skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would be more worried about the fact that next year every CPU is going to ship with some kind of AI accelerator already integrated to the die, which means the only competitive differentiation boils down to how much SRAM and memory bandwidth your AI accelerator is going to have. TOPS or FLOPS will become an irrelevant differentiator.
ELI5: Does one need to write code to use these, or is there a front-end somewhere?
Artificial Intelligence is the name of the research field that this stuff comes out of. It was coined in 1956: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_workshop

Researchers have been using "AI" as a term to describe their work for nearly 70 years at this point.

I don't see why we should throw away six decades of nomenclature just because "LLMs aren't actually intelligent".

It's a perfectly cromulent term.
> Even unpredictable NPC needs to have a predictable personality on some level, total randomness isn't fun

tongue in cheek counterpoint: Rimworld players love Random Randy :P

I think it really depends on the game though, but you're right 100% random in an RPG could be really annoying.

Right now I'm into games like Factorio and Captain of Industry and they've both recently had blog posts about how they do terrain generation and CoI stuck out because you can manually plop features like mountains and then it procedurally generates the mountain range[1].

There's been a lot of games recently that seem to be doing procedural land generation, is there not a way this can be applied to AI personalities as well or is there no overlap between them? It kind of feels like procedurally generated personalities should be do-able but it sounds like there's something more going on that complicates that?

[1] https://www.captain-of-industry.com/post/cd-42
I think the profit motive thing is stupid. It only matters if the organization itself is a volunteer organization. For example, if an organization is being run by nuns, I agree that profit doesn't matter because nuns aren't allowed to own any assets or have an income (by their own profession of course). However, in a 'normal' non-profit organization, the various stakeholders (employees, grant recipients, etc) actually have a huge profit motive.

To me it doesn't matter if a CEO is working to get money for investors or to pad his own pockets. at the end of the day, the incentives are the same.

So, no, I don't think this matters at all. While true that universities do have space for non-commercial work (which is usually funded by outside parties like the NSF or corporations anyway), the university leadership have a huge profit-motive to get more students (via attracting to professors) to pad their own pockets.

In some ways, the non-profit sector is even more self-serving than the private one. At least private companies have to seek the best for their investors, while many non-profits simply seek the best for the CEO.
I was speaking to my house builder in the middle of 2023 and he noted that it had become impossible to build a starter house (2/3 bedrooms, 1.5-2 bath) for less than $450k CAD (~$300k USD) -- excluding land, utility connection, and financing costs.

He also mentioned that new requirements going into effect this year were going to add $10-15k per house.

People tend to have a poor grasp on what building a new house actually costs. They cost a lot to build with no gouging whatsoever.
Hey all! Thanks for the great discussion and trying out our app. A few of you pointed out that we should probably have a discord to make it easier to discuss feedback so here it is!

https://discord.gg/FxJmf2T6
Thought he is going to give it knives and ask it to cut the apple !!
It’s just a domain name? It resolves to US based nameservers, the company is US based, with offices in the US, the founders are US citizens.

Would idme.com make you happy?

As much as I dislike Id.me, the domain name isn’t something to get upset at, it’s just branding…
Cutter incident - The mistake produced 120,000 doses of polio vaccine that contained live polio virus. Of children who received the vaccine, 40,000 developed abortive poliomyelitis (a form of the disease that does not involve the central nervous system), 56 developed paralytic poliomyelitis—and of these, five children died from polio.[2] The exposures led to an epidemic of polio in the families and communities of the affected children, resulting in a further 113 people paralyzed and 5 deaths.

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutter_Laboratories
AI generated black mirror titles? Seems fitting
Because it's 10x harder to debunk bullshit than to claim it. You don't know what you don't know, and unfortunately the majority of people are too lazy to critically evaluate their views. For example, how many people actually read linked articles as opposed to just commenting based on the title?

That's how modern misinformation works, you simply bombard social media networks until the truth is lost in a sea of misinformation.

The difference between the truth and the lie though is that in the end when you actually have to implement policy or predict something, lies tend to eventually collapse in on themselves. Credibility as such emerges for the people/insitutions/frameworks that can consistently predict or give results that reflect reality more. But that can take years or even decades, while gepolitical decisions need to made today.
I fully agree and also try to correct myself and use terms like "LLM" and "generative image models" as I really do feel the term "AI" is misleading at best... That said, I can't help but feel the cat is firmly out of the bag. Of course people have been calling lots of things AI for a long time, so this is nothing particularly new. I think we're just going to have to live with it.
I use a heuristic that if somebody says "AI", they don't know what they are talking about or are pandering to those who don't.
Are you all using stability based diffusion models?
What are your teams thoughts on SORA ?
It all depends on where you draw the lines. When people think of LA they think of that whole sprawling metropolis between the mountains (what is technically the LA basis or the LA metro area) - but the City of Los Angeles is a smaller denser portion of that.

And when people think New York City they think Manhattan, but New York City includes quite a bit more.
Yeah the dark side of human adaptability, we can get used to pretty much anything.
> But not integrity of the program itself. You can still have data loss and garbage results.

curious what do you mean here? Java has many utils for concurrent programming, e.g. atomic variables, synchronize blocks etc.
Yeah, that’s a great way to put it.

I have also had great experiences in a detached home (living with my wife’s family for a short while). They’re kind of out in the beyond-suburbs, but we were able to do lots of trail running and hiking nearby, and they had a bigger house so we could all spread out and do different activities without disrupting each other.

(Though, honestly, the extra maintenance and upkeep that they had would’ve been exhausting, if it were actually my home and I had to do it long-term)

Neither is better, exactly, but there are a ton of hidden benefits to living in an apartment in a great part of a city (Amsterdam in my case)..
In keeping with the spirit of no-code, this article appears to have been written by ChatGPT...

Apart from the mention of some no-code frameworks it is pretty much content-free.
To me, this is like asking if a hotdog is technically a sandwich. Who cares? It's semantics. This has the same vibe as, "Well, technically, Linux is just a kernel, not an operating system." No one cares, nerds. There's no point in trying to argue about this. People have adopted AI into their vernacular. It's not going to change at this point.
For a slightly later version of this: My most popular YouTube upload is the telecopier scene from Bullitt, where you can see the police use the latest and greatest "fax" technology of 1968. I uploaded the video without almost no information, but in an surprising twist, a lot of the youtube comments are actually pretty informative.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQGAaCSFlJI
In major cities filled with the professional class - the wealthiest communities in the US, such NY, LA, and the Bay Area, lots of them live in apartments.
The NSF and DoE and other government agencies make insane amounts of capital available for research. The CHIPS act included ~$53 billion in funding on its own.
One point that seems to have been lost in the comments is that academia is a 'safe space' for tough questions, theoretical questions, questions that don't have a profit motive.

The degree to which they actually tackle those things is debatable, but there is value in research that doesn't happen on the exclusive behalf of shareholders.
The Programmers of the Future
I remember overclocking my calculator (TI-85, 1992, Z80 CPU) ... its LO was a 2.7K/22pF RC oscillator which gave it an approximately 2.5MHz clock. To get this type of oscillator to speed up you'd normally lower the capacitance a bit.

The reason that this story is interesting is that in most cases you could just yank C9 entirely and with nothing more than a resistor between the clock pins, you'd get a roughly 300% performance increase. I guess the parasitic capacitance was enough to still oscillate a bit although mostly it would have been random. Looking back, this was basically a CPU being clocked with 50mhz noise and still running happily! Amazing!
I don’t know about CircleCI but if you can persist the /nix/store then that will give you the performance improvements you’re looking for.

I use Gitlab CI and with self hosted runners I can make sure the /nix/store is persistent across CI jobs and then my builds take ~5 seconds if no code has changed, 5 seconds of which is just nix build evaluating all my nix files and realising no work needs to be done.
Yeah -- I haven't found a super-simple way of hosting for free, on my domain, with browsers not complaining about it being served over http. Maybe that's me missing some big simple option, but Darklang-classic's setup for hosting a simple website on a personal domain was _nice_ and I'm looking forward to getting that again with -next.
This might be a naive question but how does one determine what "best" is for multiple subjects?

Even in your example, physics and mathematics could be curated for "best" when dealing with equations and foundational knowledge that has been hardened over decades. For history, climate change of invasion of Ukraine, isn't that sensitive to bias, manipulation and interpretation? These are not exact sciences.
football teams are a revenue generator for the top few universities that have football teams worth following. For all the strivers out there, they're not.
Discrimination is what happens when you don't have good measurement for capability. People have to make decisions, and in general you have more applicants than roles, so you use heuristics. Obviously its wrong (and illegal) but it's not going to change until you offer a reasonable alternative that measures technical and social (personality/EQ) merit.
Yeah, no way a free speech absolutist would turn out to be a huge insecure baby
Yeah, my first game I ever wrote was a dog racing game in BASIC when I was 9. I didn’t understand PRNG at all or anything about seeds, but I did notice that the same dog won the same race in order.

My solution? At game launch, the game would print “hit space to start the game and then run a right loop over a ‘rand’ call until the user hit space. The entropy was in how long it took you to hit the spacebar!
> cromulent

Thanks for the new word of the day!
A rule that hostile nations can’t own communication platforms in your country isn’t a slippery slope.

The US is widely against even having its own government own communication platforms.
Youtube is full of videos like that. A few sample excellent channels:

https://www.youtube.com/@animagraffs

https://www.youtube.com/@engineerguyvideo

https://www.youtube.com/@Lesics/videos

The problem is more that they are drowned under the volume of content available.
Considering the colossal waste of money almost every academic institution spends on activities that are entirely peripheral to research and teaching, I'd say good riddance.
The term "Artificial Intelligence" was explictly not used in these fields for long stretches of time because the term got overhyped. The winter is coming.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter
Previous discussions [0] (177 points, 246 comments)
[1] (116 points, 88 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39666976
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39691921
I did feel a disadvantage myself when I was job searching a few months ago, but for me it was my personal attitude coming through more than anyone judging me by my age.

I felt that I just cannot get excited anymore about some of the bullshit the company leadership is throwing around, and neither could I overlook the massive mistakes the companies are making based on my own interview questions. But I do understand that a very small minority of these companies will actually succeed regardless of the nonsense. Otherwise the venture capital logic does not work.

Also my pay expectations were higher than most junior employees, cause I have a mortgage, family, etc. and I can see how it might be hard to justify paying for my experience when you're building yet another standard webapp.

Luckily for me, I was able to find a spot with experienced leadership building something actually new.
Same, I can buy these in the US either off Amazon or from the manufacturer's websites.

For my money, I'm waiting for the tech to improve a bit more before I buy the XReal Air's. A little bit smaller, a little bit better tracking and support for using phone on Desktop mode, or a PC in multi-monitor mode. I'd like something which is both great on the go, and worth using at home, when I feel like my multi-monitor setup doesn't have quite enough screen real estate for some computing task.
Well if it's in excel those fractions have already been destroyed.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/troubleshoot/excel/...
I hate this situation so much, you don't just get heat stroke and die before your body yells at you. Even the most head-empty animals avoid dying of heat stroke. The common thread for workers and football players is some 3rd party, boss and coach, forcing people to push past the symptoms until they do real damage.

Like god fucking damn it this is so easily preventable by just listening to people when they say they're overheated, too tired, or can't breathe. High school sports have got to be some of the worst offenders with coaches who aren't trained enough to recognize the signs of pushing people too hard along with the power trip of being the adult authority figure.

Maybe don't push through the pain and exhaustion, maybe stop when it hurts and come back tomorrow and see if you make it further. The number of people I know who hate running and cardio because no one told them it wasn't supposed to hurt and you build up to that is too damn high.
Shrug, it’s a market. Try offering 4 day work week or 10 weeks PTO then.
And we have had numerous cycles of things that were once referred to as AI being no longer referred to as such...
There's something very strange about the phrasing here. "X is getting priced out of Y" is generally invoked to get someone to feel empathy towards the party that is getting priced out. E.g. "The urban poor getting priced out of a gentrifying neighborhood" -- this is very much NOT that.
Or to factor it out, the incentive should be (perhaps) for businesses to allow "state agnostic" remote work, or give incentives to move to lower cost of living areas.

The problem with those things is the main decision is made by people who are not affected by the high cost of living; Musk doesn't notice the difference in housing cost between Texas and California, even if his employees would.
IDK, looking at SF data, I see plenty of firefighters, police officers etc whose overtime pay is higher than their base salary, and whose cash compensation is above 300k.

For example:
https://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/search/?q=Police+...
Or, they're referring to the entire class of computer science.
Do you not see the difference in American companies asking Americans to pressure their American representatives on American legislature, vs. a Chinese company doing this? If Google tried to do the same thing in China when the CCP were debating banning YouTube their mainland employees would have been arrested and "disappeared."
I agree with the other commenter: ChatGPT content =p
> So what about everyone else?

They probably just move laterally to another tech company with a decent pay bump. Not the worst outcome.
great question. we're an AI storytelling tool rather than a text-to-video tool like stable video diffusion or SORA.

we use a a combo of technologies including Stable video diffusion as part of our our generation stack. we love SORA and will add it to our stack once it's been red-teamed
A majority of right-wing Boomers get their news from sources controlled by corporation and politicians interested in overthrowing a legit government and could therefore be considered a threat to national security.

I could be convinced that banning both would be good.
We're changing the license! Not because of this, but I guess it addresses it.
So we would have a rule that you aren’t allowed to move out of the neighborhood you grew up in?
> administrative areas take up to 50% of all grant funding as "overhead"

I saw them take 60% as overhead at one of my institutions.
I feel this. I got the "you look older than your profile pic" comment during an interview last year. That one was fun. Dude wanted to know if I could even code anymore.
In my past experience, Apple was full of graybeards who could code circles around younger devs. They’re the ones who knew how to build and maintain high quality software.

I’m not sure if it’s the same way now, but I was highly impressed with my former coworkers’ caliber.

Ageism isn’t an inevitability, it’s a choice.
It seems like private industry will win in anything that makes money or if it wants to fund something. For everything else, there's academia...until it becomes successful and then private industry wins again. I think that's okay too as hurdles exist on both sides. I did my first government grant recently and was blown away by the time and effort it takes. It's not a super efficient system.
I'm with you on Facebook as well.
> But it might mean the workers your economy deems most worthy of reward can't afford to have children;

Except it's the exact opposite, and the poorer you are, the more likely you are to have children, whereas the rich who can afford those homes are not.

> and the workers who clean the offices and suchlike are sleeping in bunk beds four to a room

There is nothing 'wrong' with that.
I was referencing the United flight last week that landed in Houston and ran off the taxiway into the grass, you complete twat.

That's actually a disgusting statement by you.
Sigh.

> No-code technologies are rapidly changing the way we approach software development, making it possible for people with little to no programming experience to create functional and useful websites and applications in a matter of days or weeks.

So in other words, it's not software development, it's making useful things without writing code, and that's fine. Just like writing in a higher level language vs. writing assembly is also fine. But they are not the same, and they also don't have the same properties.

It's the 90's all over again.
O heard it can be as mich as 50 miles if they cheapskate hard
The jokes on them. The generations are getting smaller and smaller. The lack of junior roles is making that pool even smaller. A giant bubble is forming. They spent the last 5 years talking about diversity and how great it is and how it makes better teams. Now every job is 5+ YOE. Do as I say, not as I do tech.
Whether you develop new features on main gated by compile flags or on separate branches shouldn't have an effect on CVE assigments.

I'm pretty sure that setting arbitrary compile flags is enough to cause vulnerabilities in most software.

I personally ran nginx without this feature enabled because it was explicitly marked as experimental and potentially unsafe.
The housing crisis remains about human greed. That's all it is.
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."

Good luck to you dealing with this unhinged mess that is called humanity.
No I’m talking about an independent analysis by Times
> A recruiter told him that he wouldn’t be appealing to employers and opined that Six should be chief technology officer at this point in his career, not a software developer, Six says.

I have been flat-out told that I should ask for less, because of my age. I have had recruiters hang up on me, as soon as they figured out my age.

I gave up, after a while, (but I am still producing quite a bit of code -just for free). I guess that is considered an optimal outcome, by today's tech industry, but I am quite aware that I have the skills and experience to make other people millions. I have never been particularly interested in scooping up large piles of dosh, myself. I just really enjoy the work.
One thing I don't understand about their architecture is that they have spent so much effort building this monster of a chip, but if you are going to do something crazy, why not work on processing in memory instead? At least for transformers you will primarily be bottlenecked on matrix multiplication and almost nothing else, so you only need to add a simple matrix vector unit behind your address decoder and then almost every AI accelerator will become obsolete over night. I wouldn't suggest this to a random startup though.
I find the argument "Your criticism is invalid because the law doesn't violate the First amendment!" reductive and pointless. Decisions taken by the US government can be unethical, counterproductive, immoral, hypocritical, unfair, and stupid, while still being constitutional. It's not illegal for me to treat you worse because your username starts with the letter "k". Yet, many people would find it stupid and inconsistent. Here, the US government is doing the same thing, except the letter is "C".
me when my chatgpt wrapper robot can't respond cause the wifi is down
Consumers are getting a fine deal. The competing producers (or potential producers) are not. Given that, in the united states, its not just consumers who vote, since all citizens have a right to start and own a business, the American government must represent the interests of both American consumers AND (potential) producers.

> TikTok isn't a mysterious product. People know what they're getting and what they're giving to get it. Stop removing agency from folks and realize that TikTok would disappear tomorrow if a better product hit the market.

In the same way that no American has a 'right' to buy products produced by slave labor, I contend that Americans have no right to buy products produced by government controlled corporations. The free market is for private players on a similar playing field. Unless we let all corporations have militaries and declare sovereignty, I don't believe there's any right to do business with communists.

As a free-market enthusiast and a light libertarian, the non-agression principle applies equally to foreign governments as my own. Since I cannot vote out the communists, I can simply choose to not engage. At some point libertarians and free-marketers need to stop being selective as to which entities their principles get applied to. It's not a good look
Bioinformatic pipelines. You could have mentioned that once. Nocode is the perfect nexus between biologists who know the important research questions to ask, and the informaticians who know how to build the pipelines and write the software to process the data.

With nocode, the biologists can build their own pipelines, and the informaticians can focus more on developing novel code.
What’s the argument here? Because the US does harm to others, they should permit others to harm them?