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FoundationDB is used at Datadog as the metadata store for Husky, the storage and query engine powering a significant number of Datadog products, such as logs, network performance monitoring, and trace analytics.

1. https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/engineering/introducing-husky...

2. https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/engineering/husky-deep-dive/

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNneCaZewTg

4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-zo9jqdRZU

I was involved with this project from the beginning and it would've taken significantly longer to deliver without FoundationDB.
maybe i'll even buy a newspaper while I'm out there!

they still make those right?
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I have tried it once and did not let me do such thing; it complained I'm in Europe where GDPR is applied...maybe it was a glitch during that attempt?
Seems like a great picture for Bruce Springsteen's next album cover.
I don't think many people are worried that what we have now is a major risk. The major concern is the implications of the trajectory we are now on.

If you look at what ChatGPT and Midjourney and the like can do now compared to just a couple of years ago, it's pretty incredible. If you extrapolate the next few similar jumps in capability, and assume that won't be 20 years away, then what AI is going to be capable of before even my kids leave college is going to be mind-boggling, and in some possible futures not in a good way.

I remember seeing this talk from Sam Harris nearly 6 years ago and it logically making a lot of sense back then (https://youtu.be/8nt3edWLgIg). The past couple of years have made this all the more prescient. (Worth a watch if you have 15 mins).
Hey! First of all thank you for this really detailed response! I am very new to the voice space and definitely have a TON to learn. I'd love to connect and chat with you sometime :)

I totally agree with you about latency. It is very very important for use cases such as a voice assistant. I also think there are use cases in which latency doesn't matter that much. One thing I think I may have understated about S.A.T.U.R.D.A.Y. is the fact that, at it's core, it is simply an abstraction layer over vocal computing workloads. This means it is 100% inference implementation agnostic. Yes, for my demo I am using whisper.cpp however there is an implementation that also uses faster-whisper.

I also want to call out that I have spent very little time optimizing and reducing the latency in the demo. Furthermore, when I recorded it I was on incredibly shoddy WiFi in northern Scotland and since the demo still depends on OpenAI a large chunk of the latency was introduced by the text-to-text inference. That being said there is still a ton of areas where the latency in the current demo could be reduced probably to the neighborhood of 1s - 1.5s. This will get better in the future :)

I want to touch on something else you mentioned. GPUs. I intentionally tried to avoid using any GPU acceleration with this demo. Yes, it would make it faster BUT I think a large part of making this kind of technology ubiquitous is making it accessible to as many clients as possible. I wanted to see how far you can get with just CPU.

In regards to your comments about NLU/NLP I have not dug into using them in place of LLMs but this seems like an area in which I need to do more research! I am very far from an AI expert :) I have a bunch of ideas for different ways to build the "brains" of this system. I simply have just not had time to explore them yet. The nice part about this project and demo is that it doesn't matter if you are using an LLM or an NLU/NLP model, either will plug in seamlessly.

Thank you again for your response and all of this information! I look forward to hopefully chatting with you more!
> What is his criticism?

I heard in some interview, I think with Bloomberg, where he said that claims about regulatory capture were "so disingenuous I'm not sure what to say", or something like that.

I think he's probably not lying when he says that his goal isn't regulatory capture (although I do think other people perceiving that to be his intent aren't exactly insane either...)

> who seem to think it's not dangerous

On the contrary. They think it's dangerous but in a more mundane way, and that the X-Risk stuff is idiotic. I tend to agree.

> why agree with Altman who rants regulation

IDK. What even are his proposed regulations? They're so high-level atm that they could literally mean anything.

In terms of the senate hearing he was part of, and what the government should be doing in the near term, I think the IBM woman was the only adult in the room regarding what should actually be done over the next 3-5 years.

But her recommendations were boring and uninteresting recommendations to do basically the exactly sort of mundane shit the wheels of government tend to do when a new technology arrives on the scene, instead of breathless warnings about killer AI, so everyone brushed her off. But I think she's more or less right -- what should we do? The same old boring shit we always do with any new technology.
(Not an ML guy.) bf16 and fp16 should be comparable if the weights are of the same magnitude, but what happens in a network where the weights are poorly regularized?
> With buggy ship-it-now software you have a known bounded risk

How would be the cost of bugs be known and bounded? A race condition in the code might not bother anyone ever in practice, or it might break down the whole system right as the most important investor decides to dogfood the product. In one case the bug can cause zero harm, and in the other might ruin the whole company.

How much was the "known and bounded risk" of shipping a buggy transactional model to the British Post Office? [1] It is "just" a buggy database, yet it cost many lives and sent many people to prison wrongfully.

> the bugs can be fixed because it’s simple.

Maybe? Have you tried in practice? Sometimes a buggy implementation forces you into a pathway where you need to spend inordinate amount of effort to get to a non-buggy solution. (This is the idea behind the term "technical debt".) Very often this effort is more than what you would need to do to just do it correctly the first time.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal
Sorry maybe they put the targets next to a stop sign

https://www.kron4.com/news/california/video-self-driving-tes...
What unholy hacks? AmigaOS had preemptive multitasking and I often ran more than one thing at the same time.
They are building consensus and finding alignment. The problem is power bends truth. This is all about access to a new powerful tool. They want to concentrate that access in the hands of those that already have control. The end goal here is the destruction of the general purpose computer.
Haha yeah. Kubernetes on Azure for bonus points. Not only do you waste more time, you also pay more and are recommended to get an expensive certificate.
But Amazon is otherwise so good at rooting out fraudulent reviews!
Migrant workers said to be leaving Florida over new immigration law
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Generic architecture independent SIMD isn't stabilised, aka the proposed std::simd. But yeah, the x86 specific stuff is there
Hi, I'm a single-spacer, but I'm afraid we can't claim victory yet. Word will automatically add extra space at the end of sentences even if they only have one space.
Using Git mailmap when names change (or you mess up your email)
I’m still very bitter about what Amazon did to Book Depository.
Big fan of these “sarcastically named” functions, there are a lot of good reasons to use them (mainly, every time you go to use it you’ll think about whether it’s really needed) and not many reasons to not use it (naming it “fastConvert” doesn’t make it any faster than naming it “slowConvert”).
18 miles using triangulation
> Why are we bothering wasting resources on reddit, when what we actually want is a maintained wiki page?

People don't want a dry wiki page. People want to discuss and share their experiences, hence the popularity of Reddit and Discord.
If you read the survey, you'll find that many concerned researchers don't believe we're at a 90% chance of doom, but e.g. 10%. So, this type of response wouldn't be rational if they're thinking that things will go fine most of the time. If these researchers are thinking logically, they would also realize that this kind of reaction has little chance of success, especially if research continues in places like China. It's more likely that such an approach would backfire in the court of public opinion.
> yes use prettier but don't forget to configure eslint to work with prettier otherwise you are going to have a bad time.

Can you elaborate? I'm using eslint and prettier with pretty much default settings and never had it conflict with each other. My impression was that they work on different aspects. May be there're some overlapping eslint checks, but they're not enabled by default (or I didn't stumble upon them yet).
That’s awesome. Almost all battery devices can work this way
I didn't even know about Apple's AMX instructions until I clicked on your link. Very interesting - thanks!
Id love to add hotword detection! Or, even better, you (or someone in the community) could add it :)
Many links here are paywalled and it's quite sad, because the title sounds interesting and I cannot tell whether it's a clickbait title or of valuable content.
I’m curious - could you elaborate on the circumstances? Like the version of FDB, cluster size, network circumstances, etc?
If a blanket ban runs into this problem, what about a "ban by default"? Basically just flip the script so it doesn't require a denial based on circumstances but instead an approval based on circumstances.
a simple yahoo search-https://search.yahoo.com/search?p=google+quality+raters&fr=u...

first ten results include:
theworkathomewife dot com › google-ads-quality-raterHow to Get Paid to Be a Google Ads Quality Rater

Sep 18, 2022 · As a quality rater, you ensure ads on Google – and other search engines – are both accurate and visually appealing. You will be given sample search terms and potential

Forbes -
After Months Of Protest, Google Search Quality Raters Finally Get A Raise

ARS - 2017 - https://arstechnica.com/features/2017/04/the-secret-lives-of...

and the google note:https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/9281931?hl=en

with a hand wavy - these raters don't actually effect the results..

I read dozens of pages of the raters guidelines pdf years ago - and I can see how they are being sneaky with things the 'down rank things that lack trust signals' - which in of itself sounds okay - especially with some situations..
but that exact thing can be used to push down entertainment sites, and can help adwords make more money by forcing lots of sites to pay to show up in the top 10 or miss 90% of the internet traffic.

So I agree that they are pushing shitty results in many search verticals - but yeah it does seem they are using thousands of people to create them this way on purpose.

It's no longer a better search engine - it once was - today it's popular because it's a default on many devices, and the network effects make it so people build their sites and update their listings like it's the only yellow pages in town.

Their high-brow censoring leaves much entertainment and other things better found using other portals to search and find imho.
I was confident that at least the germans would back me here, after all they got words like taschenrechner. But according to my dictionary they call it computer. Danish seems like 30% english nowadays, so I can't count on them. At least swedes call it "dator" which I guess is in the right spirit.
> put forward by Ezra Klein

The explanation sounds pretty familiar, so I might have already read/heard this from Klein, but would you mind sharing a link?
You can buy green energy on the financial market, just as you can buy gold on it
Do you have any example of this you can share? Keeping mocks up to date can be hell
acceleration makes you a much worse driver - in the perception of others.

acceleration makes you a badass race car driver. those slowpokes are just in the way, but that doesn’t have to slow you down.

vroom vroom.
Isn’t this that email chat app? It messed up my mailbox. Never again.

Though the UX seemed quite fantastic (at least on iOS; iirc).
GPT can give a single Yes/No answer that indicates a fair amount of intelligence for the right question. No iteration there. Just a single pass through the network. Hofstadter is surprised by this.
I would just run "sudo perf record" to do a systemwide performance trace, followed by "sudo perf report" and you'll find the function name where it's spending all the CPU cycles.

Another option is to just "sudo gdb -p 12345" to attach to the process, then "thread apply all bt" to get stack traces of each thread, and find whichever isn't sat in "wait". That has the benefit you can inspect local variables in every frame etc (for opensource stuff, symbols are usually available automatically via debuginfod).

Chromium/blink has much better built in performance tracing things if you can reproduce there - see chrome://tracing/ for tracing internal browser components, or the Performance tab in devtools if you think it is javascript gobbling all the CPU time.
Yeah, the people who know the most about AI are also the people who are least impressed with its capabilities.

It's supposed to be the other way around.
I could see china restricting even more in the future which could cause some effects in chip prices which is when we’d start seeing price increases or availability issues.

This Black Friday might be a good opportunity to upgrade any older tech around the house as the deals could be the best in a while/for a while with the drop off in shipping prices earlier this year and the financial issues some retailers have had. Who knows, next year we could see price bumps on a lot of tech because TSMC’s output has to reduce for whatever reason
Is this a fair test? If you are a person with average person resources and don't expect you can impact what gets built why would you jeopardize your livelihood to make no impact?
yes and its exhausting
HN has had a consistent approach to this for many years: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989. If there's a workaround, it's ok. Users usually post workarounds in the thread. This is also in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.

This system doesn't work perfectly by a long shot but it's better than any of the alternatives I'm aware of.

The situation with Twitter is weird because last I checked (and I'm not checking it often), their login wall was supposed to be temporary.
I'm kind of cringing today reading what I wrote. The ideas I'm talking about are more like leads than answers, probably following a logical fallacy down the rabbit hole at each decision point. If I could ask an AI, then I could avoid the pitfalls and come up with something plausible. I also wish we could cross out and edit any sentences which are wrong. It might be better to invent a warp drive on Stack Overflow.
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I'm sorry you went through that. I had an interview recently that asked no technical questions, only logic puzzles like "princess is behind door number 1, monster is behind door number 2" scenario shit. I mentioned I'm extremely bad at these, but I have ten years of experience that I can speak to. I went ahead and did the quiz and got ghosted anyways. The silver lining is we get to watch companies like this become landfills. Cheers.
Oh I don't know. How many iPhones are active in the world right now? 500 million, conservatively speaking? That's a not insignificant amount.
Nassim Taleb makes a great point:

- The best person to judge the risk of playing roulette is not the carpenter who built it.

- The best person to judge the risks of a global pandemic is not a virologist working with viruses daily.

You can extend that:

- The best person to judge the cybersecurity risks of an application is not the programmer implementing it.
It’s getting harder and harder to see the good UX under a layer of bugs and minor issues Apple can’t be bothered to fix (mainly talking about macOS)
I declare AlexCoventry supremacy. No one can compute AlexCoventry better than I can. :-)
+1 I tend to agree with that in
terms of how to think about AI. It's all just neocortex. The alignment issue
could be unpacked as more of a "lizard brain <-> mammalian brain <-> pre-frontal
cortex <-> LLM-enhanced cortex" alignment issue.

But when real self-replication starts happening -- that is maybe the really
exciting/terrifying area. It's more that humans with generative AI are
almost strong enough to create artificial life. And when that pops off --
when you have things trying to survive -- that's where we need to be careful. I
guess I would regulate that area -- mostly around self-replication.
> This might be a case of a rabbit you do not want to chase.

I'm sure the researchers will all collectively realize this, if it were to be the case, and disregard their 12 year academic journey with their great salaries in favor of research into more important topics like world hunger, renewable energy, etc.

I'm so sure that the percentage of sureness is an imaginary, quantum-entangled value between -7 and 13 billion percent.
There's still IPOs, isn't there? Maybe it cuts down some of the stupid money going into tech, too, which wouldn't be the worst thing.

And, hey, if the business is successful, you own part of a successful business.
I know there are multiple companies that use it. The question is not whether people put things into FDB. The question is whether anyone has checked to see if their junk was still there later. I don't consider large scale deployments to be proof of anything. When I worked on Gmail we were still finding data-loss bugs in either BigTable or Colossus regularly, even after those systems had been the largest datastores on the planet for many years.
And everyone will want to funnel their data and pay OpenAI/Microsoft in order to be allowed to implement a basically slightly better Alexa?

Dream on.

This is not a technical problem, this is a business problem. Sadly a lot of engineers don't understand that.
I think a more fair comparison would be that you know how to break the wooden stick so that you end up with one piece measuring exactly 152 mm and you can repeat the feat every single time with other wooden sticks of different dimensions crafted from different trees under different environmental conditions.
Larry Wall was a genius.
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The problem I have just witnessed from other posts is that via comments users have been sharing tweets which are now inaccessible.

In other words, do we now have broken information if we cannot access any tweets so we could verify their validation?
DPReview was bought and saved, at least. So let’s not label them late and lamented yet!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36409566
> All these little quirks add up to a shit UX.

This is killing me about my current job. I want to fix so many things, but the culture here is don't rock the boat (nationwide, not just this company).

Just today a colleague was reviewing a PR. I left a comment saying that I deleted a few template files that were no longer in use but I noticed them while working through the ticket. The PR had 6 different comments on it asking "Why was this deleted" for every single file that I deleted. I hope it's a language barrier thing with this one particular person, but I don't know.

We have retrospectives and talk a lot about making time to refactor as a part of sprint tickets and doing better within the system we have and then this crap comes up. So now I need to go write another ticket, bypass all of the refinement rituals (which nobody likes when I do that) and add the ticket to the sprint, just to delete these few unused files that git says haven't been touched in 7 years? Wtf guys.

The hard part of software is, always has been, and always will be, people, not code.
At Apple's scale the effort building this feature is certainly worth the co2 impact. edit: impact would be approx. the same as powering 300k US homes to only use clean energy.
It's not just column-based access. Formatting your data into a struct of arrays exposes opportunites to pack your data more efficiently and greatly reduce your application's memory usage. Boolean struct fields can become bitsets. Nullable struct fields can become sparse (or dense) maps. Pointer/reference struct fields can become arrays of smaller-width integers that index into a pool. And so on. When everything runs on CPUs that frequently stall on memory accesses, the impact of these sorts of changes cannot be understated - the latency difference between L3 cache and RAM can be on the order of ~10x.
They’re in an echo chamber in general.
Sure. iPhones and the Apple desktop OS. In both of them, I am lost as to how to accomplish anything but the most common stuff. The design of the OSes is such that it's not obvious how to do anything, and they provide very little guidance. You have to already know how to do what it is you're trying to do.

This is even worse on Apple smartphones, because a lot of stuff is done using mystery gestures that you have to already have memorized.

Skeuomorphism used to provide a small amount of relief, but since that's gone out of fashion, it eliminated even those clues.

In short, I find Apple's user interfaces to be very opaque. In fairness to Apple, this is also true of Android, Windows, and Gnome. But in the case of Android, it feels intuitive to me simply because I've internalized how to do the stuff that it gives no hint as to how to do.