skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I thought (and could be wrong) that all of these concerns are based on a very low probability of a very bad outcome.

Among knowledgeable people who have concerns in the first place, I'd say giving the probability of a very bad outcome of cumulative advances as "very low" is a fringe position. It seems to vary more between "significant" and "close to unity".

There are some knowledgeable people like Yann LeCun who have no concerns whatsoever but they seem singularly bad at communicating why this would be a rational position to take.
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I came here to say exactly the same. Where is any substance in this article? What are the capabilities of the chips? How many Tflops can they do?

I'm not buying it. I have a couple of Google's (mini) Edge TPUs doing object recognition in my Cctv server. They have been working 24/ 4 for about 2 years and are consistently delivering on the 4W/4Tflops promise(although for some reason they stopped advertising this number focusing on benchmarks instead).

I for one wish Google would have us their big (or even medium) sized TPUs to play with on an add on card rather than in their phone.
I think one of the Rust's creators (or was it Go's?) said that they wanted to get the C++ developers to switch to their language but that didn't happend, they unexpectedly got Python developers instead but retrospectively it makes sense to them: people who wanted to switch from C++ and could afford to had done so already, so the C++ developers are the people who either don't mind C++ or the people who have to write it.

Which brings me back to my point: yes, technically you can write decent code even in a sloppy language but that misses the bigger picture which is that most of the code written in a sloppy language will inevitably be sloppy because most of the people who write it won't care, due to the dynamics described.

Heck, the Ops department in my org was forced by the security guys to globally enable ShellCheck on commit for their internal repos, and those security guys still have to drop by about every 2-3 months to rip away their "# shellcheck disable" pragmas and force them to actually fix their broken code because those people in the ops actively don't care. The Ruby scripts they write end up slightly less broken because Ruby itself is a slightly more principled language, not because they suddenly care more when they write Ruby.

Not to mention myself: I've spent quite some time and energy on learning shell's semantics and tricks and quirks and DOs and DONTs but it's such an infinite, never-ending descent into abyss with rewards of dubious value that nowadays I just don't care. Whenever I have to write a one-off script, I give up even before I start and write it however sloppy, with minimal quoting, to save my time; and only when it breaks, or when I have to reuse it, or when I have to share it — which happens quite rarely — then I re-write it in a proper language. On the whole, that definitely saved me both my time and my sanity. As for the cases when I have to write properly behaving shell script, well, those are almost arise in the course of the tasks that can be delegated to our ops team and now that's their problem.

P.S. I found that re-writing naive but broken shell scripts in a proper language is quite easy: the intended semantics is generally obvious, it's just the shell that actually requires quirkier syntax to propely express it; re-writing the (mostly) non-broken shell scripts is much harder: you have to decipher the intended meaining from the quirky syntax while keeping in mind that the original author still could have gotten it wrong by not knowing about a particular quirk you're aware about (or vice versa).
Whereas your post sounds like "Just give the approach more time, it shall continue to incrementally improve until it finally works someday, cuz reasons."

Early attempts at human flight approached it by strapping wings to people's arms and flapping: Do you think that would have eventually worked too, if only we had just given it a bit more time and faith?
How old is this? Under "other vendors" they are on about Android 6, 7 and 8.

On Google Pixels, apps get aggressively killed in extreme battery saver mode. To spare an app from this, designate it as an essential app. No brainer.
We just have his version of the story though... He might be wrong. It's natural after spending so many years in a company to see change as bad, to miss the good old days... And he sure seems to have a problem with that black leader Jeanine...
A guy who never rose from his technical roles is lecturing a VP and the CEO of Google for their "lack of vision and strategy". Come on. Managing is startup and managing a huge behemoth like Alphabet will never be the same
It's pretty useful to have a high signal for cranks wherein the cranks themselves do the paperwork.
But... You don't need academic credentials to submit to arXiv. Anyone can submit to it, and arXiv doesn't do peer review either, they just have a bare minimum amount of review to ensure you're not submitting things that clearly do not match reality.
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Well it’s good that you have the choice to; but it’s also not all that difficult to understand that not everyone who needs to use your script, has that choice.
Writing bash scripts seems like the ideal use case for Chat-GPT style programming.

The programs are fairly short, examples are common in the corpus, and the syntax and execution model are so inscrutable that only a machine can pretend to understand what’s going on.
They are conservative - looking at the ICE engines - while VAG has long transitioned to using turbo charged direct fuel injection (remember the infamous troubling and discontinued 1.4 TSi (supercharging/turbo)) they are focused on durability and efficiency of tried designs.
Actions speak behalf of speech.

You see it from the all commercial deals, protecting company image more that eliminating threats, or even from this post, if it is true.

Not telling about breaktrough in research if it would end the deal with Microsoft.
No, it's just counter to the idea that it was "employee power" that brought sam back.

It was capital and the pursuit of more of it.

It always is.
Cases of fabrication have been caught because the fabrication is done so badly, i.e. inplausibly. It's often just imputing some "random" numbers or repeating samples etc. Many would be amazed how technically and mathematically illiterate scientists often are. And probably ones that fabricate even more so.

Maybe it will increase and/or get a bit higher quality with LLM fakery. But as with many "AI bad" themes, the problem isn't that "AI" can fabricate the data. The problem is fucked up institutions and cultures.
"valid" criticism? K, so you are one of those wannabes then.
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Any claims of objective, quantitative measurements of "scaling" in LLMs is voodoo snake oil when measured against some benchmarks consisting of "which questions does it answer correctly". Any machine learning PhD will admit this, albeit only in a quiet corner of a noisy bar after a few more drinks than is advisable when they're earning money from companies who claim scaling wins on such benchmarks.
you're not conveying an argument, you're having an argument - which will never be resolved. The best you can hope for is that one of you blocks the other without wasting too many hours of life.
Do you have a couple hundred $s to dedicate to the side project? If so, throw some work to a design student on fiverr.
I'm not even sure how that works in practice since I've obtained a bunch of Steam keys for cheaper than the price on Steam. If you browse gg.deals, you can find Steam keys on legitimate third-party sites for cheaper. For example: https://gg.deals/game/horizon-zero-dawn-complete-edition/
Ah I got really excited about Flutter back in 2018. Hard to believe it's been 5 years! A commendable project. I just wish they went with something other than dart for it
There's a great documentary about waco on Netflix and at the end, the guy who is was in command of the troops who massacred 80 women and children concluded (after 30 years of reflection), "you know the real victim was? Me, because the whole fiasco made me look bad."

It's interesting to see how those who appear outwardly evil manage to cling to a self-serving and distorted view of the world in which, if anything, they are the maligned victims.

You can just as easily imagine a SWAT member saying "when we were training to assault civilian homes, it was a wonderful time, everybody was competent and had the right motivations, we were there to protect the good guys and hurt the bad guys - but only as a last resort! Then when we got to the branch davidian compound we applied all of our methods and tactics and it all went downhill from there and, tragically, we ended up in a dark place."

When, from the perspective of even the most casual observer, it was evident from very early on that given the material, resources, methods, tactics, organization, and leadership that was deployed, the outcome that unfolded was actually inevitable.

Getting back on topic, it's not particularly news to anyone to find out that there can be very well run, collegiate, bubbles full of well-meaning individuals doing great work who nevertheless operate within institutions which, on the whole, are a cancer upon society. It's a wonderful privilege and a joy to find yourself inside one of these bubbles compared to all of the worse things that you could be doing to make a living.
it was obviously pit posts, like posts you throw into the everlasting pit of damnation.
I would suggest changing it back to 39KB as this title isn't clear at all.
Would be very interested to hear your take on Hixie’s essay and the many reactions from other Xooglers from different eras.
If you are a non-academic hobby scientist who is actually doing interesting work, it's very easy to find someone in your specific field (even a PhD student) and ask them for an arXiv invitation.
They are excellent for that yes! There are a few people making unofficial wheels too that you can find on eBay.

Here's a discussion about an outdoor called Fruit Salad Light Show that used a bunch of Optikinetics gear for shows in the 90's that might also interest you. https://ozrics.proboards.com/thread/2204/light-show
And yet somehow most people in charge of resourcing and budgeting for projects, teams and companies have some idea of who to hire, how much to pay them, etc. How do you think they do that with something that is nearly impossible to measure?

It certainly wouldn't benefit anyone who hires people if those people could estimate their own contribution, or, god forbid, compare it to their compensation. I think there's a term for the difference which now eludes me.
Interesting, I wasn't aware of the arXiv endorsement system [0] before this. I've only ever submitted to bioRxiv, which doesn't have any such restriction (as far as I can tell).

That said, it seems like it might be easy for someone to be endorsed if their work is scholarly.

[0] https://info.arxiv.org/help/endorsement.html
Ask HN: Best framework to build a GUI app in Python for windows and macOS?
Entity Component System, not Amazon's Elastic Container Service, if you were confused like me. It's a pattern used in game dev: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entity_component_system
"One explicit purpose of Area 120 was to prevent the loss of these entrepreneurs to outside startups"

So basically google had a shed where they hoarded talented people, to prevent competition? :)
Judging from the quality of GPT4 output that I get, AGI is not around the corner for a long time.

This whole thing seems like extreme overhype squared carried out in a very unfortunate public soap opera setting.
Sunbird shuts down iMessage app for Android over security concerns
Yeah, but I was talking as a user. The worst case of this for me was with Google Maps, you'd think Google would know how to write apps for their OS.
Most people wanting 'uncensored' are not looking for anything illegal. They just don't want to be forced into some Californian/SV idea of 'morality'.
> My view is that the people on the inside often can't see the forest for the trees.

Agreed. But it's also a problem of partial information - on both sides. People on the outside also have partial information about things coming from tech. We sometimes believe something done was definitely intended to be "evil", but usually isn't the case. We just have partial information about the actual reasons, and fill the rest in with our bias.

What I've usually noticed on HN is, if Apple does something "bad", people find mindbending justifications for it. But if Google/Microsoft does it, it was definitely "intended to be evil". Not that I agree with everything Google or Microsoft does.
Yea but then they have to process everything. Sending just the relevant information for ads means they save on cost of running compute.

Considering Azure has run out of GPUs and is renting from Oracle, it’s not crazy to imagine that they could run out of TPUs and the price of compute out weighs the slightly (?) worse ad targeting.
Buy more shovels buddy
Please stop with tricks like this and just quote your variables. Everywhere.
The nuclear arms race lead to the cold war, not a "good outcome" IMO. It wasn't until nations started imposing those regulations that we got to the point we're at today with nuclear weapons.
I don’t think it was obviously open - Just because it was staffed doesn’t mean it was a regular work day.

You’d have to read the law very closely but as someone who has had a trespassing ticket and even went to court, you will likely find no sympathy nor cure by trespassing, nor would the average cop care. I would not be surprised if the doorman telling you to fuck off was good enough to count as a refusal to provide documents, which would help your case down the road but would automatically place you trespassing
Who are those "we"? How do you check that nobody of those "we" defects? Strikebreaking is a thing.

> If people show up at the grocery store with it

What if those grocery stores are actually the chain that's owned by one of those "bad" companies? Those grocery stores won't implement your policy, and now what? Plus I'm fairly certain you'll run afoul of some anti-discrimination law or another.

Really, if you're engaging in wishful thinking you may as well just wish for everyone to be nice and be done with it.
As a user, I can swipe up and hold from my home screen (depends on your launcher probably) and "swipe away" the apps I want to actually close, as in remove from the background. Not all of them comply, though.
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Do you have any resources to learn this. How to untangle the situation. What would happen if the resources indeed isn’t the problem to tackle, rather its complexity that is hard to untangle.
I doubt that it's the "best" in many ways but it's certainly convenient and interesting to use Streamlit as long as it's not too complex and fits into the framework.
Why do I know shell, and how can you?
Thank you sooooooooo much for supporting the idea and the project. Can not agree more and mega huge thanks for going the distance to recommend to others. Cheers.
Now I just need that on linux… They even killed the linux app and just want you to use it via prog. Webapp. Its awful.
I already tried to customize my command line prompt with it. All the arcane colouring character decodings and random character escaping missions became a "put git branch names in parenthesis and make it cyan".
Interesting that a group so interested in maps and navigation has such an unintuitive and inaccessible website.

Cool pictures, if you can get to them.
We have a doc version now.You can check it.
https://www.fusiontap.com/docs

We appreciate your feedback early and it would be better that if you have any thoughts on our product.

Here's the demo.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUsEkw83zPA&t=2s
Ah, that explains it. I'd better give the whole thing a proper read once I'm free.
I haven't seen anyone [at] Sundar on X (FKA Twitter) yet. I am not sure how Sundar would be feeling about this. Hostility for Hixie probably. And it's safe to say that Hixie's return to Google has no chances now, not that he would want to return anyway.
I totally imagine that they intended to run models locally when this phone was on a whiteboard in an engineering meeting but…

(1) the models team just can’t/wont trim the models, instead focusing on bigger and better. This is probably doubly true now that the AI wars have taken over their focus

And

(2) they realize they probably need to ship these features to every non pixel phone too.
For years I thought the line was "those who were enforcers were the same...". Almost the same meaning, but it has an extra syllable.
Smart, foolish, arrogant.

Officers handled it well.
Yeah. It's supposed to be like 8 thousand UNIX computers. It just has to be insanely enormous bloat.

Hence my personal belief: GUI operating systems must evolve to slow down to match user-expected frequency of stimuli. Too fast and users leave, so they add crufts and weights until it's slow enough.
Capitalism at its finest. That's what the USA is all about.
is this the fate of big company?
Could someone more experienced in manufacturing tell me why we design things like cars in such a complex way with things like complex curves etc? Why not flat panels and more lego like designs that would seem to be cheaper to make and assemble and repair? It can’t just be about aero?
I’m pretty sure you’ve just blown my mind. More than half my problem is communicating my ideas.

I can hold something viciously and vividly in head and I really struggle to communicate it to others

Thank You!
The Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, is set to unveil significant announcements in the Autumn Statement 2023, with expectations of tax cuts, business tax reductions, and measures aimed at boosting economic growth.
kinda fixed the quota and signup problems i guess. :(
What a sad but refreshingly honest article. I never worked at Google, but this aligns with my impressions from the outside, as well as everything else I've read (eg. that recent article here from a founder who's startup was acquired by Google and she left due to the stifling bureaucracy). The company hasn't innovated much recently and its products like Google Search have deteriorated in quality tremendously. At this rate Google may be on its way to becoming the next has-been tech company (eg. sort of like what happened to IBM).

The management and bureaucracy depicted in the article sound like a corporate nightmare and unappealing place to work. I didn't know that Google had non-engineers running dev tool teams. Can this VP even reverse a linked list? /s

Seems like Google needs a change in leadership, starting with replacing CEO Sundar Pichar.
So normally you count the lines. On the other hand, I generally use negative numbers to specify the range (eg. `grid-row: 1/-1;` will cover the entire row; `grid-column: 2/-2;` will cover from 2 to the 2nd from last column, inclusive).
But it can't act in self interest way bc of hardware&phisical limitations. I mean what can it do worst case? We have both systems to prevent abuse for critical things & resources to power such an ai are limited too(hardware, energy, network connection). It can't even replicate to create self powered robots like in matrix fantasy bc we don't even have such fully automated production. So about what risks are we talikng here? Imo worst case it can mess up with stock market...
can you please try again. i think its fixed now.
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Ask HN: What "custom instructions" do you use for ChatGPT?
I know there have been past "What are your best prompts?" but I think this is nuanced.

I often find ChatGPT overtly agreeable, tending to spew too much unrelated information with "Remember, so and so", being too conservative (i.e. anything medical it'll repeat ad nauseam you should really see a doctor!), and often I just want it to have a quick, brisk dialogue.

So I'm looking into the "Custom instructions" portion of ChatGPT where, to my understanding, you can basically specify the "System" prompt as well as a pre-prompt to your chats, precisely to sculpt the way you want engage.

I figure there are enthusiasts here with great insights on this already; What are you guys using for the custom instructions?
Actually, OpenAI did a research[0] on solving some hard math problems by integrating language model and Lean theorem prover some time ago.

[0]: https://openai.com/research/formal-math
Why would we teach kids maths then, when they can use a calculator? It's much easier and faster for them.

I believe it's because having a foundational understanding of maths and logic is important when solving other problems, and if you are looking to create an AI that can generally solve all problems it should probably have some intuitive understanding of maths too.

i.e. if we want an LLM to be able to solve unsolved theorems in the future, this requires a level of understanding of maths that is more than 'teach it to use a calculator'.

More broadly, I can imagine a world where LLM training is a bit more 'interactive' - right now if you ask it to play a game of chess with you it fails, but it has only ever read about chess and past games and guesses the next token based on that. What if it could actually play a game of chess - would it get a deeper appreciation for the game? How would this change it's internal model for other questions (e.g. would this make it answer better at questions about other games, or even game theory?)
To put it in perspective, WebGPU 1.0, that 6 years later is still only available on Chrome, is the lowest common denominator from 2015 GPU hardware.
No mention of "Core Wars" (http://corewars.org/) or "Robot War" (https://www.mobygames.com/game/12059/robot-war/)?
Complete speculation but they don’t have to be referring, if there is anything at all, to heuristic search and dynamic programming. No LLM involvement whatsoever.
Nice. Maybe add Speech-to-text capabilities so the user can use the browser using their voice (maybe while holding a key)
There’s two or three strands of graphics programming though:

Plumbing - Delivering data efficiently from the game engine to the GPU often in a platform agnostic way with efficient implementations underneath.

Art Pipeline - Delivering data efficiently from the artist tools to the game engine.

GPU Programming - Creating visual effects, shaders, compute shaders and tools around these to empower artists.

All of these use multiple languages, sure C++ is a common one and good to know (likewise as a gameplay programmer) but the bigger percentage of what you need to know as a graphics programmer isn’t how to write C++ but the concepts you’re trying to implement with it.

There’s also R&D but it’s a much smaller part of things.
Quora is an embarrassment and died years ago when marketers took it over
Thanks everyone for the tips and links. Gonna look for the top Dell Ultrasharp or LG Ultrafine model that's in stock and within my budget, and go for it.
> I for one wish Google would have us their big (or even medium) sized TPUs to play with on an add on card rather than in their phone.

Yeah, no kidding. I know they want to push GCS, but what a boon that would be for TPU support in ML projects.
Not at all.

Although my preference goes like this: FreeBSD > OpenBSD > MacOS > GNU/Linux > Windows, if my employer wants me to drive in reverse to reach my destination, I will do it.
>Buying new hardware is a great way to reduce taxable profits.

Can anyone explain this to me?
No. Maybe a web search..."Brian Eno tape loop"

I think this it:

How Brian Eno Created Ambient 1: Music for Airports
https://reverbmachine.com/blog/deconstructing-brian-eno-musi...
don't get me wrong i love ai. but i want people to have a chance to just watch the videos from the channels they like. both are good.

plus, my bad idea was to keep everything shuffled until someone select a channel.

plus plus, i can't do what you said, i'm not that talented. :)
But it's not a diversification from what they've always done.