skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I find interesting about their marketing(?) is that they identified a market niche that they want to position themselves in.

Enterprise customers that have no idea about the technical details will just hear about OpenAI's success in this fancy new model and assume that Eleuther can deliver.

I mean, most use cases for "big data" projects that are tiny in comparison with Alphabet's datasets will just work with GPT2 fine, probably.

And Enterprise customers that hear those claims and see some code, maybe some demo, is enough for them to start the consultancy process.

In my opinion that's a policy problem that OpenAI introduced by not requiring the absolute reproducability of both the code and model, and both training and dataset of their models upon release.

Stakes are pretty high in the AI industry, and OpenAI actively influences it. My dream was in the beginning that they are a source of verification, audits and "proof" that models are legit...yet I have the feeling lately that they just buzz around like everyone else.

To this date I haven't seen anyone replicate any of the DNC results, for example.

Anyways, just my two cents on this one.
openscad is good, but i wish it had a way to define negative space within a module. if you have something that has positive and negative features (i.e. it's supposed to punch a hole through another object the module is applied to), you always end up with two modules, one for negative features and one for positive
Great Search Engines One Can Use Instead of Google
Probably they hate you back and wish you to not let the door hit you on your way out...
Yeah off my list as well. Was looking into them as my backup needs had changed somewhat and they'd finally gotten a datasenter in the EU. Shame.
Seems like a poor decision / dumb mistake. Fix it and move on. I can understand the impetus to need FB ads & lookalike audiences to grow the company -- it serves no one if BackBlaze goes bust. It's obviously wrong to send filenames to FB as well.

If they fix this, goodwill will be burned, but it's not a dealbreaker for using them. If they don't fix it, then yes by all means leave the service.
Deeply disheartening to see the spittle brigade out in force on HN, defending the post-hoc seizure of private property by a local government. The saddest irony is that the same people probably claim to be against civil asset forfeiture to law enforcement.
Way too much for that number of inmates, insane.
Geez, that's really harsh.

I don't think any single thing you've claimed is factually wrong, and I don't speak for Eleuther nor am I attempting to justify their claims.

But.

As I understand it (mostly from lurking on their discord and reading publicly available materials) this is a group of volunteer academic types trying to replicate something great and awesome, with the only goal of giving it to the world. You could cut them some slack.

I can't speak for you, but as a "for free, weekend project" what they've done certainly makes me feel I need to up my game.
> Any suggestions on how we fight this general rah-rah-BS attitude in the industry?

We start actually punishing white collar crime. Kids are growing up learning there are no downsides to white collar crime - whether you're Elizabeth Holmes or Jordan Belfort, even if you get caught red handed stealing BILLIONS nothing happens.
You can have a conversation whether Stallman is the best person to be a leader, but let's keep false accusations and blatant misinterpretations of his words out of that please. Especially if those words are part of perfectly reasonable thought chain that lots of people on the spectrum would easily agree with (at least when being at the same point in the chain). When I read those attacks, it's not about Stallman anymore to me - it's about me and all the people like me (a group that just happens to include Stallman).

If someone lacks enough empathy and social skills to be able to put his words into appropriate context, then maybe they should refrain from interpreting those words (and yet they say that those are qualities that autistic people lack...)
As I just told a colleague who told me of this post, "I'm so old I don't even know how to use that [this] site." :)

Happy to answer questions or address criticisms.
Honestly, it depends on where the added up $1k/month is going.
Daily Mail, ey? :D
Further background on the western tech the Myanmar military is using to maintain power: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/01/world/asia/myanmar-coup-m...
That PR/marketing tweet comes across as from someone who doesn't understand how big deal this actually is and why customers won't be comfortable with a FB pixel on their dashboards with data filenames and sizes.
https://github.com/TheAssemblyArmada/Vanilla-Conquer from the source release accompanying C&C remastered. Nostalgia and complete ability to change things at once!
Yes, of course it matters. There are much closer examples temporally, politically, and physically that Myanmar would have actually learned from (e.g., India's Modi shutting down Kashmir's internet beginning in 2019). Trying to associate the actions of Myanmar's military junta with a movement a century past and on the opposite political spectrum is an obvious and tortured stretch by the GP and its upvoters to indirectly attack their current political enemies.
crap publication.
It's literally a couple people hanging out in a discord channel and doing this as a way to procrastinate their jobs.
That's... terrible. Just ill-thought out.
Even if it all worked out, it would still be a shitty job.
So it was better when it was impossible to know what was in things and count calories? Not perfect doesn't mean not better.

> The annual failure rate on the spec sheets are around 0.3%, but empirical data by backblaze puts them anywhere from 0.3% to 12%.

I'd suggest dealing with that as fraud, not giving up.
There's a difference between supporting people struggling with, let's say, alcoholism, and hiring an alcoholic as your head of PR so that he can throw up on people in front of camera.
I'm in engineering of a financial services. When we built our front-end UI for eKYC our marketing requested for google tag manager / facebook pixel and various other tracking features to be built.

I had to fight hard as an engineer to make sure that it does not happen. We had meetings after meetings, and it took a lot of effort for me to explain the risk of data leakage. I was questioned on my "insecurity" for not "trusting" people. It was not a nice experience. I had to inform them that tracking needs to be dealt with properly, not just lazily install google tag manager because it gives marketing 'flexibility'.
A different take: Microsoft, Oracle, et. al. waged a war against OSS in the 90s. They went as far as using mental illness as a weapon against the community (equating participation in the commons as an equivalent to mental illness).

It’s not a coincidence the class of human that weathered the storm looks like Stallman, Linus, ESR, et. al. That’s what it took. The toxicity in these communities is a result of what was leftover. These humans grew up amongst OSS activists that also weathered the storm.

They carried the flag when no one else would. Vilifying them now, at a time where Microsoft just purchased the two largest infrastructure/tooling providers for the commons (npm, GitHub) is concerning to me. Without them, the commons wouldn’t be what it is today.
It's because OpenAI sells them for profit. The "Ada" model is the same size as the larger of these two EleutherAI models.
Yeah honestly it's pretty weak compared to an actual music sequencing DAW like FL Studio or even an app like Patterning 2.
I was expecting some deliberation on Starbucks, which also didn’t “de”brand but removed their word mark from their primary customer facing branding. At the time it was received with some scrutiny but also some recognition that the brand was so pervasive it could be recognized as a stylized image with no lettering.

This isn’t what I expected, and I agree with the comments so far that it represents a style change for existing brands.
If he wants to grow beyond a single shop, he'll either need a standard entry format, or be prepared to compete for employees against enterprises which actually need a high degree of technical literacy.
I have never understood what the hell "free as in beer" means either.
Liberals hate cops and unjust laws but are the first to ignore Omerta the moment it goes against their views.
David Cross: Why America Sucks at Everything
Just an FYI in case this isn't clear to people. Even though this is a serious problem, it's super unlikely that FB is using the filenames in any way, or aware they were being sent. That part is probably just a (really awful) mistake.
I’m glad that my backups to BB obfuscates file names and sizes in addition to being encrypted.
Amazing how insecure people get when you suggest a simple gesture that would ultimately better society. Mask wearing is normalized in the East, why not in the West? Is it because "mah freedoms?" Grow up.
The thing is, even if it was a dumb mistake, it's one of those mistakes a company like Backblaze can't afford to make.

If they don't pay attention to stuff like this, then why should I trust them with anything at all? This isn't some minor oopsie, this is failing to deliver on their core product[1]:

Top Backblaze B2 Use Case Solutions

Backup & Archive

Store securely to the cloud incl. safeguarding data on VMs, servers, NAS, and computers

[1]: https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage.html
Also WeWork!

> Rebekah Victoria Neumann (née Paltrow; born February 26, 1978) is an American entrepreneur and businesswoman. Until September 22, 2019, she served as WeWork's chief brand and impact officer and CEO of WeGrow.
I operate quite a few apps and recently launched a website too which handles a lot of sensitive user data. I decided to make - not having any analytics, trackers and ads the selling points of my apps and sites. Get a lot of positive emails from customers thanking me for that. I was recently even wondering if Google penalizes sites for not having putting their analytics on the sites/apps from appearing on the search results.

I legit don't understand why a paid storage service would put a FB pixel on their dashboard which handles user files. It's a completely foreign concept to me. This seems like a screw up but also erodes a lot of trust which is unfortunate as I had been looking at them for past 2 months actually.

I even made a post just yesterday and another couple weeks ago on how BackBlaze's inability to set a specific file name, file size limit and expiry date on the pre-signed urls is preventing some of us from switching over from S3 to Backblaze for our storage of app data needs. And surprisingly, I wasn't the only one as I got a few people responding with same concern.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26430959

Basically:

> A limitation I ran across when using B2 was that their pre-defined url generation doesn't allow you to set file-size limits nor does it allow you to set the file name in the pre-defined url. It simply gives you a pod url to upload it to. So if you are using b2 for storage for lets say image uploads from browser, some malicious user has the ability to modify the network request with whatever file name or file size they want. Next thing you know, you have a 5gb sized image uploads happening.... This pretty much prevents me from using B2 for now.

> I ran into the same limitation! IIRC, there also wasn't a way to expire a signed upload URL sooner than whatever the default was, which was hours or maybe a day. I had the exact use case you mentioned, too - image uploads bypassing my backend server. I didn't want the generation of a signed url to, say, upload a profile photo, give carte blanche to create a hidden image host when combined with the limitation that you highlighted. All sorts of bad things could come of that. I ended up just going back to S3 - costs more, but still worth it.

Since this is for a site/app which lets users upload data, I am really trying to avoid S3 due to crazy costs. I might look into DigitalOcean's offerings. Anyone have any other recommendations?
Haunting
So the government is supposed to dictate what "culture" is allowed. Why can't the owners decide that for themselves? If they don't want to run a bar what business does the government have forcing them to do so?
Can browsers please just disable tracking pixels already? I look forward to the day of reckoning.
Why are they adding that stuff if this is a paid service? This is such a bummer.
"Somebody else" is too busy silencing the voices that raise concerns about negative long-term effects of gender transition, or calling out the forced "anti-racist" trainings that in fact increase the divide in the society instead of helping different people work together towards common goals.
Been a huge fan of Backblaze for years and b2 was my plan for server backup; always seemed like a great underdog company in my eyes- they just lost me. I already canceled my Spotify for a similar —Facebook-related— reason.
The reason US cities are inside out is because of something called “white flight” and “redlining” that has happened as a result of slavery and racism unfortunately.

It’s a really sad story that’s helped make the poor even poorer.

You can learn more about it here:

- https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/07/white-f...

- https://www.minnpost.com/politics-policy/2018/03/white-fligh...

- https://www.npr.org/2017/05/03/526655831/a-forgotten-history...

- https://www.cbsnews.com/news/redlining-what-is-history-mike-...
Assuming it’s to build lookalike audiences [1] (find me people that act like the paying customers).

[1] https://www.facebook.com/business/help/164749007013531?id=40...
I would guess that you never weaken the core opposition, but sympathetic other folks working in the day... you might limit their exposure to the core folks.
Wait a minute, there is a distinction between Tax Avoidance and Tax Evasion.

Tax Avoidance is perfectly legal and encouraged by the IRS. There are many exemptions and credits for anyone who is eligible to take advantage of. If you’ve ever seen “whichever is lower” on a tax preparation form, that’s an example of avoidance. Why pay more when the law says you don’t have to?

Tax Evasion is the illegal activity of not paying taxes you were supposed to pay. This is where fraud comes into play. People should absolutely be prosecuted for evasion, but they should not shamed for avoidance.
>Progressives are right now advocating for the release of criminals, even murderers. To then have exactly the opposite attitude towards something that certainly is not committing physical violence against somebody, I don’t understand the double standard!

Barabbas understood.
Backblaze is not led by dumb people. This was a conscious decision that they made and the got caught. I used to recommend them to people and I never will again.
> Activists quickly found his reputation for asking women out and making jokes about “EMACS virgins."

I'm all in favor of believing victims of sexual harassment and assault. Those claims are so very rarely made falsely that they should be taken very seriously.

But what about claims that a man/woman made sexual jokes or "inappropriate" innuendo? Certainly they can be cause for concern if the accused is someone who has responsibility over the victim. But what if they're peers? How can we righteously distinguish between flirting that results in the furtherance of a relationship and flirting that's not reciprocated? Or just plain boorish behavior?
No, I don't agree. He was partly punished for what people THOUGHT he had said, and for past transgressions, and in large part for what people were TOLD he had said. Not for what he actually said.
> just about every Android SoC minus a few odd ones

All those users will leave you a one star review when it crashes on their device.
> Members of the FAANG group of companies indulge in quite egregious practices from an outsider's (wider society) perspective but insiders feel it's normal.

What practices do you have in mind?
From a quick look at pricing pages it looks like rsync.net is 5x as expensive as backblaze b2, and has a minimum of 400gb per month (it also looks like you might have to preallocate vs pay on demand). And tarsnap is 10x as expensive as rsync.net.

My guess the bulk of that price difference is due to economies of scale.
You're being down voted because in this case customers are obviously the product. Being sold to Facebook.
The field of virology doesn't draw a line in the sand excluding certain viruses with low transmission rates.
Viruses that are more transmissible simply draw the attention of the field.

Presumably, a scientific study of ideas would observe ideas commonly transmitted in the wild.
> The name "Blackblaze" is burned forever.

So they should be good continuing to use "Backblaze"?
The OP wasn't associating with Lenin, just the method to take over and control a population. Surely you see the similarities - pedantism aside.

Lenin was one of the first modern leader to use these tools.
Whatever the authoritarian folks claim to be... their practices are often the same regardless.
after reading https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26531119 I searched the page for Remarkable. It could be the Linux tablet of our collective dreams if enough developers notice it...
There are two studies linked directly from the Harvard health article, one tracking Italian outpatients, and the other using randomized phone follow-up. Feel free to go read them, and more besides.

There's a constellation of individually imperfect studies pointing in the exact same direction; that's basically how science happens. The studies exist in the first place because people observed Something Strange was happening, and wanted to quickly get a sense of severity and prevalence, to inform public health response.

And if you're not willing to update your priors, I'll be here waiting for the perfect study that proves long covid doesn't exist...
Same with memes found in books. The host being alive has not been a requirement...ever?
Many people (correctly, in my view) criticized OpenAI for the name, saying that openness should be evaluated on a case by case basis. Glad they listened to critics instead of trying to maintain consistency for its own sake.
Images of Precision Guided Weapons Just Before They Obliterate Their Targets
I was excited by the Theranos idea. I was excited by the
uBiome idea (and even attempted to be a customer!). But obviously both went poof. I want to know how this could happen. What are the bigger problems in the industry? If you think these 2 are rare examples, I would call them minor compared to many of the companies in the space.

Common factors seem to be: secrecy, and sticking to the old
mindset of #ImaginaryProperty business models (patents,
ndas, copyrights, et cetera).

I want to see the visions espoused by Theranos and uBiome
come to fruition. There are *not* a lot of great examples
of good biotech companies to emulate. AFAIK, there hasn't
been a "don't be evil" moment in biotech.

Some biotech/healthcare company needs to come out and say
"fck the old ways, they aren't working—Americans are not
healthier, costs are up, and we still haven't solved
cancer", and take a radical new approach of openness,
collaboration, and forget about the abosolute horsesht
practices of secrecy, #imaginaryproperty, and putting
patients far down on the list of priorities.
I would say the point is that it's extremely easy to unwillingly appear as an asshole if you have to put an extraordinary amount of effort into not appearing as one just because you don't operate based on the same social constructs as most of other people do by default.
"I would recommend looking into the less pleasant facts about others you consider philosophically brilliant, especially those further removed from us in time"

I do. How the hell do you think I figured it out for RMS? That same critical filtering can happen not just across time, but across various axes of context.

I didn't say that he's "irredeemable" but that the constant hagiographic/endless forgiveness for his chronic boorishness by his acolytes is annoying and serves no benefit.
There’s no way that assembly in California or anywhere else in the US would even come close to doubling the price of an iPhone. Assembly cost is not that high[1].

[1]https://www.technologyreview.com/2016/06/09/159456/the-all-a...
Let start we need to improve our problem solving skills
> Vaccines Are Effective Against Covid Variants

This Hacker News title is inaccurate, as the study concerns only the Moderna mRNA-1273 vaccine.
I don’t think the person you responded to is being disingenuous, and I didn’t sense that they were advocating for top earners to avoid paying because of complexity. Far from it. They were mentioning how incredibly complicated tax returns become once income becomes significant and diverse. A myriad of loopholes and accounting tricks make determining their “fair share” very difficult. The poster is asserting that a much more simple tax code would help alleviate this.
The Damages Testimony in VLSI Technologies vs. Intel
Your position is that the reason we are not intervening in Myanmar is because we're too distracted by social justice and gender politics?
Huh, I was wondering what the size of the non-davinci models were; guess that make sense.

It's still telling that a "small" GPT-3 model can risk cannibalizing a larger model.
No. That isn't what I mean.

I think your wrong-think is a very big stretch from what I said. Can you show me the chain of thinking which took you there please?
>It's not intended as a vehicle for any random ideal people care about.

Who used it like that? Stallman's comments happened outside the organization, the tweet was from someone I think unrelated to the project. I can understand keeping other ideals out of the project, but in context you're telling people not to express other ideals.
If you see a sign advertising “Free Beer” you understand that the meaning of “free” in this context means “goods and/or services available at no cost”. The English word “free” means a lot of things and the meaning of “free” in the expression “Free Beer” is very different from the meaning in the expression “Free Speech”, where it is used to mean “not legally restricted”.
It's confusing to me too when it's phrased that way. Stallman's original quote makes much more sense, "Think free as in free speech, not free beer." In other words, contrasting free as in "no restrictions", versus free as in "no cost".
Addiction issues are mental health issues because there is no reward; it is not a rational choice. It follows that people with addiction issues are either not informed enough to make a rational choice, irrational, or for some reason are unable to say no.

If the model were really this simple, relapse would be non-existent. I can't believe any former addicts would make a rational choice to relapse.
Did you just reply to the wrong comment? I didn't say anything about masks.