skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With the Excel Lambda, you can add a layer of indirection and do something like that by passing the values into your function rather than building your function strictly out of cell references.
Do you have any rhetorical examples that supports broadcasting or mass communication? The USPS has significant regulations around bulk mail and commercial mail, including restrictions on the content of the mail. Likewise there is heavy regulation in the United States of robocalling, telemarketing, and mass texting.
> a reputation for unstrategic thinking is likely a net negative

This is very wise. The issue here is not “looking smart”, but rather it is about “not looking not smart”, which is a completely different thing.

It would be a shame to get a reputation for being “unstrategic” for… not immediately signing anything anyone puts in front of you
Thanks to reader mode I can read this article. When I opened the link the first time I just closed it immediately. I know they were trying to be "cool", but that was just horrible.
This is another one of those "I used this for 5 minutes and found this out" naive posts which add nothing useful.

Check out the host LLM's at home crowd. One app to look at is llama.cpp. Model compression is one of the first techniques to successfully run models on low capacity hardware.
I agree. If this feature was developed by someone not in the ad tech surveillance business and it ran on a secure by design operating system there would be a positive reaction.
I think it's valuable in a ton of ways, but I also think we are passed the inflection point for growth in novel applications.

But I also think it's being overused or misapplied in so many situations. I've been involved in a couple of projects that were advertised as "AI" which were absolutely not, and I'm suspicious of any company advertising AI products.
Oh nice! The one thing that confused me about this article was what search space the author envisioned adding to language models.
Evolving readme-driven development with rigour
I've said for a bit that "something has been automated, but its on us to figure out what" since the launch of ChatGPT 3. Modern LLMs are really really useful in some domains, fun toys in others, and problem makers in most.

My guess is that we're in for an AI winter in ~12-18mo as most AI startups fail and investors lose their shirts on a bunch of bets, but a few good use cases rise from the ashes.

OpenAI is going to walk away with a tooon of VC money from startups spending on their APIs over the next year though.
I haven't used those tools, but Maschine, FL Studio, Akai's MPC(you can use it stand alone, but they heavily push the PC integration,) and Ableton are practically industry standards at this point.

You can make music on anything, I'd imagine a skilled producer could do anything I can do in Maschine in Zrythm. But it's a matter of difficulty.

Maschine has a series of custom midi instruments which are simply amazing.

As for gaming, you could probably play the next Call of Duty with browser based cloud gaming when it hits gamepass.

I definitely understand the benefits of Linux though. I think dual booting is the way to go.
The Chicago grid is actually based on fractions of a mile (1/8 and 1/16 iirc), and when I lived there I would absolutely convert blocks to miles automatically when talking to people.
I think it's more navigational? like I know "oh, I'd cross three streets and then be at the house" roughly, more than thinking about distance. It kinda equals effort to walk there and how often you'll stop for traffic more.
We are in the middle of dot.com bubble v2. There's a lot of over hyped AI garbage that will deservedly flame out and die, but it's still sowing the seeds of a future revolution.
But I would instantly install a browser extension that makes youtube shorts go away. I avoid them studiously because I find that whenever I click them, I come to 45 minutes later, deep inside a rabbit hole of everything that makes the internet horrible. Making them go away altogether would significanly improve my mental health.
Or, for more rigor and math, consider the CRC Handbook:

https://www.routledge.com/CRC-Handbook-of-Chemistry-and-Phys...
Upgrade Your Yarn Dependencies
Thanks! Looks like a great book, and it's on libgen (11E). However, the English is positively atrocious. The next edition would be wise to invest in a competent editor. Very first page:

The International Convention on Road Signs and Signals [1] defines a motor or power-driven vehicle as a self-propelled road vehicle. Rail-borne vehicles and country-specifically mopeds which are not treated as motorcycles are exceptions. A second definition in this convention limits the term motor vehicle to those vehicles which are used for carrying persons or goods or for drawing on the road vehicles used for the carriage or persons or goods.

"Country-specifically" -> "jurisdiction-specific definitions of mopeds".

"in this convention" -> "in the convention"

"the term motor vehicle" -> "the term 'motor vehicle'"

The final sentence makes no sense to me and is certainly missing a comma.
Apple's New AI Is Made in Google Data Centers
That was very rude and I hope it made you feel better.

I will go on with my day knowing that the careful messaging about Russia provided by Edward Snowden is in no way affected by him wanting to stay alive and outside of a Russian prison.
This may be a feature, particularly for mothers. The pain of the sleep deprivation and challenges of the early days of motherhood are not stored strongly, as to not interfere with the desire for more children.
It's hyped. It's also legitimately useful. I expect to see many more real use cases and integrations into existing technology and into everyday life. And that's just with the models we have at the moment, who knows if newer models can make even bigger leaps.

I also expect to see markets and hype go up and down because these things go in cycles.

If you expect it to completely change the world in the next couple of years, you're probably wrong. And if you think that it's a useless gimmick with a giant hype bubble around it, and that it will disappear as soon as the hype dies down, you're also very wrong.
way underhyped

go ask Joe Public how many times they used ChatGPT

most people don’t know wtf chatgpt is

Look outside your filter bubble
Correlations are to be found everywhere:
http://www.tylervigen.com/spurious/random

Not to say there isn't a causal relationship, but a correlation graph is only a "maybe there's a relationship" and not "this means that".
Along with Adobe recently it consensual business relationships are no longer common.
The feature is great. It's not new idea. We were thinking of something like this 10 years ago on Android phones but the compute and battery life wasn't and still isn't there.

So I will use it if it's executed right. However I mainly use Linux and Mac these days.
Yes. It has all the telltale signs of a FOMO-hype bubble across multiple asset classes that's driven by multiple organizations cynically exploiting a combination of Gell-Mann Amnesia effect and human propensity to anthropomorphize things.
> Everyone and their mother is running a shoddy microservice-coupled stack,

buried the lede!
It would be interesting to cross-examine ML expertise and what votes people give in the poll.
wut.

please unpack how LLMs are “problem makers” in “most” domains?
> ...we __should__ be much kinder to people...

This implies a choice. If there is no free will, all you can say is we will or we won't based on our current brain state. Sure, we don't know what that outcome will be, but it's already determined by our own current brain state.

> (they were forced to do it by their brain state, after all)

Any any punishment from cruel and unusual or no punishment at all was forced by the brain states of the people in a position to decide and carry out any punishment. Again, without any free will, any talk about what "we should do" is pointless: it's determined.

Your much kinder argument I also think falls completely flat because I really think you end up in a binary: either you are culpable for your actions or not. If determinism excuses your dastardly acts in part because of lack of agency, what possible argument remains for not simply pretending that no wrong ever happened? On the other side, if a society living in a deterministic world still receives benefit from deterrence and retribution, then there would be no difference than if we're living in a world with free agency: so determinism ceases to be an argument about the degree we punish.

I do actually agree with you at one point: either the world is fundamentally deterministic or it isn't. I do think something approaching free will may possibly be an emergent feature of our world, much like a single hemisphere has no roll, but putting two together and rolling emerges. But even that, at the root would be fundamentally deterministic.

I would also suggest this. Whether or not free will is a fundamental feature of the world we live in or simply an illusion due to our inability to follow our own brains from one state to the next: you better live your live like free will is a thing and not worry too much about how predestined your actions are: if free will is an illusion, that illusion is strong... the outcomes will be determined by states that include the influences of free will like assumptions, or the absence thereof. If free will is a thing: you're covered. Of course giving this advice presumes you have a choice in taking it or not... if there is no free will you either will or won't and the only questions arise out of our inability to
project into what we call the future.
LLM to AGI path is overhyped and unlikely. Machine learning is getting the attention it deserves, but there is only a small number of organizations that have enough high quality data to make it useful.
> There's no server to seize, no way to take it offline, it's there, encrypted, for perpetuity.

I usually disagree with any argument trying to compromise on anonymity, privacy, and free speech.

Fifteen years ago I was fascinated by Freenet and I2P as a teenager. A censorship-free resilient world-spanning network. One populated by actual anarchists, cypherpunks, and their manifestos, where I could perhaps learn how to make rockets from ping pong balls.

Until one day I clicked on one random nondescript link too many.

After the initial shock I got rid of Freenet, then and there, for good. And I2P. And I have never looked back on my brief cypherpunk phase.

You just reminded me that what I saw that day is still out there, probably will be until the day Freenet dies, and nothing can be done about it. Just the thought of it makes me sick.

I am aware this is anecdotal personal experience, but it’s the kind that makes it harder to remain strongly committed to absolute anonymity, censorship-resilience, and privacy, over all else.
It was pretty bad but they did include a color switcher in the top-right so you can go to white/black.
It's the same as the dot com bubble. A lot of hype, a lot of investment in silly things, but also ultimately a huge amount of real value that continues increasing for decades.
I am no expert, but I am skeptical because the paper results looks way too perfect to be true.

Then instead of doing statistical analysis with things like p-values or probabilities, they make wildly out of scope assertions like this:

> "Considering all pandemics with obtained extremum points, we can conclude that sunspot extrema coincide with the pandemics’ first appearance probably because of mutation on virus DNA or generation of a new virus."

They are claiming both sunspot minima and maxima, not just one or the other (which seems more intuitive?) somehow cause pandemics due to virus DNA mutations, even for pandemics that were caused by bacteria.

I am all for using statistics and data science for discovery of new phenomena, but I suspect this one is total bunk.
> also, dating -men- is a drain? dating is a drain. the casual misandry in your comment is gobsmacking

It's not clear whether you're arguing that it's misandrist for someone to not have as many friends who complain about dating women or for someone who dates men to specify that when stating that their experience dating has been draining, but either way it doesn't make much sense.
My view is that you need human customer service mostly for cases you can't serve with a self-service UI. And if you can't build a UI for it, you certainly can't build an AI for it. So the AI is necessarily less useful than either the human or the self-service interface.

A lot of companies expect big savings from AI customer service, so where do I assume wrong here?
NVIDIAs market cap is related to the extreme difficulty with producing the ASICs. Finding the raw material is basically a huge bag of worms.

AI as a market is pretty promising in specific applications.
23% of Americans have used ChatGPT [0], so you’ve got more than a 1 in 5 chance that Joe Public will say he’s used it. Those odds are pretty good for a product that was released less than two years ago. In fact I bet that level of population penetration is higher than even Facebook in its first few years.

[0] https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/03/26/americans...
People have been lying to the teeth to justify bullying the dev, but come on. iTerm2 is free of charge libre software. It doesn't make a living.

Lies are lies. Lies about how this feature exfiltrates data without you knowing isn't genuine criticism either.

If you didn't like the feature, you could've done what the rest of us did and not use it. It's simple. We just carried on with our work just like we did before the update. Well, actually not exactly the same as before because we enjoyed the UI improvement that came with the update. We certainly didn't go out of our way to enable features that didn't personally interest us. Nor did we brigade the issue tracker to go on a bullying spree or posted lies after lies in public forums.

iTerm2 is a breath of fresh air compared to all the commercial crap prevalent in our industry nowadays. Trolls may have done immeasurable damage to the future of a valuable piece of software. Too bad they're not the type to take any responsibility for such actions.
the SLTs of all major tech companies and software companies are absolutely hyping AI. these people are have compensation packages with significant ties to stock prices and those go up with hype and inflated expectations.
I'd say if you have checked exceptions, you need great ergonomics to handle them, transform them and ignore them.

Java has poor ergonomics for these, and in my opinion languages like Rust have better ones and that's why they manage with Results.
Ouch. Bit by AI I guess. If you can't trust your search engine...
gosh, pythonistas must have called you really bad names.

JVM wanted to be Self, but Sun was on its last legs by then. now it's just a weird historic artifact, still casting a shadow, or at least causing an unpleasant smell.

I'm curious about the masters-have-left claim: do you really thing current Python action is somehow foolish?
I wish everything was so great in my life that this could be a concern.
Growing Living Neurons to Play Doom?
I initially voted a realistic reflection, and then reconsidered upon "near future", and then I saw (1-10 years away), and re-voted for a realistic reflection.

The hype _is_ justified. But we will not have AGI tomorrow. However, the pace of advancements has accelerated (in broad terms), and I believe will continue to accelerate. I would be unsure in 1-5 years. But 10 years is not the near future. To say the world today looks nothing like it did 10 years ago is an understatement.

Collectively we will continue to stack (newly) outsized gains everyday, assisted by advancements in AI. And 10 years from now we won't recognize the constraints of today and instead will have all new expectations and problems.

What does this mean for markets? Well, it doesn't matter _really_ matter for NVDA. We're in a gold rush, and NVDA is the only one selling good shovels, plus they have arguably the best plan for quality excavators, trommels, drills, conveyor belts and dump trucks for those who are serious about this long term.

I bought a large stake in NVDA the day ChatGPT was announced and was adding to it until I started training for a triathlon which is now slurping up all my gold. Just gonna hold for the next couple of decades.
Imho there is hype and bubble yes but not at the core: at the core is AGI in 5 years and significant change. The bubble/hype is coming from where it seems to always come from - the non-core camp.
I have a hard time believing that there's going to be a robot that will be able to do plumbing or electrical in an older home in the next 20 years, let alone the next 5. Will they maybe have something that helps run wire through a crawl-space? Sure, maybe. Maybe even something that could run PEX tubing under a house - maybe. But they're going to get into situations where they get hung up, stuck, etc. and require a lot of skilled help. They could be a labor saving device, but they're not going to completely replace the plumber/electrician for a long time (on existing construction - it's an easier problem with new construction because it can be designed in such a way as to accommodate robots. Still, there's a lot of existing construction and a shortage of both plumbers and electricians).
Per Microsoft's write-up:

> Storm-0558 acquired an inactive MSA consumer signing key and used it to forge authentication tokens for Azure AD enterprise and MSA consumer to access OWA and Outlook.com. All MSA keys active prior to the incident – including the actor-acquired MSA signing key – have been invalidated. Azure AD keys were not impacted. The method by which the actor acquired the key is a matter of ongoing investigation. Though the key was intended only for MSA accounts, a validation issue allowed this key to be trusted for signing Azure AD tokens. This issue has been corrected.

So the attackers found a valid private key for MSA (undetermined how, the theory was that it was scraped from a debug dump that was moved from high privilege prod to someone's low privilege shared drive). They then used that key to sign invalid tokens for AAD and the validating side incorrectly accepted those tokens. In this case, the validating side would be Exchange / OWA. Azure AD seems to not be implicated in the security issues, since it was MSA that leaked the key and OWA that failed to properly validate it.

That's my interpretation of the text anyway. It also aligns with my own understanding from a brief time at MS that Azure is much better at security than the rest of MS and that Exchange is a dumpster fire because of decades of cruft and evolution of systems.
The whole premise of this article is to compare the chess state of the art of 2019 with today, and then they start to talk about llms. But chess is a board with 64 squares and 32 pieces, it's literally nothing compared to the real physical world. So I don't get how this is relevant
it's not open source and can only be used with nvidia gpus (by license).
> It's a revolution the same scale of internet itself. Everybody was on google everyday at some point, everybody will be on an AI at some point (if not most of the time they interact with a device)

Agreed that chatbots will change things. Hard disagree that it's on the scale of the internet. The internet at large touches way more than the habits of white collar workers
We've hit peak consumer/enterprise use with LLMs and not only is the net adoption not only underwhelming they are downright malicious across the board that its not a stretch to suggest the biggest winners from AI bubble are criminals, grifters (shady tech demos aimed at raising $$$ with undeliverables), foreign agents:

- artists/content creators worried

- enterprise/legal worried about implications (legal and production)

- politicians are worried about AI crimes/threats

I feel that we are close to a Minsky moment for this AI space that is currently distorted by capital gains being generated by piggying back off the hype.

Over time, LLMs will run in our browser/phones but with the unchanged perceptions: Its a nifty toy but we need to hire back the people we let go from the initial hype with reduced wages since y'all can generate stuff now
It's being hyped by VCs because it's otherwise very hard to raise money in a high-interest rate environment Why invest in venture when you can just buy treasury bonds or low-risk corporate debt? Well because AI FOMO.

It'll be adopted by companies in some way or another and I am very hopeful for things like AI tutors which can actually significantly improve learning but we're definitely going to see a pullback when revenue never materializes.
The block definitely has a New York center of gravity in the American conception. The Manhattan street grid is very regular with “short blocks” and “long blocks” and vast swaths of the rest of the city use a very similar approach.

There’s also certainly an element of it that comes from all the other gridded cities especially Chicago and the older cities of the East and Midwest.

But New York is one of the most written and talked about and filmed places on the planet and I suspect that’s the biggest cause of it being considered standard American English.
Ah this reminds of Cuba: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEplzHraw3c

I bet everywhere with restricted internet something of this sort exists.

It also reminds the tech startup scene in Gaza, when I was browsing Google Maps to see what kind of economy they have there I recall stumbling upon startup schools. It's fascinating to browse the maps and see familiar things on places you wouldn't expect , I wish the best both to Gazans and the Israeli.

Anyway, just for a bit of humanisation of the people there, here is a spontaneous street performans by a Gazan dancer in Europe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSLR6uKTZX4

It's one of the most beautiful things I've seen. Notice how she transforms from fathers little girl into this elegant creature the moment she makes her first move? I think people completely transform into another persona when the assume a role and in this video you can see the transformation. IMHO a similar transformation happens when people have a connection to an environment outside of theirs, therefore this stuff is important for things beyond the practical needs.
I disagree with the idea that I'm supposed to take Snowden seriously when he is in a compromised and dangerous position.

It undermines his integrity, which he's obviously trading on.
3 GUIDs then, event ID was inferred. I see.
? you can run llama 3 8b with a 3060
Ymacs Reloaded: Emacs-like editor in the browser
donno. it's clear they have no effective moat.
they still try hard, making themselves quite customer-hostile.
I'm not sure "overhyped" is predicated on the scope of the hype.

I believe it can be overhyped within the industry without the laymen having been exposed to it.
Whether a statement is factual doesn't depend on where it is coming from.
true. i do may punch with a pnp client on the server side.
It’s easy to forget this, but what we’re calling AI is chat bots.
I think we have ok generalized value functions (aka LLM benchmarks), but we don't have cheap approximations to them, which is what we'd need to be able to do tree search at inference time. Chess works because material advantage is a pretty good approximation to winning and is trivially calculable.
Spam

Phishing

Buggy generated code

Cheating in online courses

ChatBots that try to do too much and do it worse than real human service reps, like that one that wrongly assured a customer that their airline ticket was refundable

Deluge of low-value generated content taking attention and revenue away from high-value content creators