skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good god that article shows how immoral roblox's owner is. They also seem to be very ignorant about online abuse, probably intentionally.
I always knew the true AI datacenters were the big buildings that said "TATA CONSULTANCY" and "Accenture"...
I have had this feeling since I started working... Nobody actually wants employees.
The problem isn't innovation, it's adoption. A general "if it ain't broke don't fix it".
Yes, this is me as well. Reading on paper is so much easier and faster for me, and my reading comprehension is substantially higher as compared to reading on a screen. Even an e-paper screen.

I had long thought that this is because I'm old enough that for a huge portion of my life, most of my reading was on paper and people a generation or two younger than my wouldn't see the same disparity. This paper, however, seems to indicate that this may not be the whole story.
You’ll have to wait (and crank) quite a bit for the first frame to be output though.
https://archive.is/BYIfI
Amazon's Patents: A Dystopian Nightmare [video]
Why handful? I would assume that domestic robots like that would sell at least as many units as luxury cars - hundreds of thousands a year. In terms of training, there are a lot of current approaches of learning from videos (of which we have a lot) and from synthetic data, which is getting easier to generate. And if they need more data, I would assume that offering a version of such a robot with telemetry at a large discount would be an easy sell for some. In particular, I'd expect there would be a lot of demand for assistants to elderly people.
Oh they know what they want out of it, but they don't realize that LLMs / AI isn't up to the task at all. At best it's next generation code completion, and code completion hasn't made any jobs obsolete. (or, the time saved with code completion is not outweighed by the increased amount of software projects or the advancement in programming languages and libraries making code generation obsolete)

It sounds like IBM's management in this case thinks of AI powered code generators like they (and others) did of COBOL back when, "it's basically english so non-programmers can use it".
This is kind of a crazy take.

The comparison to a "$150k sports car" is crazy -- a Sports Car can be a flashy way to display wealth. No one is displaying wealth by having once paid for a Sublime License.

No one is sliding up to folks at a bar, flashing their Coda license, to prove they've "made it". "Hey baby, why don't you come back to my place, I've got a developer license for the entire JetBrains Product Suite" is simply not a thing.

The closest analogy I can think of, is probably in construction hardware tooling. Folks being "Mikita" vs "DeWalt" vs "Milwaukee" people or some such.
Magma in extinct volcanos may be filled with elements needed to power the future
GameMaker is also a good option, it even has a scratch-like visual programming language (but also a more conventional text based language).
If it is so widespread, why hasn't there been a class action lawsuit against them? Not refuting, genuinely curious.
The "AI will automate it and we can let go of knowledgeable humans" requires a very naive and sinister mindset, which seems widespread among so called leadership roles. If you ask yourself how a rational person could make such a overcommitment to an unproven technology, the answer is: They are not being rational.

Why are they in leadership roles? No clue.
In the United States prison inmates are still slave labor, courtesy of the 14th amendment.

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

https://www.npr.org/2023/12/14/1219187249/prisoners-are-suin...
And humans are better?

QAnon folks, for example, are biological models that are trained on propaganda and misinformation.

Trauma victims are models trained on maladaptive environments that therapists take YEARS to fine-tune.

Physicians are models trained on a corpus of some of the best training sets we have available, and they still manage to hallucinate misdiagnoses at a staggering rate.

I don't know why everyone here seems to think human brains are some collection of Magical Jesus Boxes that don't REGULARLY and CATASTROPHICALLY hallucinate outputs.

We do. All the time. Give it a rest.
Thx. No podcast though.
I'm going to steal this comment, that's great!
I got AI to make this for me a few months ago. It took a few prompts, including fixing a couple bugs I introduced by accident. It even picked the emoji's.

https://rockpaperscissorslizardsomething.neocities.org/
Expect to see the same story being said while actually being used as a cover for replacing expensive workers (e.g. anyone in the US) with cheaper workers. Wall Street is OK with this.
Built a working implementation in Go [0] a while ago, have always wanted to hook up DOOM to it.

[0] https://github.com/planetlambert/turing
Actually, the hardware symmetric capable, but they don't provide symmetric service (yet?).

I think the two reasons are market segmentation and preventing people from running services from their homes. 50mbps is enough uplink for what I do, and I don't care about providing services or self-hosting from home.

I have enough experience to run my services somewhere else on an isolated network and absorb the mayhem outside my home network.
Oregon Dept. of Forestry runs out of funds after $250M spent on wildfire season
Besides the obvious, you could honestly replace a huge amount of the horrendous documentation (50%+ of it is just carefully camouflaged marketing fluff anyways) for a large number of IBM products with the hallucinations of an LLM and be no worse off.
I think LLM is not synonymous with transformers and are quite a bit older. Afaik, an LLM is just a model (any kind of large model) that predicts the next token based on previous tokens.
Does the law allow the FCC to mandate unlocking?
If not, it doesn't matter how important it is to me if it is illegal.

There are many things that I think would be great for the government to mandate; free food for those who can't afford it. However, that would be the government just taking from companies with out payment and be illegal. Furthermore, if the government can just mandate that a company do something, they can also mandate the individual do the same. Congratulations, your house is now a soup kitchen.
I'm sorry you feel that way. You seem to be unreasonable in your anger and hatred for Christians, so clearly, any argument I make is going to be disregarded as nonsensical.

> HOW DO WE AS A SOCIETY GET THESE JESUSFREAKS TO LEAVE THE REST OF US ALONE?

> jesusfreak sociopath. Good combo

> insertion of jesusfreakiness into an argument

> jesusfreak your way into heaven by shitting your pants

> jesusfreaks are trying to cram their book down my throat.

If you replaced "jesusfreak" in your comments with basically any other identity, you'd pretty quickly get accused of multiple "isms" by others. The hypocrisy is deafening.
Integrated Tech Solutions [video]
This read to me like, why pay a proper experienced person to generate good and reliable results when you can combine to sub-par(no offense to junior engineers, but you don't know all the caveats and sharp edges yet) things where one feeds the other and continue to remain sub-par while mass money is shovelled to the AI forges so they can figure something out and blame the junior(human) and cite the nice little print that their system may generate false/incorrect things, when all the house of cards come crashing down.
What about them? I'm not understanding what that group would indicate on this topic.
Is there a single code editor that provides the same experience with Remote SSH and Devcontainers as vscode?

This is the first thing I look for when considering the alternative
Yes, they are always using the second definition.
>but they have to provide you with a transparent way to connect to it

Can you provide the source for that? Because the Wifi 6 enabled Modem from Magenta doesn't support bridge mode.
Specifying "My Account" implies potential access to someone else's account, but marketing and security rarely meet.
So glad to hear that there are other folks out there who continue to blog over long periods of time. It has the potential to create such an incredible resource, for the general public, for history, and for — of course — the writers themselves.

I've written on various blogs, including my own, since the late 90s, but I have been blogging consistently on a single instance for a little over 17 years. I've seen my writing shift from long form to rapid fire and back again.

I've also noticed that it's become mostly formulaic, as a way of dispersing information to folks. But it's those rare occasions where I'm actually struck with the inspiration to write a longer form thought piece that really brings me back to the whole reason I started my current blog.

Again, super happy to read this piece and the comments here. I'll remain hopeful that it inspires others to start — or to return to — blogging. It's really an incredible means of communicating with one another.
Celebrating Popcorn Doodle
Yes, and I'll also note that the secondary stress seems to be on the second syllable. That is, the second syllable is not reduced like in the UK. So it's pronounced most commonly in the US more like "Anne Chovy" than "Anchvy"
So hiring is just as broken as line managing?

I think this drum keeps getting beaten as a backup plan to force everyone back to the office. There's no data that WFH causes much in the way of "productivity drops", but oh boy, Norks getting hired, that's a "Can't help it, Legal Says you can't WFH" situation.
Frankly, I don’t think it’s feasible for a newbie to build a blog like Josh’s.
Restaurants in china are legally required to use oil traps like that and the oil must be removed. It is usually reprocessed to be used for industrial purposes. The fact that those people were possibly possibly illegally collecting it to sell to a company that reprocesses it does not at all mean that it's going to be used as "gutter oil" in restaurants any more than someone collecting empty cans from a trashcan means they're going to reuse those cans in a restaurant.

Gutter oil used to be a major issue in China but the Chinese government cracked down on it a lot a few years ago.

I recommend watching this video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G43wJ7YyWzM
> On the Moon you can do the simplest thing that works and if it works at 10% efficiency and breaks after 1 year - so be it, if it's enough time to get resources to make a new one.

The opposite it true: You can throw away things on Earth and have local industry produce replacements. You cannot cost-effectively bring equipment to the moon since you have significant launch costs. Optimizing for light-weight and reliable machines is inherently costly. There is no escape from gravity here.

> That's all fine if it means it can work with lunar materials only.

There is no manufacturing capability on the moon and you need to price in the cost of setting up such an industry through the bottleneck of lauches.
> why not have a toggle to allow sideloading like android

Because then your grandmother will turn on that toggle as instructed by the fraud-center in South Asia, install a keylogger watching her banking activity when she sends you that $5 for your birthday, so they can drain that inheritance you were counting on.

See the article right here on HN about Python devs applying for jobs and being prompted to self-pown.

TL;DR:

There are more people susceptible to fraudulent instructions by bad actors than there are people qualified to evaluate consequences of running unvetted code.
Imagine if learning about mental health could be as easy and enjoyable as browsing Netflix. Instead of scrolling through endless text or sitting down with a dense workbook, you could find mental health resources that fit into your life just like a good movie or podcast.
Exactly

They are also going for the entirely wrong market.

Everyone is arguing about replacing programming jobs, "AI can't replace my job".

But it is really just fractional.

Lets say you have 5 marketing drones writing boring marketing material. AI allows them to do more, you still need humans to use the tools, and to edit, but now you only need 3.

AI can't do the 'entire job' but it did enough to eliminate two positions. This is what is already happening. Do you think this stopped with the ESPN case? Companies didn't stop because they got caught, they just got better at it.
Does it come with UTM on the tape?
That may very well be the case.

Remember, what happens in five years time isn't Krishna's problem. What happens in the next 90 days is Krishna's problem. And if he can drastically reduce payroll while maintaining revenues in the next 90 days, he is judged by the market to be a good CEO.
> Why are they in leadership roles?

Because they’re useful to the bottom line and are anti-social enough to destroy anyone who threatens it.

People and moreover mentality like this should not exist in our society, yet we incentivize for it.
Would refreezing break the cable?
Chat Cost Calculator API for LLMs
The first google link for "ibm ageism lawsuit" https://www.cohenmilstein.com/case-study/ibm-age-discriminat...
The bare necessities of life will come to you.
Yes, a very large number of people are in prisons for stealing far far far less money.

Most people are in prison for violent crimes, then some for drugs, then theft.

But the motivation of seeing punishment as itself a good thing rather than a thing that achieves a downstream outcome overlaps.

I don't know what exactly you mean by this, but maybe we should be an evolved and caring society and let everyone out of jail and prison because punishment is cruel.

but "people who do bad things should just be crushed" is a key element.

Let's be clear that someone who stole 11 billion dollars going away for 2 years is not "being crushed".

Almost anyone on the planet would go to prison for 2 years just to be able to invest 11 billion for a few years and give back the principle. At only 4%, that's 440 million dollars a year or $1.2 million a day.
> Economies of scale and room for technological/process innovation.

This applies when going from 1 to 2 to 4 reactors.

See https://www.oecd-nea.org/mdep/events/conf-2023/presentations... page 27 for the Chinese approach to HPR1000 (Hualong One) innovation.

Plus the linked article mentioned improvements to manufacturing outside the constraints of the containment.
We Underfunded Our Libraries Once. It Almost Lost Us World War II
I actually archive any sort of short-form writing that I think is valuable in my site :) In fact, I compose Twitter threads first as a regular post where each paragraph fits in a tweet, then copy/paste those onto Twitter, and then share the link to the "real" post at the end (to avoid my content being slurped into "thread reader" apps).

But there are lots of short, one-off random-thought tweets that are not worth archiving other than for downloading a copy of your data from these services and saving it offline.
>>> have pretty limited context windows and limited ability to come up with brand new ideas, right? But they do write very confidently

so LLMs are basically senior management? :P
Yup, if the only task is to let people go, the AI can already perform that.
So someone steals my source code and posts it on GitHub, now i no longer have copyright rights?
The duty is on the copier to ensure they are granted a license.
No, open doesn't mean quality but there are numerous advantages to it.

Since there are so many suppliers, you need standard interfaces for components to speak to each other. An open communication standard would help immensely.

Additionally manufacturers tried to do the opposite and implemented DRM measures to verify the installation of "genuine" parts. This of course causes massive problems with compatibility.

This would also affect reparability. People value maintenance very, very highly. It is usually at the top for economic considerations for vehicles that serve a mass market.

People might accept shitty smartphones for a few hundred bucks, but in the price range of vehicles, people expect them to be repairable for longer than a decade.

Modern cars don't deliver here. Asian manufacturers give a 7 year warranty to mitigate the problem of modern cars. That is why they are comparatively successful.
They complete each other, first step is to explore other planets, then send the military to protect it and take the resources there before other nations.
Ask HN: Why am I not able to comment on my own post?
so I posted this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41647608 and I wanted to leave a comment providing more context, but immediately after I posted the 'discuss' button disappeared. What gives?
They been trying to for some time now[0]

My understanding is they are having trouble getting the individual arbitration clauses thrown out to allow it to proceed

[0]: https://www.theregister.com/AMP/2024/01/23/ibm_supreme_court...
Not sure what comet is in this context?

The chat code [I really should upload the code as the company has been dead for at least 10-15 years] worked by browsers holding an infinitely loading frame, so each client held open a connection for several hours. IIRC there was some Javascript that reloaded the connection after a few hours.

To handle 1000s of HTTP connections we had to implement our own fairly lightweight threads. It also had a cool inversion of control where you could write straight through code and it was turned into event-driven callbacks automatically. The webserver couldn't make use of multiple cores, which was lucky because the server had only 1 CPU!

Also used a pool allocator, which is very well suited to server applications.
You see this in so many tech companies. Once the product is “done”, technical leadership is out and clueless beancounters take the reins.
So you bought one house with a bottom-tier agent who wasn’t worth the money and now you’re trying to recreate that experience at the same cost? You don’t even understand what your competition is. A good buyers agent- one who actually does this full-time and makes a hefty profit- is worlds away from what you experienced.
It seems that an alarming percentage of executives do not have the skillset to steer a ship when interest rates are above 0%.
Haha. In general, I’m trying very hard to not see jobs I don’t understand as easily replaced by LLMs. Everyone thinks somebody else can be, right?

But I would be fascinated to see a company with the higher levels replaced by LLMs. Like a union or guild where the members are actually voting on the real decisions, and the LLMs handle summarizing these decisions and building narratives.

No idea of it would work. Might still need a human CEO. Would be interesting to see, though.
You won't be able to collect on this for ~100yr
Article about avoidance maps avoids showing any avoidance maps.
Leaderships always have golden parachute when things come crashing. Regardless of the long term consequences or outcome, they will always win or move onto next thing before the dues arrive.

Also, why can't we replace the leadership with AI? We have more books on management than actual technical knowledge. We can use AI to make similar decisions these leaders make at like what billion times less cost.
IBM has been a dead man walking for decades.

If the goal is functional software you're right.

However there are two goals at IBM: planet scale patent portfolio and satisfying the letter of their contracts at the Lowe's possible cost.

If they can find a way to get paid without staff they'll be delighted.

Unfortunately their core competency is hiring 20x as much staff as needed for a job, at the Lowe's quality they can achieve.
This will produce broken SQL on empty clauses list. Very strange.
The implication of this is not what you think. Basically github can go after Winamp and say they violated GitHub terms that is it. Just because winamp violated GitHubs terms of service does not mean they lose their copyright rights
Electrons (apart potentially from when the wavefunction collapses) do not exist as "particles". They're like a musical "note", simply waves in a field.

And if you do not think the wavefunction collapses (as in the Many World interpretation), "particles" are always just musical notes, just abstractions of the underlying "music"/wave function.

If so, it's fair to say that "all electrons" and "the electron field" is the same thing.

And even if it does collapse, the situation between those collapses is still that we have no indication that electrons exist as "particles" between each collapse.

Edit: Thinking of electrons as "real" between each collapse, is a bit like assuming that a deposit of $10 means the bank actually has 10 $1 bills stored in the vault that are explicitly yours.

The reality is more complicated.
I have seen a push in the past year or so for saving storage across Google products. Caching the Internet takes a lot of storage. I suspect that's why they've removed it.
Sometimes it feels like this AI thing is gonna be The Emperor's New Clothes for a whole class of management types. Like, maybe we're automating their jobs actually because AI makes me able to do more, but a lot of that is the admin stuff: I still have to do my own research (which many on the non-tech side don't seem to understand yet) but I can focus more on the tricky parts of my job, which happen to also be the parts I find most rewarding. I'm not sure how they plan to automate that when they're sitting there asking ChatGPT questions like it's an oracle.
This article details some past legal actions taken in different countries about it: https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/16/ibm_dinobabies_case_s...

edit: heh, replied concurrently with others pointing the same direction. somebody owes somebody a soft drink.
That's obviously not the case. GitHub even has their DMCA takedowns public. You can't redistribute copyrighted material unless it's under a license that allows for it.
Construct 3 is great. I used to it to teach at a camp. I would recommend this over everything else in this thread. It has a low barrier to entry, with the option to learn JS a bit at a time as the kid's skills grow.
>Thanks for the information. So, if I get it right, the blue checkmark is simply a way to say that Google performed adequate checks? Why not simply display the logo only for BIMI-certified emails, and drop the checkmark?

Yeah the checkmark is a Google idea, the BIMI standard is only about verifying the logo.

> Another issue, is that logos are much more volatile than domain names, and I don't see a good way to prevent scammers to bimi-register visually confusing logos. So I don't think it's a good idea to emphasize logos to users as a mark of trust in emails.

Well in theory the CA will manually verify that the logo submitted by the company is visually matching a registered trademark by the same company. That's the reason why a VMC certificate is so expensive. But let's see how it goes about that.
Molmo: a family of open multimodal AI models
> "Senior software engineers stopped being developed in the US around 2012," Blake said. "That’s the real story. No country on Earth is producing new coders faster than old ones retire. India and Brazil were the last countries and both stopped growing new devs circa 2023. China stopped growing new devs in 2020."

Huh. I hadn't heard this, and it goes against my intuition. They cite a Stackoverflow survey, and some other articles. A bolus of new developers entered the industry around 2000-2010, and are at least senior level now. I assumed the same trend had continued, since development is a pretty safe route to a good salary. What industry are reasonably intelligent people going into these days? The trades are a great option, but I was recently hearing about a scarcity of skilled tradesmen, too. AI was not an existential job threat in 2012, either, so that's not the reason, nor is the present moment's poor job market. What are people doing to make a living now?
shadow banned maybe?