skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, but importantly, generating them with the AI trained on Mickey is not.
Yes, I was thinking of fixing the second point, but then I was annoyed with it and left it like that. If I knew that it blows up here on Hacker News I would have fixed it.

I'm not sure where you see horizontal scrollbars though. Are you on Windows?
That recursive yin yang article is great, and the logo you got out of the experiment is incredibly cool. I'm impressed!
That's not the only thing wrong. Gemini makes a false statement in the video, serving as a great demonstration of how these models still outright lie so frequently, so casually, and so convincingly that you won't notice, even if you have a whole team of researchers and video editors reviewing the output.

It's the single biggest problem with LLMs and Gemini isn't solving it. You simply can't rely on them when correctness is important. Even when the model has the knowledge it would need to answer correctly, as in this case, it will still lie.

The false statement is after it says the duck floats, it continues "It is made of a material that is less dense than water." This is false; "rubber" ducks are made of vinyl polymers which are more dense than water. It floats because the hollow shape contains air, of course.
I fine tuned some checkpoints this year (2023), and that's exactly how it worked.

Unless your model is single focus for humans and faces I find it hard to believe there is specific business logic in the training process around inferring beauty from social engagement. Metas model is general purpose.
How fast are these small models on a 4090, is it like 100ms ? 500ms ?
You are missing the point.
The format string is tens of bytes, parsing it is fast no matter what compared to reading large amounts of data.
Yeah I'm not interested in that part, that's obviously suspicious behavior that admins will ideally handle. The person I replied to said the content itself was spam and claimed to care about new ideas being shared.

Also, if you're on a website or platform long enough that a repost angers you, go outside. Read a book. Play a game. There is better shit to worry about than how many times a page is linked to on a forum.
There is virtually no way we will ever run out of lithium. It is massively abundant. It's just a matter of how much it costs to extract it. And we'll surely have fusion energy/abundant energy in 100 years and it will make the cost of extraction very close to zero.
The Volvo EX30 will apparently be competitively priced and manufactured in Belgium for the European market eventually
> Most software engineers aren't listening to podcasts about software engineering. If you are religiously listening to and learning from podcasts, that makes you more suspectible to being a higher percentile performer in software engineering.

Does it though?

I don't feel like listening to podcasts is a particularly good way to build software engineering skill.

The same way listening to a podcast about art doesn't make you a better painter nor listening to a podcast about football will make you a better athlete.
Thank you confused_boner, I agree that this will be a very impactful update for our future.
> A streamer (...) says that if you are (...) watching streams of the game, that makes you a top 10% player automatically.

Sounds like pandering to the audience. Performing better then 90% of people makes you a top 10% player.

Self soothing about how what you like to do in your spare time makes you better then others is not making you any favors.

It doesn't matter how much effort you put into being effective. In fact I'd say living and breathing software engineering will make you a less effective software engineer than someone who also understands management, psychology, economics, etc.
It doesn't make it okay, but yes, it does make it non-arbitrary. But what VoxPelli wrote regarding your original statement.
I've brought this up before and got down voted, but I agree. Competition starts at the 90th percentile. Everything before that is casual play and fundamentals.
No, I think you're thinking about it the the wrong way: write failures are common. The failure mode for a bad disk is often that reads will succeed and writes will lose data. Something that silently writes like this is increasing the risk of data loss.

It probably depends a lot on the application, but I think it's often much better to have something that will warn the user about security risks and let them decide what to do with that risk. If you do design something with these silent writes, you absolutely need to think hard about failure cases and test them, and not handwave them away. Having the most "secure" data be corrupted is ultimately an unacceptable outcome.

That's not even getting into the other problems, such as ... is it ok for the user to take a performance hit of writing X GB when all they want to do is read a file?
Closest thing to the "Rust" of SQL is GoogleSQL, in that it has a little more safety. But only a little.
You realize that was literally 20 years ago?
This was my first thought, and I'm glad it was the first comment HN showed to me. RIP graphics were pretty slow to render compared to their ANSI counterparts, but that vector art could render visuals otherwise unseen on independent BBSs.

Legend of the Red Dragon even supported RIP.
> and certainly not the AI revolution either.

The AI revolution is still underway, we don't know who missed what yet. In term of research output. Most of the ground breaking work did "not" come from msft. They just bough they way in. Valid strategy, but definitely not novel.
I think what the commenter did was reasonable, since it also lets other HNers know that this is a behavior to be on the lookout for. I knew people spammed HN with links to their own websites, but I didn't realize people tried did the same with previously-successful submissions.

I agree with the commenter that this isn't appropriate, even if it sometimes leads to good discussions. I appreciate that he posted it here, even if he ultimately has to email HN to get this addressed.

Perhaps the best resolution is for a rule to be added to the HN guidelines. I don't mind people submitting a lot, but if you're just recycling old stuff that's not great IMO.
That isn’t what’s happening here, it’s unions striking. Employees can’t just do this randomly, it has to be part of an organised strike which is fairly rare. Once the strikes in place the private employees (not civil servants) who belong to unions will follow recommendations of actions.
That’s more down to dumb luck partnering with OpenAI.

You have a point with the cloud computing. I’d hesitate to call it a revolution though. I’d never willingly use a microsoft cloud product if I wasn’t forced to by my employer.
I’m imagining the project managers are patting themselves on the back for checking all the performative boxes, blind to the absolute satire of it all.
> something fresh comes along that really solves a lot of the UX and security issues they have?

I'm working on this! It's called Stamp (https://stamp-protocol.github.io/) and takes a lot of the issues I've had with PGP/GPG and creates a more modern refresh. It's definitely not simple but my hope is that having sane defaults and writing good interfaces will help with this.

Unfortunately it just went through a rearchitecting and the docs are horribly out of date, but the basic concept persists. In the current version instead of having different hardcoded key types (alpha, publish, etc), there's now the concept of "admin keys" and "policies." Policies decide what keys can do what as far as managing the identity, so it's possible for instance to have a policy that gives a key god powers, or a policy that sayd "if three of these four signatures match, the entire key and policy set can be replaced" (aka, multisig recovery machanisms). Also, in the current version, "forwards" have been entirely removed and replaced by claims.

The goal is to use this as a means to act as an identity in p2p systems. My issue with p2p systems is that they always punt on identity, making it a function of your device and some randomly generated keypair. That said, Stamp can definitely be used more generally.

Right now I'm focusing on the underlying network that syncs identities between devices and also stores identities publicly, circumventing the need for keyservers and all that stuff.
This is very very well known. Cf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affine_group

I don't see how people should glorify this with the word "algorithm". It is a trivial undergrad homework exercise, once you give the hint "use parallel reduce / fold / prefixsum".

This may involve more interesting tradeoffs if you deal with large or sparse matrices or matrix-free operators.
Yes, this has been known for quite some time by coffee experts (and is presumably why it was tested in the first place, to see if the dogma held true).
One big thing is take out. It is quite common in many countries. Maybe not in US yet. Lot of people grab food from restaurant or stores on their way home from work. Some people even pick from different places to have some combo meal at home which is not possible while eating in a restaurant.
If people aren't familiar, there's a similar project for Python that's fantastic: https://github.com/zappa/Zappa
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

95%-ile isn't that good (2020) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30411160 - Feb 2022 (156 comments)

95th percentile isn't that hard to reach - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22265197 - Feb 2020 (286 comments)
Maybe this is different at the highest levels of the game but for the engineers in the more mainstream parts of the bell curve at the less than Google level of craziness and volume companies Data Engineers -- folks that have come up as former DBAs, DataWarehouse devs, db heavy backend devs, analytics / reporting folks -- it's been my experience that these folks tend to solve problems in a more straight forward, data centric, practical sort of way. And in my experience folks who enter a data role from the sofware side of things tend to come up with rather convoluted solutions to simple things.

Therefore I think the title distinction is warranted. It frames that the company is looking for engineers with skills in the software space -- source control mastery, knowledge of a language or two other than SQL, but also experience looking at query plans, designing large scale data systems, dealing with BI tools etc etc. A sw engineer from a traditional background CAN do this but I'd rather someone that fits the DE role more.
Yes....it's actually Microsoft vs Google AI arms race, that's why Google went all in with their LLM technology.
Lol! I had to send it back to China to get my money back
Agreed. There's something flawed about the voting model that totally messes with people socially. It ends up replacing actual discourse with gamesmanship.

I assume the green handle is because you're a mod. ~~Given that you seem to understand the design problems and limitations, do you feel like modding sites like these is more of a hassle than other platforms? Investigating antisocial shit seems more complex than just checking DMs and post history. Voting history is relevant, too.~~ Assumption wrong.
Has there been a strike against a political party in Nordic union history?
How's that any different from the gazillions of more or less good "how would you look like older/younger", "how would your kids look like", "how would you look like as barbie" and what not tools? One click to generate a thousand waifus. It's not real, who cares.
$200/$65.89 = 3 packs of 24 AA batteries

Nest smoke detectors take 6 batteries each https://support.google.com/googlenest/answer/9297548?hl=en#:....

72 batteries / 6 batteries/device = approximately 12 smoke detectors (could be 9, 10, or 11)

We have 6 First Alert smoke detectors that are connected together but don't use WiFi. There's 1 in each bedroom and a couple left over for key places.

Using 12 smoke detectors is being very careful to cover every space or a big house. Or both.
These are all people who could make good money anywhere. Few are presumably there solely because it's the best paying job. Part of it is certainly identity, OpenAI or $hot_startup sounds way cooler than Microsoft to a lot of people. And part would be wanting to work at a startup and not a legacy SaaS company and all the baggage that entails. Whatever carve-out they were going to get, there's now way you'd be as unconstrained working at MS as you would at OpenAI. It's precisely because the money isn't that important that a lot would have probably bailed if they all were absorbed into Microsoft.
They were not first in either areas. They leveraged existing products like office to catch up.
I missed the disclaimer. So, when watching it, I started to think "Wow, so Google is releasing their best stuff".

But then I soon noticed some things that were too smooth, so seemed at best to be cherry-picked interactions occasionally leaning on hand-crafted situation handlers. Or, it turns out, faked.

Regardless of disclaimers, this video seems misleading to be releasing right now, in the context of OpenAI eating Google's lunch.

Everyone is expecting Google to try to show they can do better. This isn't that. This isn't even an mocked-up interaction future of HCI concept video, because it's not showing a vision of what people want to do --- it's only showing a demo of technical capabilities.

It's saying "This is what a contrived tech demo (not application vision concept) could look like, but we can't do it yet, so we faked it. Hopefully, the viewer will get the message that we're competitive with OpenAI."

(This fake demo could just be an isolated oops of a small group, not representative of Google's ability to rise to the current disruption challenge, I don't know.)
Doing it for everything is the whole point, it changes the architecture of the car. Yes individual components but those cars had like 1% if connected devices at that voltage and were otherwise exactly the same.

For Tesla ist a replacment of something else, for previous vehicle was it was something additional for a specialized use case.
If that were so, I think we wouldn't see other unions jumping to IF Metall's aid so readily
During that whole mess it seemed to slip out that MS has access to all the IP up to AGI. And that has a definition that might be "replacing people at work", so not passing the Turing test fully but close enough.

There are some problems that need to get cleared up for that to happen. The system needs to loose the cutoff date, be a bit more deterministic and still function. The whole quagmire around copyright needs to get resolved. (Because it looks like the output of LLM's is immediately in the public domain)

If I worked at OpenAI, I would be looking for that contract and reading it myself. Because giving away all the IP for the half assed runway where you have to get to AGI... doesn't sound like it ends in a massive pay day. MS may have cleaned up its public image in the recent years, or been displaced by things people hate and fear more. But there is this: https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/campaigns/microsoft-ai/
and the underlying tos looks a like like old school M$ and shady dealings.
Anyone remember when Verizon, ATT, etc promised "free, unlimited data" once they completed the 4G transition? So how come, in the year 2023, I STILL face throttling to 256 kbps when I use more than 5GB of data in a month on my "unlimited" plan?

Never trust a word that these companies say about the future
Before anyone tries it out from the EU, be warned that it will push to make a Meta account and merge any Facebook/ Instagram profiles together and once you’ve finally bitten that bullet, it will tell you that it isn’t available in your region.
> Sounds about right to me. They missed the entire smartphone revolution because they were too slow to adapt their OS (literally their main product) to run on mobile devices.

Remember the whole antitrust thing? Microsoft was under a consent decree that expired between 2007-2009 (different provisions expired at different times).

That decree, combined with the material threat of additional action during that time window, limited their ability to compete (because that's, well, the entire point of a consent decree motivated by an antitrust settlement).

There's a reason that you see a notable difference in Microsoft's market position and strategy from 2012-present compared to the previous decade (2001-2012). The timing of the Ballmer-to-Nadella transition is not coincidental; it's indicative of the larger shift the company made as they repositioned themselves to aggressively expand again.
My impression is that it's pretty true of Microsoft in general, but not of the AI research teams I'm familiar with. As with any tech company of its size, there's lots of variation from team to team.
When Mallory sends an sms to my personal phone number, it goes to twilio.

The location is always the same.
Don't be daft. There is no vacuum where you can go be a massive tool and not face any consequences.
Absolutely. The article hints at this problem by saying 95th percentile is easy but the grind from 95th to 99th is more difficult, requiring explicit effort and reflection on your process.

To use a gaming metaphor that hopefully lands, the XP grind from level 1 to 92 in Runscape is the same XP amount as the XP needed to go from 92 to 99 [0].

It is also illustrated with the Pareto Principle and the 90/10 rule where the final portion takes the most resources. Someone can easily become top 10% basketball player given the right training. 27M people played basketball recreationally in the US in 2021 [1], you only need to be in the top 2,700,000 players to be a top 10% player. There's only about 500 people in the NBA in a given year [2] so they represent approximately the top 0.0018% of organized basketball players.

If you include people who play rarely or in pick-up games, the odds of a top 10% 5'9 player jump drastically. 5'9 isn't that short either, it's roughly the median height of an American man.

[0]: https://runescape.fandom.com/wiki/Experience/Table
[1]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/191632/participants-in-b....
[2]: https://www.hoopsbeast.com/total-nba-players/
Well, you are the one wrongly assuming. I am from Slovakia, and we have strong labour laws and strikes all the time.

The thing is that government services must be provided to everyone or (if enough people are on strike) not at all.
OBS and Blender come to mind. But I'm sure I'm forgetting many, many more.
Jesus only had 12 followers so not that many.
That's nothing to do with Secure Boot though.
> If the training set contains something disruptive or of value, there is a nonzero percent chance it will be the next token. Boxes can attenuate that risk, but cannot set it to zero.

I mean, if it was as simple as you describe ("nonzero percent chance that it will be next token"), then boxes could easily prevent it, the framework hosting the LLM can adjust logit bias on each token, so if it there was a readily-determinable forbidden-next-token, could prevent it with no problem.

Unfortunately, the reality is...more complex.
I’m curious how this works because all the common letters seem to be next to each other on the left side of the keyboard
The question is if an attacker tells you they lost access can you please reset some credential, and your security process is getting on a video call because you're a fully remote company let's say.
Is it actually news that 70% (or whatever) of the employees at a hot startup wouldn't go to work for Microsoft even if they kept their compensation packages (which would probably have a lot of asterisks attached) because of executive suite drama?
a glitch in the simulation
I totally agree with you on the confident lies. And it’s really tough. Technically the duck is made out of air and plastic right?

If I pushed the model further on the composition of a rubber duck, and it failed to mention its construction, then it’d be lying.

However there is this disgusting part of language where a statement can be misleading, technically true, not the whole truth, missing caveats etc.

Very challenging problem.
Obviously Google decided to mislead the audience and basically cover up the shortcomings. Terrible behaviour.
Some other commenter, a former googler, a while back alluded to figuring out the big secret and being thrown for a tizzy at the resulting cognitive dissonance they realize they’ve been buying into. Its never about making a good product. Its about keeping up with the joneses in the eyes of tech investors. And just look at the movement on the stock today as a result of this probable lemon of a product: nothing else mattered except keeping up appearances. CEOs make historic careers optimizing companies for appearances over function like this.
Does it apply retroactively to people who already signed up?
In super smash bros I always like the opposite: drink when you win or drink when you get a kill. Automatically levels the playing field.
It would be easier to just novichok the person.
I looked at is as if it were a good aspirational target for 5 years from now. It was obvious the whole video was edited together not real time.
It makes sense to me. Computers and phones are used for many things, so if they're filled with bad games, you can just ignore that one use-case. A console's main, or even only up until recently, use case is games.
It definitely feels strangely snappier on iOS than before, but the whole structure is just random now, not that it was particularly great. It is oddly reminiscent of those early smartphone apps with tabs at the bottom before everyone noticed once you have a level of hierarchy involved something like a burger menu makes more sense. As it stands this seems like there are way more presses needed to get to where you want - but this may be a side effect of using it mainly for group chats and not the whole server-thing which they clearly want everyone to use.

Discord always managed to confuse the lower part of the screen with keyboard or camera state more than other apps, so putting their main navigation down there is a brave move.
Oh, absolutely, but it is usually way more expensive than buying a load of chips in the chance you'll get a genuine one.
I work on a project called PiStorm that replaces the 68000 series of CPUs using a small FPGA for bus translation and a Raspberry Pi.
> You'll have to decide if prioritising the success of the company is more important than being nice

There's nothing to decide. OP said they are not in a position of power to fire those employees.

I've been in this situation and no amount of taking to founders helped. Maybe OP is in a different position but unless they were brought in to fix something urgent, I doubt the founders actually think there's a problem at all.

In my situation, I realized I was fighting up and down with people that didn't see the problem or didn't care so I just stopped. There's no point in trying to "fix" something nobody sees as a problem. Either you compromise your quality and get with the program or you just quit.
I prefer to let my software be good enough to let it speak for itself without resorting to fraud, thank you ver much.
he's alone, tho
The article misses that in the period, ale and beer were different drinks. Ale was made with herbs. Hops, and the word beer, came later.

The 14th century is about when hops and word beer starting taking over in England. I can't find evidence but I wouldn't be surprised if beer was brewed by men.
I thought we were the only ones that had these issues :)

I wonder how other teams are solving the hiring vs automation challenges?
What if your mail server decides to advertise their public key instead of your public key, allowing them to read all of your email with you being none the wiser?
Google always does fake advertising. “Unlimited” google drive accounts for example. They just have such a beastly legal team no one is going to challenge them on anything like that.
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