skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would probably add more features to make it usable as a CMS, rather than just a blogging platform. At the moment, custom fields are basically unusable without a plugin like Advanced Custom Fields, and the same is true of custom post types and formats, the user login system, etc. Lots of things that could make it a better general CMS are entirely left to plugins whereas they probably shouldn't be.

I also don't get all the focus on full-site editing and blocks and customisation and Gutenberg either, since it feels like these features are only really going to be usable if either you're running your site as a solo venture or you're working in some sort of media environment where fancy one-off article styles can be the norm (like some New York Times longform pieces).

Anything other than that feels like a place where the modern style of editor is just a recipe for disaster. A large corporation doesn't want its editors to go wild with blocks and widgets in their posts and pages. An agency doesn't want the client to play designer and go crazy with the theme customisation. They're features meant for the Squarespace/Wix market, and not ones that necessarily fit something like WordPress.

But eh, it feels like there's too much focus on trying to compete with page builders and hosted site building tools, and not enough focus on fleshing out the features already included there, or providing a solid, easily extendable editing experience for existing WordPress site owners.
Honestly the idea of a valuable communication channel getting abused for selfish purposes feels like it needs its own law. I'd happily call it csharps law. Maybe it's already got a name. We have the idea of spam, but it's vauge, nebulous, and doesn't concretly identify the systems and forces in place that lead to this innevitable outcome. It casts this outcome as not even a problem of individuals, but something like "the problem is someone sent me a message I didn't want." As if that person had not done that, then this wouldn't be a problem.

I think this is important because it feels like an endless surprise to everyone that this keeps happens. It feels like we have to cover the same ground again and again in discussions about it, and it feels like if we could tackle this problem more generally, the benefits to society at large would be massive.

Product reviews are valuable, producers capture reviewers, spam fake reviews.

Email is valuable. Spam nearly destroyed it until we migrated the entire decentralized system to Google.

Public discussions like these are valuable, and God knows how much work Hacker News does to moderate all this.

None of this feels like it's designed to resist this problem.
And importantly it's also a question that would need an answer if the alignment should be with "individual groups" rather than "humanity".

It won't do Sam Altman and friends any good if they are the richest corpses after an unaligned AI goes rogue.

So it would be in their were egoistical self interest to make sure it doesn't.
Further back then that. Supreme Court has been a political institution all along. (The Marbury vs. Madison decision was an interesting political maneuver.)
100% this. He isn't even saying anything novel (I mean that in a good way).

On top of that, the advance in models for language and physical simulation based models (for protein prediction and weather forecasting as examples) has been so rapid and unexpected that even folks who were previously very skeptical of "AI" are believers - it ain't because Sam Altman is up there talking a lot. I went from AI skeptic to zealot in about 18 months, and I'm in good company.
> Keep in mind this is rank speculation 20 years into the future.

It's a bit amusing that the comment right next to yours (albiet a cousin not a sibling) is insisting that what I'm describing is already happening.

The (naive) weaponization of this tech is already underway. What's more, the tools and methods to turn the categorization work in this paper into a goal-oriented optimization procedure already exist -- see for example the Diplomacy work from Meta; again, focus on methods, not the application.

The tech is here today, the barrier to use is low, and the incentive structure to weaponize exists.

What will take 10-20 years is the trickling of that impact into social processes and then the retrospective reflection of what happened.

Note, for example, that Facebook was founded in 2004, but it took 10-15 years for the impact on social processes to reach a point of significant material impact on global society and politics.

> If this were 2004 OP would have you convinced 90% of your day would be spent culling spam from your inbox.

It's not about the amount of time spent; it's about what happens in the time that is spent.

Spam, and online attention markets more generally, is an incredible apt analogy.

Even for the most strict definition of "spam", the market for prevention is pretty huge. Anti-email-spam tech alone accounts for ~$5B/yr in spend with a 21% CAGR. Going all-in on anti-spam tech in 2004 and capturing even of sliver of the market would make you very wealthy today.

If you include spam-like content on social media platforms, that number certainly more than doubles. On headcount alone, Meta told Congress that they have 40K employees directly working on trust and safety, and TikTok says they have about the same number. That's just headcount, and at just two companies.

Beyond that, the following question will prove only more prescient as time goes on: where does "spam" stop and "algorithmically curated content designed to part consumers from their dollar" start? Even today, the average person in places like the US will spend ~2.5 hours consuming algorithmically curated feeds on social media (in service to online advertising revenue). And many aspects of non-social media now have some aspect of quantitative optimization as well.

Contrary to your take here, with the benefit of hindsight, I think the "Eternal September" doomers of the early naughts significantly under-estimated the impact of information technology on how people spend their time and how society spends its resources. (And, anyways, your strawman is a bit too hyperolic -- no one was seriously arguing that 90% of anyone's day would be spend culling spam from their inbox, least of all me...)
Reading in between the lines it seems most of the innovation is managing the regulations and privacy concerns of large institutions who want to use shared AI models.

> offers hospitals its experience in managing huge amounts of data in a secure and decentralized way, which is key to ensuring the privacy and security of the private patient information used to feed the algorithm. [...] uses a system to process data locally without sending it to central storage. This helps protect privacy and make better use of resources when different hospitals work together to create reliable AI-based models

Which probably makes sense why CERN developed some expertise in this area.
We never call a Western or west-aligned politician who is doing it 'crazy'.

We have a lot of other negative terms for it, but for a very recent example, nobody in the press (even the press hostile to them) doubted Dubya's or Tony Blair's mental state in 2003.

Somebody opposed to us doing it, is, of course, mentally ill. There's no other explanation for it!
Providing lyrics is called "writing lyrics". If you think that pasting lyrics into a prompt makes you somehow more involved in the process of writing music I don't know what to say.

> can absolutely produce something that captures and expresses your ideas and emotions

The right analogy here is to imagine an infinite museum where you can wander until you find a piece that expresses your emotions. It has nothing to do with the act of your expression, and everything to do with you resonating with a piece produced by someone/something else.

> At the end of the day I don’t make music for the masses

Fair. But you also don't "make music" for yourself. At most you write lyrics.
I understood it as this: Hospitals keep the data locally and run AI analysis on-site. They then exchange certain parameters (not the raw data) with a central server, which uses these parameters to update and improve the model. The central server doesn't run the models or process the data itself, it's just used to refine the AI models that the hospitals are using locally.

Someone please correct me if I understood it wrong.
> I wonder how much of that was just echoing the corporate mission statement of Automattic for the sake of any colleagues who happen to stumble across the blog.

It's fairly obvious that's what it is.

Or they are being forced to post "I stayed", as nearly everyone that I've come across that works there is posting it. To the point where it doesn't even feel organic.

For anyone else that wants the latest drama: Matt seems to be weaponizing Automattic and CVE's against WP Engine now.

https://x.com/automattic/status/1842612123488473341
Simplify the rules, make it easier to understand and reason about

This happens every few decades...A legislature wipes the slate clean and starts fresh with a new, simpler set of laws.

Then spend the next few years discovering why the old set of laws was so complicated, as they gradually reintroduce laws to deal with the edge cases, loopholes, etc. that the new laws created. And then you end up with a complicated set of laws again.

The people who get hurt when you "simplify" the legal code aren't the corporations; they have the money to get good legal advice, nor the criminals since they don't particularly care about following the law in the first place. It's the common people who get hurt when the law is simplified, because most people are fundamentally law-abiding, and the law is complicated to deal with all the people who are not.
The ‘magic’ of the monodepth DNNs is exactly in their ability to learn what scale objects and scenery tends to be in the training data, rather than having to be modeled one object at a time. Use them in inlier situations and they work great. Outlier situations, of course not. You don’t expect them to work in the pitch dark or in featureless white boxes. Same with strangely-scaled environments.

So, while scale models are indeed a fundamental problem for monodepth, this is not often a problem in practice. The human visual system has the same limitation. A self driving car camera will never in practice find itself peering into a little box of toy cars. And a phone camera will very rarely be looking into a dollhouse instead of a real house. In the latter case, processing can usually be done based on relative depth. The former does need absolute depth, but it might be safe enough to ignore the case where all the cars and surrounding scenery have been shrunk. And if you don’t want to do that, you have wheel odometry with absolute scale you can compare with the imagery.
> Progress on benchmarks continues to improve (see GPT-o1).

thats not evidence of a step change.

> The big guys are building synthetic training sets

Yes, that helps to pre-train models, but its not a replacement for real data.

> not worried about running out of data.

they totally are. The more data, the more expensive it is to train. Exponentially more expensive.

> o1 shows that you can also throw more inference compute

I suspect that its not actually just compute, its changes to training and model design.
This kind of story is heartbreaking, and something I think about a lot.

My parents don't know me very well, a lot of people don't, and I've always been a very private person. I've also been through a lot, written a lot about that and other things, but it's all across various profiles.

I know if something happened to me my parents would probably like to read it to have a better idea of who I was, to maybe be able to feel closer to me or hear more of my voice.

But this data is all across various profiles that would just be forgotten.

I want to make something that allows for importing data from all these various sources, presenting an interface to parse and peruse it, and making it available only after someone has died to certain named people.

Something like this will need to be standardized at some point as so much of our lives becomes increasingly digital.
not if you have a chronic illness. my wife hits her deductible every year just getting the annual MRI she's required to get.
https://www.statista.com/forecasts/1174175/dishwasher-owners...
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I mean, there is a reason the board tried their best to exorcise Sam Altman him from the company. OpenAI could be the next Loopt.
>I find that when someone's taking time to do something right in the present, they're a perfectionist with no ability to prioritize, whereas when someone took time to do something right in the past, they're a master artisan of great foresight.

-xkcd 974
25k people starve to death each day[0]. Those deaths all happen in capitalist economies. That's 9 million each year, for who knows how many years since we developed the necessary technology to have a surplus of food. We're talking about hundreds of millions of preventable deaths, if not more. That's just the result of a very inefficient economic system—without even counting wars, lack of healthcare, and so on.

I'll happily choose communism over such an incredibly unjust system, even if it caused "100 million" deaths worldwide, as you say. That number is complete BS, by the way.

- [0]: https://www.un.org/en/chronicle/article/losing-25000-hunger-...
For almost all jobs X, "really competent X" are in exceedingly short supply.
Any attempt to craft legislation to deal with this that could be construed as helping large corporations would be immediately shot down in our current political environment. But this is going to be a huge problem that costs jobs and harms the economy if something isn't done about it.
Why not use an N95 mask? I use it on movie theaters, subways and airplanes.
I wish it could write integration tests. That requires an understanding of the testing scaffold and the fake data it produces. LLMs aren't ready for that yet, but someday it will be magical.
According the New York Times [1], OpenAI told investors that they're costs are increasing as more people use their product, and they are planning to increase the cost of ChatGPT from $20 to $44 over the next five years. That certainly suggests that they're selling inference at a loss right now.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/27/technology/openai-chatgpt...
It’s true by definition. If we invent a better-than-all-humans inventor, then human invention will give way. It’s a fairly simple idea, and not one I made up.
40-1; I use Rust for almost everything.
For smaller projects I always test SPA approaches (with Rust and WASM of course), but for long-lasting important projects I would always go for boring, reliable, server-side rendering. Other client-side things remain optional (keyword “Progressive Enhancement”).
Someone is buying enough of his bullshit to invest a few billion into openAI.

The problem is, when it pops, which it will, it'll fuck the economy.
It's funny because in a group crowded channel there is feedback so long as you are part of the channel. But I think even in those circumstances, the feedback you get from the noise of everybody else, you don't interpret that as the same thing as you sending just "your one message".

Humans are really bad at understanding distributed harms.
True but John graphic designer might find it useful.
I think to parents at least to millennials, the idea of an MMORPG is just even more foreign than it is to parents to gen z or gen alpha.

WoW was maybe not the first big title but it was the first that really put the genre into the mainstream. A genre inspired by the novelty of virtual worlds. I think to them, their son just played a dumb video game and in the best case they weren’t necessarily supportive but also not against it. Just a weird thing he did that they didn’t understand.

How could they possible imagine that he spent his time in that world with people from all around the real world talking about the game and their life alike for hours on end. Being there for those people when life hit them and being able to expect the same in return like what you’d hope friends in the real world would do.

To my mother, all people online that talked to me when I was a teenager would be creepy old people trying to groom me. But the people I’ve met in those games are now my best friends. If I were religious, one of them would have been the godfather to my child.
For some reason these all seem to be closing down. I don't think there any of the CVS Minute Clinics left in California. They used to be in every third CVS or so.
I wouldn't want it. Plenty of billionaires who can walk around town unrecognized and don't tweet at all. Just an example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Dangermond
I would be surprised if they eat any cheese whatsoever. most eastern asians are lactose intolerant
Generative AI can't even handle complex programming tasks, and those have discrete and measurable outcomes.

Generative AI won't be able to handle the law. That will require actual AI (meaning, a system that is capable of understanding, not just one that predicts which word should follow another as Gen AI does now).
Go read how they showed up.
As someone who has teenagers right now, I can confirm that this is accurate.
Since in my experience most humans can't write correct tests, this is impressive indeed.
Apparently almost any strain of lactobacillus should be able to make some type of yogurt (each one with a distinct flavor). I have taken relatively expensive probiotic supplements sold in a very famous supermarket in the US known for this type of thing (yes, that one), which claim to have close to a dozen strains of lactobacillus. It was utterly incapable of even beginning to make yogurt. It was just plain milk at the end of the process, not even a discernible yogurty taste to it. On the other hand, we had great success using a cheap yogurt starter we found sitting around that had expired 5 years ago. I would love to have a full spectrum of probiotics, but can't spend the money to actually find one that works, so I have to stick to homemade yogurt.
You're pretty much onto the crux of the situation. Lets put it mildly, its a rare case that the parents of a disabled child/person truly understand their needs/desires/wishes/dreams. Its much more common that the barrier that appears between disabled and non-disabled people will persist, and will not get broken down. Most disabled people I know (and I am disabled myself) basically had to run away from home to get some degree of freedom. Its a rather sad thing, which involves a lot of things, mostly the trauma of the parents which they likely never overcome. And the desire of the disabled peerson to gain some independence. Which is usually not compatible with family.
We tried the no regulation method after the Civil War. It lead to robber barons and an overall shitty country. Regulations as in the concept is not the problem. Bad oversight and governance is.
His recent statement that AGI may "only be a few thousand days away" is clearly an attempt to find a less quotable way of extending estimates while barely reducing hype. History generally shows that estimates of "more than five years away" are meaningless.
Yeah, both the title and content of the arstechnica are spreading misinformation. The mainstream media has always been terrible at accurately representing the findings of a given academic study, but this is disappointing.

The study was conducted with people who had chronic constipation as measured by complete spontaneous bowel movements (CSBMs). A bowel movement qualifies as a CSBM if the individual had not used a laxative within the last 24 hours. Prior to intervention, participants had a mean of 0.77 CSBMs/week with an SD of 1.0. That is quite extreme so the results of the study cannot be generalized to the general public.

Additionally, both the probiotic group and control group experienced positive effects, even if the probiotic group didn't outperform the control group. That's extremely meaningful and requires further investigation. Perhaps the belief of taking a digestive supplement caused individuals lower stress and/or motivated other healthy lifestyle changes? Science shouldn't be viewing the placebo effect as evidence that something else is BS; we need to view the placebo effect as a psychological tool to effect positive change.

Finally, the study tested only one bacteria strain. I have not seen any recommended probiotic supplement that includes only one strain of bacteria.

More research is needed; the title is clickbait and the article doesn't sufficiently emphasize the major limitations of the study. Really a shame to see that type of reporting.
Real-time Audio Effects on the SNES [video]
It's actually quite usable and fast if you turn javascript off.
Longevity in general (don't judge by today's fully Lidl-ized & Kaufland-ized diet of modern Bulgarians). The research dates back to the 19th century and Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov [0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89lie_Metchnikoff
WTF? Look at a word processor today, and then one from 1999, and tell me again how technology always keeps improving dramatically.

The standard electrical wall sockets that you use have not really changed since WW2. For load bearing elements in buildings, we don't have anything substantially better today than 100 years ago. There is a huge list of technological items where we've polished out almost every last wrinkle and a 1% gain once a decade is hailed as miraculous.
Automattic turns to weaponizing responsible disclosure against WP Engine
Good potential, appreciate the organization of topics but not the ads and clickbait stuff.
I do not know about any of that or your feelings of sadness.

I have skepticism of his predictions, and disregard for his exaggerations.

I have a ChatGPT subscription and build features on OpenAI technology.
What a massive waste of human effort. Patent trolls should be publicly executed.
They will need to watch very carefully for any negative relationship with the endemic Vancouver Island Marmot, that only lives in a couple spots in the Island. In this case, those bears will need to be captured and moved out of the Island again. Grizzlies have the rest of N America to live.
China operates an almost entirely capitalist economy. Who's ever heard of new billionaires under Communism? In fact no country remotely implements "communism," yet you say it always leads to authoritarianism. Why and how would an economic system only create totalitarianism? I think it more likely has to do with complex historical and political factors that leads to despots taking power under the guise of communism. I think it's fairly antiquated and disingenuous to make this red-scare blanket statement in 2024
That was what I started to do with Perkeep.org but never find enough time to work on it. At one point I had it importing from all my social media sources but of course everybody broke their APIs. Sigh.
What is Nil Punning? (2019)
I mean OpenAI is a bubble, if it pops, its big enough to take the rest of tech with it.
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