skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, it was exceptionally well written and argued! Did you find any of the arguments faulty, or lacking counterweight? Or do you just weigh some drawbacks less harshly so you want some of the features they decided against?
Writes are completed to the host when they land on the SSD controller, not when written to Flash. The SSD controller has to accumulate enough data to fill its write unit to Flash (the absolute minimum would be a Flash page, typically 16kB). If it waited for the write to Flash to send a completion, the latency would be unbearable. If it wrote every write to Flash as quickly as possible, it could waste much of the drive's capacity padding Flash pages. If a host tried to flush after every write to force the latter behavior, it would end up with the same problem. Non-consumer drives solve the problem with back-up capacitance. Consumer drives do not have this. Also, if the author repeated this test 10 or 100 times on each drive, I suspect that he would uncover a failure rate for each consumer drive. It's a game of chance.
Should be noted that it's not open source. I have been using Flow Launcher instead and have been pleased with it.

https://www.flowlauncher.com/
Show HN: Give the gift of music
It will at the very least notice that the read data does not match the stored checksum and not return the garbage data to the application. In redundant (raidz) setups it will then read the data from another disk, and update the faulty disk. In a non-redundant setup (or if enough disks are corrupted) it will signal an IO error.

An error is preferred to silently returning garbage data!
> Why don’t top researchers and scientists get equivalent (if not more) respect, admiration and support?

I can't believe I'm about to defend VCs and "senior management" but here goes.

I've worked for two start-ups in my life.

The first start-up had dog-shit technology (initially) and top-notch management. CEO told me early on that VCs invest on the quality of management because they trust good senior executives to hire good researchers and let them pivot into profitable areas (and pivoting is almost always needed).

I thought the CEO was full of shit and simply patting himself on the back. Company pivoted HARD and IPOed around 2006 and now has a MC of ~ $10 billion.

The second start-up I worked with was founded by a Nobel laureate and the tech was based on his research. This time management was dog-shit. Management fumbled the tech and went out of business.

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Not saying Altman deserves uncritical praise. All I'm saying is that I used to diminish the importance of quality senior leadership.
My daughter is into K-pop (Korean pop), and has a BTS (a music group) light stick. Apparently most BTS fans have such a light stick. My daughter even has multiple versions. It has RGB LEDs inside that are controlled over bluetooth by an app. When you buy a concert ticket through this app, and you bring your light stick to the concert, this app controls your light stick as a pixel in the crowd. It knows your seat number, so it knows where "your pixel" is in the crowd. It can produce some really cool looking animations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkRKZLUwWkc
The best one I know is asking to describe a system you worked on, and supposedly know well, and deep dive into it.
No more staff budget for civil service. Worry not – here's an incubator for AI
Scripts don't scale; they give you scriptitis
Have you ever had to wait for an "automated" process to unblock you that took hours? Did this process use a pipeline and a bunch of scripts underneath to "get the job done"? Welcome to a new chronic disease of modern enterprises, what I call scriptitis.
Well there are notable cases in which the CEO had a critical role in the product development.
Larry Ellison coded himself the first versions of Oracle database and was then CEO up to 2014. Shay Banon wrote Elasticsearch and was Elastic CEO for some time.
I used to live in Montreal. Cabs there need to get a safety inspection like every 6 months.

Talking to some cab drivers there, many of them remarked that the people doing the safety exam -had- to find something. Your car could have been fresh from the mechanic, they’d find something to complain about.

So, starting about 6 weeks out from their next safety, if something went wrong but the car was still drivable, they wouldn’t fix it. So the safety guys had something to find, and they were going to pay to fix it anyways.
Well, it's been exposed multiple times that money, egos and the media that needs to report about them create a school lunch table where they simply stroke each other's ego and inflate everything they do.

No need for a conspiracy, everyones seen this in some aspect, it just gets worse when these people are throwing money around in the billions.

all you need to do is witness someone Like Elon musk to see how disruptive this type of thing is.
Bad code making into production has nothing to do with ai, and everything to do with the incompetence of the coder.

As for "stolen" work, i am still not convinced that ai produced works are a derivative of the training data.

And AI policing is just as bad as human policing - the regulation isn't with AI, but with policing.
All involved have clearly demonstrated the lack of credibility in self-governance or the ability to make big-boy decisions. All reassurances from now on will sound hollow.
Cyberpunk also has the red pill / blue pill and deja vu cat from the matrix.
Because apps mostly prefer dark theme now, and dark red, brown, dark green and so on look weird, and gray is OK, but very boring, like someone desaturated the UI. Which leaves shades of blue and purple.
Carp - https://github.com/carp-lang/Carp - "A statically typed lisp, without a GC, for real-time applications." where it's "Ownership tracking enables a functional programming style while still using mutation of cache-friendly data structures under the hood".
Omegle cannot perfectly protect their users from other users, and cannot determine who is a minor without ID verification (as we have seen in Virginia and Mississippi for porn sites).

They clearly want the entire product category illegal. Omegle might be gone, but many similar services remain.
LLMs fabricating things? Well I never!
The article has a list of violations that Binance has admitted to.

In addition to funding Hamas and ISIS, it includes money transfers to Russian-occupied Ukrainian territories, Russian darknets, tens of millions of dollars in ransomware, North Korean hackers, and more than 1,000 child porn transactions.

Crypto’s product-market fit seems pretty clear by now.
And if they do not, use this bookmarklet

javascript:void(open('https://archive.today/?run=1&url='+encodeURIComponent(document.location)))
almost every decision here, except for the board, can be accounted for by financial decisions.

Especially with putting Larry Summers on the board with this tweet.
This is why the reductionist argument of "your brain is reducible to a computer with inputs/outputs like any other, all we have to do is reimplement it" of AGI proponents always fell flat to me.

It's now becoming clear that we can't just take the brain in isolation, treating the spinal nerve like a PCI-E lane - the gut has to come with it. And if the gut comes with it, all the other organs (skin top of the list) probably do as well.

Now to model a human brain, you need to model an entire human, along with all the complexity of the microbiota, interactions of the organs with the environment... it all just falls apart.
[God denies your wish]
What happened to wox launcher?
not immediately clear how networking is done, but if you send traffic from the site it seems to come from a Digital Ocean VM
It would be an interesting move to install a co-ceo in a few months. That would be harder to object for Sam
A battery is something entirely different than a fuel cell. A fuel cell decouples capacity, power, discharging and charging, which is usually done by a different apparatus/ machine. A fuel cell is more interesting for longer applications, where you would build diesel generators, "peaker" power plants, seasonal energy storage. (E.g. you would produce a lot of sodium in the summer and react it to sodium hydroxide in the winter. In the summer you would recycle it back to sodium to store energy for the winter.) It should btw. be possible to transport sodium using very similar ships that nowadays transport crude oil. You could also transport sodium on pallets in colder climates as it is solid < 100˚C.
I wonder how they would go about something like that. It’s not like they can set up a subsidiary in Russia and freely move funds around?
> I mean if OpenAI had been born in the Soviet Union or Scandinavia, maybe people would have somewhat different values, it's hard to know.

Or in Arthurian times. Very different values.
My more plausible version is that CEOs of journalistic publications are in cahoots with the rich/powerful/govt people, who get to dictate the tone of said publications by hiring the right journalists/editors and giving them the right incentives.

So as a journalist you might have freedom to write your articles, but your editor (as instructed by his/her senior editor) might try to steer you about writing in the correct tone.

This is how 'Starship test flight makes history as it clears multiple milestones' becomes 'Musk rocket explodes during test'
You are delusional if you think YC folks does not have a wide network of tech journalists who would side with them when they need.
Please have a look at newer commands like restore, switch etc. Much clearer in my regard.
You do know PR firms exist, right? Or have you been living under a rock since the dawn of the 20th century?
Yeah, I think there may well be an investigation into that. At best, he said something that was unequivocally untrue, and at worst it was an outright lie. That's blatant market manipulation.
https://liamchingliu.wordpress.com/2012/06/25/intellectuals-...
Media >= employees? Media >= Sam? I don't think media has any role on oversight or governance.

I think Sam came out the winner. He gets to pick his board. He gets to narrow his employees. If anything, this sets him up for dictatorship. The only other overseers are the investors. In that case, Microsoft came out holding a leash. No MS, means no Sam, which also means employees have no say.

So it is more like MS > Sam > employees. MS+Sam > rest of investors.
Embellishment is very rare in most architecture programs today. You can thank Corbusier, a criminal against humanity as far as I am concerned.
What kind of tools and moderation would have been effective? Genuinely curious to hear perspectives.
It's for people who want to discover LLMs and either don't have the skill to deploy it, or value their time, and prefer not to fool around for hours getting it to work before they can try it.

The fact it has configuration is good, as long as it has some defaults.
Even further behind, an Amiga 500 would be more than enough for many folks.
The bad apple can be anything in hierarchy, from your manager to his and down to your team member but oftentimes a combination. In a team it can come down to hurt ego. So if you're now the guy brought in to fix the team, you can expect this to be your sole job but not what you actually expected from the interview and job description. Also be very cautious if you're not meeting the WHOLE team for some time during the interview phase. In my books this tactic is used by executives to hide (read: lie) the dysfunctionality of the organisation to a prospective talented manager who would otherwise decline.
No it’s the land that counts. Location, location, location.

That’s why we should tax land and not tax development. Then all the upside of building a particularly nice place goes directly into the pockets of the people who choose to build a particularly nice place, instead of 70% of the value going to the landowner regardless of what piece of shit gets built on it.
All that is true. But humans have had thousands of years to do such things, and yet: No world dominator.
Advertising, if you consider it as a ratio of impact versus regulation. Advertising has a thousand fold impact on people today but not a thousand fold increase in regulation.
What can you expect from Apache Doris as a data warehouse
I remember an interview from Soviet cinema director Georgii Daneliya, mentioning that to make their movie pass the approval committee intact (what you'd call "censorship"), they'd make absurd and provocative "sacrifice" episodes (like "sacrifice bolts"). The episodes were fought over and finally seceded to the committee, but the rest of the film went into the theaters.

(Movies had to pass two such committees: one before production, approving the scenario, and the other one approving the final cut.)
Yeah, that's my take. Doesn't really matter if the composition of the board is to Adam's liking and has a couple more heavy hitters if Sam is untouchable and Microsoft is signalling that any time OpenAI acts against its interests they will take steps to ensure it ceases to have any staff or funding.
Yes yes, but that doesn't change the fact that Sam positioned himself to be unfireable. The board took their best shot and now the board is (mostly) gone and Sam is still the chief executive. They board will find itself sidelined from now on.
I agree. I love native Win32 apps, they're so light and quick. But nowadays everyone is using shitty solutions such as Electron.
Where is this blind trust for the board coming from? The board provided zero rationale for firing Sam.
I would expect that actual AI researchers understand that you cannot break the laws of physics just by thinking better. Especially not with ever better LLMs, which are fundamentally in the business of regurgitating things we already know in different combinations rather than inventing new things.

You seem to be equating AI with magic, which it is very much not.
Why is people so interested in this? Why exactly was he fired? I did not get why when I read the news, so I find it strange that people care if they don't even know what it's about. Do we know for sure what this was/is about?
... and if you want to go visit somebody or something on the other side of the same city, expect easily 2-3 hours regardless of mode used, so a lot of people just don't. Its bearable place but you are literally stuck in it, at least compared to places which are smaller or more concentrated where you actually do and see stuff, not just spend your day getting to/from it
> just what the heck is Larry Summers doing on that board?

Probably precisely what Condeleeza Rice was doing on DropBox’s board. Or that board filled with national security state heavyweights on that “visionary” and her blood testing thingie.

https://www.wired.com/2014/04/dropbox-rice-controversy/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theranos#Management

In other possibly related news: https://nitter.net/elonmusk/status/1726408333781774393#m

“What matters now is the way forward, as the DoD has a critical unmet need to bring the power of cloud and AI to our men and women in uniform, modernizing technology infrastructure and platform services technology. We stand ready to support the DoD as they work through their next steps and its new cloud computing solicitation plans.” (2021)

https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2021/07/06/microsofts-commi...
I'd like to build myself a headless server to run models, that could be queried from various clients locally on my LAN, but am usure where to start and what the hardware requirements would be. Software can always be changed later but I'd rather buy the hardware parts only once.

Do you have recommendations about this? or blog posts to get started? What would be a decent hardware configuration?
Gatekeeping, probably. (Only half joking; the cult of personality in IT can be pretty toxic.)

Plus, most people in tech got into their field because they like tech. Managing people isn't nearly as fun or rewarding to them.
> > By definition the attention economy dictates that time spent one place can’t be spent in another

Using that definition even the local gokart renting place or the local jetski renting place competes with Facebook.

If you want to use that definition you might want to also add a criteria for minimum size of the company.
“never” is a strong word. I believe in the RL era of OpenAI they were quite aligned with the mission/values
According to reports they haven't told executives and employees inside the company. (I'm not arguing that they should speak publicly, though given the position the board put itself in I think hiring PR people for external crisis comms is very much warranted)

When 95% of your staff threatens to resign and says "you have made a mistake", that's when it's time to say "no, the very good reasons we did it are this". That didn't happen.
Sam isn't a leader or manager at WC. He's just one of many founders.

Worldcoin has terrible optics, thanks in part to having "coin" as part of the name which is a word it shares with endless scams. However they're solving real problems which do unfortunately involve biometrics, but in the long term it's extremely privacy protecting biometrics and nothing is meaningfully stored anywhere in the long term vision.
They have a different set of incentives. If I were them I would have done the same thing, Altman is going to make them all fucking rich. Not sure if that will benefit humanity though.
So could you say that when we see such a gamma ray burst in a distant galaxy (which apparently occurs daily from our point of view), that's witnessing all life in that galaxy being wiped out?

This is pretty horrifying :/
Finally ! Now that this is out, I can finally start adding proper video widgets to CushyStudio https://github.com/rvion/CushyStudio#readme . Really hope I can get in touch with StabilityAi people soon. Maybe Hacker News will help
So for example, a treatment plan might look like this:

1. Go to a GP and explain symptoms
2. GP orders some tests based on symptoms
3. GP refers you to a specialist based on test results
4. Specialist orders more tests
5. Specialist analyzes results and orders more tests, or prescribes treatment plan
6. Check in with specialist in weeks or months to evaluate results and update treatment

It seems to me that for many common issues, 1-4 could plausibly be replaced by AI guided care with minor downsides.

If you are normally spending a lot of time waiting between steps for a practitioner to become available, then it's going to be a net win for many people.
Snowpack has been unmaintained for years now, and its homepage actively recommends people switch to Vite.
Here's the problems I face with my tech lead:

Lack of vision and lack of decisiveness. A "we'll cross that bridge when we get there" attitude for everything. No clue about the tech stack and no direction causes the programmers to, for lack of a better word, start working randomly, and it's no surprise the code will look like an ant colony. Bad design decisions go undetected, and when someone does bring them up, management has no clue what to do about it. In fact it is really too late by then.

There's a guy who is on the spectrum. Terrible communicator. But understands pretty much everything about our code.

There's a guy who doesn't understand shit, doesn't know software engineering terms, and feels the need to redo everything his way (so that he understands. He admitted so when I called him out).

There's a guy who gets shit done, but there's always a couple of issues with it that reveal themselves later that have to be iterated on, back and forth.

There's me, I need some central directives and direction. Right now the rewrite-guy is always breathing down my neck and second guessing the way I have my microservice set up, despite not understanding the external API problems I have to design around.

Would love a manager/tech lead that could actually just do something useful with this situation rather than faff about. The tech lead is present for all of this, and sees all of it happen, but never really interjects or involves himself. There's never resolution, unless you really push him for it.
Oh no

I logged in
I think you analysis is missing the key problem: Business interests.

The public don't calculate into whats happening here. There's people using ChatGPT for real "business value" and _that_ is what was threatened.

It's clear Business Interests could not be stopped.
The whole point of explicit flush is to tell the drive that you want the write at the expense of performance. Either the drive should not accept the flush command or it should fulfill it, not lie.

(BTW this points out the crappy use of the word “performance” in computing to mean nothing but “speed”. The machine should “perform” what the user requests — if you hired someone to do a task and they didn’t do it, we’d say they failed to perform. That’s what’s going on here.)
Very bearish on these frameworks and abstractions.

Yes, obviously useful for prototyping and creating hype articles & tweets with fun examples. However any engineer is capable of doing their own rag with the same effort (minimal data extraction using the ancient pdf/scrape tools that are still open sota, or use cloud ocr for best —-> brute force chunking —-> embed —-> load in Ann with complementary metadata store)

Anyone doing prod needs to know the intricacies and make advanced engineering decisions. There’s a reason there aren’t similar end-to-end abstractions over creating Lucene (solr/elastic) indexes. Hmm, why not after many decades? …

In reality, the RAG tech is not entirely novel— it’s etl. Which in reality, complex etl is often a serious data curation effort. LLMs are the closest thing to enabling better data curation, and as long as you aren’t competing with open ai (arguably any commercial system is) then you can use chatgpt to create your chunks.

Beyond this embedding strategies are nice to abstract but the best approach to embeddings still remains to create your own and figure out contextual integration on your own. Creating your own can also just be fine-tuning. Inference is often an ensemble depending on your use case.
> You’re cherry picking [...] You’re ignoring relevant causal factors [...] You’re ignoring decades of research [...] you’re generalizing

You're very emphatic in ignoring common sense. You don't need studies to see that almost all important contributions to mathematics, from Euclid to the present day, have come from men. I don't know if it's because of genetics, culture, or whatever, but it's the truth.

> you are being sexist [...] it’s racist and irrational [...]

Names have never helped discourse.
If you pay attention to history, they started out far poorer and improved quicker than in comparable countries.

Just because revolutions are more likely to happen in poor countries doesn't mean the revolutions caused the poverty.
> But I really wonder what the authorities where doing - if paedophiles were using the platform, sounds like it would have been easy to identify and trap them

You didn't need an account to use Omegle and when it matched you up with someone the chat/video was peer-to-peer directly between your computer and theirs. Not really much to go on if you are trying to identify the person on the other end.
> Humanity and civilization depend on many critical infrastructures

As does an AGI. Being the most intelligent, fastest thinking engine in the world is worth exactly squat when the opposing can get together 10000 guys with crowbars and a bad attitude in a hurry and knows where the server is.

Anyone who disagrees with that statement is welcome to explain how a infectious particles without a mind, without a metabolism, without even a reproductive system (aka. Viruses), can pose such a godamn hard to solve problem to a species that has atomic bombs, rocket engines and knows about quantum physics.

All the doomsday scenarios about AGI rely on it being able to have AGENCY in the REAL WORLD. That agency isn't software, it's hardware, and as such limited by physical laws. And a lot of that agency has to go through humans.