skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Imagine a search engine but there's no context and it's 5x more expensive to run and there's no ad revenue.

I think in the long run, LLMs will be packaged with the OS (because only organizations like Microsoft and Apple have the resources to burn on them) and will run on local hardware (the consumer bears the cost of the computation).
Some of the hype is just VCs being excited about having somewhere to put their bets, and founders happy to gobble the money. But it does feel a bit more tangible this time, for one, people are using it daily at work for a huge swath of roles so it is providing real value.

I am interested on if it will have diminishing returns for some roles, if the outputs aren't novel enough over a long period of time. Eg: it's used to write marketing copy, but I already see the "feel" of it getting criticized and a lack of novel tone when used daily.
Yeah, which is unfortunate. Maybe in the distant future cultural perceptions of flying will change enough that this is no longer true.
Dell has advanced power management options in the BIOS, I set it to keep the battery charged at 70%, which is ideal for lithium batteries. And you set a custom schedule on days you need the battery charged at 100% so that you can take the laptop with you at full capacity. It's not rocket science, and definitely something anybody reading this site should be able to figure out for their make/model. For MAC there is a similar app that resides in top system tray where you can also define max charge. (https://apphousekitchen.com/ )
Imitation’s apotheosis is AI
Is there a term for this kind of fallacy? The one where someone claims that something that’s being done now has been failed before, and so doing it again means it’s a failure now as well.

It’s obvious that modern AI is far, far superior to ELIZA or 50s perceptrons. It reminds me of people who said space travel will never be possible, or heavier than air flight might be developed in ten million years.
The most modern idea seems to be a Dyson swarm, which is not solid and consists of solar panels and habitats orbiting at a comfortable distance. Power is relayed using microwave transmitters and receivers and conceptually a large portion would be fed into particle accelerators for the manufacture of Anti-Matter on industrial scale.
> Apple Pay through Wallet obfuscates your actual credit card numbers, which retailers infamously use to track customers. It’s far more private than using your credit card itself. I highly doubt any banks or credit card issuers would do this themselves if given access to NFC tap-to-pay.

Maybe someone can answer whether this is already solved by GDPR? If I do not give explicit consent to use my credit card details for anything else but withdrawing the agreed upon amount, that would be illegal (... in EU countries).

Edit: It seems like this is, at least in some capacity, a commentary on the DMA. I understand the concerns about privacy in a US context, but these issues should already be solved in an EU context.

So what Apple will most probably do, keep US companies from implementing NFC wallets but allow EU companies to implement NFC wallets, seems to be a really good compromise for the author - Privacy is kept both for the EU and the US users.
> This is, fortunately, not my experience.

I'm happy for you. I have also had such workplaces, healthy and dynamic organizations. Are they in the majority, or somewhere in the middle in a normal distribution? Not sure, but my guess is not.
That's what mac/iOS development has had since before it was even mac, back in the NeXTStep days... But it doesn't work very well for very custom stuff.
^this guy batteries.

but seriously, when they announced EV with lithium batteries, all I could think of was the baby sitting for batteries. Look at all the intelligence that goes into those EV car setups.
> an irrational overreaction people have to aircraft incidents because flying feels unnatural

Do you have anything to back this statement up?
That puts rather a different spin on things.
Arming one with weapons, versus letting the other have its money.

Neither meet my definition of ‘aid’.
I keep having this happen to a very small language I used to play around with. Now when I have forgotten how it works I thought I would try to learn it again with ChatGPT and the results were pretty disappointing. It keeps using a mix of different languages, mostly C++ and Java it seems. And I hunt thrugh the documentation to find the real way to do it. It corrects itself but it's still wrong and it keeps going in circles. I guess I won't be learning that language again with help from the AI. It's just too small of a subject for the AI.
I'm tired of people saying this when someone expresses a skeptical viewpoint. You don't need a doctorate in statistical computing to have an opinion.
1/ it’s not rational to promote someone competent at their tasks

2/ there are either ways to reward than promote to a higher level in the management pyramid
I was going to comment that - supply is already “managed”.
You top AmLaws. I wouldn't start there. It is very tedious and hard to crack.

There is a beach head of smaller law firms who do not have to go through stringent data security practices. That would be a GTM I'll consider.
History shows that AI will get overhyped every time we make a breakthrough.
Every US federal agency must hire a chief AI officer
So, is the business model here release the model for free, then hopefully companies will run this on databricks infra, which they will charge for?
1/2 maple syrup 1/2 whiskey - heated … is pretty good too :)
Good reference. I actually work on this stuff day-to-day which is why I feel qualified to comment on it, though mostly on images rather than natural language. I'll say in my defense that work like this is why I put a little disclaimer. It's well-known that plenty of popular models quantize/prune/sparsify well for some tasks. As the authors propose "current pretraining methods are not properly leveraging the parameters in the deeper layers of the network", this is what I was referring to as the networks not being "at capacity".
No, I don’t know the situation or the people. I had a similar situation once, I just quit and explained to the founder, who is also a good friend, that the job want working for me. He understood. Be honest and try to avoid criticizing people so you don’t burn bridges.
How fuzz testing was invented (2008)
Sustained warmer temps = longer sap season, makes sense !
I keep seeing people use "dark forest" and I think I may have a different understanding which leaves me wondering "why would you want this to happen?" My take on the dark forest comes from game theory, where nobody is working with complete information (in extreme summary) which sounds like a bad idea if we use it as a social goal. I've always felt like we are currently in the dark forest stage, but the goal should be to get out of it.

Perhaps my understanding is flawed? What is your take or how did you intend to use the phrase?
Ah come on this attitude doesn't belong here.
I always wondered whether smartphones were the cause or smartphones just exposed the true nature of life, hence bringing depression with that realization.
My thoughts exactly.

Generally writing UI code in Xcode (and presumably before that on NeXT as well) is a breeze and a joy. Work with your delegates, connections, outlets etc.
And that's a good thing, because it discourages "very custom stuff" that made mobile apps such a usability disaster.
But then what if the UI changes dimensions? Then you'd need an underlying set of rules, and isn't it best if you can set those rules yourself? How would that work graphically?

And then how about version control? Sure there could be (and is) underlying machine code, and you could try hard to make it human readable. But... IDK seems like a lot of effort to me for some small benefits.

Disclaimer: I have only very little experience with UI programming.
"Mimetic desire" in businesses isn't hidden, it is actively thought after ("best practices", learning from winners etc.) - nothing shameful there as people want copy successful things and don't have trouble saying so.

Also, institutional isomorphisms are not a new observation or area of study.
I think that most of what Microsoft does today on the developer front is focused on getting enterprise developers ever more integrated into azure. I live in a very Microsoft heavy part of Denmark, and the result is that virtually everyone uses azure and so do we. Take SQLServer as an example, a lot of FOSS database frameworks and orms don’t support it, even though there are some pretty decent Microsoft drivers for most languages. The result of this, when you use azure, is that you’re going to be using a different SQL server, or a different set of tools. It’ll often be the latter because on many enterprise subscriptions running SQLServer is quite a bit cheaper than running any other SQL DB in Azure.

That’s the developer side of things, then on the more operations side of things it’s hard to justify not using Powershell if you’re running a lot of Microsoft products. It integrates very well with everything your IT operations department does anyway from EntraID to Azure Automation, where you may be able to use Python as well, but Python is often not what Microsoft IT operations people “grew up with”. So unless other cloud providers have a strong Powershell presence on their IT operations side of things, using them, instead of using Azure, because a huge change management issue… Often one you can’t really solve, because a lot of IT operations people will rather find a different job than switch away from their Microsoft focused talents, and why wouldn’t they? Good cloud operations people are harder to find than basically anyone else in IT.
needs 2005
NeRFS. It's a rethink of 3D graphics from the ground up, oriented around positioning glowing translucent orbs instead of textured polygons. The positioning and color of the orbs is learned by a NN given accurate multi-angle camera shots and poses, then you can render them on GPUs by ray tracing. The resulting scenes are entirely photo-realistic, as they were generated from photos, but they can also be explored.

In theory you can also animate such scenes but how to actually do that is still a research problem.

Whether this will end up being better than really well optimized polygon based systems like Nanite+photogrammetry is also an open question. The existing poly pipes are pretty damn good already.
(That was from the sequel, The Dark Forest.)
> it can't empty the dishwasher

This video [0] at 1:25 suggests that it can. At least in some near future.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq1QZB5baNw
Affinity: "Perpetual licenses will always be offered"
> If (say) 50% of convictions "turns on whether you had a lawyer ahead of time to tell you what not to say", is the law ridiculous?

Yes.

It's entirely believable that at least 50% of laws are ridiculous.

> for cases where it's particularly easy to feign ignorance/innocence, sometimes the law specifically states that the mens rea requirement is waived (i.e. the intent/knowledge does not matter, or does not need to be proved beyond reasonable doubt).

But that's not the issue.

If you go out to the parking lot and your key fob unlocks someone else's car of the same make and model, e.g. because the manufacturer screwed up and made any of the keys open any of the cars, and then you claim that you thought that car was yours when you drove off in it, the prosecution now has to prove that you intended to steal someone else's car. Which they may yet even be able to do, if there is other evidence that implies you knew what you were doing, but it's completely reasonable that they have to prove it.

Whereas if you went out into the parking lot and broke the window of a car and then hot wired it, your actions are evidence of your intent. And, importantly, it's generally difficult to avoid actions that signal your intent while perpetrating a car theft.

The actual problem for this type of securities laws isn't just that the prosecution has to prove your intent, it's that their only means to do that is effectively a confession. There is no plausible way to operate a chop shop such that hiring a lawyer ahead of time would keep you out of prison when you get found out, but for parts of the financial industry that's what happens, which is absurd. There is no justice in a law that can only be enforced against people without effective counsel.
Amen. What I found so interesting about Girard's perspective on Christ is that Jesus represents the end of the "scapegoat," because he is the "holy and perfect Sacrifice." In Girard's interpretation, Jesus ultimately broke the cycle of imitation because He is the ultimate scapegoat, upon whom all the sins of humanity were placed, and yet He is also God, whom we should love above all other things.
+1 to this, but one might be hard pressed to find anything nowadays that isn't involving a transfomer model somehow.
Hey, I built something like this for personal use! I use xcalib to flash the screen every fifteen minutes.
> The efficiency of government is inversely proportional to its size

This is arguably false, which the libertarian centrists at Niskanen were forced to accept: having an efficient government is key to prosperity, but [most efficient governments are quite large](https://www.niskanencenter.org/quality-government-not-size-k...).

Quoting a [similar article](https://www.milkenreview.org/articles/quality-of-government), a former Niskanen staffer [said](https://x.com/hamandcheese/status/1491474440558895106?s=20):

"Countries with high functioning public institutions also tend to have high functioning market institutions. This hints at a deeper continuity between the two domains, and/or a third factor that underlies both."
Support him? Start by talking to him and seeing what he thinks is fair.
This is a demonstrative example of why an LLM is NOT intelligent at all, and we need to stop calling these models AI.

A real intelligence would be able to either put together the information needed and fill in gaps with research or it would be able to tell you that it does not know.

"Hallucination" is yet another anthropomorphism of the model. A mind hallucinates; a model just produces incorrect results.

LLMs are very cool but I'm really sick of the "intelligence" branding. If a person who didn't know about something just confidently made shit up, I wouldn't call them intelligent.
Apologies, I overlooked this guideline. I'm more than happy to update it, but unfortunately I'm not seeing a way to update my submission.
> From the same report, "U.S. Foreign Assistance to the Middle East": Israel has been the largest cumulative recipient of U.S. foreign assistance since World War II, receiving $158 billion. Jordan for example received $26.4 billion from 1951 to 2020.

Check again, the majority of the "aid" got to our enemies in MENA (and that excluding non-Arab enemy and semi-enemy countries, which are for some reason not included in MENA).

Look at:

- Figure 2. U.S. Foreign Aid to MENA Countries: FY1946-FY2020
- Figure 3. Israel, Jordan, and Egypt in the FY2024 Assistance Request for MENA
- Table 1. U.S. Bilateral Aid to MENA Countries: FY2021 - FY2024 Request

The majority of this "aid" (~56%) goes to enemies and semi-enemies (and that's even excluding hostile non-Arab countries in the region).

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>> Similarly with lifting sanctions on Iran, which resulted in giving them $10B.

> In the case of Iran, it was not a matter of receiving $10 billion in aid, but rather the release of $10 billion of Iranian funds that had been frozen.

Did I wrote somewhere that Iran got $10B aid?

What you wrote is factually correct, but the net effect is that Iran got $10B which they didn't had access to before.
Figure out a way to live together and not shoot at each other for 80+ years. Since I have been a baby it has been a conflict and blame throwing around, please don't kill anymore people, any people on any side!
That's not my understanding, unless that spacex livestream is by one of the TV networks.

"A licence is not required to view user generated content, clips and videos on YouTube. This includes live streamed content that is not part of a television broadcast. Or being broadcast at the same time by other means."

https://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/faqs/FAQ104
If he can't work any more, give him equity for the months he's worked? This is up to you, there's no rule to obey.
Never forget that utterly ridiculous Pepsi logo design document (2023)
It's not that memory usage isn't important, it's that dividing error by memory gives you a useless number. The benefit from incremental error decrease is highly nonlinear, as with memory. Improving error by 1% matters a lot more starting from 10% error than 80%. Also a model that used no memory and got everything wrong would have the best score.
Can you run the company by yourself and take it to profitability?

The fact that you're asking this question on HN suggests not.

Edit: To add context, I assumed that you mean your cofounder was about to die and can no longer run the company. But now I realize that you didn't say that.
Yes, very much so.

I apologize for it, as it is, I believe, indirectly against the HN guidelines. Even more so because sarcasm as a form of humour is not necessarily understood as such in every culture, which can lead to misunderstandings.. (From experience, it doesn't go down well in Germany, for instance....)
I don't understand why people need bloated electron apps for something as simple as a terminal. XFCE4-terminal just works for me.

Having to open a RAM-hungry application to execute command-line applications is just negative progress.
Ask HN: Romanian Salary Data
Does anyone know where I can find reasonable salary data for Romanian positions? It's fine if it is not exact, I just don't know what "rules of thumb" are in this country I am unfamiliar with and I'd like to hire there.

I'm interested in Support Engineering, Software Engineering, DevOps, etc.
Stop thinking about yourself
Orin AGX is advertised with 275 int8 Tops.
You want to make it illegal to not give promotions? What could go wrong!
We are also feeling beings with desires and aversions - we can judge things as that which we want vs that which we don't.
Are you talking about SSB Patchwork that is a relatively small project that is also unmaintained and archived since ~2 years ago?
But also the folks who predicted that we would be manning space stations in Saturn's orbit by now - when no human has left low earth orbit for 50 years or so.

I think intelligence is similar; the work of yesteryear pointed towards the possibilities of "flight", LLM's provided the same sort of boost as the space race of the 50's and 60's. I am not sure where the analogy ends and if a "moonshot" will happen - or if things will stall at some point. At the moment I am thinking that a stall might happen. Auto regressive techniques have given us a very very clever hans, reinforcement learning seems to have disappeared from sight, graph networks are giving us fantastic tools (weather, biology) but nothing that appears or claims to have cognition.
Very cool, thanks! NeRFs = Neural Radiance Fields, here [1] is the first hit I got that provides some example images.

[1]: https://www.matthewtancik.com/nerf
Measuring GDP adjusted by purchasing power parity, but not per capita, seems like an odd metric.

PPP-adjusted GDP per-capita gives an indication of the level of goods/services affordable by an individual citizen. Total GDP, unadjusted, is an indicator of a country's economic power. What does PPP-adjusted total GDP indicate?
Its relevant in the context of the claim that c has short identifiers because "readability suffers with long identifiers", I dont really believe that the identifiers I listed were chosen with readability in mind.
Same sentiment here. Love the question, but transformers are still so new and so effective that they will probably dominate for a while.

We (humans) are following the last thing that worked (imagine if we could do true gradient decent on the algorithm space).

Good question, and I'm interested to hear the other responses.
I agree. History of AI that we all know. Modern AI sometimes gets things wrong in interesting ways. The end.

It didn't even get to its own point (which is also wrong - we definitely haven't been here before).
I am thinking more about Uber drivers I guess, who won’t be able to enter and exit all day. So they may be just sticking around the city, causing traffic.
> That 'though' does not compute.

s/", though"/"though, "
I wonder what the math would be in saved lives due to reduced CO2 emissions vs accidents.
"I do not think the government's case is strong enough to convict him"

wow, you really trust American institutions. but most of the people doesn't and for good reasons.
I avoid the term AI. We have a machine learning. A lot of viable implementation of it. And text calculators which are predictive text lossy compressors.
Done. No AI hype:)
Kahneman's book was praised a lot, but I found it more questionable than useful.

It has its good parts, like elaborating on System 1 and System 2, but my favorite concept was regression to the mean. It might by obvious in some cases, but the book made me realize that it applies nearly everywhere.

The bad parts include priming (e.g. the Florida effect) that like others mentioned could not be replicated. He sometimes praises himself for even trivial observations. But my biggest grime that he dismisses Bernoulli's hypothesis in favor of his loss aversion (I still think humans apply a mix of both), while also framing loss aversion as irrational. That is, humans should always only maximize the expected outcome (in terms of money). The reasoning is that during life we will encounter a continuous stream of decisions and maximizing the expected value in each decision will (according to the law of large numbers) maximize the overall income.

It's not (always) irrational. Imagine you have a million dollars. Someone offers you a gamble of a fair coin flip between gaining 2 million dollars and paying one million dollars. With a million USD on your bank account you had a quite comfortable life, and it could get more comfortable with 3 million on your account. But if you lose you are ruined. According to Kahnemann you should take that gamble. Also consider that before the invention of money, those decisions were typically whether to hunt that mammoth or something less aggressive.

The German version of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" has a particularity: Your win jumps from € 125.000 to € 500.000 at the 14th question (A consequence of conversion from Deutsche Mark to Euros). Assume you have no idea what the answer is. According to Kahneman you should always pick one at random. If you pick right you get € 500.000. If you pick wrong you will still win € 32.000 or € 500 if you took the 4th lifeline like most contestants do. This makes an expected win of 3/4500 + 1/4500.000 = € 125.375, compared to € 125.000 when you don't answer. Would you do it?
Thanks, you've restored my faith in humanity. Really, thanks.
what about supporting him, talking it out what he plans to do and what is best for you both?
What you're talking about is I think gaussian splats. NeRFS are exclusively radiance fields without any sort of regular 3d representation.
Memories are made by breaking DNA – and fixing it
There's no good answer. If his cancer is possibly fatal or requiring extensive treatment, I would cut him loose with a small amount of equity - in the order of 10 to 20% for his contribution. Doing otherwise will likely tank the company. If it can't survive without him, maybe it's time to call it quits.