skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a generalization. These proprietary systems do different things at different times. With GPT4o you can see little icons when a RAG is in use or when code and tests are being used.

People, we have to stop talking about what we know as though it's all there is. Don't confuse our knowledge for understanding. Understanding only comes from repeadly trying to prove our understandings wrong and learning how things truly are.
I will not comment on the technical part, as others already did it better than I could, but it just reminded me of an anecdote that reminds of the importance of such trivial things as a period at the end of a sentence:

In Germany, where I work, it is usual at the end of employement to ask for a letter of recommendation ("Zeugnis") that lists the tasks performed, and how good the employee was. It is an important document, as it will typcally be required when applying for jobs. Obviously, no employee would accept a document explicitly stating "this guy is a lazy bastard, do not hire him", so there is a "Zeugnissprache", a "secret code" to disguise this information as praise. One part of this code is that a missing period in the last sentence means "please ignore everything said here, this guy is horrible".

How do I know? I let a lawyer check my Zeugnis after my last employment, and (I assume out of lack of care, as all my performance reviews were positive) the last sentence was missing the period.
I think this is a great idea to show how to create a product to attend a real customer pain - but only as a protest site to raise some awareness to the customer service problem of these big techs.

But, if real, it's an huge unethical breach for bribery, privacy violation, and will only benefit illegal content. A real customer using this will never be accepted again on those platforms.
Yes, even though this is a mild improvement on 20 years ago when it was an even more homogenous group.

Given how often China comes up in the context of AI, I'm wondering: Lots of people in the West treat China as mysterious and alien. I wonder how true that really is (e.g. Confucianism)? Or if it ever was (e.g. perhaps it used to be before industrialisation, which homogenises everyone regardless of the origin)?
The Shape of Your Problem
It's 100% a protocol thing. There's no firehose with AP. You only get posts from instances you've subscribed to and only from people followed by someone on your instance, and only posts since federating.

Feeds are a fundamental part of AT and depend on relays. There's no equivalent in Mastodon. It has relays, but they're more niche and restrictive and there's no standard way to filter, select, order, etc incoming posts.

The firehose used to be easy to get to on Twitter until they realized people would pay for it, and then all the fun mashups went away. The firehose and feeds that filter it are a fundamental aspect on AT.

It makes more sense once you've tried it. What we're seeing with Bluesky feeds is what Twitter could have been if they hadn't tried to turn the firehose into a profit center. It's hard to explain because it sounds like tags or saved searches if you're trying to relate it to the more common model of social media.
I really wish they could just make HTML support

<img src="foo.mp4">

and have it behave exactly like all other images in how CSS handles it (with auto loop, no controls). This would solve all the reasons people use GIFs in place of videos.

Like for example

<img src="foo.mp4" style="width:100%">

should make the image occupy 100% of the width of the parent element and auto-scale the height according to the mp4's aspect ratio. You can't do this with the <video> element without an extremely unintuitive wrapper div.
> just tell me the bloody date, I can figure out for myself.

I, however, really struggle with this. I have a real problem with any concept of dates or the passing of time.
Just wait, the work to surpass this miscalculation is already well underway.
Did you see this comment in that thread? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40416267

Artemis is risky, but not to the levels that Apollo was.
I’d rather Wikipedia offer it versus a for profit enterprise using their dataset. Cut out the middleman and vertically integrate.
Clever code is probably the worst code you could write (2023)
The IDF's claims as to the extent to which its targets are "militarized" are of course widely disputed (by journalists, government bodies, NGOs, etc). The raids on Al-Shifa, the bombings of mosques and the destruction of cemeteries most notably.

In this context -- it seems clear enough that the commenter above understands what you're saying, and is not making any distortions of it. They simply do not see any reason accept, at face value, the IDF's attempts to spin and obfuscate these horrific incidents. As seems to be the IDF's expectation from the world at large.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasbara
Considering that I'm usually on the side of "its already illegal, making it more illegal won't help", I've struggled for a long time to express what exactly was the problem with e.g. automated surveillance, because I couldn't express it in a way that was convincing even to myself.
Nobody is getting reparations, Mizrahim Israelis do not want a right of return to Iraq, Morocco, Tunisia, and Yemen, nor would they be welcome there (Ansar Allah's first "official" action was to expel Jewish people from Sa'dah), and Israel itself is premised on being a homeland for the Jewish people. Maybe we're just kibitzing, and that's fine, but if we're being serious we should probably give some consideration to our actual constraints.

Is Israel an ethnostate (or an ethno-religious state, if that's your jam)? It rhymes with one, for sure. But if that's the case, so is Japan. I have never once seen a protest in North America against Japanese ethnocentrism. At least I understand why Israel is structured this way (it was founded within 1-2 Kendrick Lamar album release dates of the liberation of the concentration camps).

There's some innuendo in your post --- "what does that say about you" --- are you prepared to field the same kind of innuendo directed back at you? Because Israelis and Jewish supporters of Israel in the west notice and point out that Israel is held to a different standard.

A reasonable answer to that is that Israel has spent 20 years working to prevent a 2-state solution, and effectively occupying Gaza while slowly colonizing the West Bank. That's fair! But criticism of Israel's modern day activities have a tendency --- as they did here --- to bleed into critiques of the premise of Israel itself.
Excel code is likely "horribly complicated" behind the scenes as well.

I looked at the openoffice source code 15 years ago .. and stepped back again. But I think LibreOffice systematically refactored a lot of it. It wouldn't hurt asking for it.

Some things are surprisingly easy to implement. Some things would require a redesign, when you are dealing with very old legacy code..
I wonder how interpretability and training can interplay. Some examples:

Imagine taking Claude, tweaking weights relevant to X and then fine tuning it on knowledge related to X. It could result in more neurons being recruited to learn about X.

Imagine performing this during training to amplify or reduce the importance of certain topics. Train it on a vast corpus, but tune at various checkpoints to ensure the neural network's knowledge distribution skews. This could be a way to get more performance from MoE models.

I am not an expert. Just putting on my generalist hat here. Tell me I'm wrong because I'd be fascinated to hear the reasons.
If you 'lose respect' for individual employees because the megacorporation they work for has bad customer service or UX design or what have you, not sure what to say.

Most companies seem to suck in some way or another, reflecting that onto the individual workers just seems silly to me.

They're not "laughing it off" because they're paid well; if they were paid badly instead, what would change? Do people with low wages who work for corporations do something differently here?
Yes of course, but what I'm saying is that's not actually an argument for any particular base salary amount.

Think of it this way. We assume higher quality founders would be attracted by higher base salaries. Higher quality founders have a higher probability of successful exits. What is the optimal founder salary level to incentivize talent and maximize the total value of exits by startups? We can put some bounds on it. It's not $0, because then only already-wealthy people create companies. It's not $10m/yr, because that's not affordable by investors.

Is there any particular reason it should be ~$200K/yr instead of ~$400K/yr, or even higher? It's well known that older more experienced founders have a higher probability of success. Should we be recruiting 50 yo founders with decades of experience by guaranteeing $500K base? This is OP's point.
I think this would have more chances of success if it focused on just one aspect of game creation, instead of trying to solve engine development, gameplay development and content development all at once.

I.e. if an programmer wants to create a game, then getting the artwork in a consistent style is a big problem, and solving that alone (i.e. as a plugin for Unity or Unreal or Godot or whatever) would be both powerful and difficult.

Conversely, if someone without programming skills wants to create a game, then it would be best to focus solely on the AI assistance for gameplay design with a fixed, well-known engine and an integrated well-populated market for content, and assume that they will get the content packs there, leaving that problem out of your scope but making it easy to integrate the AI-generated logic with the pre-made content packs.
This is a great fit for a call center support person in an emerging economy for whom 150 bucks is a big deal, I doubt this would entice a staff eng doing 500k tco.
Lots of words to repeat this … “ Entrepreneurship is like one of those carnival games where you throw darts or something.

Middle class kids can afford one throw. Most miss. A few hit the target and get a small prize. A very few hit the center bullseye and get a bigger prize. Rags to riches! The American Dream lives on.

Rich kids can afford many throws. If they want to, they can try over and over and over again until they hit something and feel good about themselves. Some keep going until they hit the center bullseye, then they give speeches or write blog posts about “meritocracy” and the salutary effects of hard work.

Poor kids aren’t visiting the carnival. They’re the ones working it.”
You don’t even need to do it for illiquid assets, the important bit is to have appreciating assets.

You avoid taxes by not getting cash in a tax inefficient way (income, capital gains) and instead you get it in loans (which can be tax deductible!)

Then when an event happens that allows you to pull cash efficiently (capital losses, inheritance asset step up etc) you service the loan.

Your lender is happy to do this both because the loans are fully backed by real assets and they want to sell you or your businesses other services.
The people who are ambitious and driven enough to move for better opportunities are probably the ones they want to hire.
I run a saas where we host a number of websites, can I use this for us to track visits, events etc across multiple sites? We want aggregated results not per site metrics
> A real customer using this will never be accepted again on those platforms

this sentence doesn't make sense
Interesting, the current DB dump is not for everyone, but if they also offer an LLM trained on Wikipedia data that answers and provide actual valida citation , please do. (not sure if duckduckgo stop offering that)
Seeing that this discussion is still going on (I'm impressed!) I shall provide an example which I believe fits the bill. Around the time you first asked the question I learnt that the BBC are currently re-airing a classic documentary series of theirs, Civilisation, by Kenneth Clarke. This is essentially a history of post-classical European civilisation from the end of the dark ages to the present day. The programme is what we would now call eurocentric in its focus, and it does celebrate that european culture, but it certainly doesn't denigrate any other, or claim that that of Europe is greater than any other. Nonetheless the BBC felt it necessary in rebroadcasting it to prepend a warning that the programme reflects the 'standards and attitudes of its time'[0]. What views are these which the BBC feels it necessary to disclaim? One can only assume it is the attitude of celebrating rather than denigrating western culture and history. The programme must not go out without warnings lest anyone get the impression that we appreciate our own civilisation! I believe that that can fairly be called oikophobia.

[0] https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-is-the-bbc-censuring... They also commissioned a ten-minute preface talk by Mary Beard but as I couldn't watch this myself (it's only on the BBC iplayer for which I will not sign up) I shall refrain from comment.

As a lagniappe (not a word we have in my country, by the way), I share this rather cruel Pound story which may nonetheless, as it did me, amuse you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auberon_Waugh#Waugh.27s_views (2nd paragraph, or look for 'Pound')
> Seeing that the SMTP client code was borrowed from a previous project we thought it good to let our other teams know about this bug in case they needed to patch it as well. They thanked us and we called it a day.

As soon as I read the above, I knew the below would be the result.

> It seems one of our other teams haven't gotten around to patching this bug in their code.
You're using low grade AI, and as a result you might have an exaggerated view of how much AI bullshits.

Perplexity, especially, is nearly unusable. Even though it has references, it's still a GPT3.5 equivalent model, so it will hallucinate about the references even if they're right in front of it. When you correct one hallucination, it'll thank you, then immediately make another one. Every conversation is a tragic comedy of errors. It's frustrating and upsetting for any real work.

But higher grade AI can be a useful coworker. You will have to pay for pay for Gemini 1.5, GPT4, or Claude 3 Opus, and go through the learnprompting.org lessons, while reading the papers referenced in the lessons.

These AIs can usefully critique and interact with my work and references. They can bullshit, but rarely do so, given good references. When they do BS, I can politely call them on it and they fix it and go back to solid reasoning. And even better, they can often critique and call out MY bullshit.

I have long conversations with the AI. They start with a big problem that is stressing me. And they usually end with an amazing solution that is easy for me to execute. Usually I could not have easily formulated on my own, and might even have gotten stuck or distracted on the task.

It's good stuff - don't footgun yourself by cheaping out on good AI, or not reading the promoting papers. All three of those AIs cost about 20 a month. But if you want AI that actually works with you, it's more than worth it.
Very similar, I like it!
No, you're thinking of PS{R,L}LQ.
MicroStudio – Game Engine
I mean, maybe?

People still eat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ortolan_bunting despite the illegality, low nutritional value, and the ready availability of other options.
this is solved better by obsidian
> I’m highly skeptical of the conclusions here. Many corporations already record periodic screenshots of employee devices. There’s also a bunch of hand waving of “security incident here, therefore hackers will access your machine”.

In highly specific situations, like customer care, yes. Also these machines tend to be super locked down, no admin rights for the users.

And yes this practice is risky. I managed some PCs for customer care and one of them was taken in for repair by the service desk and replaced, and redeployed without wiping it. It ended up in payroll and when we found out their manager was furious (quite understandably so).

Yes malware can install its own keylogger. But it's an extra step once again.
I think the term “AI PC” will accelerate this trend. Fuck this “AI PC” nonsense. I just want a laptop.
I have powerful anecdotal hypocrisy from the closest people in my life.

They work in mental health, but intentionally to a degree much higher than neglect, and over recent and long periods of time: kick people while they’re down, not limited to me.
> If you put this in its proper term it is "corruption" and you should definitely worry about the legal implications of doing this

you seem to only be thinking about one side of this, the company side. what about the endless amount of normal end users that got caught by some god awful AI, and ignored by a huge tech company and its basically non existing customer service?
>inflation (which would make everyone even worse off than they already are)

Is this true though? Doesn't inflation just redistribute wealth rather than destroy it? We measure inflation through change in prices which are just a measure of supply and demand (dis)equilibrium, I thought.
One reason is the ease with which a company can update software and keep the userbase on a consistent version. iirc, this was the driving force behind Salesforce doing this, who was the first to do this (iirc again)
I like to repeat out loud what I heard but in my own words. I believe it uncovers assumptions made by the speaker and lets newcomers learn about them. Sometimes, though, I feel like I am calling people out when the language used was particularly obfuscated. I think it does require some level of empathy and honesty in the organization.

From another point of view, seems like we had a shared document automatically created of the meeting transcription/summary it would reduce the friction and other biases. (Oh look, the LLM is dumb, it wrote that the project is over budget and we depend of risky integrations)
Sam Altman is showing us who he really is
Microsoft isn't really specific about what is local and what isn't. Sure, they are very specific that the storage of the screenshots is local. What about all the processing? As far as I see it they're far less specific about that.

And who says this will stay local and isn't a small T&C update away from being shared with 'trusted partners'?
It's hard to say, though, because the system is totally untested. Even if it works the first time, That's a very small sample size.
Moving on from Ink
I think this [1] might answer your question. Still curious whether OP’s linked book goes this route.

1 - https://docs.rust-embedded.org/discovery/microbit/04-meet-yo...
How is this law like that?
As the sibling comment already mentioned, file format reading is a big one. Oh, a customer needs us to ingest CSV data. Let's just roll our own CSV parser, the file format is simple, right? What could go wrong? Same for graphics formats. We need to read PNG files, so let's just figure out the format and implement just enough to read the handful of files we have on hand. Even though libpng exists.

Another, more domain specific one: We have to talk to a GPS receiver that connects via RS-232 and outputs NMEA formatted data. This device, like all such devices, outputs a small subset of the standard. So parse just enough of it for that one device we have to get working, and ship it. Then someone attaches a different device that outputs a different subset of the standard and the software fails (sometimes gracefully, sometimes not).
Government Role in Technical Computing: Lessons from United States (1994) [pdf]
>Arguing about the name basically amounts to “I believe that when you use the word ‘open’ in your company name, they should act like $this”…which is, frankly, absurd.

it does have a connotation of advertisement to it, so I think it's worth examining. This isn't like complaining about how Apple doesn't sell food.

"Open" has a very specific meaning in Tech, and OpenAI is a tech company. It'd be the equivalent of Github swiching all of its repositories over to Mercurial tomorrow. They may have no obligation to support Git, but naming your company after such tech will have such expectation. You can definitely have an honest conversation about how using a word like "Open" for a tech company while switching to a closed source, publicly traded mentality is in fact a betrayal of the audiene who were inevitably attracted by the naming scheme.
The main problem I have with money is that our economic system purposely doesn't pay livable wages to all jobs that exist but our central bank's main focus is achieving 100% employment LMAO but how's that possible if they also pursue Inflationary Policy and De-regulation of the private sector/wall st./monopoly corporations/etc. when its the private sector that looks to never pay more than minimum wage if they aren't forced to!!!! LMAO and our Federal Gov't & President are Wall St.'s bitch so they happily support this Laissez Faire policy instead of fighting their greed & corruption!!! The end result of this lack of energy to force the private sector to pay truly livable wages is what leads to less than 100% employment! The fact that the majority of adults in America (62% to be exact) make less than 30k yrly is basically criminal!!!!! Also, all banks who conduct statistical studies say the average yrly salary a person needs to live comfortably (living decently better than paycheck-to-paycheck) is well above 50k yrly for just about all 50 states in the country!!! Thus, the banks aren't even honoring their own statistal data that tells them to stop being so greedy and actually work to ensure 100% employment!!! This leads to a horrible economy where the majority live paycheck-to-paycheck even while working full-time jobs as adults!!! This is insanity & is my main problem with how money works systemically in our economy!!! I personally dont have any problems managing money and I find investing very easy espeically with new apps/exchanges like Coinbase & Robinhood!!! The only problem any1 really has with managing money is that the majority simply aren't paid enough to live good lives, unfortunately, on purpose by the collusion of our Central Bank/Federal Reserve, Monopoly Corporations, and Federal Gov't!
Vinix, a modern operating system written in pure V
Derek Lowe: Macrocycles from Thin Air
finally a correct response
> That's not NASA doing anything

COTS was a risky paradigm shift. And SpaceX continues to extensively use NASA resources, to say nothing of building on its decades of work.
Palantir's entire business model is based around "if you think your situation is more complicated than our pitches, that's fine - just keep hiring our forward-deployed engineers, and we'll customize anything you want to match your reality!" In practice, this makes it very easy for their software to calcify implicit and explicit biases held by leadership at their customers, from police data fusion centers to defense projects.
The standard pulse rate is 10 pulses per second. So 999 takes a bit more than 3 seconds to dial. Three seconds is no doubt a long time subjectively in an emergency -- but it is still much shorter than what it replaced -- calling the full number for the the police/fire/hospital, or asking an operator to connect you.

Also in the olden days, call setup and tear-down could take quite a while. Digits to forward and relays to toggle. It could be easily half a minute before the other party started to ring, especially at peak times.
I'm looking forward to more articles with titles like Are You Buying Too Many Eggs? or Should You Buy A Chicken?
+1 major win for security updates.

Remember when everyone had a thick-client adobe reader installed and updates weren’t automatic?