skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Its output is predicated upon its training data, not user defined prompts.

Prompts very obviously have influence on the output.
tens of TB a month is not that bad in all respects. They already did this for super egregious customers, see this user that pushed 10TB/day through the network and was officially asked to upgrade to the $200/mo business plan: https://community.cloudflare.com/t/the-way-you-handle-bandwi...

I also know some users who do >5tb/day of images and get away with sitting on the legacy "pro for all your domains" $20/mo plan. The abuse team is definitely very sympathetic to customers, and I imagine limits are raised if a site is particularly advantageous to have for other abuse protection purposes (like aiding in gathering network intelligence by having tons of unique users).
In the UK the soil around old petrol stations is usually highly contaminated and they are often found near houses.
You can “create a lot of jobs” by banning the wheel on construction sites. Or power tools. Or electricity.
I felt the same way.

If you want to build something permanent and long-lasting, go build bridges. It does seem kind of silly to expect software to be around for a long time.
Have you seen Erlang syntax? That's why. Even some of the best programmers I know are very superficial.
It's not about scientific truth. I would avoid the word truth altogether in the context of religion. You are so out in left field that you are playing a whole different game. That is your interpretation is "not even wrong" due to your pressupposing that the style and purpose of the mode of communication is one of precision and truth.

Evangelicals tend to see things in a similarly anachronistic (seeing traditional communication through a modern lens) way and it seems to have become near-ubiqitous. The mistake is only recently becoming understood. Ultimately it was a necessary mistake to make.
FWIW, I learned the startup I was at was doing this when I was fired after not even 60 days (as a Senior SWE mind you) for "browsing personal internet too much" in addition to a bunch of other stupid reasons.

Like how much time did InfoSec have on their hands?
Fun challenge: Draw a perfect circle or square that doesn't (appear to) move.
Looks like they found their moat.
I'm split on this - some of the new tech in cars is welcome other things are annoying. I do love my Ranger from 1997 - manual everything (I would like power steering from time to time) but that thing is indestructible.
It's no longer uncommon to (carbon) filter drinking water at the tap or in your fridge, which then makes a hot shower likely a major avenue into your body by way of your lungs unless you filter water for the whole house plumbing system.
It would be a somewhat hilarious irony if congress passed something which required licensing for training AIs and then didn't give OpenAI a license.
Rent-seeking, anyone?
I never said LLMs are stateful.
> Probably more importantly, all of that and still not proper datetimes in sqlite.

Home Assistant recently did a ton of changes to work around the issues caused by this.

The short story is that they stopped storing timestamps as 'timestamp' datatypes and started storing them as unix times stored in numeric columns. Since timestamps turn into strings in SQLite, this was a huge improvement for storage space, performance, etc.

The problem is that this change also affects databases which have a real datetime datatype. So PostgreSQL, which internally stores timestamps as unix times, is now being told to store a numeric value. To treat it as a timestamp you have to convert it while querying. Since I used PostgreSQL for my Home Assistant installation, this feels like a giant step backwards for me.

I wish that they had used this change as an opportunity to refactor the database code a bit so that they could store timestamps as numeric for SQLite, but use a real timestamp datatype for MySQL and PostgreSQL. I'm sure that this isn't a simple thing to do though.
At least for photography, it's important to not take yourself too seriously. You might see something amazing, and every single shot ends up out of focus, or overexposed or with garbage bag in the foreground ruining the mood. In some ways, dedicated cameras are intentionally glitchy to achieve artistic effects, so sometimes they glitch in ways you have not intended. I would imagine that in the same ways a violin is not intended to be as precise as a digital music player and oil paints are not intended to be as true to reality as a smartphone photo. The point is to keep going without overthinking and let good stuff come once in a while by serendipity, while you gain experience to gradually increase average quality. If I was a novelist with a writer block, I would try to come up with a parody of my own writing and see if some comic relief helps me relax. Sometimes I take trippy photos through a water bottle when I am bored and can't think of anything else to do.
I don't need to fully understand my own thought process completely in order to understand (or - simulate to understand) that what the machine is doing is orders of magnitude less advanced.

I say that the machine is "simulating it understands" because it does an obviously bad job at it.

We only need to look at obvious cases of prompt attacks, or cases where AI gets off rails and produces garbage, or worse - answers that look plausible but are incorrect. The system is blatantly unsophisticated, when compared to regular human-level understanding.

Those errors make it clear that we are dealing with "smoke and mirrors" - a relatively simple (compared to our mental process) matching algorithm.

Once (if) it starts behaving like a human, admittedly, it will be much harder for me to not anthropomorphize it myself.
I would love if Apple created a personal iCloud device too.

Let me sync my information to something local.

I know there's Nextcloud, but it's not as seamless as iCloud.
We seem to have put our finger on the problem, then: the incentives of the business diverge from the incentives of the people who comprise it.
Apple has one: "Privacy is a fundamental human right."
I maintain a list of tunneling solutions[0]. One of the main reasons people choose not to use Cloudflare Tunnel for selfhosting is because technically hosting non-HTML content has been against their ToS. Anyone know if this change affects tunnels?

[0]: https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling
I've been trying journaling in one form or another for about 15 years now and found it completely, utterly useless. I've lost count of the number of journals, either physical or digital, I've thrown away in the past. Be them partially filled or just turned into something to rip pieces of paper off whenever I needed to write on something.

I keep some track of stuff I'm working on in my day job, so I can reconstruct what I did the day before before the standup, instead of during it as I used to, but beyond that, I just forget stuff when I don't care about it anymore. No need to keep it around in a different format, if I don't care about it enough to keep it in my mind.
You are misinterpreting the title. "The average age in the US is 38" doesn't mean everyone lives to be 38 on average.
I'm not sure if your end of the world planning needs to include your thermos.
Because they're in the mode of getting things done. They're out to prove themselves, they don't want to report to their manager that they haven't finished that feature because they're reading the docs.
That very likely already fell afoul of their long-standing content rules—I doubt it was tens of TB a month of "webpage content". Usually takes mass-scale image hosting, video hosting, binary file hosting, et c., to hit those kinds of numbers, and that was already not allowed.
I always thought there were license restrictions from Nvidia preventing the use of their consumer grade GPUs in datacenters / cloud environments. Is this not the case?
Here we go, people here were ridiculing right-to-work-on-AI licenses not that long ago and now we have it coming right from the main AI boss, throwing the interest of most of us (democratized AI) down the toilet.
If the workers are empowered why does Germany lag behind the US, most Nordics, and other Northern European neighbors in PPP per capita? I assume work organizations would be able to get more share of profits.
It's a shame because it's a rather trivial thing to filter out. Personally I wish they would have left out the "//" single-line commenting to avoid the whitespace dependency.
Being called recursively on a result is state.
> there is a 50-50 chance of the result coming back as “Sorry, I have having trouble connecting to the network”

Doesn’t the locally-run LLM bit solve this particular grievance? I’m picturing a personal AI à la Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars trilogy.
how would additional supply fix that? there is no space in the city to build more. additional supply would happen at the edges, where most people do not want to move until the area is sufficiently developed, and there are local jobs too.

a more desirable area will always be more expensive. rent control allows to keep that in check, no control will mean that even if there is enough supply elsewhere, those more desirable areas will remain expensive. rent control is needed to prevent gentrification too.
It’s great that more and more software practices are bleeding into other walks of life.
I donno, this comment feels like saying, "Machines have really destroyed our relative reaction to the Olympics. Who cares how far someone can throw a heavy ball when a cannon can do it much better and more accurately."

When the reality is that people are still very much interested in the extent of human prowess AND other folks (often overlapping) are interested in the extent of mechanical prowess (We call those folks engineers and they are much closer to Art enjoyers than not).

There's no doubt that Photography had an affect on "Peoples" idea of "What is Art" or "What do I value in visual Art" but... so does everything? Being extremely wealthy or extremely impoverished can destroy a relationship to Art. Its not so linear as, "All people care about is the ability to render images realistically"

I feel like I could type a novel around this concept but I'll leave these seeds planted, for now.
Wow, what a turd. Reminds me of James Watson
Absolutely, Zack. The work you've done with PAKman is seriously impressive. The efficiency you've managed to achieve with Alpine packages and LXD seems to be a real game-changer.

I'm really curious about the team behind this. Is this a solo endeavor, or do you have a team backing you up? Handling everything from building the system to managing the lifecycle with LXD - that's a lot of ground to cover.

If this is a solo project, it's nothing short of astonishing. The innovation, the effectiveness, and the potential of PAKman - it all points to an immense amount of work and dedication. Hats off to you!

The idea of instellar.app serving as a package repository is very interesting as well. It makes perfect sense that you'd initially want to provide a fully integrated solution. It fits right in with the efficient, streamlined approach you've taken with PAKman.

Either way, I'm definitely looking forward to seeing what comes next from your work. Keep it up!
> Having such a minor node advantage

Is that a minor advantage? I would think that, the smaller the nodes get, the larger the impact of a 1nm difference. Because transistors have area, I think the math, in ≈transistor count would be 3nm:4nm = ⅓²:¼², and that’s 1,777… so a 3nm node could have 75% more transistors on a given die area than a 4nm one (roughly).
This is it for me. I could probably afford a modest new vehicle now, but instead I'm rebuilding the engine and transmission on my 20+ year-old. The money I'll spend would cover a good chunk of the sticker on a dealer vehicle, but everything built in the last 15 years is more electronic than I want it to be. I spend some time every year in a variety of "offroad" conditions (snow, sand, mud, usually) and it's entirely too common for newer vehicles to get stuck in those places because some of their electronics decided to disable the vehicle's transfer case once it lost traction on too many wheels.

There are some pretty decent newer models that can be used as platforms and made to do those things well, but then you're spending a pile of money anyway.

But I'm sure I'm in a tiny minority on this, and for most people, it's simply a matter of not being able to afford a car payment right now.
> What about the employer’s side of the story though? The one that’s on the other side of the economic engine.

Also the side of the "economic engine" that historically cheerfully exploited workers until the labor movement enacted basic protections. IMO employers (in general) are guilty until proven innocent when it comes to workers' rights.

> I know checking “results” is what should be happening, but guess what? That’s actually pretty difficult and open to all kinds of debate.

Yeah my job is difficult too, but I don't take shortcuts because it was "pretty difficult" to do things correctly. Seems like a bad example to set for your employees if you want them to be hard workers...

> You being “present” during office hours is not up for debate and easy to check.

It's also not part of my employment agreement! I'm salaried, I'm paid for getting the job done. Of course, part of "the job" is to be available during business hours in order to participate in meetings, off the cuff discussions, and of course I value that part too. But so long as I communicate when I may be away from my keyboard for a bit, we're all able to manage this easily.

> We all know you are not “making up for it” in the evenings. You are watching netflix and eating hot dogs while sending some superficial emails and notes to give off the impression you are working.

This is such condescending arrogance it almost doesn't merit a response. But rest assured, there are plenty of us who say they'll make something up in the evening, and they do it without hot dogs and Netflix. (Also, if somebody did their job functions successfully and efficiently while eating hot dogs and watching Netflix... who cares?)

> It’s not some small marginal group taking advantage every way they can every chance they get, it’s nearly everyone I know. It’s insane. But they expect to be paid in full. I am not completely opposed to introducing some metrics to track your value.

Obviously you should track the value of employees, but you track it by results, not by this garbage. If your management isn't able to detect freeloaders who aren't getting results: that's a problem with your management and business.
Texas professor fails entire class from graduating- claiming they used ChatGTP
Offering $24-$26/hr near me, still having a hard time finding folks.
You’re drinking from the academic marketing koolaid. Please tell me: where are these methods being applied in AI systems today?

And I’m so tired of this “transformers are just GNNs” nonsense that Petar has been pushing (who happens to have invented GATs and has a vested interest in overstating their importance). Transformers are GNNs in only the most trivial way: if you make the graph fully connected and allow everything to interact with everything else. I.e., not really a graph problem. Not to mention that the use of positional encodings breaks the very symmetry that GNNs were designed to preserve. In practice, no one is using GNN tooling to build transformers. You don’t see PyTorch geometric or DGL in any of the code bases. In fact, you see the opposite: people exploring transformers to replace GNNs in graph problems and getting SOTA results.

It reminds me of people that are into Bayesian methods always swooping in after some method has success and saying, “yes, but this is just a special case of a Bayesian method we’ve been talking about all along!” Yes, sure, but GATs have had 6 years to move the needle, and they’re no where to be found within modern AI systems that this thread is about.
Ask HN: Would you use paid social media?
Yes/No/Why?

Do you think paid social media can deliver something better than Reddit/HackerNews?
This has always been the case and always will be. Unfortently most people feel like they have to put everything online right away now. Most art is bad and doesnt need to go out into the world.

The most creative I've ever been was when I was writing new work every day. MOST, maybe as much as 95%, of what I was creating was just okay. 4% was something that could be developed into something good. 1% was actually good.

That meant in 100 days of writing 95 of those days I would feel like a failure if my measure of success was creating something good or useable. I had to shift my thinking so creating something was the measure of success and creating something good only came from creating a lot and seeing what actually stood out.

If I was putting all of that work online right away I'm positive the negative feedback, or entire lack of feedback, would have been discouraging and I would have stopped.
I don't mean it as a personal insult at all! The word ilk actually means "a type of people or things similar to those already referred to," it is not an insult or rude word.
More tedious editing when I just want to quickly try out a short code fragment. Perfect solution! So pythonic and full of "zen".
I could with access to a computer
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Both of these statements can be true:

1. ChatGPT knows the algorithm for adding two numbers of arbitrary magnitude.

2. It often fails to use the algorithm in point 1 and hallucinates the result.

Knowing something doesn't mean it will get it right all the time. Rather, an LLM is almost guaranteed to mess up some of the time due to the probabilistic nature of its sampling. But this alone doesn't prove that it only brute-forced task X.
I think this narrative is just being sold before .zip is a new domain, I find it interesting how fast things are leveraged for hacking though, I'm wondering why this isn't as commonly noted in the AI space (where I work)
An entire generation of minds, here and gone in an instant.
Hacker News was created by Paul Graham. Sam Altman didn't co-found it and neither did he co-found YC. He became a partner of YC in 2011 though (6 years after founding) and was President from 2014 – 2019.
Less competition is the draw back of requiring all the red tape
True : i remember riding my bike as a kid to my local bank to pay a broker to put in an order to buy a couple thousand dollars (saved from doing landscaping in our neighborhood like kids did in the 80s) of useless IBM. Totally flipped a coin between IBM and Microsoft.
The New Way of Work
I’m relatively late to the shenanigans here, but I feel like what you’re describing was inevitable.

I couldn’t imagine any group that organizes with the the primary intention of raising lots of money, making lots of money and then redistributing lots of money not eventually attracting lots of “suits” of the MBA sort.

The money is stacked way too high. YC has been around for almost twenty years.

It may be worth questioning whether a young tech company with altruistic intentions that fit your expectations getting billion dollar loans is a promising scenario.

Granted I don’t agree with the outcome or the format, I “get it”. People are trying to get paid. The money is getting too long for banks to just up and disappear overnight.
> or better than all humans at all tasks.

I work in tech too and don't want to lose my job and have to go back to blue collar work, but there's a lot of blue collar workers who would find that a pretty ridiculous statement and there is plenty of demand for that work these days.
How to get over performance anxiety in technical interviews?
I've always struggled with anxiety in technical interviews. I think it's due to my working memory seeming to go to zero, so I struggle to solve embarrassingly basic problems. These are problems that I could easily solve if I was alone.

Behavioral interviews and interviews that don't heavily rely on working memory but on past experiences, such as system designs, are completely fine with me.

What have others done to help this? I have done exposure therapy, such as mock interviews, and it helps somewhat, but I seem to regress if it's not constant.
Any firm large enough to build AI projects on the scale of ChatGPT will be large enough to bid on Government AI contracts. In which case, there will be zero regulations on what you can and cannot do in terms of "national security" in relation to AI. Which is fair, considering our adversaries won't be limiting themselves either.

The only regulations that matter will be applied to the end user and the hobbyists. You won't be able to just spin up an AI startup in your garage. So in that sense, the regulations are pretty transparently an attempt to stifle competition and funnel the real progress through the existing players.

It also forces the end users down the path of using only a few select AI service providers as opposed to the technology just being readily available.
I understand where you are going with this.

But "We, as technologists" need to understand that that customization is a hard thing for many people. Most people, especially the people that part of what is announced today is targeted at, need something that is baked into the operating system and easier to manage.

If an accessibility feature requires someone to get the help of someone else to setup it is already a failure right out the gate. They are still reliant on someone else to help manage their phone.

Now yes there are situations where this is impossible to avoid, particularly for vision impaired people since you need to first set that up (but even that there are attempts to address this by the phone setup having those systems turned on by default).

But those are the exceptions and should not be the rule for accessibility features.

Edit:

Just to be clear there is obviously a market for highly customizable accessibility tools similar to the Xbox Adaptive Controller which would need someone else's assistance with.

But not everyone needs this level of support and where possible we should be making tools that allow someone to be fully self reliant and not rely on someone else for setup.
Same, don't really understand why there is a need for the .zip domain, but I also don't know why I can't just make any suffix a domain suffix
You’re basically correct (although 95% of income is drastically overstated, it can be far less than that), but I don’t understand why you can’t wrap your head around that? If you’re never taking on any credit debt then of course you will have a non existent credit score. If I’m a lender, how would I possibly know you’re capable of paying back a loan without some audit trail of your past ability to do so? It seems an incredibly simple concept to understand.
The grass is always greener.

The flip side of this is you save/invest a lot, thinking it will get you to passive income, and the overspending masses vote a new tax raise on the "rich" only for your delayed gratification to never come true.

Case in point, those who paid off their student debt are in the minority. Those who don't vote for student debt forgiveness. The minority did the "right thing" by paying it off and lose out on gratification.

Be careful overfitting as if the rules of the game can't be rewritten to your detriment at any given moment by the dumbest 51% of the population.
The old saying is titles are cheap. A VP title is a great way to give someone a small promotion with a small pay increase and they still feel special. Banks/Financial firms figured this out a long long time ago.

Most the VP's I've known at BoA and Chase over the years were individual contributors.