skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right now AI is in the part of the hype cycle where we are in the first knee of the S curve and people are drawing straight lines from that to predict the future. I've seen so much ridiculous hype about AI becoming godlike super-geniuses before the decade is out that I have to wonder if any of these people have tried using AI for real work and not just flashy demos.
Running into this same problem, the tech is progressing WAY faster than the org can transform to use the tech. I'm betting we end up transforming by aquiring a company that completed the transformation before us, and letting them run the show. The downside is I see a lot more job destruction that route vs the slow route we're currently on.
That ringing in your ears you get once in a while... ?
Can't find the interview now, but I remember watching it and yes they specifically said that because it is an AI, rather than just an automation script, it is intelligent and will not be thrown off by site redesigns or CAPTCHAs (they have later said that they won't handle CAPTCHAs also).

Turns out that it is just an automation script and it cannot deal with site redesigns or CAPTCHAs.

Edit, just found they have made this claim also which simply doesn't exist at all:

> The R1 also has a dedicated training mode, which you can use to teach the device how to do something, and it will supposedly be able to repeat the action on its own going forward. Lyu gives an example: “You’ll be like, ‘Hey, first of all, go to a software called Photoshop. Open it. Grab your photos here. Make a lasso on the watermark and click click click click. This is how you remove watermark.’” It takes 30 seconds for Rabbit OS to process, Lyu says, and then it can automatically remove all your watermarks going forward.
>I’ve seen folks go from new grad to staff in under 4 years at FAANG.

That only happens at Meta and i'm dubious they could do the job of staff at any other company.
That's a big assumption. Alyssa may very well not spend all her walking time writing code (setting aside the implication that writing code is not "enjoyable" for now).

Feynman was a very successful physicist. A nobel price medalist, among other things. He very famously was also someone who enjoyed a life outside of physics a great deal.

Paul Erdős, on the other hand, did at least outwardly seem to have spent most of his life focused on doing mathematics. And nobody can convince me that he did not enjoy his life as well...
Well - they might. I don't think Valve would hate being the gaming gateway for Mac as well as for PC, but they have great Linux support because of the Steam Deck.
> Why is this not functionality that is built into the OS at this point

Why put time and effort into something like this when the focus should only be on AI?
I'm getting very weary of reading this analogy, especially when it's given no thought whatsoever.

Did you know? Every gold rush in history has ended.

If you have a shovel factory that burns millions of dollars a day to sell as many shovels as you can, and you're not prepared for people to give up on digging for gold, you're going to very suddenly start burning your profits.
AI has seen rapid efficiency improvements every year for the last decade, but the amount of computation used has gone up, not down. The improvements always go into making larger and more powerful models, not into just running the same models but at a lower cost per hour.

https://epochai.org/blog/algorithmic-progress-in-language-mo...
Oh come on, it's obviously flamebait to say Israel is conducting a genocide even if you agree with the claim.
> the USA was one of only two countries in the world that voted[1] against a Right To Food at the UN Human Rights Council

So, excluding medical conditions, such as anorexia, approximately how many U.S. citizens would you estimate die of starvation in any given year?

Hint: it's pretty damned close to zero.

In my medium-sized city, there are at least 4 places I can think of off the top of my head where you can walk in and get a free meal at any time, no questions asked. I think there are probably more than four, actually.
Oral-B bricking Alexa toothbrush is cautionary tale against buzzy tech
Great. I used it because I prefer Go for all my backend tasks. Great performance, go routines and std library are awesome.
Yes. Sockets to push, http post to create message tho or upload stuff.
Go with moisonnaite, not lab grown diamonds!
I'm not sure if giving users control over what they consume would be a solution. If social media apps have proven anything is that the vast majority of people prefer the mind numbing experience of highly curated content, with infinite scrolling and a minimal amount of knobs and tweaks.

Users who want to curate their experience are outliers, and are probably less likely to be susceptible to misinformation to begin with.

I think the solution starts with strict moderation on behalf of companies hosting the content, accompanied by strict regulation of tech companies by governments. Along the way, passing regulation to adopt programs and initiatives that educate people about technology and critical thinking from a very early age will provide new generations with crucial skills to combat disinformation, which could hopefully eventually spread to areas of government and industry to further propel us in the right direction.

Tech approaches alone aren't the solution, and we need major social and political long-term changes as well. But strict moderation and regulation needs to happen as a start to stop the bleeding.
I think this could be accommodated with changeable permalinks.

I understand your perspective. Thanks for sharing.
It's valuable to me. I don't have to fish through search results and synthesize them any more.
Windows 8 Running in the Browser
Okay yes so not really having an artists vocabulary I couldn't compress it as well as someone who has a better understanding of Starry Night. An artist that understands what makes Starry Night great could create a work that evokes similar feelings and emotions. I know this because Van Gogh created many similar works playing with the same techniques, colors, and subjects such as Cypresses in Starry Night and Starry Night over the Rhone. He was clearly working from a concise set of ideas and techniques which I would argue is understanding/compression.
> It is also very common for the first pancake to be a total failure.

I guess, it depends on what you mean by "total failure".

It's very rare for the first pancake to be inedible, or basically anything except a little misshapen. As someone who's primary interested in pancakes is eating them, that's a far cry from "total failure".

But if that is your criteria, there's a very simple and effective solution: ring molds. They cost a couple of dollars on Amazon and guarantee that your pancakes will be perfect circles every time.

In contrast, there is no known way to ensure that a first rocket launch will be a success. If there was, the companies launching them would do it since failed launches are extremely expensive in time, money, and reputation.
Because it makes an exciting sounding headline that means nothing practically speaking.
Mystery object waits nearly an hour between radio bursts
On a fundamentals basis, the demand is there for the compute. NVDA will likely get somewhat overbought in this cycle, but at some point here it should follow the same trajectories of the big 7. We don't appear to be anywhere close to an oversupply issue (yet).
> Can you elaborate on why you believe AGI is nonsense?

John Searle is much smarter than I am and he elaborated plenty on this in the 80s. (But more saliently, I think it's absurd to think our brains, or brains in general, do polynomial curve fitting in any meaningful sense.)

> Summarization is one of the most common applications of LLMs I see.

This is true, though the workflow is extremely cumbersome.

> People are doing exactly what one would expect them to do.

I don't disagree, I think people are moving in the right direction (albeit slowly). Maybe the generative aspect is just more awe-inducing rather than "oh hey this thing creates calendar events out of any date," even though the latter would be way more useful.
> But in general what strategy do you need? Take over, destroy the military infra and prevent smuggling. That's all that is needed. Gaza is thousand years back, it will never recover. It is not a threat anymore in any meaningful way.

Impressively amoral post, but this is insanity.

(1) Israel doesn't exist in a vacuum. It is not self-sufficient.

(2) There's something monstrous about keeping 2M people herded up in a closed pen.

Whether or not those people are "threats" shall remain to be seen, but Israel is going to lose (is, already, losing) the hearts and minds of everybody on the planet under age 40 -- and you're going to see what being a real pariah state feels like. Israel won't survive as a state very long after that; it is a hard thing, to be despised. And yet, if it comes to that point, it will be very richly deserved.

What you need is a strategy which improves the lives of Gazans -- not one that bombs their homes to rubble and sets them back a thousand years. You need to address their very real grievance. Without this, you're both sunk. Gonna end in tears, like I said.
Yeah a decent summary of my thoughts too. The bulls running away with things online are starting not to listen to the point that it’s concerning me that Nvidia is turning into a free money machine, and no good ever comes of that kind of thing long-term.

And as you point out the revenue to market cap seems like we’re getting silly. It’s even making me wonder whether Jensen and his brains trust are going to start massaging their own figures, because any less-than-stellar results next quarter could really kill the party. And if Nvidia really is turning into a bubble, it could pop the whole of the Nasdaq for a while.
There are a million viable (and often quite fun) answers here, but one is really kind of funny. What do you get when you mix oxygen and hydrogen? Water? No, of course not! You get rocket fuel! Seriously. Liquid oxygen + liquid hydrogen is a common, and highly effective, fuel that's been used for various engines such as on the Space Shuttle Main Engine.

Rockets can also be carbon negative in another way. A rocket that uses less than 50% of its fuel getting to orbit would be carbon negative, because it's spending less than 'x/2' fuel to go burn at least 'x/2' fuel away from Earth. Factor in some of the fuel coming from carbon neutral sources, and it quickly becomes quite easy for a rocket to be carbon negative.
And here I thought this was solved decades ago - I need to find the source, but I read about an old study where people describe their experience, and the answers were all over the "range from me not experiencing the phenomenon to me indeed experiencing the phenomenon".

Then again, it's trivially reproducible - people self-report all variants of inner monologue, including lack of it, whenever a question about it pops up on-line. Same is the case with imagination - aphantasia is a thing (I would know, I have it).
Just nope all around for me on this one. Even assuming that "AI clones" are things that actually exist in a useful way...

If a meeting is so meaningless that I can send someone/thing else to sit in on it for me, then it's too meaningless for me to bother with even doing that much anyway.

If I'm in a meeting where someone sends an "AI clone" instead of attending, I'm going to be angry and insulted at the level of disrespect they're showing for me and my time.

> Or I do not need to check my emails; the digital version of myself can read most of the emails. Maybe one or two emails will tell me, “Eric, it’s hard for the digital version to reply. Can you do that?”

And this idea is even worse. What would be the point of even trying to communicate with a coworker if you can't actually, you know, communicate with that coworker?
It's not trivial, but it's less interesting than the other news stories about Boeing.
Can't a malicious entity running this system identify decoy messages by the fact that they are conveniently published at intervals divisible by 5 minutes? ie. 17:07:43 then 18:42:44
>Did you leave positive impressions on your coworkers?

Some of them, though it's hard to become really good friends with a coworker after only three months of a remote job.

At the jobs that I stayed two years at I definitely made lots of friends

> Did you maintain contact?

For a few of them, the ones that I got close to (generally the people that were as geeky as I am about bizarre CS concepts). That was immensely handy to get job referrals, and it's in no small part why I was able to land my current (very decent!) gig.

In most places I've worked, people generally like me ok (I hope), and usually I will develop one or two pretty close friends as a result if I've been there sufficiently long.

> In those three jobs you were laid off from did any of your coworkers also get laid off?

Yes, though in the more recent laid off jobs I sadly didn't know people well enough to get them to give me referrals or anything.

> No matter what story your resume tells, social connections will usually be a louder signal.

I mostly agree, but only to a certain extent. If you can make it to the interview stage, a good referral and social contacts can be great and really helpful, but the problem with short stints is that you're considerably more likely to fail the initial screening by the internal recruiter.

I get it, I don't really blame them, you can't go into super thorough detail on every resume that's submitted, so they have to look for red flags to immediately filter out stuff.
Yeah seems to be same with Win32.

I tried using U+13161 EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH G029[1], which resulted in a string of length 2 as expected.

Using both chars (code units) and just the first char (code unit) worked equally fine. In Windows Explorer the first one shows the stork as expected, while the second shows that "invalid character" rectangle.

So yeah, treating filenames as nearly-opaque byte sequences is probably the best approach.

[1]: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%F0%93%85%A1
Spherical hammer in the vacuum is a ball.
Assignment: "Write something about Arkansas, but don't mention it by name."
I don't want to go back and forth because it's off topic for HN. If you have seen images of destroyed hospitals and you're saying this, it seems insane to me. What you're saying is on the level of genocide denial. Ps. My family was targeted by the Holocaust too.
David Sacks is not an expert on gpu architecture.
Even Medicare--with various add-ons--is not exactly cheap.
Don’t mistake the momentum of past success for current engineering and safety practices. If the MAX and 787 can get released with defects slipping out, there’s little certainty which other corners are being cut that can wipe out all progress of safety in the blink of an eye.
This ^, the models are getting larger and we don't appear to have scratched the surface on Video / Vision models yet. Energy consumption is accelerating along side that at 28% YOY https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2024/04/how-to-manage-ais-ene....
It's never a compiler bug, and it's definitely never a CPU bug.

Unless you're a low level kernel developer, then it's both!

(Jokes aside, it's still much, much more often not than it is, but it definitely does happen.)
> Increased taxation is not forfeiture, and being forced to sell because taxes are prohibitive is different from the government taking your building.

That's a distinction without a difference, at least not a difference in the area we're talking about. Both mechanisms cause title to be lost if certain obligations are not met (in one case, an obligation to occupy, in the other, an obligation to pay taxes).
A one-line X11 keylogger (2016)
I think we are roughly in agreement here. Even a "default filter" can be ok as long as it can be _turned off_ by the user.

The problem with deplatforming and censorship is that even the savviest users are unable to discuss what they have no way to ever see.
We have a pre-order up for these while stock is limited during launch in case you want to get in the queue! https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/raspberry-pi-ai-kit
I'm assuming that subscription fees for these streaming services are already covered by the various sales taxes/VAT? Which looks to up 15% for a lot of Canadians?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sales_taxes_in_Canada
Yep, ripe for a bonanza day of shorting in the not-too-distant future, it would seem.
That experiment was so poorly performed that it can be completely discounted.
I guess this is the reason:

>> BIG-bench currently consists of 204 tasks, contributed by 450 authors across 132 institutions.

Regardless, I'm not citing a paper with a whole page of author names unless I'm allowed to shorten it significantly in the bibliography section (e.g. "Srivastava and 450 others").
One of the biggest issues with Theranos was that they were trying to do a multitude of tests with a small amount of blood in a single automated machine. This machine isn't claiming to do more than one thing.
So the Guardian runs a similar headline accompanied by an illustration of reddened bowels.

The BBC, however, runs this headline accompanied by the headshot of a young woman. As if to imply that she's some kind of Bond villain responsible for all of this. This seems like something straight out of SNL's Weekend Update.
You also can’t spell propaganda without pagan. I wonder what that means.
> People are classically horrible at that kind of self evaluation and will do amazing mental gymnastics to assure themselves they have "real" reasons for their opinions rather then the truth.

If I have no conscious negative feelings towards Jews, don’t treat any of the ones I know differently from anyone else (other than maybe asking them curious questions about their culture/religion), and generally don’t have any negative reaction when I find out someone is Jewish, how would you even measure or define this apparently asymptomatic anti-Semitism?

> Unless by point 3 and 4 you mean the complete destruction of Israel I don't see any other outcome Americans protesting could accomplish to "solve" the conflict.

I do not mean that and I think it’s very unlikely the protests will cause that, and to be clear, I think the maximalist demands being made by protestors (“from the river to the sea”, etc.) are too radical, but again, that doesn’t mean they’re necessarily motivated by antisemitic feelings. Perhaps sometimes they are, but it’s by no means a logical necessity.

What I think is possible to achieve by protesting is forcing Israel to back down from its own right-wing maximalist posture towards Palestinians and be open to agreeing some kind of lasting peace or at least easing up on the atrocities they’re committing (and I am mainly thinking of the atrocities they’ve been committing since long before Oct. 7th: the indefinite blockade of Gaza and the creeping settlement Swiss-cheesing the West Bank).
> The not allowing israel to fully vote until 2010

You're not going to throw that out without reference to how the US and Israel have consistently been the only countries to oppose Palestinian UN membership and voting.
At least your honest with your username.
> Their website is also a bit programmer-y

This is a feature, not a bug.

Porkbun is the least sketchy site I’ve ever encountered in the domains business.
More like, so much work to work around Bazel.

It is dead simple if you don't need it to be correct.
>Depressed people get paid less.

I'm not sure if you are joking or not. This doesn't really make sense to me. Can you explain?
ChatGPT is good at Pandas and makes using it much easier.
> I submit as evidence Llama 3.

Llama 3 has likely costed billions to Meta and most of it went to Nvidia. What are you talking about. As much as what you think inference costs, it is tiny in comparison to training the model.
The header on that website that stays there as you scroll is obnoxiously annoying. It takes up 25% of the page on desktop.
It cant go on forever.
We can tell with your third world country comment that you have bias but at least get your information correct.

The pricing scheme you describe was true for a company that no longer exists, for a type of pricing that is no longer allowed. The number of customers were in the minority.
> Running into this same problem, the tech is progressing WAY faster than the org can transform to use the tech

It has always been the case. As a society we are still very far from having harnessed the full power of 90s era computers. Companies routinely pay hundreds of workers and even executives, to do things that computers are better at doing. For instance: managing plannings in big organizations.
Related:

Employees Who Stay in Companies Longer Than Two Years Get Paid 50% Less - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14784900 - July 2017 (535 comments)

Employees That Stay In Companies Longer Get Paid Less - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7928008 - June 2014 (198 comments)
Maybe you should watch their announcement video again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22wlLy7hKP4

Or the interview of the CEO, Jesse Lyu aboutn the LAM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-MNgciL5hw

If you're still sure that the LAM is present in their product, that's fine, but my view (and I understand how plugins, LLM, AI and other related things work) ist thre are no LAM in the rabbit r1.
Yeah good thinking. Does seem like it’s turning into an analogous situation to Cisco, and I feel like we will actually need a quantum leap on the software side of AI (again) for the hardware sales to sustain the revenue growth.
Customer validation is also super easy to get.

The easiest way I've found is to include a simple Google Form in the product. It's super rewarding to get feedback from users. Ask simple questions like: "What's your favorite thing about X", "What's your least favorite thing about X", "How did you learn about X" and "Anything else you wanted to let me know?". And make all the questions optional so there's a minimal amount of friction.
AI will help to totally crush all the CO2 emission targets of Google, MS etc.
> I mean, you agreed on something, which is the bloat of a system, you just disagree on the "how to fix it" part.

Unfortunately, the "how to fix it" part is the part that requires building political consensus. Getting agreement on X being too expensive is easy; everyone always wants everything to be cheaper.

> If I said "We need a crane that can lift 3000lbs" and you agree, and you come up with a design that uses an electric motor system, and I come up with a design that uses a diesel engine, we still agreed on something, just not the implementation of how to do it.

> I realize it's not a perfect analogy, but if you and I could agree on some bad consequence of "too many regulations" (e.g. the prices of healthcare are too high as a result of the regulations), that is some common ground. The question then comes down "which regulations would be best to cut to lower costs?" and reduces to an optimization problem.

The problem I have is that using "too many regulations" as the foundation is inevitably doomed. Lets say we find some collection of regulations that could be cut. Well, any solution is going to, at a glance, look like an additional regulation to the layman. And that's before the parasites that are profiting from the existing inefficiencies start spinning narratives about how this is another government overreach and how we're killing America.
Exercise is also a big one. It can be difficult to exercise when you lack energy, but it's critical for your long-term health, both physical and mental. The bidirectional gut-brain axis is poorly studied but seems incredibly powerful compared to the importance that medicine has traditionally given it.