom quadcopters, and bespoke drones manufactured in its own workshops.

https://warontherocks.com/2020/12/how-the-army-out-innovated...
100x is an assumption. LLMs can hit a ceiling (already prohibitively expensive to train), GPUs can hit a ceiling (we are not far from silicon semiconductor limits) and we might end up with a decade of "almost there, but not yet".
This is especially true for jobs that are well paid and highly sought.
Author here. We do try to post updates as much as we are able to in our blog: https://dropbox.tech/tag-results.magic-pocket. While the talk did go through details of the system we've covered in the past, the purpose of the talk was to convey my personal learnings of managing such a system at this scale. See key takeaways here: https://qconsf.com/presentation/oct2022/magic-pocket-dropbox.... Sustaining a high amount growth while maintaining high availability, durability, and efficiencies at this scale is very difficult to do.
Baiting healthcare forcussed devs/startups for acquiring?
Analyzing how people are building apps using this data to build their own?
Free training data for their next product?
Amazon is kinda growing in healthcare and maybe Google doesn't want to be behind.
Have you ever considered that "how" to do something is pretty much always several orders of magnitude more complicated than "what" to do?

Wouldn't it make more sense to have LLMs replace middle management? Knowing "what" to do is way easier to predict. Even the worst programmer is far better organized than the people gathering the requirements and they have to fill in the blanks all the time. These are junior programmers who know fuck all about a business yet manage to know more about the project overnight compared to management that's been there for many years!
Commitment from the individual, and commitment from your organisation!

I work in a relatively 'flat hierarchy' so there are few organisational structures and proceedings that keep projects on track. It's only me that keeps the marble on the track, there are no organisational tracks. Once I lose interest or stamina the marble is gone.

Other organisations with regular check-ins, project tracking etc. have a system that at least keeps the marble in place.
The excuse repeatedly here is that "it was easier/convenient (to merge it into a single line item)" or "its just an accounting artifact", as if that isn't a giant red flag all in itself. It's easy to ignore the $600... but if a hammer line-item could be 10x'd on vague R&D costs only the original accountant really understands... how is that better? That's a recipe for masking waste and never knowing why anything costs as much as it does, without expensive in-person interviews with the people involved.

Can't imagine what it's like trying to compete with companies engaging in this sort of practice. How could you possibly project costs? Why even bother? Just tell them it's a $1 hammer and make it up in R&D hidden away in "accounting artifacts".
Must be a wild experience to imagine that more people than just you use the United States Postal Service.
While a dupe, there are thousands of users reading this site sporadically - I've been on here over a decade and have never seen either previous discussion. The site's fresh out of 1990 design is hostile towards navigation of anything beyond a few pages of comments. If people discussed this enough in the other 2 threads, they can... gasp.. skip the discussion here.

so let me kick it off then. What exactly does this mean? To illustrate my point, let's change the scenario. There's a small town north of Chicago called Skokie. 100k people. Lets say they pass a "law" to ban some app from Google's play store.

People in Montana should perhaps take their phone, ask it what a computer is, listen to Siri's answer, then call 411 and ask them how to open a pdf. Then they should shovel some cow dung - as is daily life - and finally then they can pass some laws about cow dung.

And now this, from the Australia lawmakers. Australia, the Montana of the planet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VB3uQHa14g
dragnets, not magnets.

Perhaps?
3k? What percentage of requests is that?
I’m also confused why all system supplied data is in /usr instead of say /sys.
> Avowing to CNBC after the shareholder meeting that he’ll say what he wants even “if the consequence of that is losing money,”

... and yet justifies blocking tweets in Turkey because it will lose him money.
Got it, thank you all for sharing your knowledge in this domain.
The decommission of 2G/3G and removal of downgrades applies pretty much everywhere these days (my operator doesn't even allow 3G downgrades on their 5G plans), I read it as just an example rather than starting a very specific conversation.
One can hope, but that would be a complete break from the history of computing.

There is still relatively low-hanging fruit because this is a very specific application that suddenly has a huge amount of attention. So there are software improvements, model improvements, and hardware improvements. Probably before we even start a truly new paradigm, Nvidia can get close to 10X by focusing on GPT. Model improvements can likely get another order of magnitude.

There are also radically different compute-in-memory paradigms in the pipeline.
Suppose someone asked you to complete the sentence:

“After I woke up and made breakfast, I drank a glass of …”

In America one might say the most likely next words are “orange juice”, or “apple juice” but not “sports car” which has nothing to do with the sentence.

Ultimately this is what language models do, given a sequence of data (in this case words) predict the most likely next word(s).

For attention, when you read the sentence, which words stood out as more important? Probably woke up, breakfast, and glass while the words after, I, and made were less important to completing the sentence.

That is, you paid more attention to the important words to understand how to complete the sentence.

The “attention mechanism” in language models is a way to let the models learn which words are important in sentences and pay more attention to them too when completing sentences, just like a person would do as in the example above.

Further, it turns out this attention mechanism lets the models do lots of interesting things even without other fancy model techniques. That is “attention is all you need”.
He either didn’t tamp it all, or tamped it very poorly.

I should note that I’m not against pothole vigilantism in general - in the same way that you can hire a pressure washing company or a lawn care company to bring some specialized tools and trained operators out to your property to do a really good job that consumer grade tools and a competent handyman simply could not achieve, my experiences with potholes have made me want a similar pothole repair service. A good road saw, premium-grade government-approved blacktop repair mix, a dedicated tamping machine, the proper training to install pothole repairs, and maybe even road plates to give the mix time those crucial first few days to set and bond? That’s achievable for a few thousand dollars of equipment and two guys in a work ute, I know because I’ve called asphalt repairs for the private roads in our business, and that’s what turned up, and they did a great job. Being able to call out a vigilante service like that for public roads would be a blessing and could definitely be run at cost on cash-in-hand donations from neighbors.
> If the contractor can lump all sorts of charges into the cost of the hammer (for unrelated projects), it's a way of hiding the true cost of anything.

You should have seen the massive number of very large enterprise IT projects in the late 1990s that were justified, approved, budgeted and accounted for under the famous Y2K umbrella.

Every reasonably smart business or IT manager figured out ways to connect their pet project to Y2K and after that the approvals were almost automatic.

Because what VP, CEO, board member or even shareholder dared to question the necessity of preventing the potentially catastrophic events if Y2K bugs weren’t properly eradicated.

It was pretty amazing times.
That is a "yes even though" not a no
Welp, never buying a Rivian!
One thing that I've observed is that the more errors there are, the less likely people will look at them – much less fix the underlying source – so the problem only grows. If you have 1 error/month it's "zomg! An error! PANIC!" but if you have 10,000 every day it seems an insurmountable task to fix it all, "so whatever". I don't think it's apathy as the post suggests, it's just that it can seem like an insurmountable task and whatever you do will just be a drop in the ocean.

An error is either:

1. A real bug someone ran in to.

2. Not a bug and just a spurious "error", which should be a log message, some statistic somewhere, or just disabled outright. Errors should only be errors – an uncaught exception, explicit error log, stuff like that. Everything else should be something else.

What I've found – and this certainly won't hold true for all cases, but it does seem to be the case often – is that half or more all in the second category: it's just stuff that shouldn't be logged as an error. This is usually trivial to fix.

This still leaves you with 5,000 errors/day, but typically ~10 bugs will cause ~4,950 of them. This takes more time to fix, depending on the bug, but usually also takes less time than "5,000 errors every day!" makes it sound.

The last ~50 errors are usually the hardest, especially if it's frontend JavaScript stuff. I "read every error", but I have a few that pop up regularly that I just can't reproduce and don't know how to fix. I think it may be extensions people use or something, but idk. Since this post talks about APIs I guess that's not really applicable to them.
Looks like tailwinds from the style sheet code
This is an area where parallel construction[1] can be applied for evidence laundering. Usually these terms are used to describe unreasonable search/seizure in violation of the 4th amendment, but it can also be applied to evidence collected in violation of attorney/client privilege.

The evidence can't be submitted in a trial, but that's pretty much the only thing that can't be done with it--you can use it to obtain other evidence. In theory that evidence would also be excluded as "fruit of the poisonous tree", but in reality and violation of the constitution and basic human rights, law enforcement frequently uses parallel construction--showing an alternate path by which the evidence might plausibly have been obtained--to get evidence in front of jurors which they could not have obtained without violating the constitution they supposedly uphold.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction
I often find myself working on systems where there's a high volume of traffic/processing to developer ratio. Sometimes I'm the only developer. As such, when looking at errors coming in, it's very tempting to take a step back and come up with a methodical triage and error processing framework. However, I find that's a quick path to analysis paralysis. Instead, I'll just start with the most recent error, work through it and push a fix if applicable (whether that's five minutes or five hours), and then move on to the next one. This lets me very quickly add quality back into the system, and very often I find myself resolving other seemingly unrelated issues in the process.
Can it show ads if you unplug it from the wall or switch it off with a power bar?

It has HDMI ports: plug in your streaming device, and then you're just subject to the same old spying you're used to with that device.
If you don’t care if the paint matches, you can repair only the small area. You can even use a rattle can if you want and don’t care about the appearance. If you want the paint to match closely and blend so the eye can’t readily see that a repair has been done, you need to do a lot more work to accomplish that.

I had a driver back into my parked classic Mustang. They were not at all happy with the eventual cost of the repair, thinking that they could just pay out of pocket a few hundred bucks (really) because the dent wasn’t that bad in their opinion. Well, tough. The eventual repair was the entire fender and blend time for the hood and door, with associated labor for disassembly and reassembly because the car started with no detectable damage and that’s the state to which it needs to be returned.
The CNC version will definitely involve some screws to make it more secure
Congress has the power to stop this. They can forbid law enforcement from asking for mail covers. They can even make it a crime. If they choose not to do this, that's a problem with Congress, not the USPS.
The AI demands more habanero salsa
Migrating from Arduino to STM32 Microcontrollers
I think this is almost tautologically true though. Why do Billionaires exist? What is the purpose of being a billionaire?

They do not need to work to live well, so why do they work at all? A lot of them might say something like "to improve the world" but the fact of the matter is very few of them are willing to actually _spend money_ (i.e. make a loss) on something which can have a massive benefit (to someone else), they will only ever "invest".

So I say it's very nearly tautological that Billionaires are _exactly_ the people focused on making numbers go up, since every decision they make seems to ultimately revolve around making this happen.
Why Pay for Search
He and Gene Siskel were a very good good cop bad cop pair.
I’ve sat on interview boards at a Fortune 100 company for at least 100 positions. We’ve never hired anyone based on their network. To the best of my knowledge, we’ve never even interviewed anyone that knew anybody at the company. Maybe the positions we were filling were unique.
> only way that you could possibly come out ahead is if you sell it later for an even higher price

Wait really? Can you start over?
There is: you can buy a bandaid car magnet from Amazon for $8 Magnet Me Up Band Aid Magnet Decal, 3x8 Inches Heavy Duty Automotive Magnet for Car Truck SUV https://a.co/d/dwWXKjr
That would be really cool! But we may not meet the MOQ to get all those colors made
I think it's not viable for exactly the opposite reason: the average american still watches tv for more than 3 hours a day. That's 3 hours of having constant ads - I think if it was less, something like this might be tenable, but I think people are going to be willing to pay for a TV that isnt annoying
Care to define that motive in specific terms and link to evidence for it?
We'll see I guess. All that GPT models showed us so far is that we humans aren't as intelligent as we thought. We might be forced to redefine what makes us human as intelligence might not be our most distinguishing trait fairly soon.
It's hilarious to me when HR at all corporations go on about bias, diversity etc. in recruiting and meanwhile when the corporation needs a new exec they always just find another white guy from Stanford/Ivy League.
What do these friends do for you that you won’t move to Europe.
>Install feels almost suspiciously easy coming from the likes of cyanogenmod.

this is a great teaser statement

I miss the days of having to open 9 xda threads to figure out how to install some ROM. That whole scene seems to have died off as Android puts up more walls to increase reliance on locked down services
Sounds like any bureaucracy. The government doesn't have a monopoly on inefficiency.
Isn't that kind of the point? I would greatly prefer it stays within the confines of the supplied documents.
Who Is Googling You?
Good idea! Maybe we should start a newsletter. There is a Matrix bridge to our Discord now.
>The law specifies that no penalties apply to users of TikTok. But app store operators and TikTok itself could face fines of $10,000 per violation per day, with an individual violation defined as “each time that a user accesses TikTok, is offered the ability to access TikTok, or is offered the ability to download TikTok.”

Sounds like a money-printing machine.
Why is there not a movement within companies to stop spending so much on mass recruiting and interviewing? Doesnt it cost them thousands of dollars per candidate if they go through multiple rounds?
In what direction is GDP growth positive? There are plenty of ways to grow GDP in ways that are basically pointless or actively harmful for the economy at large, society in general, and the environment.
> Is there a WM out there that can do the basic quality-of-life functions of today's DEs?

I think FVWM is what you are looking for. Last commit on May 10. https://github.com/fvwmorg/fvwm3/
What "proposal"? I'm talking about the checkbox in the bottom. It is asking for consent to store PII in a cookie, and it doesn't need a banner.

I was answering to a claim that cookie banners are required by the ePrivacy Directive. There is no requirement for banner anywhere there or in GDPR. They were invented by the advertisement industry, and almost all the time are found to be non-compliant.
Door 1: You might not have enough servers for launch. You say so, and some people decide to binge Ted Lasso that night and wait a day or two to see if their friends are having fun.

Door 2: you overpromise convincingly, and generate more traffic on launch day than if you had said nothing. So now you’re just hitting yourself.

The thing with servers failing is that doubling the users always makes them at least 2log2 times slower, so there are any number of tricks you can do to cut traffic by 15% so you can cut congestion by 17%. Nowhere on that list is opening your fat stupid gob and tempting fate.
Thank you. So this is based on the training data, I assume.
Andrej Karpathy has a great course on this that is accessible to anyone who knows calculus and basic coding: https://karpathy.ai/zero-to-hero.html
My house just outside of Portland Oregon kind of resembles a vintage computing museum. I’m moving back to my rainforest off-grid electronics-destroying compound in Hawaii and can’t in good conscious bring any of my collection to rust away out there. (None of my buildings are anything like climate controlled)

I’m planning on selling what I can for my kiddos college/travel funds, but will have a bunch of stuff left over: if anyone knows of a good local place to donate some ancient hardware I’d love to hear about it.
Device asks me to type my kid’s password in. Kid is in my family group. After authorizing my kid, I have to still approve on my device. If I forget kid’s password, I can reset on my device.

Zero extra security forcing me to type in his iCloud password on his device, especially given I have typed it in the passed.

It’s not financial requirements but instead layziness.
Google Maps records everything and sends it to the cloud to log your entire journey while using the app. They've made it into a feature to show "average speed" and similar details in the Maps app.

They have your speed, where you began and where you were going. Way more damning.
A very healthy portion of paid software fits in the category of "things you could do on your own machine, but would rather pay someone to run on their machine with a simplified UI".

This doesn't make the users idiots, it just means they value their time.
Well it certainly was built for some future product, but it was probably released as open source solely so an engineer could have "community contributions" on their promo packet.
Sort of. Part of the training for a model includes telling it which parts of a sentence are important... a human points and clicks.
As per my CEO, it's ok to do endless interviews to find that one good candidate. It doesn't make sense to me but hey it's not my money. One of our engineering managers was complaining that they had to do 80 interviews to hire one candidate. Colossal waste of time and money. No wonder these companies are still not profitable.
The hunt for the Titanic was a hunt for lost U.S. nuclear submarines (2018)