skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The filmed entertainment industry is pretty massive and AI is going to make a big impact there (for better or worse), that's probably something most folks can understand. CGI is already used everywhere and generative AI takes this trend much further.
Now to the problem with YouTube, and I'm sick and tired of reporting this, because by now they should have an automated solution for this, look at this link:

https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/im1

Channels named "SpaceX [LIVE]" [0], "SpaceX" (which is actually @uyenmusic with 148.000 subscribers), and so on.

Most of these channels have no videos except for that single live stream, occasionally inserting QR-codes with crypto-scams. Like the first one I mentioned.

> Huge crypto-giveaway during to the launch!

> During this unique event, you have the opportunity to take a share of 1.000 BTC & 10.000 ETH & 100.000.000 DOGE & 10.000.000 USDT. Have a look at the rules and don't miss out on this. You can only participate once!

And the most interesting thing about this video is that they are using AI to make Elon Musk say that you should scan the QR-code and that you will get the crypto. 100% sounds like him.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toDNnSBzgEU
Interesting tidbit, but was the political snark at the end really necessary?
It was known, but the requirement was that the program keep working for an arbitrary keyset that conforms to the specified rules (up to 10,000 unique keys, each up to 100 bytes in length).
Cute, but wrong.
It gets worse though, the app actually split into "Google Pay" and the new "GPay", where the latter was originally an India-only app they reworked for the rest of the world. In old Google Pay you'd see messages that it'll stop working soon and that you should migrate to the new GPay, but if you ignored them you could still use it. Then, they eventually overhauled old Google Pay back to "Google Wallet", and now they're telling people in the US remaining on "new" GPay that it's deprecated and to switch back...

Pulled precisely from the Google textbook. Specifically the chapter on Hangouts.
MPS is promising and the memory bandwidth is definitely there, but stable diffusion performance on Apple Silicon remains terribly poor compared with consumer Nvidia cards (in my humble opinion). Perhaps this is partly because so many bits of the SD ecosystem are tied to Nvidia primitives.
Purposeful design is the term you are looking for. Features and vision might be on point but these teams are made of copycats, they can't figure out what design matches their products purpose. They get a few users who get horny on the idea but reality fails to deliver. Many of the big products would die without those decades of brainwash by all that abusive marketing trash folk.
Well, I've known several people over the years who have created a multitude of accounts for the purpose of selling them when they reach around 100K karma to various activist and political groups. He didn't care what they were doing with the accounts, but it seems there's been a black market for user data and user profiles with high Karma counts for a long time now.

The only things I can think of Google using that data for are for nefarious purposes.
If you built one that rotated near the speed of light would your neighbors age faster than you?
The solution is to be a shameless self-marketer of all the work you do.
Why isn’t the limit 40 watts? Or 400? Why is there a limit at all?

You can pedantically criticize the use of the word “sabotage”, but then you’d be entirely missing the point.
Nvidia will not build that any time soon. RAM is the dividing line between charging $40,000 vs $2500…
Relevant AI development based YouTube Channel?
Another option is to work at a consultancy where you hop aboard a new customer project every 3-6 months. Approach every customer as an opportunity to do some resume-driven development and pick a bunch of untested new technologies to experiment with. Be sure to do at least a couple of presentations to tell everyone about the hottest new things you are doing to bring value to the customers. Leave the project once it slowly starts sinking and then just keep hopping from customer to customer. You will be far away once the sea water starts coming through the windows and the non-technical people directing these projects will never figure out what you did.

I have seen that this is one of the most efficient ways to advance your career especially in larger consultancy companies with hundreds or thousands of different customers.
> as an American, you own them. NASA just administrates them for you

Across public and private spheres, the word “ownership” loses meaning. (Nobody “owns” NASA or the U.S. government, though they do “belong”to we the people.) That’s why, in ownership disputes between nations and under the law, the operant term is “control.”
Not an 'Ordinary Journalist': US Opposes Assange Appeal
Agreed, Season 1 was by far the best. I'm re-watching the whole thing with my spouse and in some ways it's more fun the second time around (surely biased because of the shared experience).

Some shows are like that - I didn't think Star Trek Deep Space Nine was all that hot first time around, appreciated it much more years later on a rewatch (the supporting characters are awesome). Maybe in part it's adjusted expectations ;-).
Value is in the eye of the beholder is what I discover. Got to play the game.

If you are an IC, you play it up with the right people. Those right people fight for you instead of the other way around. When the “we need to cut the fat” talks come around, suddenly you are not on the chopping block. But that also assumes the people fighting for you are not on the chopping block.

Soft skills across the industry is highly under valued. Knowing when to pick a fight or hold your tongue is also important (ie, reading the room).

I hate it but you got to do what you got to do to get that cheddar
Do you use Go? It makes sense to me
For anyone interested in fermenting foods themselves, look into Sandor Katz.

I found one of his books [0] more accessible or beginner friendly than the Noma book.

[0]: https://search.worldcat.org/title/1108679733
Julian Assange Waits for High Court Decision on Permission to Appeal [video]
If only city ordinances weren't getting more restrictive with time. Would be hard to do some of this stuff today when some cities ban working on your car in your garage.
Happened to me. I stopped using Reddit completely once Apollo shut down and started reading HN a lot.

Sometimes it's hard to find what to do and you still need some "filler" activities.
I feel like most engineers on hackernews/reddit have been underestimating AI tech. People always say it sucks and it gets starts hallucinating nonexistent libraries and what not but we are still in the early phase of this technology. And that how it could never replace them as AI will make current engineers more efficient.

I've been scared of AI since seeing chatgbt a couple of years ago. I feel like it's only a matter of time until a dev can feed an AI machine it's entire code base and business requirements. And then a separate AI could carry out the manual/integration testing tasks. AI could potentially cut down the number of devs required to maintain a webapp or ios app after it's built.

I feel triggered by this post especially because I've made it a career writing automation code haha.
Or worse: People get stuck quite frequently and ask you for help pretty quickly. You get everyone unstuck, but your own work falls behind and when your boss's boss asks for metrics on developers you have few points delivered and few LOC changed. Your boss tries to explain, but your head is the one that rolls next when layoffs happen.
This is what a lot of people don't get about the "pop feminism" era of online "journalism" in the pre-Trump era: it wasn't feminism, it was clickbait. At best it sold an idea of feminism but the emphasis was always on the selling part and not anything ideological. "Girlboss feminism" helps no-one except the bosses.

The same is true about most so-called "left-wing" journalism. Some journalists may be true believers but the platforms exist to make money, not to be any threat to the systems those ideologies explicitly oppose.

Heck, this even goes for political parties like the Democrats: the Texas governor literally rejected the authority of the federal government and legislative system by deploying his military at the border and the Democrat president's response was to propose a bill that would have created a legal avenue for what the treasonous governor was trying to make happen. Decorum is used as an excuse to keep intentionally ceding ground to the supposed political enemy.
425,000 lines of APL code boggles the mind. It's like 10,000 pages filled with APL symbols. I guess that for normal non-APL programmers it's as close to an inscrutable alien artifact as you can find on Earth.
You mean Google TalkVoiceWaveBuzzDiscoHangoutsmeetHuddleHangoutsAlloDuoHangoutsmeetHangoutschatPhonemessagingChat?

Google does not mess around with adherence to "naming things is hard."
What do you use this for? This should be front and center on a page like this.

I suspect the wifi modem telnets. Does it ssh? I suspect the target use case is connecting to a telnet BBS from vintage hardware.
Sure, but Apollo made it easy for users that didn't want ads to use Reddit without them. Destroying Apollo removed that ability for most people.

I'm about as anti-ads as it gets but I don't object to other people using apps with ads in them, if that's their choice.
It’s the jingles that got me. They still visit me in my dreams all these years later..
Yes absolutely! We actually have a doc specifically for Ollama: https://docs.danswer.dev/gen_ai_configs/ollama
Wow, this is what I was brought up on at the turn of the century.
The bug is Gemini's bias being blatant and obvious. The fix will be making it subtle and concealed.
Whose code is it trained on? Do you respect their software licences?
It's not perfect but IMO it's the best acceptance criteria available. The alternative is evaluating people based on subjective criteria like "well roundedness".
[2020]Is this email asking me $100 for security flaw in my website a scam?
Thank you for the kind words!

Yea, the name has many meanings. It's a fun little puzzle to find them all :)
Wouldn’t be any better. You’d need 4 to be able to reliably land with one pointed out of the regolith. That’s probably pushing it in terms of mass. 3 wouldn’t be any better than 2 though.
>as would be an Arab immigrant to the US from Egypt

If you want to get *very* technical then it's possible to not be African if you're from Egypt: "Egypt is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and the Sinai Peninsula in the southwest corner of Asia."
Which is fine. 360 degree camera.
>If Google announced that they were going to ingest all Mastodon content and post it in a new Google Groups kind of thing, they'd be pretty understandably upset about that, too.

exactly like they did with usenet without any issue?
Similar on approach on the 'S' malloc.conf setting I guess.
> It turned out the distribution (and to some extent, ownership) problems eclipsed every other problem in software.

Distribution is easy. It's just that in many companies it is hard to convince IT to distribute your software, while it is perfectly fine to have a web browser on the computer.
Exactly! Reddit can fuck off.
For a company that produced negative income, absolutely absurd. Why do investors put up with this? Is there truly no oversight? There is no way he provides value close to his compensation.
For sure. One nice thing about AT's design is that, if they do, you can take your posts over to some other host, and it'll all Just Work. True account portability makes that kind of power grab harder. Of course, that would require users to actually move, which is not a given.

Time will tell!
sold out already
Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf]

I'm reminded of this every time I see some YouTuber or other social media click bait claiming that the Y2K bug was no big deal.

The reason it was no big deal is because thousands of graybeards, like myself, stayed up many long nights for months ahead of time making sure things would work.

I still remember the tension during the countdown to midnight UTC. Then the tension rising again during the countdown to Eastern time. Then once more at local time.

Only when it was 2000 in Pacific did we unclench our cheeks.
I've read the whole thread of comments and I'm really confused. For context I'm a long time GIMP user and used Photoshop a few times at a very basic level.

Layers having boundaries feels... obvious to me? Like, when I scale a layer, the boundaries are what I'll be scaling. When I crop a layer, I'm cropping the boundaries. If I have a large image and insert a small icon in the middle, should the icon's layer take the full size of the canvas? What exactly is supposed to happen if I insert an image that's larger than the canvas?

A layer in GIMP having boundaries is equivalent, to me, to a shape in Inkscape having a size.
I agree. I now see both extremes(horseshoe) and in-between as much. While before it was heavily leaned towards the left.
I'm not a big fan of complicated GUIs or practically any GUIs to be honest. Their complexity is vast and code wise, they often make up a majority or at least very significant part of an application. I get it if you're selling a product, but if it's just an internal tool, I find it's usually just not worth it in the long run.
This has some pretty great ideas within it. A few that stuck out to me in case others don't want to skim the full spec:

Start with YAML/JSON/TOML, but then add:

- Optionally strict typing and structs

- Inheritance

- Dynamically computed properties

- Functions & object methods, which are really more like computer properties

- If/Else conditionals, which are really more like a ternary

.. and managed to do it while still making it look like a simple config file.

The closest analogue from memory might actually be Terraform.

The one thing that had me squinting was the object extension syntax. It looks powerful.. and I understand its value.. but wow that's ends up being eye-full of () {} and [] all in one code bock.
Well there was Inbox by Gmail at one point, and I feel there was something else that tried to be an alternative to gmail as well at one point. I'm waiting for YouTube to be split back into YouTube and Google Video, one going full in on TikTok/Shorts content and the other going back to long form content.
I always wanted to see an experiment where you take a really knowledgeable about the business front line employee, and hoist them to the C suite with all the same support systems executives have (and there's more than you might expect) and see if they do the same or better in that chair.

There's only be limited studies done in this vain, and the results, while limited, seem to suggest that any reasonably smart person with knowledge of the industry could do a good job but the studies are pretty limited, and don't construct the circumstances as I described, so its hard to say its true or not true.
This actually makes sense, no /s. After all, the core reason for a business to hire is to access talent to fulfill various business requirements. And the better a given employee does, particularly one doing software development things, the less they should be needed over time. So with AI being increasingly available in limited forms, and at costs more business-friendly than hiring humans, it only makes sense that human talent is gradually deprecated.

And this is why I'd like to get to the point where I'm running my own business eventually, because one will always be "expendable" as an employee/contractor. I actually look forward to a day when there's 100% automation of all value-giving labour. Raises some interesting questions about what society and economy will become, but that's another topic...
Intuitive Machines-1 Lunar Landing (Official NASA Broadcast) [video]
Unfortunately, that too is a mess.

In a way, anybody can attempt to "add" a new species by describing it in a paper. So you'd typically send your specimen to the most fitting specialist willing and able to write that paper. The paper would then hopefully be reviewed by a naming authority.

But a naming authority is just a bunch of people that got this authority by reputation. It's not the government. There may be regional authorities as well as multiple naming authorities for the same groups of species, not agreeing on species' status.

All of this mess is then stitched together into a best-effort central database. Not even the categorization (so taxonomy levels) is singular, there's multiple systems. Species are constantly moved, split, merged.
You both will like this gopher hole:

gopher://hoi.st

It has virtual machines implemented in awk, some generic awk library and a good 'phlog' to read great posts on unix, minimalism and several tools and games. The freecell game it's a easy example.
>At Supermaven we've developed and trained from scratch a new neural network architecture which is more efficient than a Transformer (the current standard architecture) at integrating information across a long context window.

Clearly something proprietary, but in between this and Gemini's claimed 10M tokens, assuming there's no RAG... I'm curious what might be happening behind the scenes.
It is more easy: do your job right, but do not comment, fix or somehow improve work of your colleagues. Let them fail, aknowledge failure and only then come with fix, get all praise.

Never point to the possible issues at the code reviews, retirement refinements etc.
Open gimp. Try to draw a circle (the outline, not a filled one). You can't.
Nvidia adds $277B in market value, Wall Street's largest one-day gain in history
Interesting launch. I saw you were the original founder of tabnine. I’m curious as to what you’ve learned since you launched tabnine in 2018, and why you’re deciding to create another code completion ide extension.

Will be trying this out.
We make fun
It’s the transformer making the difference. Original stable diffusion uses convolutions, which are bad at capturing long range spatial dependencies. The diffusion transformer chops the image into patches, mixes them with a positional embedding, and then just passes that through multiple transformer layers as in an LLM. At the end, the model unpatchify’s (yes, that term is in the source code) the patched tokens to generate output as a 2D image again.

The transformer layers perform self-attention between all pairs of patches, allowing the model to build a rich understanding of the relationships between areas of an image. These relationships extend into the dimensions of the conditioning prompts, which is why you can say “put a red cube over there” and it actually is able to do that.

I suspect that the smaller model versions will do a great job of generating imagery, but may not follow the prompt as closely, but that’s just a hunch.
I still don't quite buy that. Surely it's because computers mostly use epoch time for dates, not dd/mm/yy?

Guess we'll find out in 2038.
There are people with integrity and principles; and then there are people who can pay their rent every month.
> XDMCP

muh wayland
Jco 1.0
I think people have strangely high expectations from doctors and medicine in general.

They don't just want their problems to be diagnosed and fixed, but expect solutions to be determined and implemented in a way you dont see elsewhere.

People don't go to their accountant and expect them to just find a way to make their taxes zero.

I wonder if it stems from the fact that most medical problems people experience do have trivial and complete solutions, so that it isnt until people get older and more experienced that they realize not all problems are solvable.

I work with dozens of doctors, and none of them are omniscient or omnipotent. They generally work hard, but dont have all the answers.
You can step-debug a Python program using Windbg but it won't tell you a lot about what's happening since every line is hundreds of CPython API calls.

Sure, you can "step through" a neural network but all you'll ever see are arrays of meaningless floats moving around.
I don't think you're wrong, but god what a waste of time. Can't we just fix the actual problem?
The notice on the Wikipedia article for "Google Wallet" is telling:

> This article is about the mobile app introduced in 2022. For the discontinued service of the same name, see Google Wallet (2011–2018).

> "Google Pay (2018–2022)" redirects here. For the 2020 app, see Google Pay (mobile app).
Presumably you mean the hadith, not the Quran, and half a millennium, not half a century? Regardless, I don't think it makes much of a difference to the point, which is that there's not one "historically accurate" Jesus that you can back out from 21st-century racial politics.
This stage is called denial. There's also anger, bargaining, depression, and finally, in the end, acceptence. I'm saying in a funny way, but I suspect it's true.

Who can say how AI will develop, but beware of happily-ever-after stories. It could be a nightmare for all of civilization, for just engineers, or just not develop much futher.
Babylonians did indeed use positional notation.

But they didn't use the "point" to separate integral and fractional parts of a number.

Moreover they didn't even write zeros to indicate an order of magnitude!

You just had to know the right scale out of context

I'm going to write the numbers in base 10 just for simplicity (they used base 60 which has many more divisors and works much nicely):

Numbers 20, 200, 2, 0.2 and 0.00002 would be written simply "2"

The reciprocal of 2 would be 5

The reciprocal of 5 would be 2

If that doesn't seem to make sense, let's just
reassert that a given "spelling" of a number actually represents infinite numbers: a base and a free "scale" parameter. Thus 5 is also 0.5
The reciprocal of 0.5 is indeed 2 and thus it works.

It's like a kind of "modular" arithmetic but for scale.

I know that it allowed them to consult tables with reciprocal numbers which helped them to actually perform divisions using just multiplication. I don't know what method they used to keep track of the scale. Was it some kind of out of band "context" or just using common sense to guess the magnitude of the result?
Strange that Apple can make Apple pay work so well but Google keeps botching it. If nothing else, just copy the product and build what Apple has built, but for Android.
OpenAI's models may fit that description as well under the hood. Specifically, for `prefix-aware`, this is useful when you have short passages (e.g. Slack messages) that you are trying to match against short queries (e.g. user questions). Without being prefix-aware, the model can get confused, think both are queries, and cause any short passages to match very strongly with short queries.

For learning from feedback for sure! No exact benchmarks, but we've heard from quite a few users about how useful this is to push high quality docs up and reduce the prevalence of poor docs. This is all very hard to evaluate since there aren't readily available, real-world "corporate tool / knowledge base" datasets out there. We're actually building our own in house right now, so we should have more concrete numbers around these things soon.

For the backend, we do a lot of stuff with local embedding models / cross encoders / tokenization / stemming / stop word removal etc. Python has the most mature ecosystem for this kinda stuff (and the retrieval pipeline is the core of our product), so we don't regret it at all!