skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you misunderstand what a golden parachute is, or more accurately in this instance, what severance is.

It's not some evil cabal gifting each other money. It's a contractual issue.
Always look at the faculty.
AGI is PR. The money is in automating low-level customer service, coding and data science.
Growing an API monitoring and analytics tool
A lot of the AI companies are also the major cloud providers, i.e. existing large consumers of electricity.

Google could entice someone to invest in generation capacity for a new AI datacenter by agreeing to buy their output for a few years, or building their own generation. Then if the AI thing doesn't work out, use that power for their existing data center uses, i.e. move the existing servers into the AI data center. That would be essentially shifting the risk to the power company in the location where the existing data center is, even if that's not the same one they have the power purchase agreement with.
Possibly, but when the owner of that server comes around and starts playing hardball, you probably need to figure out real quick how to mollify them or get out from under them. And if you're going to just point to the software license and say "it doesn't say I have to do anything to give back to you", then you probably shouldn't be surprised when the owner of the software points right back at the license and says "it doesn't say I have to give you access to the hard coded URLS either"
"Operator error", classic.

You nuke fans always conveniently leave out the costs of cleaning up the mess that the civilian nuclear generation program has already created. Last I heard it was about half a $T.
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Ah i didnt see that JCB and got it flipped again (and misspelled as a bonus)
— had better do this after a long walk (or sleep)

Ps that was a helpful blogpost, as well as a very concrete wiki eg!

Thanks for distilling A&R: f(o)rex “thinking” and “writing” can be quite labor-intensive, but we’d like to have finer distinctions between the types — what kinds “should” be added vs replaced.. so we should also pay attention to exchange rates??

(as a first guess, optimizing shiny vs essential — “form follows function” for reverence [why dont hackernewsies revere brutalism?] — for bosons, fermions & everything in between)
> I agree but those first 5 days are going to be a mixed bag as you pick through libraries for logging, database drivers, migrations, as well as project organization, dependency injection patterns for testing, organize your testing structure, and more.

So the same as every other language that lacks these in the standard lib?
Most of the world also gets by on much more affordable housing too, though.
>reverse-domain name

Why do people keep replicating this terrible design decision? It puts the lowest-entropy part of the name at the beginning, so that you have to parse (or type) the maximum number of characters before you get a unique specification. Try tab-completing a "flatpak run" command sometime.
It gave me a flashback to 2007, when I was a hobbyist programmer and signed up for a Ruby meetup on a whim, and a recruiter called me 5 minutes later and ended up getting me my first programming job. Crazy to think how much that changed my life.
I am working on Zipshot. http://zipshot.co -- The goal is to make the best free screenshot & OCR app for mac.

This is my side project because I needed an app like this for my daily use and I hate the fact that every other good app is paid even though maintaining such an app really doesn't cost anything.

Zipshot solves several problems:

- Easy to use shortcuts like cmd+shift+1
- No desktop clutter as images are uploaded to Zipshot cloud.
- Share via links.
- Powerful editor and figma style comments for annotations.
- OCR that works without the internet on 11 languages.
- Slack & Gmail integration.
- Context aware naming.
- Serious privacy measures.
- One click data download.

Who is it for:

- Users who take 5+ screenshots a week with mostly the purpose of sharing it with their team or friends.

I am improving it every week. Here are the things I am working on:

- Make the on-boarding and permission seeking workflow simpler.
- Speed up the app for apple silicon devices.
- Support OCR for rotated text and include more languages.

Here is an example demo: https://app.zipshot.co/bp4jr1
Are you kidding me, it's already cheap and it's going to get cheaper. I, a one-income person, can get up and use power throughout the day, every day at a fraction of my income. That's cheap. And I'm one of millions, if not billions. I think you're thinking free. Free is not going to happen anytime soon but cheaper than today is coming.
A) yes

B) it can manage pipelines through those services. Each card change would kick off pipelines whose status updates would cause jira to further change cards potentially kicking off more ci/cd steps.

C) you absolutely can use it as a database, calendar, and a wiki.

It has an api and can store data. You can query cards by label, search by content, and extract structured information from them.

Nested and linked cards provide the tools needed to build wikis.

I’m not 100% sure what the difference between CRMs and support ticketing system are, but Jira instances have been used as support ticketing systems in order to give devs view into what customers want.

It’s not the best at any of those things, but those are all doable (and are being done) with jira.
That's very interesting. I saw some screenshots of benchmarks used by Bun and Deno on Twitter at that time and it inspired me to suggest to Vitest to add a benchmark command. Later I learned that they were all using Mitata internally. https://github.com/vitest-dev/vitest/issues/917#issuecomment...

Very good work and design, glad to see a stable 1.0 is released!
> OpenAI COO Says ChatGPT Passed 11 Million Paying Subscribers

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-coo-says-chat...
> Yet in the vast majority of policies there was no discernible emissions reduction beyond what would be expected based on long-term economic and population dynamics.

There are 2 billion more people, or 33% _more_ people, than there were in 1998. What reduction was "expected?"

> In developed countries, pricing stands out, whereas in developing countries, regulation is the most powerful policy.

Ah. We keep the poor destitute and we allow the rich to buy indulgences. Perhaps your "expectations" are entirely flawed?
Too accurate.
Even being run on the same machine doesn't guarantee two independent processes agree on C struct layout compiled from the same source. For one, you could have something as simple as one compiled for 32bit, one 64, but even then compiler flags can impact struct layout.
Ensuring your whole company is staffed by people who do not want to be there and will leave at the first opportunity sounds like a poor strategy.
I’m so sick of people Restricting freedoms and access to knowledge in the name safety. Tyranny always comes in the form of it’s for your own good/safety
API tool to automate all the stuff Postman makes painful: https://callosum.dev
Spec generation from request logs, automatic schema generation and validation, test generation (eventually), totally offline, no accounts or cloud sync necessary!

Been taking longer than I hoped but should be released soon (next few days)
1 - the article was mentioning that amount per week, not per meal

2 - how much planning ahead and kitchen time per meal are you thinking here? For a 12 year old to do.
The math on this doesn't work.
Ellul wrote “Propaganda: The Formation of Men’s Attitudes” and “The Technological Society”. Both, I think, address a lot of what Kaczynski was addressing in Industrial Society and Its Future (ISaiF).

In saying whataboutists, I was referring to a section of ISaiF called, “The Danger of Leftism.” I was trying to avoid a direct callout to a political practice by saying this, but it may have obfuscated the point too much. Here, he talks about the derailing of discussion that happens when your space includes leftists. As I remember, he says this is due to the rabbit hole creation that happens in attempting to address issues pertaining to minorities. In this way, your discussion veers away from the point at hand,which is actually a part of the CIA guide to disrupting dissidents (get people to fight over definitions and what the purpose of conversations is).

The bureaucracy point is my own playfulness. I think a lot of people in governmental or academic circles have dealt with people who are more concerned with the rules at hand and the perception of following those rules than they are with the creation of good work. The section on oversocialization in ISaiF may clarify what I mean. It points at a class of people who are very, very concerned with the perception of others that is very common in the academic world.

Edit: I forgot to address Byung-Chul Han’s relation. He writes short books in the style of Baudrillard, in that, it is heavy on social criticism. Specifically, I am thinking of “In the Swarm” and its critique of group thought in the social media age.
Not OP but what is your guess? Bloomberg says 1M customers in the business plan [1].

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-09-05/openai-hi...
Higher median wage in WA than other states + higher operating costs to venues (WA liqour licenses used to be the most expensive unsure if this is still the case).
#2 is dead wrong, and shows that the author is not aware of the current exciting research happening in parameter efficient fine-tuning or representation/activation engineering space.

The idea that you need huge amounts of compute to innovate in a world of model merging and activation engineering shows a failure of imagination, not a failure to have the necessary resources.

PyReft, Golden Gate Claude (Steering/Control Vectors), Orthogonalization/Abliteration, and the hundreds of thousands of Lora and other adapters available on websites like civit.ai is proof that the author doesn't know what they're talking about re: point #2.

And I'm not even talking about the massive software/hardware improvements we are seeing for training/inference performance. I don't even need that, I just need evidence that we can massively improve off the shelf models with almost no compute resources, which I have.
I've found that everything that works stops being called AI.

Logic programming? AI until SQL came out. Now it's not AI.

OCR, computer algebra systems, voice recognition, checkers, machine translation, go, natural language search.

All solved, all not AI any more yet all were AI before they got solved by AI researchers.

There's even a name for it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect?utm_source=perplex...
About to start work on a side project. A map-driven web database of films, TV series, books, thatre and computer games based on where and when they are set. So if you want to watch something set in 1880s Paris, you can. Or you want to see something set in China in the 17th century.

Cute names welcome :)
Which is why I like languages that make interfaces very explicit, like OCaml or Ada. Most of the time, I don't want to see the implementation, just a properly documented interface. If people can't describe in simple terms the behavior of an interface, something is wrong.
Yeah… that’s Atlassian for you. Why sell just Jira when you can sell jira, confluence, bitbucket, opsgenie, and atlas as part of the Atlassian cloud platform.

This is the company that (already having owned jira) bought trello and did nothing with it for 5 years.
This made me feel some despair. The young people in my field are similar to me, and have interests and passions outside of work, but the older folks seem to have little in their lives which is enviable to me. Many of them are out of shape and hunched over from decades in front of their screens. They don't have strong interests in anything, and they seem to spend a lot of their time and energy thinking about their money: how to spend it, how to grow it, how to save it. They have families, but seem to view them as an obligation and a burden which they'd rather avoid.

I do know older people who retired from tech relatively early and live adventurous and inspiring lives. Maybe the key is just to get out before the career saps your vitality too much.
More complex buffer management in non-garbage collected languages.

man 3 cmsg

For a glimpse into the darker corners of hell. At least you get to grip it there. In GCed languages you have to hope the library designer gave you reasonable controls for timeouts, aborting large data transfers, and releasing buffers efficiently in a bursty network environment.

See all the controls any HTTP server gives you for this. "Maximum header size", "Maximum header(s) size", "Maximum Body Size", "Request Header Timeout", "Total Request Timeout."

None of those were added by default or by tasteful library authors. They were all added to answer to specific emergent security vulnerabilities that were discovered and then were demanded by the users.
What on earth would cardiologists use a Large Language Model for, except drafting fluff for journals?

Safely and effectively, that is. Dangerous and inappropriate is obviously a much wider set of possibilities.
think you mean && there :)
If your goal is to lift the limit, why put it in?

We periodically raise flop limits in export control law. The intention is still to limit China and Iran.

Would any computer industry accept a government mandated limit on perf?

Should NVIDIA accept a limit on flops?

Should Pure accept a limit on TBs?

Should Samsung accept a limit on HBM bandwidth?

Should Arista accept a limit on link bandwidth?

I don’t think that there is enough awareness that scaling laws tie intelligence to these HW metrics. Enforcing a cap on intelligence is the same thing as a cap on these metrics.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_scaling_law

Has this legislation really thought through the implications of capping technology metrics, especially in a state where most of the GDP is driven by these metrics?

Clearly I’m biased because I am working on advancing these metrics. I’m doing it because I believe in the power of computing technology to improve the world (smartphones, self driving, automating data entry, biotech, scientific discovery, space, security, defense, etc, etc) as it has done historically. I also believe in the spirit of inventors and entrepreneurs to contribute and be rewarded for these advancements.

I would like to understand the biases of the supporters of this bill beyond a power grab by early movers.

Export control flop limits are designed to limit the access of technology to US allies.

I think it would be informative if the group of people trying to limit access of AI technology to themselves was brought into the light.

Who are they? Why do they think the people of the US and of CA should grant that power to them?
Extension or no, university courses (especially undergraduate courses) are often taught by underpaid lecturers, adjuncts, and grad students, sometimes hired on a term-by-term basis.

This isn't necessarily a bad thing for students. At research universities, there is little reason to expect that a tenured faculty member would actually be a better teacher than some random lecturer; faculty are incentivized for fundraising and research rather than teaching. Moreover, experienced faculty may have little recollection of what it was like to actually learn the course material before it became second nature to them.

Courses typically cover the same material, and the syllabus is usually about the same, irrespective of instructor.
Thanks for sharing this view. I relate a lot.
Yeah, the rashomon effect was named after the movie. Actually I'm trying to update that particular article with data so check back again in a few weeks.

Also, as an artist, I love the domain name for your sites :)
School Resource Officers???

What are SROs?
Along with the existing productivity dip due to lowering of the hiring bar to meet DEI KPIs, and with this brain drain of their top talent, it is going to be a rough ride for Amazon.
I just had to see that: https://ifdb.org/viewgame?id=lkr2jf03np19ieix
It's playable online and quite well done!
https://www.strengthjourneys.xyz/

I'm working on an open-source web app to visualize barbell lifts.

Basically trying to provide the best motivation and resources to help people invest in their physical strength which is crucial to health and longevity.

I'm keeping it strictly based on user Google Sheet data - because over the years I've changed apps and it's always hard to get your data out.

So far I have:

- lots of charts

- an cgpt wrapper to talk to your lifting data and get lifting advice

- the best strength calculators (in my opinion)

- a strength ranking system for squat, bench press, deadlift and strict press.

Tech stack:

- Next.js on Vercel

- ShadcnUI components (the charts are great)

- nextauth

- Tailwind CSS

- ChatGPT 4o

https://www.strengthjourneys.xyz/

https://github.com/wayneschuller/strengthjourneys
I love his point about following your passion if your passion is in a narrow niche (especially if it involves technology). Trying to be the best at something popular will probably lead to failure, but I think people would be surprised how easy it is to become top 100 at something niche.
My friend, this is not as small as it seems. Here's why:

1. That person is the godot community manager so yes, a manager.

2. That person is banning people for even quoting the original author of Godot who said that people with different political opinions should not be isolated or put a label on.

3. That person has banned several discord users for disliking their messages on the discord servers.

4. Several developers have been blocked by Godot on GitHub too.

5. A discord user was banned for having a bio that read something along the lines of 'save children from being mutilated by woke clinics' [paraphrased]
Not true. You need a worldwide transmission network that supplies electricity to wherever it is needed. Solar power is available 24x7 on the planet. Long-distance DC transmission technologies have evolved.
A trillion dollars of market participants disagree with you, now including institutions and banks

I happen to agree that Bitcoin has very dubious utility, but I suppose it has nailed the "store of value" use case, whereby you can send it anywhere without any friction, and also if you need to, say, escape the country during war or a natural disaster, it's much easier to remember 12 words than try to sneak gold through customs, while the cash you store in your house might be underwater. Bitcoin for many institutions is a digital commodity to diversify for tail risk etc.
This seems completely incompetent on Apple's part and all-around awful. The supposed point of these prompts is that somebody could install screen recording software on your computer without you knowing. Now, that person can defeat the prompts, while everybody intentionally installing software has annoying hoops to jump through. Worse, they might have a false sense of security when it matters the most.

I hope these prompts get removed but, if they exist, they should not be possible to sidestep.
I get the sense that the value prop of LLMs should first be cut into two categories: coding assistant, and everything else.

LLMs as coding assistants seem to be great. Let’s say that every working programmer will need an account and will pay $10/month (or their employer will).. what’s a fair comp for valuation? GitHub? That’s about $10Bn. Atlassian? $50Bn

The “everything else” bin is hard to pin down. There are some clear automation opportunities in legal, HR/hiring, customer service, and a few other fields - things that feel like $1-$10Bn opportunities.

Sure, the costs are atrocious, but what’s the revenue story?
Why not?

Software engineer in the US makes 100K or higher. Why?

If you have reasons to believe the price is too high, present them?
I think the linguists already knew this tbh and that's what Chomsky's commentary on LLMs was about. Though I wouldn't say we learned "nothing". Even confirmation is valuable in science
Having been there for the dotcom boom and bust from pre-IPO Netscape to the brutal collapse of the market, it’s hard to say dotcoms don’t work. There was clearly something there of immense value, but it took a lot experimentation with business models and maturation of technology as well as the fundamental communications infrastructure of the planet. All told it feels like we’ve really only gained a smooth groove in the last 10 years.

I see no reason why AI will be particularly different. It seems difficult to make the case AI is useless, but it’s also not particularly mature with respect to fundamental models, tool chains, business models, even infrastructure.

In both cases speculative capital flowed into the entire industry, which brought us losers like pets.com but winners like Amazon.com, Netflix.com, Google.com, etc. Which of the AI companies today are the next generation of winners and losers? Who knows. And when the music stops will there be a massive reckoning? I hope not, but it’s always possible. It probably depends on how fast we converge to “what works,” how many grifters there are, how sophisticated equity investors are (and they are much more sophisticated now than they were in 1997), etc.
In case you forgot, the sun is always shining on the planet, 24 hours a day, every day. The location varies. A global transmission network will fix the availability issue.
I'd burn the wood, catch CO2 with oxides, store it as carbonates. The rest would go back to the environment.
CIA Superior: What did we learn, Palmer?

CIA Officer: I don't know, sir.

CIA Superior: I don't fuckin' know either. I guess we learned not to do it again.

CIA Officer: Yes, sir.

CIA Superior: I'm fucked if I know what we did.

CIA Officer: Yes, sir, it's, uh, hard to say

CIA Superior: Jesus Fucking Christ
There is a documentary about him titled "The Man Who Saved the World" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Saved_the_World
There's a lot of back-story here but the tl;dr is that someone did some really shady stuff with GPL themes and was a jerk to Matt and the community. Full stop. He admits as much.

The other side is that... years later, Matt spent $100,000 just to spite the developer by buying the domain he wanted. Imagine spending six figures just to spite someone. That's a lot of meals for hungry school kids.

This is really scary behaviour for anyone. Let alone the leader of a community.

https://pearsonified.com/truth-about-thesis-com/
I've read some of the threads, and it appears that Discord and X are not the end of it.

Apparently, this same CM also runs Godot's Github account: some people have reportedly been banned on Github as well, and if that's true, having non-technical activists run your Github account is wild to me.

There have also been reports that some developers who are Titanium level backers (i.e. at least $100 monthly) of the Godot engine have been banned as well.