skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This might be true on a very long timescale, but that's not really relevant for VC's. Literally every single VC I've talked to raised the question if our moat is not just having better prompts, it's usually the first question. If a VC really invested in a company whose moat got evaporated by O1, that's on the VC. Everyone saw technology like O1 coming from a mile away.

For the slightly more complex stuff, sure at some point some general AI will probably be able to do it. But with two big caveats, the first being: when? and the second being: for how much?.

In theory every deep and wide enough neural network should be able to be trained to do object detection in images, yet no one is doing that. Technologies specifically designed to process images, like CNN's, reign supreme. Likewise for architectures of LLM's.

At some point your specialization might become obsolete, but that point might be a decade or more from now. Until then, specializations will have large economic and performance advantages making the advancements in AI today available to the industry of tomorrow.

I think it's the role of the VC to determine not if there's an AI breakthrough behind a startups technology, but if there's a market disruption and if that market disruption can be leveraged to establish a dominant company. Similar to how Google leveraged a small and easily replicable algorithmic advantage into becoming one of the most valuable companies on earth.
These are different problems.

The written (or more accurately, typed)* word is an inherently symbolic representation. Recorded audio (PCM WAV or similar) is not. The format itself doesn't encode meaning about the structure.

The written word is more akin to MIDI, which can exactly represent melody, but cannot exactly represent sound.

MP3 is a weird halfway house, it's somewhat symbolic in terms of using wavelets to recreate a likeness of the original sound, but the symbols aren't derived from or directly related to the artist's original intent.

* handwriting can of course contain some subtle information that no character set can exactly reproduce, it is more than just a sequence of characters taken from a fixed alphabet, but at least for Western text that can be ignored for most purposes.
Bodie is an amazing place. I don't think it ever closes, it just becomes unreachable by car. You can ski or snowshoe in, and the park is even staffed in the winter by people who live there and have snowmobiles.
Ok, I took a rough list I had on my phone and added LLM summaries: https://pastebin.com/crrkdYfb
Possible: yes. Lisp image can hold arbitrary data, including source code, versions, etc. Specifically, arbitrary data can be attached to symbols.

Make sense: no, unless you have very special requirements. It would be very different from common practice. Images are still much more fragile than files outside, they are not designed to last across implementation releases.

(Note: some implementations might hold full code of every function in memory, that's not unreasonable.)
Maybe cryptobros with zero skills and no talent created too much images copy-pasting the same bitcoin image over everything, which caused poisoning of training data.

I also expect some bug involved, where user selects a circular mask, but outer edge is slightly blurred (feathered), which, when multiplied with white background, gives a light circle-shaped contour. After that Photoshop fills not a "hole in the sky", but a "light circle-shaped object" in the sky.
Because that's the number conferences that are generally considered to be better than the rest. Just like the "top 4" computer science schools in the US are unambiguously Stanford, UC Berkeley, MIT, and Carnegie Mellon. You can ask, why not 5? Because then you start getting into questions about whether you want to include UCLA or UIUC or Caltech and it's significantly more complicated.
Does it include the unsloth fixes yet?
Sorry, I somehow made a typo in the quoted text, the RFC says

Verifiers MUST be able to validate signatures with keys ranging from 1024 bits to 4096* bits

So mail providers MUST support up to 4096 bits if they follow the latest RFC.
There are plenty of experiments that show that this is pseudoscience and we don't need quantum phenomenon to explain consciousness.

Maybe none of those theories explain the hard problem of consciousness, which is why do we feel or sense anything? Why does anything feel anything?

Maybe you can get close enough to an explanation (that could satisfy SOME philosophers but maybe not very many) just by coming up with an explanation of how it works. Something like, predictive coding feedback and global circuitry integration, connected to a body with senses.

Assuming we eventually can come up with a functional explanation then we may find out that humans are just the starting point for a type of organism that is much larger. Maybe we will have a new metasystem transition in this century. Possibly facilitated by high bandwidth BCI?

Or maybe someone will come up with a way to make some portion of the internet with AI servers "wake up" and form a unified consciousness. Still a reasonable chance that happens before GTA 6 comes out.
That's part of the problem though, isn't it? We still don't really understand how human intelligence works. We don't know how we learn. We don't even know where or how memories are stored.

We have ideas about how it works, sure. We know a bit about how the basics of the brain works and we know some correlations of what areas of the brain electrically light up in various conditions, but that's about the extent of it.

Its hard to really create an artificial version of something without pretty well understanding the real thing. In the meantime, brute forcing it is probably the best (and most common) approach.
While my knee jerk to this is “errr… hogwash” there might be something to it if you imagine consciousness not as an internal state but rather as something that an observer imposes upon the universe.

This might be true if the act of observing is what determines that which can be observed, and there is some evidence that this might be the case.
i think compile time evaluation should be extended: if it can get a pass over the source code then this could replace preprocessor macros with something less shitty.
> A human does not need billions of driving hours to learn how to drive competently.

But humans DO need ~16 years of growth and development "to learn how to drive competently" and then will also know how to ride a bycycle, mow grass, build shelves, cook pizza, use a smart phone, ...! There's a lesson in that somewhere ....
>getting a job in academia is really hard

In my side of the world its a little bit better, the CS department has plans to double headcount in the next few years. They've got whole new faculty apartment buildings set up and everything, and the funding situation is quite generous (I'm told). Although I have also read in the USA the bar for even stipend paying masters/PhDs has gotten incredibly high.

>Milking government funding for years

There are special programs for startup oriented funds, so it's more like VC pitching to academics with equity free grants (although naturally there's the whole university research IP issue). But I'm quite willing to put up with it to do something meaningful (at a decent number of jobs you put up with it just to keep your job). I do keep an ear on startup-y things, I don't think I'll have it any easier than an undergrad but I think I won't be too disadvantaged.

>Do it and get out

I don't place too much emphasis on the PhD per se but the real value of it.

>If you want to do something special academia is not the place

Ten years ago tech would've been a good place. But now especially for a new graduate its a bloodbath, not to mention there's been huge layoffs. Academia seems like the better option nowadays.
Nice blog
What packages were you trying to install, on what platform?
I’m not saying we don’t need them. Obviously they provide a valuable service and I wish the best for our agents and customers.

But the problem is about as boring as they come. There’s nothing exciting about making a callcenter operate well, even though it’s often done wrong. Probably why we can (apparently) eat the market.
The constant axe grinding against Blondie is distracting.
This was my takeaway from the article too.
Of course, 01 is a lot more expensive than smaller models. So the startups that have spent time on tuning their prompts May yet get the last laugh, at least in any competitive market where customers are price sensitive. Bear in mind that supposedly OpenAI is losing money even at a $200 a month price point so it's unclear that the current cost structure of model access is genuinely sustainable.
Is that something we can acknowledge without at least somewhat understanding how that works?

It sure seems like we have a lot of inherent knowledge, but by the book we're little more than the product of an instruction set that is our DNA and there's no explanation that includes inherited knowledge in that DNA.

I think the harder thing we need to acknowledge is that we understand much less than we think we know. Concepts like inherent, or collective, knowledge would all roll down hill from that.
> Nodes can have different retention policies, and third party archival services and client-side behavior can provide durable storage, bookmarking/favoriting, etc.

That's completely achievable in AP. Most current servers use reasonable retention, extended for boosted posts.
How difficult would it be to dual use the earbuds as an antenna?
> More computation runs the risk of overfitting and there just isn’t any more data.

At this scale you can't overfit. The model might not improve in a meaningful way, but it can't overfit because the amount of data is much much larger that the size of the model.

That said, as the state of the art open models show, the way to get better models is not "use more data", but use "more high quality data" (e.g. look at the graphs here comparing the datasets: https://huggingface.co/datasets/HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu). I don't know how much high quality data we can extract from the Internet (most of the data on the Internet is, as you'd guess, garbage, which is why aggressively filtering it can improve performance so much), but I'd wager we're still nowhere near running out.

There's also a ton of data that's not available on the public Internet in an easily scrapable form, or even at all; e.g. Anna's Archive apparently contains almost 1PB of data, and even that is (by their estimate) only ~5% of the world's books.
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I still use Emacs, but I feel the author's pain. I was developing Emacs-induced RSI in my early 20s. Taking a job where I didn't type nearly as much had the side-effect of letting the RSI fix itself.
The template doesn't match Unsloth's recommendation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42662106
No paintings were harmed in the throwing of soup, and now we all know it happened and why.

Would that I were that kind of dumb.
On your object detection point, Gemini 2.0 Flash has bounding box detection: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/models/gemini-v2#bound....

I haven't found it to work particularly well for some more domain-specific things I tried, but it was surprisingly good for an LLM.
Had a look, its syntax is already too rich: I saw "while" "switch" etc.

I guess, we are looking for even simpler thas sphinx c--.

I start to wonder, if I could not express such simple C syntax using a powerful assembler macro preprocessor (like the one of fasm2). Until there is a "expression" processor, it should kind of be easier.
- Employees still have to pay for full healthcare, so the employer either provides this or pays a 1099 salary premium (the US's terrible approach of tying health insurance coverage to your employer rears its ugly head yet again)

Health insurance coverage is not tied to an employer. Being able to pay for health insurance premiums with pre tax income is tied to an employer.

The benefit to the (large) employer is that it makes it harder for their employees to compare competing employment offers, and adds a little more friction to an employee who might be considering switching jobs.

The administrative costs of implementing benefits so that pre tax money can be used to pay for them also serve as a barrier to entry for smaller employers (helping large employers), since these costs cannot be amortized over a large number of employees.

But beside all that,

> There are a lot of incentives driving business operators to try to get the most out of the fewest number of employees possible:

It’s just cheaper, in all ways, to have fewer employees. Less people to trust, less people an employer is liable for, less hiring/terminating costs. The cost of burnout is clearly not a significant factor considering the lack of success of businesses full of part time employees.
The interesting implication of the Flynn Effect is that there’s an element of nurture to executing IQ tests. It’s possible that brains have improved in some physiological way due to changes in nutrition and medicine, but it’s also very likely that knowhow, practise, or exposure to similar concepts has a significant bearing on IQ test results. This being opposed to the common perception that IQ is a strict measure of innate talent
Based on the author's company that be founded, I assume he believes this technology is just years away.

I think with a lot of AI folk in San Francisco, this is a tacit assumption when having these sorts of conversations.
Also docs can be effective for marketing especially if you sell bottom-up to devs. If i visit a site and see a section for docs, it means they are catering to my needs
These rogue extensions are "surreptitiously monetizing web searches" - but doesn't Google conspicuously monetize web searches?

So it seems the Google TOS bans competition in search monetization using their "open source" browser. Isn't it odd that an "open source" browser is apparently designed to provide a monopoly on search monetization by the nice people who give it to you for free?

And being 80% or so of all searches:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/216573/worldwide-market-...

It seems like Peter Thiel's claim that google is a search advertising monopoly masquerading as a (competitive, non-monopoly) technology company might be spot on.
Then you too can join the ranks of people spamming asset stores with low quality AI generated material. You're at least a year late to that party.
This post discusses how to remove the password from a password protected Excel (like .xlsx, .xlsm) files. I provide two methods: unpacking the file using 7-Zip and editing the file using Visual Studio Code.
I'm unsure whether I should reply because I get the feeling that you think "beneficial to humanity" looks like someone working at OpenAI and not doing research on, say, anthropology.
My point is that the clients that matter will require hand-holding.

Sure if you just sell to hobby programmers and students it’s no problem.
But if your customers should be real businesses - in my experience 90% of them require a lot of handholding, you literally have to read the docs for them and tell them in a call.
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What were you doing at 14?
Because the 1970s was — uniquely — the decade in which global starvation deaths crashed by >80% due to technological and social advances around the world. [0]

Nobody could be that stupid by accident. Ehrlich is a ghoul who was excited about people dying because it would have justified his preferred political philosophy.

[0]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/259827/global-famine-dea...
Blue Origin New Glenn Ready to Beat SpaceX's Old Rockets [video]
Imaging mounted disk volumes under duress (2021)
> “Today I learned that we have a sustainability team,” Mullenweg said.

If this is true: Is there any possible explanation for such a statement where leadership comes out unscathed?
At least in the UK, a PhD takes one year more than a MRes and it lets you become a university lecturer. It also should be funded, whilst you might have to pay your own way for an MRes. Hence I don't see the point of doing an MRes when you can stay an extra year and have more opportunities afterwards. MRes are usually a consolation prize for people who drop out of their PhD, IME.
> "We’re nowhere near ingesting the whole internet."

We don't need to ingest the whole internet. I'd wager that upwards of 75% of the internet is spam, which would be useless for LLM training purposes. By the way, spam and useless information on the internet is only going to get worse, largely thanks to LLMs.

Only a subset of the internet contains "useful" information, an even a smaller subset contains information which is "clean enough" to be used for training purposes, and an even smaller subset can be legally scraped and used for training purposes.

It's highly likely that we've reached "peak training data" a long time ago, for many areas of knowledge and activities which are available on the internet.
Ipfs has a pub/sub mechanism.

As far as I can tell it is stuck in some sort of inefficient prototype stage. which is unfortunate because I think it is one of the neatest most compelling parts of the whole project. it is very cool to be able build protocols with no central server.

Here is my prototype of a video streaming service built on it. I abandoned the idea mainly because I am a poor programmer and could never muster the enthusiasm to get it past the prototype stage. but the idea of a a video streaming service that was actually serverless sounded cool at the time

http://nl1.outband.net/fossil/ipfs_stream/file?name=ipfs_str...
> We’ve seen this pattern in speech recognition, computer chess, and computer vision.

I think the bitter lesson is true for AI researchers, but OP overstates it's relevance to actual products. For example the best chess engines are very much still very much specific to chess. They incorporate more neural networks now, but they are still quite specific.
And... it's totally arbitrary.

Top people come from non-top schools, and lots of non-top people from from "top" schools. And some top people come from no school at all.
The author discusses the problem from the point of engineering, not from business. When you look at it from business perspective, there is a big advantage of not waiting, and using whatever exists right now to solve the business problem, so that you can get traction, get funding, grab marketshare, build a team, and when the next day a better model will come, you can rewrite your code, and you would be in a much better position to leverage whatever new capabilities the new models provide; you know your users, you have the funds, you built the right UX...

The best strategy from your experience, is to jump on a problem as soon there is opportunity to solve it and generate lots of business value within the next 6 months. The trick is finding that subproblem that is worth a lot right now and could not be resolved 6 months ago. A couple of AI-sales startups "succeeded" quite well doing that (e.g. 11x), now they are in a good position to build from there (whether they will succeed in building a unicorn, that's another question, it just looks like they are in a good position now).
Dnsfs – Store files in others' DNS resolver caches (2018)
blue-collar, unemployed (NEET, even), my oldest kids, PhDs i've known personally for decades, white collar workers - an incomplete list of everyone i called in 2024 with a full voicemailbox.

i try to tell people about the "two calls in a minute lets it go thru" feature because as of yet the autodialers don't know about it or have it implemented.
Mullenweg's behavior is poor, yes, but I wonder how much that will affect Wordpress's market presence. The average person who would use the service isn't likely to hear about any of this.
Physics absolutely is dominated by politics and trends. I was constantly expected to over exaggerate the impacts of my work and its possible applications, on both science in general and wider technology. For example, we used to always say that it had some impact in quantum computing even if it was a total lie, because that makes it way easier to get funding

Physics may be in some sense more falsifiable, but it is absolutely subject to politics and social norms, both in how it lies about itself for money, and literally in which theories are chosen (since we can rarely empirically distinguish between them)
I was once penalised for doing this in a leetcode problem given during an interview. I was told to rethink things about calculating a mid-point from first principles.
It’s possible to go more restrictive than shielded lights. What if all outdoor lights must be turned off from 9pm to 5am? If the conditions were something like that, would the developers still want to build?
I filter by technology/english, click "explore" on a couple of servers and it greets me with:

- Mel Gibson something Nazi

- Epic CEO says Trump Trump

- Tencent Chinese something military

- Justice Trump 34 felonies

- Republicans sound eager

Not sure if I want to "explore" "technology" further.
What do you mean by cannot stop doing research? I certainly haven't discovered anything new, but I love learning new things, reading about ideas, coming up with them.
He was certainly precocious! A gifted kid, absolutely. But 'genius' is a lofty title. You'd usually need to be doing things differently and better, certainly by the time you're in your 20s. Maybe Infogami can make that case for him?
Matt's company will fork your project, replace your original plugin listing and claim all your reviews as theirs, while also stopping you from distributing security updates to force people to switch to their fork.

Imagine if you make your money from selling your plugin, and Matt does this to you. Every WP plugin developer has to live in fear of this happening at any moment, and you can be certain it will happen if you show any kind of resistance towards Matt.
Faked for engagement farming
You either discovered a massive unreported cause of harm to our society or you are fitting a narrative you have in your mind.

The anger against cyclists is so weird to me. Like I can relate to seeing a cyclist taking up a whole lane on highway 1 somewhere they shouldn’t be riding and me thinking, this is ridiculous, they shouldn’t be risking their own life and slowing everyone down like this (and feeling some anger). But I have only encountered this a few times and even then, it’s just a minor inconvenience… Most cyclists ride relatively responsibly through city areas and are a net positive on the community, environment, parking, traffic, city budget, etc. Look at some data instead of coming up with some narrative in your head based upon some immediate emotion.

This negative sentiment towards cyclists is real, I see it on Facebook all the time and at first I thought it was a joke. Maybe they should add a few questions to the drivers test
So you need some arbitrary filtering to give you breathing room for your objective heuristics?

For some reason that seems slightly non-optimal.