skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Still throws me that “order” here means something like “instruction” as in “that’s an order, lieutenant!” and “code” means something like “set,” as in “legal code” or “code of conduct.”

“Program” however is already used here by Knuth in more of the contemporary sense, though I gather in the time of ENIAC and EDVAC, a “program” was more narrowly the sequence of operations that implemented an order/instruction.

What I love most about all this, though, is how much of the machine you can see in the algorithm and the programming. You can almost visualize the vacuum tubes turning on and off in response to these instructions, which themselves would have been electrical pulses arranged into patterns according to the positions of a bunch of Bakelite switches. Just amazing.
Great read! I wish there were an update from 2013 to the post-covid landscape too, but sadly the anonymous professor died of cancer sometime in early 2020.

Fuck Cancer.

I was absolutely shocked to hear that his institution was even offering the pre-pre-remedial math at all (back in 2013).

"There’s a huge issue of integrity in the pre-sub-remedial course. If you’re teaching 3rd grade material to an adult, you consider that adult to have the cognitive skills of an 8 year old at best. There’s nothing wrong with trying to improve education and learning, but at some point, someone should think “This student didn’t learn this in 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th grade. Maybe he doesn’t want to learn this and we shouldn’t loan him money to learn it.” Failing that, admissions should think “Maybe loaning this person money that goes right to us would be taking advantage of someone with a mental disability and it would be not be acting with integrity to do that.” So far, these possibilities have never been raised at any meeting concerning remediation, and administration continues to sell these courses to anyone willing to go into debt to take them."

He's not wrong at all here. To me, giving that person a obviously impossible to pay back loan is immoral. Since it's been about 11 years and a pandemic later, I'd assume that the fed either patched this up and it's not able to be done this badly now, or that straight up illiterate people are getting in now too.
The point he’s making is one person cares about doing the task as efficiently as possible in a new way and the other cares about performative behavior done in a performative way.

He has a point. The point is inventors don’t care about repeating performative tasks like climbing a mountain everyone has already climbed before in the same way everyone else has.

They care about doing new things in better ways.

It’s a subtle but important distinction.
Honestly if you can I would try to find something outside "AI" for now: even if you are doing real deep learning stuff the reality is that 99% of the people investing in AI at the moment can't differentiate obvious bs from real R&D at all, they are here just because of the hype and are throwing millions to anything with an AI tag on it, so when this bubble pops it will be ugly for everybody, indiscriminately. This is another dot com.
Most companies aren't going to unfuck their entire IT infrastructure which was just encrypted and then turned off? I mean, sure, if the only computer affected is the cafeteria cash register system, they shrug it off and reinstall. But more than a few of these attacks have absolutely crippled the victims, to the point that it would take months/years to roll out a scrubbed system, and even then data is irrevocably lost.

A one-time under the table purchase from some dark web bitcoin broker doesn't seem like that big of a deal. It's not the sort of book-cooking that tends to get noticed.
Genuine question;

Why in the world would one expect the more charitable scenario?
I often encounter Clojure Chinese users (at least Chinese sounding names, don't know about their nationality). I wonder if Clojure is a thing in China ?
And one of the co-founders of OpenAI (Karpathy) also quite literally said "The killer app of LLMs is Scarlett Johansson." the day after the announcement.

https://x.com/karpathy/status/1790373216537502106
SF plan to create a 'Grand Central Station of the West' wins major funding grant
It doesnt seem reasonable to threaten this.

Finland or others will have something to say about it if they take any short route. But the long routes or high routes are very limited to mainly ICBMs. Not even intermediate ranges.

I legit don't see them doing this, making the threat hollow at best.
I've been migrating away from google with their recent changes because it's gotten less and less useful in getting me the answers. DDG has done better, but it's not as good as Google used to be before it was taken over by MBAs.
Me being perpetually unartistic I would actually love it if I could just make some sketches and AI could beautify them for me, or fill in the blanks and render what I want.

This would be like what frameworks were for artists who wanted to make full stack webapps.
I think this is pretty close to being equivalent to asking "how do people turn into adults when they were once children and adolescents?".

They grow up. Hormones change, brains develop, lessons are learned, wisdom is gained. The primary reason workplaces tend to be better than high schools is that they are not full of teenagers.
This will be used as a template by the entertainment industry to screw over so many people.
You would need way more information to judge, you cannot dismiss someone just based on that type of details, it’s too low quality data points to be interpreted as meaningful signal

Edit: anecdotally, I know the company has pretty bad reputation however ex-McKinsey coworkers I’m working with are exactly what you described, “very product oriented to do a deep tech startup approach”. Also pretty good engineers.
it is catastrophizing and clickbait.
You mean people who are incentivized to stir up controversy were trying to stir up controversy? I'm shocked. This is definitely not a case where self interest would cloud anyone's judgment.

In case it's not clear, my moderately low opinion of Open AI is bested only by my even lower opinion of journalists.
AI Agents: too early, too expensive, too unreliable (for now)
Christopher Fuller, a former Honeywell engineer, developed a wireless power transmission technology that could revolutionize the way electric vehicles and airborne drones are charged. However, he fears the technology could also be used to create long-range directed energy weapons. Fuller claims Honeywell downplayed these risks to pursue commercial opportunities abroad, potentially violating U.S. export restrictions. After raising his concerns with the government, he alleges retaliation from Honeywell, leading him to file a whistleblower lawsuit. Honeywell denies the allegations and has asked for the lawsuit to be dismissed.

#Technology #Innovation #Whistleblower #WirelessPower #DirectedEnergyWeapons
Same here, I can't believe how a UI show case site could be this annoying
X Confirms Plan to Make 'Likes' Private, Remove Likes Tab from Profiles
Private equity seems to have a high rate of taking something beloved and successful, and then killing it.
People literally do not care about theft.

An ad-blocking generation of people who pirated music and movies with the zeal of a god-given right now complaining about AI taking peoples work. Ok.

If GPTxyz is convenient and makes their life easier, they will use it.
Why are they lobbying America... shouldn't they be lobbying ... Kenyan politicians?
This seems like a really good explanation. Not sure why it’s being downvoted.
It is illegal in most countries, but if you live in Russia, or North Korea not only is it legal it is encouraged by the government if you target "western" countries. Iran, China and India have also been accused of allowing ransomware (and likely other countries would allow it - but we have strong evidence of Russia and North Korea).

What this means is it is legal for some people and they can target you. Which now leaves the problem of what should "western" countries do about this? The options are limited. Either it is CIA activities - but this assumes they have spies in place and risks given them up and so it is very limited; or it is a military invasion (of a major nuclear power!). There is diplomatic pressure of course, but there doesn't appear to be anything that can do about this. If you have a good idea I'm sure governments will be interested - but in general smart people have already been thinking about this so odds are you just don't understand why your idea is bad.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scam

A scam, or a confidence trick, is an attempt to defraud a person or group after first gaining their trust.

Other terms for scam (aside from confidence trick) include con, con game, confidence game, confidence scheme, ripoff, stratagem, finesse, grift, hustle, bunko (or bunco), swindle, flimflam, gaffle, and bamboozle.
> Rashida Jones is biracial and a lot of people think the voice sounds like hers.

I listened again and you're right, it does sound more like Rashida Jones.
I have, and my take is literally the opposite of yours.

The full-on tiling managers are often very stripped down, and there are a lot of nice little bells and whistles in the big boys that can be made optional.
Crunchbase is $100/month, it's probably the cheapest of all the products of the market. Should be easily affordable by the average startup founder
It's just annoying enough that they launched a product using a voice that sounded similar enough to generate such a controversy, why, if you had the all great "generative AI" systems at your finger tips you couldn't just generate some other completely random voice is beyond me.
I had the same issue. My phone is permanently muted so I forgot to even check that option.

Probably worth the app/os to give you a notice if you fiddle with the volume while muted.
You can do it in C for sure, but "culturally" in C, there's a stateless global allocator called "malloc", which is not the case in Zig. For instance, if you have a library libsomething in C, it will at most (probably) have something like this:

#ifndef LIB_MALLOC
#define LIB_MALLOC malloc
#end

if it allows you to customize allocation strategy at all, which is not a given.

But this only allows you at compile time to provide your own stateless global allocator. This is very different in Zig, which has a very strong culture of "if something needs to allocate memory, you pass it a stateful, dynamically dispatched allocator as an argument". You COULD do that in C, but virtually nobody does.
I heard it when they were showing the demo without any prompting "to listen for it", as did many others.

https://x.com/search?q=scarjo+until%3A2024-05-14&src=typed_q...

https://x.com/search?q=johansson+until%3A2024-05-14&src=type...
Yeah, for better or worse, the era of framework diversity is over. The industry has almost 100% converged on React.
The left pinky finger would not have been used for hitting left Control in Emacs back then, rather one would have used the left _thumb_; the Control key was positioned beside the space bar on both sides.

To use the left pinky on those keyboards for left Control, you would have to leave the home row completely, and shit your wrists awkwardly....
Navigating the Netflix Data Deluge: The Imperative of Effective Data Management
There is surely a lesson to be learnt from history. The UK offered certain assurances to Poland before WWII then backed off when it realised that the heat was too much.
> At this point, I doubt Google can turn the ship around. The company is just a gigantic behemoth of petty fiefdoms that will go the way of the Carolingian empire.

Microsoft was in a bad shape too but they did turn the ship around when Ballmer left. Not sure whether MS was better entrenched than Google is but what seems to me is that Google need a drastic leadership change. Or they could be milking whatever they have and eventually go the way of the dodo.
Slowing down the Windows 95 startup sound 23 times makes it sound even more Brian Eno.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNIfbdi41ho
Yes it is one of many metasearch sites and not actually a search engine. Other engines include Kagi, Yandex, Brave, Mojeek, Quant, and something called Google.
Not speaking as a lawyer, not legal advice, etc., I would love it if this weren't the case, at least for cops, but your reply and the several siblings to your reply suggesting this are all unfortunately at least a bit wrong. I disagree with parent and think the more ability we have to discipline police the better it will be for society, but courts have other ideas. When it comes to many public employees, including and especially police, courts including the Supreme Court have regularly held a variety of due process and other constitutional rights, including some of the ones you listed, to exist for internal disciplinary matters.

Many states also have their own stricter codified procedural protections for disciplining public employees, and of course that's before you get into cop union shit, though obviously the whole premise of the argument here is that we would be changing those state/local rules. But that stuff is a whole other can of worms. I'm just saying that even if you change state/local law/rules, even if you abolish cop unions, any police disciplinary body trying to operate this way they would definitely lose a lawsuit from the first cop they disciplined. I've personally seen multiple fucking volunteer firemen win constitutional due process challenges over getting demoted (like, from assistant chief to secondary assistant chief of what is mostly a social club) because they were disciplined without a formal hearing that afforded them procedural due process.

Unlike parent I'm not saying this is good or that to change it would be "unfair", just that what we're describing here -- that is, making it practically possible to discipline cops -- is disallowed under our current system of laws as we understand it. It would take a variety of substantive changes in how we legislatively and judicially structure procedural rights at every level of government from the top down.
I worked in Area120 and then at Waymo, in the X building, and saw lots of the other X projects. They built some jaw-dropping stuff.

It's tempting to talk about structural problems, incentives, the dynamic between search ads & "moonshots".

But I think the main variable that explains the outcomes is quality of management. Running projects like these requires excellent leadership - giving brilliant engineers autonomy to experiment, yet guiding them towards a consistent goal. Knowing when to double down and when to pivot.

The stories about John Krafcik, Astro Teller, and Andy Conrad [https://www.statnews.com/2016/03/28/google-life-sciences-exo...], or what happened with Levandowski paint a picture that sufficiently explains the outcomes.
Someone of us engineers would like to create (reasonable looking) art, but are so bad that we could use as much AI help as we can.
That's the same thing, in fewer words. It doesn't change that the beginning and the end are still imitating the original, and this is a billion dollar corporation, not an Elvis personator doing a little show.
Acknowledging that this is a pedantic correction: I think that there will be an acknowledgement of over diagnosis of ADHD. First line treatments are what they are.

But also that, in tandem, there will be acknowledgement of under diagnosis of Type 1 Autism. Precisely because it is so diagnostically evasive "and can mimic ADHD". However, the correction that I'd make of the quoted phrase is that, likely, inattentive ADHD wholly is misdiagnosed Type 1 Autism in my opinion. And that ADHD will come to be seen as Spectrum disorder, for which certain manifestations (ie: not inattentive) do not necessarily crossover with the Autism part of the (soon to be wider) Spectrum.

How that might look, in families, is that those with non-autistic ADHD individuals could be observed to more often contain autistic individuals.

See, for example:

https://scitechdaily.com/developmental-twist-new-study-links...
AI is a solution in a desperate search of problems at this point. This, and all these companies employing full-time engineers while having had finished products for decades.
If anybody is interested, here are the papers themselves. I wish you a lot of luck (I have a phd in algebra, but it is unintelligble to me).

https://people.mpim-bonn.mpg.de/gaitsgde/GLC/
On one hand, this is reductive.

But on the other, I often argue that there's literally no hard difference between using a computer and programming one; using this exact idea.
Are you suffering from AI-induced creative paralysis?
I am not convinced that Putin would risk using nuclear weapons and the language is short of that. Using them once becomes pretty much a one way street for much of the world. Also remember that even without nuclear UK is part of NATO and other members are obliged to respond to an attack on another member state.
This article hits the nail on the head. Large teams need coordination, and coordination is a job that both takes up significant time and operates in a very different manner from engineering work. Without having a few people specialize to do this work, you are forcing everyone else to compromise their engineering capacity to make up the difference.

The real difficulty, which the author only touches on at the end, is optimizing the number of managers. Not only are there diminishing returns to adding excessive managers, more management creates more workload for everyone past a point. But even though the organization would benefit from scaling back the number of managers, there is an obvious individual disincentive to say "it would be better for you all if I was fired." Thus once you get too much management, it tends to stick around[0], and therefore it is critical to avoid excessive management in the first place. The article articulates clearly why you need more than 0 managers, but it should include strategies for determining whether you need an n+1th manager.

[0] There is one fix. It's tough to get rid of excess management, but an organization can potentially grow into an appropriate size for the amount of management it has. This may be a challenge for a mature company, but for a startup like the one featured in the article hiring too many managers is just hiring an appropriate number of managers early.
Nah. You don't have to show both sides when the evidence is stacked. We don't have to publicize the criminal's take when they're unanimously, unambiguously convicted of murder. It's one thing if there is ambiguity, and the collective opinion is undecided, but that's not the case here.

Drew's personal musings on the situation form a reasonable overview in this case. Even a fraction of the evidence publicized is enough to justify the label "toxic."
They can move very fast.

However… their diet is so calorie low that they can actually really harm themselves by exerting too much energy, basically can’t replace it quickly enough.

They are so evolutionary evolved to move slow, I saw one scared and struggling against a vet that it was still moving in a slow motion defense.

Side note, that vet only had 4.5 fingers on one hand. A sloth bit half of one off years ago in a slow motion amputation. Very sharp teeth (they move slow) and very powerful jaws.
They could do it but my point is that people are using the September rejection date as evidence for them copying her voice afterwards because it was 7 months before GPT-4o and they aren't aware that the voice has been in the app for 7 months already.
From the download page:

It is known to run on Windows 95 (IE5), Windows 98 SE, Windows ME, Windows NT4 (SP5), Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, 8 and 8.1.

...it is also known to run on Windows 10 and 11, and likely any newer versions too. IMHO this is a great example of how software should be. One tiny binary that is very widely compatible, doesn't have any user-hostile "features", and remains stable and bug-free. It's a contrast from an industry that largely can't produce such achievements, is becoming increasingly hostile, and quite telling when there are already comments here complaining about its age.
The longest-lived spider: mygalomorphs dig deep, and persevere

Research article reporting the spider's death by Leanda Denise Mason, Grant Wardell-Johnson and Barbara York Main

https://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/index2.php?url=http%3A%2F%...
Do you have a source for that or are you making things up?

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/bruce-springst...
Pretty sure the lack of focus from the top. From what I understand people working there are as confused as the general public when something gets dropped or the 10th messenger service is announced
Yes, but will they pay as well?

Getting good AI talent now is very costly. HW engineers are cheaper.

Nvidia has more SW than HW engineers for a reason and the transformation for that started slowly almost 2 decades ago and accelerated 2012 with AlexNet, the first public showcase of a NN running on GPUs. Jensen saw what that meant and transformed the company from that moment focusing on DeepLearning.

Nvidia isn't waiting for a market to develop but prefers to create markets by tackling hard and complex problems. It seems that Nvidia got lucky with AI but it was a long lasting preparation for Jensen.
> He never mentioned her by name, he pointed out how the AI demo OpenAI created is similar to the _character_ from Her.

And yet Kaparthy (a co-founder of OpenAI) did mention her by name as "the killer app of LLMs", less than 24 hours from the announcement.

> The killer app of LLMs is Scarlett Johansson.

https://x.com/karpathy/status/1790373216537502106
I'm continually amazed by how much outrage normal and perfectly reasonable business strategies generate in the general public.

None of this is unusual or in any way wrong. Red lobster (and olive garden) were mismanaged, and the investment funds were right about that.

Their attempts at salvaging the situation were perfectly reasonable, even if they were ultimately unsuccessful.

You're welcome to be outraged, but that doesn't mean there was anything untoward happening here.
If the answer to the literal question is different than the answer to a colloquial interpretation, it may be a good question for judging colloquial interpretation but bad for judging scientific education.
You could install the Google Drive client and then run WinDirStat against the virtual drive letter that it creates:

https://support.google.com/drive/answer/10838124
I found this site and looking at their 'sample reports' it loaded fast and it looks very clean to me.

The domain is also interesting as well but I use this as a quick stocks lookup over the cluttered experience of most stocks sites.
SCarlett AI. Sky. I know it's a reach but along with the Her tweet, you never know.
Did you read the article? In there you will find the explanation of why you had a costly low-quality experience. Maybe this will clarify who the "'em" is.

(It's not anyone you saw at the restaurant...)
Ooh, tell me more. What others?

You're probably right with average startup founder. But I'm thinking of first-timers, who haven't raised yet. For them, including me, it adds up quickly :)
Having some experience with these moonshots myself, my guess is that they are referring to the constantly changing focus/priorities. It felt to me like these orgs had shiny object syndrome with little care for whether they were building sustainable businesses.
The process for doing this is primary elections, which you can participate in if you want to!
Update: the payment gateway is Stripe, which is not processing any transactions associated with the MS account. A developer has posted the issue to HN in the hope that a Stripe employee will see it and escalate the issue. /s
Datadog Is New Oracle
Why did OpenAI comply with Johansson’s Cease and Desist letter and take the voice down? If they legit hired a different actress their response should have been “Go ahead and sue us”.