skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah there are people ITT claiming that even the API model marked as 3/14 release version is different than it used to be. I guess that's not entirely outside the realm of possibility (if OpenAI is just lying), but I think it's way more likely this thread is mostly evidence of the honeymoon effect wearing off.

The specific complaints have been well-established weaknesses of GPT for awhile now too: hallucinating APIs, giving vague/"both sides" non-answers to half the questions you ask, etc. Obviously it's a great technical achievement but people seemed to really overreact initially. Now that they're coming back to Earth, cue the conspiracy theories about OpenAI.
https://pub.towardsai.net/meet-vicuna-the-latest-metas-llama...
Be careful: you want https://1337x.to/ note 1337 not 1377
If you are a good junior you already know most of the things you will know as a senior, the difference is you don't know that you know.
That's such a gorgeous office!

Some of the "glamorous" tech office designs can be sterile and off-putting. Github's is all at once cozy, innovative, quirky, fun, and sophisticated.

A target to shoot for, and something that will no doubt be missed.
i'd say every major software stack has a cart+checkout sample right after the Hello World! one
Wow, what a blatant copy.

@dang should the link be updated?
So far nothing from Gimp is good. Sorry. I am yet to see an impressive AI demo in Gimp. They might have done it first or whatever but none of it looks decent.
Some are probably Russian, some probably Ukrainian (or in the international legion).
It hasn't been changed since March 14th... So it's equally nerfed as it was then...

Also, the playground lets you set the 'system message', which you can use to tell it to answer questions even if the results may be dangerous/rude/inappropriate.
https://chat.lmsys.org/?arena
> If you expect someone to get in a footrace with a charging moose in any conditions, let alone 30-40+cm deep snow, I don't know what to say.

The OP article actually says that it's the thing to do: "Unlike with bears or even dogs, it is usually a good idea to run from a moose because they won't chase you very far."

Say yes or no to this question: do you think the human in the video is the most aggressive animal?

> You come across as a deeply unhappy and unpleasant person

I understand that, because I care more about wildlife than idiots.
are these safe? being clones doesn't really inspire much confidence

rarbg was my go to for years :S
You're most likely correct. I personally think the lines have been drawn in a way that catches out people who are not being malicious, making some people over sensitive to basic human dialogue, and still not properly going after those who are actually malicious. And it's actually making us mix less with colleagues. Maybe the ends justify it, feels rather cold to me.
> I can hear all kinds of overtly racist and sexist statements from my female colleagues, but because they are women, and their comments are directed at white folks and male folks, they are totally safe from this sort of retribution. (Ex. "I didn't want to move here because it's eyeroll so white")

That's pervasive, but it's not appropriate either. This is why I said low key unprofessionalism should initially be dealt with by apologies and training.

> Meanwhile, an (admittedly juvenile) set of jokes gets some people fired.

I said that was an overreaction. But it's a different employer, who were acting due to publicity.
A lot of the ones you mention are just proxies for rarbg (for countries where the main site is blocked) so they have of course stopped working too.

Only 1337x is really a different site.
Krita makes Gimp irrelevant. I don't know why anyone would use Gimp over Krita other than knowing the Gimp workflow that well.
RARBG was originally Bulgarian, like many other trackers and warez stuff. Eastern Europe - inside EU or outside of the EU - has always been major player in this scene. RIP.

I'm still curious how it's possible to run such global illegal operations without being exposed or caught.

How is it still possible to remain anonymous on the Internet, considering in this age the thing is very mature and well commercialised?
Sounds about right. The processors were six-core 500MHz single issue, which was pretty damn slow even by the standards of the time (2006-2008), beefed up with some extra floating point and some relatively very fast interconnect stuff. The key is that there were a lot of processors - 972 in the big machine. So you really really had to rely on parallelism to get any kind of performance, and a lot of code doesn't parallelize well at all. Even in the HPC space, a surprising number of codes just aren't designed to work for more than about 64.

Also the machine positively sucked for linear integer code - like, say, compilers or OS kernels. One of the first things customers would do, naturally, was compile. Bad first impression. Also, it was nearly impossible to get a Lustre MDS for a thousand-node cluster (which is what the biggest machine was) to run for any length of time without falling over, because Lustre was designed around the assumption that the MDS would be bigger and beefier than anything else and have "poor man's flow control" in the form of a relatively slow network. In our case it was exactly the same and completely unprotected because the interconnect was the fastest part of the system by quite a margin. That was my nightmare for those two years. I've heard that Lustre has since added some flow control ("network request scheduler") but I was never able to benefit from that. PVFS2 worked better, and Gluster (which I worked on for nearly a decade afterward) would probably have been better still because it's more fully distributed and less CPU-hungry.

The reason I mention all this is that there's an important lesson: building a system with a very unusual set of performance characteristics is a terrible idea business-wise, because people won't be able to realize its potential. Not even in a fairly specialized market. They'll just think it's slow. Unless it's truly bespoke, literally a one-off or close to it, nobody will want it.

P.S. I actually had to visit CU-Boulder to debug something on that machine, with the aforementioned Doug. It became one of my favorite "war stories" from a 30-year career, but this has gone on long enough so I'll skip it.
I skipped that last line too. Thanks for pointing it out. I now do know why they're being downvoted.
>if compromised by a competent attacker could compromise nearly every major corporation in America.

This is either bullshit or those people are idiots carrying around that kind of information on a cell phone and crossing borders with it.
Here's a new one in Rust: https://github.com/algesten/str0m
I take it to mean some people were on one side, some on the other.

Not one person playing both sides (but that probably happens, too).
noooooooo, this was my go-to torrenting website, so sad :(
Midjourney and GPT4 suck , don't use them. Use your old tools and let fools like me waste their time.
Shouldn't you contact the org that added your account? This is much more a config issue / user error than a Google bug.
Up there you disagree with the (part of) collective and you show no intention to work against your self-interest or otherwise to work in the name of better situation of the (part of) collective.

Thank you for thoughtful and thought-provoking discussion with you.
C being trusted?
Dash is a commercial software on macOS. The author created the whole docset parsing/plugin stuff and markets the tool. I use it for years and upgraded multiple times since it’s a timesaver.

There has been controversy in the past about the tool since it is a glorified man page reader. The author even shared at one point his earnings and what he is doing with it.

And no there is no zeal for macOS. I don’t know the details behind that deal. I can only say that zeal is not as good as dash. The integration into macOS is way smoother than what one gets on windows and Linux. I tried all versions.
systems engineering... is about curiosity. Asking how then why. AND Then knowledge+ability to build/tweak/fix/do-something-about the Thing. Not just observe. Whether the domain is software or mechanics or rocket science or group-psychology or (usualy) many of them together.. it's still same. Just takes time and accumulation of lots of rather-unconnected-unrelated-irrelevant little bits.

When i hire, i look for DIY skills. Tinkering with stuff. Repairing broken pens, toys, door-frames, or UIs. That has proven to be the only relevant signal. Lots of people can apply formulas. Few question them. Seems Rare skill nowadays.

Maybe because i'm DIY reverse-engineer-everything guy myself. You know, people hire their similars :)

offtopic: some very-old DIY things of mine: https://svilendobrev.com/napravisam/

pff, maybe i need to make a separate chapter on handles and hooks and such, i have (re)build dozens..

have fun
As someone who's coded OCaml for 20 years, I have no idea what you're referring to. `let x in y`? `x; y`? `x, y`? Those are all in the base language.
Zeal (portable 64-bit) runs on Wine on macOS if you don't need the Mac-specific stuff in Dash.
Thank God PTP is back on a good track.
It is WordPress.
You can just start with one of the existing ones that have been validated such as GEMSOS [1] which is offered by AESEC [2] which was certified to TCSEC Class A1 by the NSA according to the Orange Book standard or Integrity-178B which is offered by Green Hills Software which was validated against the SKPP of the Common Criteria [3] (the Common Criteria being the current preferred security standard framework used by most countries and validated against by basically every company).

Being certified against the SKPP required a multi-month NSA penetration test with full source code and design specifications to discover zero deficiencies [4] so qualifies against the standard you are proposing. The certification was done at the behest of the DoD for the F-22 and the F-35, so you can be reasonably certain it was not a false certification by the NSA to make sure the premier fighter jets of the US are vulnerable.

You can also look at some of the other certified systems linked here [5] though I am not sure which of them are still commercially viable or even functional on modern hardware.

[1] https://www.nist.gov/system/files/documents/2016/09/15/aesec...

[2] https://www.aesec.com/

[3] https://www.commoncriteriaportal.org/files/epfiles/st_vid103...

[4] https://www.commoncriteriaportal.org/files/ppfiles/pp_skpp_h... Page 116

[5] https://www.cse.psu.edu/~trj1/cse443-s12/docs/ch6.pdf
I think he means that employees/contributors exist on both the Russian and Ukrainian side.
They crawl the peer to peer DHT, private torrents have a flag so they do not get announced via DHT.
That's just vague accusations/opinions, zero examples.

Perhaps you are afraid that other people might not come to the same conclusions if you let them make their own judgements?
o7 thank you for your service, keeping the Internet awesome and anti-corporate.

Where one piracy site dies, a thousand spawn from its corpse.

Maybe the media companies will eventually pull their heads out of their collective arses and quit their cartel, allowing the existence of legal, paid streaming sites a-la-Spotify with access to 99% of the repertoire. Until then, torrent is how we protest while they create more and more insular streaming services to milk people $9/mo at a time.

"Piracy is almost always a service problem." — Gabe Newell

(If you need a semi-private tracker that's easy to get into, try TorrentLeech. Also /r/opensignups)
Thank you for your work so far. Out of curiosity - what kind of expenses are we talking before/after ad revenue?

How much would it have helped to have 1% of users chip in 10 USD/year? (1% is probably optimistic, but still...)?
https://archive.is/NzoDZ
sorting arrays of numbers is very often ultimately used under the hood of all the nice abstractions
Doesn't have to be curiosity, it also works with stubbornness. If you have the opinion that it "should ought to" work a certain way, and the system disagrees, then you will naturally have to dig into it, because you'll create your own breakage. :)

I honestly don't give a damn how my system works, so long as it works. It's just that the way I use it tends to make that a very temporary state of affairs.

It doesn't particularly matter how you come by the library of a thousand mostly useless low-level factoids about the system. So long as it accumulates, and you keep having to make use of it to work around the problems you yourself caused a few days prior, you won't be able to avoid becoming a systems person.
But it can't be used unless I enable billing, which I am not willing to do after reading all the horror stories about people getting billed thousands overnight. I'm not willing to take the risk that I forget some script and it keeps creating charges.
> Legal: probably. I don't expect consumers installing their legally bought software on a machine the manufacturer didn't approve to hold up in court.

Unfortunately, the Psystar saga says Apple can forbid running their software on unapproved hardware.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psystar_Corporation
I think it's effectively just that they operate out of jurisdictions that just don't care.
Yawning probably goes back at least to the first mammals, it's pretty hard-wired as a standard mammalian social cue signifying a calm and relaxed affect and being in the "rest and digest" parasympathetic mode. It's contagious across species, and even thinking about yawning makes you want to yawn!
None of these videos are working for me. Too many people trying to access them? Or a more serious issue?
I want both.

The office is energizing. Collaboration is amazing. Food and amenities take pressure off. White boards, conference rooms. Everything is always clean. Hanging out after hours with an open bar and video games helps with bonding.

Working from home is comfortable. There's no pressure, no transit, and you can build it however you like. You can interleave your chores, focus without distraction, and be around the people and pets you love.

Both of them are good. I truly want to have both.
I've heard none of such 3rd parties have access to OS/2 source code, so these are binary patched products.
I didn't try Zeal on Windows, but it's a supported platform, so I would assume you can register a hotkey there as well.
Does this make anyone else hungry for a burger and a beer? The interior reminds me of the many brewery/restaurants that have come up in town over the past few years.
You can't search private indexers without having account on them.
For context, I have never worked for or with google, and don't use their products much other than search. So I don't have much emotional connection to the company. My comments were more motivated by a kind of concern.

My perception is that Google split into a number of focussed business units when they became Alphabet, with the Google component being execution focussed and the more speculative stuff spun out into other group companies like deepmind, waymo, etc. That's why the Google unit stopped doing nice incubator projects that we were all excited about.

From what I've seen, this cash cow execution business unit has been fairly effective - in particular they've done a good job of entering the cloud market space producing a differentiated product that is penetrating their target customers. They have not been able to compete with Microsofts excelent and deeply embedded IT sales capability, so they've done well to go after people with big problems that other vendors more civillian offerings are not so great for. They are currently the first choice platform for AI training for instance.

I'd contrast this to Facebook who seem to be trying to become a deep tech VR hardware vendor in the same business unit as their cash cow entertainemet and advertising business which has confused investors and probably distracted their focus.

We can see that Google has innovated. For instance, a lot of Tela's stock price is based on the idea that they are going to run autonomous taxis, and instead of owning cars we will just hail a Tesla when we need one. Telsa does not run autonomous taxis, but you can ride a Google Waymo taxi today in Pheonix, and they are running autonmous trucks which is a big industry Tesla aren't even attempting yet. They are doing a lot in medicine and medical devices. This seems a lot more diversified and innovative than other companies - it's just not as visible to the HN community as an RSS reader or some other internet thing we care about.

We can also say that... on the AI thing, I think it's very early days. Microsoft have a shakey looking deal with the first mover, but Alphabet and Facebook have the advantage of actually using AI extensively in their real buisnesses and may be able to deliver product market fit better. Time will tell.

On the stocks front, I agree with your overall thesis - I think it's harder for these conglomerates to grow than a new company just because they are already giants in their niche and even adding a new niche generates less growth in percentage terms than for a smaller company starting from a lower number. I just wouldn't actually bet against google as much as I would some of the others.
One of my favorite offices was Squarespace and GitHub's.
Huh, thanks for the tip. I'll try this next time I meet a patou!
OpenAI's models feel 100% nerfed to me at this point. I had it solving incredibly complex problems a few months ago (i.e. write a minimal PDF parser example), but today you will get scolded for asking such a complicated task of it.

I think they programmed a classifier layer to detect certain coding tasks and shut it down with canned BS. I like to imagine certain billion/trillion-dollar mega corps had a back-room say regarding things that they would really prefer OpenAI's models not be able to emit. Microsoft is a big stakeholder and they might not want to get sued... Liability could explain a lot of it.

Conspiracy shenanigans aside, I've decided to cancel my "premium" membership and am exploring open/DIY models. It feels like a big dopamine hangover having access to such a potent model and then having it chipped away over a period of months. I am not going through that again.
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He didn't say it was for everyone, did he?
"the possibility that AI will surpass the humans in a few years"

Geoff Hinton it has been saying for a couple of months now, "we are already there". The "digital intelligences" have already surpased human level intelligence.

Many complex explanations follows usually, some related to energy efficiency / consumpsion vs. processing capabilities (spoiler alert: LLMs are better than us);

other stuff is related to another "not AGI yet" arguments,

i.e. the hallucinating thing in LLMs (if you train a LLM -or you fine tune it - with only data with precise truths, not the whole Reddit posts, you could create a precise not hallucinating ever LLM),

i.e. the "human neurons still rule". Hinton says, you cannot instantly copy your whole memory to 10.000 other humans - just born humans - and these things can, heck, the whole gang, 10.001 LLMs can just instantly share between them whatever they learn, instantly. Hence, the human neurons just got deprecated, but few have realized yet.

Ilya Sutseker has said some stuff, not as much alarming as Hinton, but explaining how LLMs work, and saying, in the most polite way possible: these things are otherworldly for us humans.

I think both guys didn't say the current LLMs (Palm, GPT-4 upgraded to 2023), are AGI already, just because there is no way to prove they are general intelligences, just as there are no way to prove otherwise.
Ask Psystar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psystar_Corporation
Perhaps <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politico-media_complex>. Just a guess.
https://www.forbes.com/home-improvement/home/denim-insulatio...

The main downside is having to absolutely soak everything in fire retardant.
It doesn't matter, and Google knows it.
Are they trying to lower the running cost?
Cats also regard looking away as a friendly gesture. Which is probably one reason they anecdotally tend to seek out the company of the one person who is allergic or does not like cats. Humans not accustomed to cat body language tend to think of looking away as a sign of aloofness and disinterest instead.
You might not be me, but formulated my point extremely well.
oh wow, sad news
I’m a happy user of Dash (macOS) for years now. Sadly Zeal is not 100% the same in terms of integration etc. at least I never got it running on windows and Linux like on Mac. I only use hot key setup (alt-space in my case) No fancy ide hot keys and such.

There used to be some controversy (around 2015) when the author (single dev) put out yet another breaking version with new license upgrades. The free version was artificially slowed down. He added a new search backend and wanted to be compensated. So all users had to pay again. I upgraded 3 or 4 times. I think it’s a great tool that solves a problem. Some feel that he only wrote a parser/display tool and that the price is too high. I wished I came up with the idea though ;)
They're not clones. Just proxies so they are down too.

This is usually done to make it harder for the courts to force providers to block these sites. Whack-a-mole..

PS: Why am I getting downvoted? Try clicking on the links, you will see the same goodbye message.

Edit: Oh the first 2 do seem to be clones, now I understand. The rest are proxies though. I do think even the clones basically skived off the original's database though so I doubt they will have much going forward.
Am I crazy ? ..didn't GitHub pretty much pioneer working from home (called "remote work" then) way way way before the pandemic? Definitely before 2016. They were one of the first to scale salaries to where you lived and set a lot of the common industry standards. It was all about dogfooding their own product and working remote using Github itself.

They were all about NOT having an office. I never even realized they had an office, let alone a famous one. I remember people would dream about working for Github b/c of the flexibility, The article doesn't even mention this in passing ...
Can you expand on the last sentence of your first paragraph?
I don't think this is an account owned by the rarbg people.
> Squarespace

Now I want to start a Pinterest board. These are so nice.
it's also really, really bad and fails compared to even open source models right now.
> Out of all of them, I think Microsoft is the most likely to fail, as they are likely to be blindsided when the user-focussed desktop OS

That might have been a reasonable assessment back in Balmer’s era. But what you saying has already happened years ago…

They have mostly reinvented themselves since then. Enterprise/office isn’t going anywhere. Xbox if fine too. And there is a lot of growth in their cloud/etc. business.

IMHO out of Google, Amazon & Facebook, Microsoft seems to be the least dysfunctional and and general best positioned one to be successful in the future.
Just want to flag a potential unit issue: 900gbps vs 300GB/s?

Also worth noting - TPUv4 uses a 6-way 3D torus interconnect vs the 3-way "multi ToR" NVLINK topology; the total bisection bandwidth of the TPUv4 pod is over 1PB/s!

Can't wait to see what TPUv5 looks like. As you say, it's probably already chugging away with v6 on track to tape out in a year.

That said, I think NVidia has nailed bringing the ecosystem along, and I think making the whole setup look more like "one huge GPU" could simplify a lot of ML programming.

I am actually disappointed I haven't seen more of that style in CPU programming. Where's my 20,000 core 100TB RAM VM instance?