skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly.

Ive started realizing that specialists who lack general skills like computer knowledge o the ability to learn things outside of their domain as needed are themselves tools.

If you can't understand things outside of a very narrow slice of specialization you're just a tool to be used by generalists.
I don't agree with this at all, and I wonder if it reflects what other languages you use that may have shaped your assumptions. `if mylist` feels very much like Common Lisp to me. In much of the code I've seen, the value would never be none because an empty list was definitely created.
Are you implying that Alex Jones is just "doing a bit"? If so, could you explain to me what the comedic intent was behind the whole "denying a tragedy happened and encouraging the harassment of families mourning the loss of their children" episode?
> H1B visas suck for IT and software workers.

H1b only sucks for short sighted people. Places like India would in any case have more software engineers available, than the US. Moving and hiring best of Indian engineers in the US kept teams operating in the US from being offshored wholesale.

Software isn't a car, doesn't require physical transportation.

An understaffed team in the US would be worth less than an offshore team with offshoring overhead.
The benefit of such a powerful lightsource is that you can get roughly the same amount of light you'd get from a summer sun. That seems to be what you need to stave off seasonal affective disorder.

For waking up you'd need some kind of timed control, either old-school mechanical or maybe a smart relay. I've found that a single well-placed smart bulb programmed to ramp up over the course of 15 minutes works well to wake me up, but I'm pretty sensitive to light during sleep.
I can't wait for this to be implemented on other devices and used to make sure you actually look at the screen during ads! Google is going to love it.
@dang, it looks like the comments just got reordered. The top one was posted 5 hours ago, and it fell to the bottom in the last few minutes.

I'm curious how that happened since you've just posted this message above.

EDIT: Ah I get it: the headline was updated by moderation, and the comment critiquing the headline was de-ranked. The post is still wrong though, the link should be pointing at https://x.com/dynlangsym/status/1856748088708210924, since the PDF from 2014 doesn't explain the 2024 headline.
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Tried this out, pretty interesting! Nice usable interface, though I'd personally want some more video controls. Video summaries are fantastically helpful.

The processing seemed to jump through a huge amount of video really fast...was it pre-processed or does it just rack up enormous amounts of compute (if you don't mind the question)?

Speaking of compute, is there a cost/fee expected to drop for this?

Thanks for making & sharing this tool.
I'm sure Red Hat will continue to pay Podman developers, just like they continue to pay developers for the other upstream projects that are hosted at CNCF (like Kubernetes).

I'm we can all think of some projects "abandoned" to foundations through the years, but in general, I'd call getting core infrastructure out of the control of a single company and into a place with more transparent and democratic governance a good thing.
Correct. JetBrains is allergic to LSP in general, as it directly commoditizes their core business. For example, they are only now developing a stable Kotlin analysis API that could maybe be used in a future third-party language server, despite the advanced age of both Kotlin and LSP.
can llama 3.3 vision do things like "there's a textbox/form field at location 1000, 800 with label "address"" ?

I did a quick and dirty prototype with Claud for this, but it returned everything with an offset and/or scaled.

Would be a killer app to be able to auto-fill any form using OCR.
Most of it is building portfolio, or university students projects, thesis.

That is how those millions came to be, outside paying jobs.
Elena Branson donated to one politician in her time as a Russian asset in the US: Gabbard. We know that Branson was in contact with a Representative as part of her unregistered agent activities, though it was never officially confirmed to be Gabbard.

She met with Assad, who has close ties to Putin

She hired Chris Cooper, who has ties to Russia and has used his company to propagate pro-Russian propaganda, including attempting to smear Sergei Magnitsky's name via articles and funding events to screen propaganda "documentaries"

RT, Sputnik, and Russia Insider all began boosting Gabbard and focusing on her over the rest of the Dem candidates in 2020
I had a friend who often said "sunlight is the best disinfectant". Of course, he was saying that in about 2010 and I'm pretty sure it's aged extremely poorly, because the increasing publicity around conspiracy theories has only made them more popular. It feels like a stretch to say "but people were trying to silence the conspiracy theories, that's why they caught on!"
Should've tuned the LLM for chess.
> Well, there have been no significant improvements to the GPT architecture over the past few years.

A lot hangs on what you mean by "significant". Can you define what you mean? And/or give an example of an improvement that you don't think is significant.

Also, on what basis can you say "no significant improvements" have been made? Many major players have published some of their improvements openly. They also have more private, unpublished improvements.

If your claim boils down to "what people mean by a Generative Pre-trained Transformer" still has a clear meaning, ok, fine, but that isn't the meat of the issue. There is so much more to a chat system than just the starting point of a vanilla GPT.

It is wiser to look at the whole end-to-end system, starting at data acquisition, including pre-training and fine-tuning, deployment, all the way to UX.

P.S. I don't have a vested interest in promoting or disparaging AI. I don't work for a big AI lab. I'm just trying to call it like I see it, as rationally as I can.
one click to add from the first message = $1 total cost.

contractors can add this to their invoices if they care.
Whenever the topic of strikingly bad songs comes up, I always like to link to Spaced Out - The Best of Leonard Nimoy & William Shatner[1] which is an album truly breathtaking in its badness. Everyone I've ever played the CD for has agreed it's the best bad music they've ever heard.

1: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_k8rGB_NGkgen0y...
If you can't live off of $40,000 a year, you are not taking that job. I'm not saying there aren't people already independently wealthy and "working" for fun but those are an infinitesimal exception.
I work on such a team too. I don't care what you call me - pay me
Or just have the AI generate new specific experimental setups and parameters that we can try and be like "oh yeah, we just made a room temperature superconductor".

Honestly given what we know about physics, the AI should be able to simulate physics within itself or deduce certain things we've missed.
> Learn more about the ITAR here

ITAR, defense, and clearances are completely unique worlds compared to the rest of the job market.
15 years ago when video chat with strangers was still a popular thing to do on the Internet, whenever I hosted a room, I always used the name "NumberOneBonnieTylerFan" and played her hits in the background. That you do not appreciate her music tremendously saddens me.
Well sure, but the predicting the results of this particular election was very much a coin flip.
Cursor tracks ok, but the implementation seems to replace a low-level pointing device. I.e., it's very precise and jittery - all attribution and no salience.

Also maybe like Siri it should be modal. E.g., dwell away to silence, and then dwell leading corner to say "Hey, listen..."

Holding the phone seemed to cause problems ("you're not holding it right"). Probably best with fixed positioning, e.g., attached to a screen (like a continuity camera, assuming you're lying down with a fixed head position.

Tracking needs a magnetic (gravity well?) behavior, where the pointer is drawn to UI features (and the user can retract by resisting). Salience weighting could make it quite useful.

It's possible that weighting could piggyback on existing accessibility metadata, or it might require a different application programming model.

Similarly, it would be interesting to combine it with voice input that prioritized things near where you are looking.

I'm willing to try, and eager to see how it gets integrated with other features.
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To each their own, but I don’t look forward to having my kids yelling, a podcast in my ears and having to explain to my tumbler that wool must be spun at 1000 RPM. Humans have varying preferences when it comes to communication and sensing, making our machine interactions favor the extroverted talkative exhibitionists is really only one modality.
I'm uncertain if you think you are contradicting me or are showing others how complex the details of the real implementation are. Either way: Be sure to check out all those relevant rewrites in the RULES pragma a few lines further!
I don't find the image poor, but somehow I see immediately that it is generated because of the stylistic style. And that simply triggers the 'fake' flag in the back of my head, which has this bad subjective connotation. But objectively I believe it is a very nice picture.
You just made the new scam ‘persuading you to text me’. I get $1 for everyone I fool!
Apparently OpenAI can’t ask the AI to design a better AI. Perhaps the singularity isn’t as close as people thought.
I didn't think it made the case any stronger, but reasonable people can disagree on this, and in retrospect I should've included it. There is probably more backstory & context to meme population than I realized.
Critical vulnerabilities and privacy concerns in WhatToExpect fertility app
The "Daisy" AI sounds exactly like a female version of Bill Nighy.
The one fact that showed the entire Russigate investigation was purely a hoax was when Mueller testified before Congress, and someone asked him a question about "Fusion GPS" and Mueller literally claimed he had never heard of that organization before. It proved Mueller to be either 100% completely senile or lying, because that was the KEY organization involved in the KEY document for the ENTIRE case. lol. Unbelievalble.

My gut instinct is that he'd sworn to the Clintons years before that he'd never publicly talk about that firm.
Back in the mid-1990s I extracted a small part of the GNU C++ String library into a small package, which I called "GString".

I had no idea about the garment.
Of course people value things besides salary, but if there was no salary or the salary would not be enough to live off, none of those things matter in any way. So first and foremost (unless you're a billionaire's son) is salary, for everyone.
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Maybe let's not build the Torment Nexus.
I stayed in a nice suite in a hotel once and it was the same until I put the do not disturb sign on the door

It was like they were obsessed with busy work, I couldn’t tell if they didn’t want me there or if this was VIP treatment to them

It was in another country
On a similar post about ghost jobs a couple of weeks ago, I made the following suggestion:

Another potential way to at least surface dodgy behaviour perhaps: Automatically append to a poster's comment links to all their previous comments in Who's Hiring threads in the past twelve months.

I can foresee posters then creating throwaway accounts to avoid this, but the green username would be a give-away (or restrict new accounts from posting on these threads).
I think the product should be called Twitter and the company called X. Sort of like Facebook/Meta. Which is what Musk should have done from the beginning, but we can fix it for him.
Imo, you can make good money, and do some good, guiding the numerous laid off developers on the business pastures, if only you figure out how to scale beyond the usual personal couch model. Perhaps some sort of QA platform with paid access: free-tier for read-only users, basic-tier allows asking questions, and premium users get occasional 1-1 guidance? Just a random idea. This might work because they can relate to you and thus trust you, unlike yet another MBA suit.
Actually the google phone as some spam blocking additional to the one in my carrier which is crap, I was using the samsung app and I was getting spam calls always, I set up google one , now I get none
I wonder how a transformer (even an existing LLM architecture) would do if it was trained purely on chess moves - no language at all. The limited vocabulary would also be fantastic for training time, as the network would be inherently smaller.
Search is all you need probably
New Gemini model beats GPT 4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet
You know you're going to need to provide us with a little snippet demonstrating this behavior now, right?
Because it can't apply any reasoning that hasn't already been done and written into its training set. As soon as you ask it novel questions it falls apart. The big LLM vendors like OpenAI are playing whack-a-mole on these novel questions when they go viral on social media, all in a desperate bid to hide this fatal flaw.

The Emperor has no clothes.
Could you elaborate on this? how does being down-leveled make an engineer less likely to leave?
> low poly trucks

My lego builds from when I was 5 were a scam?
The one big exception to this I've found is working with image data. When you have over a million pixels, you'll have a slow time transforming them unless you can process each one within nanoseconds. Even a compiled language like Rust will struggle with image data if you build it in debug mode. So there's really always going to be a place for optimized implementations of those sorts of things.
This. Related to that, I'll also never get used to mathematicians' habit to assign semantic meaning to the font that a letter is drawn in. Thanks to that, we now have R, Bold R, Weirdly Double-Lined R, Fake-Handwritten R, Fraktur R and probably another few more.

All of those you're of course expected to properly distinguish in handwriting.

I'm sure most of them have some sort of canonical name, but I'm usually tempted to read them with different intonations.

(Oh and of course each of those needs a separate Unicode character to preserve the "semantics". Which I imagine is thrilling edgy teenagers in YouTube comments and hackers looking for the next homograph attack)
I think the end goal is to only allow github/google whatever accounts to publish code on Pypi, so importing whatever will be USA-sanctions safe.

The burden to ban russians/koreans/iranians will be on those big companies and pypi will be able to claim they respect the rules without having the resources themselves to ban accounts from sanctioned countries.

So in my opinion, in the future tooling will have some option to check if the software was uploaded via microsoft et al and can be considered unsanctioned in USA.

Or they might just say that's how you upload now and that's it.
> these hero images are a convenient cue to stop reading.

If you don't like such content. But I would say don't judge a book by its cover.
I bet that the maintenance costs on vehicles/computers is inversely proportional to their operators understanding of how they function.

If you hired a driver which would you rather hire, the one who knows which grinding sounds that a vehicle makes are good/bad or the one who just keeps using it with disregard for the grinding sounds because it isn't currently inhibiting their ability to drive?
It's one click to set the breakpoint in the ide or one line if you're using gdb from the command line. I'm not sure how printf debugging could be quicker even if you didn't have to rebuild. Having done both, I'd take the debugger any day.
Use the Sort API to track issues in your Snowflake or Postgres data
> but studies showed that he could remember some things, just not consciously

I expect it is very hard to overestimate how incorrect our mental model memory and learning is. If literally everything was forgotten, then you could set up a reverse groundhog day or groundhog hour for someone, just optimize for them having a wonderful day every day. (Would still be horrible for the loved ones to be effectively disconnected from their still-living relative.) Probably there have been movies made about this.

I have no experience with this but I am sure it is nothing, nothing, nothing like that. The article says you wouldn't wish it on your worst enemy.

> Because she cannot remember things, she goes through each day in a state of low-grade anxiety about where her grown children are and whether they are all right. She feels she hasn’t heard from any of us in a long time.

To me this is not a description of someone frozen in time. To me this is a description of some horrific combination of some amount of learning or "remembering" happening, some sense of passage of time, and no episodic memories to draw on to explain any of it.
Yeah but can they deliver, and handle a kitchen, like one that actually has a diploma in Culinary arts?
"We bilked this city of all its dough"
I feel the test for AGI should be more like: "go find a job and earn money" or "start a profitable business" or "pick a bachelor degree and complete it", etc.
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The fact that two main parties emerge because of our method of voting is known as Duverger's Law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duverger%27s_law)

My gut is business as usual in America, what we've been doing since the end of WWII, has come to an end. Biden was the last of the post-war era presidents.

Trump is a completely different animal with a completely different mindset and the majority of checks and balances to keep him in check have been removed. America is going to be fundamentally different as a result. Don't think we're going to have four years of Trump and then go back to the way things used to be. That's not going to happen. Too much will have been destroyed to easily go back. We're in new territory, we're at the dawn of a new era - and I'm afraid it's going to be a much darker era than the one we just left.
"The letter formerly known as p"
Juries are the worst system except for other systems. There's a reason defendants have the option in many cases to waive trial by jury. But do we like them more or less than one judge deciding facts and sentencing? Do we believe a judge would be more or less forgiving of a defendant who just skips his deposition?

(https://www.npr.org/2022/03/24/1088639577/alex-jones-skipped...)

The biggest stumbling block to Alex Jones prevailing in the civil case against him was Alex Jones, by treating a legal proceeding as a minor inconvenience.

Anyway, I wouldn't put much worry in my opinion of powerful rich men. Neither of us will ever be enough of one for it to matter.

(FWIW... Jones losing a civil suit doesn't make him a bad person. Accusing the families of eight dead kids of making up that their kids were massacred, then profiting off of that lie, would have made him a bad person whether or not he ever saw justice over it.)
Discover quantum mechanics or you’re a failure!

I hope your approach with your kids is a bit more nuanced.
Python’s “truthiness” is a cutesy feature that is just an excuse for bugs in your code. It’s opaque/ too magic, exhibits poor readability and endless confusion.

Just use a normal check, like everyone is expecting to see.

“Oh but what if it’s not a sequence”, well then you have bigger problems. Why are you emptiness testing something that may-or-may-not-be-a-sequence? Maybe solve that problem first.
I don't understand this. Afaik the parent argues that the 230k/yr is a lucky outcome of starting a business, far more people end up with less or nothing. And this "winning" situation of gaining 230k/yr is barely in range of a "sure" outcome of being employed at Google. Concluding that if even a successful entrepreneur is set to gain less then an employee at faang, entrepreneurship is not a sound decision for fang employees. How is risk portrayed wrong here?
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> He also says he isn't all that smart

Oh, how humbling and modest of him!
> "let's only allow the LLM to do things we know it is rock-solid at."

Even this is insanely hard in my opinion. The one thing that you would assume LLM to excel at is spelling and grammar checking for the English language, but even the top model (GPT-4o) can be insanely stupid/unpredictable at times. Take the following example from my tool:

https://app.gitsense.com/?doc=6c9bada92&model=GPT-4o&samples...

5 models are asked if the sentence is correct and GPT-4o got it wrong all 5 times. It keeps complaining that GitHub is spelled like Github, when it isn't. Note, only 2 weeks ago, Claude 3.5 Sonnet did the same thing.

I do believe LLM is a game changer, but I'm not convinced it is designed to be public-facing. I see LLM as a power tool for domain experts, and you have to assume whatever it spits out may be wrong, and your process should allow for it.

Edit:

I should add that I'm convinced that not one single model will rule them all. I believe there will be 4 or 5 models that everybody will use and each will be used to challenge one another for accuracy and confidence.
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Am I the only one who can't stand the "LLM writing smell" on articles like these?

There are obvious formatting tells, and then less obvious word choice tells (e.g., delve), and lastly an excess verbosity and genericness that leaves one unsatisfied, like eating a low-sugar sweet. The concept is cool, but this article could have been reduced to a tweet.
Yes, we want, a bootcamp isn't a three to five years degree with a possible exam.
I'm pessimistic about that.
> For example, combining a human-moderated knowledge graph with an LLM with RAG allows you to build "expert bots" that understand your business context / your codebase / your specific processes and act almost human-like similar to a coworker in your team.

I'd love to hear about this. I applied to YC WC 25 with research/insight/an initial researchy prototype built on top of GPT4+finetuning about something along this idea. Less powerful than you describe, but it also works without the human moderated KG.
You can mask out the tokens at the end, so its technically autoregressive.