skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have mixed feelings about the word "enshitification".

Like a politician shutting down thought and debate by simply labeling something "socialism", half the people using the word don't really know what it means, or at least, they don't know the original meaning. The word comes to be fake form of intellectual sophistication. A politician says the word and people think "oh, he knows the fancy word, he must be right", and thought ends, further discussion is difficult because nobody would dare speak in defense of something after it has been labeled. Just hearing the word raises certain peoples blood pressure 10 points and causes them to raise their voice.

And yet, I'm happy to see the good guys play psyops for a change. Like the world "socialism", "enshitification" will originally mean a specific social phenomenon, but most people will come to use it as a catch-all word for all bad corporate behavior and it will shut down thought and just hearing the world will rile people up to fight against the evil corporations. And I'm okay with that; words have power and, again, I'm glad to see words being invented to help the common people organize.
> Paper, it seems, still rules the waves.

You'd be crazy to get rid of paper charts on a boat, for the same reason any hiker is instructed to carry a paper map, and the smart ones actually do it. Yeah, the primary system will be GPS, but that system requires a lot of things to be functioning which may not always be functioning. You need a backup, and paper is perfect for that.
> four to five digit loan

Bro, when did you last look at the cost of college, the 70s?

I went to a community college and then transferred to a state college that was also in my town, so I didn't have to pay absurd dorm expenses. I worked 30-35 hours a week while going to college.

I still came out with ~$45K in loan debt.

And you're proposing even the possibility of a four-digit loan?

> when you have low or zero income.

Have you missed the part where adults are lying to children and telling them that the high salary their degree will earn them will pay for the loan?
Like what type of input where they expecting here?

Alexa does the same thing talking to smart devices.

Me: Alexa, turn of the loft lights

Alexa: A few things share the name "loft" which one did you mean?

Me: Can you list them?

Alexa: I did not find a device named "can you list them loft"
Shoutout to The Detectorists[1] - my vote for the sweetest show on television, largely centered around the concept of nerds with an obscure hobby dreaming of finding something like the Hoxne Hoard.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detectorists
There’s a committee[0] and I guess Roman coins are one of the easier artifacts to value as there actually are public markets for them[1].

If you, as a finder, disagree with the valuation, you can “send your own valuation for the committee to consider”, which sounds like an interesting process to navigate. I imagine you’d have to find a credible alternative buyer who’d be willing to pay a higher amount.

[0] https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/treasure-valuati...

[1] https://www.vcoins.com/en/coins/ancient/roman-coins-2.aspx?c...
> whereas password auth can be done in several lines.

Secure password auth is complex and because of externally imposed constraints like phishing, generally needs more work to support. You also need recovery flows, etc, since just losing access typically isn't acceptable. So I don't think password auth can really be "done in several lines."

Realistically, I think the takeaway is that no matter what you're talking about, storing private material on behalf of someone sucks complete ass, and is not easy to accomplish on a modern computer in a secure manner, no matter how you slice it. But we still have to do it. Luckily Passkeys do have actual tangible benefits beyond passwords (e.g. unphishable, no private key material stored by the server), so getting this right does come with actual benefits beyond the status quo.
People who work for private companies are just like us.

Ok, now make a useful argument.
>What actually was the innovation in LLMs that produced the kind of AI we're seeing now? Is that innovation ongoing or did it happen, and now we're seeing the various optimizations of that innovation?

Past the introduction of the transformer in 2017, There is no big "innovation". It is just scale. Bigger models are better. The last 4 years can be summed up that simply.

>Is voice and image integration with ChatGPT a whole new capability of LLMs or is the "product" here a clean and intuitive interface through which to use the already existent technology?

What is existing technology here ? Open ai aren't doing anything so alien you couldn't guess at if you knew what you were doing but image training at the scale of GPT-4 is new and it's not even the cleanest way to do it. We still don't have a "trained from scratch" large scale multimodal LLM yet.

>The difference between GPT 3, 3.5, and 4 is substantially smaller than the difference between GPT 2 and GPT 3

Definitely not lol. The OG GPT-3 was pulling sub 50 on MMLU. Even benchmarks aside, there is a massive gap in utility between 3.5 and 4, never mind 3. 4 was finished training august 2022. It's only 2 years apart from 3.

>I don't think progress is linear here. Rather, it seems more likely that we made the leap about a year or so ago, and are currently in the process of applying that leap in many different ways. But the leap happened, and there isn't seemingly another one coming.

There was no special leap (in terms of theory and engineering). This is scale plainly laid out and there's more of it to go.

>and Sam Altman has directly said there are no plans for a GPT 5.

the same that sat on 4 for 8 months and said absolutely nothing about it ? Take anything altman says about new iterations with a grain of salt.
> search bar that can finally find files properly like back in Windows 7

I don’t think that quality is ever coming back. No matter what, they’re going to be connecting to bing for the top results / ads, so you’ll always have a bunch of latency and will never get back to Win 7 levels of local only performance.

It’s sad and the AI, which is mostly useless based on my experience, is going to suck up even more CPU cycles and add even more latency.

For me, it takes 5 seconds for the start search to respond on first use. My 12th gen i5 with NVMe storage and Win 11 literally runs worse than my 4th gen i7 with a first gen SSD and Win 7.

Microsoft has usurped a decade of computing gains and spent them on ads and tracking. Don’t expect anything that benefits the user in the near future.
Interesting, and compelling. Question that might complicate: are those privately-funded exposés of fraud always correct?

For example, let's say someone pushes an incorrect exposé, moving the market. When it's found to be incorrect, what are appropriate mechanisms for determining who all was involved (including verbal tips to golfing buddies), and whatever corrective action?
Wait until you hear about what it costs in regular parts of the US...
An old Python package with the implementation of MERGE in BigQuery - https://github.com/ZiggerZZ/pygbq
Spotify Launches Voice Translation
Seems ironic in Zoom’s case!
> Even when open-source, it's only a matter of time before an Oracle or Google or Microsoft or Meta takes it over

Except you can fork the last open source version and continue as before. See ... mariadb?
This is no different with most Linux distributions or macOS. When applications are deployed and create configuration files (system-wide or user), they're often not removed when deleting the application.
Well, that kinda makes sense then. If they weren't profitable, then this could be seen as a last-ditch survival strategy.
I think it's very reasonably to say that the legislature is not the right place at the moment to make these kind of decisions and in inflexible ways.

Whether or not safety drivers are better or required is something that depends on the technology and changes as it evolves. This is the kind of thing regulatory agencies are made for.
That's helpful context, thanks. Unfortunately I cannot edit my original comment, but good to know.
Fletcher, who called autonomous trucks dangerous

You were taken in by the selective use of quotation vs summarization.
You can also use the `-K` flag without specifying a path if you store your SSH key on the security key itself.
> i'm sure people operating at the scale of AWS and other cloud providers would be beyond happy to see their power bills drop for no loss in performance

- The datacenter CPUs are not as bad as you'd think, as they operate at a fairly low clock compared to the obscenely clocked desktop/laptop CPUs. Tons of their power is burnt on IO and stuff other than the cores.

- Hence operating more Apple-like "lower power" nodes instead of fewer higher clocked nodes comes with more overhead from each node, negating much of the power saving.

- But also, beyond that point... they do not care. They are maximizing TCO and node density, not power efficiency, in spite of what they may publicly say. This goes double for the datacenter GPUs, which operate in hilariously inefficient 600W power bands.
One big difference is Go is primarily driven by Google devs and all the heavy duty work once agreed upon is implemented to last details by Google team. Rust is driven by volunteers for most part, so any carefully deliberated and designed things won't amount to much if implementers are busy, uninterested or just want to work other fun stuff and leave some things halfway done.
This depends for me. In the framework of that book Thinking, Fast and Slow - for me the fast version is closer to LLM in terms of I'll start the sentence without consciously knowing where I'm going with it. Sometimes I'll trip over and/or realise I'm saying something incorrect (Disclaimer: ADHD may be a factor)

The thinking slow version would indeed be thought through before I communicate it
I've been using swipe since the beta version of Swype. However, Google seems to be enshittifying Gboard. It continues to decline in accuracy, so I can't swipe as fast as I used to. ...sigh...
Sure, but do you want to elaborate why you included it?
> Seems ironic in Zoom’s case…

especially considering the byline from teh article "and have even created the tools to do so. "
I'm thinking of this as a nice programming exercise for the author. As for being a framework which promises more with less, that only holds until feature x is required.
Definitely depends on the application, agreed. The more open ended the application the more dependent it is on larger LLMs (and other systems) that don't easily fit on edge. At the same time, progress is happening that is increasing the size of LLM that can be ran on edge. I imagine we end up in a hybrid world for many applications, where local models take a first pass (and also handle speech transcription) and only small requests are made to big cloud-based models as needed.
All it is is a fun sounding word for "rent-seeking"
indirectly yes

https://newsroom.ibm.com/2019-07-09-IBM-Closes-Landmark-Acqu...

more importantly;
https://www.servethehome.com/red-hat-goes-full-ibm-and-says-...
Your point is good, but that stack wouldn't win any latency awards. Many of the people I know using kafka need latencies in the millisecond range.
Add an spf record to your domains.
We stripped MERGE out of all of our production code. Not worth the many corner cases and footguns that remain even after over 15 years of being in the product.
To delete system-wide things in the registry you will be prompted to escalate to admin privilege. It's usually one click.

To delete things in /etc you will be asked to gain root privilege. It's usually one click (You might be asked to confirm your password).

Deleting things when admin/root can break things in both cases.

Let's just admit it and move on.
No, I’m not talking about giving LLMs chain of thought prompts or augmenting them with scratchpads - I’m literally saying that in a multilayer neural network you don’t know what concepts activations on the inner layers mean. The result of ‘where I want this conversation to be in 100 tokens time’ could absolutely be in there somewhere.
How are passkeys worse than passwords for tracking you across devices?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37648807
neither RFK or Vivek Ramaswamy have a chance

if you would like candidates like that to have a chance, petition your state to allow non party members to vote in primary elections

partisans of any party are a now minority in this country but the growing number of independents dont know it yet and have no representation, while their participation in the primaries would smooth out the candidate selection

in the mean time, fawning over non consensus candidates are a waste of time

it is accurate for there to be frustration over the two predictable candidates because rabid partisans are going to pretend that the rest of the population have a choice (as long as its the "choice" they like)
As if you can live anywhere without paying in perpetuity.

If there wasn't an endless drive to increase the value of homes, this would all be moot.
here’s a more realistic example:

https://github.com/byronka/minum_usage_example_mvn/blob/d649...
"Strict and stable" isn't quite the important feature, its being community-managed. Chaotic projects with lots of forks, and disorganized governance may be a sign that there is a strong community. If the chaos goes on forever, then you're going to probably lose people to the drama (or the forks themselves will eventually stabilize). If the chaos is short, spasmatic, and leads to a better outcome, then it was overall a good thing in the project's governance.
Big same. It might be a curiosity to my kids (or grandkids if I have those) but I doubt anyone beyond that will care
Who is your domain registrar?
I have been looking into Postgres as a vector database option for some of the reasons you outlined in this blog. One thing I noticed when digging into pg_embedding specifically is "ef_search" controls the MAX number of neighbors you can return, which I don't think is the case for other hnsw indexes. Upping this value greatly increases the time of indexing (indexing with ef_search of 1000 took like 3-4 hours)

Does the Timescale vector index limit the number of results you can return? Does that impact speed of indexing or search? I wrote a blog about our somewhat niche requirements, which includes that we need to return ~10K or more results. If curious: https://medium.com/earthrisemedia/finding-a-vector-database-...

Interested in whether that would be a possibility with Timescale.
I think that we need a better definition of creativity. I suspect that ChatGPT is merely derivative (like a person who reviews all the ideas out there and attempt to pick the best ones) as opposed to original (breaking the conventions typically by a person with a unique viewpoint). This begs the question of what is the definition of creativity and how can we be sure that human creativity is not also derivative. I am scratching my head on this one. How can we define creativity so that it clear that human beings can be original without being derivative?
"Good will" is an asset just like any other to be spent when the time is right. Sometimes a company will make the wrong bet and accidentally go out of business. Far more often there is a ton of backlash, their reputation goes in the tank, then they spend the next couple years building good will back up until the majority of people forget all about the past transgressions. Meanwhile the unpopular decision makes stacks of cash. Repeat the cycle ad-infinitum.

To clarify, I don't endorse this behavior, but unfortunately, it's the modern way of business.
Transgenerational Effects of Obesogens
Do we worry about the distribution of oxygen in the atmosphere, so everyone has equal chance of breathing? I know it's hard to comprehend massive abundance of everything, but please try.
in case you truly want to go as absolutely minimal as possible. i do. for my own personal projects, i use that database.
But isn't the hope that if we get these apps right, then the competence of the leadership and the staff doesn't matter so much anymore, just the drive of the individual student?
I used the over under on my boots and slowly converted all of my others over. And the gap lacing for shoes that were just a little too tight (since I started walking more I just went up a half size.).
It's honestly a great word. Describes the decay of so many platforms/tools so well.
>There's been enough "Lakes".

Yeah, they need to move to rivers now...
What a wonderful site
So is this instruction basically a carry-less vectorized FMAD?
You can search for keys and values across all loaded hives. This makes finding things in the registry much easier.

Editing, sure, you've got essentially a single GUI application and CLI or programmatic access. Your options are certainly more limited than the plethora of text editors available.
I did a shootout of 10 vision recognition APIs including AWS and Azure.

You did this while you worked for google?!
Came here for a Malazan thread. Didn't find one. Guess it's my turn to start the Malazan thread.

> These tales are the tales of us all, again yet again.

> We are history relived and that is all, without end that is all.
The jank was also forgivable when it was a one man effort or a very small team. Plus it was a relatively novel idea for the game being created for the first time. It also made no grandeur promises of what was to come, and continually made improvements.

Take Two and KSP2 have none of the same forgivable qualities.
Right? All that shows is that, by vaping, instead of smoking a cigarette, you get nicotine into your bloodstream. Which anybody vaping could tell you happens, otherwise they wouldn't be so addicted to it. Does vaping cause lung cancer? What do your lungs look like after 1, 5, 10 years of vaping? I am not a medical study, but that study isn't showing either of those things. It sounds like the "researcher" has an agenda to prove, which isn't how the scientific method works.
You can copyright the prompt but not the result generated by AI when fed the prompt
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/im-done-red-hat-enter...
I'm always fascinated with the folks who still carry paper sectionals.. at any given time in the cockpit Ive got three digital sources of charts that would have to fail, not counting whatever onboard gps I'm flying behind (primary tablet, backup tablet, phone).. I just can't find the point in carrying paper anymore, at least for my risk matrix..

Re: GPS failure, that's orthogonal to the paper argument, since paper doesn't provide GPS either..

I personally am looking forward to the day when paper charts stop being printed! Huge waste of resources that could be better allocated..
Thank you, this is a good explanation, but it isn't addressing my core point. I understand that Abramovic intentionally put herself in a vulnerable position, and that the instructions and weapons are intended to say something like "you could hurt me with these". What I am still not understanding is the transition from "could" to "should". The context, that this is an art piece and the artist has performatively hurt herself in the past, to me reinforces the idea that I shouldn't actually hurt her. To me the message is "I could, but we're both human beings so obviously I won't". To me, someone who takes it so literally that they actually attack is missing the subtext and context that this is art, this is a performance, this is a person and not a statue. They are failing to understand the difference between could and should.

The question I responded to is: "At least two thirds of the table is covered in various instruments of harm. What does that say to the viewer?" I maintain that "it says I'm supposed to hurt her" is not a rational answer. With the additional context that she usually hurts herself in these performances, it is understandable to have that thought, but not understandable or rational to act on it. I can think of lots of art that is intended to make you think about your capacity to hurt innocent people, but none that is intended to make you actually act on that.

Let me put it one other way: the commenter I initially replied to said that the presence of weapons on the table is useful context that should explain the actions of the audience members. I disagree, I don't think the presence of weapons is relevant at all or provides any amount of justification. I think the context you provided, that she usually hurts herself, is useful and does change my interpretation of her intent, but it still doesn't justify what anybody did. I still don't understand why somebody would choose to attack her. I also am a little bit skeptical that the audience would have been familiar with her other work. I'm not sure how the audience was chosen, but I don't believe the average person would have any idea who she was.
At least five years ago. Drives me crazy.
Thanks for the article.

You have ton of interesting posts in your personal website!
OK, but your low-information comment was predictably provocative.
That makes it flamebait, as well as breaking this guideline: "Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Glib comments on top of long and torturous histories regularly set opposing commenters off. Even if the vast majority of readers aren't provoked, there's enough area under the long tail to guarantee it. The responsibility is on you not to post something with that expected value (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...).
It's good to keep a positive attitude, even if it's a self-imposed positive attitude that doesn't match how you really feel. They say that forcing yourself to smile actually raises your endorphins, right?

That said, it's truly a tragedy that silicon valley was so unprepared for the market downturn we're going through. "Economy is shit so we laid everyone off" is something that most bay area engineers, I think, believed only happened at old, last-gen, dinosaur companies. Think Exxon and Bell Telephone. Certainly the software rocket ship is going to the moon, right? Software is eating the world, right? I truly feel for the people who smoothly transitioned from university where they studied their passion (software) into their dream job at FAANGAMANGA, casually throw their entire paycheck at the greedy landlords and NIMBYs in Palo Alto or San Mateo, and now find out that, while reaping record profits and promising that the party will go on forever, software companies were quietly speedrunning replacing their foundations with sand. And now, I doubt silicon valley has any real value, other than proximity to Stanford and Berkeley.
At least a couple others have recreated this performance, and most striking to me is the survivorship bias. Guess if the videos where literally nothing interesting happened went viral with commenters praising the artist's safety among the audience.
Just as long as they don't go chasing waterfalls, and stick to the above like they used to.
It is worth noting that this feature is somewhat a bad idea, but it is strange that it is broken in this case.

The DMARC policy for hotmail.com is p=none. AKA, allow spoofing.

_dmarc.hotmail.com. 3566 IN TXT "v=DMARC1; p=none; rua=mailto:rua@dmarc.microsoft;ruf=mailto:ruf@dmarc.microsoft;fo=1:s:d"

So GMail shouldn't really be rejecting messages because of SPF and DKIM failure. But maybe GMail has some logic that overrides Hotmail's DMARC policy.

Also IIRC GMail has an option to send from another address via the upstream SMTP server. This will ensure that your message is properly authenticated as it won't be spoofed.