skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
sounds terrific. we can see the model companies are seeking ways to improve the model performance as the priority currently. More computing power is needed now. I do agree with your two ideas, but I am concerning a lot about whether the current GPUs are fully utilized or if they truly need more GPUs to improve the performance...
Update on Inter-Availability Zone Data Transfer Pricing
The entire point of the blog post (written by the author of the C defer proposal) is to motivate why C should have defer. It is an attempt to summarize one of the most common criticisms of the proposal.
I originally used Guttenburgh to get Hamlet and coded the Quanta method in Python and it did not work. I then moved to Algorithm 1 in the paper and got Copilot to (mis) convert it to Python and then spent time getting Copilot to admit its mistakes.
The resultant code seemed to work but I found the Quanta suggested data of the words of hamlet to be uninspiring as for the calculated theta (max set size before halving), was often from ~50% of the total number of words in hamlet to often more than the words in hamlet.
I've yet to investigate theta in more depth...
Previous discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36302805
> and they chose one that started with the same rare consonant cluster as this actress

Okay so we can't use voices that are similar to actress voices, and we can't use names that starts with the same "rare consonant cluster" as actress names.

This is getting ridiculous
> You reach out to someone to do a job, they decline to take the job, you find someone else who can do the job in a similar way. You do not need the consent of the person who declined the job to hire someone else.

If the job is being the first person you reached out to, then you accept that you can't get the job done...

Legally. He took the other option.
This is not an explanation, money was the reason before too.
> The demographic are people (usually children) who aren’t discerning about the output but would love to have something high quality to look at.

This might be the best argument against putting AI in MS Paint that I've yet seen. I know this is a slippery-slope argument, so take it with the applicable grain of salt, but imagine a world where kids grow up making this kind of generative art, and never progress beyond "low quality squiggles", because they get frustrated when they turn the AI off and it looks bad.
Remarkably successful on both fronts btw
This is what I want to do. By far my favorite roles in my career have been when I get to work with deep domain experts in some research-oriented niche. I'm in one of these right now (in the clean energy space) and it's awesome. It's very motivating for me to collaborate with them and build tooling to accelerate their work.

But it also makes me feel that, even though I'm in my late 30s, when I grow up, those people I love working with are who I want to be.

It may or may not prove to be unrealistic, but my plan is, after my kids are a bit older and we have saved a bit more liquid assets and have refinanced to a lower mortgage payment, to enter a graduate program for something interesting, and maybe keep working on software part time while I do that.
Well if there can be a dedicated google scholar, why not the same for education.
In the mobile, when one clicks on the compass icon, I get suggestions for gaming but not the same education. This is hypocrisy.
If you have savings, it's easier to imagine. Also, it's probably not career-ending to take a few year break but I don't know much about this anecdotally.
I run a website called All About Berlin now. I help people figure out life in a new country and navigate German bureaucracy.

It was a passion project that kept growing. Eventually I figured that I could live from it. It didn't pay as well, but I would no longer have to set an alarm in the morning or attend all-hands meetings.

This was about 4 years ago. I have no regrets. I had not realised how programming for a corporation utterly destroyed my passion. A few months after leaving, I started coding for fun again and never stopped.
ClojureScript Koans is also quite nice: http://clojurescriptkoans.com/
Nearly everyone I know who wanted to stop coding took a product manager role, founded a company or became an investor of some sort. All leveraging relationships and connections.
Because letting the bullshit pass through is way more dangerous than shutting down something good.

Just look around for many examples.
I'm more on the data sci side right now, and am interested in commodities trading and geopolitical analysis. Less lucrative (well, the latter is, anyway) but seems more important + interesting.

I'm not posting because I'm making an imminent decision, though -- more that I see people discuss transitions every once in a while and am curious what challenges they see + how they overcame them.

Thank you for asking!
Nice of Jeff to do give Sam some free PR crisis management. Class solidarity brings a tear to my eye.
If you want a nicer presentation, try ncdu.
A reasonable person would assume that the voice in the commercial is Morgan Freeman, which could be very problematic for the commercial maker.
That Westlake Taco Bell has had quite a life.

* It burned down in 2007[0]

* a car ran into it and set it on fire in 2014[1]

* aforementioned art heist

* 3 (three!) employees shot and killed an armed robber and another got away in 2017[2]

* a drunk driver somehow lawn darted in front of it after hitting its sign in 2021[3]

Lots of other stuff over the years I can’t even remember at this point, but it’s strangely a hot spot despite being located in a fairly affluent neighborhood. Of course, I imagine most Taco Bells are.

0 - https://www.cleveland19.com/story/5919348/westlake-taco-bell...
1 - https://fox8.com/news/car-crashes-into-westlake-taco-bell-sp...
2 - https://www.cleveland.com/metro/2017/09/armed_robber_fatally...
3 - https://fox8.com/news/westlake-police-suspected-impaired-dri...
Show HN: HackerNews but for research papers
Hey guys, I love HN! I wanted to extend the same aesthetic and community towards things beyond tech-related news.

I thought it would be cool to get the same quality of community gathered around the latest and greatest research coming out.

Let me know what you guys think of what I have so far. It's still early so there are probably bugs and other quality issues.

If there's any features missing that you'd want let me know.

ALSO, if any of you are familiar with the map of the territory of any particular field, please let me know! Would love to pick your brain and to come up with a 'most important papers' section for each field.

Thank you!!

-stefan
This is typical of displays - but not of holograms, which have historically been able to display only a single static image.
Extremely surprising reading about his mental arithmetic errors (!) and misunderstandings, forgetting about variables, etc.
I don’t think you understand. 4o introduces a new multimodal Sky replacing the old one. They have only released clips of the new voices. It’s never been in the iOS app. The one you refer to is the old voice model. If you listen to the linked video above it’s very obviously not the same voice (I use Sky on iOS btw)

To be honest the new sky is obnoxious and overly emotive. I’m not trying to flirt with my phone.
I got burnt out as a SWE at a startup from stress and health issues. Bought a cafe and turned it into a bookstore cafe. Annual revenue is around 600k. Seller's discretionary earnings is around 220k. In hindsight, I should have done this earlier. Not having to deal with office politics, insane on-call rotations, stress. On top of that, it helped me qualify for E-2 investor visa, which is far less of a headache than OPT/H-1B. It was a major help having an experienced business broker/commercial real estate agent.
Appears to be apeing the circular emblems of recent versions of macOS.
FPV drones have been used at much longer ranges than that - it’s pretty well documented with videos that with repeater systems there’s now been strikes in excess of 25km using FPV, by both sides.

That’s not to downplay artillery though: you simply cannot deliver the volume of fires with drones that you can with tubes.
For my MacOS friends, it might be a little outdated but I prefer GrandPerspective: https://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/
Valid point. Scaling up seems to be the default approach for many AI companies to enhance performance, albeit with potential environmental concerns. While transitioning to more specialized chip architectures might mitigate power usage to some extent, the overarching trend seems to be towards increased power consumption in pursuit of larger scale. It's a trajectory worth monitoring closely.
"You will have your golden handcuffs and you will like it!"
It still shocks me that windows can’t sort folders by size
Scarlett Johansson is apparently so devious she managed to get OpenAI to reach out to her to license her voice and likeness.

She even set up the CEO by having him directly negotiate with her, which I’m sure he also did with the alleged small voice actor. Then she perfected her scheme by having that same CEO publicly tweet “her” - timed with the release of the voice product - referencing JS’s movie of the same name where she voiced a computer system with a personality.

She even managed to get OpenAI to take down the voice in OpenAI’s words “out of respect” for SJ while maintaining their legal defense publicly that the voice was not based on hers.
Most people.

But also, I used to do midjourney, and I know art history quite well, and mixing my knowledge with midjourney, I created really good and original stuff, because I knew how to write the prompts.

Instead, I feel that with OpenAi, image creation is really crippled by copyright. But I also generated cute and interesting stuff - but it does look made by AI.
> Most folks change entire careers 3-4 times in their life.

Is this true? It doesn't seem true to me. Are there data / studies on this?
> perhaps the SEC can name it something more appropriate

They can name it "what half of our employees did before working here".
Of course the cost of an operation is beyond marginal. The cost of maintaining a team capable of executing sophiasticated ransomware attacks is far from trivial. Especially since the operation is illegal, money need to be laundered, interpersonal tensions in cybercrime happen. Less payouts mean less money for the criminals and is absolutely a problem for them.

This is not a company where you automate people out of job and CEO gets all the profit. Organised crime groups share profits among themselves, and the profit is by far the main motivator for all of them.
I left a another career to get into software in my 30s, but since you mention age, one thing worth recognizing is that very few careers are as age biased as tech. I worked in an industry were 40 was considered "young" and ever since I hit lates-30s in tech I've been the "old guy".

I also knew plenty of people in my previous career that came from tech, and seemed to have no trouble transitioning (but that was post-dotcom). It may be "hard to do so" now because increasingly the white collar job market is getting tighter which means people aren't looking to hire non-traditional candidates since they can usually find an equivalent candidate with more experience.

As other have mentioned, I think for most people the "hard" part is the change in income. Even with the decline in the tech space, tech workers still tend to get paid notably above other industries.

I think the real question boils down to: why are you transitioning? If you're sick of tech, or can't find a job it's going to be harder. If you're passionately obsessed with a new career and can't sleep at night without being compelled to study that area, you'll probably do fine. It also, of course, depends on the market for that job. If you're interested in a space that niche and packed with people then it will be hard, if you're interested in a new booming industry then it will be easier.
you'll have to think carefully about sharing and communication among your asyncs
And the death penalty for the engineer who didn’t patch a vulnerability or the software developer who wrote the buggy code. That will teach them! Judge Hindsight is ready to punish the victims.

Hacks happen. Where starts or ends someone’s responsibility? Where stops the buck? Can we really expect that every layer in an organization is always fully aware of security and security risks, even unknown vulnerabilities? Security practices change over time. Not so long ago 12 character passwords were considered safe, 2FA didn’t exist, …

I don’t think that harsher punishments and victim blaming is the way to go.
I love your site & it’s a fantastic resource!
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Think you are overestimating stability in data work, especially going forward
Just buy a cafe!
When the original news broke, I don’t think the assumption was ever they actually used her voice as of course they would be sued instantly. But rather they wanted her especially after her Her movie, but of course to be safe first got another woman to record one that would sound very similar and then later ask Johansson to hopefully get her instead. She said no so they tried one more time before releasing and she still said so no so went with the very much like her but not her version and made reference to the Her movie to leave little doubt who you should think of when listening to that voice. So doesn’t seem like the above news changes any of that other than at least confirming they didn’t completely go off the rails and actually clone her voice from her actual content without permission which would have been insane.
Looks like porkbuns DNS runs on cloudflare: https://lowendspirit.com/discussion/4602/porkbun-ns-moving-t... https://kb.porkbun.com/article/216-how-to-enable-porkbuns-cl...

So it might have been a misconfiguration on porkbuns or cloudflares (or maybe a porkbun feature that requires the cloudflare cert) end that created a cert.

Seems like porkbun should be more clear about that using "their" DNS might lead to cloudflare issuing certs for those domains.
Registered a new throwaway account, because I wonder if you and I work for the same place - except I don't think that our higher-ups care whether we understand the idea or not, but we must implement it anyway.

Is your company, by any chance, based in San Mateo and Raleigh?
Nvidia says 20k GenAI startups are now building on its platform
I definitely felt misled, when I first learned about this, back when they censored Tank Man the same time Bing did[0]. I did remain a user though, mostly because I haven't felt like keeping up who the current good guys are. Lately I have been considering Kagi, but I don't like it that I need to log in on all my devices, and then I have to have a fallback, for when I'm not on my own devices.

So yeah, for my intents and purposes, DDG is a frontend to Bing. I do appreciate how uncluttered it is though, in comparison.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_Man#Censorship
I was thinking about this. My local park system has been cutting down lots of Ash trees, due to an invasive beetle killing them.

If these tech companies want to plant more trees, why not start with parks and cityscapes in USA? Not only would it greenwash some of their businesses, but it would be an amazing publicity campaign to donate to counties across the USA that need either trees for erosion blocking or better parks.

That is, unless they really believe that this time will be different and they'll get the GHG reductions they want.
I'm thinking this might be cool to use in conjunction with cross-platform web based ui apps (tauri, electron, etc)
Microsoft, Khan Academy Partner to Make Khanmigo Teaching Tool Free
According to the wiki, it was not drawn on a computer, but created again in the same way as the first. I personally prefer the darker original, but most Windows users use light mode. It's cool that it has 25 people listed in the credits for what seems like a such a simple image.

> GMUNK was also involved in this version, and stated that it was created under the same methodology as the previous version.

https://windowswallpaper.miraheze.org/wiki/Hero#Later_versio...
> They asked SJ, she said no. So they went to a voice actor and used her.

My guess is they would have went with that voice actor either way. They had four different female voices available (in addition to multiple male voices) - 2 for the api, and I believe 2 for ChatGPT (different api voices are still available, different ChatGPT ones aren’t). If Johanssen had said yes, it’s likely they would have added a fifth voice, not gotten rid of Sky.
Not the person you're replying to, but, personally, because my career is a Sword of Damocles.

There are projects, the time-scale is like a year, they can fail spectacularly, and it can be perceived as (may actually be) my fault. Projects from years ago can be understood, in hindsight, to have been fucked up. I fantasize about quitting and driving a bus, going home everyday having no doubt that the day's work met expectations. Giving my son a bath without feeling compelled to sneak away for another edit-compile-debug cycle.

It's becoming increasingly evident to me that I just want to stockpile savings against what feels like an increasingly inevitable crash-and-burn of this career. Be it GenAI, my own ADHD and lack of follow-through, whatever.

And when that day comes, just do something I can't fuck up
I had a somewhat similar experience moving from science to data science/engineering. A PhD meant I fit your description of "overqualified, but in the wrong area". Those days were hard and hugely demoralising. Until my résumé landed on the desk of someone who'd made the same career change, I was SOL.
The ABC Conjecture and Mochizuki's IUT theory comes to mind.
Only person above the lead was the owner of the company, who was a total business man with no tech skills whatsoever.
> How did they advertise this as being SJ?

Altman tweeted a reference to Her. (Literally just that text.)
Been thinking of going back to college (maths) myself in my post-40s age, but I'm struggling a bit to convince myself that it's going to be the best way to meet my learning goals. The degree itself, at this point in my career, isn't all that important to me, but the social and networking aspects could be quite valuable.

I'm curious if you've made similar considerations.
Which specific ransomware attacks by the US and Israeli governments are you referring to?
Because sponsored links are the single biggest source of revenue on the web!
It's a $200-300 billion market, with Google owning more than 90% of it.
If just 1% of Google users switch to KARMA, it will fund the actions of its non-profit partners to the tune of $1 billion per year!
Switching is free and effortless, it only takes a few seconds...
Thanks for making it Nicolas, All About Berlin is an immensely useful resource and has made the lives of so many newcomers to Berlin much easier.
Depends on the size of the company. Most big companies, even in tech, do have people with MBAs in most of the executive roles. Not front-line people managers that is, but leadership, decision-makers.
20 Years of Streaming in 20 Minutes
I am of two minds here, regardless of the "closeness" there is a whole field of comedy that does impressions of others. That is what is so difficult about the AI discussion. Clearly, there are plenty of humans who can mimic other humans visually, in prose for writing, in voice and mannerisms etc.

Leaving the IP issue aside, they could clearly have hired a voice actor to closely resemble Johansson maybe without additional tweaks to the voice in post processing. If they did do that, I am not totally sure what position to take on the matter
>> understanding their hopes & desires, steering them towards growth

> people don’t actually want to be managed that way.

That is not management, per se. It is a way to try to extract more value from employees outside of the business. More often than not, documentaion (ie quarterly reviews) is weaponized when cuts are being made. This is by desgn.

If something is not a reliable tool for making their job better, engineers will choose to avoid wasting work time with it.
Those don't sound anything alike, except being two female voices. Sky is clearly a bit lower and with a lot more vocal fry.
There is a regex for valid emails, but no one has written it
If I understand this correctly ... valid emails aren't a regular language, but there is a regex for them because regexes can match nested parentheses, but no one has ever made written down or generated this regex because it's too much work. So everyone uses good-enough regexes instead. (Reasonable.)
I think some people must have some romantic view of manual labor, like it is more noble or pure than moving protobufs from one API layer to the other. Combine that with the very real problem of burnout and stress from an emotionally abusive work environment, and you have people thinking they want to quit and do farming or something. A lot of my peers in the office quite obviously (it's hard to hide) grew up quite well off and have no idea what it's like to work a mind-numbingly dull service job or how much daily manual labor wrecks your body.

I've had the pleasure (/s) of working retail, being a janitor at a McDonalds, working in a plastics factory that wrecked my sense of smell, and hauling shingles up onto a roof in 100F+ summer temperatures. I will take my sit-down, climate controlled, fingers typing job over any of them, any day, no matter how much those meetings and status updates annoy me.

And, none of the above even touched on salary or standard of living...
Indochina didn't need many kalashnikovs to remove the French, just the support of a powerful ally that the French didn't dare directly attack, just like Afghanistan was helped by the US. On the other hand kalashnikovs didn't really help the Chechen during the second Chechen war.

> drones have made tanks obsolete

Considering how the Ukrainians are still asking for tanks and other armored vehicles, I'm not sure it's the case already, at least in that current conflict.
I think this is spot on.

I've also tried to do my part in getting people to avoid using "agent" for simpler calls/chains. An uphill battle it seems.
> it's the CEO's personal statement

Wat.

> mind reading a tweet

He says the name of the movie! We don’t need to know his state of mind, just the promotional effect.
ChatGPT-4 gives the answer pretty easily:

To cross the river with the goat using the boat, you would follow these steps:

1. *Get into the boat with the goat.*
2. *Row to the other side of the river.*
3. *Disembark with the goat.*

Now, both you and the goat are on the other side of the river.
Is it necessarily a bad bias to assume OpenAI is still behaving as it's been behaving during its entire history: recklessly taking other people's IP?
We built multi-region support for Linear
SJ doesn't know who the voice actor is. Her objection is with OpenAI's actions.
I believe Windows 10 was the first with a dark mode built in. Maybe to compliment that?