skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If anything, it feels like the vast majority of the business world is still operating on some combination of Excel and a software program that was outdated a decade ago.

Which just proves the immense value of Excel and the relatively bad value proposition of custom-made software.

> The main issue is that their problems are too boring and obscure for anyone without direct personal experience to care about them.

1. Yes, which is why it’s increasingly hard to start a business as a pure software engineer. To put it harshly, most software engineers don’t know enough about the real world out there to solve its problems. Many choose to create software for other software engineers for this reason, and that market is fierce.

2. Another issue is that only those specific businesses might have those problems. Even if you know about them, solving them might not be a good business case. Solving them must be lucrative enough to allow for a small target audience, or the problem needs to be common enough to allow for economies of scale, which brings us to back to point 1.
> rides 100km saving watts along the way.

You vastly overestimates that tiny battery and motor vs. the athlete's legs.

The only time it make sense is in sprints where it can contribute a significant torque increase for a short while. Over 100 km you might as well be better off without that weight.

There's a reason why all electric vehicles are heavy and burly looking electric bikes only have range of 20mi, and those batteries are not constrained by weight or shape to fit in a road bike tube.
Or navel-gazing. In fact, that's one of the classically known flaws. (So well known that it has many names: ivory tower, navel gazing, getting stuck in your own head...)

If you don't compare your thoughts to the outside world, it's easy for them to diverge more and more from reality.
Sure. I think Reddit is aware though, that time is running out to get paid for whatever human generated content is there that isn't already scraped.
Wow. So extremely tone deaf.

They're trying to use the equivalent of "pizzas for everyone who works late for this crunch!", and consider the matter closed.

That's really not going to work.
It depends on genetics and luck.

The luck part is that it seems that infections trigger the autoimmune reaction that kills the pancreas. The genetics bit is that you may or may not have got the gene from your father.

Most people die of heart attacks in the end. Factors like smoking, lifestyle and fighting in wars are probably more important than well managed type 1 nowadays. The big difference now is that the insulin is human insulin, made by genetically engineered microbes. In the past it was harvested from animals and it didn't work as well. Also constant blood monitoring means that highs and lows can be detected and fixed before damage is done. So - things have moved on, there isn't as much to be frightened of, I'm sorry your dad died young, but you will probably be ok.
This is definitely worse than no gift card. Insulting. A general maxim: When something is a big deal, your response should make a bigger deal out of it than the complaints. $10 says "We don't think this matters." Now watch as everyone explains precisely why it does. PR 101 fail.
FFor more context:

Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is an autoimmune disease. Your own immune cells attack your insulin-producing beta cells in your pancreas, leading you to lose the ability to produce insulin to absorb glucose from the blood. You will lose weight, be frequently thirsty, and have to pee frequently. T1D seems to have a genetic factor which you can be tested for.

Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is a lifestyle disease where you become less sensitive to the insulin that your body produces. It can be prevented by maintaining healthy diet, exercise, and weight, and it can usually be detected early as prediabetes. There may be a genetic factor predisposing you to T2D, but I don't know if there are tests for it.

You need to know which disease your family had to know which answer it is. They are two totally different diseases that just happen to both be related to insulin.
No, because people don't come to Lemmy to read AI-generated posts. It's called social media, not robot time with language models.
bing probably has the money to reach a deal, smaller companies without monopolies is less likely, and that's the problem.

i don't think google is blameless like you propose.
You're trading complexity for expressiveness but the await keyword syntax is essentially unwrap sugar. Dereferencing a pointer is similar syntax.

It's possible to write a language where awaiting a task is done through a method on the task type. I don't think this is ideal because the whole reason you're using explicit yield points is so you can tell when something yields. Using method syntax makes that harder to see at a glance.
Show HN: I created a tool that uses AI to help feed your domain addiction
Complete unusability is when ai tools clone the content and people stop visiting the original service and participating. I'll leave it up to them to defend blocking duck duck go for example, but blocking "AI" bots for an online community is a matter of survival at this point.
Google should abandon its mission to “organize the world’s information” because doing so requires spending money for valuable data, and others might not want to spend that money?
thanks i only read the first paragraph. then i went to kagi discord and they provided more context
A file full of zeros is an "undetected error"?
Good grief.
> For example, has anyone ever attempted image -> html/css model?

There are already companies selling services where they generate entire frontend applications from vague natural language inputs.

https://vercel.com/blog/announcing-v0-generative-ui
Here's what I suspect happened:

Any contract requires consideration. Without it, it's not a valid contract. It doesn't require fair consideration, so a clause giving e.g. $1 is typical for many contracts. They were nice and bumped it up to $20.

I suspect your work DID belong to the company already, under work-for-hire doctrine, but an explicit contract avoids that ambiguity. Ambiguity can be bad and super-expensive, whether during litigation or even something like an audit. If someone is buying a company, investing, making a major loan, that's the kind thing which comes up in due diligence and can be annoying.

So I don't think they were paying you for the code, so much as trying to come into compliance. Very likely, this was triggered by some similar audit for some deal they were trying to make.
Isn't one of the selling points of universal healthcare that it's overall cheaper in total cost than private insurance? If so, the UK should be celebrated for having such a low percentage of its GDP being spent on universal healthcare.
The interesting thing about loops is that they can generate fields (think motion if current generating a magnetic field).

Consciousness is more like a field than like a particle (which are also fields), but we haven’t determined how conscious fields fit in physics models.
It’s not impressive that one has to go to that length though.
I had a big problem with them once I signed up and they shoved their ads down my inbox. Then they created a survey asking what their users would like to see in Proton, and while a majority voted for calendar and email features, they made the AI section biased: you either are interested in AI, never heard of it or won't use but are interested. They purposedly didn't include an option "heard of AI but won't use it" because they know most of their users don't like it.

And now they're launching an AI assistant. How ethical they are proving to be. The company that portrayed itself as privacy-first is showing its true face.
Come on man stop with the russia bot stuff, i'm just a normal guy who votes democrat. I'm sure we vote for the same people, I'm just really frustrated with the democratic party's lack of appeal. I'm really feeling "bullied" for lack of a better term. I'm being told anything I think would be a good policy or person to support isn't relevant or worth talking about because of Trump. Do you really not see any validity to this position? Can you really not imagine I'm just a normal american person?
"Maybe the memes making fun of this person are, in fact, an exaggeration."

Sure. I don't need much convincing that Ballmer was only "bad" rather than "uniquely terrible". It seems a pretty normal thing that the negative reaction was outsized.

But I also think it would be more interesting to look at cases where the reaction by the haters was _spot on_. Or even where it _undersold_ how bad things were.
Daydream: Browsers and email programs are shipped with "Default Allow" lists, which include only the older & higher-quality TLD's. While users can add whatever TLD's they want to the lists, that default behavior destroys 99% of the value of new & crap-infested TLD's.
Agreed. Retrieval performance is very dependent on the quality of the search queries. Letting the LLM generate the search queries is much more reliable than just embedding the user input. Also, no retrieval system is going to return everything needed on the first try, so using a multi-step agent approach to retrieving information is the only way I've found to get extremely high accuracy.
True, theirs is a lot more fair
ChatGPT is like Google now. It is the default. Even if Claude becomes as good as ChatGPT or even slightly better it won't make me switch. It has to be like a lot better. Way better.

It feels like ChatGPT won the time to market war already.
Of course, no Hacker News thread is complete without the "I would never shake hands with an Android user" guy who just has to virtue signal.

> And if facial recognition becomes that common for wearers, most of the population is going to adorn something to prevent that

My brother in Christ, you sincerely underestimate how much "most of the population" gives a shit. Most people are being tracked by Google Maps or FindMy, are triangulated with cell towers that know their exact coordinates, and willingly use social media that profiles them individually. The population doesn't even try in the slightest to resist any of it.
Fire your "security" people, hire real security people.

The part about making JS fetch errors easier to catch... You consider server errors not to be errors? How is it that telling unreachable servers apart for mother errors better than telling "error" apart from success?
I see a difference, but only one of degree. Both tendencies are motivated by the same postulates, which I find extremely silly.
I was using neither street view nor satellite, just the road map directions (I was walking, so using the walking directions). Judging by the overgrowth and fallen vegetation, I would guess the road fell out of use, was fenced off for safety, and the map wasn't updated.
>But, apparently, they did finally find a way to make money.

The most recent 10-K financial results 2024-03-31 (filed 2024-05-08) shows they actually lost money: https://www.sec.gov/edgar/browse/?CIK=1713445

(For 2024-Q1, Reddit lost -$575 million on revenue of $242 M.)

If the quoted "$60 million deal"[1] from Feb 2024 is accurate, that small amount from Google may not be enough for Reddit to turn a profit. It remains to be seen what the Q2 or Q3 financials will show.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=google+ai+deal+reddit
This is exactly what we need, but we can't have it. Though there is probably no single imposition keeping poor people poor than restrictions on land use.
It's doing something different for me. It seems almost desperate to generate vast chunks of boilerplate code that are only tangentially related to the question.

That's my perception, anyway.
Solution: partner with a sales/biz person and start a consultancy.
Where I live you can not call yourself an "engineer" at all without a specific university degree.

It is pointless to discuss here, if you do not see the value in distinguishing the career of learning a trade and a getting a degree, I won't convince you otherwise. Obviously the rest of the world doesn't consider a bricklayer an engineer, just because he is building something and wouldn't want to conflate the civil engineer responsible for that building with the profession of brick laying.
> a privacy-aware secure LLM

Funniest thing I've heard all month.
Your MacBook Air have a shared clipboard - you may need to set some permissions for it to work but once it does it’s amazing.

Also, shared messages app.
Just in case you haven't RTFA.
Mistral 2 is 123b.
Years ago, I came across SURE: Series of Unsurprising Results in Economics with the goal of publishing good, but statistically insignificant, research.

https://blogs.canterbury.ac.nz/surejournal/
> Or the Wii with a standard gamepad?

Or the 3DS without the 3D?[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_2DS
Actually, I think you missed the joke. The original comment was useless, low value junk posting. The reply was dry and funny.
This is a really neat way of visualising molecules!

Just to be incredibly boring and pedantic though- I love mondrian's works and he's an artist who constantly experimented. It's kind of a shame that he's often thought of and talked about as if all his paintings were random grids of random colours.

Even his really grid based paintings (which to be fair is like the whole second half if his career) often do interesting things with outlines and space that make them much more interesting than random grids:

- https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Piet_Mondrian#/media/Fi...

- https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/30/Piet_Mon...
Correct. IMO the official Claude app is pretty garbage. Sonnet 3.5 API + Open-WebUI is amazing though and supports STT+TTS as well as a ton of other great features.
It doesn't appear to be disabled by default in Firefox on Windows for me, I use it all the time.

You are correct though, that a lot of users never discover it.
Well that depends on the binding right? In case you use the "artifact binding" then theres also direct communication between SP and IdP. I havent seen it in the wild and I am also no professional, but I saw it in the 2.0 standard, e.g., see https://docs.oasis-open.org/security/saml/Post2.0/sstc-saml-...
>The companies that buy these service games and run them effectively just buy completed money printers and keep them operating.

I hadn't really thought about that topic in that way before. Really explains why some of those older MMOs have no desire to really make any improvements, the owners are happy to just keep them powered up and collect a check but have no incentive to invest in making them better.
They did an adequate job on experimental design around randomness within their test population, but they did a completely inadequate job randomly selecting the population pool itself. You really can't extrapolate their findings to the general workforce because of this.
That's not the attitude which leads to inventing the negative numbers, for example! The ordinals are useful and it's very reasonable to call them "numbers"; and I'm told that the surreal numbers are useful, although I've never actually used them.
Perhaps if we think of LLMs as search engines (Google, Bing etc) then there's more money to be made by being the top generic search engine than the top specialized one (code search, papers search etc)
AMD/Intel CPUs for desktops/laptops are mostly 128 bit wide. So these days on laptops (no DIMM slots) is DDR5-6400 = 102GB/sec peak to DDR5-8000 (128GB/sec peak).

Apple however has 192 bit (m3 pro), 256 bit (m2 pro), 512 bit (m3 max), and 1024 bit (m2 ultra) wide for improved iGPU performance. Generally CPU unified memory systems spend more transistors on cache than GPUs, so you also get some advantages there. iGPUs also have other advantages like much higher max ram, lower latency from CPU -> video memory than the traditional CPU -> PCIe -> GPU -> vram. Depending on what you are sending the cache coherent nature of iGPUs means you can have a complicated data structure and hand it to the GPU with a pointer instead of the normal CPU memory -> serialize -> transfer over PCIe -> poll or tell the GPU it's there, etc.

So sure a gGPU is faster at LLMs, but unless you spend $$$$ on GPUs you can get much more ram with an iGPU. So even llama 70B runs decent on a M3 max (prompt @ 19 tokens/sec and eval rate at 8.5 tokens/sec).

So sure it's not as fast as a dGPU, but I'd rather run 70B at 8-19 tokens/sec then not be able to run it on a 4090.

The widely rumored AMD Strix Halo will have a 256 bit wide memory interface, which should significantly help the iGPU, much like the Apple M2 Pro.
What is your weight situation?

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E = T/A! [0]

A faster evolving approach to AI is coming out this year that will smoke anyone who still uses the term "license" in regards to ideas [1].

[0] https://breckyunits.com/eta.html
[1] https://breckyunits.com/freedom.html
Eventually can be (and has been) bankrolled by Nvidia. They did a lot of ground-floor research on GANs and training optimization, which only makes sense to release as public research. Similarly, Meta and Google are both well-incentivized to share their research through Pytorch and Tensorflow respectively.

I really am not expecting Apple or Microsoft to discover AGI and ferret it away for profitability purposes. Strictly speaking, I don't think superhuman intelligence even exists in the domain of text generation.
What's the last null result Nature, Science, and Cell published?
Build Your Own CDN (2017)
Does that mean Delta Airlines received a single $10 gift card? This must be fake news, it makes no sense.
Also see this related submission from May, 2024:

Amber: Programming language compiled to Bash https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40431835 (318 comments)

---

Pnut doesn't seem to differentiate between `int' and `int*' function parameters. That's weird, and doesn't come across as trustworthy at all! Shouldn't the use of pointers be disallowed instead?

int test1(int a, int len) {
return a;
}

int test2(int* a, int len) {
return a;
}

Both compile to the exact same thing:

: $((len = a = 0))
_test1() { let a $2; let len $3
: $(($1 = a))
endlet $1 len a
}

: $((len = a = 0))
_test2() { let a $2; let len $3
: $(($1 = a))
endlet $1 len a
}

The "runtime library" portion at the bottom of every script is nigh unreadable.

Even still, it's a cool concept.
As both a programmer and a marathoner my life is a program in which I'm constantly either in or preparing for a great long race. I wish this was a joke.
> mind blowingly fast

I would imagine this might change once enough users migrate to it.
NetBSD 10.0 on 1985 Sun 3/60 workstation
They also said in the paper that 405B was only trained to "compute-optimal" unlike the smaller models that were trained well past that point indicating the larger model still had some runway so had they continued it would have kept getting stronger.
I don't think that's a fair reading.

I can't think of any instance where the endangered species act would allow housing in some area near wildlife, but only if it didn't have a dividing wall between living spaces.

Same with the EPA.

Zoning is almost entirely set at the local level.
I think you might be onto something with the observation about people moving from old forum software like phpbb to subreddits.

It's like what happened to personal websites when things like Blogger, Tumblr and Facebook popped up.

It's hard to beat something that is easy to set up and pays for hosting but still let's you control moderation. It's a no brainer.

Managing your own domain where users post content is a minefield of problems these days even if you didn't mind the cost of running it.

Something like this might also explain the move to things like Discord over IRC.
> let's assume firefox is forced to allow people to make a choice of the default search engine

let assume apple is forced to allow people to make a choice of the default search engine in safari then google might stop paying apple, and ...
You think the $20 was consideration, and yet you think they were not paying for the code? Aren't these the same thing?

> Ambiguity can be bad and super-expensive

If the corporation had some ambiguity in their favor, I expect they would call it "value" and ask for as much as they could get to remove it. But if the ambiguity is in favor of an employee or client, let's remove it for a token $20. Ugly society this one is.
Nothing else is suitable for multilateral, full-mesh federation yet. The OIDC multilateral federation standard hasn't been finalized or fully implemented yet, and it takes years to coordinate this kind of change in a federation.
Imagine investing the FAANG money into dividend ETFs and living off those in a few years.

> that FAANG employment seems a tad risky these days with layoffs

You aren’t seriously comparing the risk of self-employment to the risk of being layed off by one of the most stable companies of the world during a downturn after a 15 year bullrun, are you?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_oil_produ...

1. United States

2. Russia
Is this an artifact of floating point precision or a fundamental mathematical truth.
Meanwhile OpenAI, Anthropics, trains on AI generated data to improve their models, and it works.

https://openai.com/index/prover-verifier-games-improve-legib...

https://www.anthropic.com/research/claude-character
> If you're going to start adding logic to hide other elements conditionaly it's prone to become spaguetti. And how would that scale code-wise?

this is a trivial task, it's only going to spaghetti if you go out of your way to make that happen
> Longer context window (1M+)

What's your use case for this? Uploading multiple documents/books?
Reward Hacking
I Am Sitting In A Room https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Sitting_in_a_Room
For the most part, US contracts are not valid without consideration. Basically, all parties involved must receive something of value.

https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/consideration-every-...

Any contract request that includes a small cash payout should merit extra scrutiny.
>My doctors care about my inflammatory markers and nothing else

They care about your payments, more likely...
Isn't this the "catch-all"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Analogue_Act
OpenAI may lose $5B this year and may run out of cash in 12 months
Cloudflare Pages Is? Mind sharing the alternative? Thanks in advance.
LLMs are reaching saturation on even some of the latest benchmarks and yet I am still a little disappointed by how they perform in practice.

They are by no means bad, but I am now mostly interested in long context competency. We need benchmarks that force the LLM to complete multiple tasks simultaneously in one super long session.
There are other ways AI can help train other AI that aren't generating data. AI could remove low quality data from a training set. It could assist humans in structuring video, 3D and physics simulation datasets for the best learning results.
Worse it doesn't even really "work" anymore, giving how most search are flooded with garbage SEO results and payed advertisements "basically" looking like search results (most times more garbage not what you are looking for results, int he cases where it isn't it quite often times is on the line of "googles algorithm blackmailing companies to buy ads for users which want to find them through google but wouldn't without ads".)

I wonder if this might affect redis, as in slowly kill it's user base especially when it comes to user providing (and often also looking for) high quality content, because who of such users would want to use google search?
Fair enough; coming from NYC, Krakow seems comparatively pretty clean and nice :)
I think it’s impressive that they’re doing it on a single (large) node. Costs matter. Efficiency improvements like this will probably increase capabilities eventually.

I’m also optimistic about building better (rather than bigger) datasets to train on.