skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you can't afford to do that work, you can't afford to depend on those libraries. If you can't afford feature X without depending on a library, then you can't afford feature X.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
I use "GOFAI" for that sort of thing: "Good Old Fashioned AI".
These core values statements always sound like a third grader coming up with 5 alternate words for 'good' for a homework assignment.
SimpMusic: A simple music app using YouTube Music for back end
> we shouldn't plant trees because they'll release carbon again:

> but we'd get 50 to 100 years or more

If you select the right types and don't burn them you get 300+ years.

If you reuse the wood for furnitures and construction you get much more
Lighter Than Air–and Common Sense
I thought we were out of the Dumb Money stage and in the Profitability and Frugality one.

I guess there is more money to torch. Oookay.
Because it's not cognitive dissonance.

You seem to think "If you're so worried about climate change why do you participate in _____" is some kind of gotcha winning card to play in any climate-related argument. Taken to its logical, absurd conclusion, anyone that doesn't kill themselves immediately is equally responsible for climate change as someone emitting millions of tons of carbon a year.

You lack wisdom. You don't debate in good faith.
> a lot of places are stuck on the idea if you didn't do it in the past you cant do it now

The trick for breaking into something like this is to produce a portfolio of one or more projects you did where you demonstrate experience with it. This means actually doing it yourself, have a repo with notebooks and text explaining how everything works.

AI is definitely not the first field that is like this, where it at first appears only the people already doing it are qualified to do it. I have had to do this quite a few times over the last 30 years to stay relevant. It takes a lot of work to do this, but it's easier than ever to do today. Today the tools you need to break into almost any technical field can be freely downloaded. A couple of decades ago if you wanted to create a portfolio for something the tools were not freely available. For example, vxWorks for embedded systems programming, or Oracle for demonstrating you can administer large databases, or 3D Studio Max or Maya for 3d modelling: all of these tools were expensive enough to be inaccessible to an individual.

But today, you can go do independent work, take courses and get certifications, and create your own body of work that demonstrates you have an understanding of the field.

If you want to start making your own body of work in the field of AI, I suggest starting with these resources:

1. FastAI

2. Deeplearning.ai. Get a certification and put it on your resume.

3. Karpathy Zero to Hero

4. Re-create the technique in the ReAct paper (Reasoning and Acting).

If you want to demonstrate capability in AI in general, proceed in sequence 1-4. If you want to demonstrate capability with LLM's in particular, proceed in sequence from from 4-1.
Telegram is a social media site pretending to be a messaging app.

The secret chats were the biggest feature when it started, but now it's an after-thought.
Why would a site for baseball fans ban most basketball discussions? Because it’s not the place for such discussions.

Also, is there such a policy? AFAIK, all there is are guidelines. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html:

“Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.”
* Thankfully, Firefox is at least fixable (for now…),
Here, I set the size to 50. I don’t want it this big myself but by goly am I glad I can make it this big anyway.*

Only 50? I can finally have something useful to fill that massive blank space between my content and the edge of the page.
Because designers and devs don't want to have to do multiple designs. Everyone's aiming for one design that works for everything. The problem is that such a thing is impossible.
Guaranteed derailment is grounds for banning when moderation is a limited resource.
If a GPT bot can even fool /pol/ 4channers, then Reddit is just like easy mode, as I think Reddit community is much more gullible (no offence, I visit Reddit a lot and recently also read on some Lemmy instances as well). That being said, it is interesting that people are starting to be more aware of "unnatural" answer and can point out the AI-generated content, like those GPT-3.5 responses in the beginning of the article.
I think you mean your own landing page charging people to "hold a spot" in case you decide to build such a thing. There is no evidence on that page that you have built anything at all.

When you have something to show, please do a "Show HN" post. Until then, there is nothing to see here, and charging people to get on a waiting list seems really sketchy to me.
Which is most likely how they are making most of their money - by selling email lists.
If your VC funded business fails, you probably still collected a salary. Also "failed" could mean, you had a $50m exit.

You could still argue it's a bad trade, poor work-life balance etc. but it's not like 1% chance of being a billionaire or debtors prison.
How the conspiracy-fueled Epoch Times went mainstream and made millions
You mean you think it's FBI officers, like in the Ross Ulbright case?
TGS2023: Square-Enix, Banking on Ffvii
If there were N algorithms, is it feasible to create B' image such that its fingerprint matches A in every algorithm?
I thought it was terrible news. But Bungie is so much smaller than ActiBlizz - they have one active franchise in one genre and maybe another one starting soon in roughly the same genre. Meanwhile ActiBlizz has something like a dozen popular franchises.

It's like the difference between Comcast buying a small, local ISP vs. Comcast buying Verizon in terms of scale and number of people impacted.
I don't know Stephen personally but he has always been an interesting character to me and I love to follow his work and read his books. I don't think the article's idea is terrible, but I sense that Wolfram has a huge need for, and gains much satisfication from, autonomy. He seems to relish having a large company of scientists who he can call on (and why wouldn't you?) so if he sold to Apple, he'd either a) need to start another company with the money and hire lots of people all over again, or b) he'd end up working for Apple and lose his autonomy.

If Wolfram Research is making money that serves his goals and personal preferences, I can't see why he'd sell to be honest. He doesn't seem like the type to ever retire and Wolfram Research seems like the perfect vehicle for his personal goals.
If you do want the USG back, most of their failure modes (flash storage, PSU) are fairly easy to resurrect
yes. Silly I did not spot that. The first three rules of a startup are:

1. get customers

2. get customers

3. get customers

But, as per my reply earlier in this topic, the "how" is left as an exercise to the reader.
I don't think you even need to go to court over this. If you have a reasonably good relationship with your VCs you can just offer to buy them out with a small premium on their investment. They see how the business is going too and most are not looking to hold you on their portfolio forever for no reason.
It's a criticism of the marketing behind common B2B AI tools. What's lazy about it? You don't see an enormous mismatch between the promises and reality?
> Possession of CSAM should be illegal regardless of whether it's "real" or not.

From a purely ethical standpoint: why? What is the purpose of punishing someone who has harmed no one?

No victim means no crime.
I think iOS apps are more heavily monetized because of the high fees. So maybe those are higher quality as that's where the money and paying users are. I wrote a few free iOS apps and I had to pull them because I just don't want to pay $100 a year for something I don't make any money off. Discoverability is terrible for both platforms, but I had better luck finding good free apps on android
Forest Therapy
Cursed acronym. Damnit; I don't want to have to keep up with the difference between LoRa and LoRA.
Server side push messaging uses cloud infrastructure on both Android and iOS devices.

Some applications choose to make these notifications more 'secure' by not sending any content through them, just the fact that you have a new notification, but that makes the UX a little less friendly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Push_Notification_servic...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firebase_Cloud_Messaging
A Little LLM Fine-Tuning Primer [video]
I have been arguing for a decade: The only moral thing for any of us to be doing is that we mandate every single human available stops what they are doing and immediately puts 100% of their effort into helping to develop AGI.

The logic is that AGI will save countless lives and arguably make EVERY job easier and better. So not developing it is utterly immoral. Doing anything else you are literally (not literally) killing people.

Its like we are on a sinking life raft, 1 guy is bailing out water while the other 8 billion people are fishing, check their phones trying to call for help, making plans about who sleep where, whos going to be the captain...
Get them from Aliexpress instead. I think you can find both genuine RTL-SDR devices and of course all sorts of clones.

Some clones may also have better features and specs. I bought a clone RSP1 and it works very well.
NewsPlanetAI.com
https://github.com/Norsninja/NewsHub
News is insane right now, and I wanted a way to get news from around the world, translated, categorized and summarized. Every hour the system updates the site with the news, and gives a "Super Summary" of the hour. Every morning I run it through eleven labs TTS with a voice cross between David Attenborough and Morgan Freeman to give the news as an AI broadcaster named Cortex. The site has been running for about 4 months, and I have about 6 visitors a week. It's totally free, I thought more people would use it, but I use it everyday.
Circa 2001 or so, I got a portable CD player for Christmas that could also play MP3s, which was just about the coolest thing ever at the time. Now instead of the normal 12-13 songs a CD could hold when converted to WAV, I could hold 100-200 songs in mp3 form on a 700mb CD burned as a data disc rather than an audio disc.

This was then supplemented in the car with a cassette tape adapter that included an audio jack. [0] It was pretty sweet, all things considered. Tape decks started to vanish from cars at about that time, and those FM transmitter adapters that would plug into the cigarette lighter and broadcast on a radio frequency were really crap compared to the direct jack. I would argue I didn't get that same level of ease+fidelity of pushing MP3s to my car stereo until I directly installed a Bluetooth stereo into my car 15-ish years later.

[0] example: https://www.amazon.com/Arsvita-Audio-Cassette-Adapter-Auxill...
>>If they had found it to be useful for reliably solving one or more real, clearly-identified problems, they would start by talking about that, because that sends a stronger signal to a higher-quality pool of potential customers.

THIS

The most basic thing about marketing is the table of

| Features | Functions | Benefits |

If $THING_01 is actually useful, any competent marketer or salesperson will talk about the BENEFITS, right up front

(And the good ones will also provide info on the Functions and Features for the curious or extra diligent customers, but not obscuring the benefits even if the info is readily accessible).

The main thing about marketing & selling is touting BENEFITS TO THE CUSTOMER.

"$THING_01 will make you sexier!!"

Not how it makes you sexier.

If they are talking about the feature of $THING_01 without also talking about the functions and benefits, they either have no benefits (and maybe even no function), or don't even understand their product.

Either way, do you really want to spend time and/or money on that company?
How is providing a F-Droid repo the same as being restricted to only being available via F-Droid?
I wouldn't even call it a solution. If you have a trustworthy dependency that uses, say, net and fs APIs, and that dependency suddenly becomes malicious, the malicious update will still be able to wreak havoc without increasing its API use and triggering any alert. And as another comment has pointed out, if a dependency is allowed to use unsafe it can do pretty much whatever it wants. Ultimately you still have the same choices for each dependency :

- Trust it blindly

- Audit the code (and do that again for each update)

- Write it yourself instead

The last two can be time and resource consuming so you sometime have to choose the first solution.

Cackle can be a useful tool to (occasionally) raise alarms for when dependencies you trust blindly start using different APIs (so the trust isn't completely blind anymore). But it doesn't really solve the problem.
I spent time at Google and found this to be the case as well. I think the only "cure" for this is good upper management that is isn't swayed by the flavor of the moment hype, and also a culture of being monomaniacally product-focused.

Places that are intensely product-focused aren't immune from frothy hype, but at least it's forced through the critical filter of "ok but what does this do for our product really", which is a vital part of separating the wheat from the chaff when it comes to new ideas.

My main beef with Google is that the company's culture is intensely not product-focused. The company's defined by its origin story of a groundbreaking technology that happened upon product-market fit, and it's pathologically unable to do the opposite: start with a clear-eyed product vision and working backwards to the constituent technologies.
There's also not really any need to trick the system or manipulate other files to generate collisions. Spreading one of the original law-breaking files to unwilling targets would work as a trigger just the same.
what is happening in Youtube world?
> Graeber... [defines] a bullshit job as ‘a form of paid employment that is so completely pointless, unnecessary, or pernicious that even the employee cannot justify its existence even though, as part of the conditions of employment, the employee feels obliged to pretend that this is not the case’

> Empirical data suggested that, in fact, relatively few people appear to consider their jobs as useless...

> Graeber acknowledged that it was difficult for one person, or several, to determine universally what makes a job ‘useful’ or ‘necessary’. ‘There can be no objective measure of social value,’ he wrote.

So basically the prediction is that a lot of people have bullshit jobs and are unwilling to admit it, and when you ask them whether their jobs are bullshit, they say "what, no way", which either proves or disproves the prediction, depending on your definition of bullshit job. Also, there is no definition of what a bullshit job is. Glad I know that now!
We still don’t know what LLMs are for.

By this I don’t mean LLMs aren’t useful. We have known that there was novel behavior happening as early as GPT-2.

GPT-3 represented a clearly novel transformative technology. But we still didn’t know what to do with it.

The reason for this is that the people who come up with products are generally a different set of people from those who innovate novel ML models.

The latter tend to be PhDs or the extremely mathematically talented.

The former tend to be a mix of product-y software engineers & engineer-y product & strategy people.

There were some products, GitHub Copilot being the breakaway. Knowledge needs time to diffuse, and a market demand is necessary to catalyze that quickly.

Out of exasperation, OpenAI decided to take one of the most common prompting use cases on the GPT-3 beta playground, Q&A, and make a chat product, almost as a technology demonstrator.

Then ChatGPT exploded to hundreds of millions of users.

All hell broke loose. Every Fortune 500 promised a “generative AI” rollout. And of course, like feverish corporate-branded “metaverse” stuff it all sucks.

You can’t “corporate partnership” and “internally accelerate” a technological shift of this magnitude. You can’t hire BCG to do it for you. And you can’t tack a model onto your existing product and call it done.

LLMs and other new foundation models require fundamentally new products. They require new middleware to
be deployed like vector databases, RAG frameworks, and agentic systems.

Start ups are starting to crack these problems.

But my fear is that when the bottom drops out of the corporate efforts, the investment attitudes will shift just as there’s the most work to be done.
And what game would that be now?
The one thing the world will never be short of is dumb, trend-chasing money.
Microsoft Closes $69B Activision Deal, Overcoming Regulators' Objections
No that's all fine, I mean physically, where would I put a server and stuff if we didn't have cloud providers? I'd need to pay an isp for an IP address and maybe port forward and stuff like that right? I don't get why I wouldn't just do what you mentioned on a five dollar digital ocean droplet or an ec2 instance or whatever, the cloud still seems orders of magnitude easier to get off the ground.
This is cool - it looks like there are a few languages developed targeting game development, like Odin and Jai. Are there others in this space? Really curious how these compare.

It doesn't look like Nature has ADT's, is that true or just missing from the docs?
> a lot of software "light mode" is just plain white. And screens been getting more and more powerful.

Yep. Without darkmode, my screens light up my neighbors fence like those Appalachian backyard streetlights.

( because powerpole streetlights were popular in rural backyards ref: https://assets.landandfarm.com/resizedimages/10000/0/h/80/1-... )
Attempt at running SpiderMonkey in a WASM module
I love this, it makes a perfect reMarkable template page
I like David's posts on Twitter generally, but this piece is poorly written.

Big opener, controversial take, put a thing down, just to build your own product up by comparison, lack of nuance... from the get-go you can tell it's a marketing piece.

The premise imo is wrong.

> Silicon Valley is a non-ergodic industry

How do you define this? Obviously Daniel's take is on the founders that failed, that were stressed out by investors etc. but he doesn't talk about the thousands of people with the highest paying, most comfortable job they've ever had. People that switched from manual labor to customer support or programming. Or the thousands of minted (multi-)millionaires that got there by just working a comfortable 9-5 for 5-10 years? (in fact, he may be one of the beneficiaries of a SV style system, through his AWS career that sounded like it landed him enough money to start on his entrepreneurial journey – not so non-ergodic now...)

And of course, he loses credibility because he is selling his course. The whole point of the blog post is to sour YC and siphon off a few readers to his course. Kudos to him too, I mean, that's marketing, and it seems like that course is great too! But, imo, he is not taking the high road here.

YC has a great track record at helping people succeed. And if they didn't succeed, it opened doors. YC foots the bill for you to explore an idea. Sure, you can be smart enough to get into YC, but still naive enough to believe a religion-version of YC, about changing the world and something-something vision; then again, maybe you are smart enough to know what you're getting yourself into. Or you should.

Because on the other hand, there are plenty of people peddling get-rich-quick schemes out there, and how you can make it on your own, "just do this thing". Life's tough out there, and going solo is a difficult journey (something not mentioned often). You work for a company, or you work with investors, you are protected / sheltered. Choose your own path, for sure, but also recognize the pros and cons and how nuanced this situation is.
Did anyone not think this is what the top AI companies would do? They have everything to gain by claiming the platforms and closing the doors. It’s honestly pretty clearly the core of the strategy of OpenAI and Microsoft working together as well — and a smart one.
Then I probably misunderstood you, I thought you were talking about how closely the math is tied to the actual world, say all the reformulations of classical mechanics as opposed to some supersymmetric theory.

In the end physics is applied mathematics, once you have a theory that describes your observations, you can just study the mathematical structure and look for interesting things, only occasionally going back to the lab to verify your predictions, improving confidence that you picked the correct model.
EJSON is a small library to manage encrypted secrets using asymmetric encryption
> Distros SHOULD be theming all applications. Once thing a distro can do well is create a theme for their distro so everything looks the same.

I would reject a distro that did this (unless I could disable it). But users should be able to make everything look the way that works the best for them.
Return the newly-purchased airpods, wait 4 days and buy some new airpods.
So missed opportunity of 3 years after tax for a programmer is probably somewhere above $100,000 and below $1,000,000. Possibly a little above $1,000,000 if your missed opportunity is at a FAANG in Some Higher Level title.

You could probably get a more concrete number by multiplying your previous comp by 1.5~2x or something.
But the AC unit then adds all the moisture back in for evaporative cooling.
I'm using an hybrid email bot, It's not AI, just an "expert system" with 2 o 3 `if`, nothing fancy. Sometimes the bot autoreply, some times I ask the bot to grab info and reply, sometimes I use canned replies, and some times I give a personalized reply.

Sometimes the canned reply is not the perfect answers, so I edit it, unless I forget to fix it. So a weird answer may be a bad bot or a bad human.
The queen stops moving once she starts giving birth and lets the workers do the nest expansion/feed her :) She also digs a smaller initial chamber than the workers. It would be nice to give her some slow movement though. Just roughly approximating for now. I also don't have her creating nanitics as her first workers but maybe we'll get there with varying sizes of ants in the future

Feel free to make suggestions! I'm all ears!
> ‘I was recently able to charge around twelve thousand pounds to write a two-page report for a pharmaceutical client to present during a global strategy meeting,’ he said. ‘The report wasn’t used in the end because they didn’t manage to get to that agenda point.

12k is approximately nothing to a multinational firm.

The feeling of bullshitness and alienation from corporate workers stems from the difference between what their time is worth to themselves (subjectively a lot, you only live once, etc) and what it’s worth to their employer (in $, nearly nothing to a multinational).
The dressing up of digital controls to mimic analog controls is called skeuomorphic although I have not encountered the term in a long time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeuomorph