skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't blame Elon as much as I blame the responsible adults around him. No one appears to be setting any limits. My armchair psychoanalysts observation is that his son transistioning to a woman and his wife Grimes leaving him to date Chelsea Manning (transwoman) seemed to break him. But never mind that, the details of what breaks people don't matter. People have crisis.

I assumed we've made progress since the days of Howard Hughes' madness. I'm surprised corporate boards and wise advisors would be able to get him some help and require it actually, since he has so many responibilities but has been blowing it with drug use and erratic behavior. Is he all alone in the world or is it that he won't listen to anyway while he self-destructs?
IIRC the progressions are generated by a small neural network trained on Bach chorales.
Nah. Besides, I want them to continue to diversify in case there ever is an AI winter. If that happens, at least I'll get an updated Shield TV or something.
Is that not insider trading? I had opportunities to buy stock in companies that I knew my employer was about to do big business with, and could have profited handsomely, but was advised that it was at the very least against corporate guidelines
> Every time I go to the grocery store to buy something and don’t have to worry about my card being declined, it feels like magic. Even years later.

Pay cash: it's much more privacy-conscious - and you don't have to worry about your card being declined. :-)
But not DRM content. The system will recognize and avoid screenshotting that.

Banking details? Fine.

Passwords? A-OK!

Copyrighted content? STOP, YOU FOOLS, BEFORE YOU ANGER THE MOUSE!

This whole thing is dystopian, but making it a priority to avoid DRM controlled content is wild to me. The screenshots are ostensibly a cache, which is part of how video is displayed anyway. Is avoiding caching a 6 frame per minute cache really a higher priority than all of the privacy this undermines?
Yah but unfortunately it's not just them. Everyone is putting these
"safety" filters on their AI. I understand why they're doing it, but all I can feel is how lame it is.
> And before you go "but borders"

It was communism that fostered this independence movement of the eastern states, and it was the USSR that drew the arbitrary line soon after the revolution.

> What is to be gained (other than pride) by forcing majority Russian-speaking lands that got accidentally attached to an entity named "Ukraine" to be part of this brave new world?

If this really was Russia’s intent they wouldn’t have tried to take the entire country at the outset. And if this is some kind of liberation project for those long suffering Russian speaking minorities, I’m certain those being bombed aren’t welcome of it. There’s no noble intentions behind the inception of this war, but let’s say there was, those intentions seem to have since been contradicted by the human cost which Russia’s leadership has proven insensitive to
Mind sharing the parts of the tutorial you had trouble with, if you remember?
To me, it's a really difficult name to accept upon first read. I was wondering how bad Windows had to be that Microsoft had to issue a recall, and then wonder what a software recall would actually look like.

Seems like a trip to a thesaurus might have been useful: Microsoft Evoke, Microsoft Conjure, Microsoft Hearken, Microsoft Summon. At least none of those has an immediate negative potential
Great point - an analogy comes to mind: MSFT (and Adobe) were totally okay with (and even encouraged) students pirating Windows/Photoshop etc in non-Western countries in the hopes they grow up and carry that knowledge in a future legal venture.

They were right.

This is the hardware equivalent of that.

Only until CUDA is replaceable though: and who is gonna do that? Intel better carry through their promises in this regard.
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Babashka scripts are interpreted, the babashka binary itself is compiled with GraalVM.

But: you can also build regular Clojure programs using GraalVM and create a fast-starting binary.
Seconded. I'm also a big fan of Aphyr's "Clojure from the ground up" series:
https://aphyr.com/posts/301-clojure-from-the-ground-up-welco...
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I heard from a Canadian friend of mine (very reliable source) that Tim's corporate changed to the same supplier of coffee beans that Starbucks uses. It's possible their other meal options were changed similarly.
I agree that research misconduct is different than what I'm describing. I think that students who conduct serious research with local universities (for example) should be celebrated. But I do think the issues are related in that Regeneron needs to think about the (lack of) systems in place for vetting and supporting projects of all types.
You guys are talking different things when you each say "worth". You're reasonable in saying the price of most labor may be lower due to the automation, and GP is also reasonable in saying that the productivity of labor may be much higher.

Whether either of these things are "correct", time will tell and likely will be nuance and vary by job role, but they're both reasonable.
Since when was Zoom not using AI to create transcripts and all of other crap they've added to "stay relevant"?
Facebook cannot read your messages, so it is more decentralized than a system that stores messages in plaintext (or stores the decryption keys).
There's nothing baloney about SSA form. I'm sorry to say it, but C is just not close to the metal any more. Even if you are able to hand optimise something so it works well on one architecture, it likely won't be optimal for another.

As for Haskell, it does pretty well being 100 times faster than Python with 100 times less the number of people working on it.
I really doubt it runs locally. Most people don’t have GPUs that are capable of generating images with anything approaching speed.
The example looks more like a traffic arbitration site, rather then something used by humans.
yeah the referential integrity and constraints part is usually the most complicated part and everyone does things differently which adds another layer of complexity on it
You are bombarded by feedback too, such that these endless discussions are just tiring and mentally exhausting, and improving a language by overfocusing on security is just a massive waste of time. (In some areas, it could make the difference between economic viability or not, or between possibility of explorative prototyping and mental exhaustion from friction during development).

I am assuming that you did your own research, formed your own informed opinion, and ignored the feedback nevertheless because you know who is right :-)
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[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40442490
> One, there is no money in Ed.Tech. There is no money in Ed.Tech. There is no money in Ed.Tech.

There is no money in EdTech for pupils. Better go for continuing education for adults. There potentially is money.
The real questions: how much of this is already priced in? Will this trend continue in the future?
You don't need to trust in their morality, you have a direct ability to influence representative democracies.

You have no way to influence the governance of corporations.
That it's Microsoft doing it is a big part of the objection, true. It's not unreasonable. Microsoft doesn't exactly have a great reputation when it comes to data collection and the like for good reasons.
I think the US should seek both capitalistic and socialistic policies simultaneously, but this would require a revolution that may [not be possible / very difficult] to achieve from within the US political system because its "operating system" is tainted by lobbyists for the billionaires.

i. Restore corporate tax rates to historically high levels

ii. Increase capital gains tax significantly

iii. Tax speculation-derived activities, especially real estate and REITs

iv. Gradually curtail subsidies on field corn, currently occupying 5% of America's land (~100 million acres)

v. Shrink defense spending by half

vi. Enact single-payer healthcare for all eliminating co-insurance and better than Medicare up to UK NHS levels but without the government delivering healthcare directly; there shouldn't be good health insurance for just a few people with good jobs

vii. Greatly expand visas for engineers and entrepreneurs

viii. Also expand visas and professional certification "homologation" for teachers, lawyers, doctors, dentists, and researchers so they don't have to start over

ix. Invest in trade schools: plumbers, electricians, machinists

x. Invest in adult education, GED, and pre-college prep courseware

xi. Earmark funds and network applied STEM courses and internships for industry-practical training, especially for fabs, robotics, and high-tech manufacturing

xii. Invest in childcare and pre-K

xiii. Revisit tariff adjustments on a more frequent and selective basis

xiv. Entrepreneur incubators should get federal subsidies because they're generating wealth

xv. UBI - Everyone gets it without requirements excepted tapering down based on income

xvi. Small businesses should have even greater incentives in banking, real estate, state and federal bid contracts, and tax treatment
for what it's worth, it also comes in super handy when trying to troubleshoot existing systems. Running a complicated system that has weird latency spikes sometimes at a 60s interval and the config file has like:

- timeout: 1m
- expireInterval: 1m
- updateInterval: 5m
- etc

The first thing I do is go in and change them all to

- timeout: 59s
- expireInterval: 61s
- updateInterval: 307s
- etc

and then see what the new "problem interval" is. It's either gone, because the spike was from contention from all 3 jobs running every 5 minutes, or the new problem occurs now at 61s intervals.
They're not talking about their employer's actions moving the stock price, they're talking about the basic industry knowledge that everyone else is doing the same thing. I (probably) don't work at the same company and I had access to exactly the same information.
That says more about the beholder.
I've used something like RAG for finding solutions to questions in slack. I take the question, break it into searchable terms, search slack and get a haystack of results. Then I use a LLM to figure out if the results are relivent, finally at the end i take the top 10 results and summarize them and link back to the slack discussion.
The worst part is that this is our best and brightest, the ones who could have done so much more.
Almost certainly not, insider trading is for "knowledge that isn't out there". What you are describing is, because the "knowledge wasn't out there".

It's a fuzzy distinction and you're better safe than sorry. "We bought a bunch of cards" vs "we're going to buy a bunch of cards" type thing.
It also lets a language model answer questions while citing a source, something it fundamentally cannot do on its own.

Everyone talks about "reducing hallucinations" but from a system perspective, everything a LLM emits is equally hallucinated.

Putting the relevant data in context gets around this and provides actual provenance of information, something that is absolutely required for real "knowledge" and which we often take for granted in practice.

Of course, the ability to do so is entirely reliant on the retrieval's search quality. Tradeoffs abound. But with enough clever tricks it does seem possible to take advantage of both the LLMs broad but unsubstantiated content, and specific fact claims.
I know nothing about stocks. But if a similar situation were to happen again, how can you tell whether or not the surge in demand is already "priced in"?

Simply knowing that demand for a product has increased - even increased massively - surely can't tell you that the stock of the company that makes that product is going to increase in value, without also knowing whether or not that increase in demand is already reflected in the current price of the stock
Yes, I'm making the weaker claim that concepts would generally sort themselves into roughly equivalent structures, that could be mapped to each other through some easy affine transformations (rotation, symmetry, translation, etc.) applied to various parts of the structures.

Or, in other words, I think absolute coordinates of any concept in the latent space are irrelevant and it makes no sense to compare them between two models; what matters is the relative position of concepts with respect to other concepts, and I expect the structures to be similar here for large enough datasets of real text, even if those data sets are disjoint.

(More specific prediction: take a typical LLM dataset, say Books3 or Common Crawl, randomly select half of it as dataset A, the remainder is dataset B. I expect that two models of the same architecture, one trained on dataset A, other on dataset B, should end up with structurally similar latent spaces.)

> Something that really sold me when I was in a similar mindset was word2vec's king - man + woman = queen wasn't actually real or in the model. Just a way of explaining it simply.

Huh, it seems I took the opposite understanding from word2vec: I expect that "king - man + woman = queen" should hold in most models. What I mean by structural similarity could be described as such equations mostly holding across models for a significant number of concepts.
On the other hand, my uncle lost a fortune investing in a wireless networking company in the 00s. He has worked an entire career in networking and has contributed to bleeding edge systems in the area. This company had excellent tech, but ultimately didn't succeed. A lifetime of savings kaput.

nvidia's p/e is also insanely high. "Wow they sure sell a shitload of product" isn't necessarily enough to justify the price. There are highly profitable companies that nevertheless see their stock price turn around.
The original poster (assumed non-Amish).
Previously on HN [0] (274 points, 2 years ago, 230 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33279281
Let's say we stumble into AGI tomorrow.

Let's say it wants to kill us.

It makes plans to build robot overlords....

Where is it going to build them? Where are all the lights out factories? Where are all the robots to build the robots to build the robots? Your AGI has a massive bootstrapping problem.

Now it needs to build enough robots, that are reliable enough to maintain and run an entire supply chain. How does it get power, build more chips... The whole world is run by PEOPLE ...

There is the classic I, Pencil. The toaster project (https://www.thomasthwaites.com/the-toaster-project/ ) is the more modern take. It's people who watch the walking dead and dont know enough to ask "where the hell is the gas coming from" because that pipline is days long. It's the forgotten instances of "substation attack" never mind the fact that if linesmen stopped showing up to work the grid would fall apart in weeks.

To be candid that list is the hubris of people who do not have a clue of how the real world works outside their ivory tower.
Try -O2 or -O3 like you would in a release build.

See https://stackoverflow.com/a/50786881
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a) They can monetise content that didn't originate on their platform.

b) It shifts regulators attention from them to closed platforms like X.

c) They can leverage their advantages e.g. ad serving, safety to push competitors into niches.
I agree with you on this, but the Threads culture of 'no bad vibes' is very hard to take
It may just be an audio model then, not a visual model.
> that people they don't like at the old place are allowed to have opinions again.

Sorry, but I think that deliberately obfuscates the changes Musk has made at Twitter. See https://ketanjoshi.co/2024/04/19/you-are-the-fuel-that-energ... for one summary.
The problem is they have zero incentive to make for-fee service to be any better than the free service. What are you gonna do, turn to somebody else for the same service?
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Look, you might think this is cursed.

I worked for a subsidiary of Capgemini, German ATC system as well, a couple years later, and I'd have welcomed a message router in undocumented elisp. It would've been a very clear step up.
Congrats on the launch!

This topic is relevant to what I'm currently working on, and I'm finding it exhausting to be honest. After considering several options for anonymizing both Postgres and ClickHouse data, I've been evaluating clickhouse-obfuscator[1] for a few weeks now. The idea in principle is great, since ClickHouse allows you to export both its data and Postgres data (via their named collections feature) into Parquet format (or a bunch of others, but we settled on Parquet), and then using clickhouse-obfuscator to anonymize the data and store it in Parquet as well, which can then be imported where needed.

The problem I'm running into is referential integrity, as importing the anonymized data is raising unique and foreign key violations. The obfuscator tool is pretty minimal and has few knobs to tweak its output, so it's difficult to work around this, and I'm considering other options at this point.

Your tool looks interesting, and it seems that you directly address the referential integrity issue, which is great.

I have a couple of questions:

1. Does Neosync ensure that anonymized data has the same statistical significance (distribution, cardinality, etc.) as source data? This is something that clickhouse-obfuscator put quite a lot of effort in addressing, as you can see from their README. Generating synthetic data doesn't solve this, and some anonymization tools aren't this sophisticated either.

2. How does it differ from existing PG anonymization solutions, such as PostgreSQL Anonymizer[2]? Obviously you also handle MySQL, but I'm interested in PG specifically.

As a side note, I'm not sure I understand what the value proposition of your Cloud service would be. If the original data needs to be exported and sent to your Cloud for anonymization, it defeats the entire purpose of this process, and only adds more risk. I don't think that most companies looking for a solution like this would choose to rely on an external service. Thanks for releasing it as open source, but I can't say that I trust your business model to sustain a company around this product.

[1]: https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/blob/master/program...

[2]: https://postgresql-anonymizer.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
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And here's some real world benchmarks:

M4 iPad Pro: https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/6036233 S: ~3747 M: ~14740

Snapdragon X Elite: https://browser.geekbench.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=snapdr... S: ~2400 M: ~14000

Note this is an M4 iPad Pro. I would imagine an M4 Mac would spec a little better, due to less heat/power constraints.

tl;dr: M4 stomps on the Elite in single-core with about 36% more performance. The baseline M4 and X Elite are about even on multi-core. X Elite has marginally better NPU TOPS performance if that's something that matters to you.
The vast majority of financial issues would be prevented simply by following Buffett's advice to not lose money.

It's tongue in cheek, but he's correct. Suppose you have a great idea for investing. It doesn't matter how good it is... don't put your life savings into it.

If you do this you will make money. Investing is mostly about not losing money.
Exactly. And for one thing you know, there are 100s you don't know about the company.

Luck and survivor bias.
Henry Ford lived in a universe where the odds of the working class getting together and guillotining the owners were non-zero. Most of the West's labour gains were done under the shadow of the Red Scare.

Nobody is seriously scared of that in 2024.
Sure you do. You could buy shares.

It won’t give you much influence in isolation, but I challenge you to show more influence over your elected representatives.
in the past - Industrial Revolution - when somebody started producing something profitable others would start similar production too. In our post-Industrial age software provides the moat protecting your hardware margin. The IBM's PC cloning was the perfect illustration when such a moat wasn't utilized. Everybody learned the lesson, pushed for DMCA and the likes and here we're.

Speaking about how high is the specific moat here - NVDA had great foresight starting to develop their CUDA almost 20 years ago. I at the time was thinking - the HPC market couldn't be that big to support that investment. Well, when 10 year ago the GPU deep learning arrived with AlexNet the CUDA was ready for that Valkyrie ride we've been seeing since then while all the other players are only starting to wake up at best.

That is on supply side. On the demand side - if any projections about AI even in nanobots in your blood come even partially true - we have decades of AI technology growth ahead, and like with other foundational technologies of our civilization - electricity and the internet and the space (guess who is going to mine He3 on the Moon?) - it will be everywhere. NVDA probably like any other company will stagnate and become MBA heaven like say IBM or even rot and perish and/or somebody will come up with completely different technology for AI leaving NVDA in the dust, yet it is hard to see how it can take less than coupe of decades (i.e. hardly can happen until Jensen leaves). (i'm long if any asks :)
This same sequence of thought can be applied to a wide variety of things. In particular, "think of the children" is always effective.

So as an absurd example: perhaps there is a net societal good in not treating a house with children in it as a private space? Most children are abused by their parents or other close relatives - shouldn't we want to protect children from their abusers?
oil's idea is that you do want a shell language (e.g. if a lot of what your code is doing is job control and manipulating unix pipelines I can see shell being the best language to express that neatly in). you just want a better shell language than bash. but there is a ton of existing investment in bash itself and things like nushell their that away to start from scratch, and oil says what if we build a better bash instead.
Right, even when FSD plows right into a solid object Tesla will try to pin 100% of the blame on the human driver. On top of all of the other reasons to not take Tesla's marketing BS seriously, their total lack of ownership of their own autonomous system should prevent anyone from taking their claims seriously.

That and the fact that Elon has spent the last decade saying they're 6-12 months from actual full self driving.
If you work for NVIDIA, it is insider trading. If you saw the pallets in a truck at a gas station, it’s not. In the wild, it’s no different from Wall Street making trades based on strip club attendance or by flying drones near Tesla factories.
In ATX, my rent went down from $16k/month to $9k/month but I think I paid maybe $750 as a deposit.

Perhaps:

1. Other locations that aren't ATX use traditional risk management

2. The laws in ATX are different than elsewhere

3. ATX apartments compete for residents by offering low deposits as a loss-leader
apparently they didn't.
Isn't Nvidia's AI chip is based on their own GPU? Let's say the current AI trend goes away. It's good to have something to fall back on, and why would you cut the consumer side off? It's all based on the same architecture. It's not like it's going to cost or lose them money.
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