skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
also for papers there is https://papersread.ai/ which does not get nearly enough attention imo (the reading is meh, but the curation is ace)
I can see this working reasonably for text that you can understand without referring to figures, and for texts for which there is external content available that such a conversation could be based on. For a new, say, math paper, without prose interspersed, I’d be surprised if the generated conversation will be worth much. On the other hand, that is a corner case and, personally, I suspect I will be using this for the many texts where all I need is a presentation of the material that is easy to listen to.
This was after one of the execs went to Real Prison for bribing Pentagon people too.
Tapes are fun. You can fit a petabyte of data in a bankers box!

The problem quickly becomes:

- Do we have a drive that can read this tape?

- Do we have server we can connect it to?

- Do we have storage we can extract it to? (go ask your internal IT team for 10TB of drivespace...)

- What program did we create this tape with? Backup Exec, Veritas, ArcServe, SureStore

- You have the encryption keys, right?

- How much of this data already exists on the previous months backup?

- Who's going to pay for the storage to move it to Glacier/etc?

-How long is it going to take to upload?
No. I did not read your comment until now. Not sure how I replied to it.

But anyways much of what you are listing is just more stuff that sounds complex or is not needed. It exist because there was money and it was a big bloated organization. It’s not needed to run the core business and frankly the cost of those things are still small. The number of users don’t change their engineering cost, or at least should not.

The promise of software is exactly the return on investment is not affected by the number of people who use it.

Also. You got me at dynamic content, that is the job of the software, not a human. If they have yet to provide user friendly interfaces down their editors to manipulate the content on their site without the need to interface with an engineer then they have already failed.

I know this sounds like a rant, and maybe it is. But I am tried of poorly ran companies justifying outrageous team sizes because they simply ignore any good design with their software and how to organize a company to be lean agile and successful.
You're right, I guess -- but if you want to build a competitive business in today's world, you simply need to collect a lot of personal information and do analytics on your website. If it were outlawed to place cookies on people's browsers, then it would be easy - Amazon.com would have only strictly necessary cookies, Facebook.com same, etc.

But given it's possible to comply with the law by throwing up obnoxious banners, that's what these companies do, and you're basically forced to do, if you compete with them.

Whether you blame 'capitalism' or 'the marketplace' for those things or, you believe 'the government' has the job of understanding this and putting in place laws that make it easier across the board, is kind of up to your political affiliation.
Some days, I wish my job was that straightforward...
Hey, designer here. Thank you for this feedback. Do you prefer dark or light theme usually? And do you find reading text on this background here https://antithesis.com/security/manifesto/ is any easier?
Agreed, great blog.

"satellites spotting ships" was only 82d ago.
https://tech.marksblogg.com/yolo-umbra-sar-satellites-ship-d...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40716032
Also where you don't render the tracks pre and post processing and leave them aside to the ProTools project files. I don't know who expects to open a ProTools project with a bunch of unknown plugins after some years have passed...
If it takes 3.5 us to remove a substring within a packet-sized string you're doing it wrong.
Regardless of what infographic makers declare, the NYT newsroom is not “left” leaning.

Their coverage is much more complicated than left vs right, but one theme is they don’t question the loudest narratives, and they hold grudges when they perceive someone to not give them enough access.

The right tends to be louder and more uniform and persistent in messaging, so that coloring often gets unconsciously added to articles rather than the journalists taking a step back and analyzing the whole picture.

It’s the quick/lazy way to write stories after all, and journalists have deadlines. The author may be left leaning and some of that may even show, but a little left leaning flavor doesn’t mask that it’s based on the right’s take.

The choice of coverage also is very herd like, not left or right.

The NYT also goes out of the way to appear fair and balanced, trying to find the “average” in stories. But as anyone but the NYT knows, averages are skewed easily.
What a fantastic idea!
Great way to learn about those pesky research papers I keep downloading (but never get to reading them).
I tried a few, e.g. Attention is All You Need, etc. The summary was fantastic, and the discussion was, well, informative.

Does anyone know how the summary was generated? (text summarization, I suppose?) Is there a bias towards "podcast-style discussion"? Not that I'm complaining about it - just that I found it helpful.
input_string = "VMS"
output_string = ''.join([chr(ord(char) + 1) for char in input_string])
print(output_string)
Yes -- that is the downside of the current privacy policy model.

There's a continuum, though: from a dense legal meaningless document, to a hyper-loud intrusive but meaningless pop-up. I'd argue that the lawmakers should try to understand the entire market factors at work here, and propose laws that incentivize companies to produce useful/meaningful documents and policies.
No, it is to test your system before the production
I’d like to think this is defensive, to stop someone else from patenting and implementing it.
> Aren't the edge cases features?

What features do you have in mind?

> It puts the choice of guaranteed writes vs performance to the developer.

Yes, and it's a completely false choice. This entire point of this thread is that fsync is an incredibly difficult API to use in a way that gets you the guarantees you need ("don't lose the writes to this file"). And that the consistency guarantees of specific filesystems, VFS, POSIX, and their interactions are not easy to understand even for the experienced -- and it can be catastrophic to get wrong.

It isn't actually a choice between "Speed vs correctness". That's a nice fairy tale where people get to pretend they know what they're up against and everyone has full information. Most programmers aren't going to have the attention to get this right, even good ones. So then it's just "99.9% chance you fucked it up and it's wrong" and then your users are recovering data from backups.
I've built two open source startups, totaling a decade of my life. Take it from me: the only way to do this sustainably is open core.

That means you make the core software open, but you sell the features that businesses will pay for or that allow other people to make money. Think of it as two distinct products for two distinct userbases.

In effect, the open source software becomes lead gen; the closed software is your actual business. They're both integral, and obviously feed into each other, but most of your open source users will never, ever be customers.
We haven’t, but sadly the technology is locked to big tech.

Microsoft has demoed some cool technology where they store data in glass, Project Silica. Sadly, it seems unlikely this will ever be available to consumers. One neat aspect of the design is that writing data is significantly higher power than reading. So you can keep your writing devices physically separated from the readers and have no fear that malicious code could ever overwrite existing data plates.

Some blurbs

Project Silica is developing the world’s first storage technology designed and built from the media up to address humanity’s need for a long-term, sustainable storage technology. We store data in quartz glass: a low-cost, durable WORM media that is EMF-proof, and offers lifetimes of tens to hundreds of thousands of years. This has huge consequences for sustainability, as it means we can leave data in situ, and eliminate the costly cycle of periodically copying data to a new media generation.

We’re re-thinking how large-scale storage systems are built in order to fully exploit the properties of the glass media and create a sustainable and secure storage system to support archival storage for decades to come! We are co-designing the hardware and software stacks from scratch, from the media all the way up to the cloud user API. This includes a novel, low-power design for the media library that challenges what the robotics and mechanics of archival storage systems look like.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/project-sil...
[dupe] More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41501798
The EU isn't going to get the taxes (certainly not the vast majority of them). They just ruled that it isn't OK for Apple to have been given this tax break via specific accounting rules. It's Ireland that gets the windfall, whether it wants it or not.
There's no world where the government takes money from taxpayers and doesn't just turn around and spend it. Often this spending is several orders of magnitude more wasteful than private individuals spending their own money, because government agencies have extremely weak incentives to spend efficiently. They spend, run out of money, and just stop whatever they were doing because, oops, out of money until the next budgeting cycle.

Value is destroyed by taxation, money is just a proxy. We spend on government because there are things we need that only government can do. Wealth transfer is not one of them.
> Is it not expected for people (or generations) to learn new things

If they are useful, and's an improvement, sure

But we just enshittified an experience that used to be good, and now have to ‘learn’ to cope with it
Australia has a similar issue to US.

It makes most of its export dollars from coal/gas/iron/aluminium.

Western Australia is the mining powerhouse.

But because they make so much money from coal and gas, that influences politics and they can’t transition faster to other sources. Australia is energy independent from coal and gas.

China on the other hand doesn’t have its own gas, oil or coal to satisfy their demands. So for them energy independence means going full throttle on solar and batteries.

Australia could have done that. For their population size they could be net zero, but their politics and money influence will slow it down significantly.
FYI there's a setting that lets you turn off the two week prompt or update it to 30 days.
My understanding is startups try to minimize 409A value as much as possible while staying within IRS rules. The market value of options, if it were possible to sell them on the open market, would be higher.

I don’t know what the equivalent concept is in EU countries (or if there even is one).
Historically the "crippled" version works fine and many people use it. Also, attracting tons of free users has real value; for example it creates awareness about the paid version.
No, the call-to-action being referenced in the article is "stop archiving to hard drives" (and use tape instead, every other industry does.)
I kind of agree, but I'm not an EU citizen and don't have any say in EU laws, so whatever :) If I were Apple, I would be a little miffed at this situation, though. It certainly makes me question whether or not I want to ever expand into the EU. But tax laws are too damn complicated in most other countries too. so maybe just budget for government incompetence?
Scott Chacon had absolutely zero obligation to reach out to you.

No more than a movie critic has an obligation to speak with the director before printing their review. He is comparing/contrasting GitHub with Google Code, the product you released. That is all.

As for his claims, I don't even see how the linked article significantly contradicts what you yourself have said about the genesis and goals of Google Code.

You claim that the purpose of Google Code was mainly just to break the SourceForge monoculture. In other words, it wasn't a product intended to be a polished worldbeater. Not something great. Not the next Gmail. Just something functional. A monoculture-preventer.

Okay.

(I am a software engineer as well, so I understand that even this level of creation involves many thousands of engineer-hours of blood, sweat, and tears. Not a knock.)

So yeah, it doesn't sound like you created Google Code with "taste" which the linked article seems to be using as shorthand for "lots of product passion and UX polish."

While the tone of the linked article seems a little more aggressive than it needs to be it... seems correct, based on what you've said?
No, it's Ireland's money to collect and keep. The taxes don't go to the EU budget.
No I am not.

Observation: answering the question you wished you were asked as opposed to the one you were asked is a conversation dominating tactic which reduces your credibility towards good-faith socratic dialogue.
The US finally takes aim at truck bloat
I get the opposite impression in Berlin. Nothing that's as dangerous as people seem to think happens actually happens.

I happened to be hanging around sn area where some anarchist activists set on fire on New Year's Eve a few years ago... in the middle of the closed off road far away from other flammable objects, which the fire department only got to once it was already dying down. Yet the reporting and public perception of that event was as if the whole block burned down and you cannot ever go in that area or you will be arsonized. Police presence was ramped up at all following NYEs and fireworks were banned in that particular area, enforced with a police cordon, as if that was supposed to achieve anything. (There were illegal fireworks there anyway)
> Umbra has an open data programme where they share SAR imagery from 500+ locations around the world

I think they're referring to this: https://umbra.space/open-data/ (warning: most files are absolutely ginormous)
Eh...
This needs Go support.
In Go everyone doing SSR is a htmx goon, which is terrible.

Also why use PHP or Ruby, both as slow as JS instead of Next Nuxt or SvelteKit?

Only reason I could think is traditional shared hosting compatibility.
Tutorial on diffusion models for imaging and vision
Hrm I interviewed there and the pay was definitely sub par
My understanding is that the only reliable way of long-term digital archival storage is to refresh the media you are storing things on every few years, copying the previous archives to the fresh storage.

Since storage constantly gets cheaper, 100GB first stored in 2001 can be stored on updated media for a fraction of that original cost in 2024.
I think a lot of your side-thought basically comes down to the fact that there's an overabundance of qualified people who have to choose between a career that's personally fulfilling and pays like shit, and someone who never wants to worry about money again and seeing something like Facebook being the way to ensure they don't have to.

Personally, IMHO, if we want more people to have fulfilling careers that are a net-gain for society, we need to foster an economy that finds that valuable and will pay for it as such, instead of seemingly, almost intentionally, placing personal fulfillment/net-good for society on the polar opposite end of what pays well.
A better abstraction, designed from the ground up, wouldn’t force fsyncs to work.

For example, write groups or barriers (like memory barriers) would be wonderful. Or a transaction api, or io completion ports like on windows.

In a database (and any other software designed for resiliency), you want the file contents to transition cleanly from state A to B to C, with no chance to end up in some intermediate state in the case of power loss. And you want to be notified when the data has durably written. It’s unnecessarily difficult to write code that does that on top of POSIX in an efficient way. Most code that interacts with files is either slow, wrong or both. All because the api is bad.
You must be Welsh!
In conversation with Sergey Brin [video]
...To our detriment.

In many cases (though not all!), when workers are striking against a retail business, they want the customers to keep coming. Showing the strain that gets put on the system in such cases can be part of the leverage the union exerts.

This is why we, on the outside, need to listen to what the union is asking of us, and not just loudly announce that we are boycotting in solidarity, or "refusing to cross the picket line", if that's the opposite of what they want.
Chain of Thought prompting reminds me of Facilitated Communication:

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

A long discredited intervention where a "facilitator" guides the hand of a non-verbal human to help them write down their thoughts and experiences. Experiments that blinded the facilitator to the observations of the subject, where the written message matched the facilitator's, rather than the subject's, observations, have convincingly proved that it was so much bunkum. It's the Clever Hans Effect all by another name, and with non-verbal humans rather than horses.

Chain of Thought works like that: without hand-holding by a human who understands how to answer a question, the LLM's performance drops, or drops off a cliff even. Of course this is much harder to prove for LLMs than it was for facilitated communication because LLMs don't really do anything without a prompt in the first place. Which should be a very big hint of what's really going on with CoT.
I agree with you about what the Disney arbitration agreement should (fairly) apply to.

I'd argue that the ToS/policy page solution can still work, though. We just need higher standards and greater clarity for what those policies are allowed to do, and what they are not allowed to do, and greater clarity on what the bright lines are for companies -- like, there should just be a rule about how contracts work in this Disney case, not a rule about where you need to tell people about the specific thing.
Golang has exceptions. They're just called "panic".
> Is it your contention that the phrase "I don't know" has never occurred in the training data for an LLM?

No, but when it does occur in the training data it's a reflection of that particular source/speaker not knowing, which isn't the same as the LLM not knowing because it was also trained on millions/billions of additional sources.

For an LLM to learn to say "I don't know" appropriately, it would need to know when it itself doesn't know (and have that change if you told it), and of course it doesn't have that capability.
I've clicked through a bunch of the references and definitely see lots of crybullying and clearly breaking the CoC. There was an example where the subject of this thread was temporarily banned.
> “Compose” in the sense of “create”, not in the sense of “combine”

Although the latter is also highly valuable.
> yet another header with just the list of internal headers

Or the same but with a list of headers which AREN'T internal.

You'll probably have a custom header-adding function that people should always use instead of the regular one. And this way, if someone forgets to use it, their header will get stripped.

You can think of a header escaping the internal network as something that needs to be authorized. This is a deny by default approach.
Or they could unionize and then not have to do a bunch of annoying interviews and possibly move.
Has anyone tried this with some video where they know what the person is saying?

I'd be interested to know how accurate it is, from what angles it will read lips at (front facing, side, etc).

Sounds promising if it works well. Imagine all the historical videos without sound you could try to finally know what was being said.
That doesn't answer my question, it plugs your service.
> If they can do it to Apple, why not to regular citizens?

The regular citizen doesn't debate-ably owe billion in taxes.

Sure, maybe if you're a centi-billionaire the Winds of Winter might change.
The price difference could be a large part of a romantic trip to Europe. The desire for such showcase possessions is tough for me to understand.

A ring rich in gold, platinum, rubies, or emeralds would at least hold its value well by comparison.
Windows NT was multi-user from the start. The only change was the session object added in vista.
I had the same exact thought - "Did this summary mis-represent the title??"
Indeed, it did. However, I thought the end2end implementation was decent.

> These are stochastic parrots cosplaying as academics.

LOL
Why not, if you could also interject with questions, remarks, or "cut the chase" like remarks.

Also it's weird that they focus only on AI papers in the demo, and not more interesting social stuff, like environment protection, climate change, etc
Mindspace: Influencing behaviour through public policy [pdf]
> For this experiment we used four models: Llama, accessed through the open-source Llama-lib; ChatGPT-3.5 and ChatGPT-4, accessed through the OpenAI subscription service; and Google Gemini, accessed through the free Google service.

Papers like this really need to include the actual version numbers. GPT-4 or GPT-4o, and which dated version? Llama 2 or 3 or 3.1, quantized or not? Google Gemini 1.0 or 1.5?

Also, what's Llama-lib? Do they mean llama.cpp?

Even more importantly: was this the Gemini model or was it Gemini+Google Search? The "through the free Google service" part could mean either.

UPDATE: They do clarify that a little bit here:

> Each of these prompts was posed to each model every week from March 27, 2024, to April 29, 2024. The prompts were presented sequentially in a single chat session and were also tested in an isolated chat session to view context dependency.

Llama 3 came out 18th of April, so I guess they used Llama 2?

(Testing the prompts sequentially in a single chat feels like an inadvisable choice to me - they later note that things like "answer in three words" sometimes leaked through to the following prompt, which isn't surprising given how LLM chat sessions work.)
Guilty. I've done the daily crossword for the last 445 days.
I lost an uncle to black lung in a WV underground mine. One grandfather lost an eye (explosion), the other broke his back.

I’m happy for Chris’s dedication - but this industry needs to die.
Does it also happen with AGPLv3?
I think all we need to see is a compensation package equivalent to big tech or even greater, amplified by shares and the trendiest cliff for vesting, and tech unions will take off nationwide
> The excitement I had as a 14-year old in 1979 trying to understand everything there was to know about computers, because this was something that could radically improve people’s lives, ... it’s just maintaining the current status quo. It just feels, I don’t know, done.

How can anyone say this when there’s so much amazing research happening in most universities, especially in computer science and engineering. It could be that the sample of prospective startups Nuemann gets exposure to is the same few people from the same few places? There’s such a disconnect between what’s possible, what hasn’t been done, and what’s funded.
It's wild how few people in this thread are unaware of the massive blowback the NYT has faced from the left, but I guess most people are generally not in sync with the left to begin with :P

Really telling that the NYT's attempt to please everyone has pleased almost no one, though. Progressives are angry that hate groups get airtime in the name of "objectivity". Conservatives still think it's a left-wing paper and won't read it. Liberal centrists are playing Wordle?
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Title needs (2023).
Realistically there is no free manpower. Small COSS projects initially get no contributions and once the project scales it's more work to manage the community and merge "contributions" than to ignore them.