skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you had watched me use this over my shoulder for a minute, this is what you would see:

I went to the page, scanned the list to find something that has comments, but everything is listed as "0 Comments". I clicked on "Comments" for the AGI paper, but nothing happens -- it's not a link. There's no "Discuss" link. On HN clicking on the paper title opens the upstream link, not comments, but on your site I discovered that it opens the discussion page. Once there at https://www.papertalk.xyz/papers/2404.10731v1, I noticed that there are in fact 3 comments, but the comments counter at the top still says "0". The comments are also just random gibberish.

I hope you iterate on this project and that it gets massive traction!
A great example. It doesn't even have to be out of malice as your example shows, just automation without actual checksums.

"For the greater good" ism will just naturally evolve and thoughts / works / stances distant from the median will simply become absorbed and disappear from what we call knowledge.

This is how 'AI' takes over.
Quality Adjustment in the CPI
The important thing is that they never said it was Johansson. They were not pretending to be her. They are not imitating her likeness whatsoever.
Here is the article above poster is referring to.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/05/22/openai-...
Can you post a link to the audio you think sounds like her? I’m very curious
Believe it or not, McK juniors are amazing.

It’s middle management and up that are the snake oil salesmen.
I prefer heterogeneity rather than diversity. Different implementations of similar processes fenerally make different tradeoffs, incurring different bottlenecks, and resulting in an ecosystem with a higher statistical probability that one relative Black Swan won't wipe out a key structural function in it's totality.

It's actually a hallmark of building fault tolerant systems and ecosystems. Pity the economists and MBA's can't be convinced of it. Otherwise there'd be less push to create TBTF institutions.
I work for a tech startup doing communication and mkt. I'm sick of engineers sucking Sam's dick and believing every demo they watch. Even after seeing what Altman's is capable of perform in the stage. I'm also sick of the scene trying to sell "AI" (whatever that means) next to everything. We even go out of our way to promise stupid impossible stuff when we talk about multimodal or generative... It doesn't matter, it needs to sell.

Just to give a sickening example, I was approached by the CEO to fix a very bad deepfake video that some "AI" Engineer made with tools available. They requested me to use After Effects and editing to make the lips sync....

On top of that, this industry is driving billions of investment into something that is probably the death sentence for a lot of workers, cultures, and society, and that is not fixing or helping in ANY other way to our current world problems.
Used it today to get a difficult to find med. My experience prior has been calling around to some surly pharmacy staff who seem super annoyed that I would even call rather than wait 45 min in line to find out the med is out of stock. This market is ripe for disruption and I’m glad Amazon is replacing this horrible customer experience. Not like they are pushing out Mom and Pop pharmacies, that happened already, so there isn’t really a sympathetic actor in this fight.
Oh of course, I don't disagree with the Waits decision at all. I just presume this was posted as a proxy for the OpenAI situation.
I guess the way I feel about using rust is kind of the opposite of how I feel about using Go. Go has such plain and straightforward semantics that it’s very easy to make simple, straightforward packages with it. It is actually even simpler than Python. In C++, it’s a pain to get there, but those simple anbstractions are still at least _possible_. In Rust, the nuances of the semantics are not only convoluted, but also very hard to encapsulate and abstract over. It’s not that the abstractions leak quite as much as it is that the nuances of the semantics are inextricably and necessarily _part of the package API_.

It could probably be argued that this is simply acknowledging reality, and that C++ lets you get away with murder if you want to. But maybe that’s what I want.

I think a good feature for C++ would be a “safe” (or “verified”?) block or method decorator that could enforce some set of restrictions on semantics, e.g. single mutable borrow. The problem is that those functionalities are part of the compiler APIs and not standardized.

The Rust compiler is also not standardized, but they can get away with it.
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I think your confusion may be the difference between the popular demo people are referencing and the Sky voice actress’s actual voice.

Copying a comment from another HN user (not sure if appropriate to name them):

* This one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgYi3Wr7v_g

* compare it to: https://youtu.be/GV01B5kVsC0?feature=shared&t=158

That seems like quite a strong resemblance to me.
I'm old and more likely to retire than start anew, but that's something that still calls to me. Got a doctorate in anthropology but wasn't entranced by academia. But science itself is interesting. In retrospect, I think I should have gone with physics, but... my dad did that, and it's a tough gig in many respects. (Governmental research funding is very inconsistent.)
I've been using them for a little over a year for a daily medication. The price is less than half what the local pharmacies are charging - and that's without insurance.
Why is someone, hired to manage a pretty flat structure of 40 engineers, reaching out to a blogger? And publicly airing conflict with their CEO in a way that could come back to them?

The article's topic is of common interest, and the quoted question's little details sound plausible/familiar. But I'm wondering whether the quote was contrived by the article author, to set up the article in a more engaging way?
> Also you are just throwing everything here now ...

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You underestimate the sheer diversity of existing C compilers. A specification change is not a significant risk to existing code, compared to even clang v.s. gcc compatibility issues.
Funny how this post was up on the front page after twelve hours.
OT: I used to see other HN-inspired forums for other topics. I remember once a data mining topic that showed up here. Can anyone here reading this share those forums as well.
Local pharmacy is out on the regular too. As I understand it, there was some sort of DEA thing that is wreaking supply chain havoc.
So you have no support for your claim that journalists "beaten, and then if they persist, killed", then.
Agreed, but I think their first target are people with reoccurring prescriptions: diabetes, seniors, etc. Leveraging their subscription management knowledge to make it appear easy and dependable (I guess we'll see on that bit).
Her debut solo album was Waits and Waits/Brennan covers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anywhere_I_Lay_My_Head

Eclectic choices even for Waits songs. Though I'd like to hear her take on Poor Edward or Fish And Bird or Soldier's Things
In case anyone finds this through search in future, I've just received this from the Yahoo postmaster team:

> Our engineering team has looked into this and you'll need to have your users mark the mail and not spam. We don't have anything else to suggest.

It is unbelievably frustrating. I'm giving up on using Google Groups (which is perhaps what Yahoo and Microsoft want).
Just like on a real string instrument! I was wondering if they implemented this, and they have! Colour me impressed!
Using AI to help write and edit Techdirt
But if you're generating anything with any AI model, can it be considered original? Unless you've built it off of your own past art, and even then, it would only create from past works.
Yes, you owe people that.

No, you do not owe "corporations, especially those with a tendency, incentive, and history of being ruthless in this way."

Wise up, people.
Im surprised that owning a cafe and operating it is less stressful than doing dev work.
> It's not wrong for Epic to support changes that also happen to benefit everyone while also prioritizing their own goals.

No, but it’s wrong for Epic to position those changes as part of a battle to ensure everybody gets their money, and then admit on the stand that they were perfectly happy to let everybody else to continue to get screwed over as long as they (Epic) got their cash.

--

https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/30/23962920/epic-just-admit...

"The Coalition for App Fairness is an independent nonprofit organization founded by industry-leading companies to advocate for freedom of choice and fair competition across the app ecosystem."

--

https://www.imore.com/epic-games-would-have-accepted-special...

Lawyer: If Apple had told you that it would offer you a deal and no other developers, would you have accepted that?

Sweeney: Yes, I would have.
Really appreciate the feedback! I'm gonna ship this up, yes there are some gibberish comments i left from testing. Thanks for letting me know about the bugs, and other UI issues, will fix ASAP.
Couple points:

Strong companies usually aren't killed in this way. They are making everyone money and their share price is too high to allow activists to get a controlling interest.

"Regulations are lobbied to the ground" is not what is described in the article. The regulation was to conserve fish, and it was so onerous to comply with that only large companies could do it efficiently. Assuming this description is accurate, regulation (i.e. non-free markets) is causing this side-effect of consolidation.

Now, is the regulation worth the side effect? If the consequence is overfishing, yeah, I'll take a little hit to market efficiency to avoid tragedy of the commons. Avoiding tragedy of the commons is a great thing for the government to regulate. The flip side is that the government should have enforced anti-trust better to prevent the consolidation.
OpenAI Used Equity to Silence Dissent
Cool! Have you considered tagging/sub-categorizing? That would be helpful to organize topics.

I’ve often seen papers have a list of keywords somewhere on the first page that could be helpful for indexing
You have a wonky definition of a dieing company.

If a company makes $X in reveune and has $X - Y (Y<X) in costs that doesn't seem to me like a dieing company. Of course if you use PE to purchase that company and add in $2X in costs then it sounds like a dieing company. However, it was perfectly fine until you came along and strangled it.

The price of RL share prices is pretty irrelevant to whether PE can kill it or not. Honestly the higher the price the better it is. If you can spend $100M to buy a company and gut it for $300M that sounds a lot more attractive then buying 100 $1M companies to gut for $3M a peice.
Germany has too many solar panels, and it's pushed energy prices into negative
But we're talking subscriptions so the drop-off is recurring. You will have customers who will burden the cost while they migrate and ditch you as soon as they're done.

If you start celebrating your new pricing structure with just a 90% customer loss in Y1, you're in for a nasty shock in Ys 2-5.

That's before you factor in the shift of mindshare to alternatives. Pointing this thing at ultra-large customers means everyone else is using and training on something else.
Will implement, thanks for the feedback!!
Yeah, let/const is what I tend to use. Here I wanted to change someone else's code as little as possible.

Edit: Oh, right, it also solves the 10-issue. Thanks, didn't realise at first.
Diagnosed at 45, the best metaphor I’ve heard is “everyone has to carry all their marbles in a bag; adhd is like holes in your bag, or not having a bag at all”.

I’d been diagnosed in the 1980s, no treatment no info; I was a “gifted” golden boy. As an adult I immediately failed out of college (and more), found that drugs relaxed me, lived with anxiety, depression, addiction, obesity, and loneliness for 25 years. Then,

Vyvanse

It didn’t fix everything, but helped me to understand that motivation is a chemical, I’m not just lazy and worthless. One can build on this.

I’ve tried Vyvanse, Adderall, and now take Adzenys. Vyvanse was the most effective, Adderall was OK, had to move to Adzenys due to supply chain (it’s my secret, there’s no shortage of it). You should understand the pharmacology of amph, and how body stuff (like urine pH, malabsorption conditions) can affect it. You should experiment with diet, supplements, timing, hydration, and should be taking time off/titrating to reset tolerance. You should not continue to increase dosage arbitrarily, if you develop tolerance manage that within your dosage. See a cardiologist, they may want to counter it pharmaceutically. Beware of antacids and amphs.

I hope you are young. I spent a lifetime trying to catch falling marbles, and problem-solve my way into preventing it again, not realizing that I’m supposed to have a bag. I could never look beyond that problem to new opportunities, and adding new marbles to my life was out of the question. If it wasn’t for my programming hobby, I’d be in a much bigger hole than I am.
So if I happen to sound like Tom Hanks, anyone recording me in passing would be breaking the law? How does anyone see that as reasonable?
Started using this about a month ago out of frustration with the consistently poor experience I was having with another mail order pharmacy. When you take a medication daily you want it to take as little mental bandwidth as possible. Having to call an 800 number every month or two to verify some inane details at the request of my old pharmacy was enough to get me to look for an alternative. So far this is exactly the kind of experience I’d expect and want… zero drama, all online management, extremely quick delivery.
Right.

I mean, this gets at my whole issue with WM/DEs, why can't they ALL be more modular? At the end of the day, they're just a collection of programs.
Next stop: Amazon Dispensary.
Algeria belonged to the French in the 1950s.

Does that mean it's still theirs essentially, and they're welcome to move back in any time they want to?
.xyz ltds are blocked on some corporations for security proposes. I suggest a .com domain.
It's on the todo-list. Are you looking specifically for like sub-categories of a particular field? Like in computer science AI, Cryptography, etc.?
Great point. Using Liftoff and similar is a game changer. Flying in acro mode is something where you will crash repeatedly at first. (At least I did... in Liftoff thankfully!) Then after a relatively short time, the controls will be intuitive, it will feel easy, and you don't forget. Like riding a bicyle is a perfect analogy.

I think 20 hours is excessive. I'd say 30 mins to 2 hours is fine, depending on the user. The most dramatic learning will happen in the first 10 mins or so.
NextDNS: Expired Certificates
I recall they were literally going to kill Paint in favor of Paint 3D until they got backlash over it. Does Windows still have a "3D Objects" folder alongside Pictures, Videos, etc?

Microsoft seriously has no taste.
Once all the fat people are walking around looking skeletons.

weight watchers will be adding fat back into their highly toxic high carb foods.

I am convinced that a new miracle weight gain drug will flood the market.

weight watchers will be adding carbs back into their highly toxic low fat foods.

Then, all the skinny skeletons will all become fat again.
> You're wrong...

Lol, HN... you never cease to crack me up.
This does not work at all. I tried several questions and got many hallucinations. E.g. I ask who was the founder of my company and got wrong answers.

I have conducted similar experiments in the past and concluded that promping does not reduce hallucinations.
> Einstein didn't had any computer, not even a calculator.

Maybe Einstein used LaTeX ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Back: https://x.com/DuckDuckGo/status/1793652538476216398
2003, apparently. The cause of the suit occurred in 1988, this writeup about it has quotes through 2002.
Worth noting that Zig has ReleaseSafe, which safety-checks undefined behavior while applying any optimizations it can given that restriction.

The more interesting part is that the mode can be individually modified on a per-block basis with the @setRuntimeSafety builtin, so it's practical to identify the performance-critical parts of the program and turn off safety checks only for them. Or the opposite: identify tricky code which is doing something complex, and turn on runtime safety there, regardless of the build status.

That's why this sort of thing should be part of the specification. @setRuntimeSafety would be meaningless without the concept of safety-checked undefined behavior.

I would say that making optionals and fat pointers (slices) a part of the type system is possibly more important, but it all combines to give a fighting chance of getting user-controlled resource management correct.

Given the topic of the Fine Article, it's worth briefly noting that `defer` and `errdefer` are keywords in Zig. Both the test allocator, and the GeneralPurposeAllocator in safe mode, will panic if you leak memory by forgetting to use these, or rather, forget to free allocations generally. My impression is that the only major category of memory bugs these tools won't catch in development is double-free, and that's being worked on.
Thanks for letting me know, forgot about that. Will try to find a domain that uses .com
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/kovCotfpTFWFXaxwi/?commentId...
Not a mathematician.

Afaik category theory is more like an alternative to set theory.

Langlands is more like a bridge between higher level mathematics, allowing you to transform hard problems in geometry to harmonic analysis and vice versa, and so far specifically these fields only.
If a side project isn't getting in the way of life, you aren't invested enough
I always assumed it was CG because there are aspects that look unrealistic to me, in particular the bloom along the edges is too bright compared to the illumination of the rest of the panes and the light beams coming from the on the corners looked artificial. Turns out it looks this way because they projected brighter light on the edges and corners. Neat.

When I saw this headline I mixed up windows versions and thought it was going to be about the Windows 11 Bloom backgrounds, which I always assumed were made with physical materials, but it seems like I am wrong about that one too, hah!
oh this is amazing, I do think exposing currying to the developer is a big mistake (along with the lack of explicit types)
I don’t use EC2 enough to have played with this, but a big part here is the population of the AMI into the per-instance EBS volume.

ISTM one could do much better with an immutable/atomic setup: set up an immutable read-only EBS volume, and have each instance share that volume and have a per-instance volume that starts out blank.

Actually pulling this off looks like it would be limited by the rules of EBS Multi-Attach. One could have fun experimenting with an extremely minimal boot AMI that streams a squashfs or similar file from S3 and unpacks it.

edit: contemplating a bit, unless you are willing to babysit your deployment and operate under serious constraints, EBS multi-attach looks like the wrong solution. I think the right approach would be build a very very small AMI that sets up a rootfs using s3fs or a similar technology and optionally puts an overlayfs on top. Alternatively, it could set up a block device backed by an S3 file and optionally use it as a base layer of a device-mapper stack. There’s plenty of room to optimize this.
Cases of compound forgery, compound fraud, and pastiche have been tried in courts before and will be tried again, because GenAI companies train models on works of others without proper licensing.
Like other commenter said would love to know about how to do this. I've had a similar idea for opening up a boardgame store but it's hard to find any public numbers about expected operating costs/expenses to know how to plan or budget for things and how much of a loan I'd need to take to make it happen.
It is a directory view coupled to a tree map view of folders where the area is proportional to their size.

Navigating the directory view highlights the corresponding area on the tree map.

Files are color coded according to their type.
I don't think this access pattern is generally applicable to social networks, and ditto for your operational considerations.

"Four shards" and "no replicas" is a complete non-starter for a popular social network. That low shard count means a hardware failure on a shard master results in downtime for 25% of your users. Putting ~400 billion rows on a single shard also means backups, restores, schema changes, db cloning, etc all can take a tremendous amount of time. No read replicas means you can't geographically distribute your reads to be closer to users.

I'm not sure why you're assuming that social networks aren't 'very careful in designing for not just "scalability" but economies of scale'. I can assure you, from first-hand experience as both a former member of Facebook's database team and the founding member of Tumblr's database team, that you have a lot of incorrect assumptions here about how social networks design and plan their databases.

I can't comment on any of the PG-specific stuff as I don't work with PG.

Append-only design is not usable today for social networks / user-generated content. That approach is literally illegal in the EU. In years past, afaik Twitter operated this way but I was always skeptical of the cost/benefit math for their approach.

The "200 expensive beefy database servers" I was describing were relative to 2012. By modern standards, they were each a tiny fraction of the size of the hardware you just described. That server count also included replicas, both read-replicas and HA/standby ones (the latter because we did not use online cloning at the time).

I haven't said anything about event sourcing as it generally is not used by social networks, except maybe LinkedIn.
If they had simply used Sky from the beginning and stuck with her natural voice they would likely be in the clear.

The problem OpenAI has is they tried to get Scarlet to do the voice and after she declined OpenAI found someone who has a similar voice to do it. That shows intent which would otherwise be difficult, combined with the actual result being closer to Scarlet’s voice than Sky is naturally and they are likely going to lose.

Edit: By after I am saying they decided to use Sky’s voice not that it was recorded first.