skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Has anyone here yet to see a single case where an employer reduced their dev. staff numbers (or held back from hiring) purely because they decided AI tools could do the job instead?
I'm still very much in the camp that at least the current generation of LLM-tech is just as much a productivity booster as the introduction of a new platform/framework/IDE tool, but a long way off being able to actually replace what coders do on a day-to-day basis.
I'm also well aware that could change considerably within the coming 5 or 10 years, but my son's about to embark on an IT degree with a focus on coding (though not exclusively so), and I'm not at all concerned it's going to be prove difficult for him to find work at the end of it (I am concerned however that university education is an opportunity to be far more than just the career-preparation exercise and he seems to view it as, and as such, he may miss out on the chance to broaden his horizons and develop as a well-rounded human being).
GraalVM is not what you think it is, especially because it's neither easy to use or a drop in replacement. Major stuff does not work with it.
A simple system can do much better than the average. Picture the water flowing in a "U", with the hottest water at the bend. The coldest incoming water is warmed just a bit by the coldest outgoing water, then the slightly warmer incoming water is warmed by water a bit further upstream from the output. Carry that logic through and you recapture the heat with a fairly simple system (give or take longer pipes to let enough heat exchange happen).
I pay for my mail client (MailMate). I pay for my search(FoxTrot Search). I pay for my spam filter (Spamsieve). I pay for my notetaking/archival (Eagle Filer).
I pay for my network monitoring (Little Snitch). There are alternatives to a lot of these they just aren't very good, in some cases astonishingly bad.

And I would pay an enormous amount of money for a browser that worked well that had features I've always imagined a browser should have. And I don't expect anyone to make that for me without the reward of getting nice stuff for doing so.

No one would bat an eye if Firefox were no more since there are other browsers more or less just as good, more or less just as bad. It's an immemorable product, the consumer surplus of which compared to the best alternative is very low.
If anyone's interested, I made a similar language, but inspired by k/q instead: https://cryptm.org/xs/

example fibanacci fn:

fib:(n:(neg 1)+;0@n do(2 enlist 1@x sum x~)[0 1]);
If it came to breaking up Alphabet, The courts would include in their orders terms that would prohibit them just picking the pieces back up.....
Worse - quite frequently reference material is a mashup of different ideas and stories that we've obtained from multiple sources over time.

Just like in literature - tropes are standalone entities, and they evolve over time. While a trope can be attributed to some book or author, it evolves, gets mixed up, gets deconstructed and may end up with something barely recognizable. Should LLM be forced to always give a nod to Azimov or Čapek when talking about, let's say, Bender from Futurama - if this is not explicitly relevant to the conversation? I highly doubt so - it would make conversations intolerably stuffy. Talking about virtually any topic would end with a footnotes list multiple pages long.

Our (human) "normal" common sense to attribution is to ditch any and all, unless it's relevant for some reason. Because we generally try to stay focused. People or conversation machines attributing recipes to website addresses is a Black Mirror episode material, a corporate wet dream.
WiiLink's statement denouncing RiiConnect24's lead of bad acts and censorship [pdf]
People continue to parrot the phrase that corporations are typically beholden to their shareholders to maximize profit.

We also know from the prison experiments that people have a really hard time not falling into evil behavior when it's expected.

But I agree: neither of those facts absolve every individual in any organization anywhere from doing the wrong thing. Even if someone else would step in to your spot and do the wrong thing, it's still your responsibility.
Which is as ridiculous a belief as that only your particular religion is the correct one, and the rest are going to Hell.
I know (glad microsoft did this from late 360 onwards) I should have mentioned it in my comment.
> few edge-case failures and mistakes

Like identifying traffic lights in 4th and 5th squares in the second and third row both when there are only four squares?
prescription lenses for most people are extremely inexpensive to produce... the only reason glasses cost a lot is the luxottica cartel
And then they could have gotten Delta to build a virtual reality headset!

(And possibly gotten a better outcome, seeing as Delta has a helluva lot more experience than Facebook with ergonomics and normal people)
And here I just got my Vocalskull bluetooth audio glasses a few weeks ago.

https://vocalskull.com/
> OpenAI has made a better product than Google with less time and engineers

Based on the theoretical foundation from Google, the framework built by Facebook, hardware produced by NVIDIA and cloud infrastructure run by Microsoft? This doesn't make a great example.
Yeah, the development workflow is not broken at all. It’s been working great as a means to collaborate on very high quality software. I’m sure a lot of people would prefer it to take place in some Discord group or something. Fml
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There's no reason to believe that a competitor who's doing worse would do the right thing more...
> What is actually being said is that the owner of a business couldn't make those profits _without_ the workers, which means that the workers, the people actually doing the work, share some of the credit for the success they bring to the owner and that they too should be entitled to at least some of share of profits.

So if the company is doing badly then the workers that are actually doing the work share some of the blame of that failure and need to pay at least some of the losses?

Workers prefer fixed salaries instead of revenue share to avoid risk. This is a normal way to do things, workers don't want to share profits and losses, they want a fixed salary. Moving to a profit share model would not make workers happy at all.
They're going to build the Nexus Q
I see it as opening my eyes to the complexity we've all gotten used to, not necessarily a harbinger of doom, just a necessary wake up call.

When I was young, I thought that newer was better, I learned across the years that a more conservative approach is a wiser course. Progress is something that happens when the forces permit it, and the people push hard for it. There's nothing permanent about it, though.

In my view, Linus Torvalds was wrong in his debate with his teacher, Andrew Tanenbaum[1]. We're still a decade out, hopefully not more, from a move to capability based operating systems. These will be more secure, and should provide some actual improvements in stability as a side effect.

We may be nearing peak silicon, but its really hard to say for sure. The ability to mass manufacture chips has a very high barrier to entry, but doing it at a lower scale, or lesser density, has fallen quite far thanks to all the lessons learned on the way.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanenbaum%E2%80%93Torvalds_deb...
Looks like the mistral model beats this slightly at 7b. Though this has a 14b and a chat tuned one so may be better for some uses.

Qwen models had compatibility issues last time I tried it though.
Sorry, but there was no Diablo release. I think you have mistaken a Diablo mobile game clone banking on brand recognition for an actual release.
Did Snapchat's have really good audio quality that doesn't
disturb the people around you? Pair that with modern AI assistant breakthroughs and it starts to seem pretty compelling.

They also look way less dorky than Snapchat's attempt.
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It means that either this line of product will ruin glasses (false positives of people assuming your thick frame glasses are a hidden camera) either people really aren't tipped off and we'll have a moral panic about private footages overflowing in the media.

I see a future in smart glasses, in particular for notifications, but they absolutely need to tip off people when the camera is pointed at them.
Still cool that it elaborated once you pointed it out
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Very cool! I am curious about a few aspects:

How do you handle the scenario where errors may exhibit evolving characteristics over time, which might potentially impact the effectiveness of the current embedding model? Is there a mechanism for ongoing model adaptation to ensure sustained accuracy and relevance?

Lastly, could you envision a scenario where this technology is extended to not only classify, but also to predict potential errors based on historical and real-time data?
Came here to post this. My local grocery store has a whole mutton freezer, probably more mutton than beef, chicken, or pork.
Cept the part about Amazon not letting you sell your goods cheaper elsewhere. That keeps the price inflated and is anti-competitive since it squashes competition from other marketplaces, not because their platform is better, mind you, but because they have all the power.
The SEC protects investors, not end customers/users. It's different. The EU has a bunch of consumer rights that apply to everyday people regardless of wealth.

The US has very little of that, aside from the occasional recall. Instead, we have a predatory legal system that thrives on lawsuits instead of regulations.
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Really shocked by the lack of controls around privacy. Its absolutely crazy that someone can now be filming my family members with a very inconspicuous device. On top of that it could be streaming or uploading live! Where is the outrage?!?! Am I missing something?
So someone who gives away free software must give away all software they write forever?
They could pulse the LED quickly and while it's off use it as a light sensor for ambient light.
In your twitter's comic book link the first image has a women with a huge ass with no pants on. The ass is colored grey and so the lack of clothes is not noticeable until you click into the image.

How many children here on hacker news are going to see this and get addicted to porn? Perhaps a few. You deserve to be banned.
Is there an APi, GitHub, or web page or application where we can use this today?

I think they said eventually it was going to be in a bunch of apps but not sure about right now.
It’s probably duty cycled on and off and compared to a photodiode output on the reflection.

Either way the moment that light comes on you’re getting punched if you point it at the wrong person. I’d rather have my phone hit out of my hand. Google Glass was not welcome and I suspect the same will be true of this.
>But the relationship isn't relevant, this is a philosophy for how to treat everyone outside the relationship.

I think the relationship is very relevant. For example, the comment would not make any sense either if you don't assume they're talking about about a strictly monogamous relationship. Worrying about giving "mixed signals" to people when you're in an open relationship would be way less of an issue understandably.

From the context of their post and the post they were replying to, the comment is about how to interact with people you may potentially be attracted to given the right circumstances (or who may be attracted to you) when you are in a strictly monogamous relationship.
So license your books to them for free... what's it have to do with anyone else?
Yes, exactly. Chrome dominates the browser market via money made monopolizing search ads.
As someone who makes music as a hobby that's about as enticing as outsourcing sex. I don't care if the machine can do it better.
For the livestream it seems you can do that right now with an action camera attached to a miner's helmet and streamed via their smartphone.
That's pretty circular. To the extent any company, A, relies on company B to operate, A can be destroyed by B, according the definition of "rely".

So the logical response wasn't to assume you were being circular. The logical response was to assume you were inferring Amazon is big enough and capable enough to squash any business.
Are there any good sites for tracking "use this for this" with relation to VR?

I feel like this is what I really want to know. "I built a custom car cockpit, and use it, and it's awesome"
Odd that this fix is necessary given that the Steam Deck uses PipeWire.
> the social stigma of phone photography and who it targets has just about disappeared

It certainly hasn't disappeared in my neck of the woods.
Pretty inconspicuous. So no, not a great feature to stream/live upload people who didnt want their privacy violated.
Android 10 allows it.

https://phoneia.com/en/android-10-allows-two-apps-different-...
Translation: You need to do this so we get paid. Same team, right? But don't make us look bad. Spin it so we don't get the blame.
Why would it fall 'up'? It's electrically reversed, not gravitationally reversed.

Does a wire with AC passing though it spend half its time falling 'up' and the other half the time falling 'down'? It'd be wonderful if it did, you'd just have to flick a switch to make everything weightless. Think how handy that would be in the transportation business.
Now can we get Team Fortress 2.5? (I only say 2.5 because of Valve's allergy to the number 3)
One day I'd love to compile part of Chromium's rendering into a WASM module. In my imaginary world, people just make html+js+css pages using the "firefox.wasm", "chromium.wasm", whatever rendering engine of their preference, and browsers just become wasm players. They can even expose APIs to support local fonts and whatever else browsers need today. I realize that's far-fetched given the sheer amount of rendering optimization Chromium has done just to work on all the hardware, graphics APIs, and platforms they support. But this is honestly one of the reasons I wanted to port our engine to pure WASM. I wanted to see what a minimal API would look like for a full game editor (not just engine!) that a browser would have to expose with basic graphics and audio. It's a lot smaller than I expected, and side note... Emscripten did a great job of hiding all those details! WASI has made huge strides in getting OS level APIs exposed to WASM, but it's mostly headless stuff, not really a focus on GUIs or audio yet. I'm sure proposals exist, but the speed of getting these mainstream is slow because I'm sure they want to get it right. I'm hoping this engine can serve as an example for what we need from WASI to start making this possible.

And if you're curious, this is why I linked this header in the post; it has the minimal surface of functions we needed:
https://github.com/raverie-us/raverie-engine/blob/main/Code/...

And I'm sure this fictional browser could find a way to make ad-blocking plugins that analyze network traffic and decompile wasms to scan for whatever using the latest AI magic :P
"No way to prevent this," says only forum where this regularly happens
A safe heuristic is that whenever you introduce an abstraction to any tech stack, you can assume that it makes shortcuts that you wouldn't have to if you implemented the underlying parts yourself (w/ zero guarantee that it makes those shortcuts well). The latter meaning: short-term harder, long-term easier. Invert for any abstraction.

Related to Docker, I finally bit down and tried to do a simple deployment stack myself using systemd and OS-level dependencies instead of containers. I'll never go back. The simplicity of the implementation (and maintenance of it) made Docker irrelevant—and something I look at as a liability—for me. There's something remarkably zen about being able to SSH into a box, patch any dependency issues, and whistle on down the road.
Whilst not wrong, understand that having the weights be released explicitly under Apache is a hell of a lot better than the weights being released under a non open source license and commercially friendly license. At least people can legally use this for their solutions.
Honestly my biggest beef with this isn't the quality but the field of vision.

It's so incredibly narrow and not at all how we imagine a "first person perspective" looks like for a human. (I know we lie to ourselves, and think that our peripheral vision is better than it is, but it doesn't matter)
Lol. These are just headphones with a creepy camera attached.
Wonder if it's a knowledge navigator type thing you hang around your neck, or maybe mount on your shoulder, that whispers in your ear and projects visuals onto your open palm
Those things won't happen, or at least, nothing like that will happen overnight. No amount of touting baseless FUD will change that.

I guess I'm a Yann LeCun'ist and not a Geoffrey Hinton'ist.

If you look at the list of signatories here, it's almost all atheist materialists (such as Daniel Dennett) who believe (baselessly) that we are soulless biomachines: https://www.safe.ai/statement-on-ai-risk#open-letter

When they eventually get proven wrong, I anticipate the goalposts will move again.
Awesome! It should even be cleaner than tap water with heavy metals and other contaminants removed by the evaporation. Just need to add some minerals back into it afterward.
> This reminds me of a common fallacy we see in unreliable systems, where people build the happy path with the idea that the happy path is the “real” work, and that error handling can be tacked on later. For reliable systems, error handling is more work than the happy path. The same thing is true for large services -- all of this stuff that people don't think of as “real” work is more work than the core service.

This is a fantastic point.
This specific product is backed by one of the largest corporations on the planet led by an absolute ruler who is at best amoral if not absolutely immoral, and has a long, long, long, long, long history of violating privacy, breaking promises regarding privacy,[1] and of refusing to accept responsibility of the consequences arising from doing so.

There are other amoral and immoral players out there, certainly. Few have Facebook's resources, however.

"The trust me, dumb fucks" still seems to be his guiding compass.

As for hidden cameras and unauthorised video: regulation is required. I'd suggest attacking the trade, transfer, and publishing of such video, as well as a strong right-to-privacy legislation. I'm not holding my breath, however.

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Notes:

1. "Why Zuckerberg's 14-Year Apology Tour Hasn't Fixed Facebook", Zeynep Tufekci, <https://www.wired.com/story/why-zuckerberg-15-year-apology-t...>

2. <https://www.esquire.com/uk/latest-news/a19490586/mark-zucker...>
aiming in this game is very precise due to the movement constraints

not that I know what other games you've enjoyed

But mastering movement is paramount to having good accuracy
Also Broot, which is-- like OP's tool-- intended as an ls replacement rather than a full file manager: https://github.com/Canop/broot
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> People don't move to the big city because they want to live there. They go there to study and then to make money so that they can afford any kind of real estate in their home town.

More like the opposite.
I did some sleuthing, and I found a notable amount of complaints about a "bug" around this time (mid March 2019), after Chrome update 73.0.3683.75 went live. Some examples: [1][2][3]

More specifically, starting 14 March, many users noted that the latest Chrome update removed almost everything from the New Tab page (including shortcuts, themes, settings button), leaving a single prominent Google search bar — nothing else!

This looks like it was intended to increase the use of the search bar, thus increasing SQV. By prominently displaying it as the only option when using New Tab whilst removing shortcuts, users accessing frequently used sites could only do so via search.

I'm not sure if this is exactly Ablation Experiment #7 that Anil was resisting to rollback, but it appears seemingly related to the general ablation experiments performed during this time to increase SQV.

Given Jerry eventually suggested a "scrappy tactical" compromise, i.e. "increasing vertical space between the search box/icons/feed on the new tab to make search more prominent", the March "bug" definitely seems to be related to these emails.

It is absolutely crazy to see tangible evidence of the pressure from the Ads(?) Team forcing the Chrome team to ablate/degrade functionality for their users.

[1] https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/2403795?msgid=24045...

[2] https://old.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/b0ynkq/missing_2_sh...

[3] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=941631
I was firing that list off the top of my head and I think that one was a mistake. My bad.

But, I did recently have some weird typing issues around "satisfies" x vs "is" x and using new() constructors of the T in a generic functions (particularly de-alternative serialization of proto.Message types) and had quite a bit of frustration and confusion. That may have been on me, but I did open my statement with "[wish it had better docs]".
that is what was going on, but at least a couple people dont seem to think so.
> Currently I suspect most people are better off with a dedicated solar heater and solar panels separately

Right now most people are better off (from a total cost of ownership perspective) with PV panels + heat pump water heater. The latter can achieve a COP of 3.0 (300% "efficiency"), and also can just use grid electricity on a cloudy day. Unless you are off-grid, the additional cost/complexity of running plumbing to the roof for a solar water heater doesn't pencil out.
I've never had lunch with someone who was sitting there pointing their phone camera at me.
I boxed every day for a month on Quest 2, I would have paid $200+ if I could get full colour pass through at the tap of a button. idk if I'd pay $500 but that would have made working out daily wayy easier.

I used a sweat mask that also blocked light, so no down peaking, youd have to take it off just to take a drink of water or sit down for a couple minutes. That's very annoying.
> done in prod ... hugginface smartly stopped that with AI art ... more academic

Most human people doing LLM at home aren't interested in cargo culting the for-profit corporate and instituational stuff since their resources and incentives are so different from human being's incentives. As there are more humans than corporations or institutions and they tend to talk more, what they use tends to be more known than the stuff optimized for making a profit and serving business needs with business culture.
That wouldn't work with all materials that could be used to cover the camera. The proximity sensors that you describe are designed specifically to measure the change in capacitance due to proximity to a human; they can't detect something like a blob of glue that causes no change in capacitance.
How could you forget the greatest effort of them all: The Third Party Partner?!

* How would we install all these toolbars?

* How would we change them in flight based on characteristics we can get from elevated permissions during install time?

* How can we bundle adware with the installer so it works without an internet connection?

* How can we subvert the Microsoft Store signing algorithm to add arbitrary unsigned payloads at the end of the executable?

* How can we run unsanboxed internet-connected javascript with elevated administration privileges and direct access to Windows API? [0]

* INCOHERENT QUESTIONS ABOUT METRICS?!

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_Application
> "big company MUST have lots of valid underlying work/complexity/effort"

Almost 99% of the cases this is true. The question is whether this complexity is actually valuable or just accidental one accrued from path dependency.