skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why China will win the global race for complete AI dominance (2018)
>for someone with such a premium resume, is a bellwether of whats to come

That is true in US. In Europe having a PhD and working for Google and Amazon never meant being payed huge sums.
> Like it or not but YouTube is almost entirely funded by ads. You don’t have a right to use the service without paying.

Am I still allowed to close my eyes and turn down the volume when some ad is shown?
A truth bomb if I ever saw one - thanks for articulating this so clearly
Microsoft implements this in Azure/M365.
He likes playing with his trolleys I guess
Comics from 1978/05 Creative Computing Mag
Is hiring in tech like buying lottery tickets? 99% of hires will be duds, 1% will bring you $100m in profits?
In a universe where the French government drops a perfect replacement for Notion and causes Notion to go out of business, this is still a net positive for society in the same way that things like Linux existing is a net positive for society.

One should not focus on the economic sphere as the be all and end all. We can just have improvements be distributed to everyone sometimes! We can just do good things through coordinated efforts and entirely sidestep the economy to get the good things.

All the people who were working on Notion now can go get some on the job training to learn to farm.

Why don't we just do this for everything? You can go read a bunch of political and economic philosophy about that.
Here's the comment I replied to:

> With anti-science sentiment in America, I think China will take over everything.

Look at what the current Trump administration has been doing to research institutions in the US. Nature published an article outright calling it "siege of science".

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00525-1

At a point in time where the US should step on the gas to prevent China to catch up, it's actually stepping hard on the breaks. I don't think this is even up for discussion.
Nobody is saying finance people should be poor and starve. The same people critiquing the finance industry in this thread have been happy to critique ad tech as well, and I agree that they're both largely parasitic 'faux frais'. But regardless of which industries you choose to put in that category, the point isn't to make individuals choose to work in one or another -- that's not how serious change happens. It's to build support and hopefully eventually consensus on the idea that our economic system is broken and in serious need of change.
The above comment also completely sidesteps the monopolist and regulatory capture factors in difficulty to usurp Google, and thus incorrectly implies that a level playing field exists.
I do this with windows 10 for a tablet with a detachable keyboard to make it like an eink display.
The title is editorialized in a misleading manner.
I think his point is that LLMs are pre-trained transformers. And pre-trained transformers are general sequence predictors. Those sequences started out as text or language only but by no means is the architecture constrained to text or language alone. You can train a transformer that embeds and predicts sound and images as well as text.
No, we plan to implement governance firmware, versioning, and test checkpoints to prevent runaways and maintain safety/compliance.
snakeoil.
In MacOS There's an accessibility setting in System Settings > Accessibility > Display called "Differentiate without colour" that adds some extra affordances like on and off icons in the switches. I forget what else, but I always have it on because it makes things even more obvious in a way that it feels like OS programmers used to take more seriously in an era before the flat design idiocy.
I'm entirely in agreement with you, I just have a dark sense of humor.

I do actually use claude quite a bit recently and I suspect (completely anecdotal, so take it with a boatload of salt) it speeds up my development time by about 25% on average. But its a very lumpy sort of speed up that is sometimes a slow down depending upon how wacky the LLM's answers are. And I find claude 3.7 to be worse than claude 3.5 in many ways which makes me confused about how hyped up it is and further disillusioned about the "common sense" idea people around these parts have that the technology is just going to keep improving significantly year over year.

I use it entirely through the web interface and using the lowest price basic monthly subscription fee. I am probably a cost center for Anthropic rather than a profit center, but I don't really see that as my problem to worry about. I'll enjoy the thing while it lasts and then not cry too hard when the house of cards collapses.
We've been telling plenty of other professions/people that, "make sure you're in the top 2%" as a society forever? That's part of the problem, we need to make sure that if someone is part of the 86% then they also can afford a house, feed themselves and their family etc etc
How much is the price of a kilogram of code in the us ?
It happened at every level - software engineers optimized for career outcomes which meant accumulating the right buzzwords. Managers optimized for their own career outcomes which meant increasing their number of direct reports. Engineering leaders optimized for their own buzzwords which means org-level complexity and a steady stream of (self-inflicted) problems to solve and brag about on their engineering blog to attract even more software engineers, and executives/founders merely optimize for securing the next funding round (because there is no and was never a viable business there to begin with), which is easier to do if you're seen as solving hard problems (even if they are self-inflicted), and investors happily oblige because they had no other choice in this distorted market.

Note that incentive mismatch at the middle-management level happens everywhere to this day and isn't strictly a ZIRP-induced phenomenon, but most real businesses that need to earn a profit thus have a natural cap on how much inefficiency they can support. In ZIRP however, the complete lack of any requirement to make profit (in some cases because the business is never viable and its sole purpose is to give a good lifestyle and resume to everyone involved) exacerbated the problem.
It's because there's a story that a lot of laborers (and capital owners) want to believe, that capitalism is a great meritocracy, and the rewards of it are based on one's moral fiber, instead of purely a function of every individual's leverage effect on the returns on capital/labor.
Well, I consider software liability a good thing. Question is how to achieve this goal. Of course it's sad when a bureaucracy answers this with the only means a bureaucracy has: A box-ticking exercise.
I would hardly decide to trust a politician based on a 5 second quip on live TV.
you are assuming that cost is stopping from ppl using these technologies.

These things are not actually useful. They hyper optimzed it for coding usecase but it still sucks balls at it.
Great PR in a national pride kind of way. I can only imagine DeepSeeks PR earlier this year was a huge win for them internally in the country.
Because HN value is the value of the comments, and those are a scarce resource. Making a great website (for whatever is your definition of great) doesn't guarantee that it will become valuable.

All this to say, HN shouldn't an example to blindly follow.
AI Labor Index
universal_pathlib: Python pathlib API extended to use fsspec back ends (like S3)
I get your point, and I agree to some extent, but I also don't think it has to be black and white. I don't really trust the French government to fund such projects long-term, but at the same time private companies create and end services all the time (looking at you Google). So within those parameters, this doesn't seem like a bad thing.

And regarding the economy, my understanding is that there's been a push in the French government (and in Europe to some extent) towards more independent services (the recent behaviour of US big tech are not helping for sure). If the government is going to generate some tool for its internal use, I sure would prefer if they open sourced it at the same time.

Finally for the WhatsApp alternative, if France or Germany or whoever else started an open source WhatsApp competitor with better encryption, I definitely think it would be good for European citizens: one less dependency on Meta. Why wouldn't we want that?
> I think a lot of software engineers right now are planting their feet and refusing to change.

That's not a good thing, in general, if you are in technology. We always need to be learning and moving forward. A lot of times, in my experience, it's extremely humbling, because I find out that what I know is no longer relevant. I'm 63, and still need to learn new stuff, every day.

I know that he's talking about culture, as opposed to knowledge, but I think they inform each other. If we allow ourselves to ossify in one context, it just moves over into the other.

I spent most of my career at a company that treated me like just another schlub. They were a hardware company, and I'm not sure if hardware engineers were ever treated like software engineers, so I am unfamiliar with free barista bars and tropical offsites. I was just another cubicle Dilbert.
Goth stack: building front-ends with Go, HTML and a little duct tape
> It's natural and to be expected that many sites will break.

There is nothing "natural" about software development at all. It was an active choice to hobble the internet as a browser to sell ads via interactive apps.
YAML makes it easy to version and visualize agent interactions, but I am open to more compact or alternative notations if it becomes unwieldy
Are they though? Why is TikTok a thing if Google is so great at what they do?

Google has great research going on, but their products seem to be mostly coasting along. There's still some growth, but is that more than inertia and network effect?

Where the large innovation in their product that keeps them ahead?
You watched the narrative get built in real time. The same thing happened with Luigi.
This is an excellent viewpoint.
Those features did not exist say a decade ago, so cannot live without is likely to be a dramatisation of a minor inconvenience.
None of that is happening. The hype is now around generative AI, a prototype tech whose main benefits to the end user are still largely speculative. (At least with the gig economy, consumers can get cheap rides and food deliveries. At least with social media, they could share cat videos.) I am dubious that the industry is any more interested in making hype AI any more stable or secure than they did prior waves of hype tech.
These are in progress—we replaced the AI-generated image with more architectural diagrams and will add benchmarks as the project matures
What about Workers?
And you could still just change it right, as long as you did so before the employer revoked your access via the work email address.
An entire generation is not wasted. The bigger issue is that China has no concern wiping out whole classes of jobs to be replaced by the next iteration and America struggles with keeping those voters happy. Think about things like our lack of dock work automation in favor of keeping some labor unions happy.
Having memory is fine but choosing the relevant parts requires intelligence
> First of all, Pareto Principle, so some employees contribute a ton and many contribute less.

Correct. But with very few exceptions I don't believe that any one person contributes $500m in value over 5 years.

> Second of all, having been in tech individual employees do drive projects that wouldn't have happened without them for a decent amount of time. In aggregate that moves the bottom line a ton

In aggregate, yes. But it's the systems that aggregate the contributions of the employees and turn them into profits.

> As for your second point, that's a straw men argument that assumed companies are omnipotent. The employees who drive the bottom line cannot truly prove this to a new employer so their value is diluted by those who don't.

I'm assuming you mean omniscient, and no, I'm not assuming omniscience because I'm not actually talking about a company's ability to attribute value creation, I'm talking about the employee's ability to attribute it. Any random Google employee who thinks that they contributed $500m over 5 years can't just pick up their laptop and go work for a startup and expect that startup to make $500m over the next 5 years. It's not happening. The only way that their project made $500m was as a project embedded in the enormous money-making system that is Google, and absent that system they don't make that much money for the company.
If you always post complaints to these channels, and nobody else supports you - you look like a complainer. If you first find some people with the same problem at the water cooler and you say "we have this problem as a group" then you are proactive.
Or 80 years to MVP memex

“Vannevar Bush's 1945 article "As We May Think". Bush envisioned the memex as a device in which individuals would compress and store all of their books, records, and communications, "mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memex
AppVerifier
We’re developing an ‘Agent Bus’ to enable distributed multi-agent orchestration, so agents can run across different environments in a more scalable, shared manner.
>You may already know this, but image generators like Stable Diffusion and Flux already do this in the form of “latent diffusion”.

They... don't. Latents don't meaningfully represent human perception, they represent correlations in the dataset. Parent is talking about the function aligned with actual measured human perception (UCS is an example of that). Whether it's a good idea, and how trivial it is for the model to fit this function automatically, is another question.
If only there was a credible news agency or group of influential elites that could have given some pushback against the "misleading" of the public, I would gladly subscribe. It seems like that may be an even bigger problem than GoF lab leaks; an unintelligent intelligentsia.
To try to avoid the inevitable long arguments about which benchmarks or sets of them are universally better: there is no such thing anymore. And even within benchmarks, we're increasingly squinting to see the difference.
Same for openai (in a very real sense ie they train on your essense and soul via what you type and a part of you will be part of the future weights).
I've been looking at it as an "instant reddit comment". I can download a 10G or 80G compressed archive that basically contains the useful parts of the internet, and then I all can use it to synthesize something that is about as good and reliable as a really good reddit comment. Which is nifty. But honestly it's an incredible idea to sell that to businesses.
Trump will add copper to the 25% tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum.

Don't have enough copper? "Tariff man" has the solution --- raise prices even more. That'll fix it ---NOT! It's like watching a train wreck in slow motion.

Simple minded solutions for simple minded people --- that are all but certain to fail after inflicting a lot of damage.
This is why I have 10-12 years outgoings sitting in the bank.

I make way above market rates for my area currently, but I don't have to be worried about getting laid off.

And as my salary went up i made sure my life style didn't.
Let's just hope they contribute back as much as the west has contributed to spreading knowledge and knowledge-tools to the world instead of just free-riding on it and then pretending it wasn't foundational. Linux, Wikipedia, RISC-V, ...

It's not just the Chinese who are lacking the acknowledgment of these contributions.
20 years. That's step 1, Demoralization:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQPsKvG6WMI
See my other comment in this thread. It's 3/4 devs according to SO.
This is a really good point that honestly I've been neglecting considering. I try to help and push my friends to be better than most (because honestly most are quite lazy and entitled) but still you can't ignore the societal ramifications of most people getting less than they expect.
Thank you, indeed. I was thinking that "you get ruled against" was at the SCOTUS level, and therefore unappealable, or at the ran-out-of-money level. I was unclear, my apologies and gratitude for the correction.
Title should have been "Closed AI vs Open AI and no, we are not talking about Sam Altman's Open AI"
I love the title "Big LLMs" because it means that we are now making a distinction between big LLMs and minute LLMs and maybe medium LLMs. I'd like to propose the we call them "Tall LLMs", "Grande LLMs", and "Venti LLMs" just to be precise.
DNT failed because advertising and online stalking companies refused to abide by it when browsers enabled it by default. The GPC spec tries to work around this by having the spec disable the feature by default.

This new spec is necessary because American legislation requires opt-out signals not to be the browser default. That means DNT, as browsers used it, is not legally an opt-out signal, because browsers default to it.

What this is doing is throwing out the header that had legal backing in Europe for a slightly worse copy that hopefully has legal backing in America in the future.

It's a silly specification, but if it gets companies to actually respect this iteration of the DNT spec then I'll accept it.

As for DNT, Firefox may have removed it but addons can still set it. As useless as that may be, because the spec is marked as outright deprecated (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/...), you can still send the signal.
This is mega levels of dope. Small UI/UX suggestion on your report... Take all of your table borders, and change the color from black to a light gray. The borders add value (communicate the organization of the data). But that data isn't as important as the text/numbers inside the table. "Visual weight should match information relevance"
I don't have much advice on the tech front, but I have had enough health problems to know how to work while recovering from something traumatic.

My #1 advice is that instead of being bedridden, become recliner-ridden. Get a La-Z-Boy brand recliner on a swivel base. You can turn to face into your desk to work, turn away from the desk to lie back and sleep, and that brand specifically has a unique mechanism that lets you adjust how far it reclines based on the angle you were sitting at when you raise the legs. So you can adapt the seat angle for working vs. resting vs. sleeping.

Adjust your desk height so that the arms barely fit under it... then you can get decent ergonomics to have your keyboard close enough to your body that you aren't stretching your arms too far when working.
XO – Aliasing on Steroids
Pleased to release xo is a CLI tool with basic core functionalities that helps developers manage multiple projects without leaving their current terminal window. You can run or access your project no matter where you are in your terminal. Soon xo will be able to bootstrap your whole directory structure with a single command.
>The book is not infinite, it's flawed.

Oh and the human book is surely infinite and unflawed right ?

>we keep bumping into the rough edges of LLMs with their hallucinations and faulty reasoning

Both things humans also do in excess

The Chinese Room is nonsensical. Can you point to any part of your brain that understands English ? I guess you are a Chinese Room then.
Zest: a programming language for malleable and legible systems
We’ve moved that logic into specialized tools (e.g., SearchComponentTool, EvolveComponentTool) so it can evolve independently and become more sophisticated over time.
This book is nothing like the famous Haskell book of similar title. It's really hard to read, with walls of text displayed in a very small font and very little contrast. And already in the first pages it fails to explain the basic question for the newcomer: Why do I need Erlang? What can it do that other languages can't?
Not if the ad industry gets a say in it.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/sony-patent-mcdonalds/
> We are slowly but surely witnessing the collapse of Western Tech scene

Generally, I’ve found that almost no founders or friends I speak with have any vision for the future anymore. They care only about making money and do not care how. It’s a spectacular collapse of vision and purpose—these people have always existed but it feels incredibly pervasive now.

With that, I realize your comment is much broader than AI so below is too domain specific but…

VC has been investing in AI as-if it were a winner takes all market, but it has been obvious that isn’t the case.

Not only that, but the massive amount of cash thrown to anyone with even marginal credentials has undermined the constraints that often lead to innovation.

There is 0 reason that Safe Superintelligence should be raising for the second time at a 30 B valuation with no product.
You guys should see my Tunic notes, and I'm sure I'm not the only one.

If you haven't played it, go in blind.

https://tunicgame.com/
The point is that the use-case here is one where there is far more IO-bound work than CPU-bound.
Wasn’t lynx before other graphical browsers? I remember first using the web through a vax terminal and lynx. You could download images but had to launch a viewer.
In many places in the US you might find it hard to get a plumber to even return your calls or come out to your house for a smaller job, since the good ones have as much work as they could ever want. Not a perfect comparison since plumbers tend not to work for giant companies that can lavish them with perks, but there are parallels in in-demand skilled labor getting to set some of their own rules.
>For a family that wants to be upper middle class, 500k really is not that much, if you want to save and live comfortably/go on vacations, drive a nice car.

That might be true for Bay Area. What about other states, Arizona, Nevada, Nebraska, Montana etc. ?

I am not from US, but I don't get why tech companies can only have offices in Bay Area.
Word "schedule" is already taken for thread scheduling in the kernel, so reuse of that word is confusing. This is a code generator that operates on nested loops - allows to reorder and split them, replace instructions etc. All to maximize performance.
For those familiar with BEAM-based languages, are there any advantages to choosing Erlang over Elixir when starting a new project?
Marketplace is aired on my local NPR station (WABE). APM is syndicated and broadcast on several different channels.

I happen to listen to Marketplace on NPR, not Marketplace by NPR.
Origami measuring spoon incites fury after 9 years of Kickstarter delay hell
This is a consequence of the death of nuance. It was either a deliberate lab leak or a wet market jump -- pick your side. Masks either prevent COVID or are worthless -- pick your side. Either it's "just the flu" or 100% deadly -- pick your side. The vaccine will save you or it will make your heart give out -- pick a side.
That's what all those commercial demo disks were for, or AOL disks for those in regions where that was a thing.