skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Notice, however that it's not about _what_ to do, but _how_ to do it. And when it comes to to the how of human space flight, NASA has the experts, not Congress. Politicians rely on Engineers and Researchers to make informed decisions, it is therefore only a natural expectation on behalf of Congress that unreasonable, meaningless, or dangerous requests should be denied. If that doesn't happen the Administrator screwed up, it is that simple.
I grew up lower middle class, which gave me a good hunger to go to college, get a degree and make some money. VCs are trying to incentivise that same mindset except by making with riches equity instead of opportunity
I guess if you have, say, $50 billion in assets, you can take out a new $5 million loan each and every year, and by the time you die, and never have to pay yourself back. You've barely leveraged 1% of your assets. Their reality is unfathomable to us little people.

$5 million, to someone that rich, is like $50 dollars to us. It's chump change you might find laying around your house.
Yeah, and any updates to the model that make Recall attractive, cannot go back in time and reanalyze the past to be more useful.

At least they will learn a lot from this, in 6-12 months and perhaps a new generation of NPUs we might have something attractive.
I mean, I am one of those, and I agree I am paid fairly, and significantly less than I would likely be at a FAANG.
The astonishing revelation is that their film line is responsible for the success of their digital camera line. How so? Call it nostalgia or a realization that the film look is more aesthetic, but in any case Fujifilm turned their historical film intellectual property into software for film emulation and that move has proven to be very successful and demand for their hardware shows it. It's incredible that a used X100v can still fetch above its original price. For the newly-released successor, the X100vi, you'd have to get on a waiting list or they're on limited stock.
I'd agree if they phrased the question as "What is a reasonable salary I should pay myself to build my company" it would be fine.

By phrasing it as "Pay a FAANG TC (most of which is public stock anyhow) or it's not worth it" is clearly hubris, because it implies that FAANG is somehow superior to other employers (they ain't) and it assumes that founders are somehow superior to mid or senior level leadership at large public companies (they ain't - they're the same people a majority of the time).

> However, also important to note that VC funding isn't the only way to do a startup.

Yep! This! VC is just a way to raise private capital. If you can successfully build on the bootstrap model go for it.
> Most startup founders and early employees make about 1/2 of what they can working for MAANG companies.

As a bootstrapped entrepreneur: “yeah, I wish”.
Do you have a theory for why removing his own public criticism of his ex-colleagues could potentially be harmful or malicious?
Again, you’re looking for some sort of absolute that either allows or prohibits something in all cases based on a set of ironclad rules, and that doesn’t exist because intent matters in human endeavor.

If a similar voice was used because it was _reminiscent of_ “Her” but was still a unique performance, then it probably wouldn’t be a problem. Where there’s a real problem is if it’s an intentional mimicry of a specific person’s specific vocal performance.

And Johanssen can show OpenAI had such intent in court pretty easily, between their attempts to get her consent to use her voice (which she denied) as well as their CEO’s “her” tweet promoting the voice.
For those who haven't read it yet:

"I like to think of language models like ChatGPT as a calculator for words.

This is reflected in their name: a “language model” implies that they are tools for working with language. That’s what they’ve been trained to do, and it’s language manipulation where they truly excel.

Want them to work with specific facts? Paste those into the language model as part of your original prompt!"

https://simonwillison.net/2023/Apr/2/calculator-for-words/
What do you mean tell HN? I don't use this site that much, like do I just tag the submission with it?
I love this theory.

Society at the mercy of customer service so bad that we revert to bribes.

And the techbro answer is an upstart third-party for-profit service to facilitate the bribery, complete with a launch on HN.

And it's a marketplace, with offers, for libertarian bonus points.
Correct! Currently no batching but no need to make things complicated for now.

Can extend the current redis queue to batch request or clickhouse batch engine.

Looking forward to have these problems hehe.

Please DM if you want to chat about best approach!
Thanks for giving these interesting examples.

I hope that this doesn't come across as moving the goalposts, but for me it's a given that popular Youtubers can multiply the success of a game, and that this depends to a large extent on luck. For me, the crux of the matter in discussions about game development profitability and survivorship bias is not how much luck influences the maximum possible success of a game.

For me the relevant question is: If you develop a carefully crafted, fun game based on a game concept you have reason to believe will have a decently sized target audience, will you make enough money for a living with some kind of predictability, or does even this depend on luck?

Now when looking at The Void Rains Upon Her Heart, I'd like to know the sales figures before the jump in popularity. You can filter Steam reviews to the period before the game's popularity surged in June 2023. At that time, there were 561 reviews (or 338 reviews for copies sold via Steam). Using the common sales estimation trick of multiplying the number of reviews with 50, we get approximately 28,000 (or 17,000) owners before June 2023. I think the price fluctuated between $9.99 and $6.99. Assuming that after Steam's 30% cut and taxes there are about $3 left on average for each sold copy, then 3 * 25,000 = $75,000. According to the game's credits on MobyGames it was made by a single person. Depending on how long he took, maybe it is reasonable to assume that the game was en route to profitability anyway?
I wouldn't say we can't, but it would be much harder. The models were trained and optimized for next word prediction. It is possible to chop the output layers off and replace them with something else. This is often how more open models like BERT are adapted to tasks such as classification and sentiment analysis. But pulling semantically meaningful information out of internal states of the model is tricky because there's not necessarily anything about the model architecture and training methods that forces it to develop internal representations that are particularly interpretable or have a straightforward application to some other task.

They may not be all that stable, either. I would not just assume that knowing how to interpret the attention heads in the base model of GPT-4 tells you anything about what the corresponding attention heads are doing in GPT-4t or GPT-4o.
FWIW, I've gotten in the habit of using Zotero (https://www.zotero.org/) with a browser extension to do this. If I read something that I think I might want to reference later, I just hit an extension button and it gets slurped into Zotero with a bunch of information indexed for retrieval later.
When you make a survey surveyor might write the data incorrectly mistakenly, it happens. If the data is written down mistakenly the basic statistics like median, mean, standard deviation etc won't change much. After all it is just a survey and you already sample from the population. So, even if the data in the sample was correct you will not get the exact population data.

But of course if inconsistency in the data is found it is further analyzed whether if it was a small mistake intentional wrong doing.
I think the point is more that if a feature requires a mouse to work, maybe that mode should be the optional path so it still works on mobile.
The need for dot-stuffing is a side-effect of email's use of the period as part of the termination sequence CR LF . CR LF.
Mishandling of that sequence has led to other recently discussed bugs. https://smtpsmuggling.com/
and probably the vast majority of the people receiving those broken HTML emails will realize there's something wrong with the email's formatting, chalk up the problem to a company that can't be bothered to correctly write a legible email and lower the company's competence rating, and go on to the next email.

the company is just blindly unaware to their minor problem.
Edna is a fork of Heynote with a bunch of changes.

Mostly it supports multiple notes and it's a web app, not a desktop app.

I could build a desktop app but it would not offer almost any advantages given that Edna can also save notes on disk (that's how I use it).

You can use Chrome's "Install" feature to make it look act like a native app (it opens in it's own window and acts independently of the browser).
Technical measures are the wrong lever to this problem. I can always send your precious data to my backend and proxy it to whatever third party vendor from there, and there’s nothing you can do to prevent that.

Instead, a legal solution like the GDPR offers better means of protection. The way the fines are structured, vendors have a clear incentive to not exfiltrate your data in the first place.
The headline should be electricity demand, not energy demand. Easy to forget that electricity is a fraction of total fossil fuel energy use
> These are exactly the people who shouldn't be running code written by a random number generator.

The beauty of technology and the internet is that there's near-zero gatekeeping. Anyone with enough interest and time can learn to build anything without seriously harming anyone. Dismissing LLMs as a random number generator is very clearly an overstatement for the value they're already able to provide. Ideally, how would you suggest a new developer learn to build something such as a REST API in Python?
Yes, it is possible that whatever FTL tech they are using will work with a living creature but not with some machine. Maybe they just encode human DNA to clone for slaves because their culture does not allow them to use their own DNA for slaves, and DNA is easy to send over their FTL tech.

When discussing aliens you have to consider that their reasoning, their culture, their motivations, their technology, their customs, their values are all _alien_ to us. You have to be open minded, for every excuse we can come up with for "why not" there are infinite explanations for "why so".
Here's my question not to you specifically but the royal you of any bigTech employees reading this forum or similar: why do the employees not stand up at all hands meetings and raise this issue as a serious problem. Of course I know the answer in they just don't care and their personal paychecks are too high for them to risk becoming a squeaky wheel.

However, it is obvious that management does not intend to fix this issue. They clearly do not feel the negative comments on some techy nerdcentric boards or twitter followers amounts to enough to cause a negative impact on the bottom line. So instead, people with respect lose respect for those "yous" that work at bigTech.
This sounds good but the math makes no sense. The salary gap we're talking about here is minuscule compared to non-trivial amounts of equity in a successful company. $400K vs $200K per year for 5 years is $1M total. If the company is successful at VC scale, $1M will be dwarfed by the value of the equity. And how much better of a founder can you buy for $400k vs $200k? I can think of a ton of people in the Bay Area for whom $200K is a non-starter but $400k is "tell me more".
> That is despite Kotlin now having a stable native compiler.

K/N for desktop platforms exists basically in name only. The runtime is too slow, the ecosystem simply doesn't exist, and you have to go through the C interop layer (which was marked entirely unstable in a point release, breaking everything!!!!) to do things such as I/O which lacks any sort of resource management (making it trivial to e.g. leak sockets everywhere).
It's one thing for this data to be held locally and under extreme protection through the OS.

But Azure cloud? How can this be legal?
yes, sure. Also

some-var.some-fun(some-param, another-param)

the "-" hides the ".", but it should be the contrary, because "." is a stronger separator.
Possible radioactive dumping around the Bay Area triggers new testing at parks
Use the API directly is an option.
The idea would to generate a false "reality" for the LLM to learn about. You would randomly generate a system of rules, use those rules to generate text, and then train the llm to predict the text. The goal would be to get it to stop encoding the reality proper in its weights, and focus on learning to pick up what reality looks like very quickly from text.
Even in languages where you can have spaces, only jerks do that. Do you really want to type [Some stupid variable name].[some Stupid function]?

These are false time savers. We’re writing code, just recognize that and do what’s natural, snake_case. Any conventions to make code “more readable” to make it like written language seem like fool’s errands to me.
I don't have a problem with having paid special services, but the "machine parsable formats" is a bit troubling since I think that should be a core part of the open wikipedia project.

I submit this link after coming across this site while Googling for info on parsing wikipedia "infoboxes". I plan to check out their "Article Structured Contents (BETA)" API. Improving infoboxes to be machine-readable seems important. And it would be bad if didn't do this because it's a revenue stream for them.
I wish founders would think about building their company sustainably rather than relying on cheap cash from VCs and giving away all of your equity.

It's a shame we are in the "get rich quick" era. Private Equity, Vulture Capitalists, "Angel Investing" are all the same types of people. Reckless gamblers that don't give 2 shits about you, your company, or employees.

Your company is just another hedge against their other bets.
An excellent project that I have used and contributed to is PC-BASIC, a ground-up emulator in Python that is very good:

https://robhagemans.github.io/pcbasic/

Edit: I'm now seeing that the OP project uses PC-BASIC for the Docker mode.
Why would anyone want to do CAD in a web page?

JavaScript should be limited to 1997 Netscape 3.0 performance to stop this kind of garbage. And WASM should never have been attempted, and should be removed.

Write real native software if you’re trying to make something good for end users.
>Point is we couldn't have a way of consenting to ai training until after we had llms.

Sure we could have. even if we're talking web 1.0 age, Congress passed a law as early as the early 00's for email, which is why every newsletter has to have a working unsubsribe link. so it's not impossible to do so.

regardless, consent is a concept older than the internet. Have an option of "can we use your data to X?" and a person says yes/no. It's that simple. we can talk about how much we cared 30 years ago, but to be frank that mistrust is all on these tech companies. They abused the "ask for forgiveness" mentality and proceeded to make the internet nearly impossible to browse without an ad blocker. Of course people won't trust the scorpoion one more time.

As an conrast, look at Steam. It pretty much does the same stuff on the inside, but it reinvests all that data back to the platorm to benefit users. So people mind much less (and will even go to war for) having a walled garden of their game library. Short sighted, but I understand where it comes from.
>In essence, a keylogger is being baked into Windows as a feature.

The author does realize that windows 10+ keeps a timeline of all your copypasta right? Windows will even upload it to the cloud lol.

The keylogger is already here.
> For many years DRAM gets 4X larger every 3 years, or 2 bits/3 years.

This trend in DRAM scaling has stopped quite a while ago, though I don't know when exactly. I think it was before 4 GB became common in desktop computers.
Whoever else doesn't know: TIMTOWTDI = "there's more than one way to do it"
Disney isn't having much luck these days in the movie business. Too many fails eventually trickles down to the line workers.
If you want people to be able to make games without having to "make art", I feel like you've misunderstood what video games are.

Part of me thinks this might be a good idea for children, as I grew up on simple game creators like Warioware DIY. But I also hate to think that children would grow up simply telling the computer what to generate instead of being encouraged to do it themselves in some capacity.
ARSON!

Lone's skint and intends to claim on the insurance

Paid some shrapnel to one of his non-unionised staff to burn the gaff down
somebody been watching Suits recently?
I think the point here is that any subsequent implementation handling the message may well not be susceptible to the problem thus avoiding the erroneous behavior.
"The biggest reason this hasn't happened so far is the lack of a truly capable parametric kernel"

Does parasolid not fit this requirement? The capabilities I've seen in Plasticity are very impressive. Or do you specifically mean FOSS?

The more I use CAD platforms, the more I develop the sense that general-purpose CAD is much less useful than single-purpose applications that provide tailored solutions to narrow problem domains. SVG/DXF/DWG output is a plus, but I think a drawing software that works for high-volume machine parts, one-of-a-kind architecture, highways, 50-mile pipelines, circuits, urban transit plans, and art is the wrong direction. I use industry standard roadway design software and a "road" does not exist in the object model. Horizontal, vertical, and sectional components are all independently defined despite these things being inseparable and having some very obvious and well-specified rules about their interaction. I really think designers should spend more time thinking about outcomes and less time telling the computer how to display them.
A "stay in your seat" light would be an improvement.
This is of course a great, well-written post, clearly summarising various important and even immutable principles that have been part of information design for over 25 years.

Too bad the vast majority of designers being paid to create UIs today not only won't read it, but wouldn't understand how to even use it. UI design today is utterly full of fail because the people doing it are so far away from the type of thinking in this post that they wouldn't know a well-designed information space if it exploded in their custard.
I guess I'll never be able to individually label my quarks and gluons. Pity.
It has that in common with CAD software which has 5 figure annual subscriptions. Find me a CAD user who doesn't notice bugs in the software they're using and I'll show you someone who has <1 hour of experience.
And skill level can vary vastly from one maintainer to the next. I suspect this will become a more and more significant problem as time goes on.
Supply, demand, and unproven ideas.
There are plenty of ideas and founders willing to work for peanuts and this is business not a charity.

It sucks but it's the hard truth.
Nah, the standard will just change.

A "AAA game" will be the ones that have that extra it whether that's something resulting from human curation (the person firing off prompts who knows how to tune them and knows what other people want) or style (the person assembling things to be more cohesive) or editing (the person making sure the AI puts out an absolutely amazing story instead of a meh one) or whatever.

Basically, look at what a AAA game was 10 years ago, 20 years ago, 30 years ago compared to today, and then extrapolate the other direction. ;) The person who wanted games with the quality of 30 years ago has countless options, yet people still pay for the ones they think are the creme of the crop.
How do you opt out?

How long before governments require all your data to be shared with them "for safety"?

How long before companies get to mine your data for advertising and "training better AI / ML assistants"?

How long before criminals get your data for hacking, extortion, etc. ?

How long before you cannot opt out?

Who is this feature really supposed to serve?
Rethinking PostgreSQL buffer mapping for modern hardware architectures
> If you are a civ who is able to do it, surely you can grow whatever food you need at home and have advanced AI/robotics that can provide labour.

That's about as reasonable an argument as "if you drive a Tesla, surely you can afford to donate to my cause". Maybe they are way over-invested in their FTL technology and really have no choice but to look for external labour. Maybe they painted themselves into a corner with the FTL tech that can get them here, but they need our labour to enable their drives to restart for the trip back. Or maybe whatever reasoning they have is so _alien_ to us that we simply can not comprehend it.
OCR is merely step one.

Interpreting recognized characters is another matter.
Also worth noting, here is the Rust open souce screensharing library we're using with this, we built this for a different project, but it came in handy and anyone can use it/modify it for their own projects https://github.com/AugmendTech/CrabGrab :)
Azure Cloud isn’t mentioned in the article.
It looks like the Phi-3 Vision model isn't available in GGUF or ONNX. I was hoping there was a GGUF I could use with llamafile.
Some of his books are available in pdf on his website:
https://gordonbell.azurewebsites.net/gbvita.htm

I used Computer Structures:Readings and Examples in an architecture class, and High Tech Ventures in an entrepreneurial class at Stanford.

I feel that Digital Equipment Corp entered a death spiral when he left.

As a volunteer, I was fortunate that I was able to work with him on some projects at the Computer History Museum. I wish that I had taped him discussing many of the artifacts in the exhibit, especially machines he worked on.

I created some training notebooks for CHM docents using chapters from Computer Structures, and the 1982 revised version.
Fortunately, the iTerm feature is not mandatory, nor are they now sponsored by OpenAI or neglecting other "duties" (it's a free and open-source project) as far as I can tell.

iTerm has always been an "everything and the kitchen sink" type of project/software. If you want minimalism, especially in the interest of security, it's definitely not the terminal emulator for you – its attack surface must be massive.
There will be significant differences in demands made by the end users of a web browser and a viable CAD system for serious work though.

It is an extremely tough market that many have been shaken out of.

Reliability is a must, particularly on the data representation and exchange front. And those assurances carry ENORMOUS costs. Big money at immediate risk in downstream, physical product if that goes south at any time - spread across multiple manufacturers and other product lifecycle parties.

Lots of workstation compatibility certification work done on CAD kernels.

PLM alone, embedded in many engineering organizations, is a very sticky element for retaining a certain CAD program and certain kernels internally - and it is my understanding that PLM is where the major money is made (not so much on the per seat CAD licensing costs).

New grads are coming out from college today after using CAD company-supplied software in much of their classwork for 4 years.

Many CNC controllers use Parasolid internally for certain visualization and programming operations - machines that will be working on the floor for decades from today.

The fact is that the per seat licensing cost and lock-in tradeoff is simply not a serious issue for many - and such costs have become arguably marginal for even small design houses and manufacturers.