skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I buy direct from authors wherever possible. No problems so far. I don't trust reviewers (and definitely don't trust Amazon's review system).

I maintain my own library using Calibre. I have a directory on my laptop that has my books in it, and use Calibre to maintain and access it. I back it up onto an external hard drive about once a month.

I briefly experimented with creating a Gitlab repo to store books in, so that it was at least as safe and secure as my code. But it's just easier with Calibre. Also I didn't feel entirely comfortable using Gitlab's free service for something other than what it is intended for, and I've learned the lesson that storing things long-term on free accounts isn't wise.
"Sorry I am just an AI chip, I can't help you running LLMs"
To some degree. Certainly the job of "file clerk" whose job was to retrieve folders of information from filing cabinets was made obsolete by relational databases. But the general fear that computers would replace workers wasn't really justified because most white-collar (even low end white-collar) jobs required some interaction using language. That computers couldn't really do. Until LLMs.
I can see how it’s confusing but usually “graphics programmer” is someone who works on a graphics rendering engine (either real time or offline rendering)
By this logic we should just forbid the wheel. Imagine how many untrained people could work in transport and there would always be demand.

So why did the wheel not result in mass unemployment?

And factories neither?

Certainly it should have happened already but somehow it never did...
Has Qualcomm ever engaged in significant semi-custom work? (no, adjusting dvfs for a special "for galaxy" SKU or adding pluton to 8cX gen 3 doesn't count). Samsung was a semi-custom partner for Apple in the early days of the iPhone (to the extent that the M1 still has some Samsung IP in it[0]).

I heavily doubt that Qualcomm is even capable of working in such a role. In fact, the C-suite probably believes that their core competency is lawsuits and not modems, anyway.

[0] https://twitter.com/calebccff/status/1472517091970494465

(Edit: I meant semi-custom SoC design/architecture not cores, like https://www.anandtech.com/show/7281/understanding-amd-semi-c... )
IIRC Qualcomm puts their own Hexagon DSP on the SoC which is where they placed their own low precision matrix multiplication accelerator.
Bad example, I guess.

You wrote Since when is a VP middle-level management ? in reply to the parent commenter's observation It's one thing to legitimately trash Sundar Pichai; another to name some middle-level manager like that. A VP is very much middle-level management.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_title#Middle_managem...

(a quick look at a Google org chart makes it look like, well, VPs are middle management there too)
So the CTO position with Hyundai I was just offered might not be legit
Well, bad cars don’t offload the driving to some kind of metaphorical cloud service. So I guess there’s some limitations to my analogy.
"We essentially operated like a startup, discovering what we were building more than designing it."

I guess that's how the chat apps were created as well
> what can Emmett Shear claim exactly?

- helped to stabilized the situation

- the first to propose the idea of independent investigation into the matter

- sided with impacted employees all the way through such difficult moments

- supported a smooth transition period

depending on how he reacted when 90% employees signed that letter asking for altman's return, don't be too surprised if he claims to be guy how helped to push for that as well.
Q* = Q-Learning and a* Search?
Google employees should be put on a Government watchlist for life
Two deprecated technologies in 21 years, are you serious? Their main templating language, Razor, has been around since 2010. Silverlight and Webforms continued to get support for many years after they were superceded.
Even with the recent improvements to iOS speech recognition, I've felt that Android recognition has always been better. Not the case?
I rarely, if ever, use Excel. But I find that Outlook in the browser wipes the floor with local Outlook, be it "OG" or "new" Outlook. Everything is much smoother, there are no window widgets crapping up (right now, the min / max / close and window title of my new outlook are black on a dark grey background - I'm using the windows dark theme). This holds even in Firefox on Linux – it's how I mostly interact with MS Office.

What's also fun to me is that the other day, I tried "opening in word" a .docx attachment I received in my locally-installed "new" outlook. It didn't even try to open my locally installed word on ask me anything. It uploaded the file to onedrive without asking and proceeded to launch word online to read it.
That’s still entirely independent of what the school’s mainframes run on.
I’m sure Google had to think long and hard if they wanted all those queries forwarded to their data centers to analyse (enrich their user profiles).
I use the chilipad, from sleep.me . Seems like they have quite few options. I have the lowest end model and I definitely want to upgrade to the pro when I can. But the cubes have been good to me.

And then I also use the bedjet. Bedjet.com. It blows air. I just don't like the constant feeling of air blowing, but its great for the feet when hopping in and having the option for quick fix (hot or cold) in the middle of the night.
Remember when everyone called it video conferencing?
THIS. If it has the whole corpus of research, math, physics, science etc to know how the world works and know it better than any human alive, it should be able to start coming up with new theories and research that combines those ideas. Until then, it's just regurgitating old news.
Kind of the opposite, unless you're referring to OpenAI?

Sovereign citizens claim to be independent of the laws of the United States.

This is a dispute about a company failing to comply with a specific law of the United States.
I went through this and switched from web dev to being a graphics programmer at a game studio

Personally I think LearnOpenGL is still the best tutorial series if you want to work on game rendering engines

Just because it covers a ton of different topics from beginner up to advanced all in one series. You go from scratch all the way up to implementing deferred rendering and a full PBR implementation

If you understand all of those tutorials you have a pretty good baseline for how modern game rendering works (minus ray tracing)

In terms of getting a job though the modern APIs are highly desirable
Show HN: BrowserGPT – drive your web browser with gpt4-turbo
Agreed. I have 20+ Hyper-V Windows Server VMs running since 2017, seeing 400-600 Mbps live video traffic - no major crashes, only due to facility power loss or annual patching reboots.
These things are deliberately constructed to mimic human language patterns, if you're trying to determine whether there is underlying sentience to it, you need to be extra skeptical and careful about analyzing it and not rely on your first impressions of it's output. Anything less would be a level of stupidity not fit for a Google AI researcher, which considering that he was fired is apropos. That he keeps going on about it after his 15 minutes are up is not proof of anything except possibly that besides being stupid he also stubborn.
To quote Reddit user jstadig,

> The thing that most worries me about technology is not the technology itself but the greed of those who run it.

Someone slimy with limitless ambition like Altman seems to be the worst person to be in charge of things like this.
The thing is that a LLMs can point out a logic error in their reasoning if specifically asked to do so.

So maybe OpenAI just slapped an RL agent on top of the next-token generator.
I'm excited for when it can use it's large knowledge of data, science, research papers etc to understand the world so well that it'll be coming up with new technologies, ideas, answers to hard problems.
The point isn't forbidding anything, it is realizing that technological change is going to cause unemployment and having a plan for it, as opposed to what normally happens where there is no preparation.
null results are also replicable.
I weld the same way anyone does.
I happened to be able to get it really cheap for various reasons.
- Take a long break during the day

- Take short breaks throughout the day, like getting coffee/water, etc.

- Turn off self view!

- If you code, try to cluster your meetings together to reduce context switching. Block focus time on your calendar to avoid drive-by meetings that break up these clusters.

- Invest in good headphones and a good mic. Others might have bad sound quality but you definitely won't. Also, it will be easier to hear others even if they have bad sq
You're getting burned because you keep moving between technologies, and you're blaming Microsoft? Weird. Have you tried not doing that?
with a tool, an LLM agent can easily perform this task. If it evaluates its performance against a bunch of different tools and then learns, this is learnable. just not with pure LLM approach
I feel the same about GTA V. When I'm driving, and the sunset comes, and the song "Pure Shores" starts to play, I really start to get shivers. Somehow with this game they captured some of the vibe of California, and related movies (HEAT, Point Break).
Generative text AI (Large language models) require a ton of RAM for inference which just isn't a thing on mobile devices yet. It makes more sense to keep these features in the cloud vs making phones with unrealistic specs.
It’s been long enough that I’ve successfully blocked a lot out, but it all kind of started because she put some terrible bullshit velocity graph up in a staff meeting that made our good weeks look like bad weeks and bad weeks look good. Derailed the whole meeting as people explained project management to a project manager.

Then the next staff meeting she put up the same graph. We explained five better ways to display the data.

All summer long, same graph, every meeting. At some point the relationship died.
"Gordon’s great insight was to design a program which allowed you to specify in advance what decision you wished it to reach, and only then to give it all the facts. The program’s task, which it was able to accomplish with consummate ease, was simply to construct a plausible series of logical-sounding steps to connect the premises with the conclusion."

From the thumping good detective-ghost-horror-who dunnit-time travel-romantic-musical-comedy-epic: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
There is in fact a treasure throve of high level research that is to controversial for any expert to go near.

Wild things will happen if screaming hoax from ignorance can no longer shut down constructive efforts.

It will simply combine what is written about germ theory or heavier than air flying machines and produce sensible responses.

The patent db's are full of treasures if you have oh 1000 years? to study it. Maybe 10 000?

It should also be possible to take a seemingly unworkable idea that makes no sense and gather just what is needed to bring it into reality.

For stuff you can build or otherwise test properly it makes no difference what people think is possible.

People think very little is possible, we always did! Everything that can be discovered has been discovered has been the mantra for thousands of years. This while the things people actually accomplish seem to get more and more astonishing.
it's the point of basically every discussion on HN about this. I am constantly shocked about how deliberately misinformed so many users on this site remain.
Ok so you accept that latest gen art generators can do fingers. I'd argue from the latest waymo paper they are reliable enough to be no worse than humans.
The clear pattern for most of human history is conflict between a few people who have a lot of power and the many more people that are exploited by those few. It should be obvious by this point that the most probable near-term risk of AI development is that wealthy and influential groups get access to a resource that makes it cheap for them to dramatically expand their power and control over everyone else.

What will society look like when some software can immediately aggregate an enormous amount of data about consumers and use that to adjust their behavior? What might happen when AI starts writing legislation for anybody that can afford to pay for it? What might AI-generated textbooks look like in 50 years?

These are all tools that could be wielded in any of these ways to improve life for lots of people, or to ensure that their lives never improve. Which outcome you believe is more likely largely depends on which news you consume -- and AI is already being used to write that.
Still sounds archaic that it's a problem today that needs to even be addressed.
imo, they should not resist it. It is shameful to let bad things bad stay in the world unless you really need the self-preservation, and somebody with 18 years of google money does not.
The appointment of Quora CEO, a practitioner of the worst application of ChatGPT, SEO, as the new board member of OpenAI, is a cause for despair.
You're basically talking to yourself for four hours

That sucks
Does this handle multithreading?
I just benefited from ZFS boot environments/snaphsots during the update of FreeBSD from 13.2 to 14.0-release. It's a great tool to have at your disposal
"For most of the time development was manageable. Certainly less stressful than Vice City. To finish it off a good stretch of crunch was required. The company got a chef to provide a good meal for those working late. That really helped."

So it wasn't manageable at all. Trading in your time for food isn't worth it. Been there, done that. Work life balance is more important.
Yeah, I subsequently saw that restriction in other comments, and that seems to significantly impact how "reasonable" the complaint is. The problem is I'm unclear what part of steam "steam keys" are for - some comments imply it's the steam DRM mechanism? but you're implying there's ongoing operating costs so is it the cloud syncing or similar?
> We release our questions while retaining answers to 300 of them to power a leader-board available at this https URL.

Nothing on the leaderboard: https://huggingface.co/gaia-benchmark
While time travel is scientifically possible, the Fermi paradox ends any civilization long before they are able to make it a reality
May be add a link to your site/tool ;)

This sounds like self-hosted version of Leanpub (but they handle fees like VAT and act as merchant-of-record among other features).
Fair! But I'm just reminding the comment above that continued employment is not really guaranteed for most jobs which are mostly mental.
how could it be priced this high ?
If you ask Ilya Sutskever he will say your kids head is full of neurons, so is LLMs.

LLMs comsume training data and can then be asked questions. How different is that to your son watching YouTube and then answering questions?

It's not 1:1 the same,yet, but it's in the neighborhood.
Agree my first thought also
The book "The Innovator's Dillemma" is about this concept.
Online Teaching Emotion Analysis
"This article introduces an innovative approach designed to tackle the intricate task of analyzing student emotions within the context of online classroom teaching. Emotion analysis within this setting is crucial for understanding and improving the online learning experience."

"This article introduces an online auxiliary tool for analyzing emotional states in virtual classrooms using the nonlinear vision algorithm Transformer. This research uses multimodal fusion, students’ auditory input, facial expression and text data as the foundational elements of sentiment analysis. In addition, a modal feature extractor has been developed to extract multimodal emotions using convolutional and gated cycle unit (GRU) architectures."

Oh dear. Why do people publish this stuff and reviewers allow it? Also:

Are you really sure that facial images correspond with these so-called "emotions" (i.e, once again the "happy, angry, sad, shocked, and fearful" stuff; that is, facial expressions), and what are these so-called "true labels" against which you test your model?

Please elaborate why do you want to surveil your students, and how on earth you think surveillance and erroneous inference would improve anything? If anything, the effect should presumably be negative.

And last:

Why you didn't get ethics approval or even discuss ethical implications?
I don’t know but I’m curious: I’d imagine at that many cores you’re probably reaching the limits of how much power the socket can realistically get? I know some motherboards have that supplemental power port.
not everything is a tech problem. sometimes it is sales and marketing and just downright ignorance and chuck-it-to-tech on part of the operations team.
It's no fun if you don't get strung along for a few years.
This is a good question. Furthermore what if Walt took the money for his cancer treatment from his old business partner?
So, I as a Freelancer can use it to create an invoice and send to a client and get paid directly and payment is handled by Contra without any commission?

How will I actually get paid....? via Contra? Or will I receive payment directly in my account.
This comment seems to presume that Q* is related to existing LLM work -- which isn't stated in the article. Others have guessed that the 'Q' in Q* is from Q-learning in RL. In particular backtracking, which you point out LLMs cannot do, would not be an issue in an appropriate RL setup.
idk what do they have to be upset about - It’s a few anecdotes from developing the game and not naming anyone. Sounds like it’s more about not sharing anything at all.
This was republished in violation of the Time Travel Ban of 1954, which was later repealed in 1942 and reinstated in 1941. The ban remains in effect until 2066 and finally legalized in 2051 with restrictions of no travel before 2025 due to the "intervention leading to the Temporal Event of 2015".
Sure some are moving. There are always some moving. But despite the HN bubble effect its a tiny sample.

Plus folk moving now are folk who'll move back later when they get disgruntled there. (No disrespect.) First movers are not the loyal customer base. Movers gotta be moving..

(I say this as a general rule not making an assumption about you personally.)

It's like even everyone "left" Facebook for google+.
it is similar to mimic style of painter by stable diffusion or other tool. the purpose is scoff artists and reducing their income.
I feel like better expertise targets tend to be more durable. In other words, rather than expert in a specific technology or technique, the best experts had the ability to develop expertise in any given technology within a space and often overlapped cursory knowledge with other spaces. I met plenty of graphics experts at Oculus and they didn’t care so much about whether it was D3D or Vulkan - originally they were D3D engineers for PCVR and then a good chunk of them shifted to Vulkan once the focus shifted to mobile VR. They just knew how those APIs mapped to the actual HW reality, how things connected, why things were slow, how to improve performance, etc. The mundane stuff of “what is the sequence of steps to do X in Vulkan” is answered by Google/StackOverflow (or even these days ChatGPT). Heck, a good chunk of them were creating their own new APIs. This isn’t unique to Meta by the way. It’s like engineers who say they’re “C” or “C++ experts”. With the exception of authors like Scott Meyers or people working on the C++ language spec who I think can truly maybe claim that title, the kind of thing that is called a “language X expert” is the kind of expertise that a good engineer should be able to develop in any language with 2-3 years of practice and proficient mastery within ~3-12 months because the true expertise is the underlying CS principles (at least for a family of languages - I’ve never done too much with non-Algol families so I don’t know how I’d fare there).

However, I do agree that generally graphics engineer is a niche limited to the few people working on gaming engines, VR R&D, or animation R&D. But those skills, at least today, are generally transferable to AI engineering because GPU compute plays such a huge role. There’s less graphics programming of course and the APIs for GPU compute are a bit different, but AFAIK many of the hardware concepts remain (e.g. wavefronts, how GPUs do threading, etc etc).
One of the advantages of two's compliment (particularly relevant in early hardware that really needed to minimize gate count) is that you can use an adder to perform subtraction: just flip all of the bits of the argument to subtract, and have an extra carry input to pretend you have a carry-in bit to be added to the least significant bit.

If you want your CPU to efficiently support multi-precision addition, you can have an overflow machine state flag and have an instruction that uses that overflow flag as the carry-in to the least significant bit during addition.
The author should keep the examples consistent, it was showing good example first then bad examples then all of a sudden it swapped to bad example first then good which goes against his Rule #9.
Interesting. Which version did you use? My experiment failed (GPT 3.5)
* **that confirm their prejudices** *

(my emphasis)
No problem whatever OS is needed but what I find annoying is how badly IT departments setup their OS policies. Especially if you get a job at a company that is not primarily a tech company as as software engineer you get to suffer with locked down big brothered Windows. I don't mind Windows when it's clean and debloated and wsl2 works nicely but when you have the same blanket group policy for all employees regardless of what kind of work they do its a hurdle I cannot stomach.
ChatGPT (3.5) seems to do some rudimentary backtracking when told it's wrong enough times. However, it does seem to do very poorly in the logic department. LLMs can't seem to pick out nuance and separate similar ideas that are technically/logically different.

They're good at putting things together commonly found together but not so good at separating concepts back out into more detailed sub pieces.
Why is everything on the web has to serve some random tinkerer who do not benefit the creator of the website in any way? How about we apply this thinking to other kind of products? An app has to be designed for tinkerers to? A cars, a rockets?..., so everything has to be open source? Why?
Friend, the creator of this new progress is a machine learning PhD with a decade of experience in pushing machine learning forward. He knows a lot of math too. Maybe there is a chance that he too can tell the difference between a meaningless advance and an important one?
Past technological breakthroughs have required large, costly retools of society though. Increasingly, those retools have resulted in more and more people working in jobs whose societal value is dubious at best. Whether the next breakthrough(or the next five) finally requires a retool whose cost we can't afford is an open question.
I've had this going back to the Pixel 4. Do non-Google phones still not have this?