skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What do you mean when you say “AI” in this context?

Do you mean sci-fi level AGI, automation in general, text generation AI like gpt, or statistics based prediction methods like classic regression?
There is currently a proliferation of robotics companies of all shapes and sizes. Lots of capital is being deployed into robotics. My best guess is give it 3-5 years before we start to see and accept that there will be many more robot friends among us both in industry and our personal lives.
This is facetious, the magic of the internet was instantly realized but perhaps not immediately embraced full on. The magic of LLMs is still being felt out from the tech it’s based on.

Send signals between machines is a lot bigger and different than dump everything into a statistical model.
https://www.eso.org/public/unitedkingdom/news/eso2409/?lang for British English users, sent me to the German page
Has anybody really said that about the internet, though? I've never heard it.

Even immediately after the .com bubble burst it was still obvious the web had a ton of potential for communication, knowledge sharing, etc.

The only thing AI seems good at is pumping out low quality "content", and there was already too much of that before.
> but a lot of smart people seem to think they won't.

A lot of smart people _always_ seem to think <insert tech> won't fizzle out.
Zuckerberg clearly lays out his position in an interview with Dwarkish, from about 2-3 months ago. Worth a watch if you’re curious.
I for one am definitely looking forward to having some proper droids around. Once multimodality and edge accelerators are sorted anyway.
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It implies there's damage but it's a bit ambiguous:

"English Heritage [...] said curators were investigating the damage"

(investigating to see if there was damage or investigating to see how much damage?)

"Wiltshire Police said the pair were arrested on suspicion of damaging one of the world’s most famous prehistoric monuments."

(suspicion that it was them or suspicion that it was damaged?)
None of the big players have staked reputation on AI yet at all, which is telling in its own way. They've invested in it and explored products and demonstrated their R&D commitment but they haven't made it their new brand identity or anything.

The most vulnerable Big Tech organization are the ones like OpenAI and Anthropic that are swollen with investment specifically for AI but need to find a business or growth plan that can sustain that investment, plus the smaller and startup companies that have bet the farm on AI before it matured. But these same companies are the ones that have the potential to win big if there's another key breakthrough on either capabilities or product insight.
Do Alien Optimists Have a Fine-Tuning Problem? [video]
Ask HN: Finding Technical Writers for Open Source Software
I am starting an ambitious Open Source project (based on learning from my existing SAAS company) and looking to find Technical Writers who have experience with OSS and can really dig deep into technical topics and create content around them including posts, wikis, documentation, short videos etc (plus). Where do you find such people usually other than your network ? Is there a "Find a technical writer" website ?
We're certainly a long way from last summer's AI hype where CEOs of AI companies were going in front of congress to explain how their AI is going to take over the world and needed to be tightly regulated.
The secret is that 180nm nodes are so legacy that they have a ton of spare cycles for educational and apparently now hobbyists. Lots of various businesses are offering services now that sell the ancient 180nm node.

Overall, the plan is much like OSHPark. You build a die that can be paired up with all of the other customers for a run. If say 300 wafers are made with 1000 different designs on it, everyone gets 300ish chips (before errors) and 1000 designers are happy.

*Made up numbers of course. I'm not in the business.
You probably already watch him, but Marco is also great when it comes to similar content (he loves his multimeters) https://www.youtube.com/@reps
Nah, web 2.0 was a super hype back in the late 90s early 00s. Everyone was all about advertising their adoption and development of web 2.0. Web 3.0 was never really a thing, beyond some crypto enthusiasts nobody cared.

As for crypto, I probably should have said blockchain instead. There was one point recently where everything was block chained.
Not in its current state, when it doesn't do anything on its own and you have to ask it a question to interact with it.

Once it becomes capable enough to act as an agent and starts asking you questions (unprompted by you) to confirm its actions, it'll slowly become a requirement to participate in society and remain productive enough to be taken seriously, like smartphones are today.
It absolutely can't be trusted, but it can focus searches for relevant information. I started researching network monitoring solutions and chatgpt provided suggestions for me to look at and provided terms that I use to find pages in documentation that were relevant to me. I saw real solutions that would work that my initial web searches missed. I got to relevant documentation much faster with a fair expectation of what I would find.

It is a greatat summarizing but poor at understanding. It is great at concepts but crap at precision. And every actionable "fact" coming from it needs to be vetted.
Because taxes and fines are two different things. Taxes aren't a punishment for a crime. Fines are proportional to a crime. Two of Amazon's 300+ warehouses were found to be breaking a labor law
I'd go with "Climate Protesters Vandalize Stonehenge"
Also, it probably would have been a lot cheaper to have someone roto-rooter all the drains of all the bridges in Pittsburg once a year than to clean up one collapsed bridge and rebuild it on short notice. I suspect they have other bridges with similar water damage and have to pay to fix those too.
This is such a weird take.

If a house is robbed, you don't give the burglars a pass and say "well their security system wasn't very good."

Yes, the defensive measures probably need improvement. But that doesn't mean that the act they are defending against is wrong.
a couple reasons why this is unlikely anytime soon. one is that the engineering processes between the designer and the fab are still too tightly coupled. some for good reason and some that they want to sell you engineering servives.

the other is that the fab schedule is heavily laced with sales politics. getting a timely slot is largely a factor of how important a customer you are and none about scheduling work. they have as much work as they could ever want.
My most recent workaround for this is to put a session identifier in the URL somewhere and keep literally everything else on the server.

You essentially have to build your app from zero with these limitations in mind if you want any chance at getting around them.

This is a large part of why I am not a fan of frameworks and other popular design patterns. Having total control over how state is managed and communicated is really important if you don't want to get trapped in various tar pits.
> It certainly feels like the AI bubble is popping.

Objectively, no it doesn't. Even if you think it's a bubble, then the bubble is just growing. There are zero signs of anything popping yet. Company valuations are only increasing.

> Nvidia as the most valuable company in the world?

It makes sense when you look at the financials. It's like back in 1800's when railroads were the new thing, and imagine there were only one company that knew how to make locomotives, while everything else had multiple suppliers. It would have been the most valuable company as well.

Nvidia is in an extremely enviable situation where they're simply the only company that makes a product that is in extreme demand. And for various reasons, no other companies appear to be able to make and deliver a substitute -- not yet and seemingly not in the near future.

So they're able to produce an extreme level of profit, which shows no signs of stopping anytime soon, and their market valuation reflects that accurately.

Remember, high market valuation isn't a reflection of expected future revenue or sales -- it's a reflection of expected future profit. And Nvidia is raking in crazy profits because nobody else is effectively competing with them.
> You have to use a very funny notion of ⊂ for that to make sense

??

Are you claiming that ℤ ⊄ ℚ

This thread is wild.
I don't think I understand your first sentence.

Big tech wasn't invested in crypto in the way it is in AI. For a few days Meta pretended they were going to launch a cryptocurrency, but that's kinda it. Whereas in this case all the biggest tech players are making a lot of noise about how AI is The Future and investing a tremendous amount of resources into trying to make their AI be The Future.

Big tech investment into machine learning didn't need walking back because machine learning morphed smoothly into AI.

Big tech investment into "Web 2.0" didn't need walking back because "Web 2.0", to whatever extent it was a definite specific thing, was a huge success and now we just call it the web. (If you meant "Web 3.0", that didn't need walking back for the same reason as crypto didn't: it was never a very big thing for very big tech.)

So I'm not seeing how any of those things was like AI today. If it turns out that present-day AI is a bubble and it bursts, it will not be like crypto or "Web 3.0" for the big tech companies because those were only ever fads that the big tech companies didn't particularly tie themselves to. It won't be like machine learning because it will be the same bubble, just later on. And it won't be like "Web 2.0" because that wasn't a bubble and didn't burst.
We the HN readers do not need it, but for 90% of the rest of the world's population the interaction model with computers today for tasks more complex than Instagram is akin to casting magical spells, and it's been like that for decades. Imagine they could just tell the computer what to do in a completely natural, possibly even broken English, and it'd do it. That's the longer term promise of AI, and that's where it'll inevitably go.
NT kernel is IMO pretty good. Here’s a few points.

ABI for device drivers allows to add support for new hardware without recompiling the kernel.

First-class support for multithreading, Vista even added thread pool to the userland API.

Efficient asynchronous APIs for IO including files, pipes, and everything else. Linux only got this recently with io_uring, NT implemented IOCP decades go in version 3.5.

NT security descriptors with these access control lists and nested security groups are better than just 3 roles user/group/root in Linux. This makes launching new processes and opening files more expensive due to the overhead of access checks, but with good multithreading support it’s IMO a reasonable tradeoff.

Related to the above, CreateRestrictedToken kernel call for implementing strong sandboxes.

Good GPU support, Direct3D being a part of the kernel in dxgkrnl.sys. This enables good multimedia support in MediaFoundation framework because it allows applications to easily manipulate textures in VRAM without the complications of dma-buf in Linux.

Related to the above, GPU-centric 2D graphics (Direct2D) and text rendering (DirectWrite) in the userland API.
sure it is, as long as you don't have agent forwarding

1. The ssh connection is intercepted, malicious server lets accepts arbitrary user's public key

2. Malicious server tries to connect to real server and fails - original pubkey authentication was channel-bound and cannot be reused

3. Malicious server now has to pretend to be the real server without knowing what the real server looks like. User immediately detects the shell prompt is different, the hostname is wrong, all the files are missing, etc... and disconnects.

(You can make some sort of contrived situation, like you only ssh'd to restart service, _and_ you used "sudo" with password _and_ you used ssh command so you didn't see the prompt _and_ this was the first command you did on your new computer... but this seems pretty unlikely)

And encrypted vs non-encrypted keys seems completely unrelated to connection interception attacks - who cares how the keys are stored on the computer? It's all the same on the wire.
> It certainly feels like the AI bubble is popping.

I wonder how much of this has to do with 15+ years of the narrative of AGI/"The Singularity" being near. Deep learning seemed to really reinforce the narrative as it has blown away classical machine learning and succeeded in so many applications. It started to look like all of Kurzweil, et al's predictions were dead on. Particularly as LLMs took off.

Of course, we're now seeing the apparent limitations in very difficult applications like reasoning as LLMs have mostly been revealed to be a dead end path towards reasoning (with apologies to Blake Lemoine ;) ). And self driving is being revealed to be extremely, extremely difficult to solve with pattern matching alone.

Even the traditionally conservative Apple seems to have bought into the hype (though some of the applications will be pretty useful, IMO, after a few generations of release).

I saw somewhere (X I think) someone made the case that the latest generation of AI buzz has only created between $5-$50 billion in value despite investments measured as a multiple of that. I found it convincing.

Personally, I'm still a believer that AGI will happen, but I am convinced by Yann Lecun's take. We're not even on the on ramp yet, and all the bluster and hand wringing over safety threatens to kill or tragically stall the most important technology in all of human history. [1][2][3][4]

[1] https://x.com/ylecun/status/1662020967529435140

[2] https://x.com/ylecun/status/1801018194121118103

[3] https://twitter.com/ylecun/status/1791890883425570823

[4] https://x.com/ylecun/status/1795032310590378405?lang=en
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> According to Just Stop Oil’s website, the pigment was made of an “orange cornflour” that would wash away in the rain.

I assume the biggest impact here is that archaeologists will have to exclude orange corn flour as background noise from any future analyses
Correct but I would argue after Siri hasn’t improved in 15 years they can’t even execute to get things done

Hence the WwDC was no live demos and all “future promised” features we have seen everywhere else already
> So "apple intelligence" is just repackaging other people's stuff in a way that their users can digest?

HN really underestimates how important this is to billions of consumers.

Having said that, last year someone I knew went from following every Apple event to buying a Nothing phone (Android), because Apple were offering nothing new for unreasonable prices. The iPhone diminishing returns era is here. Even the US might fix the "wrong colour in chat" problem.
National debt will exceed $50T by 2034, CBO estimates
https://archive.ph/vjXkV
messed around with the tool, why wouldnt a quilt of 4 squares evenly subdivide into 4 quilts of size 1? the tool shows it subdividing into 3 quilts of size 2 and 4 squares of size 1?

i could see 4 quilts of size 2 if "quilt size" is defined as length of side for the initial 4 is actually 4 on each side (16 squares)
NBA... Toronto Raptors had/have a big campaign around "We The North".

Except whenever they came to Portland to play the Trailblazers, the arena commentators would mock it with signs like "We The North-er" etc. Portland is just over 2 degrees further north than Toronto.
The only person to blame for that behavior is the chaotic and capricious dictator taking these actions against the population he is oppressing.
That makes me feel better, thank you.
I'm curious to see the tipping point where content on the internet will no longer be relevant for users: no matter how hard you'll be searching, you'll only find crap generated content designed to lure a bot into thinking it's great content for humans.

The big question is where to go next; where should we (the humans) go to talk and search for things that aren't a den of bots that will flood the entire content until they disgust everyone, as is the case with today's big search engines?

A large part of the population can move on private platforms that use their personal data to generate profit. But I think I'm not the only one who doesn't like this idea.

So the next question becomes "where should we (the humans who want our right to privacy respected) go to talk and search for things, that isn't a den of bots"?
Same here. No progress.
"Anti-AI movement"

Polarizing much? If i think "AI" is interesting but oversold and rife with outright scammers right now as an adjunct to its popularity, am i "Anti-AI?"

Why does every fad need to become a religion that enthuses or repulses the entire populace? Why are we grabbing "if you're not with us you're against us" orthodoxies for trivialities and as yet undeveloped potentials?
It’s seems analogous to our spatial dimensions. We can all easily visualize or describe up to a 3D object, but 4D is almost impossible to fathom for most people
its useful to measure and track the problem if only demonstrate it's validity
Nothing to see here. Climate nutjobs artistically protesting at monuments (without damaging them) and risking their futures to raise awareness of an impending doom because they have lost hope there is a future for the planet that is selfishly worth investing in.

Paint will come off in a couple of days. Some bits will remain as their mark on its history.
So far, a classic example of building what the business wants, not what the user's want.
It might not be a strict "preference", more of an expectation how things should be based on previous experience. Like, if you're used to an elevator with a bit of a jerk, an elevator taking you there just as fast but smoother might feel not as fast.
I use the phrase "compulsive liar".

"Bullshits" implies it knows what it's doing, and can have a positive connotation depending on context.
This kind of thing is not irreversible. Remember when Google tried to get everyone on Google+? A far more annoying product push than shoving AI into Google search.
For the interested, the original Dōgen zen koan goes something like this —
Before I began to practice, mountains were mountains and rivers were rivers. After I began to practice, mountains were no longer mountains and rivers were no longer rivers. Now, I have practiced for some time, and mountains are again mountains, and rivers are again rivers.
That's still survivorship bias. Figure out how those 300 survived and why an exponentially larger number of people didn't and you might have a solution for all the people who want to get into farming.
> According to Just Stop Oil’s website, the pigment was made of an “orange cornflour” that would wash away in the rain.

Sensationalist title. It also doesn't match the current title of the actual article:

> Climate protesters arrested after painting Stonehenge monument orange
> a human with anterograde amnesia is not a general reasoner.

Not what I claimed, straw man, and not generally true. Amnesia prevents some memory but not all learning. What is true, but irrelevant here, is that amnesia is a cognitive impairment.

> Any human affected by reverse psychology: clearly not a general reasoner.

This is another clearly false statement, and straw man with respect to GPT. Reverse psychology is not characterized by outright failure to understand a basic straightforward question.

Nothing you’ve said so far demonstrates GPT has agency or initiative, that it will act without a human.

Btw it doesn’t go unnoticed you didn’t respond to either link. Those papers make a stronger argument than me. Check em out.
Didn't release 256 promise less Unix? Delivered.
Nvidia's Ascent to Most Valuable Company Has Echoes of Dot-Com Boom
The Standard Oil of our time?

AMD ""just"" need to fix their software API ecosystem. Developers, developers, developers. Unfortunately I don't think they can do that even if promised a trillion dollar stock valuation. Not because it's technically difficult, either.
It objectively doesn’t feel like then bubble is popping?
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> Every mathamatician knows that the integer 1 and the real number 1 different objects

!!!!!!

The integer 1 is the same as the real number 1 ,is the same as the odd number 1, is the same as the perfect square 1, etc.

ℤ ⊂ ℝ

That this is the top-voted comment on this thread.....
The assumption that it will wash away in the rain rather than find its way into cracks and pits in the rock is an awfully big bet to make vs permanent damage to history.
>ignoring robots.txt

Robots.txt is not legally binding, it is a good will among web stakeholders to respect it. But if you are repeatedly breaking it, you will have an army of web masters against you.

And as far as I remember, big news outlets are already suing LLMs companies or are already licensing their content to them.
Increased efficiency makes systems more fragile though, so minmaxing isn't actually a good outcome. Long term at least.

Next quarter we may all get a bonus, unless a rival AI exploits our fragility...
so... you want to build a commercial service from a FLOSS project but don't want to pay people. seems on brand.

or I guess you want to "pay them with experience and exposure." are you sure you're not in the music industry?
Unfortunately, the internet hasn't been for humans for a long, long time. I think of recipe sites where the actual recipe is waaaay down the page, low density articles needlessly fanned out across multiple pages, or YouTube videos on fixing your dryer with 10 minutes of useless lead-in. These patterns are now so common we almost forget how much better it all once was.

I point so many questions towards GPT / Claude that I used to google search and it feels so much more like I'm getting an answer than a scavenger hunt. Just the facts, you know?

I'm not sure how content authors work in this new reality, but things needed to change. I miss the early internet that was just experts sharing knowledge because they loved the topic and wanted to help and educate others. The best example to me of what the internet once looked like is Inspectopedia: https://inspectapedia.com/aircond/HVAC_Blower_Fan.php
Likely no change. NASA contract with Boeing because it is politically useful, and will continue to do so as long as Boeing exists, regardless of outcomes, as it will continue to be politically useful. Boeing sponsor a great many politicians to ensure this.
I have startups doing $3-$5M ARR growing 100-400%+ that can't raise a Series A
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I don't think it's just simplicity. It's probably also contrary to the interests of some of the law-makers' biggest donors.
Performing cross-database queries with SQLite
I doubt it, at least as a common industry-wide tactic, for two reasons.

The first is that starting and running a business is an entirely different skillset from software development. Just because someone may be a genius dev doesn't mean they'll be any good at business, or even want to. Only a tiny fraction of devs will ever be meaningful competition to the established players regardless of technical skill.

The second is economics -- on the whole, it would be cheaper to simply buy out or squash up-and-coming companies than to overpay devs as a tactic to keep them from starting businesses.

But I don't know. This is just me speculating.