skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There is no intelligence here

Can you list a few demonstrations from a text-outputting computer program that would each convince you that there is intelligence here? Eg writing a bestselling novel, proving an unsolved number theory conjecture, etc. Or is your belief uncontestable?
Where are you getting this from? Outside of o3, every AI provider's API is super cheap, with most productive queries I do coming in under 2c. We have no reason to believe any of them are selling API requests at a loss. I think <2c per query hardly counts as "quite expensive".
Off-topic, but I feel like I'd find it easier to follow if you had used paragraphs instead of single double-spaced sentences.
I used it from the early days.

Then Signal jumped the shark, with the server-side data forced PIN fiasco - the app had a full page, non-dismissable popup on start which you could only get rid of by agreeing to use and supplying a PIN for server-side data, which meant I could not use Signal. After a month of not being able to use, it went away, but at that point I no longer trusted Signal.

I'm also troubled by the year long period where the published source code wasn't updated.

I think in general people use WA, but all the people I talk to have Signal as well. I'll be moving on once I put the time in to find a replacement.

I know in Switzerland, only Signal is used by State employees - teachers writing to parents and so on.
Carthagine: Pixel Perfect Figma to React AI
American perspective, but how about running them like the USPS?

I don't know the intricacies, but from what I've gathered, the USPS is operated by the government and intended to teeter right around the line of self-sustainability. They're required to provide service to "hard-to-scale" regions, like the middle-of-nowhere rural towns in Montana, without charging them an arm and a leg. This works, because their primary directive is not to "make stock go up", but rather to "get the job done and the mail delivered".
It helped us a lot in narrowing down what the actual problem was. Getting confirmation from real people that the problem existed and what their feature requests and objections were also helped us a lot with the direction to take the product in.
I fail to see how a technology that is to expensive to maintain can have a killer app.
Have you thought of a future where LLM will be fined tune to target advertisment to you? I mean look at search: first iterations of search were pretty simple in term of ads. Then personalized ads came. I wouldn't help but envision the distopia where the LLM will insert personalized ads based on what you are asking for help.
Yes.

I worked around this by having two accounts.

One other minor problem, you can't type or share anything while a video call is ongoing.
Also the wing broke off early so the plane continued away from the initial fireball.
Sure, if self hosting is the most important criteria for you, you can't really beat XMPP. Same goes for a richer ecosystem of 3rd party clients.

But those two are completely unrelated to security. I mean a self hosted solution can be secure, but it's weird to say that Signal can't compete with XMPP on security because it's not self hostable.
A refreshing read, the take down of OpenAI's 300m users is very weak though and the hand waving "I know GenAI has use cases" could be fleshed out. It's a bubble obviously and some useful software will get written, which has happened in every other bubble and will continue to happen.

It's just this bubble is so public, rapidly moving, and capital intensive.
> They eventually will learn

I've been waiting 30 years. They haven't learned yet.
I recommend the original short to anyone.

https://vimeo.com/179779722

If you like that, you’ll like the more recent show (Scavengers Reign, the parent comment’s recommendation).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scavengers_Reign

Be warned it wasn’t renewed for a second season, it didn’t have enough people talking about and watching. The creators do have something new going on, called “Common Side Effects”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Side_Effects
3rd party example: https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/11/ai-with-90-error-rate...

No comment about current US politics, but it’s probably a given that many will read “A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision.” and drop the second part because the first is exactly what they want. Same as how you can’t get in touch with human support on many platforms nowadays, but instead just get useless bot responses.
I personally think IDE makes for worse programmers vs just using a text editor.
> I've been in the internet since the early 2000s

Same here :)

My point wasn't that it writes like any specific groups, but a general mix-match made up of everyone voice, but a boring average of it, rather than something specific and/or exciting.

Then of course it depends on what models you're talking about, I haven't tried Grok3 myself (which I think you're talking about, since you say "it"), so I can't say how the text looks/feels like. Some models are more "generic" than others, and have very different default prose-style.
Oracle extends 19c database support to 2032, making 'longest strategic release'
> it’s honestly not much worse than a junior dev and 100x faster. And if the code is bad you throw it away and try again 10 seconds later. The amount of speed up I see as a very experienced dev is astronomical

Personally, I find that waiting for the code to generate, then reviewing the code carefully, then deciding if I need to rewrite it to be more painful, more error prone, and much slower than writing the code correctly.

Especially since this AI junior never learn from it’s mistakes.

I think it speaks to different approaches to how individuals write code.

> How great is it gonna be in a year or two?

I would bet that it’s about the same (not great code, generally), but the tools fail to generate responses less often and likely would have more context.

Hopefully they become fast enough to run offline or at least feel more instantaneous.
They mainly reported false Signal clients. What was the purpose of these fake clients is more worrying than their removal.
I think the snag I feel in your argument comes from

>Computers are good at emulating intelligent behavior

Which implies that the brain is some kind of transcendent device that can backdoor physics to output incredible intelligence unique to it's magical structure.

Maybe LLMs aren't the key, but as far as we can tell the brain is also just another computer.
Is it really that strange when the slides themselves pretty emotionally charged?
As did almost every large tech company today. Amazon lost money for decades.

Are we really still doing this nonsense? If Open AI wanted to become profitable they could do it inside of 12 months - growing companies don't care about profitability (nor should they)
Losing a battle is painful but no win is final until things fall into a balance and even that doesn't last forever or it even reverse. The worst case scenario is not going to matter for anyone in the grand scheme of things because there will not be anyone around.
Author here. I just used a free pdf version of the book and the legacy software package which they link to on the website. Great experience. The authors have since created a self-contained web IDE version of the book/course, but if you know the basics of working with a terminal, you'd probably prefer the software package.
You can Arc<Mutex<T>> your way out of ownership/borrowing. At some point, you'll start to see your program as just data (and functional programming will make sense as the only way to program) moving around. I think it's an under-rated way to get started (I started that way) and at some point a bulb will light up and you'll start seeing programming as data moving around and you'll care about ownership/borrowing at the foundational/prototype level.
Based on my anecdotes, most probably fit in the former category.

It takes a great deal of hate and bigotry to be able to support someone like Trump in the first place.

That doesn't go away over night. But I think a lot of them are trying to hide their support because they know that their votes are actively making America worse. But the original hatred and bigotry remain.
It's neat to see the 4080 Super doing well compared to the 5080 and 5090. It's clearly behind them in many cases, but seems to have better performance per watt ratio than them while also having some of the lowest temps. Also interesting the regular 4080 isn't too far behind the Super.

This was an enjoyable and clean dataset to read through, thanks Michael.
> What is this shit for?

Various minor thing so far. For example I heard about ChatGPT being evaluated as a tool for providing answers for patients in therapy. ChatGPT answers were evaluated as more empathetic, more human and more aligned with guidelines of therapy than answers given by human therapists.

Providing companionship to lonely people is another potential market.

It's not as good as people at solving problems yet but it's already better than humans at bullshiting them.
I remember a lot of positive reception because a lot of stuff worked out of the box, but that was at the cost of stability, because they made things work like shipping unstable versions of pulseaudio. So I had the impression it was a mixed bag, then got a better reputation as the software continued to improve, then continued to go downhill pretty much ever since Unity.
Those could all be true (and likely are) but "we don't have what we should, so low-paid hotel staff are conscripted to provide it" is a particularly unworkable situation.
Sounds like airlines need to start using ChatGPT to autopilot their airplanes.
If you can do a $200/mo service for $10/mo, the closed source will reduce their prices to $15/mo and beat you

This is just a weird dichotomy you're introducing. Open source will introduce price pressure as any competition will - that doesn't mean you won't have a monopoly.
It was a Delta Airlines flight from Minneapolis so an American airline.
Sure, but predicting when an economic bubble will burst with any accuracy is virtually impossible.
So it's like a built-in protection to prevent us from recalling traumatic experiences ? Could make sense. But then why also block the overwhelmingly good memories like getting xmas presents ?
A lot of sites based in Europe are going to start requiring systems like this with the advent of new safety laws, so I'm always happy to see attempts, but there's something I can't quite get my head around.

We've recently seen social media sites get attacked by people posting abuse material, as in this news story: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c93qw3lw4kvo .. how do/can NSFW detector services help with this problem?

Filtering out bikini or porn seems easy enough. But what if someone starts uploading the most offensive of material? Is the model trained on that? If so, how, legally? Or if using an external provider/API - are they going to be reporting you to the authorities when such material gets sent to them for moderation? It seems like a legal minefield, despite being a sorely needed service.
It's an American plane, serviced and maintained by an American company, and flown by an American airline. Pretty sure they're referring to that.
Anecdotally, almost every day I’ll overhear conversations at my local coffee shop of non-developers gushing about how much ChatGPT has revolutionized their work: church workers for writing bulletins and sermons, small business owners for writing loan applications or questions about taxes, writers using it for proofreading, etc. And this is small town Colorado.

Not since the advent of Google have I heard people rave so much about the usefulness of a new technology.
Elon's unchecked power at building a model? Or at politics?

I always worry whenever I see people telling me how to feel - rage in this case. We are in a political system that is oriented more around getting people to feel rage and hatred as opposed to consensus and deliberation. Elon is the face of that, but it's a much longer and larger problem. Throw in the complete dismisal that anyone not scared of this is ignorant, shuts down discussion.

The problem I have with Elon is that they are wasting a once in a lifetime chance to actually address and fix systematic problems with the US government. Deploying LLMs in the government space doesn't fear me with dread. Continuing the senseless partisan drive of the 20 years does.
This is actually a very astute observation of what's wrong with Signal. You can never trust the server.
> Are you insisting that XMPP is "military grade encryption"?

I don't think that's the fair implication there, and I'd also hope you'd pull out "military grade" as a red herring, as meaningless marketing speak and ignore it instead of trying to trap someone using it. (unless it was a primary point they made, critical to their position, clearly not the case here)
I would argue that developing those recommendations is a "safety critical" task. Especially given that just in the past few days they accidentally fired, then re-hired, a bunch of nuclear weapons safety workers.
Keyboard will make or break this for usability
I suppose we're now entering the trough of disillusionment.
Writing the code isn't the hard part, and wrangling the computer is the part of the work I enjoy most. My problem with AI bros is that they explicitly want to automate all the shit people like to do, such that we can all finally be free to work service jobs.

I happen to value human creativity.
It depends what your goal is.

For example in germany, while i wouldnt trust the government, there are some decent laws the founding fathers made after ww2 that are hard to change.

So just because you use something like tor, signal is not enough. You need to be proven guilty by harder facts so using this is no danger.
If your organization truly don't collect or process any personal data then no, you don't have to say anything as for example GDPR doesn't even apply to you in the first place. Or are you thinking about a different directive than GDPR perhaps?
> The best windows is still a shitty operating system.

> Linux was just snappier, quicker. Like, noticeably so.

Eh, that seem like zealotry. Bechmarks could be mixed and both had advantages.

> And it was also way cooler.

For tech geeks that liked playing with tech, absolutely.
I've yet to setup/figure out how to boot a Linux installer/live CD/ISO via pxe, so when I want to setup a new machine, I could just grab an ethernet cable and power on, instead of fumbling with a DVD or USB drive. It would be awesome if I could select which distro to boot. This feels like a step closer to that.
Signal now has usernames (not just phone numbers), and has a way to migrate most of your history onto new devices without having to use the terrible backup UX.

If it gets to the point of migrating all your media (not just the last N days) as well, it'd be to the point that I'd start asking everyone I know to use it without reservations.
Can it visualize PyTorch Tensors without an additional memory copy? I.e. mapping it directly to a texture which is then displayed?

I know this is not much of a concern on a system with unified memory (all recent apple computers).
Its not just the replacement parts cost. Modern cars are more tightly packed and not designed for individual parts being replaced afterwards. Sometimes its just things like a screw holding something behind the center console being accessible from the engine compartment in a position that forces a full engine/transmission removal. These are tiny things but can turn a 30 minute job into two person days.

Or a oil pipework that cannot be removed from the engine because there is a bracket in the way, which can only be removed by taking out the the master brake cylinder, which requires the brake pedal to be loosened. The brake pedal braket is mounted by 4 screws, one is only accessible by removing the cladding behind the steering wheel, the steering wheel blocks that, so you have to take that off, too.

.. fixing cars is a special kind of hell.
I use it, my friends use it, my family uses it, and it's often the only chat app I have in common with a stranger when I need to keep in touch. I didn't onboard my family, they use it independently. It's quite popular over here.
Well I think a fairly easy counterexample is that if you keep going, and the information falls outside its context window then the questions you had about the driver stop making sense.

So lets say you ask about a driver who swerved, and the response by chatgpt correctly talks about his possible state.

Then you talk more about cars, about road conditions etc and once the context is far away enough you ask, what was the driver doing again?

And you are prompted with a hallucination. Because there is no state in the llm, there is no "driver", there is contextual statistically accurate responses but you hold a "driver" object in your mind while maintaining the conversation, the llm doesn't.

Its like a conversation with someone with short term memory loss like in memento
Apologies, you're correct. I had my wires crossed (pun intended).
How I used an AI agent to code new features
How Cursor/Claude helped me build up a high quality new feature in Rails, without much "prompt engineering" getting in the way
This is a bit sad. In an attempt to be optimistic, I believe openwrt tries to focus on a LTS kernels and there is a lot of cross over but it would be great if this led to both having even tighter integration.
The word "perhaps" was an attempt to de-escalate a verbal confrontation that is unproductive because neither assertion is falsifiable.
Yeah. I can’t believe the alternatives that people try to glue together compared to Django.

Honestly Django has the best db migrations I have used from any language or library.

When I start a project, even if I am going to access the db from raw sql I start by modeling it in Django just because the rapid changes in data modeling allow me to not even think about it. I just have to think about what I want it to be and not about the changes to get there. Other ORMs or no ORM I am writing alter tables instead of focusing on the data model itself.
Okay so because of the ambiguity of the other reply I'm just gonna say, I don't think we should be surprised that someone is trying to use LLMs to do basically anything. That's basically what prints funding money right now, so long as you're the kind of company or guy the VCs or whoever will believe in. The signal here is "does it do something to appreciably advance the state of the art over previous methods"?
I do believe this is the next natural evolution. People don't like to pay for things and ads are a proven business model. I bet the big labs are looking into this
>DOGE makes recommendations to the president,

Yeah but Elon is your president now.
How is predicting protein folding GenAI? Seems like traditional machine learning?
Before 2015, I didn't have a reliable internet access (as in I can access when I want to, not I have access all the time) or electricity. But I manage to learn much about computers and programming. Why? Because a book is actually a very dense information repository. And the rest, you discover by reading code and manuals. The reason I use the internet today is mostly because no one takes time to polish their library and document it. Instead you have to wade through issues report and forums. Compare that with C, where it's much more slower and you can use man for function names.

The internet is much more faster, but you can do stuff locally if someone took care to download documentations (which I did because of the above reasons).
Even if you're an AI-skeptic, it's hard to argue that companies building AI customer support for example aren't en route to improving the whole "calling your ISP's team in India" experience.
> but it's weird to say that Signal can't compete with XMPP on security because it's not self hostable.

No it's not. If I could conditionally control if your messages are delivered, and when. Even if I can't see the contents, that's a huge security vulnerability!
A view just out the front of the plane wouldn't do much to help crash investigations and one of the big reasons they don't is you have to make a large enough storage resilient enough it can reasonably survive a crash. Most crashes are no where near this gentle.

Far more useful would be an interior cockpit view showing the crew and the actions they were taking but a lot of that is recorded to the FDR on newer planes too.
Right, that's true I suppose. But also, if you don't have a car for example, you don't need to think about the laws of how to legally drive a car, since it doesn't apply to you.

Similarly, if you don't collect nor process any personal data whatsoever, directives like GDPR doesn't even apply to you, so there isn't really any way (easy or hard) to "crucify" someone on violating that.
Do you plan on selling copies (vs only subscription)?
Thanks!

The initial prototype did use React, but the overhead in certain cases soon became an issue. It got replaced by a custom virtual dom implementation (coincidentally quite similar to Atom's Etch), but debugging complex updates remained an issue. Eventually, it ended up in a place quite similar to vscode: no frameworks and a handful of "core components" (eg: a virtualized list view)
I think it excels when you know enough to precisely describe what you want but you don’t know enough about the details of the language or framework you’re using to implement what you want.
This is bullshit. Gen AI and related technologies are disruptive and will impact and/or create billion dollars industries one way or another.
Vietnam paves way for Musk's Starlink seen as "olive branch"
That's pretty normal for a company like this. Also, let's be honest, based on historic data, it has been a good investment.
I tell it the function name, input, output, and an LLM writes the function for me. I prefer to keep an eye on the architectural decisions myself.
Chinese lithium company halts tech exports as trade tensions build
Has it occurred to you that the people who feel rage fundamentally understand the situation, and you may be undereducated in this area? What do you think are the root causes of that “senseless partisan drive”?

I’d suggest starting with Rick Perlman’s book “Nixonland” if you’re interested.
How so? Care to provide any meaningful information to support that?
The whole point of end-to-end encryption is that you shouldn't have to.

The entire point of Sealed Sender and their use of zero-knowledge proofs for group membership is so the server doesn't know who's talking to who, so they can't even selectively censor messages from one person.
We’ve had thunderstorms in winter during snowfall Toronto.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thundersnow

But the snow rates were slow enough yesterday that I don’t think that was happening.
I’ve been using it a long time. At first only had my wife, but over time got my friend group on it and other random folks.

Interestingly I’ve seen more random people sign up for it it(I get an alert if their phone number is already in my contacts) in the last month than any month ever.
OpenAI weighs special voting rights to guard against hostile takeovers
lots of people play games about making virtual stuff like gmod, gearblocks, minecraft creative mode etc. i'd probably play a woodworking sim to be honest.
Title is: The ‘Wayback Machine’ is preserving the websites Trump’s White House took down
> Real progress in this field is very easy to measure. It's based on number of effective qbits of computation.

Plenty more progress measures (decoherence, gate fidelity/error rates) to use that we have made significant progress in over the last 10 years.
Same, and it's disturbing that this is going to be picked up on as a bogus "tell" that my writing isn't my own.
I want proper CAD tools in vr.
It’s mostly organic or sub d stuff right now. I just want to parametric ally dimension in Vr like in solid works or fusion.

This would add so much
90º = 6/6, 60º = 5/6, 40º = 4/6, 30º = 3/6, 10º = 1/6 strikes me as pretty accurate.