skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a serious architectural flaw.

In the entire history of electromechanical switching in the Bell System, no central office was ever out of service for more than 30 minutes for any reason other than a natural disaster, or, on one single occasion, a major fire in NYC.

The AT&T Long Lines system in the 1960s and 1970s had ten regional centers, all independent and heavily interconnected. There was a control center, in Bedminster, NJ, but it just monitored and sent out routing updates every 15 minutes or so. All switches could revert to default routing if needed, which meant that some calls would not get through under heavy load. Most calls would still work.
I've never tried it, but in Windows you can have CUDA apps fall back to system ram when GPU vram is exhausted. You could slap 128gb in your rig with a 4070. I'm sure performance falls off a cliff, but if it's the difference between possible and impossible that might be acceptable.

https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5490/~/s...
I grew up in a rural area and lived in Colorado for a while. Going home or venturing into the mountains often resulted in bad service so it just became second nature. Good observation!
The people at Ivy Leagues still do learn calculus. You're not sacrificing anything academically to go to a better school, the perks are on top of a first rate education.
If only a handful of people are capturing all the profits, and everyone else is unemployed, homeless, and hungry... that's how you get a decline in society.
Yup, that works (10 uses avail). Though i wasn't too concerned with actually using it, just thought it was interesting and wanted to expose that maybe-bug.
You know it's satire from the title (and the first paragraph) because it uses terms like "fired" and "let go". Nobody uses those anymore.

You're "impacted".
Gross. Just ewww.
What are your majoring in? I'm curious because if it's something like electrical engineering, you might not want to go the VM route as you'll need to hookup test equipment and such to your computer.
Yeah, it's a very "know it when I see it" and I've seen things go for a few million I'd call a mansion, and things go for $20m that were just a house.
For those who use TamperMonkey[0], here's a basic script [1] I wrote to replace HTML on matching URL's with your own message.

[0]: https://www.tampermonkey.net/
[1]: https://gist.github.com/stephengodderidge/df3b33b92bb3eeb2f3...
I don't think they're not taking it seriously.

I also don't believe (and again, don't work there, just a huge fan, so maybe this is wrong) I'm not sure that the revenue was the reason for shipping this feature. It's best thought of as an accessibility feature, for folks who do not know what a "DNS record" is and have never hosted a domain. Without this, more technical users get something special that non-technical users do not: a nicer username. The money is just a side effect of the fact that purchasing a domain name already requires money, and so a partnership with a revenue split just makes sense.

> Either way I think it's insane to prematurely rule out advertising.

I hear you in an abstract "that's the way you make money in this space" sense, but I also think it's a smart reaction to the public sentiment around this stuff. People do not like advertising. It is a differentiator. We'll see if it works out for them or not.
I think that at this stage Sora AI is not something that can be used in the game industry at all. On the other hand, I don't rule out that AI is developing so fast that soon we will see Sora AI or other AI working in the game industry, many people will be out of a job.
Believe it or not a larger percentage of students at an IVY (or otherwise notable university say Stanford) have busted their ass to get into that school and not coasted 'oh I don't want to work that hard'. Absolutely there are people who have been admitted that have not (family, money, legacy whatever). Just the same there are the same type of students who have gone to a non notable school that may have been Ivy material and not gotten admitted for various reasons (didn't care, couldn't afford, family, whatever).

The thing is about the student body at a top school (IVY or notable again) is the percentage and general feel of the student body that fits the 'busted their ass to get to that school' instead of not caring that much. And really living working and dreaming about going to the top school including but not limited to sacrifices that they might have made.
Have you used Lazarus or FreePascal for any significant project?

I was hoping to get some insight from someone who's deeply familiar with it and can provide their experience and opinion after using it for a reasonable amount.
I decided.
Isn’t the fact that Google considers this a bug evidence against exactly what you’re saying? If DEI was really the cause, and not a more broad concern about becoming the next Tay, they would’ve kept it as-is.

Weird refusals and paternalistic concerns about harm are not desirable behavior. You can consider it a bug, just like the ChatGPT decoding bug the other day.
DreamWorks Releases OpenMoonRay 1.5 Open-Source Renderer
A Debrief on the Results of Our Lifeboat Satisfaction Survey
A "platform" is a combination of users and software. You could possibly build the software but how many millions of dollars did NextDoor spend to get and maintain the initial set of users? How would you get that initial investment and then an ongoing revenue stream to grow the size of the user base?

Without millions of users, the NextDoor software isn't useful.
Fair point - although I'm guessing you originally paid more than $100 for those parts, so it'd still be over $600 total, just spread out over time :)
If the company is rudderless and unable to allocate effective work to employees, it won't be doing well. This is about companies that are doing well. At least, that's the premise of the article.
The protocol and hosting mechanisms are open source. There’s one actor currently sure, but it seems like bluesky is not holding onto that.
If you have a project/company that's already running well and you fire almost everybody except a skeleton crew, you'd be amused but things don't crumble down instantly. Technical debt piles up and everything goes to maintenance mode, when you need the insight of the good people who left is when you realise that going to the previous state will cost you a lot more time and money than you might possibly predict.
That was the problem with Twitter/X. It appears that Elon's tweaking has caused the service to switch from left-leaning to right-leaning.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/05/01/after-mus...
They're sometimes called 'home labs' too.
I just tried using the 70B model and the answer was listed as being returned using the 34B model instead of the 70B model and was wrong. Is there some logic that ignores user choice, depending on what the service thinks can be answered?
Snapchat isn't liable for connecting 12-year-old to convicted sex offenders
It's worth noting that most animals, even animals you think of as herbivores, will opportunistically eat meat.

A video of a deer catching and eating a bird went around a while back.
Bitwarden's new auto-fill option adds phishing resistance
I was curious but apparently I’m not allowed to see any of his tweets.

Little disappointing, I have no wish to interact with him, just wanted to read the tweets but I guess it’s walled off somehow.
I am probably quite wrong on this, but I have always believed that the people smart enough to get into MIT, Harvard, Yale, etc. were probably smart enough that they didn't even truly need to go there. It's more for connections and a formality than for pure educational attainment.

For example, Bill Gates left Harvard after two years. He did quite fine without graduating by most metrics. I imagine he would have been quite successful, perhaps in a different way, had he not attended at all.
If the people working for the company has finished making the product, then after that they would have to be tasked with making a new product. So, yes, if the product is delivered then there shouldn't be any dip in revenue if you fire the people who made it.

Companies keep these productive people if they want to grow and deliver even more products. They fire these productive people if they're not aiming for more growth at the moment.

I use some old software that nobody has been working on for a decade and it still works perfectly, to give an example.
I mean, if companies like that didn’t run such a huge deficit, they might be able to get more favorable loan terms.
The discrepancy is time i.e. time for things to happen. All organizations have inertia and they will continue as they will until they don't - slowly, until all at once in the end. Maybe that company will retool with a new cadre of recruits, and catch up, or maybe they won't. That's the bet the mgmnt are making. Can I anticipate the next inflection, and if it's later than I expect, will I be somewhere else and outside of the blast radius?
Totally get it, shrewd business decision to monetize their content like this, but as a user this kind of stuff sucks. Used to be you could string together all sorts of cool little bots or automated workflows with reddit/twitter and whatnot, and now APIs are so closed off there isn't much room to experiment with that kind of thing. And it feels like just the beginning, as AI becomes more ubiquitous the roadblocks needed to protect genuine human engagement will become more onerous. Imagine the entire internet being Discord, with it's unsearchable silos, forever.
This is just "rocket candy" right? My friend made this stuff a whole bunch when we were teens. Once during a summer break from college, we lit up a watermelon sized chunk of the stuff, producing a house sized plume of white smoke and a mild explosion.

It's pretty fun! Maybe don't build missiles with it and attempt to kill your neighbor with it though, seems like the least fun possible use for it.
You can actually pinpoint the moment in 1994 when the derivative changed. David Schwimmer goes from side character in season 1 of NYPD Blue who ends up dead trying to save an old lady from a mugger to...Ross.
This is dishonest. what is the point of this comment? Do you feel righteously woke when you write it?

He was pushing back against a communist narrative that: every single demographic gruop should be equally represented in every part of tech; and that if this isn't the case, then it's evidence of racism/sexism/some other modern sin.

Again what was the point of portraying the Damore story like that.
The ideal form of generative AI allows its user to craft output according to their imagination.

It necessarily has some defaults to fill in the gaps of unstated assumptions and these defaults may be shaped implicitly by initial training data or explicitly by later-stage product development but the tool loses a phenomenal amount of utility when crude approaches to "safety" get in the way of intuitive or everyday uses.

Having its output default towards a contemporary, Western, cosmopolitan ideals about gender/race/etc diversity isn't unreasonable when contemporary, Western, cosmopolitan users are the most critical to this stage of the product growth. But most people around the globe don't actually live in that culture and so they quickly notice how the default is culturally myopic, and others are finding that in practice these are not being implemented as defaults so much as they're being implemented as output requirements that dramatically limit how useful the tool is.

TLDR; In many cases, people can't get the product to make the specific, innocuous images they have in mind.

The debate can sound political and certainly gets taken up by political activists, but it's actually rooted in quality decay. The tool is less useful when it does less, and people get annoyed by that.
Most scientists in the world are either Indian or Chinese. And, either way, that's not the point here.
It's all good. The Jack thing is, in my mind, a bit sensitive, because a lot of people criticizing BlueSky talk as though Jack runs the place, owns it, etc, all of which seems factually incorrect. He has a board seat, but seemingly cares about it so little that he deleted his account. From what I hear, nostr is his focus, but I'm not on there so I can't speak to that personally.
It may have been for Serv 2003. I don't remember much about it other than it was a Word doc explaining the entire keygen algorithm using frequency analysis; This was a big eye opener for the period.
The whole point of the exercise is playing with USB OTG, and the Pi has only one OTG port, so you need another way to connect to it

(been there, done that)
"The analyst's cheeks warmed as she looked around the room, realizing they were talking about something different than she expected."
This was not apparent in the mid 1980s when the robot panic was definitely in full swing. You're looking back with almost 40 years of hindsight. The view in the 80s was that the entire assembly line was going away to be replaced with nothing but robots. We were taught to expect that our jobs would be to maintain and service the robots.

Heck in the 90s I remember going to a museum somewhere where McDonald's was demonstrating a fully robotic kitchen for its restaurants. This was a real widespread fear at the time. Thirty to 40 years later, maybe we can look back and recognize that it didn't quite turn out that way, but at the same time we can't know what's going to transpire by 2050 based on today's fears of AI outsourcing "information work" either.
Inconclusive evidence but hard probably.
> I explained to her that it could be very valuable someday

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jul/17/first-gen...
Why is anyone so quick to take the company side?

For starters, productivity is a broad term, so without defining what it means in context it isn’t doing anyone any favors.

You won’t feel the dip or record it until after the event happens, and often not right away. When productivity drops a year from now for example, that could be due to layoffs. It’s not always immediate in its impact.

I also question this from the other side: why are executives who set the company priorities not also axed? They are the ones that ultimately messed up as they had poor strategic vision. Their ineffectual leadership is how it got there in the first place, if they aren’t gone how on earth do you know that it wasn’t their responsibility for the decrease in productivity? Logically one would think that axing the executives first and then seeing how productivity increases or decreases with new leadership would make more sense
Wish reddit didn't kill forums. Also feels like reddit is going to become even more bot infested now because of this.
"very, shall we say, 'passionate'" meaning a relatively small amount of tweets include pretty mild admissions of reality and satirical criticism of a person who is objectively prejudiced.

Examples:
1. Saying he hasn't experienced systemic racism as a white man and that it exists within the country.
2. Saying that discussion about systemic racism during Bidens inauguration was good.
3. Suggesting that some level of white privilege is real and that acting "guilty" over it rather than trying to ameliorate it is "asshole" behavior.
4. Joking that Jesus only cared about white kids and that Jeff Sessions would confirm that's what the bible says. (in 2018 when it was relevant to talk about Jeff Sessions)

These are spread out over the course of like 6 years and you make it sound as if he's some sort of silly DEI ideologue. I got these examples directly from Charles Murray's tweet, under which you can find actually "passionate" people drawing attention to his Jewish ancestry, and suggesting he should be in prison. Which isn't to indict the intellectual anti-DEI crowd that is so popular in this thread, but they are making quite strange bedfellows.
Not to mention that those bullshit jobs that don't really impact the company's earnings initially tends to include stuff like fixing the IT systems and handling customer issues within an acceptable time frame...
Relevant quotes IMO:

> We forgot that for centuries people found solutions for extreme environments, and we threw them out the window. We had internal courtyards with water fountains and trees. We had double roofing with air passing through and whitewashing, which reflects the sun’s rays.

> We need to create green streets, green corridors for pedestrians, electric public mobility, scooters, and bicycles. The centers of the cities of the future should be empty of cars. In places like Amsterdam and Paris, they’re already doing this.
Or Better Off Ted. The episode about racially insensitive security cameras is comedy gold.
That's what I'm talking about :)

There are a bunch of answers to your question the way you asked it (eg electrical components, or chemical processes that can only be contained in certain polymers) but let's skip them.

The scale of human society requires -a lot of stuff-, and plastics make that possible. Building materials, clothing, tools, storage, etc.

It costs an order of magnitude more to manufacture something out of wood or metal or glass than to make it out of plastic. And then the thing would often be more fragile or cumbersome.

Plastics do such a good job here that we get caught up in the problems their overabundance creates. But without them, costs of living globally would be drastically higher and way more people would be suffering from dire want.
I agree with you, SMS as implemented almost everywhere* is bad, adding an account takeover path (the reset by SMS) with insufficient value-add to offset that 100% guaranteed (see research I linked elsewhere in thread) path to account takeover.

And as to "You're not seriously saying that adding a second factor is reducing security?" -- yes I am, when it's not a second factor, it's implemented as an "only factor".

To that point, btw, I'd linked to your other reply about resets from a couple of mine: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39467039

* Note: And by "as implemented almost everywhere", I mean so indistinguishable from everywhere that that effectively boils down to "SMS is bad", much easier for users and builders to understand, when better options are available.
There's an outage map.[1] But it's useless.
That's just a US map of where most people live.

[1] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/outage-map-att-where-cell-phone...
You can easily add no-js fallback by setting base target in JS instead of HTML. Then append e.g. `?fullpage` to HTML <a> elements and remove this query param with JS. With no JS, links will open in the same window with `?fullpage` query param, which return a full page from the backend instead of a fragment.
Hello, thanks for the kind words! With regards to your questions:

1. Are you referring to the local NLP models or the LLM? The local models are already open source models or ones we've trained ourselves. If you're talking about the LLM, the default is OpenAI but it's easy to configure other ones without any code changes.

2. Most sources are pulled from every 10 minutes. They have incremental updates so if you have Confluence with a million pages, probably in the last 10 minutes, only a dozen or so have been updated. The only exception is websites (which are crawled recursively so we don't know which pages are updated before we try), which is updated once a day.

3. Glean is indeed similar. Without going into the features in detail, we are an open source Glean with more of an emphasis on LLMs and Chat.

4. There's generally not a great reason to build from scratch if an open source alternative with +75% alignment exists. They can always build on top of us if they want. A lot of teams reach out to us because they were looking to switch from their in house solution to Danswer. Generally though these are larger teams, we haven't seen many SMBs building RAG for their own usage, usually these smaller teams building RAG are looking to productize.

5. Currently there is no cheap and fast way to fine-tune LLMs every time a document is updated. If you want an LLM to remember the document that was just updated you'd have to augment it to at least dozens of similar (but all correct) examples. RAG is still the only viable option. Then there is the problem of security etc. since you can't enforce user roles at the LLM level. So companies that focus on building LLMs don't really compete in this specific space and they don't want to either as they're trying to build AGI. There is more of a threat from teams like Microsoft and Google who are indeed trying to build knowledge assistants for their product lines, but we think there is a world where open source ends up winning against the giants!
That's just context allowing for abbreviation. "Shorts" has always meant different things in different contexts.
This I applaud as the tech in me.

It will quickly become a mess in the real world.

People will run pods on cheapest VPS and they will get hacked, run out of money,
get bored, go broke etc.

Imagine as fractions of content goes missing for a while or is just deleted.

One guy runs a small pod with some people, kills it, 60.000 messages gone.
How does that impact interconnected discussions?

If I own my own data. (good), and I can remove my data if I want (good).
Then what happened to a BlueSky conversation I was having with 40 other people?
some of whom belong to other pods.

Do the conversations remain with just blank lines where I used to be?

If not, if the content remains stored somehow then I dont own my data
and I cant remove it?
but this is not true of the giants like Microsoft and Google right?

They chose to fire thousands and yet have sufficient to invest further into markets all over the world.

Burn and churn is just much easier and lax labor laws do not prohibit such tendencies!
Kind of. It’s Wine with a bunch of Crossover patches plus Apple’s own changes. Codeweavers employees are the primary maintainers of the Wine project, and they open-source any Crossover-specific changes they make to Wine code (since Wine is LGPL).

(Source: GPTK logs a lot of messages containing the word “Crossover” while running games.)
I'm having flashbacks to owning a Matrox Millenium as a kid. I never did get that 4MB vram upgrade.

https://www.512bit.net/matrox/matrox_millenium.html
FWIW this particular thing happened sometime mid-2023. They have certainly made it more sensitive since then.
this is how the WWW started, one new website every other day, then a couple every few hours, then ...
Most of my Google searches take the form of '<search query> reddit' these days.
3 words.

"Geoff Lawton videos."

You know, that Strine permaculture guy.

Watch at least 15 to 20 of them. Many are short.

Only then talk, people.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoff_Lawton

https://youtube.com/@DiscoverPermaculture?si=XVjdWpJk5ZIVTnL...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strine
Doesn't Twitter like most socials feed you things with which they predict would increase your engagement or time on platform?

If the GP's social circle leaned more conservative than them, it may just be bad predictions. And I can see how that would degrade user experience.

I often hear things like X service skews left/right and find it odd that people can have such differing experiences. Hence my belief that the feed algos are primarily the issue. People do like confirmation of biases.
I think the dedicated blog post for this release [1] would be a better link.

[1] = https://www.codeweavers.com/blog/mjohnson/2024/2/22/crossove...
I don't understand the reference. Who are these people and why do they join a chat?
I work for a company that does something that I guess is a bit unusual - they use the revenue from our customers to pay employee salaries. If you would have asked me, this would seem like the obvious way to do things, but I'm told that debt is very important for some reason or other. As Homer Simpson has been known to say, "I don't know how the economy works".