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I have number of private workers I couldn't reach today.

Don't forget that Claude just got 3x faster by... using gzip!

Skills are so overblown AI hype I can't even...

I can see why this could be interesting for non-tech people, but c'mon, it's just words added to your context, not something magical. I've seen massive hype over Pockock's skills and took a deep dive into them just to find out it's basically "don't make mistakes" on steroids.

I mean, input tokens are cheap, and people would be so much better with just using speech-to-text instead of all of this crap.

the major difference is annoying music

Bare in mind that OpenAI|Anthropic (kill me, I can't recall which one), made a massive improvement on their app by... gziping the served content!

there's an ex googler whos been pretending on yt for the last 6 months that he's building "open source palantir".

he recently published his ai slop and it's basically a google earth running on open source maps with fake traffic drawn on the streets.

looks impressive, until you zoom on your location and look out the window and compare what's on the screen vs real life

Because in Soviet block getting education was not mandatory. Today every single parent wishes their kid to get PhD, and pretty .ich everyone is getting some sort of university degree.

It's a complicated issue in current LLM world where every day is a zero day, but fuck me sideways, company that claims to be worth trillion of dollars paying 5k for such an exploit is insulting at best.

It's been years since I hanged out with wizards selling such exploits like trading cards, but I bet there are still tons of brokers that will be more than happy to wire you legal money for such finding.

I mean, kudos for the team for doing the right thing. It's great PR and another big one in the portfolio, but, as other have said already, I doubt the next group will even bother contacting OpenAI.

Everyone has praised it already, so I won't be original, but I have to say that I've been looking for something like this for quite a while now. I consume a lot of long form videos on yt, similar to what you can find in your feed, but somehow yt keeps boxing me into very narrow space after a while with same videos over and over again. I've been trying to escape this trap by creating new accounts but eventually I keep finding myself in the same box.

Definitely something worth exploring.

Am I the only one reading the headline as "Cisco committed their source code to public domain"?

Kids these days can fit 64-bits into a 3-bit hole, and if you squint hard enough it still sounds like a robot. Amazing times, I tell you.

Reminds me of a story from Freakonomics.

A teacher would ask his students to note 50 coinflips. And based on distribution he could immediately tell which one of them actually flipped the coin.

If I would be a math/physics teacher in a high school, in a class of 30 students, I would start every class by picking random 2 or 3 students and ask them to explain the solution to me. Or do a carbon copy of one of the assignments in front of the class. Something like that.

In my high school I had a physics teacher. Every class she had a 3 rudimentary questions about the recent subjects. She would call a random name and ask first question. If you fail to answer on the spot you get an F, and another random person will get a shot at the same question. If they fail they got and F as well. Of course by the 6th or 7th person someone would manage to find the right answer. If they got the right answer they'll get the next one. If someone answered all three - they got an A. Most of the times half of the class would get an F.

I've been reading these stories and I'm completely flabbergasted.

Here in EU when there is a public office, there's a right to access the public record. Anyone can file a request, and the office has a given time frame to respond.

Sure, they can do mental gymnastics and stall as much as they want, but there's no money involved. Ever. And if they stall too much you can go to court.

A public office is founded by tax money, by us, and the idea that I would have to pay for publicly available information (public as in not confidential) is beyond me.

I'm one of those people.

I have serious ADHD and I often dive a rabbit hole for an idea for side project. Or research. Or combination of both. Most of my side projects you could categorize as spikes. There's no serious intent on delivering something of value for the world, just going from A to B and learning a thing or two on the run.

I'm like kerosene, I light up instantly, but the fire goes away very quickly. I can be researching a thing for 3 nights straight in my spare time to gather hooks and pieces of information... and then I get distracted and my focus goes somewhere else. And I'm left with 10 tabs that were suppose to kick start my idea.

To my own surprise I tend to go back to these ideas, but sometimes it takes me months, and sometimes, I keep these tabs on one of my devices, opened for months at a time. Sometimes I scrape them, adding links with notes to Obsidian.

Of course the amount of hoarded information vastly exceeds my throughput.

Trying to access the wave files directly reveals: Access to model destined/hurston-1 is restricted and you are not in the authorized list. Visit https://huggingface.co/destined/hurston-1 to ask for access.

I'm staying stainless

I think this conflates a few different points.

1. A friend of mine is an artist. She mostly does pottery. One could argue that if you need a cup you can get one at IKEA for $2. But there's a certain group that's willing to pay $200 or $2000 for a cup if that's a convenient conversation starter. They don't pay for the cup per se - they pay for the story she's providing with the cup. And we love good storytellers.

Unfortunately that's not the case when it comes to software development.

2. You can have unlimited resources but you still have limited time, so you have to know what you want. That's the human touch LLMs won't be able to automate. You have to be able to find a niche, work out the product and reach out to clients with clear message.

3. If your product is "Tinder but for horses" it doesn't matter if it was written by LLM or vegans. As long as it works.

4. If you want to gradually develop your product vibe coding will get in your way very fast. It's great for prototyping and developing well defined products but in a long run you'll want to know how your system works.

I did the same couple years ago using Google. Should CNN run a story about me?

Its not just QA and bug hunting.

You want to hire your target audience, which may be vastly different from yourself, and suddenly you discover that the language is throwing them off, the color scheme brings different meanings, and they just don't understand the flow which felt completely natural for you.

I see Jev as a major step towards commoditizing current LLM paradigm. One thing would be to further optimize this particular route to work purely on CPU. This will grant an option to embed this feature into any application, from MS Office to games. The other is integrating this into agent workflow to vastly minimize token consumption.

in an ideal world real programmers wouldn't be building their whole identities around publishing libraries like "isEven" or claiming fame for vibe porting perfectly fine libraries into whatever is the newest and hottest platform...

... but that ship has already sailed

+1

When mentioning foundational 2d driving models one simply can't omit Marco Monster (2003) [1].

Also Physics for Game Developers (2001) had a hilarious chapter dedicated to car racing simulation. Most of the chapter is dedicated building the scene in a minute detail - for instance pointing out that the center of gravity of the car will change during the course due to fuel consumption - only to simplify and cancel out most things at the end to leave the reader with just a handful of variables.

[1] https://www.asawicki.info/Mirror/Car%20Physics%20for%20Games...

If you're asking about the ASCII alone then it's quite simple.

You resize the image to fit your text area dimension, then probe each pixel for luminance, and based on how bright the pixel is, you swap it for a ascii character that takes more or less space.

If you're asking about animation it's called color cycling and was quite popular back in the days where there was no space to pack a real animations: https://www.effectgames.com/demos/canvascycle/?sound=0

Hands down one of the most creative advertising campaign of all time.

Whenever I mention this on HN, Scam Altman keeps downvoting my post from all his accounts. xD

I have a screenshot from 2024 when I asked ChatGPT to write me a draft of a story about a young boy who lost his parents and got send to a wizardry school. I specifically asked for the story to be original and not based on anything that has been already published.

As you probably suspect, chat gave me a full synopsis of Harry Potter.

I kept asking if that's an original idea, and it kept swearing on it's mothers grave, that the story has never been published before.

The difference between contributing to OS and AI, is that the first is a hobby alternative to woodworking or hiking, while the other can easily bootstrap you a company you can get millions in investment, at least for time being.

I don't quite get the problem this tries to solve.

I'm not quite sure that the bug list is the integral part of the source code. And there are dedicated systems that work just fine.

And if I really feel like tagging bug tracker along with my code, I could use any of those systems as long as they support file based databases, like sqlite, or simply static text files for that matter.