skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To paraphrase Upton Sinclair, it is difficult to get a man to care about something, when his salary depends on his not caring about it.

A lot of money has poured into AI, money potentially well in excess of the return on investment over the next several years. The field, from investors to CEOs and downwards to developers, is in a state of collective suspension of disbelief. There is going to be a lot of people out of work when reality reasserts itself.
> investors/founders/PMs don’t really care

Garry Tan from YC is a great example of this.

It's not that he doesn't care. It's just that he believes that the next model will be the one that fixes it. And companies that jump on board now can simply update their model and be in prime position. Similar to how Tesla FSD is always 2 weeks away from perfection and when it happens they will dominate the market.

And because companies are experimenting with how to apply AI these startups are making money. So investors jump in on the optimism.

The problem is that for many use cases e.g. AI agents, assistance, search, process automation etc. they very much do care about accuracy. And they are starting to run out of patience for the empty promises. So there is a reckoning coming for AI in the coming year or two and it will be brutal. Especially in this fundraising environment.
I have found that implementing a regression test suite for such systems is a really good way of holding a mirror up to the mud ball and showing it what it could look like if it smartened itself up a bit. If it’s too much to apply some discernment and modularity to the underlying codebase then you can instead do this with the test suite and reflect those discoveries back into the codebase with the benefit that you can now prove your changes don’t break the documented, expected behaviour.

It’s like rewriting the code but by passing the ball from production code to test code and back to figure out who the individual players are.
pytorch already supports AMD with device=cuda

already opensourced ROCm/HIP

https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/blob/fb8876069d89aaf27cc9...
I've often wondered how important the tides are to the migration of fish onto land and our subsequent evolution. Our moon's relative size is another earthly anomaly and without the moon tides would be solar driven and pretty minimal (AFAIK).
Hype. Every so many years some sort of semi-novel software gets invented/improved and some dude puts 100mg of 2c-b in his Huel shake and realizes that he’s invented the godhead. This dude invariably has buddies that do VC.

It’s the same reason why we heard about blockchain for years despite it having near zero practical uses
I agree personally. I don't use LLMs for most things these days because I've been bitten in the ass enough times (whether it was real fallout or just me being able to prove the LLM wrong) that I don't trust them at all. To me it's a showstopper because it can get even the simplest explanations very incorrect and that's not useful to me.

They're still my first go over google these days but I usually only use them for code or weird word transformations and any information is double checked. Pretty useless as an answer bot.
A fingerprint is unique. A snowflake is unique. But for some reason we find it difficult to face the possibility that intelligent life - on planet earth - is in a similar way unique.
Fortunately keeping people happy isn't the purpose of wikipedia, and it's good that the editors haven't lost sight of that.
Bronze age would be challenge. I think stone age is also somewhat questionable. Possible, but much harder.
I regret it. My M1 air is already showing its age and is a bit slow at times. Not sure if the extra RAM would have helped.

I've only had a couple instances during intense hackathons where I get the low memory popup though. but when it happens its annoying af
> But I've never heard big stories about the government going after big Usenet providers.

The most litigious government has a 'safe harbor' provision most of the major Usenet backbones comply with: https://www.copyright.gov/512/

And they do take down a substantial amount of content every day, so while everyone knows piracy is common there, what more are they supposed to do? At this point the main effective thing governments can do to make it annoying to use Usenet for piracy is target the indexers (and they do this, but more always move in to replace the ones that are shut down)
Okay, that's a good analysis. I'm too tired to work through the math bit right now, but you may be right.

One question in my mind, though, is why is it that that most recruiters solve the coordination issue the other way - first finding companies, and then hunting for candidates to match them. IE, there must be some reason why it's more effective for them to do it that way round, and theoretically this presents an obstacle for you. But perhaps Triplebyte already figured out the answer.

I only know of one established recruitment company which does it the other way round - they don't hunt for candidates - and that's ecm selection. They operate in science-heavy areas mainly, and the chip industry, where there's a particular need for the recruiter to have a good grip on what the role means, otherwise they end up flooding their client with inappropriate candidates. But they are probably not as scalable as you want to be.
The problem is that all of this time "plowing fields" and "doing a good turn daily" could have been avoided, and when a big ball of mud gets really hairy this can easily turn into the bulk of your work day and dominate projects. It can cause a company to deliver slowly and miss opportunities.
If you're idealogically opposed to Microsoft's editor, that doesn't seem to be a problem to me.
I would phrase that as a 0.3% increase in fees.
You mean the small poor business whose case was bankrolled by the Koch brothers? it's just a vehicle for deregulation, funded and powered by large corporate interests.
I refer to my previous statement.
> any civilization advanced enough to explore their own solar system would have been using radio long before then.

Perhaps we just missed the signals?

Let's ponder some timescales.
The Earth has been around ~4.5 billion years,
life began a half billion to a billion years later.
It wasn't until about 2 million years ago that the species that was to evolve into modern humans started to use fire.
That's 3.498 billion years or so of life before what we might considered civilization.

Humans first started using radio about 125 years ago.
An instant in cosmic timescales.
Powerful broadcast radio signals first showed up in 1930s.
We are already starting to transition to lower power point-to-point wireless transmission.
That means our radio waves are become far less detectable at stellar distances.
Give it another 25 or 50 years and humans might well have gone silent,
for all practical purposes,
to hypothetical aliens.

To have another advanced civilization arise both within detection distance of Earth and in an overlapping instant of time where we might detect each other?
The odds are unfathomably tiny.
This is the text I received in an email just now, which is for people on the 'Starter Plan' and easier to understand than the linked article.

1. Today we’re deprecating the Billing Starter plan (your current plan) and moving all customers to a single, comprehensive plan that includes all of Stripe Billing's features. Your pricing will change from 0.5% to 0.7% of Billing volume. However, we'll maintain your current pricing for one year, until June 30, 2025. Pricing of one-time invoices through Stripe Invoicing is unchanged.

2. We’re also introducing subscription-based pricing for Billing. This can make your monthly costs lower and more predictable compared to pay-as-you-go pricing. Learn more and switch plans in the Stripe Dashboard.
I think this is the community that's an aberration. More often I see that "AI" has become synonymous with hallucinations and slop.
Because the big corps are the ones running the show and they have money and they have money invested and want returns. I can't think of another reason. Your spreadsheet example is perfect.
Cover songs have a special abd explicit law covering them. Not relevant.
You're right they don't. But the numbers op is referring to are there.

Look past the second paragraph. There is a table with a row labeled "price"
Because 99% of people which have this issue ask a question to just a LLM. What you do is you add RAG to it, or you make it an agent which can retrieve information, and suddenly it's very accurate.

LLMs are language models, not magical information models with all information in the world somehow fit into several gigabytes. Use them right.
Super excited for this project. Especially since it's available for Linux now.

I still use the JetBrains products as daily drivers but always keen to use new tools like this.
> I find your sentiment to be lacking nuance.

Pot, kettle?

> There are obviously priorities and budgets and technological barriers that make some problems practically easier to solve than others.

A great counterpoint that comes up occasionally are weather satellites. They have done more to improve crop yield than anything since the invention of artificial fertilizer. Technological development is like fundamental scientific research in this regard, as new developments which simplify problems in other domains to the point of tractability can be hard to spot until they happen, and can come from any direction.

> Why not spend valuable resources improving our overall quality of life instead of mass producing some oversized electric hotwheels truck?

This seems like a false dichotomy and pejorative opinion rolled into one.

I'm not sure what you consider a quality of life improvement - Musk paid a half million dollars out of pocket to fix the water systems in the schools of my home town of Flint Michigan ( https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/elon-musk-keeps-his-... ) which directly affected the quality of life of my nephews.

As for the truck, it seems to be the industry's first 48v production vehicle, which means 48v chips, motors, heaters, sensors, and other parts are likely to increase adoption, gain production volume and availability, reduce cost, etc. All of which helps my projects. I don't have to drive one to benefit from it. And I'm always pleased to see more options in EVs. That means cleaner air, more sustainable power, increased grid-independence, all kinds of knock-on effects. Every one purchased - from any manufacturer - increases volume, reduces costs, and gets us a step closer to less expensive EVs for all.

If I look through your comment history, will I find as much effort spent lamenting the spending decisions of oil barons? Weapons manufacturers? Advertising executives?

Why not share what you're doing to make the world a better place for us all? Maybe your efforts could be re-prioritized to better benefit us? Maybe you choose to make a difference in the ways you can, and choose your battles, like the rest of us. Maybe 10 billion of us, working together, instead of acting like crabs in a bucket, really can advance everything all at once.
500m is 5 back and forth olympic pool. This is something.

I used to swim for my high school team. I learned to hate pools. Now I want to get back to vary the physical activity (thanks god for the headsets you can wear in the water)

500m is what I plan to ultimately do, for many people who "can swim" this is already a lot.
This sounds like a pretty significant increase. This is like 40% (or 60%?) increase, no? The new pricing seems to bundle 'volume billing' and 'invoicing', was the latter previously free?
riscv is taking over everything small, it'll work its way up like arm did
You would phrase it incorrectly then? That's 0.3 percentage points, but 60%
Used to be there were capital controls. You couldn't easily move money from one country to another. That's problematic in same ways. But gives central banks much better control. We got convinced to get rid of capital controls. But that also means central banks have less power. Open trade makes it worse.

Like in the 80's the Fed was keeping rates high. The Japanese were keeping rates low for businesses. That totally wiped out mid west manufacturing.
Real time does not mean fast, it means deterministic

Thus such micro optimizations are seldomly used. Quite the opposite, you try to avoid jitter which could be the result of caches
Amen. I hate technology these days. It feels like the big corps managed to mess it up in the worst ways. Oh, you want to check the weather real quick? Here's an ad first. I'm sick of it. None of it even works properly or does what it's supposed to do half of the time but we're just supposed to eat it all up and pay more and more for it all.
So far this year the following companies have asked me for money for their new "AI" features:

- slack
- github
- microsoft
- google
- atlassian
- notion
- clickup
- hubspot

So ask yourself: Who benefits from the hype? And who would benefit from a better general understanding of the flaws?
I love Stripe, blah blah blah, Stripe has "good" le docs and good dev experience and w/e.

But now that they have market share they are seemingly becoming more greedy.

I think they are overplaying their hand. There's no reason that these charges should be %-based. And I'm almost certain for large enterprise customers they're not; there's probably custom negotiated contracts for those cases.

I hope we get more players in this space that can force them to be more competitive on pricing.
In addition to the problems others mention, dynamic object dependencies are only one slice of a dependency pie; if you can config-manage your way out of all of the others then maybe dynamic libs aren't really a lot of problem? I think this is why container images became so popular, because they close over a lot more dependencies than just dynamic libs.

And the scope of the solution isn't very wide. In the Go community it's common to distribute statically-linked binaries because it solves so many problems--but it just kind of moves them to installation or configuration time because you have to pick a platform and platform version and so forth to find the binary you need, if you want your tool to work on more than one of them.
Are you counting "real-world usage" as a measure? I can go to Costco or Best Buy right now and come home with a system with an ARM or x86-64 chip. I'd have to go out of my way to find a system with RISC-V at its core. Even if you allow for devices like routers or embedded systems in disk drives and the like, there's a good chance the selection that any given store has won't have a RISC-V.

Maybe you can come back to this comment in five or ten years and laugh at me, but right now it feels like RISC-V is a solution in search of a problem.
For mainstream users. Particularly in the case of vim, the end-user is more likely the figure out that this is a configuration problem and can be adjusted.
Doesn’t the % symbol mean percentage points?

A fee changing from 0.5% of a transaction to 0.8% of a transaction is increasing by 0.3%.
This thing is cool. How did you do the visual terminal layout?
No, the % symbol means percent
>why does nobody care about the enormous and absurd energy cost to ___________

Just fill in the blank and you've described human history after we started digging up coal in mass.

Now, beyond that, think of it this way...

You're very rich, but to keep having new yachts and pleasure islands and jumbo jets you need for the plebs around you to keep breeding and then spending 18 years to train them not to be completely stupid, then another 4 to 10 years for them to be experts, all while hoping they don't get hit by a car or off themselves. That's a massive amount of resource expenditures if you're looking to make yourself even richer. Now think of it this way. Instead of spending a lot of effort training those meat popsicles, you train a machine. Yea, it takes a lot of time, effort, and energy to get it where it needs to go. But after you have this 'general' machine, you never need other humans again. How much energy will that save you on your goal of world domination?
My point is in the means of charging. I’d rather pay once and be done, than pay forever.

I think whenever possible, a one time fee is easier on users.
Ask HN: Does Compliance Equate with Security?
The seven logical fallacies from the posted BBC article are, alphabetically: Ad hominem, Appeal to authority, Appeal to ignorance, False dichotomy, Slippery slope, Strawman, Whataboutism (or Whataboutery)

Maybe it's just me, but I keep seeing more references to specific logical fallacies, and many reference lists are big but incomplete. So, at [0], I recently started making a "complete" list of logical fallacies and cognitive biases for quick-reference purposes.

Thanks to the OP's BBC article, the following additions were made to [0]:

- Strawman added as AKA of Straw man
- Whataboutery added as AKA of Whataboutism

(If you have more fallacy or bias suggestions for [0], there is a feedback form at the bottom; it's a WIP still and only ~50% complete, but early feedback is more than welcome.)

[0] https://biaslist.com
Copyright laws prevent piracy. It is interesting to live in a country with no enforced copyrights and EVERYTHING is pirated. I think it is easy to not know about that context and just see the stick side of copyright vis-a-vis big money corporations
They don't need parity. They just need ROCm (or OpenCL) to be a reasonably viable alternative.
With how modern video codecs use data from previous frames you could make a not-entirely-specious argument that we already have a tool that can do this and it's called ffmpeg.
I'd have liked more mathematical treatment. Can the ball of mud be modeled as a some kind of an attractor or a result of backpropagation style optimization inside the organizational chaos and multitude of conflicting priorities, resource constraints, etc.
It’s a 60% increase in fees.

It’s a 0.3 percentage point increase in fees.

The former is important because it reflects the cost increase customers will face. Their costs don’t increase by 0.3%, they increase by 60%

(Except I don’t think any of the comments in the thread have properly quoted TFA… isn’t it increasing to 0.7%?)
There's no reason to believe that people, teams and organisations can't learn lessons. This is why we foster a growth mindset. It takes effort and discipline but it can be done.
True, encoding is one thing that really sets x86 apart. But as you say, the assembly itself doesn't seem that uniquely horrible (at least not since the 32-bit era), which is why I found the sentiment confusing as it was phrased.

Maybe it's the haphazard SIMD instruction set, with every extension adding various subtly-different ways to permute bytes and whatnot? But that would hardly seem like a beginner's issue. The integer multiplication and division instructions can also be a bit wonky to use, but hardly unbearably so.
They are in a valuation trap based on forward looking fundamentals.
Aside from the usury of US healthcare, even with insurance from your employer, dealing with the healthcare in Canada is a dream to the US. You might have to wait to see a doctor (most people probably still have to wait in the US if you're lucky enough to get treatment), but there's essentially no fight with layers and layers of occult insurance for anything you get a referral from a doctor for. No surprise or hidden 'networks' to speak of. I think that people who are fine with US healthcare don't really realize how incredibly inefficient and harmful it is to be so uncertain about whether or not insurance will cover your treatment.
> Maybe they could use some gravity assists to speed up the journey out to Saturn/Neptune, and then use aerobraking to slow down again for the rest of the journey???

Or an gravity assist at Neptune to slow down? Given their orbits cross it maybe it would be practical and relatively fast someday, but maybe not for a long time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_assist

https://www.theplanetstoday.com/the_planets.html
2020 VR/AR
2021 Blockchain
2022 NFT
2023 AI

The hype is real. None of these solved anything that people need.

And I'm talking people, not "users".
"Show me the incentive, and I'll show you the outcome."

There is a belief, cynical or otherwise, that AI will make (a very small number of) people extraordinarily wealthy. The drive to stuff it into every facet of the digital experience reflects this belief.
If the marginal utility AI is less than the costs of the energy needed to use it then presumably capitalism will solve this problem?
My thing with AI is, if its smart like a person, it shouldn't have any bariers, just enough of a basis to learn on the fly by using your browser if it needs to. We don't all know "everything" but we can do reasonable research to have some understanding of various topics. Anyway, I agree with you, I also think what we think is AI today is not what we will tomorrow. I also think AI should be just as free as anybody else to read any other content, as long as its not disruptive to other services.
> I’ve driven it 40,000 miles and I’ve never had to take it in for maintenance

That car should have been in for at least 4 oil changes (maintenance) in that mileage -- more if not using synthetic oil.
I thought percent, percentage, and percentage points are all the same thing.
We built a correctness checker for LLM-generated SQL code for the military before LLMs were commercially available, it is going live soon on http://sql.ai . Some people do care about this problem, but it is hard to solve; even for SQL alone, this requires significant computer algebra, automated theorem proving, having to define what 'correct' even means, and much else etc.
Because point often is not in providing a working solution. Instead it is selling just a solution. Just look at so many software projects in history. Did they provide correctly working solution? Or did they generate lot of billable work?
Starter pricing was 0.5%.

Scale pricing was 0.8%.

Both plans were consolidated into a single plan which is 0.7%.

This is good news if you were a Scale customer and bad news if you were a Starter customer.
> It's not that he doesn't care. It's just that he believes that the next model will be the one that fixes it.

No, what he does is he hopes that they can keep the hype alive long enough to cash out and then go to the next hype. Not only Garry Tan, but most VCs. That's the fundamental business model of VCs. That's also why Tesla FSD is always two weeks away. The gold at the end of the rainbow.