skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's cost cutting, not demand for labor. A large headcount used to be a status symbol for a public company (to juice the stock), now if anything it's the opposite.
>I just fail to see how quantity factors into anything here.

Because you can overload any online discussion / sphere with that. There were so many that X effectively banned searching for her at all because if you did, you where overwhelmed by very extreme fake porn. Everybody can do it with very low entry barrier, it looks very believable, and it can be generated in high quantities.

We shouldn't have clamped down on photoshop, but realisticly two things would be nice in your theoretical case, usage restrictions and public information building. There was no clear cut point where photoshop was so mighty you couldn't trust any picture online. There were skills to be learned and people could identify the trickery, and it was on a very small scale and gradual. And the photo trickery was around for ages, even Stalin did it.

But creating photorealistic fakes in an automated fashion is completely new.
AI is about to become really sarcastic, pedantic, and absurdly moralistic
When interest rates are very low, companies are incentivized to borrow more as they can get better returns by investing their own cash flow into assets with predictable returns. When those interest rates go higher and these higher interest rates are coupled with harsher terms, then the ability to invest decreases, companies view reducing headcount as the way to survive to the next phase.
The Palm Pilot reminds me of the Zip drive, another product from the same rough era. It met a felt need: floppy disks had pathetic storage, now you can buy a 100MB floppy disk! They sold very well for awhile.

But people didn't want 100MB floppy disks, they wanted a way to transfer data. Flash wasn't cheap enough to sell in bulk, and as soon as it was, the Zip drive fell off a cliff, replaced with the still-ubiquitous thumb drive and SD card. You can argue that the Zip was a success, or mainstream, but you can't argue that it was equally successful and mainstream as thumb drives or SD cards, not honestly.

Same deal with the Palm Pilot. For a couple years, I had a flip phone, a Palm Pilot, and an iPod, all three of which I would pack to go to classes at university. Of those three, the only one that felt clunky and overly limited was the Palm Pilot. I liked it, I used it, real boon to an ADD-brained kid trying to get through higher education, but it was notably limited and I wanted something better. Even tried programming it, got the O'Reilly "pigeon book", never got that far with it though.

It wasn't until 2007 that those three items were successfully combined into one mass-market gadget, although there were preludes like the Danger Hiptop. Palm even tried to get into the smartphone game, in the first generation. But the original device category PDA was obsolete, whether or not (as it turned out, not) the company made the jump to the new one.
The site took a sharp turn downhill after that happened.

It seems like the moderators who enjoyed moderating bigger subreddits left the site and all that's left is power trippers who stuck around for the dust to settle so they could seize control and push their agenda.

Municipal/Provincial subreddits are nearly impossible to participate in because of how locked down the replacement mods have made them. The Toronto subreddit is run like a dystopian alternative reality where normal users can't post most news. Stories of crimes being committed is completely banned unless you're an approved poster or it's the cops committing crimes. The mods actively delete posts and then the same story gets re-uploaded by mods or their friends hours later and is allowed to stay up.
"Poor people used to live in slums. Now the economically disadvantaged occupy substandard housing in the inner cities. And they're broke! They're broke! They don't have a negative cash-flow position. They're ****ing broke! Cause a lot of them were fired. You know, fired. Management wanted to curtail redundancies in the human resources area, so many people are no longer viable members of the workforce."

George Carlin. https://youtu.be/vuEQixrBKCc?si=cLfi4-hH78PA6ZEg&t=217*
We know more about NNs then you think. You are vastly underestimating the field and what knowledge we have.
Productivity is a lagging indicator. Anxious, scared, overworked people can still be "productive" for weeks even months, it's just not sustainable in the long run.

Similarly, many systems can continue functioning (seemingly without a hitch) when you cease all maintenance and preventive care. Eventually, they will fail.
I may be naive, but I'm not sure where the hate is coming from in this thread. It's no secret that Google search result quality has rapidly and consistently diminished over the past few years, a common topic of discussion here on HN. Many folks, myself included, have developed a habit of appending "reddit" in Google searches by default. And reddit's native search, on the other hand, is just abysmal. If this partnership results in finding quality and timely content in reddit faster, then I'm all for it. Net positive IMO.
I guess that depends on what you believe the goal of all of this is - making a great society for companies or a great society for people.
Apple just has a different set of problems.

For example, some people use windows vms to run old games. And those old games aren't even available for macos.
People in this forum seem to care quite deeply about the ethnicity of AI-generated fictitious randos. So when it comes to actual Jesus, I think you might be mistaken on how much people care.
A lot of high growth companies simply hire too many people because too many people is usually better for maximizing growth rate than too few people. (If a company's focus shifts from maximizing growth rate to, e.g., optimizing for cash flow or profit instead of growth rate, the equation shifts and lay offs happen)

Having extra people on staff who aren't needed can be good as long as you expect to need them in the near future. That obviously creates the risk of needing to terminate the positions if the need for the person never materializes.

It takes 2-3 months to hire someone after opening a role, and 6-9 months to onboard them. So 8-12 months to fill a role with someone fully up and running. That's a really long time which is why so many high growth companies fill roles they don't actually need right now.
This is why I think X is worth maybe 1b, not more.
I imagine their response will be similar to the response you'd get if you told Barack Obama that most US presidents have been white.
With great power comes great responsibility. In a decentralized system you need to take responsibility for your data; specifically you need to backup your data. Bluesky has much better migration/backup/restore than Mastodon. If you want someone else to take responsibility for your data you can use a centralized system like Threads.
I do not think just adding a daycare will make having children suddenly make sense to many people - at least not enough to warrant such a blanket statement about it. Aside from simply not wanting any, there are so many reasons to not have children aside from daycare, plenty of them not negatable by policies or financial incentives.
I'm normally pretty pessimistic, but haven't we seen countless examples of initial panic over technology replacing jobs only to see new vistas of opportunity opening up? Hopefully that takes place in cases like this.
> But several of those turned out to have underlying diseases that had been overlooked, including cancer, pulmonary embolism, and a muscle ailment called myositis that causes weakness and fatigue. The surprise diagnoses suggest that people told they have ME/CFS often receive inadequate care—something many patients already know. “It’s a huge indictment of our medical system that they had to join a research study to find out what was wrong with them,” says Mike VanElzakker, a neuroscientist at Massachusetts General Hospital.

You see this a lot with "diagnoses of exclusion," sadly. In the absence of specific tests, you can only reach certain diagnostic conclusions by ruling out other stuff first, but (particularly in American healthcare) we often don't perform the rigorous well-it's-definitely-not-<x> workup first.

Or, depending on the circumstances, people don't understand that certain conditions are diagnoses of exclusion to begin with and jump to conclusions, like assuming they have IBS when they actually have Crohn's. (Ask me how I know, lol.)

There's the recent rise of "Chronic Lyme Disease," which many physicians have noted is a dubious diagnosis at best, but it seems clear that most of those people are ill—just with something else. And that "something else" could be a positively-identifiable condition that they haven't been tested for yet, or it could be a legitimate diagnosis of exclusion, like ME/CFS.

The problem, in either case, is actually testing people for all those other things first.
Pay salaries, or pay taxes. The society that enables a for-profit company to succeed is not free for the taking. Do your part.
I'm so glad he wrote this. I wish more people would talk about it. YouTube and especially TikTok are totally designed to fuel addiction and there must be a lot of people deeply affected by it.
There are a couple niche ones - Team8 (Cyber), PearVC (YC lite), Antler (YC for Asia), Sequoia Surge (YC for Asia but better terms), Thiel Foundation - but yea, it is hard to beat YC's mentorship and network.
NASA Chief Keeps Saying 'Pluto Is a Planet' (2019)
In the same boat (AT&T/Texas) but reversed, my wife's newer iphone was SOS but my older one was not. Her's came back online about 1:30PM central after being down since she woke up around 6AM central. afaik both my kid's phones were working, I'm sure i would have heard howls of anguish if not. Both of their phones are maybe 4-5 generations older iphones.
Two days ago when the story with the famous 17th century physicist broke out [1], I asked Dall-E to do the same. Here's the results [2]. I recognize Shakespeare, Jamie Foxx and Ruth Ginsburg. No hint of Isaac Newton.

[1] https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1760078920135872716

[2] https://imgur.com/a/mqWk3Co
Show me a country where institutions are run by people who went to mediocre institutions that is dramatically outperforming the US. Indeed show me any evidence of elite education attainers underperforming.

I can see the argument that the perks of elite education do not justify the increased cost, but I've never seen anyone argue that elite education is actually of substantially lower quality.
SD2.1 was not "overly safe", SD2.0 was because of a training bug.

2.1 didn't have adoption because people didn't want to deal with the open replacement for CLIP. Or possibly because everyone confused 2.0 and 2.1.
I've thrown out or recycled many hundreds of pounds of computer equipment over the years. Even if I were able to pass it on to someone who briefly appreciated it, it's not worth it.
If your company did something that made everyone's job 10% more miserable

-like maybe all salaried people need to work an extra hour every day to cover the laid off people's work-

Productivity per employee would go up, and it would be impossible to really attribute any negative impact to the product to the layoff!

But would that have been a wise decision for the company? If it was wise, the company should keep laying off more people, but how can you tell when it has gone too far?
Windows South African regional settings used to use a period before changing it in Windows 8 to use a comma.

Total mess while we had a mix of Windows 7 and Windows 8+ developer machines.

I don’t even know why Microsoft changed it, my theory is that some idiot academic or government worker reported to Microsoft that “officially” we use a comma, with zero regard for the fact that practically everyone used a period. Total idiot.
One thing that is baffling to me is that these companies can fire 10% of their workforce and they just keep on chugging without a hitch.

A company I used to work for set up a team to develop a new product for a new market. After 3 years they were still unprofitable, the product was shut down and the entire team was fired. This obviously had no direct effect on the companies overall productivity. Was that team doing a "bullshit job"?

If you fire the team doing R&D on the next generation of one of your products or the team working on launching your company into an entirely new market or the team the works on internal tooling or some of the people managing key account relationships with certain customers or suppliers or many other similar jobs then the company can absolutely keep going without a hitch, for a while.
Wow - is it doing pre-render-ray-tracing?
NTSB Animation – Overview of the Collapse of the Fern Hollow Bridge [video]
>>>How does it perform on 3090, 4090 or less? Are us mere mortals gonna be able to have fun with it ?

>>>Its in sizes from 800m to 8b parameters now, will be all sizes for all sorts of edge to giant GPU deployment.

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Can you fragment responses such that if an edge device (mobile app) is prompted for [thing] it can pass tokens upstream on the prompt -- Torrenting responses effectively - and you could push actual GPU edge devices in certain climates... like dens cities whom are expected to be a Fton of GPU cycle consumption around the edge?

So you have tiered processing (speed is done locally, quality level 1 can take some edge gpu - and corporate shit can be handled in cloud...

----

Can you fragment and torrent a response?

If so, how is that request torn up and routed to appropriate resources?

BOFH me if this is a stupid question? (but its valid for how we are evolving to AI being intrinsic to our society so quickly.)
This must depend on specific communities? I use it heavily (as a reader; I rarely post) and have noticed no change at all.
Ask HN: Grow a profit-generating SaaS or work on a promising new one?
I'm in a bit of conundrum and any help or guidance is highly appreciated!

I've built a SaaS app (rosterbird) that has grown organically to $1600/MRR without any marketing from my side. This was over a period of over 3(!) years and has been a sideproject all that time.

This obviously exhibits (very early) signs of a Product Market Fit and the gut feel is telling me to focus on the business which seems to have found a footing on its own. But, the few times I’ve tried to focus on it in the past, I’ve been turned off by my own inability to understand the product exactly and the target audience I should focus on, and learn what exactly the next step I should take with it.

So, everytime I’d think of and plan multiple possible things (marketing, sales, pivoting, positioning, etc) and ultimately end up in a deadlock and will abandon the pursuit altogether. During one such abandonment I started building a new SaaS product (keenly.so).

I built a small MVP of keenly and showed it to people who I thought would benefit from this and the feedback was very positive with some willing to pay for it after it's released.

Now, I'm confused as to which one I should proceed with.

On one hand, I have a product which is growing but it's in a niche market and I fear I don't quite understand how exactly I should take the next step or who/how to even market it. On the other hand, the new product is in an established (a bit crowded) market but something I understand well. And also, I believe I have a reliable marketing plan for it as well (ofcourse, no guarantee it'll work, but there's a plan atleast).

I've went full-time on this, so it is imperative for me to choose a right path and proceed, therefore here I am.

Once again, any help or guidance highly appreciated! I'm happy to answer any questions that would help.

Thanks in advance!
> TensorFlow

Nah, I'm good. Thanks for the ad at the bottom though?
That's already what googlers developing it are
The Interview Snapshot: How to Synthesize and Share What You Learned
Yeah, maybe we just have different politics and I'm too dismissive of alternative worldviews.

Still though, I get like Matt Gaetz' tweets recommended to me. Does anyone like that dude? How is this happening? Why on earth would I want that? I feel like all this conservative stuff is surfaced by the application to me.

[Proof](https://ibb.co/ypHS8fN)

I got notifications, on my dang phone, for the dumbest fucking takes. I don't get them for liberal people. Possible I am just in the demographic of people they think would swing conservative so they target me.
Tried and it refused on the basis of having military themes, and explained it was due to content restrictions.

Restricting images of war seems kind of silly given the prevalence of hyper-realistic video games that simulate war in gory detail, but it's not related to the reasons for Gemini going wrong.
I think that's the thing people are forgetting - the whole point of college admissions is NOT to discriminate, or even find the smartest; it's to attempt to make sure that those admitted can complete the coursework and benefit from it.

Once that bar has been cleared then you can start trying to improve things above it, but a problem has been that removing the bar meant you had many people who failed out (or, worse, you watered down the degree such that graduation becomes meaningless).

At the root of all this is the "everyone has to go to college to be happy and successful" - as long as we hold that AND there are people not suited to college as it currently is, we have a major problem. We need to make sure we have a society where non-college educated people can survive and thrive, or we're going to turn college into high school.
The US of the 1800s was a world in which you could legally own another human being, right up until December 6, 1865. Those born into bondage were condemned to live as such and had no legal way to change their personal status. This is kind of the ultimate form of a hereditary title.
With only $60M a year to go around, I'm not sure my share of comments would even add up to a full dime anyway. They can have it.
Why Britain Is Struggling with Nuclear Power
Persistent disks are implemented as EBS snapshots, so the process is something like:

1. Create EC2 instance for runner #1. Find out there is no existing snapshot, so an empty volume is created and attached.

2. Runner #1 runs exactly 1 job and shuts down. A snapshot is taken for the persistent volume. That's going to be used by later runners.

3. Create EC2 instance for runner #2. Create a new volume based on the last snapshot.

4. Assuming #2 is still running while a new job comes in. Create EC2 instance for runner #3. Create volume based on the same last snapshot.

5. Whenever a runner finishes, its persistent volume gets a snapshot taken. Outdated snapshots are automatically removed.

And yes we manage the AMI that the runner uses. We try out best to follow https://github.com/actions/runner-images and will automate this process very soon so it's always up-to-date.

Edit: formatting
How can it "lock open"? If 90+% of users are on the official bluesky servers, what could possibly technically prevent bluesky from just no longer federating with other hosts?
Show HN: Open-source, developer-first prompt engineering platform
1. yes

2. no

3. that's what this topic is about

4. yes
It’s not to get a better education. It’s not to do better research. Yes, you are proving my point.
Google are already indexing Reddit, so this might reflect the incremental value of direct API access plus keeping everyone happy. I would be surprised if Reddit’s threats to block Google’s crawler were all that credible.
There is barely any project that supports client to server ActivityPub protocol, so from that point of view is underwhelming, yes. If you tried to implement a Mastodon compatible client, that's a different thing though.
Speculative Sampling
Interesting that they use a math problem on the home page, the one area it is not good at.
Open sourcing your games as solo game developer – a game changer
Paid in glorious internet points.
Imagine there are 2 groups of people. The first group endeavors to automate and streamline their work as much as possible such that there isn't much left on their plate when the feature well runs dry. Another group has stymied every attempt at automation such that every deploy is a two day long process involving a dozen people. Who do you think management sees as replaceable?
Yeah, mostly for finishing edges that weren't cut with the track saw.
OP was watching YouTube 8 to 10 hours a day. That is not simple relaxation.
Being accesible is huge.

I still see post of people running ollama on H100s or whatever, and that's just because its so easy to set up.
They didnt really automate that at all. They just put it on their customers to push the buttons for the kitchen to read off the screen instead and move the food around.
> Arguably Reddit's value is it's data

Reddit has a chicken and egg problem - nobody knows what the value of it's data even is. They've never sold it before. You can sell pet rocks for 1 billion dollars, but nobody will value them if there's been 0 sales. (ask vs bid vs last sale price).

I'm guessing reddit is rushing to sell their data so they can show that their data is worth anything at all.
Exactly. If you don’t get value from HN, don’t use HN. If you don’t get value from Reddit, don’t use Reddit.
This is an interesting thought experiment, because in that situation the company should cut another 10%, and so on, until they get some sort of message they can't cut anymore.
I think it's this is more of a real point. Honestly if someone who works in a large bureaucratic organization, the amount of people who do next to nothing is astounding. Is that a bad thing? Yes to some degree, however we do need to have jobs for people to do no matter what and if this gives them something to do everyday and they feel like they're contributing something then maybe that's all they need to do.
http://archive.today/lmA13
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GG6e0D6WoAEo0zP?format=jpg&name=...
Wow, the author is also working on a book that is just released: https://blog.marcocantu.com/blog/2024-february-expertdelphi2...

No technology ever truly dies.
When somebody else is wrong on the internet, one feels compelled to comment and explain one’s righteousness, or at the very least read through the comments to see if somebody else already has. Thus algorithms that optimize engagement (most of them) are most likely to show you stuff you disagree with.

The antidote is Linkedinification: “Thanks for bringing up this point it’s really smart and I fully agree!”
Your Pricing page says $2k monthly PER CLUSTER. It doesn't say PER PRODUCTION CLUSTER.
> It’s also, according to one very vocal group of users, complicit in a conspiracy against white people:

Really? That's the best we can do here? Showing a couple of tweets from a so-called "very vocal" group (gaslighting much?) doesn't do justice to the blatant racism that is present in the image generator.

You can see a video of what's actually happening here. It will refuse to generate white people, responding instead with lectures, while the same prompts asking for black people instead will be just fine. When asking for medieval knights, etc, it will show black kings with white people bowing to it. It has shown George Washington as a black person, etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcUSavC7-Kw
> If not, if the content remains stored somehow then I dont own my data and I cant remove it?

This is true of any federated system. Once you put things out into the world, you can ask that others delete it, but that doesn't mean they will.

Even in centralized systems, things like archive.org exist.

In some sense, public statements are always immutable.