skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was referring to the Nova blog posts that attack climate science; eg. one's that make a big deal about small outliers as though those invalidate large means, etc.

Nova posts on climate get bandied about in online heated climate discussions a lot and there are sites that take each of these (and other such articles) apart piece by piece and rebut them on their arguments. Theses posts don't make the case that they claim to and people with a BSc (like "Nova") should be aware of just how weak their own argumentss are particularly when presented time and time again with dot points on the problems.

After literal decades of this it's difficult to believe that Nova is still acting in good faith, convinced that everybody in the climate sciences is wrong and she alone is a light of truth in the wilderness.

Other blog posts on other topics vary, this linked one is a bit OTT about a take down of AI generated research papers - as others have pointed out there are better articles reporting the same thing, and I agree that such papers are a problem.

This will no doubt be forever future folded into a narative about the failures of "Big Science" that's hardly applicable save by adjacency.

> I don't agree with her take on any of it, but I'm also glad that someone is out there saying it.

I certainly wouldn't suppress it, and frankly if Jo Nova et al are the best "science" voices the anti-climate crowd can muster it only serves to strengthen the case for AGW.
Partial Regurgitation and how LLMs work
I would be asking the same question if another company formed in the past year raised $6B to train LLMs. For example, Mistral raised a significantly smaller round at a much lower valuation. Just trying to learn how others see this.
I wouldn't say that's the whole point of Wasm. Speed & efficiency are also key goals, which are what AssemblyScript play into, giving access to that speed potential in a format that's easy for web devs
Why not have Solana be the settlement layer? I understand the Bitcoin thesis given its network effects and OG nature sure.

I don’t understand why people view Ethereum as more secure than Solana. They’re exactly the same in terms of security. And Solana is actually more decentralized than Ethereum is!
I mean I agree with you (US submarine campaign had already completely cut Japan off), but I think it's pretty obvious that the reason it's "controversial" is the fact that Japan was run by a fascist imperial government that was responsible for the deaths of millions of civilians in China and Southeast Asia. I think it's pretty hard to judge the restraint shown when the Axis powers were the ones who started attacks on population centers with events like the Rape of Nanking and the Bombing of London. Most of the the point of the UN was to ensure it never happened again, which it hasn't.
> We need 70% less coders from third parties to code as the AI handles most of the coding, the human only needs to look at the final 30% to validate it, that's a big savings for the company moving forward.

Reading code is sometimes much harder than writing it yourself. If you still have to validate the code, I don't understand how it's a net gain.
"Air" for Oxygen, and "Protein" for Nitrogen? Shouldn't it be the other way around?
I have done this for years. There is a whole community of us over at /r/overemployed.

Yeah, you would get fired it caught. But we live in an age of layoffs. You are doomed anyway.
Peak counter argument .. as weak as it is.
>Twitter Supercharger team

interesting.
Because Microsoft/OpenAI, Google and Meta have unlimited money and servers to throw at AI.

As do Amazon and Apple who aren't just sitting back doing nothing.

So I think even 4th place is putting it nicely. Far more likely to be 6th at best.
The ones that you quoted bring the money not the technical foundation.
git fetch origin <branch_name>:<branch_name>

to update a branch while you're on another branch
> Source control systems make it easy to reverse changes

I have not observed this to be the case. After a few revisions there are so much changes that the code cannot be reversed without loosing a lot. A mech aims to cut out the soon-to-be-dead code like a flag is better. But perhaps maybe I’m doing something wrong.
Like how I have questioned so much ridiculous unjustified valuations in the AI space, with the likes of Perplexity, Stability, Inflection, etc which these AI labs are not making enough money to support themselves.

How is xAI worth $24BN? I bet the reason is because Elon Musk.

But until I see a significant jump in xAI making at least $100M+ a quarter, I don't think that is enough to justify that valuation to even be any where near close to Anthropic.

In fact, this means Anthropic should be worth much more and the majority of other AI companies / labs (excluding OpenAI, Midjourney, Cerebras and Groq) to be worth much less.

To downvoters:

To date as of 2024, Anthropic's valuation is around $15BN - $18BN.

So you are telling me that xAI's valuation is justified and should be worth more than Anthropic?

Care to elaborate and discuss? (Especially if you're an insider.)

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/27/technology/amazon-anthrop...
I am in webapp development using react and node js. So currently I am looking towards the good first issues of the some repositories to make myself comfortable with the repository environment. But most of the repos don't hold these good first issues...So I am confused
Ah... it's that thing that stars a debugger when you hit an exception, right?
> BYD is better than Tesla cars

Are you aware of the recent issues with BYD and other Chinese EV brands? Entire dealerships have gone up in flames from dangerous vehicles. Not lone incidents but tens of dealerships at least, in just this month.

Tesla cars may have flaws but there is no way a BYD can be compared to them even on the basics. And Tesla’s software is simply way better and makes it clear that it was designed by a competent tech company not an old car company. Other brands aren’t on that level yet.
This is a peculiar company mission so not sure why you find it odd to make the official one of xAI.

The all-encompassing nature of it seems befitting a company producing increasingly general-purpose AI.
Why It Feels Like the End of VFX? [video]
First?!
I mean, he can try. The world already has a number of AI corporations headed up by totalitarian megalomaniacs though, the market may eventually reward some other course of action.
I’ve seen both chickens and goats in trees in Germany. It occurs naturally if the owner doesn’t care to much. Of course the goat will eat all the leaves and the tree will die eventually.

I really like the pictures from Morroco though, thank you!
I wouldn't say that these features are unfinished. They're just "extra" features that don't really add anything to the experience. People who like Mercurial rationalize and say that this gives you more options, of course. I think you can't really delete named branches in Mercurial, but don't hold me to that. The one that corresponds to Git branches is bookmarks, and of course bookmarks are the last thing you ever learn about when you are picking up Mercurial.

It is kinda nice to not be able to accidentally lose a branch even if you're a low-skill Mercurial user, and that is the main selling point for most people. On the other hand, low-skill Git users lose stuff often. It's actually really hard to lose committed stuff in Git because of the reflog, but the low-skill users never heard of that and you can really have a hard time explaining it to them. The other big complaint is about `git reset` and its various incarnations. People really don't take the time to understand what it does with its various options, and when they delete their changes accidentally they blame the tool.
Hmmm, those palestinian Arabs that made peace with the Jews in the 1948 civil war are still there; see

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Ghosh

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umm_al-Fahm
Why are EV sales slowing?
Do venture capitalists usually back companies with part time founder/CEOs?
Recommendations for San Francisco Bay Area Event Newsletters?
Anything else aside from dothebay, eddie's list, sf parks rec newsletters?
Did they raise 6B or at 6B valuation?
Something surprising Sam Altman mentioned on the Lex Fridman podcast was that it only takes about 6 months to get a top physicist up to speed and productive researching AI.

So the team could largely be newbies to AI (with extremely good fundamental knowledge/skill), rather than folks we've all heard of from the AI scene.
lol, on an earnings call. Someone is lying and being lied to.

Unless they were paying a whole bunch of programmers to do not much useful at all or just incredibly simple repetitive things, this is obviously not true to anyone who has tried to use LLMs to solve problems.

I’m guessing some mid management sold the idea of firing 2/3 of the development staff and somebody is declaring victory a bit early.
AST input is a tiny fraction of computer science.
Understanding why autism symptoms sometimes improve amid fever
… no? No! That's terrible advice.

The meeting room (should) have a much higher quality mic than an attendee's laptop. You want that mic.

Worse, when attendees use their mic, someone in the room asks a question, which remote viewers cannot/do not hear, because it is not picked up by the mic on the laptop. Or they join and don't mute, resulting in feedback loops.

I do feel the need for Google's feature though: the pandemic has meant a reduction in offices, so now we're ending up in "co-working" spaces, which — despite this being the bread and butter of the business — have in my experience alarmingly poor quality meeting rooms. To the extent that those present have given up on them. Literally, we were in one with no cabling. We asked the company for a cable, and they gave us a DP cable, but the room was HDMI. In these situations, yeah, nobody is going to want to waste the time trying to deal with getting the coworking space provider to deliver a quality product, and features like the one here help make up the difference.
It's probably better for both companies that he isn't. Better for him to torch a $6b series B and Twitter than mess up spacex & tesla more than he already has
Great to see some attention to WASM-4, if it plays nicely with that I'll definitely give it a go
I'm talking about time spent. I completely agree that all the work you've mentioned is stuff that takes time and that AI won't replace any time soon, but I strongly doubt that it's the bulk of the work.

I'm talking about the programmers that a friend of mine works with who take several quarters to produce a dashboard, or the entry level PHP jobs that make barely above minimum wage and sell custom websites and hosting to real-estate companies in small towns, or the outsourced programmers that other friends interact with, who spent ~10 eng over 2 years building a "PaaS" style system in shell scripts that no one in their company actually uses because surprise surprise no one ever thought to ask whether it was necessary or had the right feature set or even worked (but management paid for it).

These people are spending a significant amount of their time coding, but they're not spending time automating, or improving the process for next time, and so the work they're doing is fairly trivial and is most likely to be impacted by AI.
Fired for what though? They are saying they’ll do the hours. They are just “working 2 jobs”. Just make sure the contracts allow it and don’t conflict e.g. both require you to turn up at 9am.
Show HN: I built an AI powered alternative to Webflow and Framer
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While Webflow was helpful, I often found myself wishing for a faster way to set up a website – something that would allow me to start with a template and then easily customize it. The problem with most templates is that they're pretty generic, which is why I decided to build a tool that uses AI to generate websites tailored specifically to a business, with SEO and conversion in mind.

Here's how it works: you input details about a business, and the AI generates a website that's optimized for that particular business. This helps you go from 0 to 1 quickly, and from there, you can tweak the result to your satisfaction. Not only does this save a ton of time and effort, but the copy is also optimized and highly relevant.

I've been using this tool for a while now, and it's made a big difference in my workflow. I thought others might find it helpful too, so I decided to make it available at https://www.instawebai.com
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First (from the title before reading), I thought - wow, I think I should retry using x.ai (Amy) for my Calendar. How much did they sold the domain for?
At some point it's no longer a product and a company as much as a financial instrument.
There is at least one person there at the top of the Technical Team....I don't recognize from the scene, at least his name does not show as author or co-author in any ML papers I can remember reading...a certain Elon Musk.... :-)
Can't go wrong with whatever the latest T-series Thinkpad is.
This is insanity ... 6B!
FWIW, leetspeak is just a calligraphic flourish away from feetspeak.
try reddit for this stuff or some other forum.
I kind of agree. But anyway kW/h is wrong either way.
The bull case is… they will have FSD by the end of the year… 2017…
> Are you aware of the recent issues with BYD and other Chinese EV brands?

No, but I'd like to know more.

> Entire dealerships have gone up in flames from dangerous vehicles. Not lone incidents but tens of dealerships at least, in just this month.

Wow! Here's one: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2544ndvkepo

( Although no brand is given and it's a " possibly " on being caused by an EV )

Can you provide links to 19 more such incidents this month?

Cheers.
fewer than $6B
I’d believe if you did nothing with AI and just fired a big chunk of your bottom tier cheap outsourced programming “talent” your productivity would significantly increase as a result of your actual talent no longer being occupied with managing and reacting to low quality code contribution and contributor hand holding.
Can an AI make a useful PR on a 1million LOC project even.
You may talking about rx100 instead of rx10?
Good for you to stop smoking :)

I love Michael Pollan.

Despite a healthy diet, I still take beta blockers. BP just won't cooperate. It would help if I used less salt, as it does appear to affect me.
America's biggest sources of imports are Mexico, Canada, China, Germany, and Japan.

I'm wishing we could do more to improve the lives of people living in countries like Sudan, Venezuela, Burundi, Haiti, DR Congo, etc. They're humans too even if they don't make the news. Right now those countries are too dysfunctional to be competitive for most exports.

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NE.EXP.GNFS.ZS?most_rec...
Does Sam Altman have any relevant technical experience to make that assessment? Sounds like something someone would say that just lost their key technical team members.
Yay a first user :) Added the license.
Raised 6B, with something like a 18-24B valuation[1]

[1]https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-23/musk-s-xa...
I like how all comments here are "surely it's all just bad coders and not a threat for my big brain" and not like "all our source is being used against us-- today it's juniors, tomorrow it's me".
Depends where you're from. I'm from Australia and lived through a period of extreme water shortages called the Millennium Drought[0]. During it, the water catchments for most of my state were alarmingly close to dry. We started collecting water from showers and using it on the garden, the government sent out little five-minute hourglasses with suction cups for everyone to put in their shower, and several families in my local area had to have tankers of water brought in to refill their rainwater tanks.

My uncle's family kept visiting from America and taking 20 minute showers, which would have been totally fine if they were still in Vermont but used an incredibly high amount of water. He eventually installed a shower timer so his tank wouldn't run dry.

In such conditions, water costs more than mere money. Yes, you can probably afford to shower twice a day, but that would require you to bring in a tanker of water from an already drought-stricken reservoir. Water takes on a moral cost as well as a financial one. There's a famous passage from Dune: "One date palm requires forty liters of water a day. A man requires but eight liters. A palm, then, equals five men." Australia is not quite Arrakis, but in a water shortage extra showers start to feel like an Arrakeen date palm.

[0] See this huge PDF for exactly what that was and how we plan to manage it if it happens again: https://www.water.vic.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0021/671...
X.ai used to be a service similar to calendly. I still mourn its shutdown and, seeing this, had hoped that it is resurrected :(
On second thought and too late to edit, a direct link to a relevant search https://defacto2.net/search/result?search=all&query=file_id....

There are also zip files with collections of .diz files, etc
People push back on the Crypto/NFT <—> LLMs comparison but I think it’s spot on.

Crypto failed because it could never be honest about its trade offs and the reasons for centralization in the first place. It couldn’t be honest about its flaws because then VCs and private equity would make less money.

LLMs as an immediate panacea is failing because it can’t be honest about what actual intelligence is, where human-computer-interaction is, and its ultimate goal of culling jobs. It couldn’t be honest about its flaws because then VCs and private equity would make less money.

If only there was some pattern involved here we could avoid the pitfalls of these hype cycles - the pitfalls that end up in a whole lot of people being worse off and a couple new Lake Tahoe vacation home purchases.
Fox and maybe raccoon are the driving factors where I live. I have also seen cats going for younger smaller chickens. If the owner offers a safe shed which is closed up by night, there is no need for the chickens to rest in trees. They will voluntarily enter the shed in the evening.
You’re hired too
My experience is that the more experienced you are the less benefit you will see from coding asistants. If you are at the beginning of your career and writing a simple for loop requires serious brain power, an AI coding assistant will seriously speed you up. The same goes for task complexity. Mainstream tasks will work better than specialized ones simply due to the lack of adequate training material.
I’m the biggest fan of Hackers but that scene has always irked me.

They’re all so impressed with Dade’s knowledge yet he simply appears to be reading the cover title of each book as it gets passed.

Someone please give me a meta explanation that justifies this so that my inner fanboy can sleep better at night. I’ve probably watched Hackers 100s of times. Best love story ever.
The former x.ai (scheduling) sold to an events company a few years ago and shut down. I imagine the domain was pricy, but not as much as for a company actively using it.
I think in most VC software (including Meet) there is a threshold you have to be above, or it's considered just background noise, and not transmitted.

In Discord, you can actually view your audio in reference to the threshold, which helps get that setting set appropriately for the hardware you have. No such luck for the "real" VC apps though.
What unique dataset? Tweets?
Interesting, do you have any sources or pictures?
and for some Appalachian wisdom fill em with coal dust and you mark em so you can find em later.
If there's one place Musk has proven his worth, it's entering a crowded market late and taking the same approach as the competition.

Ah, nevermind. He's just pissing away investor money. Must be fun!
"Mr Altman, which, among other things, we believe undermined the board’s oversight of key decisions and internal safety protocols. Multiple senior leaders had privately shared grave concerns with the board, saying they believed that Mr Altman cultivated “a toxic culture of lying” and engaged in “behaviour [that] can be characterised as psychological abuse”. According to OpenAI, an internal investigation found that the board had “acted within its broad discretion” to dismiss Mr Altman, but also concluded that his conduct did not “mandate removal”."
The only example I have in mind is modules, which can have a different name from their root package.

For example you can have github.com/user/go-module as module name, and "module" as package name, so "import github.com/user/go-module" will be imported as "module.*".

There’s a linter that automatically aliases this kind of imports with their actual module name so that it’s non ambiguous when reading the import list.
The file self-describes (in the first line) as being HTML, so not using characters that don't work in HTML seems like a sensible requirement. Strange that nobody noticed and fixed it, earlier.

Perhaps browsers of yore (heh, I was there so that sounds strange) did render the elements in question since they were less strict?
Fair points, although I think you may be reading my points as more concrete than intended.

When I'm talking about pay I'm thinking location-agnostic, i.e. low to high pay within a comparable region. For every engineer in London earning £100k there's many earning £26k doing more basic work.

And when I say "basic" I don't just mean working with low level systems, I mean working with systems that are un-automated. Working with processes where someone has made the judgement call that it's cheaper to throw large numbers of cheap engineers at the problem rather than fewer highly paid engineers to automate it all away.

That's not to say that highly paid engineers don't need to get into the basics, they definitely do, but that digging into the depths of an automated deployment system is not the same as running repetitive manual tasks.
2017 in base 16?
Internet community has had plenty of time and opportunity to self-organize sufficient security measures. The need for security has been long recognized, and it's understandable that powers that be are getting impatient. While obviously it would be preferable that industry would voluntarily do stuff, if they don't then I guess it is justifiable that they get regulated.
"What door?"