skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also— for B2B SaaS, a big component of what is being sold is not the product, but support. No matter how modern or antiquated the tech is, many B2B companies don’t actually care about the experience per-se; they care about compliance, security, data integrity, and ongoing support. That’s essentially Oracle’s entire playbook!

How do LLM SaaS replacements solve that?
Who said the technology needs to exist now? Nobody. Again, just wild assumptions on your part. I’m not even saying the technology will exist. It just very likely will.
UX is already working on this. AI as a first-class persona that can be deliberately designed for and accommodated. APIs and protocols are way too strict. Think HTML and black Times New Roman on white backgrounds from the old days. Clear information (text) and activation options (hyperlink) are all it needs.
You are not missing something, you are finding it: the game theory of bots vs anti-bots is subtle and somewhat different from regular software engineering and cyber security.

For the most part bots wish to be hidden and sites wish to reveal them, and this plays out over repeat games on small and large scales. Can be near-constantly or intermittently.

The bot usually gets to make the first move against a backdrop that the anti-bot may or may not have a hand in.
> they are so popular the term Balkonkraftwerk (balcony power plant) has been coined

i woud argue that it is not how German works, word coining is not a metric of its popularity
I don't think most people buy balcony solar in Germany to save money. The eletricity you generate is very little, and it takes years before you even break even, and then you maybe save a couple of dozen euros a year. No, I think it's more about the feeling of independence and sustainability.
He also has several investors backing him, including Valor Equity Partners, Baron Capital, Atreides Management, Vy Capital and 8VC, a venture firm led by Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale. Ari Emanuel, CEO of Hollywood company Endeavor, is also backing the offer through his investment fund.
Ok, I will need to work on my reading comprehension skills.

That being said, I thought the purpose of OCR was to take text from a non-digital source and make it digital.

Why should we have to OCR something that exists already in a perfectly interchangeable digital format already?
This automatically means that you're penalizing smaller websites. And killing off the independent alternatives to Reddit/Disqus. Do you want this?

Large sites like Amazon or CNN can afford to eat the bot traffic. Smaller sites can't.
I don't like petty internet arguments, I can't help appreciate him referring to it as Twitter.
doesn't seem like subsidies so much as no regulatory roadblocks.

probably just buy up to 800w of panels, plug them into an outlet, and you're allowed.
I think this was meant as a reply to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43004919
Motte? Consciousness.

Bailey? Reason.

How reasonable are the outputs of ANNs considering the inputs? This is a valid question and it has a useful response.

From ImageNet to LLMs we are finding these tools to give some scale of a reasonable response.

Recommended reading: Philosophical Investigations by Wittgenstein.
Musk-led group makes $97.4B bid for control of OpenAI, WSJ reports
The Great Unfinished Generational Epic
I always enjoy patio11's writing.

I remember feeling what felt like barely constrained rage in his piece where he was proving provenance of a document or a prediction around how COVID could interact with the populations in Japan. 0, 1

The whole point of 0 ("dropping hashes") was to make sense of 1

0: https://www.kalzumeus.com/essays/dropping-hashes/

1: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2020/04/21/japan-coronavirus/

I believe i perceive a similar level of outrage and indignation over what feels like a serious mismanagement of real resources.

Like... Blowing up banks hurts real people, represents real fraud, and after dealing with the people and groups he dealt with through the vaccinateCA effort, I think he is tying together basically a comprehensive legal defense that someone else could run while charging someone like this banker/pretend banker with fraud.

even if there was jail time on the other side of it.

Maybe it's also a little bit of a show of force, explaining what it might be like for a bank to go after an independent and resourced individual.

I expect anyone else who might think of going after him, after encountering this piece, will be a bit less inclined to pursue bullying as a strategy.
The CIA gave away the names of everyone in the CIA? Instead of handing over paper lists or flash drives or a special laptop that contains the information?
The vast majority of people learn this on the job. This is certainly not taught in schools (or is only barely scratched as a topic).
”Usually”?

Do you have some statistics on that, or do you just feel that way?
There are a lot of bluesky users who really hate Musk and they post a lot whenever he does anything.
To do exactly what they’re doing in Germany would be illegal, or perhaps merely would make your utility very mad. It’s something like an 800w inverter that plugs into a wall socket. One issue for the US is that you don’t have access to both hots on one plug in a typical receptacle. Not a dealbreaker but one of many reasons you shouldn't import a German one and try and modify it for US use.
I would assume that you need to start early to be able to reap the benefits once the table is almost full.
The laws have been selectively enforced and it has led us here, yes, and it does mean that broad support of the bureaucracy has justifiably waned.

Was it okay then, when it was a bureaucratic governing class encamping in the public coffers? Is it okay now, when it's a single vulture capitalist harvesting the public coffers?
That was a 4.5 hour drive for Dr McIlroy... quite a hike, but worth it.
Global menu bars are a great way of making complex functionality discoverable without overwhelming the user. They should be thought of like an index at the back of a book — not for everyday use, but a universal standard way to call upon infrequent tools, and to discover commands which might be useful.
> “Our brains are just not wired to do probability problems very well, so I’m not surprised there were mistakes,” Stanford stats professor Persi Diaconis told a reporter, years ago. “[But] the strict argument would be that the question cannot be answered without knowing the motivation of the host.”

This is wrong. Let’s label the goats A and B to simplify things (so we do not need to consider the positions of the doors). There are 3 cases:

1. You pick the right door. The other two doors have goats. The host may only choose a goat. Whether it is A or B does not matter.

2. You pick the door with goat A. The host may only choose goat B.

3. You pick the door with goat B. The host may only choose goat A.

The host’s intentions are irrelevant as far as the probability is concerned (unless the host is allowed to tell the contestant which door is correct, but I am not aware of that ever being the case). 2/3 of the time, you pick the wrong door. In each of those cases, the remaining door is correct.

The most strict argument is yet another statistics professor got basic statistics wrong.
I’ll bet you a bag of peanuts that some SaaS company names their next AI Product “AgentOS”

2 bags of peanuts if the actual product isn’t an OS and barely passes as AI
FYI X has relaxed the login prompt (at least for me). You can again see the post without an account, but not the thread.
It didn't imply that. You inferred that. Big difference.
Given your set of theoreticals then I would concede, yes the model is reasoning. At that point, though, the world would probably be far more concerned with your finding of a question that can only be met via reasoning and would be uninfluenced or paralleled by any empirical phenomenon including written knowledge as a medium of transference. The core issue I see here is you being able to prove that the model is actually reasoning in a concrete way that isn’t just a simulacrum like the Apple researchers et al. theorize it to be.

If you do find this question answer pair then it would be a massive breakthrough for science and philosophy more generally.

You say “demonstrably” but I still do not see a demonstration of these reasoning abilities that is not subject to the aforementioned criticisms.
he's certainly becoming a single point of failure
In-silico platform for multifunctional design of 3Dprinted conductive components
Portmaster.
I would like to see some discussion on the Dark Gothic Maga video (How Tech Billionaires Plan to Destroy America) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RpPTRcz1no

On one hand it comes across like a conspiracy video, but on the other hand she plays direct video clips of major tech figures talking about dismantling the government and dividing the world into small nation states. Trump and Musk have also both stated they want to eliminate large amounts of the federal government.

I would love to get some perspective from those who have personally interacted with those people over the last 10 years.

This video probably falls under what you consider "activating", but it seems like we need to have conversations around this type of issue rather than letting rational voices get drowned out by the sea of angry shouting.
There is a lot of AI besides LLMs and generative models. I work with a company that uses AI models (largely classifiers) of many kinds to double check doctors. I consider their mission very meaningful work. Learn from places that favor long form content over the short form and short term that is pervasive in the modern media landscape
I propose the Open Agent Interface.

We can call it OpenAI.

I'll see myself out.
> From Wikipedia: Palestine,[i] officially the State of Palestine,[ii][e] is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia recognized by 146 out of 193 UN member states.

Is that takeover legally possible ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine
Probably nothing technical but he certainly does provide huge value as a brand and IMHO he is irreplaceable. Who else can convince very rich people invest gargantuan amounts of money into moonshot projects?
So... that senior engineer plateau is real. And yes, it means you'll be making about the same amount of money, inflation-adjusted, after about 8-10 years, if you don't ever want to do the work to break into staff engineering. (And even if you do, you should plan on starting back at senior in a down market.)

So, is it the worst thing in the world to be making $150,000 in the United States? (That's an average Senior in the US, according to Indeed. 183k in San Francisco, 143k in Durham, NC.)

That's really not a bad life. No, we all don't end up in FAANG. That's okay. Yes, we're in a current downturn. That will change again, even if AI speeds up development by 20%.
Ask Musk how Tesla sales in EU are doing once enough people started distrusting him directly as a person.

Economic votes are based partly on trust, and with enough swinging in the distrust direction, it would have a direct repercution on OAI financials.
Does the hour include or exclude ad breaks?
Its performance over wifi is also shockingly close to that of third party KB+mouse sharing software running hardwired which is crazy. Trying to use Synergy, etc over wifi is normally a laggy mess.
I don't know if they are valuable or positive, but as of late he's certainly doing things with impact.
There's a problem in all human understanding - knowing when, and knowing when not to apply pre-existing knowledge to a problem.

Have we been grinding away in the right direction and are only moments away from cracking the problem, or should we drop everything and try something completely new because we've obviously not found the solution in the direction we were heading.

To put it into a CS type context - Should we be using a DFS or BFS search for the solution, because we don't have knowledge of future cost (so UCS/Djikstra's is out) nor do we know where the solution lies in general (so A* is out, even if you ignore the UCS component)
I think that array languages have historically used memory mapped files for IO, and treat them like a big data frame, but other versions also support streaming IO. Its up to the implementers of the runtime to use SIMD instructions if they deem this optimal but not something you would use yourself.
While that stance is about Spain, in Germany only a recent law change brought about by a petition has given balcony solar privileged status, making it harder for landlords to forbid them. Change is possible.
I've never heard of tenants not paying electric in the US. Water maybe but never electric.
On the other hand, the authors make plenty of other great points -- about the fact that LLMs can produce bullshit, can be inaccurate, can be used for deception and other harms, are now a huge challenge for education.

The fact that they make many good points makes it all the more disappointing that they would taint their credibility with sloppy assertions!
There is no such thing as "energy waste". You just use abundance of energy. It is like throwing money at a problem. If energy is available limitless, why would you care? Lucky americans. Poor germans.
0penAI having its 2008 Yahoo moment.
Reddit had some conversation about that not that long ago https://old.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1e5jl8b/openai_owns...
Do you just hook up and inverter and run your electricity meter "in reverse" then? Is that how this works?
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43004889
We need government protection of our valuable national resource of Billionaires. I say we first start with weekly blood tests to make sure no one is poisoning/drugging them, with the results made public.
Id like to (3d) print topo maps and most online tools are either not for europe or just bad.

Your comment is very helpfull. I might figure it out myself.
It looks like the result only matters in the case where the hash table is close to full. But couldn't one just deal with this case by making the table size 10% bigger? (Or, if it is resizeable, resizing earlier)
All advice you read before didn't help you to start a profitable company. Why would it be different now?
I haven't talked much in those same circles after the forum was destroyed by a ban-happy Republican-lite takeover, but possible things that come to mind are:

1. It's philosophically acceptable since it's not the government doing it, even if I don't like the deal.

2. I shouldn't be forced to have insurance in the first place.

3. That wouldn't happen since I could buy insurance from another competitor that doesn't require it.
Uh, this isn't true at all. Did you actually look at the repo[1]? Only the metadata (i.e., LLM-generated task names and interaction classifications) have been made available.

[1] https://huggingface.co/datasets/Anthropic/EconomicIndex
How about "How to thrive in a ChatGPT world"?
Employees are always at great risk.
Too hackerish.

Real professional software developers only use the subset of HTML which ISO standardised in 2000 as ISO/IEC 15445:2000 with additional validating constraints. Published via SOAP ands WS-*.
Bioshock: Reality confirmed!
very interesting... on SRTM the example I checked (Pyramid Lake) is all at one altitude (albeit, only with 1 m resolution), while on MERIT-DEM, the lake surface differs by more than 1 m across the lake.

Here is a difference map between the two: https://i.imgur.com/Iw5bsdj.png
I think of Andre Geim as a great example of balancing the two. I couldn't find the exact quote, but he said something to the effect of "when I enter a new field, I make sure I learn the basics so I don't spend all my time making dumb mistakes. But I don't get so into it that I get stuck in the mindshare."

I'll also say I think that diversity in approaches is more important than One Right Way. Some people need to set out on their own, while others spend decades refining one technique. Both have led to extraordinary results!
generally you will find that LLMs out of the box do not do a good job on any Excel file that is big or in any way complex. your best bet would be to paste key regions of the excel into the prompt as markdown. my startup has built a solution to this, we built on some research that Microsoft published last year and have developed a way of encoding spreadsheets so that LLMs can work with them much more easily. we're early but if you want to talk you can find us on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/tracelight/)
I found it even more unsurprising that the fake extension targeted some crypto thing.

> it has the same description as the original truffle extension: “Build, debug and deploy smart contracts on EVM-compatible blockchains.”
Cool open-source alternative to Anthropic computer-use
Computer use is expensive. Take a look at this repo I found.
Steve Davis: The Musk Deputy Running DOGE's Cost-Cutting Drive
I pursued women and wealth through my twenties. When I turned thirty, I got married and started a family. My family is the most important thing ever to me. I only wish I had started at a younger age. Do not listen to pop culture and Disney telling you to follow your dreams. Follow your biological imperative, the purpose in life every biology textbook tells us is what every creature needs to do... Have children and have a family.
https://www.axios.com/2024/07/25/adults-no-children-why-pew-...

> 47% of adults under 50 without kids say they're unlikely to have them — up 10 percentage points from 2018.

> Of those who said they're unlikely to have children, 57% said "they just don't want to."

> Among the other reasons: 44% said they wanted to focus on different things. 38% pointed to the state of the world, other than the environment. And 36% said they couldn't afford to raise a child.

> 13% cited infertility or other medical reasons.

> 64% of young women say they just don't want children, compared to 50% of men.
Just feel that way. That's my anecdotal observation. YMMV.
really? I'm curious to know what he's failed at. Seems like he's making all the right moves lately.
I think it is simple - electricity from solar panels is cheaper than electricity from the utility companies, which have been too slow to build out solar farms of their own, and it is fashionable to boot. ("Fashionable" is not exactly the word I want; I mean that it would be less popular with your friends and neighbors to operate a coal-fired generator on your balcony.)
the value of a paid online service is not "how useful is it in a vacuum?", it's "how much more effective is it than a free competitor?"

kagi's value is "how much more effective is it than using google with an adblocker?"

getting the value of the only search engine in the world at the supermarket for $10 would be a challenge. getting the value of "improved search results" is absolutely trivial. you could keep yourself alive for many days with $10. for $0 you can use google with an adblocker.
Yeah, I can't imagine that a lot of Russian or Polish immigrants - who wouldn't have spoken English - would have had any idea how to consistently transliterate their last names.

How do you transliterate Жижщенко? Anything with a ё in it? Or an ы, or й? Was there a policy on differentiating between "е" and "э"?
So what it is just entirely free electricity? Someone must be paying for it somehow otherwise every apartment would be a bitcoin mine by now.
> the executive can grant access like candy if they wish

That doesn't mean doing so it can't be a problem when they do. This article is exactly why doing so is problematic and justifies the existence of the clearance process.

If they hadn't circumvented the process, the FBI would have found this information instead of Wired, and it could have been handled properly instead of in the public by the media. Going around this process opens people up to being blackmailed or extorted -- what if foreign intelligence found leverage over one of these people before our media and used it to extract government secrets? We don't even know if these people have been trained to handle classified and sensitive information. Do they even know their own rights and responsibilities?
You know, I am so happy that one other person on earth knows this HTML dialect.
Meta staff torrented nearly 82TB of pirated books for AI training
What here is disinformation?

> The guy had secret meetings with Russian spies

> when Trump gave away nuclear secrets

> there were obvious spies from our adversaries working in top government positions

> Russian sources "disappeared" after Trump outed them

Almost all of the gp post was already disproven disinformation.
Yep, it's funny how one of the key factors that limits LLM usage is just the typing speed of users.

I agree that the amount of bespoke UI that needs to exist probably won't stagnate. Humans need about the same amount of visual information to verify a task was done correctly as they need to do the task.

LLM generated UI is an interesting field. Sure, you can get ChatGPT to generate schema to lay out some buttons. But it seems harder to identify the context and relevant information that must be displayed for the human to be a valuable/necessary asset in the process.
Relevant backstory:

https://openai.com/index/openai-elon-musk/

Discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39611484
With first mover advantage disappearing for OpenAI and very good alternatives appearing, one wonders how long they can sustain a multi billion dollar per year loss[0].

The launch of ChatGPT was earth shaking, but what have they done since that impacts or excites the average consumer? Does their revenue even come from the average consumer, or primarily from API users that will lift and shift to a viable competitor?

I don't know, but I'm very curious to see how they can hold their lead and be attractive in the longer term.

0. https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/27/openai-sees-5-billion-loss-t...
A contributing factor is how complex/smart the current hardware is. It can have cache line size, different forms of hardware/software prefetching, different ports for different ops, memory latency, simd extensions. These leave many opportunities for algorithms to be optimized over. There is also the issue of real life scenarios not matching with asymptotic ones (due to e.g., size of input), which when coupled with previous factors, leads to even more potential optimization schemes. Obligatory reference: https://agner.org/optimize/
William Marbury vs. James Madison(1803)[pdf]
OK thanks for answering in good faith - however I was alluding to his verbosity . . .
I can assure you Diaconis didn’t get it wrong.

> "The problem is not well-formed," Mr. Gardner said, "unless it makes clear that the host must always open an empty door and offer the switch. Otherwise, if the host is malevolent, he may open another door only when it's to his advantage to let the player switch, and the probability of being right by switching could be as low as zero." Mr. Gardner said the ambiguity could be eliminated if the host promised ahead of time to open another door and then offer a switch.

The hosts’s intentions absolutely do matter, because the problem (as originally stated) doesn’t specify that the host always opens a door and offers a switch. Maybe he only offers a trade when you initially picked the good door.
I hope we will not see consolidation in this space but instead many competing services. I want a future where I will pay my AI money to someone else than the current set of billionaires.
I don't think there are a lot of Bluesky users to begin with.
If he died tomorrow nothing would change. Sam Altman would just rush in to be the next money playboy with idiosyncrasies.
OpenAI is not worth more than 9.74 billion, considering their moat is steadily shrinking and their models aren't even open. Even if OpenAI produces their chips via TSMC, it means that at least AMD can do the same, if not anyone else with just 100 million to spend.
I have said this many times. Make a new Airport (with Wifi 7 since it is the latest), with some type of WireGuard/Tailscale-ish type VPN and with some type of storage that is in sync with iCloud.

Call it Apple Cloud Edge or something. (One can dream)