skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm surprised that this got posted on Hacker News and got enough attention.

> Proceeds to post a lot of interesting commentary.

Well, there you have it :P that’s why it gets posted and upvoted and commented on, because it is interesting to HN readers :D
Beyond Meat slashes workforce as business model is under fire
Listening an choral music and conducting choir that sing sacred music during a liturgy as well. Mainly orthodox, byzantine, latin. Old, classical and modern.
I think without AI we wouldn't go extinct for a long time. There are no other likely extinction risks. Toby Ord has a nice book (The Precipice) about various forms of extinction risks, and he basically says the same thing.
Company swag is usually the kind of gear you are wearing while doing stuff that could make you dirty. Lawn mowing, doing house shores, home renovation, fixing a bike or car....

Not something you would willingly spend money on and this is definitely stuff companies give away for free. It seems to be changing a bit now with companies having an environmental committee for all stuff that is made in plastic.
They were also on the forefront of the "blockchain revolution" several years back.

There's worthwhile research coming out of IBM once in a blue moon, but by and large, they seem to be chasing PR trends.
I somehow think that Horowitz wouldn't want to hear my honest evaluation of Adam Neumann: He found a set of idiots with money (chiefly Andreesen Horowitz and Softbank) and saw them making dumb trades, so he found a way to put himself on the other side of those trades. To do this, he constructed an "audacious" but ultimately fundamentally dumb business that he could wrap in VC shibboleths, whose principal goal was to collect VC money and funnel it into his pocket. In a way, he is a brilliant exploiter of people like Horowitz.
If you're going for these walks every day, that honestly seems like an enormous waste of time.

Go for a run, then get back to something productive or novel or mind-expanding.

You're a once-in-a-universe spark. All of the things since the big bang led to you now, and you will never be again. This is it. The universe exists for you now, and you have this one singular play through.

Why go for the same walk over and over and over?

I get it, but at the same time, I really don't.
Does it boggle anyone else's mind that ChatGPT was released less than a year ago? It definitely feels like it was around lot longer than that.
Is it really? That's great! I'd think they might be a bit more, um, reserved, nowadays.
Apple’s ability to wield its market power to force buyers or sellers to use its platform is firm evidence of the sort of power that anti trust laws (if they retained any teeth) are designed to prevent.

For example they were able to force banks to agree to support Apple Pay. And it’s the wielding itself that is sufficient proof of the trust violation.
Lots, but very little of it faces the direct public and what little does isn't advertised as from IBM. The company is largely divided into a consulting, research, product development, and mainframes with that last one on its way out (though in all fairness it's been "on its way out" for 30+ years). As other commenters noted, a big portion of the consulting work is for governments because IBM is a trusted brand in the US and frankly is already large enough to have lots of salespeople to work on RFPs and developers who are already used to working slow. They also do a lot of B2B work though. The consulting work IBM does obviously varies per client but it's more modern than the sibling comment insinuates. Their strategy was focused on hybrid multicloud for a few years (the Redhat acquisition was a major part of this so they could push Openshift on customers) but very recently they're trying to make a hard shift to generative AI. IBM's research is even less public than their consulting projects but they love to advertise their work in quantum computing and I've heard they work on patents for chip manufacturing to sell to TSMC and others (don't quote me on this one, it's definitely not my area of expertise). Product development is responsible for maintaining all the proprietary IBM software that they promised to upkeep for god knows how long even though nobody in their right mind actually uses it anymore. At least that's my understanding. They probably do other more relevant things too. IBM does truthfully do interesting work, but they don't really sell to the public anymore so the public only knows them as "that big company that made computers in the 80s and somehow still exists." They also have a big multinational presence I've heard. Lots of expansion in India.
It seems a temporary, anonymous, private, receive-only dropbox(not the USB drive replacement kind) on the Internet is an unsolved problem. It doesn't have to be completely out-of-band like email, could be just an encrypted public reply by `cat | base64 -d | openssl rsautl -decrypt -inkey temp.key`, so long up to few bits(70 in this instance) of encrypted content would be allowed on a platform.
I worked the occasional temp night shift at an Amazon warehouse shoving boxes around while working on a startup and they gave out a fair amount of swag. One could call them a tech company and therefore in the bubble but this is about as low on the totem pole as you can get. To their credit, they at least had to foresight to realize that free swag is free advertising. Enlightened self-interest if you will.
Updating the software should be done by qualified medical software engineers. Just like you wouldn't let a random untrained family member do surgery on you or prescribe you any drug. The free software aspect would still benefit the community, and people won't be on the fate of 1 company. If the company stops supporting the software, you could go to a medical software service company that has in-house experts on helping users with deprecated medical devices. That would at least be possible with free software, not with proprietary.
Thanks for the comment. We will aim to write a more deeper blog on this in the future.

We were observing 60<>40 ratio for Pull/Push, as specified in the blog and majority of the Push was target data-store (network) bound. So there was less room of optimization on the Go side.

The test was done with ~10-15K TPS on Postgres and the target was Azure Event Hubs, which has a limit of 1MB write batch size.
L4s are the only newer GPUs that you can get on GCP(g2) while A10 in AWS in the 1x config(g5), H100s are only in 8x variant otherwise.

Lambdalabs if you're lucky will grant 1x H100 at $2/hr :)

Every other serverless provider charges 3-5X the typical hourly cost.
He was ok by the terms though. Workers had/have the same terms as R2 before R2 got the new terms.

> They were also seeing ~30TB of daily egress on a non-enterprise plan, which would absolutely never happen in my case – 1TB of daily egress would be a p99.9 event.

I don't understand what media company you'll be competing against if you'll use just 30TB/month of bandwidth.
Unfortunately, no amount of legislation will stop the the practice. If someone can manipulate images, they can manipulate who is supposed to have done the manipulation. It becomes a sorry mess and all sorts of people will be adversely affected.
I already have the host-side cursor speed pegged at maximum. I'm getting exactly the speed I want; other mice don't deliver it.

With my wrist resting on the table in one place, just by jiggling the critter between my thumb and ring finger, I can make the cursor jump from one edge of the screen to the other.

You never have to move your hand!

Yet it still has the precision to do pixel positioning in graphics work. (Well, not really; the OS's precision enhancements do that.)
I think some of it comes from a want to belong. It is in some ways like religion - people probably realise the scriptures aren't always factually correct but they like the shared suspension of disbelief.

Also some of it probably has to do with generally feeling bad, anxious or uncertain about the future. Some might take solace in inflicting those same feelings upon others who seem to have it better.

But it is also the case that 'the other side' often rallies behind obvious nonsense dictated by the identity politics of the day (like IQ isn't real, math is racist, etc.). There are probably similar feelings at play there, a want for belonging of some sort.
I think the point the GP message is making is that, prior to review/merge you extract atomic commits from your WIP that tell a clear, concise story of how the change was made. The reviewer has less built up context so by chunking it like this they can step through each commit one at a time.

IMHO the expectation is that each commit would 100% pass CI, so if you decided to extract some commits and merge that early you can. This is especially useful when a 6 commit PR is reviewed, and the first 3 commits are fine but there is more feedback on the last three. The reviewer can split the first 3 good ones out, get them merged and whittle down the PR to the remaining three. The subsequent follow up will be less.

IME team velocity goes up with this too, and it encourages small and easy to review commits like a Remove to be extracted and merged early.

Since PRs are always as large or larger than commits, I would much rather have a specific commit flagged than have to wade through the whole PR diff. If the PR is not familiar to me, I want to increase my effectiveness narrowing down the cause, so I can fix it faster.
Reminds me of 30 Rock:

Jack Donaghy : There they are, the Six Sigmas themselves!

Liz Lemon : They're dudes?

Jack Donaghy : Each of them embodies a pillar of the Six Sigma business philosophy: Teamwork, Insight, Brutality, Male Enhancement, Hand-Shakefulness, and Play Hard.
Shein and Temu are Chinese scams. They have paid massive amounts of PR for choice placements in WSJ, NYT, etc. but if you actually look at their websites and do comparisons with Amazon their prizes are identical, except they have 2 week shipping rather than next day.

I cannot recommend harder to avoid these companies.
They probably want to train on GPT Builder + store rankings to be able to train an AI to effectively spin up new agentic AIs in response to whatever task it has in front of it. If you're familiar with the Global Workspace Theory of consciousness I think they're aiming for something similar to that, implemented in modern AI systems. They'd like data on what creating a new agent looks like, what using it looks like, and how effective different agents are. They'll get that data from people using GPT Builder, people using "GPTs" and their subsequent ratings/purchases, and the sales and ratings data from the GPT Store, respectively.
Fair. Ingest, let’s say.
Dot com bubble was done - a very entertaining site at the time started by https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pud
yup how I understand fine tuning is more about adding context and bigger picture. RAG is more about adding actual content. Good system probably needs both in long run.
This is a bad faith argument. Your comment has nothing to do with deepfakes.
Yes, thats also why policies aren’t enforced. I assume OpenAI knew all along that plugins probably are a dead end. Wonder if they will be around 6 months from now.

But Actions will have all the same security challenges basically.
WhatsApp's AI shows gun-wielding children when prompted with 'Palestine'
Great point about other CDNs. Just was thinking of a point and click one for the most part.
There is value created, but the argument was that it is the big ones with existing customer relationships that are going to benefit, not the 100th startup that offers an AI assistant to schedule appointments via voice commands. I think all of that second group of thin GPT wrappers will be eaten by the entities developing and running the foundational models like OpenAI.

In general, AI is data hungry and college kids in their dorm room will always be at a disadvantage in that regard compared to large companies (many of which locked down scraping on their properties, even if "their" content is mainly generated by users, i.e. non-employees).
Accessing RAM in itself isn't actually that bad, the real challenge is that writing an AXI Manager is too much trouble. The fixed costs are too high for a hobbyist that just wants to do a single project.
Hopefully all the insiders scooped tons of gold into their deep pockets before the pop.
> I see the profits in the current AI hype cycle going to the leading foundational model company (why pay for the 2nd best?)

Because it's a race to the bottom. Look at crowded spaces like TTS. Eleven Labs looks like hot shit, but in actuality they have over a dozen well-funded direct competitors. Including OpenAI.

There won't be a "Twilio of [X] Model Inference", nor will there be a "Best Foundational Model for [Y]". These are features, not moats.
Maybe if you stop posting them with the easily-greppable first part they won't be so easy to scrape.
Very plausible.

Still it feels like there’s way more problems that software hasn’t quite solved yet that LLMs may only go near.
Such a tough problem. I can see why they need to have a specific app feature to solve this.

It’s incredible that literally every single other car manufacturer manages to do this without that feature. I mean, if only cars were legally required to display some sort of plate with a unique identifier on them.
I quoted only parts of the page. My point is, when being unique while being strongly protected, am I really protected?
Yeah, we use that instead of dedicated runners, too. But it is a relatively new Gitlab concept, isn't it?
Everybody loves to take the piss on Neumann (and the money he grabbed), but frankly, this is what startup culture is about: found a company, make it look like it's big and worth a lot of money (if it is real, that's great. But it doesn't matter) - and finally cash out.

This is what all startups go for: either with IPO, or trying to get acquired by someone who can afford it. Once the money is in the pocket, never look back.

Not sure why is he singled out - or more like, why others are not.
pretty sure Apple is paying more than $80 to the CBP
You can add dang.ai to the list ;)
I get 504.
I'm sure I read a [news] story about this many years ago and have wondered what became of it, perhaps these guys?

https://senestech.com/contrapest/
I’m not sure the evaluation above is “fair”. “Positive” would be a better term

People never like to be told they’re mugs
Am I missing here, or this site lists GPT4ALL as dead/discontinued while GPT4ALL's website seems to have the project alive and well on all levels?
Python is made for cobbling together things with string and ducktape, for users who would do such a thing. Any change, however good and trivial will have them paralyzed, gnashing their teeth.
ChatGPT and plugins were already agents. An agent just does stuff on somebody else’s behalf. Browsing, browses the Internet for the user, code interpreter creates and runs Python code for the user…

What you describe are what’s called autonomous agents, and i agree that I also expected some interesting announcement there but probably too many security issues.
Hadn’t heard of M17 before. Thx for sharing.
A friend of mine used DALL·E 3 to create cartoon Bundeswehr pilots, you know the current army, not the Nazi one. It still added swastikas into the images, which are illegal here in Germany.
People would stop working if you don't hand them some paper. But once you hand them some paper, they will start to produce something, the product move to next person, and you take some percentages out of every single one, everyone is happy, everyone has what they want. It is fascinating.
The thing is, I almost get the change to Meta. Facebook had a family of products it had purchased/established and didn't want to just be known as the place where your aunt posted stolen election conspiracy theories when they were trying to get their "Metaverse" corporate rebirth off the ground. It didn't work, but I kinda get it.

The rename to X is different because it is Musk trying to make "fetch" happen. He convinced himself in the late 90s that "X" would be the ultimate website name despite a mountain of user feedback that it would, in fact, not be the ultimate website name. He's had a hyperfixation on it ever since. Now he's the richest man in the world after 20 years of artificially-low interest rates and incestuous relationships on Silicon Valley corporate boards, and no one will tell him it was a shit idea lest they lose their jobs or connections or because they've gotten as poisoned on the kool-aid as he is.
I was intrigued by the book links in the top left. Has anyone read the author's book Problems With A Point: Exploring Math And Computer Science? Would you recommend it?
The article says they've been doing it for 15 years, so there's something odd about their numbers.
I agree with you. What come to my mind, is that GPT using private data to learn, if given back to (any) customer, you would have an indirect "open source everything".
Nope! I was mistaken - it's really multiple readers, single writer - Probably I was assuming things the whole time, and did not spent enough time thoroughly checking - granted most of the db's I've done with sqlite were more about reading than writing.

So stand corrected!
You're completely ignoring image analysis.
I push capability based security relentlessly, because I see its absence as the root cause of a bunch of waste, and the cause of the loss of the war on general purpose computing. The world could be so much better if we could trust our computers.

I'm scratching an itch, hoping to get a chip made to implement the biggest waste of transistors ever, per George Gilder's call. (A cartesian grid of LUTs, clocked as to avoid race conditions, a Turing complete system) It might be a way to make a cheap PetaFlop computer.
I sure hope they don’t ever want to change their db structure.

Why not use Postgres with RBAC (Row Based Access Control).
How does this work. So he owes money under some terms to Wework. Probably that secured debt can be sold off? And the proceeds of that they get?

Unless it was a 0% fixed interest only for 100 years or something crazy.

Feels like a better scenario than that money spent on parties or a datadog bill.
Understanding the Netdata Methodology: A Different Take on Monitoring
To put it bluntly, you will kill people.
Qualcomm Outpaced Apple: The Battle for Chip Speed [video]
Canon's Nanoimprint Litho Tool Could Disrupt Wafer Fab Equipment Market
Please be a bit more thoughtful here.

> Why go for the same walk over and over and over?

Destress.

Also generally the reason we play the same (kind of, or even exactly the same kind of) music again and again and eat the same food again and again.

We need novelty. But we also need some continuity.
This is gold - I doubt it’ll get the attention it deserves, but great stuff
I thought GPT-4 had access to internet now?
Pretty much this.

Also not only for ChatGPT, but there will be a timespan between majority of people are automated out of jobs and a a forceful redistribution of wealth happens (let’s call it socialism). It’s always a good idea to have that $$ to bridge that gap.
iwlwifi devices do not have 5GHz AP mode :(
Exactly, and more is on the way. There are a lot of empty / underused offices right now and the easiest way to try to monetize all that real estate is co-working, flex desks, sub leases, and other forms of short term usage. If it's empty, it's not generating any money. Finding space is easy right now. I think prices are still a bit inflated given the amount of vacancies. They have to come down a lot for that to start changing. But you can get some really nice bar gains if you invest a bit of time.

Over the next few years, a lot of leases are coming up for renewal and I'm guessing a lot of companies are looking to reduce the amount of square meters they have and what they pay for that.
Personally I would be happy with any kind of stable wireless support, even the most unsecure or obsolete one. My Pi3 and Pi4 both can't maintain stable wifi connection for more than a week. After that they simply become unresponsive on the network - I got to unload and reload the driver to make them communicate through the network. I solved this on one of them by simply connecting though ethernet, but the other one is still a constant pain.

I have given up using built-in Bluetooth and Wifi at the same time years ago, when they were interfering with each other. Nevertheless, I wonder if that is still the case.
A Different Monitoring Philosophy with Costa Tsaousis
I wish Turkey would do this too. Street dogs gather in packs and periodically attack people: not just small children, they go after grown men and women who are just walking down the street during daylight hours. This is true in major cities, like Ankara.

When I’m there I avoid walking around after sunset or in areas without people, primarily because I don’t want to be stuck in the open with 3 or 4 hungry street dogs hunting me.
https://www.romhacking.net/reviews/1718/#review

(also look at the other reviews)
No, it’s 11:24 pm pst and not available for me.
> For now, if they catch a dog the chances are high its already treated.

Wouldn't there be basically no dogs left in a couple year?

So just keep the program going for another 5 years or so and they wouldn't be catching very many dogs in the first place.
You don't need to work on hard problems (2020)
I did not understand this comment.
Amazon is seriously the worst online retailer. If it were not for the fact that it's hard to find some items elsewhere I'd never use it. No property taxonomy for items means the experience of looking for things is akin to digging though an undifferentiated dumpster full of shit. Even when they seemingly offer some sort of category browsing experience, all they really do is shit a category word into the search box and that's that. It's really a terrible product from a UX standpoint, no matter how much money they make from it.
That was true until the Global Financial Crisis in 2008. Now, they use their finance arm to help customers finance very large purchases. This is common in heavy industry.
But they were not in the business of private forks, as per their statement. They were in the business of providing hosted instances, and services.

So I don’t see how someone acting in a different market had any bearing on their business at all. Unless they were indeed in that market, but that doesn’t seem clear to me at all from their messaging.
piracy websites were using base64 encoding for this purpose a while ago, but now it seems they moved on to a proprietary algorithm
Imagine being told by an ai to do it yourself, hilarious
Local law for me is I believe twice the time off advance notice. 5-6 weeks would require 10-12 weeks of notice. In principle employer can refuse for important business requirements, you can suggest two alternative times and if they refuse all three you can just dictate when you will be taking holidays.

Asserting your rights can have social consequences, of course, but if you need to assert your rights... the real benefit of the law is setting the norms of how people behave.
Nice to see competition in the area where Apple excels...
> many iterations of each prompt

BTW its much faster and cheaper to artive at a good prompt if you sample the model in deterministic mode (ie temperature=0)

By default you have to guess if the difference is due to the prompt change or due to the dice roll, as you’ve noticed, but you don’t need to!
You know, maybe you should submit this video on its own. Sanskrit Birthday song? Now, that's not something that I ever thought about in my life, but now I'm curious. I only birthday song I know about is Disney's "Happy Birthday to you"
Walking 6 km takes about an hour if you are fast. So I don't think that qualifies as a very short walk. Also most europeans would rather drive that distance as well.
I know yours is a joke comment, but without the dogs eating the food (the garbage), some other animal is going to eat it instead. I predict an explosion of rats in another decade.