skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't touched this in a while, but you can train NNs in a distributed fashion and what GP described is roughly the most basic version of model parallelism, where there is a copy of the model on each node, each node receives a batch of data, and the gradients get synchronized after each batch (so they again start from the same point like you mention).

Most modern large models cannot be trained on one instance of anything (GPU, accelerators, whatever), so there's no alternative to distributed training. They also wouldn't even fit in the memory of one GPU/accelerator, so there are even more complex ways to split the model across instances.
I think the main reason they don't offer a `--make-my-binary-compatible-with-the-ancient-linux-versions-users-often-have` is that GCC/glibc is a GNU project and the are philosophically against distributing software as binaries.

I don't think there's any technical reason why it couldn't be done.

To be fair to them though, Mac has the same problem. I worked at a company where we had to keep old Mac machines to produce compatible binaries, and Apple makes it hard to even download old versions of MacOS and Xcode.

I guess the difference is MacOS is easy to upgrade so you don't have to support versions from 13 years ago or whatever like you do with glibc.
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Can you explain this comment further? I don't really understand your point here.
I used to use them all the time. However, now? I would be hard pressed to not use one of the many built in vector/list/dict/hash items in many languages now. I would have to be truly doing something very low level or for speed to use one.
I thought you were talking about DarkMatter2525, and wondering why they would be working in the Middle East.
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Waitlists can't be Show HNs, so I've taken that out of the title above.

Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html.
Given the couple years I spent using a Dasung Paperlike e-ink monitor, I think we're pretty far off from that.

There seems to be a direct tradeoff between contrast/image-brilliance and latency/frames-per-second. Many monitors can be switched along that spectrum, but the current tech doesn't seem to be able to deliver both simultaneously at a reasonable price.
>I would also wonder how it avoids being tainted by a web of other AI results of various qualities that it is indexing.

I also wonder that....how Gemini and other LLM chat bots decide what to index and include in an answer and what to not include. I guess good old PageRank[0] would be decent here.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank
> Doesn't an AI search engine cost more in terms of energy?

I'm pretty sure it does. I'm convinced this AI bubble will pop when it turns out that many of these use cases are not actually profitable. For now there's still plenty of cash left from zero interest era to throw at subsidizing this stuff.
You mean like how they faked some Gemini stuff?

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-67650807
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I think it goes to my earlier point that they're so massive now that they need to ship huge bets to move the needle even a little bit. Gmail and Search both are valid, but to an earlier point are now decades old. Both of these businesses have used inorganic growth for their needle movers - the acquisitions that changed the game for them: Meta was Whatsapp and Instagram; Google was Youtube and DoubleClick.
> The grand prize of the Gemini API Developer Competition is a custom electric DeLorean.

That's a pretty cool and novel prize. Curious what it's worth.
From the article:

"But now NHTSA's raw data set is available, and, if anything, it appears to contradict Musk's claims. The majority of the vehicles in the Tesla data set suffered from missing data or other problems that made it impossible to say whether the activation of Autosteer increased or decreased the crash rate. But when QCS focused on 5,714 vehicles whose data didn't suffer from these problems, it found that the activation of Autosteer actually increased crash rates by 59 percent."

Why are you assuming current data is better than 2016 data?
I know self esteem issues aren't rooted in logic, and so understand you find it hard to get into the gym, but just to say that in my experience unless the gym in question is the most superficial kind of place, most people will just think "good for you" if they see someone big come in. A lot of people there will have started just like you. A lot will still be there.

As for what to do there, either book a couple of lessons or pick up a beginner weight program like Starting Strength or Stronglifts.

The thing is, getting used to the gym is often an amazing self esteem boost for people if you can just get over that initial hesitation.

Good luck either way.
> Misquote suggest this is no longer a productive conversation.

That was a mistake, I had meant stark and u intentionally mistyped it and I had quoted it already, but I agree that the conversation is not productive. However, its unproductive not because of the misquote, but of one party’s seemingly misunderstanding or perhaps avoidance of things like cost improvement factors, new competitors entering the market, and other consumer buying behaviors that might be involved when a new type of product is released to the public in favor a single cherry picked metric.
Does that book happen to have a particular image of a wizard on it's cover? :)
I think people haven't fully clocked yet how foundational this shift is for the wider internet.

For decades now, we had a social contract: Google scrapes our websites and surfaces some of our content, we make it easier for them, Google gets people on our websites, and in exchange Google gets content (links) to stuff with ads (plus they get some tracking on top).

This created an ecosystem where people are incentivised to create better websites. You create good content, Google surfaces it, you get eyeballs, and it's a decent deal overall.

Sure, this dynamic is contingent on Google fighting SEO spam, which they seemingly stopped doing lately, but still there was hope that it's temporary. There was hope that if search gets bad enough they'll start bleeding users to competitors and get their stuff together.

Now Google throws the contract out of the window. Whatever you write or record or snap or shoot, they ingest everything (because we have no choice) and feed it into their Moloch, and out goes unattributed, unverifiable, ad-ridden slop. There is no compensation, no recompense.

Google is midjourneying the entire internet.
AI Google is building its Gemini Nano AI model into Chrome on the desktop
I hear they will pay a visit though if you hashtag "whistleblower" and "Boeing"
Just in case people don’t take that claim seriously: https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-tech-jo...
Exactly the wrong sorts of people will take this to mean we should remove access to important resources for anyone struggling.

The last paragraph seems to present a reasonable suggestion. But Hansson forgets that struggle occurs on a spectrum. There is no single, visible, hard line between normies and certifiables.

He should probably read a book or five about neurodiversity.
There are multiple ways to train in parallel, and that's one of them:

https://pytorch.org/tutorials//distributed/home.html
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Apart from Hyper-V and WSL, some Windows 11 security features also depend on virtualization.

Did you measure the performance hit? How often did you encounter driver trouble?
Not that surprising. They needed slaves to build their war machine and you want these factories far from the front.
I appreciate your work, but could you also include the size of the model in bytes and information about inference speed in your tables? Seeing a bunch of very similar numbers just tells us that MNIST is not a very challenging benchmark for Convolutional KANs. One of the key reasons one would want to reduce a model's size is so that the model can fit on very small low power accelerators such as corral TPUs. SRAM is a precious resource and needs to be conserved.
Political neutrality? The UAE owns the biggest soccer club in England, and UK MPs do not dare criticize the country's policies anymore.

Perhaps you mean that companies are insulated from politics because they operate in a business-friendly dictatorship where the majority of residents are migrant workers with no rights. No unionization worries when you can just confiscate passports and delay payment of wages as needed.
> It's useful for copy/pasting (even when the text is baked into an image) and for translating foreign text

I do this by taking a screenshot. The OCR stuff works very well on Apple platforms, it even works on videos.

Over the years, there always was something that "Android would do but iOS can't", like supporting Flash Player or Copy/Paste or downloading things on the browser. These were never an issue because unless you were trying to use the phone as a PC. As the web transformed and the tech got advanced enough to make phone primary computer for many people, these issues were fixed.

These days Android/iOS have a parity, I'm glad that Android exist and there are people doing interesting things with it.
I've had access to this in beta for a few weeks now and contrary to a lot of the very vocal opposition here in this comments, I have had good results.

If you're searching for a specific site, obviously this won't help, but I would imagine that an increasing percentage, if not the majority, of searches are people just typing questions into the search box. I certainly do that a lot.

This gives you an answer right at the top, and I haven't seen any obvious problems with hallucination yet.

My only fear is how they will monetize this.
The best example is the scene where Alex has to plot a course to the surface of Ganymede without being detected by the Martian and Earth navies. He goes over multiple iterations of possible courses with the computer adjusting for gravity assists and avoiding patrols etc... by voice pretty seamlessly.
Bringing Manufacturing Back to the USA
Experienced Computer Vision and AI person here.

I wish I could go work in some cool defense company like Anduril but they're not taking applications for ML engineers atm.

So, im looking for opportunities to build a company around bringing things that have gone to china since WWII back to the USA.

Is there any opportunity to use my AI/CV skills in this domain? Seems to me like small electronics manufacturing can be in large part automated and done in the USA. I would really appreciate some more ideas/directions. Thanks!
Is there any good data out there about the cracking speeds against argon2? I was disappointed that I didn't see that mentioned along with the other memory-hard algorithms, good data on that seems to be really hard to find.
> Not nearly as impressive as Sora. Sora was impressive because the clips were long and had lots of rapid movement

The most impressive Sora demo was heavily edited.

https://www.fxguide.com/fxfeatured/actually-using-sora/
They optimize for their customer base.

Which are advertisers.
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That's already the case; the king doesn't have absolute power, the sheikhs of each of the Emirates share power (proportional to how rich/powerful their emirate is). That's why Dubai's policies on so many things differ vastly from Abu Dhabi's; it's a bit like the US's federalism.
I know lots of people think that when they can't find something; it doesn't mean it is schizophrenic behavior in and of itself. I remember as kids discovering that other friends of mine also jumped to that conclusion. To my knowledge, none of us then or are now schizophrenic.
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I am now able to build things I could never do before. I have never felt more excited about what I am able to complete.
It would definitely fit Musk's hands-off management style at X.

(One really hopes the /s is not necessary here.)
> The demos just become more cringey, the messaging more duplicitous and fake-authentic.

Completely agree, and this is a sign that they're just riding the hype train. Why does that make you feel disillusioned? What do you want to build or are building that would get gobbled away?
> They are a problem because gcc automatically links to the latest version of glibc. As to why they don't add an option to specify an older version?

Because glibc and ld/lld are badly designed. glibc is stuck in the 80s with awful and unnecessary automagic configure steps. ld/lld expect a full and complete shared library to exist when compiling even though it expects a different shared library to exist in the future.

Zig solves the glibc linking issue. You can trivially target any old version for any supported target platform. The only thing you actually need are headers and a thin, implementation free lib that contains stub functions. Unfortunately glibc is not architected to make this trivial. But this is just because glibc is stuck with decades of historic cruft, not because it's actually a hard problem.
It's also probably that it's easier to spot fake humans than to spot fake cats or camels. We are more attuned to the faces of our own species

That is, AI humans can look "creepy" whereas AI animals may not. The cowboy looks pretty good precisely because it's all shadow.

CGI animators can probably explain this better than I can ... they have to spend way more time on certain areas and certain motions, and all the other times it makes sense to "cheat" ...

It explains why CGI characters look a certain way too -- they have to be economical to animate
Compared to Bing CoPilot, Google feels dated now. I know it sounds like a crazy thing to say, but being able to chat with your search results and refine what you are looking for. Get summarized explanations with sources is just wow.
Has this always been true of the decision makers at all corporations for all time?

I suspect societal morals do still carry some weight. And the corps do listen if the backlash is loud enough.
Ok, that is weird, what angle are they trying to convey to convince ppl to buy blackberry stock.
Even before AI, I always considered my work to be like a Tibetan sand painting. As soon I was off the project it may have just been wiped away. Quite a few things I built never launched or never got adoption. You're never guaranteed success at anything.
>> Any specificity to this example that doesn’t apply to any game-changing technology?

To answer your question with the clarity in which it was posed... 'definitely'
I have a feeling for the longest time that product management at Google is a mess. There seem to be different products doing about the same type of work with little to no cohesive experience between them. Gemini, Search and Astra come to my mind in this case; though they have shown advances in Gemini integration with search (even though gemini is still a separate app????)
From a boolean logic point of view - AND is irreversible, since (1 .AND. 0) is 0, as is (0 .AND. 0.) Going from the result (0), you can't reverse and get the starting inputs.

NOT however is reversible, since 1 .NOT. -> 0, and you can get back to 1 with another .NOT.
In what sense is it effective? I'd been lurking here for months before I learned that YC was a company and it ran this place. (Then again I guess I'm not in any sort of relevant target group).
Uh.. First it tells me that I can't sign up because my country is supported (yay, EU) and I can sign up to be notified when it's actually available. Great, after I complete that form, I get an error that the form can't be submitted and I'm taken to https://aitestkitchen.withgoogle.com/tools/video-fx where I can only press the "Join our waitlist" button. This takes me to a Google Form, that doesn't have my country in the required country dropdown and has a hint that says: "Note: the dropdown only includes countries where ImageFX and MusicFX are publicly available.". Say what?

Why does this have to be so confusing? Is the name "Veo" or "VideoFX"? Why is the waitlist for VideoFX telling me something about public availability of ImageFX and MusicFX? Why is everything US only, again? Sigh..
Given that the UK's gradual evolution involved lopping off one king's head and another king getting disposed when his military essentially refuses to resist an invasion, and that both of these were caused in no small part by the respective kings holding the wrong religion (and attempting to impose it!) according to their subjects, I don't think the UK is the model you'd want to see followed.
Though I'm not familiar with the specifics, they announced "context caching"
All of this will be pointless if they can't fix the UI of Google. Gemini, gems etc it's not even started yet and I'm already confused about what they're offering and how I'd use it.

Do I get any of this with my Google one account or do I need a business account or a Google one plus ai?
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He also would have loathed those who used his results to argue that the best economy is one generated by the decisions of individuals, with minimal government intrusion. He was a socialist who favored government intervention to help the disadvantaged in society.

The genius of this viewpoint brings to mind:

“The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine the can design.”
― F. A. Hayek, The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism (Volume 1)
That's on you for thinking you need to be on your guard that hard. People have been talking into headsets on the go since 2000, it's not new.
Ask HN: Resources on how to organize research teams
I'm interested in how to organize teams and ways-of-work that work on projects that have a certain aspect of uncertainty, where they might not work, or require great investment (time or resources), inherently.

Like, how was the organization that Oppenheimer vouched for when he led the Manhattan Project, or how did Alan Turing lead the work at Bletchley Park?

Something that kind of scratched that question in my mind was the Veritasium [1] on the invention of the Blue LED (fascinating btw). But that endeavor was largely pursued by a single scientist. How would the work have been had a team of people worked on that problem?

Do large pharmaceuticals, which might be some of the companies that already have some practice in that, publish some books, even if just historical accounts?

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AF8d72mA41M
Some things technically not part of the core feature set of a browser (at least not the one you've mentioned), yet even just one of them missing would make me immediately drop Firefox:

- End-to-end encrypted tab, history, and bookmark sync across devices

- Content translation, as mentioned above ideally in a privacy-preserving way

- Plugin support

- Cookie-jar-per-tab and proxy-per-tab support (Firefox allows doing both through Multi-Account Containers)

I'm sure some other users also feel the same.
Not really. AI overview is a natural progression. It is pretty accurate. The hallucinations have decreased significantly over the past year. Most people won't mind this.
I feel it. I'll add that I'm also rather scared of how AI's compute and data hungry nature is de-democratizing tech and...reality in a big way. A handful of giga-scale companies hold all the cards. The actual technology behind AI is mostly a small set of clever tricks for encoding data in a way that neural nets can work efficiently on, the nets themselves aren't magic and the process of making them is well understood, but unless you have the money to shell out for tens of thousands in hardware and have access to literally everyone's private data to train on you're just going to be very second tier for eternity.
> A year ago, Google said that it believed AI was the future of search.

It seems similar to Meta's bet on the metaverse.

I guess only time till tell if they made the right call or not.

Personally I think it would be better to keep the search they have and A/B test the new feature to see if people like it or not.
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Yes, that's what I do.

I guess there's no real benefit, I just mainly didn't want to create an email account with Apple, or connect my existing email to Apple's mothership.
Ah yeah, I get you now. From that same page:

> To achieve our mission, we are committed to embracing diverse voices and providing equal opportunities because a business can only be as healthy as the community it serves.

It would be great (but unlikely and possibly illegal) to see a company put a list of the voices they don't want to represent on a page like this so we can see if the omission of some initiatives/voices/whatever is intentional or accidental.
C levels can't survive a day in the trenches.

CEO goes to submit timesheet.

Corporate issued hardware explodes in face.

IT support hotline: Remember to turn the timer off and on again.

Middle manager: I need the task done yesterday. Yes, I know it's a holiday. Yes, I know the assignment breaks two DNS specs and several hundred federal and state regulations. Just get it done. No, you're not allowed to use utensils during working lunches, that's against company policy.
Ah, the passage of time.
We have to take account that this community (good chunk have stakes in YC and a lot to gain from secondary shares in OpenAI) and platform is going to favor its own and be aware that Sam Altman is the golden boy of YC's founder after all.

So of course you are going to see snarky comments and straight up denial in the competition. We saw that yesterday in the comments with the release of GPT4o in anticipation of Gemini 2.0 (GPT-5 basically) release being announced today at Google I/O

I'm SORA to say Veo looks much more polished without jank.

Big congratulations to Google and their excellent AI team for not editing their AI generated videos like SORA
What about a statue for Vint Cerf, one of the inventors of tcp/ip? In its era just as important imho as morse code. I say that as a ham who has used morse code for over a half century.
They don't deserve some kind of "tech co" valuation, they deserve a Chipotle ($87 billion market cap) level valuation eventually.

Contrary to most comments here, and the demand for Sweetgreens shows, Sweetgreens is actually nailing the holy trifecta of 1) healthy 2) tasty 3) fast, while not being too expensive for most people, just like Chipotle.

They also do have a leg up technology-wise, as they have good devs and tech stack (for a non tech co) and acquired some smart MIT students working on fully automated food bowls that is showing a lot of promise.

I expect to see a lot more of them all over the US and approach current Chipotle status in valuation and size in the next 7 years.
Astra seems to be an internal ptoject name? Demis said it will be eventually integrated into the regular app IIUC.