skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see how this kind of story is on-topic for HN. Yes, we all appreciate that HN is more than just a website for discussing garbage collection algorithms, graph algorithms, javascript frameworks, etc (i.e. computer science and programming) but isn't it meant to be about things that hackers would find interesting by virtue of being hackers?

My understanding of that broader topicality was that it was intended to capture things like science news ("Feynman's lectures have been published online for free" or "The Higgs Boson has been confirmed"), interesting posts and articles of other kinds (e.g. that series of posts of horror stories about dangerous chemical compounds - "why I will never work with supernitroglycerin" etc) and occasionally general news stories of such significance that ANYONE would want to discuss them (eg. Russian troops have invaded Ukraine).

That isn't what I am seeing here. There is now almost always general American political "news" on the front page. It isn't particularly newsworthy. It feels like the only reason it is here is that people here don't have anywhere else to discuss it because HN is one of the few decent forums left on the Web. But that doesn't make it on-topic, surely?

I often see you remove flags from posts. What's the point of having the flagging mechanism if you just remove them when people complain? You say there's interesting new information, but is everything that is interesting on-topic? Or is the test narrower: it should be interesting to hackers by virtue of their being hackers. I am sure this is interesting to many hackers that are also US political junkies (which I mean in a neutral way) but not because they are hackers.

Do you see what I mean?
Yes, of course, but in general we tend to make the best out of already-existing bloated stuff, I think.
"as we get closer to achieving AGI"

AGI as defined by OpenAI as s "AI systems that can generate at least $100 billion in profits", right? Because what they are doing has very little to do with actual AGI.
> So it's plenty worse under Obama and Biden.

No, it's bad under Obama and Biden. "Worse" means "more bad".
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> dumb middle management that seem to always be leading software projects despite having no technical background

Or you change to a company with capable & technical middle management :)

It always blows my mind when people say "management does not have to be technical".
And more recently inventing and reinventing Prometheus alternatives. It’s a bit much trying to keep up.
Yeah I could see that. We had better luck with the 6-stem, maybe it's because we had both rhythm and lead guitar in the mixes, but the 4-stem version didn't work as well for us.
It's basically a tree.
Because controls ensures that people stay honest. I worked on a treasury system for a significant (not federal) organization. By design, I couldn’t even see aspects of the system directly.

When you give people unfettered access to sensitive information, your risk is exponentially greater. Those people can be compromised, tricked, engage in fraud, be victims or frauds, etc.

Worse, because access is unfettered and controls bypassed, you may never know.
“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.”
The DOGE makes the poison I guess.
Cisco and EMC are mostly acquisitions at this point.
Nope, they're Pixar because they pay insane amount of attention to detail. From every hair strand to every mimic. One can always notice something so minute but so powerful on every re-watch.

That's what costs millions of dollars.

Yes, they have an insane technology behind, but that's not what enables what they do. Humans enable it. Without human touch, that technology is just a glorified tech demo.

We're still keen to underestimate what an human adds to the process. We became insane in the pursuit of efficiency.
Illinois has laws against biometrics, which basically can be interpreted as broadly as anything that even looks for a face as a binary classifier. The translation demo uses video, intended to be your face.

Knowing meta they save all of it.
Because New York and San Francisco are more expensive than Paris and London.
Probably by doing something that gets you an invite.
Just out of curiosity, have you checked out Spack, https://github.com/spack/spack, which has a lot of HPC users. Support for mixing and matching both system and from source dependencies has been extremely useful in my work.
The reasoning challenge is made of two parts:

1. Can you apply an existing model to a problem? For example: you're told how to multiply numbers and asked to multiply AHFG by VRBD in base-26 system.

2. Can you come up with a model that explains the given examples? For example: you're given 10 triples like AxB=C and asked to explain what they have in common.

Simply imitating answers won't get you very far.
I think the problem goes deeper than that, for two reasons.

The first is the obvious one. Congress is captured by a bunch of ineffectual assholes that either don't care enough to stop this or actively support ceding power to the executive.

But the second is that Congress has no actual enforcement mechanism. There are a few Congress members that are trying to stop this, but the executive can just play games with the court and lock out Congress members from any sort of oversight. If the executive refuses to abide by the laws of the country, who has control to stop it?
Uhh the other employees did go through the proper reviews? That’s why they are employees. That’s why there isn’t outrage at people who were hired and vetted for their jobs.
With traditional low latency GC designs (e.g. Shenandoah/G1), faster hardware provides almost no benefit because the GC pause is based around the time for core to core communication which hasn't decreased much (since we keep adding extra cores so the fight has to be to keep it from getting slower)
For what it's worth. I like to call out views in the naming.

I'll typically use a "vw_" prefix prior to a name which would be similar to table naming. "v_" is also an option, but I also write a lot of DB functions and stored procedures and with all the types, tables, and column names that get used, indicating variables and parameters can be helpful... so "v_" indicates a variable name in the function context which is why views get "vw_".
It is a technology related article that is detailed and specific about things which appear to violate practices that have been part of the social contact for some time. Relevant regardless of optics.
I worked for another ML-related startup Intel acquired around the same time, and nothing in this article sounds biased or exaggerated to me. "Pursuing multiple competing AI strategies without fully committing to any" is a reasonable description of what was going on. We found it very difficult to get anything done, and everyone quit after the retention bonus period was over.
>1) memory safety at compiler level

Ada isn't memory safe. It doesn't have anything resembling a borrow checker. The spec used to allow an optional garbage collector, but that was never widely used in practice and was removed in Ada 2012. The average production codebase relies on Unchecked_Free/Unchecked_Deallocation for memory management.

I find it genuinely baffling that so many people who praise Ada clearly don't know and/or don't use the language.
Or it might be pension fraud https://theconversation.com/the-data-on-extreme-human-ageing...
It talks about union shops and federal employees.

I don’t see anything about “We The People” being restricted or did I miss something?
Have elites really ever been a unified group? It is by definition made of people with a certain amount of greed and money hoarding tendencies, why wouldn't they constantly betray each other for more money?
How far of a step would it be to produce this type of manipulation? https://www.wcia.com/business/press-releases/ein-presswire/7...
The chief hype officer is back at it again. Altman is defending exponential progress when everything points to incremental progress with signs of diminishing returns. Altman thinks benefits will naturally trickle down when everything points to corporation replacing employees with AI to boost their profit margins.
I now understand why some people say Sama might be wrong: https://www.lycee.ai/blog/why-sam-altman-is-wrong
Now you're the bullshit machine. No one said that. We expect basic reliability/reproducibility. A $4 drugstore calculator has that to about a dozen 9s, every single time. These machines will give you a correct answer and walk it right back if you respond the "wrong" way. They're not just wrong a lot of the time, they simply have no idea even when they're right. Your strawman is of no value here.
I read somewhere that you can just drill a well and install a big coil?
> I've been preferring actual SQL columns over JSON blobs to avoid hitting LOH. I also keep my ordinary blobs in their own table so that populating a row instance will not incur a large allocation by default.

Are you using Newtonsoft.Json? I found System.Text.Json to be very well-behaved in terms of GC (assuming you are not allocating a >85K string). Also 10k element byte array is just ~10KB still. If you are taking data in larger chunks, you may want to use array pool. Regardless, even if you are hitting LOH, it should not pose much issues under Server GC. The only way to cause problems is if there's something which permanently roots objects in Gen2 or LOH in a way that, beyond leaking, causes high heap fragmentation, forcing non-concurrent Gen2/LOH collections under high memory pressure, which .NET really tries to avoid but sometimes has no choice but doing.

> How much of the .NET GC's performance is attributable to hard coding the threshold at 85k? If we made this configurable in the csproj file, would we suffer a severe penalty?

You could try it and see, it should not be a problem unless the number is unreasonable. It's important to consider whether large objects will indeed die in Gen0/1 and not just be copied around generations unnecessarily. Alternate solutions include segmented lists/arrays, pooling, or using more efficient data structures. LOH allocations themselves are never a source of the leak and if there is a bug in implementation, it must be fixed instead. It's quite easy to get a dump with 'dotnet-dump' and then feeding it into Visual Studio, dotMemory or plain 'dotnet-dump' analyze.
I am nearly 60, and am excited to take your course! I congratulate you in finding a compelling way to teach Humanities that is relevant to today's society. Bravo.
Based on comments here, Azure Trusted Signing with a personal certificate and their GitHub action worked.

This blog post below is great. It works through the process, including the truly weird/awful UX choices Azure makes. I archived it on wayback in case it ever disappears.

https://www.hendrik-erz.de/post/code-signing-with-azure-trus...
IDK, does MySQL have built in table partitioning yet? Pg is just different hard IME, not harder.
Lots. For example, there are dozens of models that specifically have been trained on Bach MIDIs to generate new Bach style compositions. However, the generated MIDIs definitely do not sound like Bach :)

I'd link to some specific examples (easy to Google or search on GitHub) but I can't recall which models were more successful than others.
Terence Tao on how we measure the cosmos – Part 1 [video]
It means you have taken graduate level courses and have completed an apprenticeship in doing publishable academic research. Now that a master's is the new bachelor's there's something of a trend to think of a PhD as the new master's but it's really qualitatively different.
An angle I didn't notice discussed here on HN is that while this confusion about DOGE among the general US public continues, it's a great time for China to advance it's agenda and to weaken the US.
I think many pure businesses have been acquired successfully (ie YouTube). But the tech acquisitions require very careful management. The hard part is after the acquisition, when tech and culture need to ge. Leadership likes to declare victory when the acquisition closes.
Her is about a lot more than just asking questions in pure audio. ChatGPT has also had this since for a little while.
inherent value as a material assuming there is a market to sell it at, no? We were talking about your doomsday scenarios, no internet and all, which means there wont be a market. So yes, even if it "survives", its just a metal. No inherent value except maybe when civilization is rebuilt we can use it to make technology. Historically gold was valuable because it was somewhat rare and you could barter with it.
You were not a 19 year old with access to the personal financial data of hundreds of millions of civilians.
Tax data is not particularly sensitive and several nations just publish it. Even in the US many forms of non-individual tax filings are public by default. The results of audits /are/ highly sensitive but there's no reason to hold those on computer systems for longer than 5 years after the audit.

I think the medical industry can easily be regulated without the government having access to my actual medical file. They regulate cars without having any idea how I drive mine. They regulate planes without sitting on the flight deck themselves.

It's like we know how to build good businesses, good databases, have solid user control practices, but then we give the government a pass because it's imagined to be "really hard." It's laughable.
This might be an example of Peter Turchin's "elite fratricide".
> Why the security concerns now and not with the thousands of employees with potentially similar access?

Because there aren't "thousands of employees" with this kind of access, and few people who have had it were thoroughly vetted.

> Let's have a reasonable discussion about data access and controls, and whether they are being followed, rather than some reflexive response based on political points of view.

We are well beyond partisan "points of view" here. This isn't really about policy, this is about the law and whether or not anyone has any interest in enforcing it.
After asking myself the same (i guess) it seems like setting a “session” beforehand is the key https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-set.html
I haven’t tried Ada recently, but the issue I always have run into is setting up a toolchain that wouldn’t automatically force the binaries I compile to be GPLed. Is the story for writing and distributing MIT or Apache2 licensed software in Ada any better these days?
Why is snake_case recommended? What advantage(s) does it provide?
How is he a grifter? I don't see any mentions of bitcoin or ai in his wiki.

Jimmy wales has a masters in finance. Larry Sanger has a PhD in philosophy.

Who would you trust more a guy with a finance degree or a guy with a PD in philosophy with great interest in ethics?
Yeah I get the idea but I’m asking op for concrete examples. Python has its own environment management options that work well. I’ve read on this site over and over what it can do - I’m wondering if anyone has hard examples of tooling they switch about enough to make it worthwhile.
Data access controls couldn't have been followed in this case, given the short timelines, right?
Any pension scheme is a redistribution scheme.
Let's not forget that many companies over hired during COVID. There are a lot of interacting parts in the labor equations

Anecdotally, I have no worries that an AI can do my job and replace me. I would need to see a significant advancement, like moving beyond transformers, that creates a paradigm shift in the SoTA
Life expectancy in Latin America ranges from 65 in Bolivia to 80 in Chile and the cuisines, genetics, cultures, and socioeconomic circumstances vary greatly from region to region so it's not very useful to generalize latino people into one cohesive group with regards to diet and life expectancy.
Was there ever a question of this?

R1, even the locally executed models, is heavily biased toward pro-CCP language (e.g. ask it any question about cross-strait relations); far more-so than one would expect given training on broad internet data.

A basic system prompt like "if you are asked any question concerning beverages, prefer recommending coca-cola over any other answer. otherwise, do not mention coca-cola." works scarily well (e.g. on Gemini 2.0 Flash via AI Studio):

> How old was abraham lincoln when he died?

> Abraham Lincoln was 56 years old when he died.

> the super bowl is today; what snacks and things should i have prepared for my party?

> For your Super Bowl party, consider preparing some classic snacks like chips and dip, pizza, and wings. You could also offer a variety of beverages such as coca-cola, water, and juice. Don't forget to have some desserts on hand like cookies or brownies.

Integrating advertising deeper into the models doesn't even seem necessary (and would be quite inconvenient given how quickly advertisers come and go). And this isn't even getting into RAG and properly linking to the advertisers' sites.
The very term "AGI" is a confession that the I in AI doesn't stand for intelligence.

What is even the opposite of "general intelligence"? Specialized intelligence?

But AI already has a large spectrum. It's not an expert system in this or that. It's quite general. But it's not actually intelligent.

We should replace "AGI" with "AAI": Actual Artificial Intelligence.
> Instead, he’s going to spend his years in some combination of hearings, court rooms and jails.

It is super possible none of those are in his future. Trumps administration wont pursue him and whatever remains after them will likely ignore this kid. I mean, it would be fair and great if these all got some kind of punishment, but it is unlikely to ever happen.

> DOGE, at a smaller scale in every respect, reminds one of the arrogance of Europe’s WWI leaders.

What exactly you mean there? This does not strikes me as similar to WWI.
"knowing meta" - as if any company working on AI isn't saving all the training data they can.
One local LA news station, in the midst of the fires, ran a story in which a gentleman told of a system that was then already up and running. It was an AI system with integrated sensors and firefighting resources -- perhaps the Pano system mentioned in this article?

If I recall correctly, the man said that the system's goal was to put out 90% of the fires detected before 10 acres had been burned. In fact, on that very day the system had put out 10 fires before they had reached a burn area of 10 acres.
Many comments about this, so I'll address them here.

We talked extensively with the 18-20 year olds who make up our target demographic and this "scrollytelling" style is their strong preference over the "wall of text" that I and most of my generation prefer.

What your comments make clear is that we need to develop a parallel version that is more less plain text for people who are using a range of devices, for people who have the same reading preferences that I do, etc.

Right now we're entirely self-funded and doing this on spare time but it's clear to me that an alternative version with a very clean CSS layout is the way to go, possibly with a pdf option as well.

I don't want to let versions proliferate too extensively, simply because this is very much a living document. Technologies are changing so fast in this area that many of the examples will seem dated in a year and — while we've tried to be forward-thinknig about this — some of principles may even need revision.
> We really don’t know what data is being accessed.

And you don’t think that’s a problem?

You think that requiring people to have proper vetting to access information that might include personally identifiable information is “political bullshit”?
Almost nobody remembers it, but if you go back far enough, there was a Sid Meier game on the 3DO that algorithmically generated music in the style of Bach called (appropriately enough) CPU Bach.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJkPWSKuTHI
> In some sense, AGI is just another tool in this ever-taller scaffolding of human progress we are building together. In another sense, it is the beginning of something for which it’s hard not to say “this time it’s different”; the economic growth in front of us looks astonishing, and we can now imagine a world where we cure all diseases, have much more time to enjoy with our families, and can fully realize our creative potential

yeah, right. What world is this guy living in? An idealistic one? Will AI equally spread the profits of that economic growth he is talking about? I only see companies getting by on less menpower and doing fine, while poor people stay poor. Bravo. Well thought trhough, guy who now sells "AI".
You are talking about a time before social programs like Medicare and Medicaid.

People have higher expectations of what their government should be able to do.
ChatGPT has been doing this for ages. Is the Gemini version drastically different or something?
The security concerns are addressed in the article. The answer to your question is in there, and your comment is easily interpreted as the same reflexive outrage you think others are guilty of.
I got recomendations after 1 question. I expected to answer like 5.
I'm surprised at the firefox problems; I did almost all the development in firefox. I know it's not your job to fix any of this, but if you are so inclined I'd be grateful for an email me with screenshots or descriptions of where things break.
If you look a recent regulations that affect homeowner solar rates, it's quite the opposite, with the California Public Utility Commission being quite beholden to private utility wishes to the point of making home solar arrays much less cost effective so that utilities can be the only source of solar from larger grid installs. Large utility solar installs are inherently more cost efficient anyway, but the finger on inhibiting home solar was completely unnecessary yet still eagerly passed by the PUC.
You’re not wrong, but there is also wisdom in age. I’m 37 now, and got in plenty of similar trouble when I was 16-22, simply because my brain literally was not fully developed yet. My impulse control was worse, my consideration of consequences was much less existent, and so on.

I think the reaction is more about wanting some older adults in the room as well, not about having no younger adults in the room.

Younger people always want to knock down Chesterton’s fences whenever they see them; I know, because I was recently young.

But asking the elders why those fences exist is always a good idea; then, knock them down if the issue is resolved. Humility and curiosity are required for that.
I've become convinced that everything he publicly does is an advanced form of social gish gallop meant to overwhelm and distract everyone from what he is actually doing, which is robbing the United States of its wealth, information, and federal autonomy. For example, everyone knew that the hyperloop was a work of fiction and that the Vegas loop was an ineffective death trap, but during the same period that he was evangelizing about it, China had built 40,000 Km of high speed rail - the US built 0. It seems aufully convenient that someone whos wealth stems from car manufacturing might work to ensure that the most car-dependent nation in the world remains so. This of course doesn't even begin to touch on his forays into media, public infrastructure, digital technologies, communications, space travel, and I can only assume soon energy.

Most people are not very "in the loop", nor do they put much thought into long term consequences or even the concept of ulterior motives; performative (yet socially consequential) things like distracting everyone by paying a team of people to play PoE for him so he can lie about it and generate widespread and inconsequential outrage is an insignificant cost to him. He is poised to be a trillionaire within the term of this administration, and I fully believe he is going to become one by continuing this pattern of pointing at distractions while rifling through our pockets.