skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is something I've wondered for a while too. Like Notion's AI has a "make longer" button.... why would I ever want AI to arbitrarily fluff something up adding extra words unless I was a kid writing an exam and needed 3 more pages? I can't find any legitimate use for that feature.

EDIT: In case it's not clear, No. I would rather read the shortest version possible than one fluffed up by AI to make a word count. As far as creative stuff goes, I'm not sure that I've seen a situation where AI made something interesting enough that I'd want to read extra words from it.
Without knowing almost anything about it, I run Proximo on a box at home.

Is it at all comparable to ESX?

I kind of assumed the Proxmox was just the free and cheap and bare bones option.
Rogue, and other roguelikes for Amiga
Still, in other areas is was possible. For example in the case of Airbus they managed to build a European counterpart for US players like Boeing.
It's all politics WAY before this level.
nice try UK police.

joking aside, it is weird to me that privacy of someone can be invaded to such a degree when you are presumed innocent. like, ok it leads to some arrests but how many thousands of attempts were about bugging innocent people's homes for nothing?
Do you remember when entire floors of buildings were filled with the compute equivalent of what I carry in my pocket with 12+ hours of battery charge, because I do.
Makes me wonder again what imaginable problem it could be that a non-profit board would think it had to be kept secret.
The todepond youtube channel is a well-kept secret
I have used llama2 to do something like this. I build a prompt with a set of opcodes, the llm responds with an opcode and an external system handles the call. Not sure if that is what you are looking for however
Says the McKinsey employee.
> Why aren't you complaining about what happens to your HN posts?

That doesn't seem related to the point?

Do you disagree that "Posting on a public Internet forum (such as HN)" is (other than the "communicating information to other people" aspect) _radically_ different than "Talking one-on-one to someone in person without any recording devices present"?

If you do disagree, then there's no way we can have a even vaguely productive conversation on the topic.
This fish has been beaten to death, let's move on
Startups are shit on pay and as an early tech employee you are basically the one that gets screwed the hardest of all. A huge gamble with very little upside even in the best of cases. I'm gonna have to pass.
I'll vouch for it, I think you may have escaped what it became: I'm a couple generations after you, joined Google/Wear in 2016 and accepted defrag onto Android SysUI in 2018. Much lower level, topped out at L5, but saw a ton because I was the key contributor on two large x-fnl x-org projects in those 5 years, one with Assistant[1], one with Material/Hardware.[2]

Both were significantly more dysfunctional than any environment I've seen in my life, and fundamentally, it was due to those issues.

Pople at the bottom would be starved for work, while people in the middle were _way_ overworked because they were chasing L+1 and holding on to too much while not understanding any of it. This drove a lot of nasty unprofessional behavior and attitudes towards any partnerships with orgs outside of Android.

As far as lacking focus on solving user problems...man I can't figure out how to say it and still feel good about myself, i.e. illustrate this without sounding hyperbolic _and_ without having to share direct quotes tied to specific products. TL;DR the roadmap was "let's burn ourselves out doing an 60% copy of what Apple did last year and call that focus." This was fairly explicitly shared in public once at an informal IO talk, and it's somewhat surprising to me how little blowback there was externally. The justification is, as always, it's OEMs fault. OEMs just asked about what Cupertino just released, just in time for the yearly planning cycle.

[1] https://blog.google/products/assistant/next-generation-googl...

[2] https://www.androidpolice.com/google-material-you-interview-...
MCI/Verizon Network Notes
Is gulp really better than webpack in this case? I have a few gulp projects and they're not exactly standing up to the test of time.
I agree, but you’re saying it like it’s a good thing. To me, a culture that is only sustainable through reliance on other societies that don’t share that culture is not anything to hold in high regard.
You might sometimes see people say that a SSN is both a username and a password. What they mean is that it’s used both for unique identification as well as authentication; imagine if your email address was also necessarily the password for your email. There’s nothing wrong with having the identifier. What’s wrong is treating the identifier as though only the person it identifies knows it, which is patently false because that would make it useless as an identifier.

As for what I’d do instead: create an application that is fully managed by the IRS and let me login with some combination of a client certificate, password, U2F device, TOTP, et. al. Have the IRS securely implement something like OAuth (I hear “securely” doesn’t quite fit with “OAuth” but they could implement something custom-built if they want to) so I can get the IRS to tell whoever I need them to tell that I am me.

Ideally, replace IRS with a purposeful identification organization for these purposes and let the IRS use what this new organization gives them.
Not true. It’s the same model (AFAIK). Maybe the system prompt is different. But generally you can get the same performance and behaviour from it.
Very fair. You just exposed a part of my brain to me, where I put “bad profit-driven motive” into a separate bucket that I consider less severe than “direct evil desire for harm”, and now that I see that I’m not sure how bad that thought process sucks. It’s definitely driven by getting (too?) used to things having an average level of shittiness.
It's mentioned briefly in the paper(1), but I'm more interested in the interpretability implications of this approach. In some respects, this marries the interpretability/editability of a small decision tree with the expressive power of a large neural network. Usually you see those two on extreme opposite ends of a tradeoff spectrum - but this approach, if it scales, might shift the pareto frontier.

(1): As a byproduct, the learned regions can also be used as a partition of the input space for interpretability, surgical model editing, catastrophic forgetting mitigation, reduction of replay data budget, etc..
I haven’t heard that part of this interview but from past speaking engagements by him I think he means they probably intended to install a friendly regime. Though in many contexts that’s not all that different, I think the difference between Russian territory and a buffer state is very significant in geopolitics.
This is 100% valid feedback, and I appreciate that you took the time to share it. I'm at that point, where I need some "brutal truth" to help me navigate the next few steps...

I definitely need to update the language on the site to be a lot more precise and clear about these questions you've raised.

> This is what b2c PMF is about - about the fit (the click) in user's head.

That's a great takeaway nugget: gotta make it "click" in the user's head that this is built just for them.
Tell me you don’t have meaningful equity without telling me you don’t have meaningful equity.

This feels like peak “I just work here”.
You might also enjoy PICO-8, a virtual console in glorious 128x128 16-color graphics, with bleepy sounds, and chiptune music. The community is lovely and pretty active.
How does this work on the backend? Does it only trace method calls when an exception is thrown, or does it profile the call stack of every request?

Something I've been interested in is the performance impact of using https://docs.ruby-lang.org/en/3.2/Coverage.html to find unused code by profiling production. Particularly using that to figure out any gems that are never called in production. Seems like it could be made fast.
> to second this, I really want an LLM that can call a REST API like ChatGPT plugins can. What is out there?

That's not really a model feature but a prompting + toolchain feature. Conceptually, there's no reason you couldn't build a parser for the chatGPT plugin description json, the descriptions of existing plugins, and prompt any model wrapped in a tool-using framework to call them. That's all outside of the model itself.
Well, you have it entirely wrong.

Elon is accusing Media Matters of something. That's the "If Elon is wrong" (or right) part the courts have to decide.

If he is right, this is a crime (or whatever the appropriate legal classification might be). And this is precisely what we have laws and government for.

If someone slanders you, the law is what you use to deal with the problem.

This case has nothing to do with the First Amendment.

Here's a super-simple primer on that:

At a basic level everyone is free to say anything.

The First Amendment does not protect you from the consequences of your speech.

You can go out there slander and libel anyone you want. That does NOT mean the US Constitution protects you from the consequences of your actions. Not even close.

I was involved in a slander case decades ago. A competitor, aided by his buddies at an industry newsletter, decided to slander me and my company at the time. They allowed him to write an article full of serious lies. When I took that to a specialist attorney he explained what I just said above about how ignorant people are about what the First Amendment actually means in terms of rights and responsibilities for your actions.

In the lawsuit we filed approximately ten people could have lost absolutely everything. My attorney said it was so obviously slanderous and malicious that we could go for the financial decapitation of everyone involved. I didn't want to live with having cause that kind of harm to a bunch of fucking morons who didn't know any better and got carried away. The settlement was sizable. They all suffered serious financial damage. My competitor had to close his doors. That's one asshole I had absolutely no sympathy for. It cost him dearly. Well deserved.

Don't confuse free speech with the freedom to be an asshole or cause material destruction without consequences. That isn't what free speech is about.

It's high time that someone teaches outfits like Media Matters a solid (legal/financial) lesson. Yet, the allegations have to be proven in court. We'll see what happens.

If proven in court, I hope he goes after every media organization that pushed the narrative and wins. Maybe then we will have media that goes out of their way to deliver verified, truthful and well researched evidence-based news.

This is what puzzles me. Why doesn't everyone want our media organizations to be truthful? Again, how are lies and manipulation good for society? I don't care what political angle they come from. We should not tolerate this crap. It isn't good for anyone.
The linked page is here: https://service.tesla.com/roadster

I see 3 circuit boards and a GitHub repo that has an .ISO of the diagnostic software. They include DBC files that define the CAN interface, but that's it.

There's basically nothing here? Or am I missing something? No firmware, no CAD, no design files, no engineering data. It's like they released the service manuals and a couple PCB release files they scrounged up from someone's e-mail, but there's very little in here beyond what you'd get from service manuals or from having a PCB in your hand and following traces around. The PCBs are extremely basic.

I don't get it. Was this just a trick to get headlines from journalists who don't know how to interpret the files on the website? Or was there supposed to be more and it's just not up on the website yet?
If you are an entirely innocent party, it would seem unlikely that something you could have said would incriminate yourself

This is, uh, naive.
Even like OpenChat-3.5? (Probably the best 7B model out there) Demo: https://openchat.team/

HuggingFace: https://huggingface.co/openchat/openchat_3.5

On the LLM arena (blinded comparisons), it's the third best non-proprietary model: https://huggingface.co/spaces/lmsys/chatbot-arena-leaderboar...
Is this actually true?

Did Paul Graham fire Sam Altman?

Is there factual information about this - has pg said anything?
Different emphasis.

The goal is to quickly be able to see just the important, executed methods for a given request.

E.g. you may have a 2,000-line User model, but Call Stacking allows you to pinpoint, "Oh, only these three methods are actually being called during authentication. And here are the subsequent calls that those methods make. And here's where the logic change occurred."
I don't think you're wrong exactly, but I would say that computational photography is an explanation for why you might pick this camera over similarly spec'ed ones. Most people never approach the fundamental physical limits of their cameras because they are quite hard to use optimally - I think there's a lot of space for better software ("ai" or otherwise) to help out.
After 18 years at Google he's likely at a stage in his life where he's at f-you money in his bank account.

If he cares more about the company culture than being rehired by the people that disagree with his outlook, why not let it fly? If it instigates a culture change, he wins at the cost of a professional bridge he doesn't value anyway.
I understand that you find it hard to believe with your strong right-wing lean, given that it doesn't really fit your narrative.
I doubt GitHub is going to close the account of an actively paying user. Rather, the fact that they are paying for it constitutes proof that the account is actively owned.
I too, wasn't aware of this or I might have cited it in the thread as well.
I love my Gopro but the app/software experience is complete ad-ridden trash. Only reason I am looking for an alternative. Hopefully this is it.
In fact it is not absurd or weird. The model does not need to be capable of x/reasoning to produce knowledge about x/reasoning. A book with a chapter on x/reasoning doesn't reason either.
It has been a decade, but let me guess, Mass effect 3 Mordin? I rather not look it up lol.
You appear to have gotten derailed by the monetary compensation bullet point and totally ignored the "Retain a perfect copy of my utterances forever to do nearly anything they wish with (including, but not at all limited to, making money from) for the rest of eternity" aspect.
Why I see $30?
> Simple, responsive GUI, could run your specialty software etc with direct hardware interaction.

Are "simple and responsive" network protocols stack and file system, for example, also included in the FW? There is a reason why systems that used to work like that (game consoles) started to ship with general purpose OS to handle such things some time ago.
One thing that has surfaced: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38372451
Nothing is black or white. The DSM-V especially is not the end-all be-all. It's old as hell. Look back in recent history - every few years we gain completely new understanding on a disorder such as BPD and completely change the meaning. We really know nothing about mental illness. Getting a "diagnosis" is just for insurance and billing purposes. It's a way to map yourself into the legal framework of society. It ultimately is meaningless in the grand scheme of the real world.

If you have 95% of the symptoms of autism, but not 100%, what does that mean? Sorry get fucked you're not autistic. You're close, but not quite! See you in six months.

At the end of the day the treatment path will be the same (ie, there is none, learn to accept yourself and manage your neurodivergence like the rest of us)
I use the same setup for 15+ years which is i3 on Debian with some other tools like emacs, vim (yup, I use both!), vs code, chromium, Firefox and some other things. I have a private network install image which I update/upgrade and it gives me the same experience everywhere fast.

It would be dealbreaker if I cannot have this; theoretically this could run on win/Mac/lin exactly the same, but it does not, so yes, dealbreaker.
We're going to gain a ton of utility when we can let go of the starry-eyed idea of LLM's as "prospective AGI agents" that should be broadly capable and need to be ethically censored, and revitalize the productive and practical idea of them as "text completers which may be engaged conversationally"

The author needs to fight uphill and contort their workflow to squeeze out good articles because Antrhopic (like OpenAI) are caught up in the maybe-fantasy of creating AGI agents, and so burden their product design and their own research/engineering efforts with heavy, prescriptive training in "alignment" and "ethics".

But use cases like Copilot had it more right before, as do apps like Narrative AI. If your LLM is for generating code, it doesn't need to learn that "killing" is bad and insist that processes shouldn't be killed, and if it's generating story content it doesn't need to learn that every output needs to resolve all tension and deliver a life lesson about caring for each other.

These absurdities only happen because today's pack leading companies are now focusing their attention on making history with AGI (doubtful) instead of making products with generative systems (useful).

And the absurdities will persist as these companies try to layer products on top of the lobotomizied "agents" with GPTs or characters or whatever instead of productizing the technological, useful, generative layer directly.

Hopefully, some of the recent team shuffles at Google, Meta, and Microsoft; as well as the crisis at OpenAI; hint that we're starting to cast off the fantasy-laden and cult-tainted AGI fetishization and are returning to the exciting engineering promises of the technology that's already here.
We Roleplayed the End of the World with 4000 Other People [video]
I hate dealing with Windows, but I'd probably take even that over macOS. Not because there's anything wrong with macOS, but just because I can never figure out how to do anything in it and I'd prefer not to mount that learning curve.
… yeah. Not too keen on someone saying me and my peers should go to prison without having committed a crime tbh.
That doesn’t mean anything. I have some fine tunes of Llama that will claim they are GPT-3 all day long. Models have no concept of an identity.
He grew up in Europe, which may have given him different sensibilities.
Searching for "Vfx pipeline" just gave me visual effects stuff. Quite sure that was not what you talked about. Could you explain a bit more what ypu mean by it and point to a resource. Keen to learn more.

I think windmill could have helped with several of the task and automated some. Its very easy to create dashboard and table with statuses. But its def not a process tool, if that was what he was after.
>Google Inbox

Still so damn bitter about that death.
It's also not clear if they're actually in stock. "Shipping Late 2023" it says.
For example the Exclaim project at ETH Zurich trying to rewrite ICON in python (granted, they use special decorators that JIT to GPU instructions). It looks like a bit of a fools errand to me to try an write such a complex and performance -sensitive software in a dynamic language. I wonder why Chapel hasn't seen widespread adoption yet
Building in silos is when you get something done by yourself or with your direct teammates. Cross team collaboration involves e.g. a weekly sync, coauthored design documents, code changes made in modules you’ve never seen before reviewed by people you don’t know, tasks that are critical blocking dependencies for you but totally irrelevant to the decision-makers of the teams that need to allocate time for them. The extent to which a company is siloed is the extent to which its engineers are talking to their desk neighbors and getting things done vs. navigating communication overhead and being blocked on people quite remote from them and their goals.

It’s hard to believe you could have a nimble and cohesive team at the scale of a large corporation, because the number of communication edges gets silly. Dunbar’s number and all that. You can have team nimble and cohesive teams within large corporations. But having several distinct networks is otherwise known as being siloed.
It might have been good for Ukraine right now, but I feel like Ukraine was a pretty corrupt state in the 90s or at least perceived that way. Enough that the US and EU did not want them to have nuclear weapons. Even if they were realist.
>Usually

That implies - sometimes not.
Which would prove at least some reasoning capabilities.
Sure, utopia is preferable to reality. But how is that a helpful assertion?
>Because it was introduced by a FreeBSD developer, and FreeBSD's fs and cp are a generation behind Linux's

This is often regarded as a good thing in the BSD world. In all fairness, this bug just enforces that notion.

And Solaris (at least on amd64) wasn't slow. It was demanding, and not really suited for desktop. And it was picky with hardware.

Totally agree on the rest of your comment, though.
maybe they mean those "chat bubbles"?
Yes and economist's also think the risk to the workers physical health and safety is part of the pay that gets factored in and the government should mind it's own beeswax too. That's generally part of economists reflex to look the other way when the free market creates a race to the bottom.

Just pretend that workers have a choice between working at a coal mine that exposes them coal dust for higher pay or one that doesn't. Same as pharmacists have to choice between working for companies that put them at risk for burnout, PTSD and panic attacks for more money and ones that don't.
I totally feel that! I'm there too. The average level of shittiness has increased so much I basically don't expect things to work unless the specific feature makes the company money. Otherwise, it feels like an afterthought that may or may not function properly. Also, in case it was unclear, my original response wasn't meant as any criticism towards you. More just disgust towards those folks.
I can't wait for Bad Gear to do this one.
Likewise, `Kelly: More than my share of it all` is written by Kelly Johnson & Maggie Smith. Between the two, Skunk Works is better written but I thoroughly enjoyed both.
Jeff Skilling was the CEO of Enron. His tenure at McKinsey was unrelated. He was also a partner.
But having AI extend your notes includes all the loss of the initial summarization, with extra AI randomness on top. It can't recover the information lost in the summary, that's what makes the summary lossy.
The idea is to turn it on for a given request when needed - via a parameter, feature flag, etc.

prepend_around_action :callstacking_setup, if: -> { params[:debug] == '1' }

Once the request completes, the instrumented methods are removed to remove the performance overhead.
The real problem is that they add less value than before, with information and best practices traveling faster than ever.
By the time they make a movie about OpenAI, there will be no more human actors.
Modernizing DOM APIs
I don't disagree with all your points. That said, what we have built has proven useful for us as we have built pipelines for customers and think it might be useful for others.

Probably the main point I disagree with you is that RAG is just ETL. If that was the case, all of the AI apps people are building would be AMAZING because we solved the ETL problem years ago. Yet, app after app being released have issues like hallucinations and incorrect data. IMO the second you insert a non-deterministic entity in the middle of an ETL pipeline, it is no longer just ETL. To try to add value here, our focus has been on adding capabilities to the framework around data synchronization (which is actually more of a vector management problem), contextualization of data through metadata and retrieval (this part being were we have spent the least time to date, but are currently spending the most)