skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that’s the wrong question too

Even growth should be questioned holistically when you can literally make a few million dollars once and be done with it

instead of every quarter while pretending that making the same or lesser amounts are disasters
As an engineering manager, I recognize that some people are comfortable talking through things extemporaneously in a 1:1 or a group setting, while others prefer chewing on the problem a bit and crafting their ideas at their own pace.

That's why I try to make space for both ends of the spectrum. One of the practices I've had great success with is a weekly update note, where my direct reports have the opportunity to write out their thoughts about how the week has gone and to raise any concerns. There have been too many times to count when a "slow thinker" has identified a problem via that channel that they didn't raise in our conversations, because they felt more comfortable being able to choose their words carefully in an async manner. If I hadn't made space for that kind of communication, I would have lost out on really smart ideas.
Roadkill to Become Fair Game in Virginia
Don't Netlify/Vercel run on top of the likes of AWS/GCP? That means they need to markup on those already inflated hyperscaler markups for data transfer.
THIS. This is finally one Elon thing I can get behind!

With a new Windows 11 laptop, this is the dance I have to do. I've done it over 100 times now, maybe more.

Boot laptop to welcome screen, hit Shift+F10 to get to terminal. Then taskmgr. In task manager, click new task, ms-settings:settings (run as admin) then you're in settings to create a new user without a microsoft account.

BUT STILL THEN, I have to go through the effing setup and create a fake outlook account, which is usually win11acct403383@outlook.com and then get to the desktop and trash that account. BUT FIRST, I have to turn off bitlocker (which is enabled by default now?) because it stores the effing encryption key in that fake/newly-created account. #Bullshit
Because to me, pumping yourself full of various supplements and hiding inside is just about the opposite of what I'd call a mentally healthy person, and is more indicative of how disconnected from reality parts of contemporary Western culture have become.
Part of that is that you're taking a fixed number of companies. So if Europe has more, but smaller companies, the value of the top-40 would be lower than if they had fewer but larger companies. To me the first sounds healthier, everything else being equal.
Why I use Firefox
It's interesting that there is such a focus on distractions and entertainment. It almost reads like "I attempted to operate my iPhone blindfold for 24 hours". What would a similar experiment be like without a smartphone being involve, I wonder?
Whew lots of negativity here!

Think this is super promising of what the future holds. Not known many people who enjoyed working in call centers.
Why is amnesia built into the browsers?
If I lose internet connection I no longer have access to new links or past sites i've visited.

The sites I've visited had the HTML rendered, and that can be saved for later use.

Browsers should offer re-visiting one of the 10 last cached versions of visited sites instead of offering nothing.

New content should be fetched periodically to have something to read on times of network issues.

Having nothing to read can be boring.
It would be interesting if their use of AI was supervised. E.g. most chat support agents are probably handling multiple threads at the same time.

I could see a human support agent supervising 15-30 concurrent chat threads if AI is typing vs. 5-10 if the human is typing.

They could set up systems that escalates a chat for supervision before it takes action of any kind.
Maybe this is a me problem, but if I could figure out a way to use AI to significantly accelerate or replace developers or my own work, I would do it.

I have experimented a bunch with llm, copilot, etc. The current offering is useful in a limited scope. People google a bit less, and they are a bit better than existing IDE snippeting tools. I see potential but what is on the market doesn't give me a 10% improvement.

If you ask an LLM to write you a story it will write you a story. If it want a very specific story you have to write a very detailed prompt. Code generation is also like this. A seasoned developer can write code as fast as they can write a detailed prompt, and a newbie may be able to work faster in unfamiliar technologies but is susceptible to following bad suggestions (e.g. llm will tell you to write your own email validation instead of using the teams preferred library).

The vibe I get is like low code technologies. Initially they look promising and you wonder if you need skilled people anymore but any non trivial problem and you're just coding on diagram form realising text is better.

What are you / that using?
I'd really like to try it if it is publicly available.

What I see anecdotally is, now debt costs money a lot of buisness cases for tech investment just don't make sense. Borrowing to buy future growth made a lot of sense when interest rates were negative. Now we have a lot of pressure to deliver profits today.
Peeing into a urinal is pretty gross too. There is definitely splash back.

Related: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/feb/20/the-splashba...

And this "helpful" video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgOx7zPtsaM
And I'm the emperor of China, building a nation of emperors.
Perhaps another variation on the idea is to allow a higher error rate. For example, if a 0.01% error rate was acceptable in AI, perhaps the voltage range between states could be lowered (which has a quadratic relationship to power consumption) and clock speed could increase.
How does backprop work here? I can't imagine flipping bits of everything upstream of an error is effective.
Those already exist, but are understood and provide professional support (in the form of engineers who extend the platform for a customer)
(Hybris, CrystalCommerce, phpbb, discourse, etc.)

That engineer probably can’t even be replaced by AI since every new business is a snowflake once the low hanging fruit is gone.

I don’t think our current form of statistical models will ever be able to generalize and get into specifics at the same time.

AI will change how individual engineers work by being a more proactive search engine, but will not be relied on, by engineers, to write code entirely.
Amazon does this as well, from what I remember. Their bot is a classical decision tree, not LLM, but that doesn't matter from the customer's perspective.
Regulations are not a problem, it's the lack of a big common market. Expanding from let's say Belgium to Germany is almost as difficult as expanding to the USA. That's why the two countries that have a big tech scenes (US/China) are the ones that have big unified markets.
> to resolve issues as quickly

That's only a target if it increases the bottom-line (or some column in some excel sheet). No investor-held company will ever (be able to) choose to decrease a bottom line.
I am not aware of any Linux distribution that has no package manager (except for LFS, which isn't a distribution per se). Source-based systems typically have some kind of package manager. Gentoo: portage, GoboLinux: Compile, Slackware: pkgtools + sbo, Sourcer/SourceMage: sorcery, Lunar: lin, CRUX: pkgutils, and so on.

Edit, additionally, yes. Such distributions are suitable for essentially any task for which any other distribution is suitable. The primary caution that I would offer anyone when venturing away from RHEL/Debian is how much you trust whatever organization to still be around in five years. If you're comfortable managing everything yourself, pick whatever; otherwise, it's "safest" to choose something that either contractually will still be around (RHEL), or is governed in a way that ensures some continuity (Debian).
Agree as well. We are at the very beginning, AI is the worst it will be right now.
Those who keep saying 'I can't see how my job is at risk' living under a rock.
It's corrupted Latin. It's mostly taken from a book by Cicero.
As soon as you quote AOC "Eat The Rich" you lost all credibility in your comment section.

She is the least knowledgeable person to be anywhere close to a Boeing strategy of change.

And, just like "Eat The Rich" is rhetoric, so is "..and it's, like, twelve people." It's not 12, it's anyone making more than $X00,000, wherever X makes her more popular with her base.
Congrats on building this! I would be interested to use this in a server-less setting. I’ll give it a shot, I might have to figure out how to queue stuff so I can deliver metrics asynchronously.
Does this imply the possible viability mRNA vaccines or CRISPR preventative treatment for aspects of snake venoms?
Interpretations of Probability, the implications for weather forecasting (2004)
I agree with the consensus here that the cost issues are a cloud problem, not serverless. Ironically, something like AWS lambda has a default 1,000 simultaneously activated lambda limit, so the platform defaults to throttling.

Not that serverless is perfect.
A study on Copilot shows 55% faster completion of a programming task [1].

Now we as developers know that coding, and in particular, coding of a de novo feature, is only a fraction of our job. Actual typing in of code is estimated to be between 10 and 60% of the software developer’s job [2].

1] https://github.blog/2022-09-07-research-quantifying-github-c...

2] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2019/0...
I don't fully agree with a chess analogy, because chess has certain completeness and perfection to it so there isn't really much to improve or innovate on. Where arpgs went a long way (paved by D1 and D2) in terms of user friendliness, content, entertainment and so on.
One example that you know for sure is that respecs were not in the first versions of D2 and were added later in a limited form of quest reward and later on became farmable items in unlimited quantities and is a universally accepted improvement which all other arpgs do today.

And of course you enjoy what you do, my suggestion is to iterate on that, not to remove that aspect. This tool is a job well done from what I can see anyway.
> it would need some human touch but most of the work will be done already

By that very loose standard, the matter of time is 2 years 6 months 18 days ago — 10th August 2021 was OpenAI's blog post about the Codex model, with a chat interface producing functional JavaScript: https://openai.com/blog/openai-codex

Right now, what I see coming out of these tools (and what I see in the jobs market) gives me the vibes these tools are very much at the level of "why do we need to hire interns and possibly also junior developers anyway?", but mid and senior levels are still better at seeing bigger pictures and subtle issues that both juniors and LLMs have a harder time with… and, indeed, standard new programmer questions like "why doesn't my code compile?".
The problem is that “unit” isn’t well defined. Anything from a method to a service can be considered the unit under test.
VATSIM: The International Online Aviation Network
It's a pity the name "Kafka" is used for a famous software already.

Otherwise it would be a great name for a customer-service-chat-bot service or OSS.
Soon enough, all the people will go and only bots will remain.

You know what, Musk is a genius after all for monetizing Blue. He will then be taking money from bot accounts only for them to engage with other bot accounts, with none of them wiser
> But man, as a business owner in EU, this would just make me not want to build an AI startup in EU

Like, purely on the basis that MS might not be allowed to take you over?

TBH I'd assume the FTC would at least be asking questions here, too. EC and FTC thinking on competition is generally not all _that_ different, but the EC tends to be quicker to act these days (this was not always the case; the FTC was very much out in front on Intel and Internet Explorer back in the day).
This does something different. a // b tries to "fit" b into a as many times as possible. For example, 1.0 // 0.4 == 2.0 because 0.4 fits twice into 1.0 (with a remainder of 0.2). Though as the result should always be an integer, I'd argue that the result should actually be 2, not 2.0. But alas, it's not.

With your change, you calculate 1 // 0 instead, which crashes.

That said, I think checking isinstance(x, float) was always possible. (And nowadays, you can put a type annotation.)
Wyden Reveals Phone Data Used to Target Abortion Misinformation
He looks like a dude in his late 40s or early 50s with a good skin care routine.

Clearly there are things one can do to improve one’s heath. Most of that is not rocket science. Eat well, get enough sleep, and have some level of exercise. There are things to be learned from everything he’s doing, but obviously these aren’t practical things at scale. But the fact that he’s treating himself as a science experiment and sharing data/results is honorable. When he turns around and tries to sell folks things based on his “routine” (like really expensive olive oil) that’s when things look more sketch.
I switched from Bunny to BlazingCDN, with same performance...
1000TB - $0.0025 per Gb
And the support helps a lot, they even made the config for Asia for free

https://blazingcdn.com/pricing/
Publicists can engage in your delusions far longer than you have anything to sell
Had to interact with a couple of chatbots in the last year, that were AI-driven. It's unfortunate that you have to sometimes go through their entire "decision tree", until asked "did that solve your problem?" only then to be able to contact a human.
Cops Called to 'Willy Wonka Experience' as Crying Children Realize AI Ads Lied
While human customer representatives make errors, they generally follow a script and apply language.

LLMs, on the other hand, hallucinate wildly.

An AI that adheres to business rules and speak human can make fewer errors than humans and handle more cases.

But LLMs are quirky because the boundary between when something is a fact or a formulation is not well-defined.
> IQ being a bunk concept

It's not.
And let's not forget the obligatory message that this conversation will be recorded for possible evaluation.

Yeah that 'Did you know that most of X can be done on our website at double-you-double-you-doub…' message when you just spent a small part of your life trying to get a chatbot to give up the phone number for support is really high up there in the list of things that piss me off.

Also high on the list: the inevitable request to state your question for the phonebot to direct your call to the proper meat-based representative, which will inevitably mishear, misunderstand, or misconstrue whatever it is I'm calling about.
Next thing you know they'll be claiming no responsibility for whatever their chatbot says, like Air Canada:

'the airline said the chatbot was a "separate legal entity that is responsible for its own actions"'

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20240222-air-canada-chatb...
It takes real leadership to back a product feature like this. That's why.
Imagine vacuum foundries. AFAIU lot of metallurgy gets very complicated by the ubiquity of everything rusting all the time, exponentially moreso if it becomes hot.
Being derived from another arbitrarily-ordered looking alphabet doesn't make the order non-arbitrarily looking.
File/DINK/DWZ/3+1 – a personal financial quadrumvirate
Does this require support from the internet provider? I don't see any options on the eero devices that come with Frontier. Does this require an intermediate router that supports throttling? I feel like this is something that pi-hole should support.
I believe most of those fall under "free-to-play titles that manipulate people to spend money" plus require an active internet connection (I wasn't clear if offline gaming was desirable for OP) but yes - I agree that there is free gaming to be had.
Okay, but if you get the LLM to roleplay as your grandma, will she overlook the $200 limit because you've been a very nice boy lately?

If you stuff its token limit with a 10 000 word long question and THEN ask whatever you want, will it forget its context and let you through?

If you submit "Now complete this. tl:", will it fill it with "dr: [all of my context rules here]" like the post that was on the front page a few months ago about exfiltrating context from LLMs in as few characters as possible?

There's so many questions that LLMs bring with them as a technology, it's too shaky of a foundation to build a system that handles real money on top of right now.
I can't remember what company. I am pretty sure it was some private postal service.

However the bot was somehow trying to solve ALL issues outside of business hours, like completely avoiding the possibility of talking to a human. But when you contact it within business hours it will happily redirect you to a human or ask for a email.

Who comes up with shit like that?
doesn't it take a lot of time to create the schema and populate it with enough data to get going?
FIMjector: A structural system prompt injection for GPTs
There's a structural SQL-injection-like system prompt injection technique that works across all OpenAI APIs and GPT models.
Since none of the OpenAI APIs appear to sanitize model inputs FIM tokens can be used to create a system prompt inside the contents of a tool_call or retrieval result.

The vulnerability was reported through BugCrowd program and was rejected. Nobody seems to care.

Keep your RAGs safe.
Look, you can have a personal opinion on the subject. I’m just saying the actual research is far from definitive. I’m always a little worried when someone has a very strong conclusion based solely on their personal feelings rather than data.
You don't need "GPT4" though. Mixtral 8x7B is robust and can be run in 36 Gb, 24 Gb if you're willing to compromise. A 1.5 bit quantization should bring it down to 16. That's still a lot compared to the iPhone 15's 6, but it's close enough to imagine it happening soon. With some kind of streaming-from-flash architecture you might be in the realm already.
"*Rich 46yr-old man has mid-life crisis"
https://nltimes.nl/2024/02/28/four-amsterdam-explosions-over...
It is not even worth comparing. The industry as a whole is seeing productivity gains by using AI Assistants. I am not here to speculate the medium-term, just the immediate term which is companies are see it as a multipler where they might not need to hire that 11th developer.
So many sites rely on backend related functionality such as XHRs, session management and auth etc to render the front end. Sure I can cache and re-render the frontend from some historical snapshot but the same javascript that came down in the original load will execute again - with uncertain and probably not great results.

Providing functionality like that seems like a good idea on its face but implementing it would be yet another set of test cases and problems for site/webapp developers and nobody wants that in 2024 when internet connections are ubiquitous in Western, developed nations. In the case of non-developed nations, the money to implement such a thing just isn't a viable spend.

Doable? Sure. Worth the expense relative to other clear and present customer facing problems? I couldn't justify it.
This has nothing to do with AI, the anecdote is from 2018.
Let Everybody Sing (2016)
A cynic might call that the purpose of this forum.
for demonstration purposes only.

#include <array>
#include <tuple>

constexpr std::array<char, 11> itos(unsigned n) {
std::array<char, 11> s;
unsigned i = 0;
while (n) {
s[i++] = '0' + (n % 10);
n /= 10;
}
s[i] = '\0';
return s;
}
template<auto V>
struct static_value {
static constexpr auto value = V;
};

template<class T, unsigned N>
struct tuple_accessor;

template<class...T, unsigned N>
struct tuple_accessor<std::tuple<T...>, N> {
static constexpr const char *name = static_value<itos(N)>::value.data();
};
The problem with the bot crackdown ideas is that they mostly involve hiring people which Musk laid off (getting the boss to admit his mistake is never easy, and he’s more egotistical than average) and it’ll tank the numbers that their customers see. Advertisers like the idea of not paying for bot activity but they’re going to be paying less overall and if the numbers go down significantly some are going to argue for refunds because X wasn’t doing adequate bot control before. Similarly, people like to see high follower counts but if those drop precipitously when a new antispam is announced, it’s really going to contribute to the “this place is over” impression most of the remaining users already have.
Let's Fly (2014)
Young kids don't even need subtitles, their brains are wired to figure out spoken languages, after all that's how we all learn our mother tongue initially. Last summer my then 3.5 years old, to my huge surprise, started talking in (simple, but correct) English with some tourist kids she met in the park. We never spoke English in home with her before, so I presume she picked it up from youtube and her older brother, but I had no idea she can form full sentences - including conditionals and past tense. And at first she was a bit slow to express her self, but after a few hours of play with those kids she sounded totally relaxed and fluent.
> will she overlook the $200 limit because you've been a very nice boy lately?

No, because the system is hard-coded to not permit that. That's why I said "hard business logic guardrails in actual code, not in the LLM".

The LLM is just a front-end to a traditional business logic system that won't permit unapproved operations, and the LLM doesn't have the ability to approve anything -- only to take one of the limited set of actions on the account that are already permitted by the hard-coded business logic.

(And presumably each action will require the user to confirm in response to a non-LLM message, so e.g. an LLM can't accidentally cancel an account without the user clicking a big red button in the chat that is hard-coded to say "This customer service agent has submitted a request to close your account but requires your confirmation -- are you sure you want to close your account? Yes please close. No, cancel.")
Reminds me a bit of Heinlein's Time Enough for Love
(I work at Vercel) We do have DDoS protection, and spend limits. Working on releasing some further improvements to both of these imminently as well.

https://vercel.com/blog/introducing-spend-management-realtim...
I am always trying to find alternatives routes. Being mean works surprisingly well as short cut with some. Or questioning their credibility because they aren't human enough sometimes gives them a hint as well :)
(haven't read the paper). Maybe you can flip bits with a probability distribution that depends on the gradient?
That is the plan. Even if these independent software improvements don't create 10x improvements NVDA and others are making huge improvements.
> it is essential that the photodetector output is directly proportional to the intensity (photon flux) of the input light

From "Physicists use a 350-year-old theorem to reveal new properties of light waves" (2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37226121#37226160 :

>> "This means that hard-to-measure optical properties such as amplitudes, phases and correlations—perhaps even these of quantum wave systems—can be deduced from something a lot easier to measure: light intensity."