skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would I watch someone else's AI content when I can watch my own with about the same work? It probably takes longer to pick something on Netflix than to shout at my TV to show me some auto-generated on the fly show about whatever I'm feeling like watching right now. Can even be building upon itself "show me yesterday's show but in space and give it some new twists that I don't expect".
> ... makes CGI-heavy movies hard to watch

While I absolutely agree that many movies over-use CGI, even with the relative decline in superhero movies, CGI-heavy movies still top the box office. Going over the list of highest-grossing movies each year [0], you have to go back about three decades to find a movie that isn't CGI-heavy, so apparently they're not that difficult for the general public to watch.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_films
Why are you trying to bring drama in here? Please delete this.
> Okay I guess I've just had a different experience entirely.

I've seen both the good and the bad. I really like the good parts. Most recently, Claude Sonnet 3.5 fixed a math error in my code (I prompted it to check for it from a well-written bug report, and it did it fix it ever so perfectly).

These days, it is pretty much second nature for me to pull up a new file & prompt Copilot to complete writing the entire code from my comment trails. I don't think I've seen as much change in my coding behaviour since Borland Turbo C -> NetBeans.
The Decline of GoPro and What Happened [video]
Transformers clearly represent a significant advancement in software design, this is undeniable. For example, LLMs are so good at language translation that every approach to machine translation ever conceived of is now obsolete by a very large margin. There are a few other examples and certainly some new ones will emerge, so the tech is good and it's here to stay.

The question of "how do we make money from it" is a much harder to answer. Using every available computer to run quadratic time brute force on everything you can scrape from the internet is an unbounded resource sink that offers little practical return for almost everybody, but leveraging modest and practical use of generative machine learning where it works well will absolutely create some real value.
Ok then, my bad, I have not checked the website, but I think that quote should belong in the article as well.

(And I also would disagree to that absolute choice of using no other browser code at all)
> It's always bothered me how yellow-tinted this image is. I guess there was a heat wave or maybe they had just finished reseeding the grass or something.

It's literally just a sunset (which adds a rose-yellow tint). You can tell by the building shadows.
In my team there is an ex professional cyclist from 80s. Sometimes he come in the Sunday group rides with one of his 80s bikes and he is able to overpass everybody.

At the other side, I tried climbing the same hill at same power with my 2017 bike and with my 2023 bike. There was a 4% of difference in the time, probably because better wheels and improved position.
They did years ago, as of late they are in fact moving faster than others. I think my point stands, they are no longer clearly behind in features, and in fact probably are near tied if you subtract the Chrome-only stuff, and take into account there's a variety of things Safari has that others don't now.
I can't summarize it better than saying that AI hype is deserved, but the excessive euphoria and FOMO are not.
Seems like the project quickly shut the annoying troublemakers down. The few people on Mastodon that are upset about this don't matter and they'll quickly move on to being upset about some other trivial matter.
There are two problems around free speech in America, as I see it:

1. There are a small but very loud minority of people on the far left who are authoritarian and want to suppress all speech that they don't like (there are such people on the far right but they are much less politically influential than they were a couple decades ago). At this moment in time, far left authoritarians are trying to ban dissent from their preferred points of view via claims of "hate speech" and "disinformation". The first amendment was designed precisely to protect unpopular opinions, even odious ones, and there is no requirement in the first amendment for truthfulness.

2. Speech has moved online, increasingly to a very small number of social media platforms and mass media that is controlled by a very small number of owners. This provides a very small number of choke points where an enterprising authoritarian, either private citizen or government actor, can suppress speech that they dislike. The "algorithms" argument is a red herring; the most basic algorithm is "publishers I choose to follow, in reverse chronological order, and excluding publishers that I block", but the social media companies can't resist making it more complex and not providing this basic capability as a selectable option.

The solution to #1 is to fix #2.

The solution to #2 is to end corporatism; let's stop treating companies exactly the same as we treat humans wrt rights. Companies don't act like humans when they are run well (they are amoral entities that exist to serve limited business purposes to the benefit of investors). When poorly run, they magnify the power of the people at the controls of the company. And "incorporation" is not a natural construct; it's a legal construct. Laws should, IMO, benefit the public first. If we're going to create a legal structure that bestows limited immunity from liability for investors, then why not attach some pro-social strings? For example, we could change section 215 of the DMCA to explicitly state that immunity from liability for user-created content, only applies when the company acts as a common carrier, e.g. they do not have a right to freedom to dissociate with specific customers, and the company by default allows all content with the content neutral algorithm above. The company may ALSO provide their own algorithms for displaying and prioritizing content, but it must be explicit opt-in and able to be opted out of.

If this seems radical, consider that under this suggestion, a company could moderate however they want, but must make it optional; they could also choose to act like newspapers or TV stations and forgo liability protection and moderate however they want and associate with whomever they want.

I'm simply saying that I think it's a fair trade for society to say "if you want all these immunities from liabilities that normal people don't enjoy, then you have to serve all people, even people you don't like".
High Availability, Zone-Aware Load Balancing
I know that the wording of the Budapest Memorandum didn't require a commitment but it could have been a basis for "you signed this and by breaking this agreement we have grounds for a defense". A defense pact could also have been made with Ukraine without them being made a NATO member.

> This, and a perfectly reasonable desire not to stumble into a direct and intrinsically risky confrontation with their main nuclear rival

But now the situation is worse, a hot proxy war. By making an agreement with Kiev before the war it would have been Russia who needed to avoid a confrontation.

> For one that doesn't like a diplomatic solution, but an overtly military one.

It might be closer to gunboat diplomacy, but rather that than the senseless loss of life we've had since then.
STP is "slow" STP, and RSTP is a degenerate case of MSTP!

MSTP is Multiple spanning trees ie you can group VLANs and prefer paths for those groups of VLANs. That means if you have say two links between two bridges (switches) you can prefer some to use one link and the rest to use the other, that means you are not "wasting" a standby link. They will fail over to the surviving link on failure. STP and RSTP will only consider one link as a whole, so two ports are "wasted" when not in use: in the case of a two bridge, two links example.

Old school STP without the Rapid part hasn't really been a thing for several decades. I can't think of why you wouldn't use RSTP in general but if you need to make best use of your forwarding capacity then a 50/50 MSTP may be indicated. That's where you look at your traffic flows across VLANs and try to bundle them up into a 50/50% collection. One lot prefers link A and the rest get link B. Obviously you can get really creative as the number of VLANs and links mount up. Bear in mind that dot1Q is a simple version of QinQ!

Sorry, got a bit carried away there.

For nearly all intents and purposes, RSTP is STP. If you plug in a network cable between two devices and it does not start working within say five seconds then you are living in the 1990s.
Anna O.: The woman behind Freud's first case study
Can you come up with an example of tech that was impactful without delivering value to others?

The closest I can think of would be the atom bomb, but even that arguably brought significant value in terms of relative geopolitical stability.
I interviewed at a non-profit that was not looked upon favorably by various big tech orgs. Microsoft had revoked their non-profit discount, Salesforce would not renew their contract. This org was operating completely legally, just supporting causes disliked by these groups.

We’ve seen the same with banks refusing to do business with people because of their political or social affiliations.

These seem ridiculous. Of course a business should have the ability to choose who they affiliate with, but if all businesses disassociate simultaneously, what recourse does an individual or organization have?

At the same time, who would want to hold accounts for organizations universally considered “bad”? When the label of “bad” changes at social media speed, who is safe?
Digital sound is criticized but creating fake analog sound is celebrated.

[1] Hyundai Ioniq 5 N
https://youtu.be/HZczpFsv9ZY

[2] The Secret To Making Your Car Sound Like An Old F1 Racer Is Found Under Pressure
https://jalopnik.com/the-secret-to-making-your-car-sound-lik...
The show itself sure, but Graham Hancock just happens to be the loudest proponent of this theory, there is solid evidence to support it, from Randall Carlson and a few other people I’m not remembering atm.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younger_Dryas_impact_hypothe...

“Although initially sceptical, Wallace Broecker—the scientist who proposed the conveyor shutdown hypothesis—eventually agreed with the idea of an extraterrestrial impact at the Younger Dryas boundary, and thought that it had acted as a trigger on top of a system that was already approaching instability.”
Friendlier link:

https://lite.cnn.com/2024/07/03/business/noncompete-clause-f...

The judge only seems to have delayed the ban for the US Chamber of Commerce, the Business Roundtable, the Texas Association of Business, and the Longview Chamber of Commerce, but not for the companies that they represent.

This limited injunction seems a little strange by reading just the article.
> Porn-viewers will be asked to use the app to verify their age. Once verified, they'll receive 30 generated “porn credits” with a one-month validity granting them access to adult content. Enthusiasts will be able to request extra credits.

If I'm an adult, why is it any of the government's business what I do online?

This goes well beyond keeping adult material out of the hands of minors and jumps straight to regulating adult behavior.
Personally I make sure mac users do this before they get write access to a network share. It's just a matter of common curtesy IMHO.
If they had been doing the ritual regularly enough to preserve it for over 12,000 years in a relatively small range, it seems surprising that the excavations didn't turn up way more instances than it did. They can find 2 perfect instances within centuries of each other 12kya in the same excavation, then it just teleports without a trace to the 1880s?

This sounds more like a birthday paradox. There are so many rituals and superstitions in indigenous peoples over the millennia that it would be shocking if you could never find cases of things that looked vaguely similar when reduced to an archaeological residue and you cast a net as wide as 'anything which anyone has ever described which sounds similar no matter how many millennia'.

(I would also note that 'fat smeared on stuff and involving fires' is not nearly as rare as it might sound. Fat is important and used in many sacrifices or medicines - eg Homer, with all that fat wrapped on or stacked on top of bones in a holocaust to the gods.)
Diving into deep learning: Understanding Deep Learning book review [pdf]
>I can't think of a single recent technology that was so widely adopted by tech and non-tech people alike, immediately integrated into day-to-day experience.

This is not meant to be an offense, but you are in a bubble. The vast, vast majority of people do not use LLMs in their day-to-day life. That’s ok, we’re all in our own bubbles.

You should also post the 2048 clone as proof. Lots people saying they built X in Y minutes with AI. But, when it’s inspected, it’s revealed it very obviously doesn’t work right and needs more development.
38 OECD countries have combined population 1.38 billion, GDP $49.6 trillion

$600 billion is $434 per person, $36 per month per person, 1.2% percent of GDP.

If 75% of the spending goes to increasing productivity, I could see it. Get rid of $450 billion in labor costs (12 - 15 million work years). Cut worked hours in call centers, customer service, many services, menial programming jobs, ...

But I don't see it happening fast enough to pay for current investments.
True that, but I think in a very short amount of time, using dedicated general purpose GPUs just for inferencing is going to be mega overkill.

If there's dedicated inferencing silicon (like say the thing created by Groq), all those GPUs will be power sucking liabilities, and then the REAL singularity superintelligence level training can begin.
> But in which sector will these extemely important companies be active?

I dont think anyone knows the answer to that question.
Among many features, ZFS offers storage snapshots, deduplication and file integrity.
> Can ChatGPT materially and positively impact the code written by big companies? Can it do meaningful work in excel? Can it do meaningful PowerPoint work? Can it give effective advice on management?

> Right now we don’t know the answer to those questions.

I know the answer to the first three. Yes, yes, and yes. I've done them all, including all of them in the past few weeks.

(Which is how I learned that it's much better to ask ChatGPT to use Python evaluation mode and Pandoc and make you a PPTX, than trying to do anything with "Office 365 Copilot" in PowerPoint...)

As for the fourth question - well, ChatGPT can give you better advice than most advice on management/leadership articles, so I presume the answer here is "Yes" too - but I didn't verify it in practice.

> current systems aren’t creating real enterprise value at this moment in time

Yes, they are. They would be creating even more value if not for the copyright and exports uncertainty, which significantly slows enterprise adoption.
What Spain used to censor Catalonia's 2017 independence referendum
Beautiful UI.
I think it's also not progressing the block size with score: IIRC the original came also begins spawning 8s and 16s once you get above your first 512 block. But I could be misremembering.

(This kind of feedback driven generation is one of the things I do find very impressive about LLMs. But it's currently more or less the only thing.)
Their opinions on this subject may not matter (to most), but I think it’s problematic to say people don’t matter.
Maratona de Dolomites, probably the most beautiful amateur cycling events in the world, has more than 50k subscribers and they selected only 9k.
Meanwhile I have the opposite experience.

I have used chatgpt less and less, and bar copilot which is a useful autocomplete I just don't have much use for AI.

I know I'm not alone, and even though I've seen many people super excited by Dall-E first and chatgpt later they use very rarely both of them.
>> A huge amount of economic value is going to be created by AI. Company builders focused on delivering value to end users will be rewarded handsomely.

> Such strong speculative predictions about the future, with no evidence.

The speculation makes sense from a VC's perspective, but perhaps not from the perspective of society at large (i.e. human workers).

From the revenue-generating use cases of LLMs (== AI in the article) that I've seen so far, most seem to be about replacing human mental labor with LLMs.

The replacement of workers with AI-based machines will likely happen in mature industries whose market growth is basically capped. Productivity will stay mostly the same, but the returns will increase dramatically as the human workforce is hollowed out.

To the extent that AI instead empowers some workers to multiply their productivity with the same amount of effort, then it can create more economic value overall, and this may happen in industries with a long growth runway ahead.

On balance, it's not clear to me whether the growth (in productivity and employment) that comes from the latter will be enough to offset the employment losses from the former.

But in either scenario, the VCs investing in AI win, either from efficiency gains, or from accelerating growth in new industries.
Totally. If you enjoy the config and have the time, by all means.

If you just want it to work, by a Synology. Mine has been running strong for several years now and has docker images for my unify controller, pi hole and Plex. Took minimal time to setup and none since that day. Love it

Edit:
And my encrypted cloud backup in Backblaze B2 was equally as easy to setup and costs a whopping $2 a month for every family pic, video and doc.

I have triple backup, with mirrored RAID for one of those. No effort, maximum peace of mind.
http://archive.today/u5zO4
Used by malware mostly, I think.
Unfortunately gigabit ethernet is far from obsolete.

Yes, there's 2.5 gigabit on some consumer hardware, but it's still kind of rare.

Also who is excited about a 2.5x speedup after 20 years? Nobody cares until we need 10 gigabit internet access (which will probably never happen).
> Thanks to his heat pump and solar panels, though, he estimates he’s now saving £2,700 ($3,420) on his utility bills annually.

This is amazing. I live in Phoenix and I don't even spend that much on electricity and gas combined.

And he's SAVING that.
The telemetry-first OS is the problem, not the language.
The first time I fired up TikTok I was subjected to video of an older, "surgically-enhanced" woman in a Trump bikini (intention obvious), and someone putting a bumper sticker about killing pedophiles on their car (intention less obvious: a dog whistle for QAnon).

Maybe it's not a nefarious CCP mind control platform. Maybe it is even doing this sort of thing totally blindly based on "engagement". But there's definitely propaganda being served up by default.
Why do they think this will lead to anarchism and not a military dictatorship?
its only $10 https://gen.xyz/pricing
Ernest Hemingway's brother established a floating republic in the Caribbean
Just out of curiosity, what's the human lawyer baseline on that?
This is not an AI or ML problem. This is an Nvidia, Google, Microsoft, Meta, Tesla, etc. problem.

Most AI startups aren't building massive data centers so they're unaffected. Most money isn't spent on compute in most startups. Only a few companies spend big.

It's obviously a terrible idea to invest massive amounts into compute when Nvidia's profit margins are so astronomical if you need ROI in the long term. The massive corporations won't get their money back for these investments; but they don't have to.
Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson
Not to mention that it's an obnoxious and incompetent design. Look at the fact that Mac OS litters every other computer it visits with turds, for its own (and in fact only one user's) benefit. It's doubly stupid because the next browsing Mac that comes along trounces the previous one's turd.

If Apple wanted to store view settings for remote volumes (or even local volumes), the competent design would have been to store them locally (and per user) in a central location on the machine doing the browsing.

I remember the promised re-write of Finder and thought it never happened. Nothing seems to have improved for the user. I could post a list of decades-old defects that persist today.

The one thing I can think of that has finally been fixed (and this was long after the "rewrite") was that you can now finally sort the file list properly: with folders at the top.

Now I wish someone would explain something that might actually be worse than DS-turds: the presence of a "Contents" subdirectory in every goddamned Apple package. I mean... who thought you needed to create a directory called "Contents" to hold the contents of the parent directory? It's mind-boggling.
Apple Vision Pro is changing disabled users' lives
ODroid H-series SBC's are standard Intel CPUs with (at least for the H2+) Linux supported hardware for pretty much everything (haven't tried running X on them though :-P )

they are my favorite 'home server' currently...cheap, standard, and expandable - oh! And SILENT! :-)
I agree. I've just seen it hallucinate too many things that on the surface seem very plausible but are complete fabrications. Basically my trust is near 0 for anything chatgpt, etc. spits out.

My latest challenge is dealing with people that trust chatgp to be infallible, and just quote the garbage to make themselves look like they know what they are talking about.
https://archive.ph/PndED
They’re a _VC_. If they don’t believe in it, what are they even doing? You can’t really expect them to be particularly objective about it.
I don't know what your operating definition of "grifter" is but for me, a grifter is not a company that delivers a product which gains a large adoption and mindshare (ChatGPT) and essentially sets the world on fire. (not an opinion on Altman specifically but OpenAI at large)
Maybe you don't want well-defined terms in your pedagogy, but I do.
True. It's also a rude reality that much of the US uses word art and comic sans to advertise things, so I might just be a snob. Then again, impressing the snobs is a relevant part of the mass adoption curve :-)
That's splitting a pretty fine technical hair for pedagogy at this level.
I don't give a damn about economic value of the game - I just wanted to have a 2048 that's lean and not powering the adtech economy. At the same time, I care about both economic and non-monetary value of me leveraging AI tools in creating software, so this game was a perfect little project to evaluate aider-chat as a tool.
Since it was brought up, can you, or someone else summarize what happened?

I am not looking for drama on Mastodon (it seems I need an account to search?), or drama here. Just some facts to judge whether this is a red flag of some kind, worth investigating more.
I think the opening position evolved out of a desire for more interesting openings and resulting middle and end games. The position does seem strange at first, but it is sort of the foundation for more sensible positions, like turning 6-1 into a fortification of two pieces on the same space. Without the opening position, you would only have at most one checker on a space with this roll. I have absolutely nothing to prove any of this, it's purely speculation, as this is something I've wondered about as well.
If you run Samba you can also configure Samba to just ignore such creations.
And battle-tested SREs
What a waste of time and money.

> It will be voluntary...

and then:

> ...is likely to be replaced by the EU’s very own digital identity system