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I engraved mine for two practical reasons — tell mine apart from others and have contact info in case I lost it and it was found by a decent person.


"He was awarded a plaque, made of brass, by the publishers to commemorate his abilities. He ate his award".

legend

Is "3rd world country" basically "Not a NATO country, but also not an Eastern Bloc country"?

> I don’t need more surveillance in the guise of consumer tech in my life, much less if anything.

Who said this is being done because you need it?

You're the product here. The shareholders demand growth.


Yep but I'm only the product if they get my money and/or data (and these days it's often the and term not the or).

I simply chose to opt out of that as far as is reasonable without living in a cave by candlelight, it gets harder ever year.


Does this use AI to determine whether content is about AI?

you could look for the substring "AI" in the title and get 95% of the way there.

That would miss a lot of posts.

Here's how mine looks using my method:

https://imgur.com/a/P1qMIok

9 out of 30 posts have been removed.

Steps:

Install uBlock Origin Lite. Then create a custom filter:

    news.ycombinator.com##tr.athing:has(a:has-text(/\b(?:A\.?I\.?|A\.?G\.?I\.?|LLMs?|GPTs?|TPU|NPU|RAG|MoE|RLHF|xAI)\b|Anthropic|agent|super-?intelligence|Blackwell|Cerebras|ChatGPT|Claude|Cohere|Command\s*R|Context\s*window|Copilot|Cursor|DALL-E|deep\s*learning|DeepSeek|ElevenLabs|Fine-tun(?:e|ing)|Flux|Gemini|GenAI|Generative|Gemma|Grok|Groq|H100|Hallucination|harness(?:es)?|Hugging\s*Face|LangChain|Llama|LlamaIndex|Midjourney|Mistral|Ollama|OpenAI|OpenRouter|Perplexity|prompt|Qwen|Runway\s*(?:AI|ML)|Gen-[1-4](?:\.5)?|Sora|Synthetic\s*data|token|vibecod|vLLM|Whisper/i)):xpath(. | following-sibling::tr[1])
Any improvements to above filter are welcome.

"Cursor" and "Copilot" are generic words sadly that you may find in other unrelated contexts, I'd take these out, and "prompt" is regularly used in headlines regarding political news.

>and "prompt" is regularly used in headlines regarding political news.

Oh no! Anyway...


I agree about the risks but when I search for those words in posts, I don't seem to find much.

For example, here's stories with "prompt" (only look at post titles, not the story text):

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...


How else could it possibly be done?

yes.

...and a brave new price

I'd love to see the numbers and the arithmetic that compute down to "more than 10%"

> inherent non-determinism in current AI architectures

There's nothing inherent about non-determinism in transformer architectures. All of it is removable.


Again comes to use of deterministic. Maybe calling AI varyingly chaotic is more helpful but would also be misunderstood. And I use that in meaning of slight changes in input generating large and somewhat unpredictable changes in output...

I see. Can you say more about this? What’s the trade-off of removing it?

You get a probability curve for the next token prediction. You can just pick the highest probability. That said the non-determinism serves a real purpose- it allows different outputs and paths to be explored. So that's kind of the tradeoff.


I wonder whether he's vested any options, and whether he's exercised them.

Why? I've never understood the sentiment that if you stand up for something you have to forego everything and not partake in society. "Oh, you want to stop climate change? But I saw you breathe co2 yesterday"

This is a lame argument. Questioning his financial incentive is very legit. Why should we trust him?

Questioning his finances is a poor argument because he clearly would have more money if he had stayed at Anthropic for the next couple of years, than he will have by leaving. Even if he still has vested options, or savings from his salary or whatever, those would be larger if he stayed.

I think it’s a valid question to ask if he quit the company for moral reasons.

If you seriously think the frontier labs are dangerously playing with everyone’s lives (how many companies can even claim this civilisational scale) then why would you be ok with holding vested shares which will grow in value if the corporation achieves what it aims to achieve?

At the very least you can sell them (they’re not so illiquid considering the company’s hype and success) and invest in the broad market.


> clearly

Debatable, and clearly not clear. It's weird to say this when there are obvious counter examples staring us in the face, not least of all the founder of the company he just left, of who (Dario) people could have said the same thing when he left OpenAI.

Granted, there is less likelihood now then there was then but this much is clear: if he starts his own company, he may make more.


The fame he got, the stamp of a frontier lab in the resume - its worth more than working in many other companies for years. Plus, not everyone thinks working more is needed once they achieve a certain number.

Unless, of course, he starts working for a competitor at a higher salary. I'm sure whoever is paying him will be free of the ethical concerns he here expressed.

Be careful when loving shareholder-driven endeavors; they're a single executive decision away from breaking your heart.

It's "shareholder-linked" (probably not "driven"), but yes, upvoted. Nonetheless, even when with grave faults in the path, Google has managed to give us marvellous, paramount free resources (Google Street, Google Museum...), and would have given more (Google Books - if the negotiation had succeeded). I am grateful.

Google Streetview/maps isn't even the best mapping/'streetview' tool at this point. Filled with ads and bugs, some major bugs have been there for 10+ years.

Now I'm curious. What is the better mapping and streetview tool at this point?

For maps there's quite a few, just anything that doesn't have the amount of ads beats it. For Streetview apple lookaround is a better experience if it's mapped well in your area.

I believe Google has been trying to improve their Streetview in coverage as apple has become a concurrent, but it still has the same bugs people have been complaining about for years (like going backward when pressing forward type of bad). If I remember correctly the bugs have been 'closed' or something before just to include it in the same slightly different way.


As someone that just started working on Google Street View, do you links to any of those bugs? Curious to take a look and see what those problems are

Organic Maps for maps

Why would you be grateful? I don't think any of that should be under private control to begin with.

And which public enterprise has undertaken those projects?

Looking at current hot problems, and exemplary of the situation: which public entities have endeavoured to backup the most important channels and videos from YouTube, the current historic video archive?

Why would I be grateful?! Because somebody did create those resources and made them available! And they did to common good (if anybody refused the expression "for" common good).


They said should be under public control, not is under public control.

Double check.

Be careful when loving government/philanthropy/ngo-driven endeavors; they're a single executive decision away from breaking your heart.

Marriages too

Hopefully you have a bit more impact on the decision making of your marriage shareholders than on public company executives.

Statistically you are very correct.

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