skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Remember when people were promising blockchain but had nothing to show for it (sometimes, not even an idea)?

They're still on r/Metaverse_blockchain. Every day, a new "meme coin". Just in:

"XXX - The AI-Powered Blockchain Project Revolutionizing the Crypto World! ... Where AI Meets Web3"

"XXX is an advanced AI infrastructure that develops AI-powered technologies for the Web3, Blockchain, and Crypto space. We aim to improve the Web3 space for retail users & startups by developing AI-powered solutions designed explicitly for Web3. From LLMs to Web3 AI Tools, XXX is the go-to place to boost your Web3 flow with Artificial Intelligence."
Looking stuff up in an SQL DB and showing it to the masses (wordpress) is not very dynamic.

But, neither is deploying neko the cat to sleep on your cursor, or the dancing turtle of Kame-IPv6.

Intruding PHP into the actual FQDN of the web, and making 3x4.ARITHMETIC.EXAMPLE.COM work as a calculator, now thats dynamic.

REST is pretty dynamic. If I GET it and then POST it back with changes, I feel like I've had a good day.

I personally hate the cursor implicit in tabular data websites. There should be a normative "no cursor" mode to just get all the damn data not the page management requirement.

Riddle me this: How does "the independent" newspaper create a high visual content web which on my tablet appears to render INSTANTLY and yet has 100 points of image and text? it loads faster than almost any other site. It also kills my CPU and is a terrible design, but my goodness it's fast.
Judging by what he puts in the open in his other articles, an accomplished fencer he is, so there must be a few who had to fight!
Some interest notes on the custom machine learning model they built for this feature here: https://www.holovaty.com/writing/machine-learning-thoughts/
What the hell does that mean fix your docs?? -

companies have tons of document libraries and documentation that need sifting through and are generating more content regularly and => RAG and vector search is game changer with real value there

Eg we implemented RAG + vector search at a manufacturing company and it changed their workflows entirely

And to coding with LLMs, Say what you will about AI coding but code review/linting and LLM created unit tests are as itself game changing as IDE intellisense this value is worth at least one junior developer on the team - that’s 70k yearly salary alone benefit
DVD-R’s are actually still super commonplace in the medical field. They’re the perfect way to provide patients their medical images in a cheap physical format that is readable by all electronic medical systems.
Sorry but this will collapse in the next 18 months.
> 'C-suite' and it's impossible to try and make them understand,

I think we should do a HN backed project, crowd funded style.

1. Identify the best P-hackers in current science with solid uptake on their content (citations).

2. Pay them to conduct a study proving that C levels who eat crayons have higher something... revenue, pay, job satisfaction, all three.

3. buy stock in crayons

4. Publish and hype, profit.

5. Short crayons and out your publication as fraud.

6. Profit

Continue to work out of spite, always with a crayon on hand for when every someone from the C-suite demands something stupid and offer it to them.

A man can dream... I feel like this is the plot to a Hunter S Thompson writes Brave new World set in the universe of Silicon Valley.

I should be a prompt engineer.
We are already risking being wrong.
The AI hype happened in close proximity to the decline of the crypto mania and so many mediocre grifters from crypto latched onto AI as a fraud life raft.
I suppose superficially, for retrieval augmented generation use cases, the more data you have (and the better you are at retrieval), the more useful extra space in the context window is because you put things from retrieval into the context of the model to do the generation. That said, literally everyone has more than enough data to completely dwarf the context window of any of the existing models so it seems true but irrelevant.

One thing about gemini that may be a benefit here is not just the size of the window, but the fact that the context window seems to be better utilised by the model. GPT-4 seems to have a characteristic where the start and end of the context window are much more important to the model than anything in the middle, meaning that if you stuff the window with retrieved data, things in the middle of the context get ignored by the model. Istr that is not the case with gemini, which takes more notice of things in the middle of the window. Maybe attention is all you need.[1]

[1] Sorry for the pun but I couldn't resist. Any case if you search "Perplexity over long sequences" in the gemini 1.5 tech report it explains this effect and shows their results https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/gemini/gemini_...
It's like thinking about how stupid the average person is and then realizing that half of humanity is even stupider.
Article says brand is XAG so must be one of these: https://www.xa.com/en/plant-protection-uas The photo looks like either XAG P100 or P100 Pro.
There's a team at my company that chose Mongo for a new data transform project about a year ago. They didn't create a schema for their output (haven't to this day) and I'm convinced they chose it purely because they could just not handle any edge cases and hope nobody would notice until it was already deployed, which is what happened. For example maybe one in a thousand of the records are just error messages - like they were calling an API and got rate limited or a 404 or whatever and just took that response and shoved it into the collection with everything else.
I take your points here, and I agree.
This paper is extremely difficult to parse. They are aggregating together ADS incidents, regardless of whether the ADS was in command of the vehicle. The other thing that is making their data quite hard to interpret is that they aren't including half of Waymo operational data, because they are using accidents reported to the California DMV. Accidents are only reported to the DMV when they happen in the absence of a paying passenger. Any incidents that occur with a customer aboard are reported to the CPUC instead.
When I TA'd computability & complexity as a graduate student, I always loved giving this proof of Godel's Theorem as an easy corollary of the Halting Problem as a homework assignment.

It's beautiful, elegant, and easy to understand. I was introduced to the proof by a note in Sipser's text.
There is a disturbing trend on HN that articles on AI that aren't just gushing positive affirmation get flagged. The last one I saw was

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40626692

which linked to a real journal article called "Chat GPT is Bullshit". HN readers are evidently overly sensitive these days.
I don't care about these. I care about the readers who might not have done job searching recently and might not know their worth in the market.
I'm really wondering about this. Is it just "recycling things people have said before", or is it genuinely generative?

"Recycling things people have said before" is basically search, and that is hugely valuable and quite enough for me. If it's genuinely generative, that's a cosmic leap beyond search.

My guess is that it's not genuinely generative, but rather that the long tail of "everything that everyone has said before" is so vast as that it feels like magic when it's retrieved.

But LLMs have shocked me enough on the search front that I'm no longer smugly confident about this.
Could it be Edward Gibson [1]?

> I work on all aspects of human language: the words, the structures, across lots of languages. I mostly works [sic] with behavioral data: what people say, and how they perform in simple experiments.

(I find it ironic to see a grammatical error in his bio. Probably because of a mass find/replace from "He" to "I" but still...)

[1] http://tedlab.mit.edu/ted.html
Which Gemini was used is important too btw. - just tried Gemini-1.5-pro and it was working just fine. So I really think the newer versions of LLMs are able to catch this.
Oh, Come on. My girlfriend gifted me a CD-Case (1995-1996) because I was one of the few weird guys who did the CDs and stuff while that lousy-sleepy town barely got the right cassettes on time.

I loved that phase. I learned about HTML, read up on the trends, and a lot about computers from the CDs that came with the magazines. I had my first "IDE" from a CD—HotDog HTML Editor.
When my son was still very small, he was about 8 years old, I gave him this practice: everyone lies, when and who exactly is difficult to make out, so you need to check all the information, even from teachers at school.

and from parents too. because we can sometimes say something that a child takes at face value, but in reality it turns out to be a false fact.

the child accessed search engines from a tablet and asked whether what they were telling him at school and at home was true.

why the grass is green, why the sky is blue, why rock is good music))) and why the teacher’s anger is directly proportional to the size of her salary)))))

this didn’t teach how to program, but it did teach you to teach yourself.

I think this can be applied to programming as well. if a person hears or reads the same facts from different sources, he will learn easier and faster.

a good way to force by giving an opportunity. As a result, the child learned to study. and at one time I learned this skill only at the Polytechnic
I don't know about the actual truth, but my feeling is that FreeBSD has gotten a lot faster in recent years.

Some of the netflix patches literally made some of my workloads 20% faster over night.
I worked on a similar app. Did several iterations before binning it.

If I were to do it again I'd focus solely on business model & value proposition canvases and research. You need to find a USP that both sides of your market really value (ideally leading to viral growth) and that meetup can't replicate.

This is absolutely not a technical problem despite how shit meetup is.

There are several informative videos on YT from the founder from several years ago. They probably tried most of what you're thinking of doing. You can learn from them.

Good luck!

PS I have actually found a new take that I think solves a lot of the issues I had (revenue, cheap scalable marketing, growth). I'm keeping it close to my chest, but at some point I may give it a go. There are novel approaches out there. Be creative and original.
I think #426
The issue its that its not just with technology, but absolutely anything that could be loosely defined as an expert-client relationship. Management always budgets less time and money than what anyone with expertise in the subject would feel is necessary. So most things are compromised from the outset, and if they are successful its miraculous that the uncredited experts that moved heaven and earth overcame such an obstinate manager. Its no wonder most businesses fail.
That would imply that I've drank the Fedora/FDO/systemd Kool-Aid and trashed a perfectly working FHS. I have no interest in wasting the time trying to conform to their nonsense.
My first experience with UNIX (Solaris) was in the late 1998 or so. Initially, it was with tty's but there were a few machines in the lab with displays that supported X. I never used Windows before seriously so in some sense, X was my first windowing system. xeyes was probably the best vanity toy I saw.

I remember trying to understand how things like twm, fvwm, motif etc. worked. The first few programs using Xlib and Xaw. Great times.

Happy birthday X11!
there's a huge gap between discovering something and it becoming widely available

just look at the slow adoption of EVs in the US due to the lack of infrastructure. Eventually it might gain parity with ICEs but we're a lot further away from that than people anticipated.
The comparison between machine and humans uses the results of the average human driver. Not all humans are alike. Some cause accidents, others don't. There's some randomness involved (every human might be the cause of an accident at some point), but most accidents are caused by individual behavior of specific humans.

For a convincing comparison, remove all those human accidents caused by intentional violations / reclessness, looking at their phones, and known but ignored medical conditions. And compare again.

On average we might be safer with all-AV traffic. But we might be even safer by removing the most dangerous drivers and allowing the rest to continue to drive manually. That's the capability of automation to aim for, not the average human.
Quite the opposite, at least in some cases. The state lives in the HTML itself, and actual dev reports of large systems rewrites from react to htmx show faster systems as a result, not slower. In practice, it depends on what you're doing with it -- there isn't one right answer for all systems.
A psychological study of children if they would take a small but immediate payout versus a larger but delayed payout.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_marshmallow_experim...
Yes, dang commented there.

A good calm all around.
Wall of text is good, thanks!

Ok that’s a good review. I think those shortcomings could possibly be overcome by breadboarding your own modules and bypassing! Oh wow, I can see so much time getting lost with this thing haha
And more, smaller, robots vs large tractors could put an end to monocultures. Monoculture is the result of optimizing for minimal human labour, not an optimization for yields. So when labour is free, mixed fields are the way to maximize profits
I mean, yeah?

No non-idiot criminal or terrorist was going to ever get picked up at the border. It’s the equivalent of getting arrested with 60lbs of pot in your trunk when you got pulled over for speeding through a red light in a car with a burned out headlight.

It’s especially hilarious going though this shit as a Canadian crossing into the US.

Like, if I drove a mile east or west I’d literally have to “off road” my way through a dozen feet of grass and I’d be over the border. I mean, shit, look at places like Point Roberts. Literally crossing some roads moves you between countries. In others the only reason you’ll know you moved between countries is a vaguely angry sign saying if you walk past it it would be illegally entering the US.

The whole thing was only ever going to catch dumb criminals. And yet it’s done well enough that they keep doing it.
Great! So if I am hit (blind pedestrian) by an AV at dusk, I can at least say it wouldn't have happened statistically if I weren't out and about so late? Sorry, but these "Is safer then human drivers" statistics dont decrease my AV anxiety. No, they make it even worse, because wording makes it obvious some of you want them to look good.
As applied to software development...

Sooner or later every developer hits the situation where someone proposes "rewriting from scratch".

Probably 1 in 10 such situations have merit. Probably 1 in 10 of the merit ones will be successful.

Knowing if you are in the 10%, and the 1% is kinda the skill.
For the 9% starting from scratch may have merit, but be unachievable for time or resource reasons. For the 90% it may sound like a good idea, but we'll keep selling (and developing) the old thing in the meantime so you never catch up.

But it's a good gig for developers. You can write code for ages without ever having to ship. I know of one rewrite that started in 2006, and they'll be switching over "any day now".

Of course a rewrite is possible. You only need to answer 2 questions;
A) do you want it?
B) can you afford it (in money and time?)

Incidentally I (successfully) did a rewrite once (albeit that it was to change platform.) But I stipulated that it would not be backwards compatible. Not the data. Not the UI. I insisted we, um, well, start from scratch ....
I have not done either myself to be clear.
I do seem to have made a choice not to read the content (stopped reading it based on tone) and I'm going to hold to that and likely hold it against the author in the future. They are welcome to overcome my bias with good content /arguments.
>Who knows what our absolute capabilities are, especially if we hardly or maybe even never try (at least certain things)?

Ego quoque, for misunderstanding what you meant by "certain things" (>)

I stress that I manifestly do not want to see physicists and tech bros publish bio-meta-how-tos just yet, did you mean high quality professionally conducted BSL training?

As for 082349872349872, I think exploring the Taoist metaphysics of marginally injurious mutual surprise as an epsilon over Buddhist tainted reinterpretations could be at most a waste of time.
And what's more, I can vouch that he's not a physicist, not even vicariously.

>though an ideology taking root in the mind is necessary to exploit its capabilities to their maximum.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Okay so give me an example of an interesting ideology, as opposed to merely a conspiracy theory, such as "applying skepticism to your own beliefs" )

I could hit the News, but I am interested in how you think.

E.g. did I misunderstand that you are interested in locating the precise quantitative boundaries of Systems I vs II?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27489329
What a sh*t show. Something with so many dependants should not be run by a couple of dudes LGTM'ing each other
I was trying to be nice but yeah, "i'm smarter" and "i crush your skull" are not witty. There are nice twists of phrase in there though. The kid has potential!
Sometimes things really are as significant as they seem.
Waymo is in Austin. Rainey street gets clogged with them on the weekend. I've seen them navigate Mopac without any trouble, too.
Yes, these commands have way too many options for anyone to remember. The commands are best wrapped up in a script. An ISO install is usually a manual process that can take time, but it is definitely easier.
still, I would have out that mess in jsonb in Postgres :D
No, it's because the numbers are made the f** up. That same chart, as the author notes also points out that allegedly a third of companies have outsourced "strategic decision making" to AI. That is so offensive to any person who has a brain that the authors much criticized tone is completely warranted if you have any love for truth at all.

I mean, contempt is literally the only sane and appropriate emotional reaction to the amount of lies, and it is intentional lies, that are being marketed to people.
There’s a little more to it. Learning-based systems didn’t prove themselves until the ImageNet moment around 2013. Machine learning wasn’t used in previous AI hype cycles because it wasn’t a learning system but what we now call good old fashioned AI - GOFAI - hard coded features, semantic web, etc.
You brought me back memories of startx vs xinit (or something similar command that did nothing but start the graphical ui) in my FreeBSD CDs bought through Walnut Creek cdrom site... I couldn't believe they shipped them to my god forsaken village in Mexico .. 12 year old me was ecstatic! Great times.
I worked for an AI startup that got bought by a big tech company and I've seen the hype up close. In the inner tech circles it's not exactly a big lie. The tech is good enough to make incredible demos but not good enough to generalize into reliable tools. The gulf between demo and useful tool is much wider than we thought.
Off topic, but when you’re waiting for a gap to make your turn into your driveway, do you pull the left edge of your lane to allow people behind you to pass on your right? (I observe people that don’t do this, they dwell in the middle and often even the right side of their lane, and I’m wondering if they are just oblivious to traffic building up behind them, or there’s a safety reason to block people from passing on the right or other safety reason to stay to the right of their lane..)
this is so refreshing to see
A measly 70k saved today to make fewer positions for junior talent that you will so desperately need to be senior when your current crop retires. You might as well burn the office furniture for heat this winter and save on hvac.
I can't do France and the UK, but I can do Germany and the UK. There's definitely similarities, but there's a lot of differences as well, and the differences are often important. For example, the longer I rent in Germany, the safer I am against being forced out or having my rent arbitrarily raised. That is not true in the UK, where there is very little protection for renters. The types of apartment one can get in the UK and in Germany differ significantly, in everything from the quality of materials to the design of the neighbourhood.

This means that things that will be a significant issue for a tenant in one location will be irrelevant in another location and vice versa. Understanding the issues on the ground usually requires living in that place for a significant amount of time.
Reminds me of a joke where mankind got so technologically advanced that they were able to create man from a piece of ground. They contacted God and told him they reached his level since they can create a man from a piece of ground. God asked them to repeat the process and when they started to collect some ground he stopped them saying "no, not with my ground..."
It's always been true, depending on how you interpret it. At any given point of time over the lifetime of the internet, there was always more bandwidth in packing a car full of the prevailing storage technology than in using the network. Over time, tape/drive capacities have increased, just as network speeds have, but I don't think was ever a point where the network was faster.

Also, it's probably still true, using the latest LTO tapes.
It's tiny compared to 10 years ago when it was all the rage and DBs were dead...
This was a cellphone notification, however, using the cellphone emergency broadcast system. It can be targeted down to the tower (although the GUI probably doesn't let you do that).
Haha, nice suggestive questioning, but I am not falling for it. Your base assumtion is wrong, websites are not nice and dandy, its more like throwing dice to see if you're happy or not. In fact, the more "progressive" a website is, the less likely it is accessible.. If it is nominally accessible, its often not comfortable to use.
Yes, and undoing this means it's no longer UNIX as it will no longer run on that PDP-11! (Unless you can afford a bigger disk I guess.)
A Derailleur Collection
The overall fatality rate went down by 90%, though. That’s a fairly big deal: 30,000 fewer fatalities per year in the US alone. The ideal, of course, is no cars: but if you have to have a car, the next-best is no humans near it or in it.
Be angry more. I work in China but Im French, so people assume (and I nudge them to think), that it's a culture thing for me to express anger publicly at injustice or idiocy.

But it's liberating to be angry at bullshit (and God knows China is the bullshit Mecca), and AI is the top bullshit these days. We're not anti innovation because we say chatgpt is not gonna maintain our trading systems or whatever you work on. It's a funny silly statistical text generator that uses hundreds of thousands of video cards to output dead http links.

We're far from anything intelligent but it's at least indeed very artificial.
This person has significantly less ml exp. than I do. I guess it's fine for me to totally dismiss their argument in the same way they dismiss anyone who has less than them.
> A prediction of the next token being better isnt intelligence

Why? I think it absolutely can be intelligence.
Why would all of these systems be connected to a single ai? I feel like you are describing something criminal humans do through social engineering, how do you foresee this AI finding itself in this position?
Any specific safety reasons?
Maybe Wilhelm Reich with his book 'Listen, Little Man!'?