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side_up_down··on Artificial intelligence is capitalism's final destination
The great filter would have needed to happen before the transmission of radio waves to be a solution to the Fermi Paradox
side_up_down··on Ask HN: Brave Search API forbids use with AI agents (openclaw, moltbot?)
Brave has an AI-specific API
side_up_down··on Kimi Released Kimi K2.5, Open-Source Visual SOTA-Agentic Model
I'd take "running at home" to mean running on reasonably available consumer hardware, which your setup is not. You can obviously build custom, but who's actually going to do that? OP's point is valid
side_up_down··on Catala – Law to Code
How does this incorporate case law?
side_up_down··on Everyone in Seattle hates AI
There's a great non-AI point in this article - Seattle has great engineers. In pursuing startups, Seattle engineers are relatively unambitious compared to the Bay Area. By that I mean there's less "shooting for unicorns" and a comparatively more reserved startup culture and environment.

I'm not sure why. I don't think it's access to capital, but I'd love to hear thoughts.

side_up_down··on What makes you still work for Meta, when it's clear how toxic the company is?
There are thousands of Meta employees on HN and none answered this post.

Why not? Look at the kinds of discussion that happened in their absence.

I worked at Meta for a few years. Facsimiles aside, it's no different than any other corporate machine.

side_up_down··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2024)
Meta Reality Labs - Conversational AI | https://www.metacareers.com/jobs/2780884748740452/ | Research Engineer | Machine Learning Engineer | Redmond, WA; Menlo Park, CA | Full-time | ONSITE

I'm hiring Research Engineers and Machine Learning Engineers to bring Meta AI to Reality Labs devices, including RayBan Meta Smart Glasses. Build rich multi-modal experiences fully unlocking both the power of mixed-reality devices and Facebook personalization.

Research Engineers will push the boundaries of how to train and deploy Meta AI LLMs. Publish your work, and be a leader in industry best practices.

Machine Learning Engineers will help bring emerging technologies onto the next generations of Reality Labs hardware devices. Build systems to ensure Meta AI performance in constrained environments.

Smart Glasses Press Release: https://about.fb.com/news/2023/09/new-ray-ban-meta-smart-gla...

side_up_down··on Discovery Steering Committee re Google Antitrust Litigation [pdf]
You can be sure Google's lawyers vetted the training to ensure it was lawful instruction.
side_up_down··on Manager's Handbook (2020)
It sounds like there's some other cultural problems at your company :)
side_up_down··on How do you solve a problem like misinformation?
Nice framing. I agree with that interpretation.

I'd argue communication is always an approximation to an ideal, anyways. The original version is going to be incomplete. How adequately can English (or your language of choice) represent a complex event or concept?

side_up_down··on How do you solve a problem like misinformation?
I'd add another sentence to that:

"Understand that even with the best intentions you'll likely still get it wrong."

Objective truth is incredibly unwieldly. It's almost impossible to get right - just considering imperfections in communication alone.

Ever play the game of telephone? One person tells a fact to someone, who tells that fact to another person. Go 3 hops and you're almost certainly going to end with a different fact than you started with.

Each step of knowledge transfer incurs loss - and this applies to all forms of communication.

side_up_down··on The greatest privilege we never talk about: beauty
What?
side_up_down··on Soli
Very pithy comment. Breakthroughs are only breakthroughs in hindsight. False positives and negatives abound in breakthrough declarations.
side_up_down··on An Idiot’s guide to Support vector machines (2003) [pdf]
Empericially, CNNs generalize better on image recognition tasks than hand built features. This comment doesn't make much sense and is needlessly obtuse in the face of progress, tbh.
side_up_down··on Ask HN: What has been your most rewarding job or project and why?
Thats a great answer but decidedly off topic. He asked a very specific question and you gave a completely different answer. HN, this shouldn't be voted up here. Our biases are showing by doing so.
side_up_down··on How Netflix works: the stuff that happens when you hit Play
> I wish hacker news got excited about the filling the pipe post and less excited about this thread.

That's disingenuous considering the number of votes and comments each thread have received. HN IS more excited by the pipe post as reflected by user participation.

Would love to hear more detail insofar as this article is concerned.

side_up_down··on Ask HN: What's the next big advance in AI you're looking forward to most?
Big advance? AI than can learn conditional logic.

DL tops out as mapping vector spaces to less complicated vectors. Incredibly powerful, but incredibly limited in what problems it can emulate.