skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True.

It's less that "what counts as fair use" is ambiguous because litigation is expensive, and more that each situation of reuse is unique to where the law has codified that fair use be determined on a case-by-case basis. Case law can aid in proving your case for fair use, but there is not a framework for quashing a challenge to your fair use if your case is basically a carbon-copy of an existing legal case.

Even in this reality, for something like Pooh Blood and Honey, Disney wouldn't have touched it since their every action in legal proceedings (especially copyright-related ones) is closely followed by enthusiasts, bloggers, and the mainstream media alike. If Disney had challenged the Pooh slasher film while he was copyrighted it probably would've grossed an extra 10 million dollars.
Which algorithm you pick for what shape of matrices is different and not straightforward to figure out. AMD currently wants you to “tune” ops and likely search for the right algorithm for your shapes while Nvidia has accurate heuristics for picking the right algorithm.
* HN will stop hating and start loving crypto. Particularly smart contracts, stablecoins.
Along with "The Doors of Stone" from Patrick Rothfuss
> It will have human intelligence, superhuman knowledge, superhuman stamina, and complete devotion to the task at hand.

Orrrr..., as an alternative, it might discover the game 2048 and be totally useless for days on end.

Reality is under no obligation to grant your wishes.
That's the excuse used by every big company shitting out software so broken that it needs intensive professional babysitting.

I've been on both sides of this shitshow, I've even said those lines before! But I've also been in the trenches making the broken shit work and I know that it's fundamentally an excuse. There's a reason why people pay 80% margin to Nvidia and there's a reason why AMD is worth less than the rounding error when people call NVDA a 3 trillion dollar company.

It's not because people can't read a spec sheet, it's because people want their expensive engineers training models not changing diapers on incontinent equipment.

I hope AMD pulls through but denial is _not_ the move.
Only consumer scales up for the holidays. Most other industries scale down. The more companies they have, the more even the overall demand is for them.

Also, every unused resource goes into the spot market. They just have a bigger spot market during the year.

And lastly, that's why they charge a premium. Because they amortize the cost of spare hardware across all their customers.
That's not the only one, Linus website had the same discussion an the confirmation that it did happen and lead to an end of their partnership
I mean, that is just a one time thing right (the first time you land on it)?
I dissent from the implication that this poem is non-hacking-related. It is arguably not a hack (though it is certainly a product of ingenuity and achieves a large effect with little resources, but I think other factors weigh against it) but there is no human activity unrelated to, specifically, this poem; and hacking is a human activity, perhaps the most human of all activities.
A friend's son was about to be diagnosed Schizophrenic after more than a few nights broken sleep due to night-horrors. Fortunately his Mum could recognise schizophrenia and she managed to get sleeping pills prescribed (with much difficulty) instead of antipsychotics and he got back to normal over a few days with a few nights good sleep.
And what exactly did they cripple to reduce interoperability?
When you get good enough at mathematics, you can tell if your proofs are correct or not without asking a TA to grade them for you. Most mathematicians reach this level before they finish undergrad (a rare few reach it before they finish high school). While AI hasn't reached this level yet, there is no fundamental barrier stopping it from happening - and for now, researchers can use formal proof-checking software like Lean, Coq, or Isabelle to act as a grader.

(In principle, it should be also be possible to get good enough at philosophy to avoid devolving into a mess of incoherence while reasoning about concepts like "knowledge", "consciousness", and "morality". I suspect some humans have achieved that, but it seems rather difficult to tell...)
Wouldn’t the end game here be that the AI just writes straight to machine code? It’s not like some devs are safe, those who maintain coding languages would be out of a job too. I think AI would find it awfully silly to have to code up a language, maintain it, then turn around and use that language to code with. Bare metal AI seems like the end game to me.
I don't know anyone. That would be cool though, I basically have it running already.
OpenAI trained o1 and o3 for safety policy
The hiddenness of this post today (for people in the northern hemisphere at least) was that I posted it on the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year, which is the same day that Frost is speaking about in the poem - not sure how many have you recognize that yet? Hopefully it adds to the magic. Merry Christmas! :)
I’ve been trying to get a few trades to my house and it’s a nightmare. Nobody wants to turn up or quote, and when they do they just throw out a silly high figure. It has to already be a better option for someone who is aiming for a reasonably good salary.
> I know if I were at UHC I’d be looking to leave before I ended up on a hit list.

UnitedHealth has half a million employees. If you think individual employees are at risk of getting on a hit list then you don’t really understand the scale of the company.

I’m constantly amazed by how some people adopt the uninformed narratives that sprang up in the wake of this murder. I’ve asked multiple people to guess how much cheaper our healthcare would get if we forced insurance company profits to zero and redistributed their C-suite’s compensation to their covered patients. The answer is always off by orders of magnitude.

It’s all very strange. The narratives around this murder and, by extension, the health care system are being invented by people informed about both yet widely accepted as fact. Even details about the scale of UnitedHealth seem lost on people. This is a very large publicly traded company with scores of employees.
> SQLite does Nested Loop join

Only that? Never anything better? Really?

EDIT: Really.

Section titled Joins here https://sqlite.org/optoverview.html

states:

"SQLite implements joins as nested loops."

That's quite shocking.

While doing MySQL and Postgres when nested loop showed up in EXPLAIN in almost all cases I knew I botched my query and/or indexes.
Why do developers continue to work on AI? Sooner or later (probably sooner) it will be adequate enough to remove the need for many or most developers.

I listened to this week’s All In podcast and the podcasters (all wildly successful tech entrepreneurs) were quite emphatic that they were seeking a world where they were not beholden to developers. They envision a world where non- or semi-technical employees create the desired software via AI; other AI agents would then figure out how to deploy it.

I feel like we are at a similar point to many other professions in the past facing a rapid technological change. But in the case of software development, developers themselves are hastening their own demise.

Just something to think on.
I think that would actually be the best outcome - that we get AIs that are useful helping science to progress but not so powerful that they take over.

Though there is a part of me that wants to live in The Culture so I'm hoping for more than this ;)
> I've adopted a policy that for every significant compiler or build system release, we create a branch that verifies a good build.

Mozilla's Firefox CI builds with multiple compilers, including clang trunk and (IIRC) Rust Nightly compilers to identify code issues that will need to be fixed before Firefox can update to the new compiler versions and to catch regressions in the compilers themselves.
> Is it a kind of misogynism?

-.-

At what point did any of the criticism have anything to do with her gender? Honest question, I'm scratching my head trying to see where misogyny comes into play. Surely it's not that _because_ she's a woman any criticism from men must be misogynistic? Would it be different if Intel's CEO was female? Or do the people criticising need to be of the same gender as those they're criticising in order for there to be no misogyny?

Truly just trying to get an idea of what sort of perspective it takes to get to

> Is it a kind of misogynism?
> 1st amendment applies to the government, so it wouldn't apply

Eh, the DMCA is still a law providing for civil and criminal sanctions based on speech. There are probably fundamental First Amendment problems with copyright.

The answer to why the DMCA—and copyright as a whole—can exist is the Copyright Clause [1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Clause
Thanks for taking the time to think about it - very helpful comments. Will check FenBen out and stick some references in as I find them again.
If a humanoid robot is able to move its limbs and digits with the same dexterity as a human, and maintain balance and navigate obstacles, and gently carry things, everything else is trivial.

Welding. Putting up shelves. Playing the piano. Cooking. Teaching kids. Disciplining them. By being in 1 million households and being trained on more situations than a human, every single one of these robots would have skills exceeding humans very quickly. Including parenting skills. Within a year or so. Many parents will just leave their kids with them and a generation will grow up preferring bots to adults. The LLM technology is the same for learning the steps, it's just the motor skills that are missing.

OK, these robots won't be able to run and play soccer or do somersaults, yet. But really, the hardest part is the acrobatics and locomotion etc. NOT the knowhow of how to complete tasks using that.
>the time it takes it to learn what works/doesn't work widens.

From the raw scaling laws we already knew that a new base model may peter out in this run or the next with some amount of uncertainty--"the intersection point is sensitive to the precise power-law parameters":

https://gwern.net/doc/ai/nn/transformer/gpt/2020-kaplan-figu...

Later graph gpt-3 got to here:

https://gwern.net/doc/ai/nn/transformer/gpt/2020-brown-figur...

https://gwern.net/scaling-hypothesis
If I didn't see it, it didn't happen...

OK, I stand corrected. We lose one or two NVMe drives per year :)
Mankind might finally stop using the word THE before her name: Earth
It's demonstrably useful for cheating on homework assignments and examinations.
Disappointed that there wasn’t anything on inference performance in the article at all. That’s what the major customers have announced they use it for.
"ChatGPT" Coding... is it impartial? the name sorta sounds biased.
But what if the human only has to intervene once every 100 hours, that’s a huge productivity boost.
The article puts ‘United Healthcare’ in quotes and opens with a statement mirroring this same possibility, because the first-pass response to DMCA requests is as you describe: An assumption that it’s legitimate until proven otherwise.

This is very well known and the technique is often abused. Even the source article is presenting this information with a huge grain of salt.
Augustus Caesar was a trillionaire apparently (in todays money)
You must like it for political reasons, because from a technical standpoint the new Twitter is a catastrophe. It doesn’t even work properly. The other day I typed in the URL of an account I wanted to check, from a browser where I wasn’t logged in, and I got an endless loop of redirects. Watching Musk tear down Twitter infrastructure over the last two years has been like watching the Notre Dame fire, except if it was set on purpose. It was a miracle of human accomplishment and now it’s a shell of its old self.
The people directly responsible for advancing the latest AI tech are both small in number relative to the entire population of devs and they also have a chance of building generational wealth as a result of it. The rest of us are trying to keep up with AI because it’s both interesting and because we don’t have a choice.
this one is interesting, few factors:

- governments and companies are now stacking on btc as a hedge against tradfi fiat currencies.

- people have better access to it now. centralized ones now have better regulations, and decentralized ones now have better liquidity.

- however, people are still prone to scams and pump and dumps
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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> Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

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Have a nice day.
Because the recipes and the adjustments are trivial for an LLM to execute. Remembering things, and being trained on tasks at 1000 sites at once, sharing the knowledge among all the robots, etc.

The only hard part is moving the limbs and handling the fragile eggs etc.

But it's not just cooking, it's literally anything that doesn't require extreme agility (sports) or dexterity (knitting etc). From folding laundry to putting together furniture, cleaning the house and everything in between. It would be able to do 98% of the tasks.
Bill Burr is right. https://youtu.be/OILUHHtZt4c?si=TS159SY_VVAHrGnN
I wonder what held it back all this time
Yeah, if you don't have levels of redundancy, then you're pretty screwed. We could theoretically lose 2/3 of our systems and have sufficient capacity, because our metric is 2N primary plus N secondary, and we can run with half the racks switched off in the primary, or with the secondary entirely switched off, or (in theory, there's still some kinks with failover) with just secondary.
Layoffs get peaked.
They get measured when it matters - in who gets beaten down at the end, yes?
422 unprocessable content (webdav)

The request couldn't be processed due to semantic errors... perhaps such as not being mapped to a handler :->

I suppose from the right point of view that could also be likened to a reverse proxy not being able to send the request on (502 bad gateway), but sane people would probably find that even more confusing.

There were also attempts to use 204 no content for "I successfully confirmed that what you asked for doesn't exist", but I think I managed to shoot those down.
I agree 100% with the section on documenting your system and code. It's sobering to consider how many HN posts about software development contain comments to the contrary, indicating that documentation (and heavily commenting your code) is useless.

It seems the longer you've been developing software, and/or the bigger the project, the more you become a fan of documentation.
Honestly, probably NVIDIA itself, since they contribute significantly to many open-source projects (MLIR), and also make their SoTA GEMM/Conv implementations open-source and available for study (Cutlass).
We’ve lots of programming languages; most businesses need only an OS (Linux- free), an application language (python, java, C*), a database language (SQL), and a front end be language (js + html). No need to go to bare metal in most cases as generative AI is already good at these.

The mostly unsolved problems right now are around build, deployment, and operations.
> Auth is a solved problem by minds much smarter than my own.

Is it? It seems like all the outsourced auth has lots and lots and lots of problems, issues, etc. along with being remarkably expensive.

I'm not saying I, personally, can do better, but it seems like auth is far from a solved problem. Especially since it seems like the difficult part of "auth" is actually "customer support" rather than any technical issue.

(I would argue that the lack of an open-source "Auth in a Box" seems to also argue that auth is far from "solved".)
Jakob Fugger
Maybe you’re describing YouTube’s DMCA process? The actual law doesn’t specify any of that [1]:

> If the user believes that the material was removed as a result of mistake or misidentification of the material, the user may submit a counter-notice requesting the reinstatement of the material. To be effective, a counter-notice must contain substantially the following information:

> (i) a physical or electronic signature of the user;

> (ii) identification of the material that has been removed or to which access has been disabled and the location at which the material appeared before it was removed or access to it was disabled;

> (iii) a statement under penalty of perjury that the user has a good faith belief that the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification of the material to be removed or disabled;

> (iv) the user’s name, address, and telephone number, and a statement that the subscriber consents to the jurisdiction of Federal District Court for the judicial district in which the address is located, or if the subscriber’s address is outside of the United States, for any judicial district in which the service provider may be found, and that the subscriber will accept service of process from the person who provided notification under subsection (c)(1)(C) or an agent of such person.

1: https://www.copyright.gov/512/
There's a second 2024 thread here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38614465

Reading through the two 2024 threads I'm struck that most predictions a) were completely wrong b) reflected more what people wanted to happen rather than what was likely.

Edit: now that I've read through this thread I'll add c) were much more hopeful than this year's predictions.
> yet, they cannot replicate it, neither can Russia, heck Russia has these really powerful jet planes

Russia has powerful Soviet-era planes. Their new kit is demonstrably crap, being unable to establish even air supremacy against a foe wielding handfuls of decades-old air defence equipment.

There is also a P != NP difference between replicating a war machine and reverse engineering it sufficiently to defeat it, e.g. designing a radar that mitigates its stealth.
If we get to a point where we have a model that when fed a real world stream of data (YouTube, surveillance cameras, forum data, cell phone conversations etc.) and can prune out a good training set for itself then you’re at the point where the LLM is in a feedback loop where it can improve itself. That’s AGI for all intents and purposes.
AI written article that's a poorly reused template of earlier story, applied to not-actually-classified information. And we're 44 comments in and most someone has noticed is observing it sounds like "early Wikipedia"

We are so fucked
So basically Nvidia is like Windows and AMD is like Wine. I think trying to emulate CUDA and using forked Nvidia libraries is not the best strategy for AMD. They should have made a clean break and come out with a fresh API, like Apple's Metal.
It's easy. You can detect if something is burning in many different ways, from compounds in the air, to visual inspection. People with not great smell can do it.

As far as taste, all that kind of stuff is just another form of RLHF training preferences over millions of humans, in situ. Assuming the ingredients (e.g. parsley) tastes more or less the same across supermarkets, it's just a question of amounts, and preparation.
Cold fusion turns out to part of the physics repressed since the 1950s, and progress begins the path to give everyone their own personal megawatt of clean energy.

Disclosure actually happens, and it turns out we're not alone in the Universe.

BitGrid turns out to be the most efficient way to bring Petaflops to the masses, it's then disappeared as "born secret" and you never hear of it again.

Someone figures out an effective algorithm for simulating a quantum computer in real time at any scale, again "Born Secret" and it disappears.

H1N5 (Bird flu?) takes hold in the human population, millions die.
the new idea is the o series and clearly OpenAI’s main focus now. It’s advancing much faster than the GPT series
Consider attending 38C3: https://events.ccc.de/congress/2024/infos/startpage.html

Edit: Looks like it's completely sold out. Maybe next year?
AMD could spend their market cap in one year to get this done in three and it would be a coup for the shareholders. They could hire all of the best NVIDIA engineers at double their current comp, crush the next TSMC node on Apple levels, and just do it and if it got them a quarter of NVDA’s cap it would be a bargain.

They don’t fucking want to! Believing this is anything like a market is fucking religion.
Lisa Su is an exemplary CEO, and widely recognized as such. She is exemplary for doing what she did with AMD, and did it without appealing at all to her sex... just on sheer competence. I think it's a bit presumptuous to suddenly call out her sex as if it matters. In reality, she's being talked about exactly like any male CEO. I have great faith in her though. She is clearly extraordinarily capable, and honestly a real inspiration to women in tech
Not OP, but based on their mention of Ollama, I can tell you that it has built in search tools, all you need to do is supply an API to one of the tools, or even run one of the search tools locally using docker.
> don't think of the manual as some super-secret state secret

The bright-red “classified” markings they include in their dumps suggest otherwise. It’s edgy because it’s demonstrably subversive.
"2 more mass shootings"? There were 488 in the US in 2024. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41488081
Coming out of python land and spending a bit of time working in Emacs Lisp was kind of a breath of fresh air. Working with the org roam library, I’d see a lot of complaints about how it hasn’t been updated in two years. This was of course, a feature and not a bug. I really did feel a prevailing sense of calm that libraries would not drop out from under me, that I was just running basically all my own code or borrowed code, and if it works, it would continue to work.

This contrasted wonderfully with my experiments with Gatsby and Node, which I foolishly deployed to client websites not knowing that as a result I would be doomed to years of deployments breaking and nightmare library updates.

Of course, the trade off here is that with the exception of a few wonderful libraries like org-roam, basically everything, my own code included, shipped basically broken out of the box
Sora and similar video generating models will mark the beginning of YouTube like era.
(this comment was extensively edited since I responded to it)

You haven't rebutted anything I said, and the source you quoted about Anthem's proposed policy is the summary from the lobbying group for anesthesiologists. As I pointed out downthread: CMS maintains a catalog mapping procedures to units of anesthesiology billing.

later

And again, edited, everything after "your entire argument".

Private insurance literally can't be the primary driver behind health care costs in the country. Again: look at the NHE. The numbers are right there.
You are right, it was distutils. Good call out. Not sure why I thought of setuptools.
No I don't think so. Both human and AI benefits from building on top of existing abstractions: langugages, frameworks and libraries.
The first episode of Kanojo Okarishimasu season 4 will aired sometime around the first week of July.
Except you don't have a legal right to post content on a private platform, that private company can do whatever they want, they aren't required to give you freedom of speech.