skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the company ultimately has no need for workers, then it's competitors won't either. And as they compete on price there will be no reason for the goods not to sink to the raw ingredient price + cost of capital. With the hypothetically perfect AI this will sink to near 0 + raw material cost (which itself will be plummeting due to AI).

I have long thought that automation will result in goods being so cheap that it becomes unconscionable to not provide them free of charge to anyone who asks for them, within reason. Think like how we do not charge for air, or a glass of tap water (in the USA). I'd love to work on making it so other goods become as such. Simple diet like rice and beans, simple clothing just jeans and a plain tshirt etc. Call me a communist but I think as a society we can get to a point where these things are just free because the cost of accounting for who gets what is higher than the value of the stuff.
What edge cases did you run into?
Great. But without video you lose most of your users.
I'd rather those profits be spread out among additional employees (who might help the company either produce better stuff or give better service to customers) than to shareholders.
Eh, on the surface this seems useful but I'm not sure it makes a dent. Transcript might be useful occasionally, but they aren't going to be referred to often - things still have to be distilled in the doctors notes, including things they don't say during the visit. They already have dictation systems for this, but none of the NLP systems are good enough to do it without checking, so time is about same.

Coding isn't done by the doctor anyway. Replacing a fairly low paid employee with a bot might net out but it's not obvious.

Then on the diagnostic stuff, we've been working on this for decades, I think there is real promise there but it's not a quick fix either for getting the system performance good enough to deploy more widely than e.g. CAD systems, and for getting systemic uptake. They aren't nearly good enough yet, we'll see what the next decade of improvements gets us.
This is funny to read since this is basically what conservatives experienced for the last ten years on Twitter pre-Elon.
It's 100% this - Google is going out and shopping so they can get easy access and avoid any future lawsuits if things change in the AI training space.

I imagine this wont be the last announcement in this space.
I hope I’m not the only person who read this as “Sicily’s Mafia”.
Flying is not so easy either, and the landing is done by the private company, not by the school.
Pharmacies nationwide face delays as healthcare tech company reports cyberattack
I hear you on some level. That said, we are already seeing people creating blocklists, and tools to share them with others. That is happening alongside the company's investment in paying people to work on T&S related issues on their instance.

I am not sure if it will succeed or fail, but I am interested to see how it plays out.
In my mind, all of programming can be reduced to the following 4 concepts.

- variables
- conditions
- loops
- functions

If there was a way to teach those concepts screen-free, even to adults, I would really love to know it.

ThinkFun has a game CodeMaster that teaches loops and conditionals, but my kids found it way to tedious to play. It is better than nothing.

Maybe some HN'er has an idea how to create some game for all these concepts?

(And, if there is any other core concept I am missing, I would love to hear that too.)
This is not a tip. It comes straight from

go help run

"usage: go run [build flags] [-exec xprog] package [arguments...]

Run compiles and runs the named main Go package.
Typically the package is specified as a list of .go source files from a single
directory, but it may also be an import path, file system path, or pattern
matching a single known package, as in 'go run .' or 'go run my/cmd'."

Nothing is said about go run main.go.
IME (having gone through 3 layoffs), you can squeeze a lot out of fearful employees. I haven't be able to see that sustained over the course of 12+ months though.
My point about a lack of sustainability wasn't assigning that issue to companies alone, but broadly to the system as it currently exists and in which those companies operate.

> If the marginal cost of producing additional units is basically zero, which is what the hypothetical implies, then the products should be basically free

I don't think this is implied unless all productive work across all industries is automated. Practically speaking, this would happen over time, meaning that a fully automated company today could significantly reduce its costs, but would still have to purchase goods and services from upstream providers and pay to market and distribute their products.

And since companies essentially operate on greed, the leadership of these companies would carve out space for themselves, and the short term goal would almost certainly still be to maximize profit, meaning goods are not free, even if the marginal cost is low (gotta pay for all of that automation R&D after all).

Somewhere there is a tipping point where enough automation would throw the system into chaos without major changes. If it could be achieved overnight, then hypothetically we could all have free stuff.
There's many Lemmy instances that are non-profit:

https://join-lemmy.org/instances

I don't know which ones are officially 501c3 in the US but nearly all of them aren't in it for any sort of profit motive. For reference, I use https://programming.dev/ (no affiliation other than I use it regularly and it seems alright).
Project Sylva announces official GA release of Sylva V1
Impressive, it solved puzzles gpt-4 struggled with with some prompting
So far only GPT4 and mistral-next have answered this question correctly.

* https://www.phind.com/search?cache=rj4tpu6ut0jyzkf876e2fahh

The answer is 'lower' because the weight of the ball as a volume of water is larger than the volume of the ball.
How Co-Leaders Succeed
Yes, it sounds like you use YouTube much like traditional TV. For others it is more like social media, like Twitch is.
you guys are getting paid?
> If the company fires hundreds or thousands of people and there is no visible dip in the productivity, is it really a bad thing?

How can you be so callous? This is why people don't like startup people.

Yes, obviously it's a bad thing, because those people are now without a source of income and often without health insurance. I say "obviously" because it's pretty reasonable to expect people aren't sociopaths, and care about the well-being of others. It's only within your sick bubble where maximizing profit at the expense of human suffering is considered a reasonable option. Unfortunately, people like you have a disproportionate power in our society.

I'm not saying you're a sociopath, I'm saying that the economic ideology which is commonplace on Hacker News makes normal people who believe it behave like sociopaths.

Sure, in a society with a reasonable safety net where losing your job wasn't a potential death sentence, laying off some workers occasionally would be fine. But we don't live in a Keynesian fantasy-world, we live in a world where insurance companies have death panels.
"promoted to customer"
Remote computer proctoring is a solved problem, way before Covid, so the pandemic may be part of the reason, but it's unlikely to be the whole reason.

Universities bandwagon just as much as anyone else does, and the reasons they give afterwards may not be the reasons they went into it.
Not just capitalism. I'd argue it's not possible to have much of anything without government enforcing contracts and property rights.
All platforms are moving to monetize content contributors. It’s worked amazing for YouTube, TikTok, and Twitch. X is trying it slowly.

Reddit could potentially do this but I don’t think they have a solid business model to support it yet. They are scrambling for money streams, not content. Although high end supported content drives ad views so who knows.
FWIW, 4090 has fp8 throttling issues:

https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/ada-geforce-rtx-4090-f...
A global bridge isn't a multi-protocol social server. The guy is free to do as he likes, but I'm saying I don't think public bridges like that are a good architectural decision for decentralized networks. The individual nodes should implement multi-protocol support instead.
Does anyone know how this differs from the Nostr protocol?
How would you check for the visible dip in the productivity? and in what time frame? Sometimes it is not easy to measure the impact of layoffs on the org in the short term and it may take some time to realize it.
whats going on with volvo, they also recently made a job post for clojure, and now this

someone need to investigate their IT department
If we're being honest, anime and anything "anime-derived" is uncomfortably close to CSAM as a source material, before you even get SD involved, so I'm not surprised.

What I had in mind were regular general purpose models which I've played around with quite extensively.
A History of Immersive Theatre on Broadway
That's arguably more true in advertising driven reddit than AI reddit - no one comment is going to be worth the most in a data scraper but eyeballs win in advertising.

I think the entire thing is scummy too, but its interesting to me how people think that advertisers were somehow less bad than this.
My thoughts are this has to do with Google shutting down 3rd party cookies. A deal might have been made between the two juggernauts after both putting up their own respective "walls".
Hey, SWE who happens to have an MBA here.

Theoretically, if a company has money to pay employees it keeps them if the present value of their project is positive, and terminate them if the present value of their projects is negative.

Let's say an employee earns $100K this year. The project they're working on this year will generate 40K of revenue in 1 year, 2 years, and 3 years. Is the project worth doing?

Let's assume the discount rate is 5%. A dollar now (which we call 'present value (PV)') is worth $1.05 a year from now ('future value (FV)'). And 1.05^2 in 2 years. And 1.05^n in n years. And a dollar in n years (FV) is worth 1/(1+discount)^n dollars today (PV). It's a mechanism similar to inflation, or paying interest. (IRL the discount rate is the WACC + some factor for riskiness, but that's too much to talk about.)

Let's say the discount rate is 5%. Is the project worth doing? The present value (PV) is -100K + 40K/1.05 + 40K/1.05^2 + 40K/1.05^3. So if you approve the project, the future profits and expenses are as if you earned $8,930 today. You approve the project.

Let's say interest rates go up, and you now need to use 10% as the discount rate. -100K + 40K/1.10 + 40K/1.10^2 + 40K/1.10^3 = $-526. If you approve the project, you will lose money. So you don't approve the project. Now you don't need the employee anymore, and you get rid of the them, by reassignment, reorganization, or layoff.
I evaluated many Mistrals for an information extraction task and the merged models were much better than direct fine-tunes. About 5% better.
Yes, this is called enshittification. It has absolutely been the game plan for the past 15 years or so.
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Is this being announced as permanently exclusive?

Otherwise, Reddit is productizing its data, which was the obvious next step after closing public API access. This establishes a market price that at least one buyer was willing to accept, and shapes the terms for later deals with more customers.

Presumably, they think they can sell this kind of access many time over as one of their major revenue channels while also benefiting from the incoming traffic it should generate.
PDS are crawled by relays who cache the messages and can offer a holistic view over many PDSs for client apps to use. If a PDS goes down the data would still be stored by the relay.
Reddit files to list IPO on NYSE under the ticker RDDT
You literally have no phone? Amazing. I'm full of questions, like how do you socialise with people who expect to be able to change plans at the last minute?
> It's Wine, but with additions made by full-time developers who are paid to work on it, backed by a support team that you can go to and say "Hey, help me get this Win32 app running".

That's the idea in theory, although I recall the one time I actually reached out with a Windows app that was unresponsive in Linux, the support guy just kinda shrugged on the ticket and nothing came of it.

I get that they have finite resources, but that wasn't exactly the level of support I was hoping for from a product I'm paying for. I still do pay for it (usually whenever I can get a promo discount on renewal), but I'm resigned to the idea that it will really only help on popular Windows applications.
Earth orbit maybe. But here we are at earth-moon. And the lander is not build or operated by the school/university either.
regarding the idea that the horrors of Mao's China, Stalin's Russia, or Pol Pot's Cambodia are not possible in a "free" country like the USA:

"There always is this fallacious belief: 'It would not be the same here; here such things are impossible.' Alas, all the evil of the twentieth century is possible everywhere on earth." -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The emergence and popularity of "woke" ideology and DEI is the beginning of this sad, disturbing, cruel, potentially deadly trend.
Reddit S1
Nothing seems coordinated.

Musk made layoff palpable to investors, ZIRP ended, the industry is correcting for over hiring when assuming the 2020s growth would continue forever.

Just a bunch of things that happened. As always.

“We didn’t start the fire”
I'm sure some do. And that more think they do. I still don't buy that the difference affects their lives in any meaningful way. My thermostat, btw. has 0.1 increments.

It does not matter, because when the heating is on the difference between the temperature measured at ground, at ceiling, at the edges or at the centre of the room will easily be a couple of degrees or more apart depending on just how significant the temperature differential is with the outside. Have measured, as part of figuring out how the hell to get to within even 3-4 degrees of the same temperature at different places in the same open living areas.

Very few people live in houses that are insulated well enough and with good enough temperature control that they have anything close to that level of precision control over the temperature in their house.

But if it makes them feel better to think they do, then, hey, they can get my kind of thermostats. At last count there are now 5 thermostats on different heating options in my living room, all with 0.1C steps.
Yes, but it didn't get there overnight. At what point was it too late to stop? We've already deep into the self-censorship and stuggle session stage. With many large corporations and institutions supporting it.
Dotslash: Declaratively deploy executables to source control
It'd be nice to see an updated version of those that describes how those ideas and tools relate to a self/third-party hosting. The best I can tell, this is the model:

My understanding is that each host has control over what they host and can subscribe to third party content filtering services to help do so.

Then various indexes/aggregators (potentially third party) crawl hosts and provide services to find content. This is where voting or toxicity checks can be applied to manipulate reach.

This content is also tag-able via third party services (and may be used by indexes/aggregators).

The user is then able to select/configure indexes/aggregators and filter based on tags.
They're "space runes" from ancient alien civilizations that allowed humans to briefly glimpse their technology.
Solar flares disrupt communication networks
Xerion: Neural Network Simulator (1995)
You're naive if you think reddit is safe from SEO spam.

Right now it's only because very very few people append "reddit". The moment that changes, it will be spammed into oblivion with subtle LLM written SEO spam.

Companies are sending people free products in exchange for an Amazon review, you think a free Reddit post will stop them?
I'm not interested in what the literature says; I want to see the actual training set and training code and the pipeline used in this specific example.

Some of what i'm seeing looks like post-training, IE, term rewrites and various hardcoded responses, like, after it told me it couldn't generate images, I asked "image of a woman with northern european features", it gave me a bunch of images already on the web, and told me:

"Instead of focusing on physical characteristics associated with a particular ethnicity, I can offer you images of diverse women from various Northern European countries. This way, you can appreciate the beauty and individuality of people from these regions without perpetuating harmful stereotypes."

"Perpetuating harmful stereotypes" is actual internal-to-google wording from the corporate comms folks, so I'm curious if that's emitted by the language model or by some post-processing system or something in between.
I think we have a both/and situation - there was a strong current to remove SAT/ACT score consideration already in play and the pandemic was enough to force it through at Yale and others.

What schools did not drop the requirement during the pandemic would be more interesting.
>medical field

>postmortem

Let's hope that everyone lived so a postmortem won't be necessary :)
I promise I'm not trying to defend the Pentagon here, but would you mind enlightening me on who "the rest of us" is supposed to be? What military power do you consider squeaky clean right now?
Does Bluesky allow different federations to require everyone they federate with to share a block list?

Mastodon has this problem and it makes it where you have to have multiple accounts if you actually want to use the platform. This might sound like not a problem, but it'll naturally lead to whatever account has access to 51% of your content being the one you use consistently, and you eventually just forget about the other 49%.
Discord has better moderation tools than matrix
1. It is pointless to compare total company value with an annual payment.

2. It isn't an exclusive license. There are dozens of companies training language models, and if they are all forced to pay the same amount then that's some serious cash.
Perhaps briefly. Eventually they will look like cargo ships.
Are these stats still true? Why would anyone buy Reddit if this is the case?

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/11/reddit-users-are-the-least-v...

Twitter ARPU: ~$9.48

Facebook: $7.37

Pinterest: ~$2.80

Snap: $2.09

Reddit: ~$0.30
Here's the 2min tldr:

Warp is a fast, Rust-based terminal. Key features include:
1. Modern editor that lets you edit input like an IDE
2. Input and output are grouped in blocks for easier navigation
3. Integrated AI for command suggestions, debugging, and chat
4. "Warp Drive" to save parameterized commands as reusable workflows (like aliases but easier to use and more powerful)
This seems to have been posted the same time as Reddit released their S-1 on going public: https://www.redditinc.com/blog/reddit-files-registration-sta...
Finding Bytes in Arrays (2019)
Not sure if you heard but the current year is actually 2024.
They bet on projects but those projects didn't pan out, every company does this, every hire is a gamble. Even a cafeteria that hires a new person assumes future demand will keep up or increase, if that prediction was wrong the person will not be needed and will be laid off, that is just how business works.

This is much better than the "you get what you use" resource allocation where organizations never shrinks, we want them to shrink when they don't have any useful work to do.
People often say the same about Twitter/X, 4chan, Facebook, and YouTube, and yet they all have great content. And often, only the content you choose to see.
No way it’s exclusive. Reddit is making a push to find new $$ streams for their IPO and the API is a big part of that with AI being hot. They probably have lots of deals for their new API already and this one is just making headlines because it’s Google and it’s yearly/unlimited/relatively large.
Didn't Google have a "forums" filter like 20 years ago? I can't seem to find results pages on archive.org.
>> Traffic worsened because drivers weren't able to optimize their routes

I'm not sure that is a thing. The vast majority of drivers are on familiar routes and are not navigating via electronic means.

Better question: How are the autonomous cars doing? Are they parked by the side of the road unable to navigate without cell coverage.
Phind-70B worked well for me just now: https://www.phind.com/agent?cache=clsxokt2u0002ig09n1e11bj9.

For writing/manipulating code, Chat mode might work better than Search.
The Scotland link in the grandparent post is to a picture of 2 people, 1 white, 1 black. 1 is not large numbers.

Look, Gemini is clearly doing some weird stuff. But going all "look what crazy thing it did" for this specific image is bullshit. Maybe it's a misunderstanding of Scotland in specific and the prevalence of black people in history in general, in which case in needs to be gently corrected.

Or it's performative histrionics
Reddit makes US IPO filing public
It doesn't seem like it.

First, let's say you have two brains, one has IQ 160, the other has IQ 60. They are the same volume, neither suffers any brain damage. What is the IQ 60 brain doing?

Honestly, it seems like the Flynn effect has been a disaster upon the human race, when you look a bit better into history. People did live happier lives. All the supposed horrors seem to be a myth. There was more peace, love, honesty and goodness. Maybe they did know better.
> Fair enough, my apologies.

No problem. I'm not American so there's little point in swaying me one way or the other.

I agree with you on pretty much all of it, but I don't think that my other statement was a libertarian dog whistle. It's just a policy that I think would work - the government is for running the justice system, defence, taking out the garbage, maybe a social safety net depending on who you ask, stuff like that. A little bit of libertarianism (certainly not all of it) is the perfect cure for a Handmaid's Tale scenario.

Just one last point - some countries are certainly much better than others. I'm from Africa, have lived in Europe, and now I live in Canada, which is the best of all in my opinion. The USA though is amazing and far ahead of the rest in many ways - the drawbacks have been discussed but all that economic and social freedom does not count for nothing. I think all advanced countries have something to offer to someone who's aligned the right way. For 40% tax you'd expect a whole lot of nice things though!
Phind makes impressive claims. They also claimed that their fine tune of codellama beat gpt4, but their finetune is miles behind gpt4 in open domain code generation.

Not impressed. Also this is a closed walled garden model.
Also this I just saw, it sure if posted here yet https://www.wsj.com/finance/stocks/reddit-stock-ipo-buyers-u...

Reddit Plans to Sell Stock to Loyal Users in Unusual IPO Wager: Social-media company intends to offer shares in the offering to 75,000 of its biggest users
There's a reason everybody uses hashing - if your data is trusted, it does very few operations.

Tries have to allocate, walk, and interpret multiple nodes. Perhaps not as bad as trees (though that depends on how many possible trie node representations there are, vs what the data density is at each level), but still worse than the non-colliding hash.

That said, with a finite dataset a perfect hash would probably beat a general hash though.
"Our Company is Doing So Well That You're All Fired"

The title seems to presume that "you all" are contributing to the company doing so well. If you're not, then firing you will have no effect on the company doing well or not, except it will reduce costs. Arguably the company may do better without you as by firing you they have reduced costs.