skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My sister in law insists that 5Ghz wifi is the same thing as a 5G cell network. Comcast shouldn't use misleading terminology. The fact that people don't know what 5g means isn't really a defense. I couldn't tell you the difference between 4g and 5g, but adding "10g" alongside them makes it worse, not better.
Making a PDF that's larger than Germany
What have you seen? I am really interested as a writer.
This.

To anyone entering a new topic for themselves, not knowing what you don’t know is the biggest barrier and risk. This is why, for example, cargo cult style development is so fraught with issues.
It’s can’t reasonably afford shelter within a reasonable commute of jobs that require you to be in the area.
Yeah, but a few years is no longer unthinkable and it will definitely not take a few decades.
That’s kind of the point of it too — I just need AI to take care of the unimportant stuff so I can concentrate on the interesting things
I am so happy that Cow Tools has become a meme.
If there ever becomes a Texan wikipedia you'll know why.
In a year, he’ll have no idea whether anything is AI or Human, or both!
Does their device at least support 10Gbps internal networks, I assume? In that way it's still not misleading, in my opinion. Of course the uplink only receives and transmits whatever you pay for (or in that case, what they allow you to pay for based on what is available.)
There definitely are lucrative and unexploited niches. But, in my experience, the majority of unexploited niches are unexploited for a reason.
If you don’t want to have what an AI generates then don’t use it. I do agree with the sentiment that the addition of “AI” which goes from a rebrand of what was already there to integration of LLMs is at the moment only somewhat helpful and obtuse. But, really your new systems shouldn’t be thin front ends to gpt4 and instead something far more tangible.

Output dashboards or reports or aggregate data. I have my own project which is a thin shell over gpt 4 but I tried experimenting with an SMS UI that while only has question and answer dialogs it presents the information in a different way. Think of what it can enable.
This is not an attitude that will tolerate the changes to come. See: Chrome adding AI to every text field.

AI will, at the least, became an extension of creatives - not as something that did the work for them, but that made it possible for them to better create it.
As a follow up to this I’d like to ask any partially sighted or blind people the issues they currently experience using a LLM such as ChatGPT, Bard, Llama or otherwise - both from a UI perspective and an API perspective.
> Of course this will change in the future, with more interactive models

I think that what will change is that doing interviews remotely will become rarer, in favor of in-person interviews.
Try Firefox. Despite Mozilla's (and especially Mitchell Baker's) best efforts, it's still a decent browser and not too bad for privacy..
Well, I do not actually believe that blockchains can do name resolution correctly. First and foremost, the essential thing to understand about blockchains is that the only thing that is guaranteed by writing an information on a blockchain is that this information is written on this blockchain. And that's it. If the writing itself is not performative, in that it's mere existence performs what it describes, then nothing has been done. It works for crypto-assets because what makes a transaction happen is that it is written on the blockchain where that crypto-asset lives and where people look to see what happened with that crypto-asset.

But for any other usage, it cannot work, blockchain are useless. Someone or something somewhere has to make sure either that what's written on the blockchain corresponds to the real world, or to make the real worlds corresponds to what's written on the blockchain. Either way you need to have a kind of central authority, or at least trusted third parties. And that means you don't actually need a blockchain in the first place. We have better, more secured, more efficient, less costly alternatives to using a blockchain.

Back to name resolutions.

Virtually no one is going to actually host locally the blockchain where all names are stored. That would be way too big and could only get bigger and bigger, as a blockchain stores transactions (i.e., diffs) rather than current state. So in practice people and their devices would ask resolvers, just like they currently do with DNS. These resolvers would need to keep a database of the state of all names up-to-date because querying a blockchain is way too inefficient, running such a resolvers would be a lot more costly than running a DNS servers so there would be less of them. Here we just lost decentralization which was the point of the system. But that's just a technical problem. There is more: what if someone gets a name and we as a society (i.e., justice, whatever) decides that they should not be in control of it? Either we are able to enforce this decision and it means the system is not actually decentralized (so, we don't need a blockchain), or we can't, and that's a problem. What if a private key is lost, the associated names are gone forever? What if your private key is leaked by mistake and someone hostile take control of your name?

Using a blockchain for names resolution doesn't actually work, not for a human society.
The table + load will tip over if the center of mass is vertically outside of the convex polygon formed by the tips of the legs (in this case a triangle); i.e. the base of the object.

Center of mass over base -> stable

Center of mass outside base -> capsize
I remember there being a few phone games with this format. Joining elements together to make other things and using those to make other things.

Quick google search tells me the game is called Little Alchemy (there’s a sequel now too)
Creator of Freenet here. Freenet[1] relies on peers self-organizing into a small world network[2].

Small world networks have the advantage of being able to find data in log N time where N is the network size, they're also completely decentralized, self-healing, and distribute load evenly across peers. The principle is similar to DHTs like Kademlia but more flexible and intuitive IMO, while having similar scaling characteristics.

It's surprisingly common for people to confuse small world networks with "scale free networks", but scale free networks rely on a subset of highly connected peers which do a disproportionate amount of the work - which isn't truly decentralized.

The new Freenet design incorporates adaptive learning into the routing algorithm. When a peer is deciding where to route a message, it predicts the response probability and time for each neighboring peer based on past performance and chooses the best. With conventional "greedy routing", peers choose the neighbor with a location closest to the data being retrieved. The new approach is adaptive to actual network performance.

[1] Both the original Freenet from 1999 and the new sequel we're currently building - see https://freenet.org/ for more. We hope to launch the network in the next few weeks.

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small-world_network
I don't want anything your statistics generate
That is something I wanted to know, does IPFS guarantee that same two files have same two IPFS URLs / hash links?

Otherwise, someone sharing same data again, because it will be in different IPFS folder won't be actually discoverable as same data.
> I don't want AI mediating social interactions

AI-based therapy tools that are popping up lately feel really weird to me
The Register tends to the hyperbolic, it’s their style
Hmm, might work for the middle boxes that just do routing.

This would then only really work with both ends supporting this new IPv6 though. If one side only spoke OG IPv4 and the other side spoke this weird IPv6 with half its address bits in the header, there's a good chance the IPv4 side would just ignore the header bits on its return packets and thus wouldn't address it right. So, while that router in the middle might route these packets OK, you'd still practically need an IPv4 address to talk to other IPv4 devices. Which means we'd still have this mixed support, or that 5.6.7.8 would need to pretty much be a complete stateful NAT keeping track of connections for 6 to 4.
The success of routers that can run OpenWRT would beg to differ.
Share what you’ve seen then?

The industry has a long history of people making promises they never deliver on. Every wave of tech has them, “AI” has pulled them all out of their holes once again…
Your profile looks as if you have an interest in this being true.

Not a judgement against you or a disagreement, just something worth disclosing.
Shareholders care about money, not mottos.

That Google we once knew is gone.
This doesn't always work; I think some cashiers have caught on to this one. Some will ask for the name on the account. It's not always "Jenny".
You can't tell what's parody anymore.
That type of thing is why I threw in "and other similar measures". Of course there needs to be a basic security policy that is developed and enforced, and resellers / lessors should be responsible. We already have plenty to draw from, such as car/appliance recalls, large organization security policies, etc. There is a ton of low hanging fruit that could be easily dealt with quickly if there were political will.
Your expectations are too high. There might be outcomes where it's hard to tell, but that's already present today. There also will be many more areas where AI's outcomes will be subpar and it will stay this way for a few years.
Microsoft offers free offline (but not as good) “ai” for code via IntelliCode.

I find it better (and way faster) than most stuff on the market for in context completions.

You can even train it on your own code.

GitHub copilot chat is really good, though
> - Using ChatGPT is not cheating.

> - Using an IDE is not cheating.

> - Using StackOverflow is not cheating.

> - Reading the documentation is not cheating.

That's not how any form of testing works.

The person taking the test doesn't get to determine the parameters of the test. Imagine a college student pulling out their cellular phone and looking up Wikipedia during their final because "Wikipedia is not cheating"

The test is also supposed to be administered to everyone on equal footing. If some candidates are substituting their own definition of cheating then they're putting everyone else at a disadvantage.

It doesn't matter what you expect or how you would interview someone. When you participate in someone else's interview, you play by their rules. You don't substitute your own.
you're right. It is little different from fascism. However, I still think there is friction whenever commercial contracts are concerns - looking at legal agreements, transfer of money etc. At least we can say this is the 'least efficient method of surveillance of the people' - that's a plus in my view
I think you're asking for something like their 10G service, but at a lower cost and speed?

> The Comcast "Gigabit Pro" fiber connection that provides 10Gbps speeds costs $299.95 a month plus a $19.95 modem lease fee. It also requires a $500 installation charge and a $500 activation charge

I'm not sure that the pricing for that service actually pays for their installation and equipment costs, so I don't think you'd get much of a discount if you only ran it at 1Gbps symmetric. I did know someone who got the service and didn't bother to make the rest of his equipment work at 10G, so was only using a 1G port. And it works fine, but still costs $320/month + any other taxes and the $1000 install.
In my experience, "the first 80% is easy; the second 80% is hard." It's very easy to get caught up in the hype and think we're closer than we are because we can see the finish line. All this new generative work does a great job of giving compelling demos, but there's way more to do before it becomes compelling media.

Having been through a few of these things in the last 20 years, I'm going to trust my priors before believing AI is all that different.
Also, GPT-4 isn’t actually a model per se. It’s a black-box product that uses a model.
And if you set Canada on fire?

Maple syrup.
I find the lack of IPv6 support for their own APIs the most insulting. In my case, I would end up paying more for VPC Endpoints than I would for IPv4 addresses. There is no escaping from this new fee. I really hope they resolve this soon.
> If you release new version for 170usd every 18 months it's about 10usd/m subscription - so you are 6times cheaper?.

This would put them under immense pressure to come up with new features (useful or not) to get people to upgrade. At some point for certain users, the current version is going to cover 90% of what they need and they won't see the point in upgrading.

I didn't look into it much, but Sketch moved from a one-off payment for the current version plus 1 year of updates, to subscription-based charging. I wouldn't be surprised if the real reason was most didn't need the latest features.

Aside from this, has any software ever done something like "$170 upfront, or $20/month for 12 months only, then you own this major version"? I'm aware of Adobe's approach where if you cancel the monthly plan they'll surprisingly charge you the rest of the payments to make up 12 months, but you don't own anything after.
And it'll also include some number of alcoholics in recovery who are currently consuming no alcohol, but who's bodies have hard years on them, and you'd expect to do worse than overall population average in outcomes.
Demo: https://llava.hliu.cc/

My main interest with VLM is their ability to caption images, and this one seems very good honestly, this is going to be super useful to caption datasets.
If enough people do it for long enough, it does. After all, that's how we got the rest of the words.
> Modern Luddites can go back to churning their own butter.

The history of the Luddites is actually interestingly parallel to what we're seeing with generative AI these days. The book "Blood in the Machine" talks about this in some detail - there's an interview with the author at https://www.currentaffairs.org/2024/01/why-you-should-be-a-l... that is worth reading, and Time has a piece on the book as well: https://time.com/6317437/luddites-ai-blood-in-the-machine-me...
>You haven't seen what I've seen. :)

I rolled my eyes so hard I could almost see my brain.

If you have something pointing towards your claim being true, everyone here would be incredibly interested in seeing it.
Usually these anti AI outbursts come from designers. This is the first one I've seen coming from a developer. Or at least the first with such salt, bitterness and anger.
I played a game like this once, it was called "cow evolution:idle merge game". It wasn't randomized, but skinnerboxxed. Perhaps that is not quite what you meant.
Email or Discord me and I'll show you.
This has never been seen to work.
At the very least, it only has direct access to the built in ethernet adapter.
Communicating with say wifi would be quite difficult, it would need to steal the wifi credentials from any variety of currently running OS, future proof for whatever tricks says Linux does with wifi drivers.
A lot of static analysis tools explicitly support forcing you to check the value of "tainted" values such as return values of getc and so on i.e. even with slices you want to be able to catch this kind of thing ahead of time.
> The article says it provides 10Gbps of service to 98% of customers upon request

This part is funny to me because I've tried to sign up for their FttH and they declined despite it being in the area, and the same thing happened to others I know. I'm not sure how they came to that percentage but I don't believe it.
The Thought Emporium[0] on YouTube does homelab DNA editing, grows modified bacteria and viruses, and is currently working on growing human neurons.

I've learned a lot and its very fascinating. I haven't found another maker online doing anything remotely similar. He's like the NileRed for genetic engineering instead of chemistry.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/@thethoughtemporium
There's a file somewhere in one of the trs-80 model 100 archives that has a name like sexy.ba (filenames are 6.2 and .ba is basic)

When you run it it gives some generic "are you ready to have fun?" kind of message, but then crashes. But it's BASIC so you just go to the crashed line and fix a typo. Run, crashes a few lines later, you fix something slightly trickier like an array index out of range, run,... 3 or 4 of those total and it just ends "You learned how to debug and fix programs! Congratulations! Wasn't that fun?"

I have to say I was actually unreasonably entertained, so hats off to the author.
That's only to people who know what that means.
Damn, literally a day after I wrote up my experiments[0] with LLaVA 1.5 and computing image embeddings. Interesting to see the performance with the fine-tuned Mistral-7B variant being pretty close to the one with Vicuna-13B - using Mistral 7B is what BakLLaVA did back with LLaVA 1.5.

[0] https://mildbyte.xyz/blog/llama-cpp-python-llava-gpu-embeddi...
Must be nice for despotic states to share their woes with each other.
Yes, a file's hash is only based on its contents. The way I understand it, a file doesn't really live in a directory, it's more like a directory (which is a kind of file itself) references files. So the same file can be in two directories, yet it'll have the same URL/hash. And if you "add" files to a directory, you're really uploading a separate copy of the dir that'll have a different hash.

I checked myself on this, but someone else might want to check me cause I'm not an expert.
I was in grade school in 1999. A large portion of the population is as young or younger than me and has had no exposure to 90’s hip hop. Gary should keep that in mind next time he tweets.

And as for “context,” is there a medium that provides less context than a tweet?
I am fortunate to be in a field that AI has not caught up with. I interview security researchers. Would ChatGPT spot a vulnerability in a function it has never seen before?
Don’t be so sure. AI enthusiasm has existed before with major breakthroughs, and when things didn’t go as well as the hype suggested, it led to AI winter.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter
My boss “writes” policies etc using ChatGPT. They’re generic, overly wordy and say nothing of original thought. I don’t read them and don’t care. When he sends me a link to them in MS Teams I always click the first auto suggested response Teams like “Looks great!” Machine v machine.
>I can't trust the answers it provides or the text it generates. It's not a replacement for search, it simply makes search worse.

Why is an AI noob upvoted? When the author makes low tech skill claims, I wonder why this made it to the front page.

The person missed the AI train, they decided instead of adapting, they would just Boo it.
> Modern Luddites can go back to churning their own butter

After almost 20 years in the tech industry, this sounds pretty enticing.
Regulatory capture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture

In Capitalism, eventually capital owns everything.
I can see how a broad declaration like this may feel bold/freeing, but if you really put your mind to it then it seems pretty easy to pick apart.
>Please excuse the horrendous SMD soldering work. I haven’t done any SMD soldering in quite a while, and this was my first time ever trying to hand-solder teeny-tiny 0603 components. It won’t be my last time, either - I ordered 50 of them, and I only needed 10 to assemble this board.

You should touch up the joints with external flux.
Their "latest Xfinity Gateway" has a 2.5G Ethernet port: https://www.xfinity.com/learn/internet-service/modems-and-ro... ; you need something else to do 10G.
Yes, exactly. I have nystagmus myself because of an underlying medical condition that causes other vision problems and it's depressing that interviewers might think it's reason for suspicion.
Let this be Apple's Virtual Boy.
An AI would hallucinate a deer in the headlights.
I understand the sentiment but I view LLM and generative AI as tools to explore the possible idea space. A human can do this manually, it just takes a long time. But the output is the same either way. Therefore you're reduced to an argument that essentially says you don't like the output only because it was generated by an AI, which reminds me of "what colour are your bits?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24917679
The last 10% is always the hardest, longest, most frustrating bit.
pick 10 things important to you. Chances are you don't get at least one of them because you don't matter being in that 700m person group. Screw competition we have stats?
>My boss “writes” policies etc using ChatGPT. They’re generic, overly wordy and say nothing of original thought.

Isnt this good for a workplace policy?

Wife had to do something similar and I'm happy it was overfit. I don't want some creative policy book.
Makes me think about how non-deterministic computing is basically how you view lists as a context (as opposed to a container) when thinking in terms of Monads in Haskell. Application functors basically form a minimal framework for applying functions to values in a non-deterministic context when working with lists.

Making this further relevant is that perhaps the most well known example of monadic programming of lists is: Python's list comprehensions. Which makes a bit surprised to see that not more explored/exploited in this library.

Interesting nonetheless!
I build a blog in IPFS, its basically reliant on several centralized services to actually work in browsers (DNS , GitHub, Fleek, etc). I wrote about how I build it here, the experaince was underwhelming. https://labcabin.eth.limo/writing/how-site-built.html
Those creatives will be able to compete with content mills spitting out whatever nonsense gets engagement on ad supported platforms. They will lose.
Not exactly the same but should be mentioned. Chinese use real people’s personas for upwork, they contact people asking for them to create profiles under their names and get paid a percentage of income generated.
I've heard the same shit about Claude 2.0 and GPT-4 and now that the hype has died down we can be impressed without acting like it's Skynet. So please stop fueling pointless hype.

We are not in VC's office, we are amongst ourselves for God's sake.
We'll see how the US courts rule on it. I personally think it's unlikely that they cause any significant roadblocks to GPTs, but you never know. I know many people that find the use of GPTs to be morally reprehensible and my own employer bans the use of them over legal and data exfiltration concerns.
> I don't want music recommendations from something that can't appreciate or understand music. Human recommendations will always be better.

I find Spotify's "discover weekly" list to be generally pretty good. Sure, there are some songs I dont like, but there are often 3-4 great songs each week that get added to my regularly playlist.

Its all good an well to say that human recommendations are better, but I'm not paying someone $50 per week to spend 3-4 hours finding me new and good songs. I get something that is maybe 80% as good included, and the reality is that is good enough.

I feel like one of the reason AI is doing well is it doesnt need to be better, it just needs to be "good enough" at a fraction of the price..
It's the multimodal input capability that seems to be of value here – see the transcript at https://2mb.codes/~cmb/ollama-bot/#chat-transcript .. Namely, being able to interrogate images in a verbal fashion, such that someone without sight (or perhaps even someone who just doesn't want to see an image) can get an appreciation for their contents.
It's either that or they can narrow it down to a few people.
This will age well.
Only in the same way people can't tell what "meat" is actually in the frozen factory sausage.

Powerless resignation is not the same as informed satisfaction.