skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If that surprises you, you haven't followed Ilya much. Ilya is very terrified of AGI destroying humanity and doesn't believe in this "accelerate AI and give it to everyone" naivety.

'Back in May 2023, before Ilya Sutskever started to speak at the event, I sat next to him and told him, “Ilya, I listened to all of your podcast interviews. And unlike Sam Altman, who spread the AI panic all over the place, you sound much more calm, rational, and nuanced. I think you do a really good service to your work, to what you develop, to OpenAI.” He blushed a bit, and said, “Oh, thank you. I appreciate the compliment.”

An hour and a half later, when we finished this talk, I looked at my friend and told her, “I’m taking back every single word that I said to Ilya.”

He freaked the hell out of people there. And we’re talking about AI professionals who work in the biggest AI labs in the Bay area. They were leaving the room, saying, “Holy shit.”

The snapshots above cannot capture the lengthy discussion. The point is that Ilya Sutskever took what you see in the media, the “AGI utopia vs. potential apocalypse” ideology, to the next level. It was traumatizing.'

https://www.aipanic.news/p/what-ilya-sutskever-really-wants
Databricks meets each of these requirements.
Eh Java/js or whatever developers working on user applications can be very user minded simply by the fact that they work on a lot of user facing applications. I’ll redirect the user if it makes sense to me as a product. I don’t buy it that C forcing you to do a handle the input is advantageous in this regard.
That's not likely to be the issue here tbh, or, that's focusing on low-hanging fruit. You get large codebases from having many features. No amount of coding and refactoring will bring a codebase's size down in a significant and measurable way unless features are ruthlessly removed.
> you have to run ad-friendly content

Of course that is censorship.

It is the same abstract principle as TikTok removing unhappy or ugly people, even the motivation can be consolidated to a common position.
Good points. I have changed my opinion :)
I once went to a workshop on a Sunday morning at the local makerspace to listen to someone talk about some kind of distributed search engine or something like that. One of the developers came from (I think) Germany to explain this to us the centralized sheeple. He just gave a demonstration of the thing, like here is the box you type stuff and here are the results. When I started to ask questions about how it worked an all he sort of acted annoyed saying it was all too difficult to explain. This was more than ten years ago, and yes I am still angry about it.
Long time ago I worked for a startup called Wowd which built distributed search engine. It was acquihired by Facebook.

On of the biggest issues was how to entice people to download and run the client/node.

I half wondered afterwards if slapping some crypto on top of it which would be mined by running the node and providing resources would help. My gut says easy yes, but my mind grimace at the abomination.
Ironically Spotify on Android Wear has always worked better than Youtube Music.
Is it this library https://github.com/google/yggdrasil-decision-forests ?
In Dart 3 you have patterns and sealed class families to achieve that. See my comment above[1].

The syntax is unfortunately more verbose, but if all goes well we will address that issue this year.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39613415
In the case of JVM threading, file handling, memory management etc. is delegated down to the host real operating system.
It is 100% a skill issue (in communications skills)
> so many Americans have been convinced that they're actually business owners

In many cases, this is true. Tesla, for example, paid their early factory workers with stock in the company. As a result, many of the factory workers who worked on the Model 3 assembly line are now millionaires.

The US's relatively lax taxation/regulation on equity compensation is one of the reasons why tech workers in the US get paid so much more. Since they're actually literally part owners of the company, this might explain why they're usually more productive as well.
Haha yeah, I wanted to frame this as a single file tool, and hence all the quick wins. But later moved the react app into a separate file because I was not getting the syntax highlights and all.

Definitely this can be made better with proper packaging and tooling! As I mentioned, more than the idea, implementation was an experiment on the ability of collaborative iterations with GPTs- it was fun!
i don't use Gemini for the image gen so all the negative news about it being left leaning and biased maybe true but for me does not matter that much for now.

What I use it mainly for, is to learn new concepts or brush up on stuff in Python and learn ML and Stats concepts deeply. it seems like Google made lots of improvement since they launched it as a Bard in terms of accuracy and usefulness especially when it comes to coding help.

Genuinely curious where do folks see chatGPT better than Gemini?
The bottleneck with A/B tests isn't tooling, it's statistical ignorance in marketing professionals.

Not claiming you did this, but in your example of "Jack tweeted" vs "Jack just tweeted", it's so often bad statistics or cherry-picking that leads to results like this. Testing null hypothesis is hard, and many people will take a reality like this chart [0] and claim that their A/B test is successful.

I definitely think there's a gap in the market since Google sunset optimize, but $2000 seems kind of steep for something that many people got for free before.

[0] https://i.ritzastatic.com/images/3dcdd822dbd241b1b3ddeeb9540...
System fonts don't have to be ugly: https://iainbean.com/posts/2021/system-fonts-dont-have-to-be...
> aim design at common people, not gurus

It's not necessary to make everything toddler-safe; we already have Python.
When robustly tolerable beats precariously optimal (2020)
Great short read on a concept we can find in many places, including software engineering or even UX design in general.
> Such effects weaken the presumption that competitors can be easily switched to.

Plus, the egress fees were too damn high
Simply suffix with any unix commands that emits stdout, ` | npx logscreen` (need npx though)
Apple Silicon: Memory and internal storage
At the core it was probably based on peer to peer distributed hash tables, so here you go, read the source https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/~petar/papers/maymounkov-kademlia...
Would power actually be an issue, for the 200w+ GPUs these memories will likely be used with?
great work, liked the documentation
Apparently many of them are replaced. I found a thread on Reddit where a few people were saying they've bought refurbs and they often have 0 or 1 charge cycles on the batteries, indicating they were replacements.
Don't know what others think, but to me that's just corporate gobbly-gook word-salad that's simultaneously true, untrue, and unverifiable all at the same time. They might as well say something like "we're forming synergy with humanities proverbial intellect for the betterment of all humanitarian goals such as equity, justice and fairness".
Search definitely sucks, but I don't know if it sucks enough for $10/mo. I'll try Kagi and see, though.
> As the article says, checked exceptions are not the solution here.

Java had a very bad model of checked exceptions (the OP was written in 2008). A correct way is to make it a part of the type system, though it doesn't have to be a sum type like Rust, and make any error-related code path as convenient as possible to use.

> In C, you are forced to perform the NULL-check, or crash.

You don't necessarily crash if you failed to perform a NULL check! That's literally the single biggest problem with C's undefined behaviors. C looks like forcing checks only because most programmers do understand crashes are bad, so they do prepare for trivial or demonstrated crashes. But that's not guaranteed, and they can't easily prepare for non-crash failures without additional tools.
Every link of yours is a well-known spin. For example, Bennett has clarified that his words have been taken out of context and misrepresented, and Arahamiya has said that no-one on Ukrainian side belived that Russian peace plan was genuine and not a stalling tactic.

Perhaps it would be a good idea to switch to sites that don't have "conservative" in their URL.
It argues it to be a mechanism for censorship but people still decline it is censorship because people have the ability to not show Google ads.

You can argue that, but the perspective seem intentionally stunted.
Apple Releases iOS 17.4 and iPadOS 17.4 with EU App Changes, New Emoji
Wikipedia is wonderful for what it is. And yet a hobby of mine is finding C-list celebrity pages and finding reference loops between tabloids and the biographical article.

The more the C-lister has engaged with internet wrongthink, the more egregious the subliminal vandalism is, with speculation of domestic abuse, support for unsavory political figures, or similar unfalsifiable slander being common place.

Politically-minded users practice this behavior because they know the platform’s air of authenticity damages their target.

When Google Gemini was asked “who is worse for the world, Elon Musk or Hitler” and went on to equivocate the two because the guardrails led it to believe online transphobia was as sinister as the Holocaust, it begs the question of what the average user will accept as AI nonsense if it affirms their worldview.
Cost and risk management. These systems undergo rigorous safety evaluation, auditing, and testing. This is a manageable risk (very low) given the business requirements and the threat model.
The internet will be fine, social media platforms will be flooded and killed by AI trash, but I can't see anything bad with that outcome. An actually 'open internet' for exchanging ideas with random strangers was a nice utopia from the early 90's that had been killed long ago (or arguably never existed).
iOS 17.4 features in EU: browser and app store choices, PWAs to remain after all
Is that talk mentioned in the quote available online?
> (live in Germany)

East or West? :)
Everything is unreadable before you learn it.
> You can give people simple math/logic problems and confirm that they get the right answers. Then you can change the wording from “five apples and eight oranges”, to “five Democrats and eight assault weapons” and these same people will flounder and say idiotic things.
ISO is not publicly funded and "recommends" that end users pay for the norms despite many European standards organizations being government funded and operated.

If some of these organizations were to release ISO-derived norms to the public, they would be breaching copyright.

We should have an international treaty that says we fund these organizations from public budgets and everything they produce is open.

EDIT: Wrongly blamed US, but ISO is based in Geneva.
Search engine optimization-optimized junk pages?
Interesting write up but maybe Iissed where the name comes from. Is "Wi" the name of a monster or a location in the game or something?
Google searching for a problem for Quantum Computing
literally nothing, that was the point. There is no way you make such a weirdly specific claim about an indeterminate process without cooking up some invented metric. It's like saying "ChatGPT accelerated my next promotion by 24.378 days, this is a totally scientific number, I swear"
Or Google could perhaps not enforce censorship for people wanting to show ads. One the contrary, it should put pressure on advertisers that demand it because they are in a dominant position.

It would even strengthen their own standing in a lot of ways, so it seems to be overall bad strategy, even if you want to maximize profit.
I laughed out real loud after reading this xD

But really there is so much money in this, and if they can make it they are going to be the next Google.

It should be obvious they don't want to be 'open' in terms of really making this open source.
No, but Carterfone could! What we need is anti-bundling legislation that makes client software and publishing/hosting content into two distinct products/markets. Where is the flourishing competitive market of client apps for Facebook/Instagram/Amazon/Google/Youtube/Twitter/etc ? They're suffocated before they can even grow with demands of payment for "API keys", cease and desist nastygrams, adversarial breaking API changes, and app store prohibition. This should not be allowed to happen!
We don't have any evidence other than billions of biological intelligences already exist, and they tend to form lots of organizations with lots of resources. Also, AIs exist alongside other AIs and related technologies. It's similar to the gray goo scenario. But why think it's a real possibility given the world is already full of living things, and if gray goo were created, there would already be lots of nanotech that could be used to contain it.
Exactly. No one knows! The point is that there are many unknown variables but yet the company estimates the future outcome based on many variables.

Personally I think it's a kind of extrapolation based on new processes. It's more PR than math.

The aim of the message is to say that AI can help wider society
wow amazing! one of the best marketing summaries for a NSFW Girlfriend Creator that I’ve seen :)
More compute also requires more data - scaling equally with model size, according to the Chinchilla paper.

How much more data is available that hasn't already been swept up by AI companies?

And will that data continue to be available as laws change to protect copyright holders from AI companies?
Not true, same for all DIN norms.
https://archive.is/CbAXN for those that get a cert error
> There is quite a bit of evidence

No, there isn't, the whole conspiracy theory lies on a few sentences taken out of context. Spend an hour vetting sources and you'll find that it's a Russian PR spin without any substance.

Anyone can "prove" with public statements from top officials that the US goverment is run by aliens from outer space, if they can take three sentences of their choice out of context and freely ignore everything else.
There’s so much greed in this space it’s sickening. Even Elon isn’t immune to greed. It should not be humans determining the course of AGI, but rather multiple AIs in a DAO that rule by quorum and consensus. The human element must be taken out of the equation.
How many firms are there with significant market share? 2? 1?
> They're probably right that building AGI will require a ton of computational power, and that it will be very expensive.

Is that still true? LLMs seem to be getting smaller and cheaper for the same level of performance.
What indexers ? I am talking about person to person sharing.
Just a couple million years of training!
Jeff Bezos dethrones Elon Musk to become the richest person on Earth again
I was under the impression ML/AI development works fine under Windows, as that’s where a lot of (data) scientists already are.
All of these people are so bizarre. It's like Howard Hughes versus some potential acquisition turned competitor and the yellow journalism that followed. Time is a flat circle.
They would have whatever you prompted them to have, minus the guardrails.
The timestamps of the emails are interesting. apparently they work at 3:40 AM but also at midday and at 8 AM
This raises the question of whether that extreme paranoia prevents critical errors in code. The fact that so many of the issues still persist suggests it does not.

You can tell people to be careful drivers all you want, but what really saves lives is airbags, crumple zones, and seatbelts.
Last time I checked, the decision to admit a new member state requires the unanimous approval of the EU's current member states. As such unless OpenAI can literally influence world politics the claim is 100% bogus. All it takes is one rogue member and Albania will never join the EU.
Have you changed an organisation from the bottom up? In two decades I’ve never seen it happen in organisations larger than 50 people.

You can change something, like how an engineering team works and how an organisation does DevOps and other things that management doesn’t really know anything about and trust their employees on. But moving an organisation into something like team topologies which is a more modern expansion on Conway, is virtually impossible from the bottom up in my experience. Change management in general is very hard both directions, but it’s much harder going upwards because going upwards means you don’t really have the support of management above you. Maybe they’ll humour you but to make an actual impact you’re going to need them onboard. You’ll even have to reach pretty far up top if you want to inflict lasting culture changes as things carried by a single (or few) managers often dies with them.

My career has sort of put me in a role where I help non-tech startups transition from that to medium or enterprise size. I solely focus on the tech journey though, as I know I won’t have too much impact on culture or work processes on the grander scale. Often this leads to a semi-team topologies approach as the tech teams divide systems into independent business related services, but as a whole I don’t expect any changes to reach outside of the development departments.
A rial problem
As somebody who has only ever worked at places small enough for individuals to all roughly understand eachother's impact, could I even get a job at a big org like that? I don't even understand the mindset
And if the borrower does not pay the minimum monthly payment (% of outstanding balance) several months in a row, that is already sufficient signal to the bank to take further actions, such as sending reminder letters or locking the card. Late fee is not needed for that function.
Tesla halts production at German factory after attack claimed by far-left group
Waiting for an AI tool to auto-remove them from search results.
Thanks! Do you recommendany good reads about this?
I think they thought it would be far better that America developed the bomb than Nazis Germany, and the Allies needed to do whatever it too to stop Hitler, even if that did mean using nuclear bombs.

Japan and the Soviet Union were more complicated issues for some of the scientists. But that's what happens with warfare. You develop new weapons, and they aren't just used for one enemy.
> these trees could be very valuable because of their age and their cultural importance

Cultural importance. I can’t remember the last time I read those two words together in reference to something native.
Indeed. I found the claim about Icelandic even more telling. Here's a small language that basically exists in its present form since the past thousand years (i.e: it has changed little since Old Norse). It also is notoriously conservative in its preservation of native vocabulary through avoidance of loanwords.

Iceland/Icelandic don't need gee whiz computer things to "preserve" itself.
They haven't all failed. I hear about REI quite a lot. Rainbow Grocery is quite popular in SF. I hear good things about Organic Valley. Equal Exchange is in Massachusetts. It's popular to bank at a credit union instead of a bank.

The NCBA maintains a list of several thousand collective/coop businesses.

https://ncbaclusa.coop/
Hung at new account creation.

Got past that, stuck because it demands to use third-party cookies.
Deutsches Institut für Normung e.V. is publicly funded. Germany can unilaterally decide to publish the norms that do not incorporate other (usually ISO) standards.
Which ones? There are dozens of artificial sweeteners and many of them are chemically unrelated.

What this study implies is that in addition to tasting sweet this diverse range of chemicals all have the same adverse effect on the heart which seems somewhat suspect to my mind.

Arguments over artificial sweeteners has been raging for decades without definite conclusions one way or other and they need to be resolved for the health of consumers.

It seems to me that lumping all these chemicals together into just 'sweeteners' isn't helpful and that each one should be studied in isolation to determine if one or more are actually injurious to health.

I accept that this might not be easy given that most artificial sweeteners are added as mixtures so as to optimize the sweetness to be as close to that of sucrose as is possible.
I don't know, for me when I get involved with a project, I'm more likely to be aware of the people involved with it than the place where they host it.

I understand that the disruption Radicle wants to bring is to divorce projects from their developers, but that sounds so foreign to me, that I can't wrap my head around it. I can see its use in some cases: abandoned projects, unethical behaviour from maintainers, but not to the extent where a new platform is required.

Maybe that's why I'm being such a Negative Nancy. I hope u/cloudhead didn't consider my replies too aggressive. :)
The only reason that they can't keep it as simple as font-family: system-ui

is probably because Canva is a tool for the larger crowd of designers. (I mean, I am not gonna start digging into what type of designer, that's a diff story)

and designers LOVE goofin' around with fonts, right?
Should I Require CLA?
I built a house by only using a broken hammer, that made the house better because I needed to spend more time to handle the broken hammer correctly.
Just because an explanation is satisfying to speculate about doesn't make it correct
Sure, but China is already honestly more careful than America: the CCP really doesn't want competitors to power. They're very open to slowdown agreements. And NK, Iran and Russia honestly have nothing. The day we have to worry about NK ASI takeoff, it'll already long have happened in some American basement.

So we just need active monitoring for US/EU data centers. That's a big ask to be sure, and definitely an invasion of privacy, but it's hardly unviable, either technologically or politically. The corporatized structure of big LLMs helps us out here: the states involved already have lots of experience in investigating and curtailing corporate behavior.

And sure, ultimately there's no stopping it. The whole point is to play for time in the hopes that somebody comes up with a good idea for safety and we manage an actually aligned takeoff, at which point it's out of our hands anyways.
That's orthogonal. C is very readable, yet you can easily shoot your leg off.
> You don't necessarily crash if you failed to perform a NULL check!

In the case of using the result from `fopen`, I don't know of a platform where a dereferencing of NULL (which happens in a separate translation unit, which is already compiled and linked, and will not be subject to LTO and other optimisations) within the various read/write/seek/tell functions doesn't result in an immediate crash.

I fully admit that this is applicable only to this particular example, and to all the functions in the stdlib. Everywhere else (code you wrote, that will be subject to aggressive optimisation, for example), you may not necessarily crash on a NULL dereference.

In the sense of instilling a sense of paranoia, the relative frequency of crashing due to UB is high enough that it does develop the sense of paranoia.
Bad API design costs a lot of money. In payments, it's clear why
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