skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The AI aspect to this story is the least interesting bit about it. The magazine created a fake interview with Michael Schumaker, claiming it was the first interview since his injury. The whole thing was fabricated - the fact they used AI to help fabricate it, is not really relevant. The magazine editor was fired, and they apologised to the family. Not sure how the judgement to award 200,000 Euros was reached - the article doesn't say if this went to trial or if it was handled through a regulator?
Andre Natal and I built the first real AI into Firefox starting a couple years ago with Firefox translations. The models are fully local, downloaded on demand, and pivot around English so you only need a few to get pretty good coverage. It's an excellent use of the technology.

15 years ago, machine learning started making its way into Firefox in a big way with the Awesomebar's learning algorithms that get the sites you visit frequently auto-completing easier. That work was mostly Ed Lee in the early days and makes Firefox's addressbar far superior to Chromes (and back then Chrome said it was a superior algo but they couldn't take the 10 ms hit to the Omnibox popup performance so users could just type a lot more to get where they wanted to go).
And what bearing does that have on the discussion at hand?
I would consider the documented performance targets [0] for a standard Azure Blob account to be very good. We're talking 60 Gbps in/120 Gbps out, with 20,000 requests per second as the default request rate.

From what I can tell, the S3 request rate is about 9,000 requests per second [1] split between reads and writes for a single partition. From my perspective it really just depends on what you're trying to build but I don't see the performance of Azure Storage as being an issue in any way for a typical application.

Partitioning will also depend heavily on what kind of application you're building, but the documentation does point out that load balancing will kick in once it starts to see a lot of traffic on a partition [2]. Since you have to use partitioning for S3 in order to get better performance, I don't really see how that's a point against Azure.

As for SDKs [3] I have no idea how good support is, but they all have commits within the last day.

[0] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/common/scala...

[1] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/optimi...

[2] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/blobs/storag...

[3] https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/
What does a degree in physics or economics have to do with brainchips?
Decades? Seriously?
Understanding the True Cost of a Bad Technical Hire and How to Avoid It
> It doesn't make economic sense.

The motivation isn't 'economic sense', it's not dying when sleeping outside in a cold snap.

> Tons of homeless people gathering in any place that has a good social safety net

Maybe the answer here is to actually have a social safety net at the national level, instead of trying to shuffle people around in exactly the same way that hasn't accomplished anything useful since before the Dust Bowl.
> The pessimist in me says that that just kills inbound entirely and we go back to an almost purely connections/network-driven hiring process because trust in anyone you don't know goes to zero.

What is the alternative; interviewing anybody who happens to apply? That is not feasible. Companies need a way to sort out the wheat from the chaff; they'll take any signal they can get.
Make absolutely no mistake, when the average startup has failed and investors come for its assets, they sell any user data they can.

The acquisition of valuable user data is frequently used as a bargaining chip during funding negotiations.
Lawmakers say Section 230 repeal will protect children–opponents predict chaos
Ah yes, this is so much more user friendly than the redesign!
Delete early, delete often. Never keep an old Reddit account around. I torch mine and build anew every year just out of principle.
Old terms age out too, so it's not that bad. In the context of ML, for example, "generative models" meant something else twenty years ago. Nobody who's got into ML recently would even know what the old meaning is.
Didn't get Nvidia early enough so only 5x on them, but 10x on AMD, still holding most of it. Was planning on selling more but then ai took off hard.
> but that's aided by the simplicity of their mission and their design.

Simplicity is a property of good engineering, especially where reliability and longevity is concerned. Weighing the achievement of a project by it's complexity alone ignores the wisdom of the process that arrived at that solution.
And it's the promoters, on behalf of the artists, who helped secure all those exclusive deals.

Taylor Swift didn't become a billionaire because of Ticketmaster fees.
Lawmakers move to automate Selective Service registration for all men
> by doing data sampling like Google Analytics did?

You can always conditionally include the tracker. So, you can include it with a 10% chance, then you will still get stats, but sampled.

Doing this, you might miss some important events/sessions though.
Yeah, not radiating "consistent candidness" is he?
> agreements that block employees from selling (private) vested equity are a market term

They threatened to block the employee who pushed back on the non-disparagement from participating in tender offers, while allowing other employees to sell their equity (which is what the tender offers are for). This is not a "market term".
Heh, a statement probably most people agree with, but which would render a large amount of "business as usual" unfunded :-D
Keep using it. There isn't a kill switch that microsoft is going to throw on that date. Probably.
Nothing will change if you do nothing.
If AMD had fixed their software, nvidia would have faced real competition with they launched the MI300X.
> relevance of about 7 months

Okay, buddy.

Regardless of your political leanings, Biden himself extended a deeply reviled policy on handling border refugees. I think the “cooler” view is that they’re just figureheads.
North Carolina has the same law already in effect.
I wonder if government procurement/compliance rules might help here? For example the military has a Trusted Supplier program for chips: https://www.acq.osd.mil/asds/dmea/tapo/trusted-supplier-prog...

There's also a government shopping site for approved "MAS IT Schedule 70" desktops and laptops: https://www.gsaadvantage.gov/advantage/ws/search/gss_search and some of those say "Made in the USA", but I'm not sure of the extent of vetting they do of those component parts. They're mostly Dell and HP machines, but those vendors might have special pipelines for getting those special USA machines...? Not sure.
Wanting Salesforce rather than clean drinking water is a rare take, I'll give you that.
It seems increasingly difficult for common people to protect their voices, especially when even Scarlett Johansson can't manage it. As a part-time voice actor with a unique voice, I'm concerned about what I should do if my voice is used without permission and the company denies it. How can I protect myself in such a situation?
The poor definitionally spend a higher percentage of their income on just about everything because their income is significantly smaller
Does simplicity in their design really detract from the feat of their accomplishments? There’s a tendency to gravitate towards expensive big budget missions. Is success measured by the biggest budget or the complexity of the problem? The deserving accomplishments here are the length of time and distance traveled while still returning useful scientific data that has never been done before and may not be done again for some time.
There's a pattern: they move a feature, making it inconvenient, and then remove the feature because it is not being used. See Google cache links for an example.
See what the community thought of Rewind for yourself, then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37744213
don't go public

don't contact OpenAI legal, which leaves an unsavory paper trail

contact me directly, so we can talk privately on the phone and I can give you a little $$$ to shut you up
> The fact that trauma is now everywhere sort of de-legitimizes it to the point where there's no way of knowing in the average case.

I can tell you that trauma is very real for the person experiencing it, and it's this kind of flippant dismissal that stops people from seeking help.

Trauma everywhere, in what fashion? Perhaps because more people are talking about it, more people are getting the courage to talk about it.

> Sounds like you're saying: become emotionally pure or else.

Emotionally pure? What does that even mean? It was phrased as a warning, because I've experienced this attitude within my family, and seen the damage it's caused, and continues to cause. Eventually, the damaged start damaging others, people put their hands over the ears pretending nothing's happening, and the cycle continues.

> Personally I'd rather have "trauma" than play this little head game.

What head game is being played?

> If anything, we're doing significantly more damage by teaching upcoming generations to trust the pharmaceutical industry.

The argument I was making had nothing to do with the pharmaceutical industry. It was about how trauma gets suppressed, and how that can institute a cycle of trauma, so be wary of how you approach it. It's all about taking care of people.
Makes me nostalgic about the time when I used DWM. Their philosophy page is worth a read for developers imo:

https://suckless.org/philosophy/
THIS is a way to get rich. To get wealthy, you cannot be diversified. No wealthy person is diversified.
Does the product support Webflow as well? We are looking for a Mixpanel alternative that can connect both webflow and our own website product.
I would look deeper into the coup's in Haiti and if there were any liberal democracies who were involved in those.

Haiti's history is full of foreign interference since Christopher Columbus first landed there some 500 years ago.
"Listen, if this doesn't make you happy, nothing will." - the DoJ under Biden over the last few months.
I came here to post "Am I the only person who thinks this is a good idea?" I guess you do too. I like the idea that I can go back and see what was on my screen at some point in the past.

I think with the focus on passkeys, we can worry less about snapshotting passwords.

IMO, maybe they need a way for documents (that have passwords) and windows (for password managers) to flag that they should not be snapshotted.
I don't understand whenever you read about something like this, why the head of HR at a company like this (just google (head of people|hr|"human resources" openai linkedin) and see the first result) doesn't end up on a public blacklist of bad actors who are knowingly aggressive toward employees!
> What's the difference?

Disposable income of target audience.

Greater number of people in target audience.

Fewer shows.

Technology enabling more accurate pricing so each customer is able to be targeted to pay as much as they can afford (price discrimination).

Etc.
Oh, I wasn't aware they have a 800V design in the Cybertruck.

What a waste of potential and engineering resources...
I mean, it's mostly about how close concepts are to each other, and to some extent how different concepts are placed on a given axis. Of course the concept space is very high-dimensional so it's not very easy to visualise without reducing the dimensions, but because we mostly care about distance that reduction is not particularly lossy, but it does mean that top-left vs bottom right doesn't mean much, it's more that mcdonalds is usually closer to food than it is to, say, gearboxes (and that a representation that doesn't do that probably doesn't understand the concepts very well).
The analogy is rather to the mismatch between expert systems (etc.) hype and expert systems’ results on the one hand, and on the other hand AI (circa LLM era) hype and AI results. Go back and read how lots of people (not just the evangelists and marketers) were talking about this stuff 1.5-2 years ago. With a straight face. Legit. That level of hype continues to be pushed out by the companies involved and perhaps the true believers. But as the post said, there has been a significant pulling back by a lot of people because the plausibility of the hype decays decays decays.
I wish them luck with this model. I think the products they are making are pretty neat
> They’re going to have to push this to cloud for backup - the entire thing. But they can’t say that part out loud at this stage because people will freak

This doesn't mean unencrypted, though. Will have to wait and see how much it exposes and how the key management works.

I'm not optimistic but it does seem rather unlikely they would botch the privacy of a constantly screenshotting daemon, it would be a little on-the-nose even with MS's horrendous privacy record.
While great inventions, neither of those are "scientific achievements" IMO. The silicon transistor on the other hand is a good example of an invention that came directly as a result of science.
Maybe you should see the Starlabs laptops, they are assembled, imaged and programmed in the UK. https://starlabs.systems/
Anyone beginning to think that maybe owning a desktop/laptop PC doesn't make sense anymore?
I was like ouch potshot at biotech but funny then saw what the link was to. Nuclear burn. Well done.
Sssh! Don't give them ideas...
Form follows function, art imitates life, dog owners grow to look like their dogs...
Local vs cloud backups each have their own tradeoffs. I use both.

For cloud backup I use Arq backing up daily to AWS (no affiliation with Arq other than being a happy customer). You get client side encryption and the daily backup directly mitigates your concern, if there’s an AWS account issue you will know immediately and can fix it. For my storage amount and use it only costs about $2 a month.
Free markets, liberal democracies, and so forth are just ways of distributing decision-making and control — that may be not optimal (e.g., they could be sometimes painfully slow compared to autocracies), but are good enough.

It all can be seen as a resilient distributed computer made of humans.

The USSR/communism failed not because it is inherently evil and soul-crushing, but mainly because it lacked the all-permeating, high-bandwidth information system that could survey and control all aspects of society in a centralized way (i.e., cyber-totalitarianism). But with all the new 21st-century technology and AI, it possibly could have succeeded...

We're living in interesting times.
Wow. This hurts.
IANAL but isn’t it illegal to execute something in the event of a document not being signed?
This article seems like it was written by AI.
They have a product, but do they have a business? I haven't kept up with them lately; do they have anything approaching a revenue model that would sustain them and provide good returns to their investors?
We eat the seeds, not the blade. I would assume by "eating grass" op meant eating the grass blades. Maybe in the future vegans will genetically engineer themselves to chew their cud. That actually sounds like a cool scifi backstory.
> is legal

In any case, an overwhelming amount of Very Bad Things are legal due to corporate laziness, commercial propaganda and anti-education campaigns. "It's legal" cannot be the basis of an argument in favor of legally protecting predatory behavior.
Ably LiveSync
> insulting and alienating the agency staff

What are you referring to here?
Andre Natal and I did the Firefox translation feature. It started as a research project with Mozilla and some EU schools and was called Bergamot. We adapted that for Firefox starting a couple years ago and shipped last year. The technology was a perfect fit for the user feature.

I think the same holds for summarization (a Reader View feature maybe?) and as someone what was on Firefox's A11Y team for almost 5 years, I think there's some work Mozilla could do with image alt text and perhaps fixing up some common quirks that trip up screen readers so they don't have to do that fixing themselves.

There are several places I believe this relatively new tech fits perfectly with web browser use cases. Those mostly aren't monetize-able though, so they're "for users" not "for money" and users don't really seem to be up for grabs these days, too locked into their routines, and so those features may not even be competitive advantages.

Still, doing good for your existing user base by incorporating new tech that fits their use cases well, even if it doesn't make you more money or win you more uses is a good thing and the fact that Mozilla's not chasing growth like FANG and others means they can do more of that unprofitable "good stuff."

I worked on Mozilla for 25 years. It was an amazing ride and knowing what I know about Mozilla I feel confident they'll behave not just responsibly with AI, but as paragons of virtue and a north star for the industry (and perhaps even for governments as the Mozilla Foundation has been working on responsible AI for half a decade and is in regular contact with the US and EU governments on just these kinds of issues.)
Like politics, I find that extremism and absolutism in software usually leads to less inclusion and less freedom for everyone involved, not more. Look at the effects of the policy, not just the intention. The unintended targets of the restrictions and not just the intended ones.

I'd tell you that your unwarranted sarcasm isn't worthy of you. But I don't know you, so maybe it is.
Who says we’ve been getting by well?

People who learn not to trust as children retain that into adulthood. Thats the core issue with many problems. It’s even a driver for PTSD - not everyone goes to war or experiences something terrible and leaves with a disorder.

Consider 100 years ago it was acceptable to beat your wife. It was not considered socially unusual for a working class man to have his children underfed after drinking his salary away. Thats an example of how humans poorly cope with the inhumane conditions of industrial society.

Trauma is in the eyes of the beholder.

I’m part of a catholic community that is a loving and supportive place. I’m not a dogmatic or “good catholic” by any means, but I find inspiration and meditative comfort in prayer. And having gone through some horrific challenges in my life, my friends and family there have helped me get through. There’s no magic imo, your “tribe” will help you get through things.
PLEASE make this happen Uncle Sam! i am a lover of music, my friends are lovers of music, the circles i run in on the internet are lovers of music. i cannot express in words how much Live Nation sucks. they are ruining concerts. not only do they have a strangle-hold on venues, but why the hell are they "allowed" to run some in-house scalping ops? i cannot wait for the day i see their demise. i will not pour out a beer for them! sorry for the rant HN. Pearl Jam was right decades ago man.
Honestly, this post reeks of a barber giving stock advice to me.
Baum-Welch Algorithm
Personally I wonder if the loudest individuals are just on the spectrum and terrified of change. We still get abuse here and there at our OSS project because we don't support Windows XP, let alone 7.
As I understand it, a wrinkle with this distinction is that having a monopoly through sheer competitive goodness isn't illegal, but actively trying to construct a monopoly almost always is illegal. And with the benefit of hindsight, I don't see how Ticketmaster's acquisition of Live Nation can be construed in good faith as anything but the latter.
Ironically, if you just kept the default keyboard settings on your phone, it will capitalize words for you. So these people changes the default settings to create this impression?
TIL people were concerned with mortgage quality prior to 2008.
I mean from a retrieval quality perspective, not a latency perspective. Search latency is not a constraint because the long pole in the tent for us is always the user facing model.

We also have a lot of numbers in our customer requests, which do not typically play to the strengths of the vector searches.

COGs is not a large concern as our audience is internally facing along with a few of our partners, so inference and infrastructure costs are nothing compared to engineering time as we don’t have a way to amortize our costs out across a bunch of customers.

It is also a very high value use case for us.

The other factor is that we’re using fast and cheap models like haiku and mixtral to do the pre processing before we hand things to the retrieval steps, so it’s not much of a cost driver.
I guess if you’re watching YouTube because you’re avoiding something else, your mind already learned to keep whopping between videos and suddenly it’s a TikTok experience.
Science fiction movies are gradually becoming reality. According to a report by Fox News on the 23rd, the first case of 'zombie deer' disease was found in Yellowstone National Park. Perhaps it could infect humans in the future. Are we really heading towards a zombie apocalypse?
Why anyone trusts Altman or OpenAI with something as societally consequential as AI is beyond me.
The US government is designed NOT to be able to do that. And thankfully so.
Surprised to see something made by 37signals that isn’t marketed with all kinds of teenage-esque rebellion and adversarialism.
No, that’s not insider trading unless you’re trading your own company stock based on that info.

That’s no different than you as an individual deciding not to renew Netflix and shorting Netflix stock in advance of it.
How do you make sure that a plumber or a construction worker or even a surgeon is going to do the right thing?

It usually helps if you look at the problem from a different perspective.
This is actually supported by evidence: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0146167218783195
Quicken shouldn't be able to tell the difference between 10 and 11. Especially if it's an old release. Windows 11 reports itself as Windows 10 in the win32 API and the only way to tell is to look at the "build numbers" instead of major minor. Hah.
Congrats on the release, I'm really impressed with OpenPanel so far!

I have also been building a similar product for a long time (UXWizz), focused more on self-hosting, quantitative data and targeted at low to medium trafficked websites, but it is a paid product.

How do you think monetization will pan out in the long-term with a free self-hosted option? I know PostHog also had a free self-hosted version, but since the self-hosted version competes directly with their main business model, they had to stop support for it.

I also considered open-sourcing mine, but decided to keep it self-hosted only and paid. I feel like if I sell a hosted version, then my business goals won't be aligned with the goal of making the self-hosted version as good as it can be, without feature locks.

I hope you can maintain this awesome pace and improve your product for many years to come!
I think OP isn’t saying S3 was created to service EC2, but people deploying EC2 used it as a substitute for EC2 having certain features.
Personally, not 3-4x but I'd estimate 1.5x. But I never did a proper test.
What? No it's not. That's simply not true. That wasn't how any of those laws developed historically.

And that would just be a nonsensical thing for the construction industry to lobby on. There are things that are actually highly profitable for them to lobby for. That's not one of them.

I'm confused why you can't just accept the obvious that it's an effort to save lives. Like seatbelts.
OMG finally.

NEVER understood why you needed to create a whole new WM for the creation of some solid window patterns with shortcuts.
The thinking was, and IMHO there's some merit to this, "giant new tech companies are going to be created by this thing called the web, so maybe legacy companies need to divest / merge to meet the competition."

And I'd argue a lot of non-defense government philosophy was also following DoD's "the Cold War is over, budgets will shrink, so defense companies need to merge to survive."