skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article, and all the articles like it, are missing most of the puzzle.

Models don’t just compete on capability. Over the last year we’ve seen models and vendors differentiate along a number of lines in addition to capability:

- Safety

- UX

- Multi-modality

- Reliability

- Embeddability

And much more. Customers care about capability, but that’s like saying car owners care about horsepower — it’s a part of the choice but not the only piece.
>It doesn't claim that Anja Lee has anything to do with Stanford, except for teaching this class.

I'm not sure what more people would expect, being hired to teach a class or classes is how a decent percentage of the people that how have anything to do with Stanford have to do with Stanford.
For inspiration, I highly recommend "The Man Who Solved the Market" about James Simons and Renaissance Technologies. Some of Ernie Chan's books are great for learning about the basics, but ultimately finding an edge is the most difficult part. Books can teach you some of the best practices for researching edges, how to avoid common pitfalls in backtesting, etc, but no book will ever lay out the details of any strategy that contains alpha of course.

Grizzly Bulls is currently a one man (and wife) venture :)
Quant finance alpha forecasting with alt data and LLMs
What goodies can I get from AI companies though?
There are startups and startups, the ones that you read on media are just a fraction of the worldwide reality.
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“But the big guys are struggling getting past 100KB, so ‘think of the small guys’ doesn’t make sense when the limit is 640KB.”

How do people on a computer technology forum ignore the 10,000x improvement in computers over 30 years due to advances in computer technology?

I could understand why politicians don’t get it.

I should think that computer systems companies would be up in arms over SB 1047 in the same way they would be if the government was thinking of putting a cap on hard drives bigger than 1 TB.

It puts a cap on flops. Isn’t the biggest company in the world in the business of selling flops?
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I'm working on my scifi novel. I had started writing it when LLMs started taking off - I had been doing AI for two decades and I was well-placed to be in a good position to profit with the rise of LLMs, but I ended up gaining nothing much and I was depressed about it - so I started writing instead. Been picking at it for about a year before befriending an editor who encouraged me to keep writing. He's helped me developmentally edit it to a point I am now ready to work on my second draft.

It's a hard scifi novel with mild existential horror tones that is borne mostly of maths jokes. At one point the main character tries to escape the matrix (reality). But the matrix is defective, so the best way out was to orthogonalize the subspace and reduce the matrix to its eigenbasis instead. Most of the scenes are based on similar maths jokes.

Tentative name is Diagonalization of the Meta (I had previously called it The Metaverse).
But always always with Mus-informed grand intentions of changing the world for the better.

All we need is another market to solve every problem! It makes everyone with power and money happy, they love markets because they are experts at fucking everyone every way possible. Thats how you build inter-generational wealth!
The competition for big LLM AI companies is not other big LLM AI companies, but rather small LLM AI companies with good enough models. This is a classic innovator dilemma.
For example, I can imagine a team of cardiologists creating a fine tune LLM model.
There is a limit on reliable usage of the FS. Call it what you want. The user doesn't particularly care.
SillyTavern: A Power User's LLM Front End for Maximum Control
If power prices go up, it incentivizes building more generation, which is better for everyone.

Capping prices and participants is pure stupidity. Price controls and rations never work
Evaluating the Effectiveness of LLM-as-Judge
I don’t think they’re in trouble for missing the deorbit target.

The concern is that the second stage didn’t perform as expected. What if that affects the primary mission on the next flight? They need to understand the root cause before they fly again.

As the article states, the upcoming Europa Clipper launch requires an upper stage relight to put the spacecraft on the desired trajectory. If the second burn does not go as expected, the mission could be in jeopardy.
Would this be different from using HTMX to load an HTML partial on page load?

Something like:

<div hx-trigger="load" hx-get="/header.html"></div>
I got my C64 prior to 1985 and many of my friends did also. I was the exception by not being "just buy it to run video games".
I think you misinterpreted what I was saying. Kagi is indeed a paid service and not a community. I was saying it has a way to find small web type sites, but lamenting the fact that part of what made those sites so useful in the past was a tiny community, is gone, and probably not coming back.
If you have an understanding of closures, hooks are quite intuitive.
It's because the fundamental model of React's render cycle is unintuitive when combined with state. It's easy to make mistakes of this class specifically with React.
Bold to assume that someone managing daddy's nonprofit foundation is happier and more fulfilled than someone fixing and selling bikes for a living.
To me, the vast majority of "consumers" as in B2C only care about price, specifically free. Pro and enterprise customers may be more focused on the capabilities you listed, but the B2C crowd is vastly in the free tier only space when it comes to GenAI.
I agree with all of this 110%!!!

So tired of people making excuses so that some billionaire can buy another yacht. Can we finally actually start investing in people and putting people first instead of corporations.
Recently they’ve been starting to do shit, but they’ve been dropping the ball for the last 16 years.
What's a growing kid to do when they start encountering situations outside the training distribution? At least with movies and novels they'll have a few synthetic data points instead of just nothing.
Building an open-source full-frame CCD camera PART II [video]
I have an experimental aircraft, a Vans RV-14, that I've been working on for far too long. I have all the expensive parts on hand, I just need to finally finish putting them together.
Your own GPL unencumbered regurgitations of popular GPL libraries and applications.
Yes, it was a mistake. I obviously meant the Weiner responsible for the legislation I cited. But you clearly know that.

> I have no idea what message you're trying to convey, but whatever it is, I think you're failing to communicate it.

Really? The message is unchanged, so it seems like something you could deduce.
People like you are part of the problem.
In the US, the rate at which we install utility scale solar and wind is currently limited by how quickly we can upgrade the grid to support it, with interconnect wait lists taking over 5 years in some areas[1]. Lifting tariffs wouldn't speed things up without fixing that first.

[1] https://emp.lbl.gov/news/grid-connection-backlog-grows-30-20...
At least they're not deploying another IIS server somewhere on the Internet.
Cunningham's Law: "the best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, it's to post the wrong answer"
"Undetectable means untranstmitable" is NOT the same as "cured" in the way that many STDs can be. I am not okay with being forced onto drugs for the rest of my life to prevent a disease which is normally a horribly painful death sentence. Herpes is so ubiquitous that much of the population (as I recall on the orders of 30-40%) has it and doesn't know it, so it's a special exception

HIV/AIDS to this day is still something that people commit suicide over, despite how good your local gay male community is at trying to convince you that everything is okay and that "DoxyPep and Poppers is normal".

Bug givers (the evil version of a bug chaser) deserve felonies.
Second the closed source nature.
Believing that something closed source is actually encrypting messages is the same as believing in “trust me bro”

Tho, you can be open source without being FOSS if you want to give customers the ability to verify what you’re doing without giving away your IP.
A system to manage software metadata and SBOMs in particularly. This is based on our existing relizahub.com and will implement upcoming Transparency Exchange API - https://github.com/CycloneDX/transparency-exchange-api/
> when VCs were funding all kinds of ride share, bike share, food delivery, cannabis delivery, and burning money so everyone gets subsidized stuff while the market figures out wtf is going on

I’m reminded of slime molds solving mazes [1]. In essence, VC allows entrepreneurs to explore the solution space aggressively. Once solutions are found, resources are trimmed.

[1] https://www.mbl.edu/news/how-can-slime-mold-solve-maze-physi...
If PMs are accountable, then I'm with you. Decision making should lie with those accountable.

From what I've seen, accountability doesn't mean much. Could be the places I've worked. Poor PMs get promoted despite running projects into the ground, good engineers get held back despite pushing through adverse project plans, vice versa.
This exactly.

I’m glad I’m not the only one who thinks like this.
A lot of that is from clouds that are above the panels
> that make it really hard for folks trying to build a sustainable business without VC money

LLMs are capital intensive. They’re a natural fit for financing.
> 60 kilohertz while consuming less than 6 milliwatts of power
The IBM1401, the most popular computer in the world in the early 60s, ran at 11.5 microseconds per memory cycle = 87 kHz. True, it processed six bits at a time versus SERV's serial architecture but, still, both of these seem to be in the same ballpark, speedwise.

The 1401 takes 13 kilowatts of juice. So not even in the same universe with respect to power consumed per computation.
Trigger/need-snipe warning: the intro line is pure bait.
Vanilla OS is crap. I wanted to try in in a VM and it wouldn't even install. First, it complained that the disk size wasn't enough. Then it complained that it absolutely required UEFI. Then the installer just failed with a cryptic error showing a line of Golang code.
Yep, you will probably lose. The VCs aren't out there to advance the technology. They are there to lay down bets on who's going to be the winner. "Winner" has little to do with quality, and rides much more on being the one that just happens to resonate with people.

The ones without money will usually lose because they get less opportunity to get in front of eyeballs. Occasionally they manage it anyway, because despite the myth that the VCs love to tell, they aren't really great at finding and promulgating the best tech.
Remote Work Was to Reshape the Political and Social Landscape. What Happened?
The most important code would be that which generated the .qasm file. That's not included in the repo, just the "compiled" result and a little program to run it. The code generator will look like a conventional C++ program that turns geometry operations (like line drawing) into subroutines which are written out to the .qasm file. There's no point to commit generated code to the repo.

The .qasm file can be found in the downloads/releases section.
VC is the worst possible way to fund entrepeneurs.

Except for all the others.
Religious lobbying + labor protections.
This is a state that prior to 2012 had no sunday retail trading (with some exceptions).

Also the WA state has alternate revenue sources (mining royalties) that the other Australian states do not.

There is gambling in WA, just not physical slot machines/TABs/keno in every licensed venue.
> In a world where some people like to write enterprise software

Come on now...
Jury decides to change their verdict after being algorithmicly sentenced to 90 days in jail for using the wrong exit in the court building as they were being released from duty by the court officers.

CEO of VerdictAI is quoted as saying “shit happens, if they have any value as humans they would have enough money to get out of this, so the AI must be right. One must not lose sight of the fact that we have freed Americans from millions of hours of manual labor with our InmatesAI volunteer workforce.”
MIG is really just a glue gun for metal. For things where structural integrity isn’t critical you MIG stuff together by watching a couple YouTube videos and then going at it.
Ok.

Here’s the top comment from the Reddit post that was linked

> Hey folks! Kevin, product manager on Flutter and Dart here.

> The layoffs were decided AT LEAST a couple of layers above our team and affected a LOT of teams. (I think I can say that). Lots of good folks got bad news and lots of great projects lost people. Flutter and Dart were not affected any more or less that others. It was a tough day...tough week.

Can you comprehend that?
There was a time when the internet at large got behind projects like Ubuntu that stood a fighting chance of changing the world for the better.
I don't know what your source for "by most metrics" is?

As I understand it, the US is abysmal by many metrics (and also exceptional by others). E.g., murder rated and prison rates are exceptionally high in the US compared to Europe. Homelessness rates are exceptionally high in the US compared to Europe. Startup rates are (I believe) exceptionally high in the US compared to Europe.
Where e^-X and 1-e^-X intersect is 0.69. Mumbo? perhaps. Jumbo? perhaps not.
> If you think the human component of the teacher-student interaction is fundamental

What is the "human component" to teaching? How can't that be solved via AGI? AGI can do human emotions, current AI already can pretty well for most things.
There's a saying in the stock market that probably applies here: past performance does not indicate future performance.

Getting lucky twice is a row is really really lucky. Getting lucky three times in a row is not more likely because they were lucky two times in a row
It would be crazy if the bill had a built-in mechanism to regularly reassess both the cost and FLOP thresholds… which it does.

Inversely to your sarcastic “understanding” about politicians’ stupidity, I can’t understand how tech people seem incapable or unwilling to actually read the legislation they have such strong opinions about.
That's exactly the short term thinking they're hoping they can use to distract.

Tech companies purchased television away from legacy media companies and added (1) unskippable ads, (2) surveillance, (3) censorship and revocation of media you don't physically own, and now they're testing (4) ads while shows are paused.

There's no excuse for getting fooled again.
You may be forgetting that ChatGPT has 10M paying customers. Not to mention everyone that pays for Claude Pro, Perplexity Pro, and so on.
I agree with you, but it’s an indisputable fact that Rails is why the overwhelming majority of Ruby programmers have paying jobs.
>your apparent reluctance to be challenged

There are lots of reasons someone doesn't want to be "challenged" by some blowhard on the internet. One of them, true in my case, is I don't even work in this area anymore, as I said in my original post.

I really hope you are nicer in person.
It's my fault that I wasn't clear in my request: I was specifically requesting some fundamentally new privacy-centric research paper, not pre-existing technologies like SELinux or x.509 being added as a check-list item to appease enterprise customers.

I.e.: From what I can tell, Google spends approximately $0 on privacy research such as security technology that only benefits end-users.

You linked to a bunch of security technologies that Google just copy-pasted into their products to compete with Apple and Microsoft, or to meet large customer requirements.

Also note that GCP is one of the few offerings Google has where the "users are the customers" instead of products. Despite this, there's nothing in that whitepaper you linked that impresses me as unique or special about GCP in comparison to AWS or Azure. I never hear anything out of Google that's even vaguely privacy-first, even in such divisions.

Linking to a paper with the word "privacy" in it from Facebook is just hilarious.
Just as Andy hoped. He'll cut headcount without layoffs and the ones left will be the ones who couldn't get jobs elsewhere. Those who couldn't find work elsewhere will be easier to abuse because they will believe they don't have other options.
To put this statement into perspective, see this graph "Global primary energy consumption by source"

https://ourworldindata.org/global-energy-200-years

1. Share of solar is negligible
2. New sources of energy have always come on top of existing sources, never replaced them
it's https://savereel.app
I'm working on https://chivesbot.com/, a GitHub Slack app.

I was frustrated by GitHub's official Slack integration and the lack of certain customization and filtering capabilities. For example, I wanted to be able to send all production deployments to a specific Slack channel, but I couldn't.
> OpenAI has 10M paying customers

According to who?
As I recall the rough edges were a lack of tutorials and docs at the time. There are some “weird” things about the language which are totally fine if you know what they are, but it’s brutal if you don’t have a quick reference to make sense of things.

It has been a while so I can’t recall very clearly, and I have a feeling the community and docs around it are all much better now.
There's really not much to understand. He's pointing out an inherent flaw in capitalistic structure (that the market disproportionately awards some labor over others, leading to gross imbalances and to runaway problems like climate change) and trying to convert what would be a legitimate critique of such a system (i.e. it seems bad that this economic system is structured in such a way that the social values we have are secondary to individual economics) into a character judgement "well, it's not my fault you happen to have the poor people hobbies lol!"

It's the sort of dodge that's extremely typical of people who have gotten extremely lucky and benefited heavily from this economic system. If pg wound up taking up painting more heavily instead of programming as his primary means of subsistence, I damn well guarantee he wouldn't be reducing economic imbalance to a "natural consequence" of mere "difference of hobbies"
Everyone having an engine surrounded by two tons of metal has done untold damage to our built environment and social fabric. So this isn't even a joke.
I'm waiting for my company's layoff...
As I said, compare the current Netherlands cabinet to the current UK cabinet:

Schoof cabinet: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schoof_cabinet#Cabinet_membe...

Starmer cabinet: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starmer_ministry#Cabinet

The current UK cabinet contains senior ministers from ethnic minority background, such as David Lammy as Foreign Secretary and Shabana Mahmood as Lord Chancellor. Who are their equivalents in the Netherlands?
I would say, without qualification, "no". https://www.techpolicy.press/challenging-the-myths-of-genera...
The title is sensationalist. Looks like someone at Godot responsible for Twitter communications and Discord (not a manager of the engine) is banning folks for mild comments. Anti-woke people on Twitter respond by implying this community manager is somehow responsible for the quality of the engine itself (?), and making politically charged, blanket anti-LGBT statements using terms like "leftard", "rainbow people" and "mentally ill".

Basically more social media drama, and the worst kind too.
Sorry, you are correct. It was controversial.

What I meant to say was that the AI bubble is feels different in that there seems to be relatively more skeptics versus railroad mania or the dot com bubble (but this could just be skewed by my own experiences).

Whether or not this suggests a flawed value prop for AI is another story.
can you share some of these heuristics you referred to?
VC is good for high-risk, capital-intensive, scalable bets. The high risk and scalability cancel out, thereby leaving the core of finance: lending to enable economics of scale.

Plenty of entrepreneurship is low to moderate risk, bootstrappable and/or unscalable. That describes where VC is a raw deal. It also does not describe AI.
> I'm curious to know what you think they should have done, because other then just heap money on a literal direct competitor, I can't imagine what they could have done.

I suppose not pissing off their single and sole supplier of the product they're reselling to their customers might have been a smart move. If you buy your product from your competition, you probably need to stay on their good side. Maybe not re-selling a product when their continued access to the product was controlled by a competitor might also have been a good idea.

> Of course they could run the servers, but those are empty servers with no data.

Do they not have the source? Probably time to start hiring some developers and make their own patches for security issues in the product they're selling. No warranty express or implied is exactly that. They get the software, they get the source. Everything else is a bonus. Especially if the defense of their conduct is that there's no obligation for them to have done anything more than the license required of them.

> Should I as a user be worried that Linode or Hetzner will be blocked next because they aren't paying a tithe to WordPress?

Yes, you probably should be. Any time you're reliant on a single source of failure for a critical component of your business you should be worried about it. Sometimes you accept the risk and nothing happens. And sometimes you accept the risk and something does happen and you learn why redundancy is important.
It is more likely to be seen as messy, just aesthetics. Another big reason for chopping down fruit trees in urban areas is they mess up cars that are parked under them.
> impossibly vague for a piece of legislation - "reasonable care" and "unreasonable risk" sound like things that could be endlessly litigated.

Nope, that's entirely standard legal stuff. Tort law deals exactly with those kinds of things, for instance. Yes it can certainly wind up in litigation, but the entire point is that if there's a gray area, a company should make sure it's operating entirely within the OK area -- or know it's taking a legal gamble if it tries to push the envelope.

But it's generally pretty easy to stay in the clear if you establish common-sense processes around these things, with a clear paper trail and decisions approved by lawyers.

Now the legislation can be bad for lots of other reasons, but "reasonable care" and "unreasonable risk" are not problematic.
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To be fair, clowning around is a lot more tractable than homelessness, housing prices, health care, or immigration.
I am not among those smartest, so take my opinion with a mountain of salt. But I'm just not convinced that this is going in the direction of AGI.

The recent advances are truly jaw dropping. It absolutely merits being investigated to the hilt. There is a very good chance that it will end up being a net profit.

But intuitively they don't feel to me like they're getting more human. If anything I feel like the recent round of "get it to reason aloud" is the opposite of what makes "general intelligence" a thing. The vast majority of human behavior isn't reasoned, aloud or otherwise.

It'll be super cool if I'm wrong and we're just one algorithm or extra data set or scale factor of CPUs away from It, whatever It turns out to be. My intuition here isn't worth much. But I wouldn't be surprised if it was right despite that.