skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
100%

We might think it wrong to name and shame, but this is one explicit case where it's the right thing. The autocratic style, the sheer bullying, and the lack of promotion from within have run what was one of the best developer (and developer relations) groups in the world into the ground.

They talk AI - AI - AI but do they walk the walk?

Firebase? Remember when it was the best developer tool there was? Missed the boat with Vector DBs for AI, and when experts within the company raised that it was necessary.

Flutter? Yeah -- didn't they get a community member or an intern to put out a plugin for TensorFlow lite for mobile AI, and when they moved on, nobody cared.

Dart and Go? Don't make me laugh.

TensorFlow and Open Source AI (also under JB) -- Didn't give a crap, zero investment, lots of cuts, and did nothing about advancing TF since, what 2020? When was version 2? What happened to version 3? Literally invigorated the world with AI, and then JB came along and what...?

In the last 6 months? Spun up internal incubators to build new AI products. Trying to replicate Pinecone with less than 5 internal folks who don't have a background in AI at all etc. (Pinecone have ~200 people?)

Trying to build prompt management tools, when there are a million GPT ones out there? Check. I guess she never heard of OSS?

Oh yeah, wait the OSS office @ Google is also under JB.

It's nothing short of a catastophe.
Hey, I love this idea and have passed it along to my friends and family. But, if whoever maintains that site ever sees this: For the love of Todd, please clean up the grammar. It will make your message earlier to understand and folks will take you a lot more seriously. Thanks for the great work so far though.
> I wish there was a pair programmer AI that you had to explain stuff to. That would enable the "by explaining it, I solved it" phenomenon.

It's called rubber duck debugging, named for having an actual rubber duck at your desk you'd talk to.
Is it that expensive these days? Specifically, Cloudflare R2 has free egress, so you pay a fraction of what you'd pay most other places for the underlying "serve video" part of a platform.
> The US government keeps funding SpaceX through a number military and civilian contracts.

The US government is a big customer if that’s what you mean. It does not overpay to use spacex (goes with lowest bidder between them an ULA).

You’re vaguely trying to imply that spacex is only kept alive by the government like Arianespace and that’s pretty dumb. It has at least one US competitor to beat on gov contracts and global competitors on non-gov contracts that it consistently takes the cake from on cost.

> Also, nobody outside of SpaceX really knows how much their reusable first stages really saves them.

The implication being what? It spends a fortune on barges and refurbishing as an elaborate hoax or fraud because its not a significant cost saver?

For heavy, as a sibling pointed out, the center stage is reusable. The recent launches paid extra to sacrifice it for orbital parameters. “At the customers request” on the webcast.

Look, I’m all for competition in the launch space because I don’t like monopoly players, but pretending spacex is like the others living on a government feeding tube is laughable.

Here’s the litmus test. Which company wins bids for non-government contracts?
The biggest new thing that I’ve noticed that I was waiting for, but they finally did, was put advertisements for places on your route as optional stops

To me, that’s the kind of thing that says this is no longer going to help me actually achieve my goals, and is going to start challenging my ability to make decisions unimpeded
Most private software is, but there's an awfully large amount of publicly served software that can't fit into this model (also, any software that has network effects like twitter).
No, it simply counts as a gatekeep under the DMA

https://www.businessinsider.com/tiktok-and-meta-among-6-gate...
Ironically this has now become a test case for the use of Bing Chat as an assistant for legal research. https://x.com/1hopecomingtrue/status/1727861061725069415/
Twitter no longer shows current posts to anyone that isn't logged in.
> On a side note, I haven’t found an easy way to use Google search logged out, but have a Gmail tab open

Firefox container tabs are ideal for this kind of thing
I personally find these examples much more practical and easier on the eyes. Traffic lights and roundabouts are marked. Main roads have bold edges, ALL ROADS ARE LABELLED.. Street numbers are shown at regular intervals!

https://www.mapsbookstravelguides.com.au/wp-content/uploads/...

https://www.mapsbookstravelguides.com.au/wp-content/uploads/...
At the end of the day intelligence guesses. If it doesn't guess it's just an algorithm.

Now, if you step beyond your biases that we cannot make intelligent machines and instead imagine you have two intelligent machines that are pitted against each other. These could be anything from stock trading applications to machines of war with physical manifestations. If you want either of these things to work they need to be protected against threats, both digital or kinetic. To think AGI systems will be left to flounder around like babies is very strange thinking indeed.
I think for mathematics a good suspect is probably the Riemann hypothesis, which many other results rely on. We don't know that it's "undecidable", but from what I've read it's probably true and (even more interestingly), we can derive meaningful results from it being "probably"/"mostly" true (e.g. "for 99>% of cases it is true"), even without knowing that it is 100% decideably true.

Super fun stuff, though I'm not going to pretend I understand all of this (I mostly just gleam this stuff from what mathematicians say on Numberphile channel).
What does an analyst do exactly?
This is in fact a very good feature. When power is cheap or negative it's because there is more generation than load in some segment of the grid. To fix this you can tell people to stop generating, you can tell people to start loading, or you can just drop the price and let both happen on their own.

There are targetted ways this is done when the difference is so big it threatens grid stability, but its often better to let the market handle the gross imbalance on longer timescales when grid stability is not threatened.

There are some things markets are very good at. This is one of them.
This is a tool intended for exploring base language models. The best publicly available base model on the OpenAI API is "davinci-002". Not davinci, but davinci-002.
Tumble Laundry (Tumble.to) is doing really well actually so it is possible to do it profitably.
Almost nobody wants to see ads, but ads still probably work on most people.
How would you dump it at this large scale? The point of “selling” it at negative price is to encourage consumers to connect loads on the grid in order to burn this extra energy to maintain grid balance.
Do you sneak into movie theaters?
Most people would rather spend hours of their time to build a workaround.

Although, even on the minimum wage of my country, four hours of work is around half a year of youtube premium. based on the average salary for a developer it's probably around three years of youtube premium.

I will say, if I start to get ads on youtube premium then I'll start building workarounds but until that day, it makes sense to just pay the fee.
Couple notes after testing:

- relatively slow at around 15 seconds per generated image, although still faster than a cold start from replicate.

- No ability to specify resolution/aspect ratios

- no way to specify the sampler

- limited to 20 steps maximum
spacex is the DoD. that is why russia has such a hard time competing
This is what I’ve done. I was never “into” YouTube so don’t get the hubbub, but for movies and TV shows a good public tracker and Transmission are great.

Add a cheap ereader and libgen and even better. Better than that? A cheap paperback.
For a rigid road bike aluminum can definitely be made stronger and lighter, even though what you wrote about fatigue limit is technically true. People like steel because they feel it’s more comfortable to ride. For mountain bikes, you will find almost zero steel bikes. Here the stiffness and lightness of aluminum (and carbon fiber at the high end) is almost universally preferred.

One advantage that adds to the potential lightness of aluminum and carbon fiber bike frames is manufacturing method. Aluminum is cheap to machine and hydroform into efficient shapes, and carbon fiber can also be layed up into efficient shapes.
First, there is the glaring ethical violation of writing software that deliberately works against the user's interest. In this case the Youtube player is not just playing the requested video, but also displaying ads, backhauling surveillance telemetry, and trying to lure users into the world of conspiracy tripe. It's unfortunate that software development has very little in the way of professional ethics and essentially relies on punk volunteers to counter the surveillance industry's continual aggression, but here we are.

Second, Youtube gained outsized winner-take-all popularity by the anticompetitive dumping of hosting and development effort at below the apparent cost. This created a simulation of the early Internet's liberating spirit while killing any competitors that could have been based around sustainable economics (ideally some combination of publisher hosting plus p2p). Blocking ads is continuing the relationship as Youtube created it.

Third, just fuck ads in general. The original post is a fun piece of art, but even seeing those three quick blips in the demo video was still an unneeded mental attack. The less I have to suffer and mentally repel corporate attempts at faking social proof, especially interruptive video/audio ones, the better my life is. If I could get AR glasses that blocked billboards, I would.

My only concern of Youtube somehow going out of business would be losing the back catalog, which I think is better served by independent archiving rather than framing business revenue as some kind of collective responsibility.
Well I already has a displaying device.

> 43UN700

Yes, I saw it, but by the time I decided I would buy something to replace the old 38" TV (heh) they went out of stock everywhere near me. Though PiP would've been nice to have.
Even without pirating things, I couldn't imagine subscribing to all those things at once. The rare times a good movie comes out, my wife and I buy cheap tickets, that's it.
I put a few neurons together and got a nematode, then I put 100 trillion together and got a human.

While there are other structures involved here, expanding some systems does allow the expansion of capability
An order of magnitude cheaper, open AI DALL-3 I think currently is priced around $0.04 per image generation. But it's obviously not nearly as good out of the box.
I was having issues editing the post. I was referring to AGIs as universal approximation functions (or generators thereof).
That and his addiction to amphetamines adds a heavy amount of paranoia to his later work
I misheard the numbers originally. the reported number is $70,000 in the first week.

https://www.insider.com/influencer-creates-ai-virtual-girlfr...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/martineparis/2023/05/11/carynai...
Where X is not necessarily distinct from Y, just for added emphasis :)
Towards a Language for Defining Reusable Programming Language Components [pdf]
It all depends how you review the stats on gun deaths -- https://austingwalters.com/firearms-by-the-numbers/

For instance, if you count car deaths by miles traveled, why not gun deaths by number of gun owners?

Also, if you segment by demographics and manner of death it changes a lot.
That’s with a minimum weight imposed. Doesn’t change the fact that aluminum and titanium alloys generally have better strength-to-weight ratios than steel.
You forgot the part where your AI evolves into a reseller of cheap ad-based products, which you order to satisfy the ad AI — bringing the entire AI ecosystem into a large MLM scheme.
I have always been bothered with the multinomial layer that picks the next token. It seems like you should be able to stick a classifier in there to detect if the probabilities align with a satisfactory answer and whether the model is unsure of the response. If that is the case, then it should branch out to a bigger model which would compute that single token that it is unsure about, and from that the rest of the response is obvious for the smaller model.

This way you could combine e.g. a 7B parameter model with a 70B parameter model, and get the quality of the larger model while most of the time you are only running the small model.

Edit: You could also store the full probabilities for each token, and then the classifier could detect if it had gone down a bad path, and then unwind the tokens and pick a different path.
No, you argued that my data wasn't worth anything. I argued that if it wasn't they wouldn't desperately try and get all my credit, medical, schooling, and browsing history.

What they do is incredibly immoral and despicable. There is no opt-out (even if I pay them money). Even if I never use their services they still try to vacuum up all my data.

Me watching a few YouTube videos a week is a better deal for them than it is for me.
I did switch and then went back to Chrome. Didn't you read my comment?

It doesnt take 1 minute and yes the FF experience was significantly worse when I tried it.

Here's one example. I write almost daily in 4 languages on the web. With Chrome I get multilingual spell checking automatically in those 4 langguages without having to do anything. Even in the same <textarea>.

With FF you have to manually install dictionaries and there was even a 23 year old issue (yes, 23 years) about using multiple dictionnries at the same time. This issue was only closed 2 months ago:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69687
They probably don't. Forced ad viewing is fundamentally dishonest: they can force the user to watch the ad, but they can't force him to pony up for what is being advertised.
> Common Lisp is Howl's Moving Castle.

Common lisp isn't that big of a moving target, its also a standard which means that the standard isnt moving. In the vehicular comparison, I'd say its more like the filliping geepney (big heavy, shiny and bullies it way through heavy traffic).
I dunno, sounds like an empty promise.
Haha! I've never heard anyone say "blog posts are pointless" out loud but it's true
Curious how durable a Ti shirt would be. Could it save you walking down a dark alley at night?
Typically interface with customers/users/stakeholders, identify and document requirements, and...well, beyond that it varies a lot in different orgs, if its not actually coding, and its involved with the process of developing/maintaining software, there's some organization where someone titled as an "analyst" (usually with a prefix like "business", "system", or something) does it,
IDK About bare QML, but for desktop apps QQC2/Kirigami is pretty great.

https://develop.kde.org/docs/getting-started/kirigami/

https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/qtquickcontrols-index.html

The QML types are pretty extensive, covering most of the Widgets I think:

https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/qmltypes.html

For Widgets-consistent styling:

https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/qqc2-desktop-style
The hardest part would be to redesign the video play UI to ensure timestamp references still works and the progress bar is user friendly. Live video streaming is a harder problem to solve than injecting ads in a video and they already do that, so the technical parts aren't hard for them to do at all.
> Without the US gov as a early customer taking lots of risk, they company wouldn't exist

OK, it's like early Apple customers buying the Apple I.

Without those customers taking the risk Apple wouldn't exist today.

Still just a customer buying something, not "funding" in the way you make it sound.
Uh this is like saying "Y2K didn't happen so we wasted our time preventing it"

Like dude, it didn't happen because a lot of people prevented it, the same with nuclear war.

Because something could have tragic consequences is a reason to put great effort into ensuring it doesn't happen.
Ya like walk us through a day?
That's reminiscent of a caching scheme, you could probably layer that down to even smaller and up to even larger models for increased performance and accuracy.

Better yet: have many smaller models that can when confused call upon larger models and the larger models could then pick the most appropriate smaller 'expert' model or, alternatively themselves escalate. Sort of a supervisor tree for language models.
I don't understand this logic. Companies aren't omniscient; they can make mistakes, they can lack some information, etc. They will not inherently make the best choices at the best time just because ... capitalism?
It's 23% of GDP, not 37%. [0]

Anyone who says "we need to cull the feds" doesn't understand what we actually spend money on.

25% of our spending is Social Security, and 20% is the military. That's 45% right there.

Old people vote. Social Security is going nowhere. You literally can't cut the budget by 75%.

[0] https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/feder...
> you argued that my data wasn't worth anything

If you block all their ads. They get your data since they intend to display ads to you. I said that in the first post, did you miss that?
That's a great way of putting it.

I have found that communication strengths and weaknesses can vary, from person to person, and it's usually a tough sell to come up with "one size fits all" solutions.

One example, is that I had an employee who is probably the best engineer that I've ever met, and I've worked with top-shelf people.

But he is "on the spectrum," so his verbal communication tends to be in monosyllables, and can sometimes be a bit inscrutable.

His emails and specs, on the other hand, were absolute marvels of communication.

I had another engineer on the same team, who wasn't quite as brilliant, but he is an awesome "people person." It was always a good idea for me to make the time to chat. His emails tended to sometimes be abrupt, and the information density wasn't that great.

Put him in front of a whiteboard, however, with an audience, and it was amazing.

As their manager, it was incumbent upon me to deal with each as an individual. They would sometimes have clashes, and I was often the peacemaker.
> Google will continue to make Chrome shittier and more user-hostile

Other than this ad stuff (which I agree is tremendously hostile) Chrome has acually been getting better. The dev tools, performance, UI, and memory usage have improved considerably this year.
Seems like the headline is misleading. He ruled that there was reasonable evidence that that was the case and a trial can proceed.

It's not like he issued a judgement against them
Blocking cookies on YouTube worked perfectly so far for me.

And on top of it I don't get forcefully logged in to it anymore (I never wanted that in the first place).
> Fact-checking will struggle to counter propaganda, then, because it will either focus on the wrong thing (facts instead of the bigger picture), or it will focus on the right thing and risk becoming propaganda itself.

In my opinion, this entire essay is the author struggling with their own cognitive dissonance that fact checking as it plays out in American media smells a lot like propaganda, but it surely can't be propaganda, because it's done by the good guys and for good intentions. But the American propaganda arm is very old and well established.

There is no informational authority and there never was or can be.
Ask HN: Impact of current AI breakthrough on the educational choices of youth?
I was curious what HN thinks of this. A few people have asked me about this, specifically bachelors degree choices, but want to see what the community thinks. Will the current AI breakthrough force kids to change the education choices?

I see that there get the past decade ML is a hugely popular subject for CS students, I know some folks in medicine study ML too. However if AI gets commoditized will there be enough impetus for students to take it? How about students in other fields? Should any worry about their fields becoming irrelevant? May be I am unnecessarily overthinking this and nothing to overindex on?
No. There are leaves that aren't heads (for example, after you delete a branch, the old commits just lie around until someone deliberately cleans them up), and there are heads that arent' leaves (for example if you branch a new feature branch from main. The feature branch brances off of main, so main is not a leaf anymore)
My company bought me a Xerox 1108 Lisp Machine running Interlisp D in 1982. I write a commercial product for that environment that we sold for $5K, and it was a lot of fun. I run the latest Medley releases occasionally just for nostalgia. For present day hacking enjoyment I go with SBCL Common Lisp+Emacs, or Racket, or Python when I need the ecosystem.

Xerox really did a great job creating their Lisp Machines, a joy to develop on.
I'm sure corporations would love it if AI were able to do 2 days of the work every week and people did 3. Of course, they'd only want to pay people for the 3 days, not the other 2, and if they worked 8-hour days, that would mean 24 hours a week, so workers wouldn't qualify for insurance benefits either.

Yeah, I could definitely see that happening!
SUSE Linux and RHEL have been available for s390x for a long time, including of course PostgreSQL.
Kind of a stretch to blame that on him.

And guinea worm used to destroy the lives of millions, so even if he had personally handed nukes to North Korea, the lives saved by eradicating guinea worm is a bit more than the number of people North Korea has killed with nuclear weapons.
So why are they spying on me when I still pay them? Or are you going to still pretend that hasn't been brought up 3 times now? Or that there is no opt out for their other tracking?
These look like prizewinning photos. They're AI fakes.
> At its best, Ubuntu was twice as fast as Windows in ASTC, asmFish, CPU encoding with AV1

I'd expect some variance but being able to achieve a 2x speedup on what should be a fairly tight loop is ludicrous
YouTube premium is $17 a month in my market. I'm not paying $17 a month to remove ads from YouTube tier content. I'd pay $2 a month tops. Netflix is $22 a month for premium and Amazon Prime is $10 a month. YouTube does not even come close to providing similar value as those services. I'm not interested in any of the other junk they force you to buy with YouTube premium, it's just bundling to inflate the cost.
My current transfer fee is 0,03€/kWh. There is also the electricity tax (0,028€/kWh) and energy sales commission (0,004€/kWh). With hourly energy rate of -0,50€/kWh any usage will lower my energy bill for the current month even considering all the above costs.
Spinning Up in Deep RL (2018)
Thank you.

I find that an odd takeaway. To me seeing a 60% drop in car fatalities per mile suggests change can be accelerated and we can tackle large scale issues. The Chlorofluorocarbon ban doesn’t mean we are finished solving environmental problems, it means we can actually solve them. Similarly the drop in US CO2 emissions doesn’t mean the problem is solved, just that significant progress is achievable.

As to your edit, I wasn’t complaining about downvotes just confused. I removed the edit because someone responded with a comment about traffic fatalities so I could see why someone might disagree.
Strange, I actually haven't had it get it correct. Maybe just luck.
Probably the farthest it'll go is YouTube stitching ads into the videos and not serving all the bits in advance, kinda like cable TV. And the answer will be like a VHS or DVR, where you can only skip ads if you're ok waiting.

Unless WEI becomes a thing.
Yes, you can. Ends do not justify means.
Everyone made fun of Google for self-driving and totally derided them for years.

It only feels normal now because they took the risk and pulled everyone else in the industry forward.