skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The writing's been on the wall for a couple of years now and Akamai doesn't have a strong presence in smaller niches.

I moved most of my stuff over to DigitalOcean a while back. The few remaining instances are now an urgent todo.
> Expediting public use and adoption of tech helps solidify…

… helps solidify what? Am I the only one for whom the article just ends there?
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Ignoring the policy side of things for now, as I'm sure we'll get plenty of discussion in other comments...

On a technical level how well do these adversarial attacks survive trivial transformations on the original pixel data? I would imagine even a simple JPEG compression pass would ruin the effect.
> If there's a gem/plugin/package that could do something I want in my product...use it

I think that's fine, if you read the source code and are happy putting it in your product, then why not? At that point it's free code.
With flutter you can also build web apps.

https://flutter.dev/multi-platform/web
There is tons of detail and nuance missing in this article... Starlink is still accessible on frontlines, but Ukraine wants to equip it's drones for guiding them over the front. If you pay close attention no country is donating weapons that can effectively attack Russia and Musk has the same stance...
There are some small differences. For example, Linode has a wider choice of distros.
It’s harder than it looks to write this kind of article and to keep it both witty and flowing.
I enjoyed it.
I've found that most desktop PC-s have idle power usage around 35-50W. That was the main motivation to look for alternative solutions like ASRock Deskmini, or the Dell/HP/Lenovo TinyMiniMicro form factor machines. Mini PC-s tend to have great idle power usage compared to big towers, which is probably down to the selection of the CPU, components on the motherboard and the power supply which usually has to only output 12V/19V. ATX PSU-s need to handle 3.3V/5V/12V, which probably plays a role in efficiency at idle.
>> quiet confirmation that it was indeed likely accidentally blown off course, as it is indeed, a weather balloon.

"So the balloon assessment was up to 200 feet tall for the actual balloon. The payload itself, I would categorize that as a jet airliner type of size, maybe a regional jet such as a [Embraer] ERJ or something like that," VanHerck explained. "Probably weighed in excess of a couple thousand pounds."

Source: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/our-first-look-chinese...

That's quite a payload for a weather balloon.

The weather balloon also just happened to pass over multiple sensitive defense sites:

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/map-close...

Such a misfortunate misunderstanding.
Sure, an ethical framework will be created.

And unethical actors will ignore it.

This will only affect those who are already interested in self-censoring. Tech unburdened by this laws will emerge regardless.

It's also illegal to hack and exploit systems. Never stopped happening.
You're missing the point. It's not about hurt feelings ("emotional impact"). It's about preventing the well-trodden causal pathway to ethnic cleansings. It's about steering the culture in a direction that rejects systemic racism rather than accepts it as a status quo. These are the objectives of the people you are attempting to critique.
Still no flying cars though. :(
Need a brain backdoor to prevent people from fantasizing about celebrities. That'll stop it for sure.
Isn't that the same with old versions of eg C++?
>Why does it need 100x the dataset? Sentient creatures, including humans, manage to figure stuff out from as little as a single datapoint.

Human brains are not quite blank slates at birth. They're predisposed to interpret and quickly learn from the sort of inputs that their ancestors were exposed to. That is to say, the brain, which learns, is also the result of a learning process. If a mad scientist rewired your brain to your senses such that its inputs were completely scrambled and then deposited you on an alien planet, it might take your brain several lifetimes to restructure itself enough to interpret this novel input.
So the reasoning seems to be:
1) We can create such tools
2) Then we must create such tools
3) They can be used to harm others
4) Then we must change the rest of society and the laws to adapt to them, alter publicly available images and impose restrictions on (preexisting) non-harmful actions

Beyond bizarre.
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"Excited to launch CareerGPT.ai on Hacker news today! We're on a mission to help people ..yada...yada"

No, that's ChatGPT's writing, not mine :)

Folks, I was a PhD student once, in a non-home country, and just wished to know what was it like to go and work in the industry, being a programmer, or started a company. Torn apart between choices, I just wished there was a totally unbiased counselor to talk to. I couldn't do that with my supervisor since he always encouraged me to finish the thesis (of course).

Heck, had ChatGPT exist back then, I would have had more infos and made decision easier. So why not launching one, on the back of the collective "intelligence" and "creativity" of large language model.

About building the product: Yes, I call OpenAI's API, but need to do some 'prompt engineering', updating temperature along the conversation.

Just tell me what you think. Thanks.
I ultimately gave up on skylines because I kind of broke my city and it got really tiresome to try and repair or start over. Tried a few mods to greater or lesser success but they just revealed other flaws. For example, whichever mod allowed for more realistic population densities; you'd have 700 families in a residential building or w/e, but no clue where they work, and likewise in the reverse. I somehow can't click on an office tower and see what the geographic distribution of occupants is, only those that are currently commuting. I'd also get strange issues like some of my subway lines inexplicably being totally vacant no matter what I did. It's also an incredibly inefficient game to run.
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I can't help but wonder when this stuff happens that the devs (or the leads) are worried about being let go, so they open source their stuff to be able to take it elsewhere.

Anyone here from DeepMind?
You should be careful to consider your privilege when judging other people's decisions here. This is an absolutely reasonable choice on your part, but you're (a) buying the most expensive model (and I'd guess doing so on a 2 year cycle), and then (b) paying for Apple care for it. That's a reasonable amount of money to spend for a shiny iPhone, a perfectly reasonable amount in your case.

For other people though, it might not be worth it or affordable at all. If one $30 case saves paying Apple care, or if helps use the phone for three or four years rather than two then that is a significant financial saving.
Not so ultra-secret if they got themselves exposed this way, rather than the numerous other cyber warfare companies out there.
At least now we have 280 chars tweets instead of 140 !
Why are some Western people so stubborn about "branding" some parts of the world as "former warzone" for a way too long time?
Yeah it is not that we cannot afford $50 a month for a slack tool, it is that if I am going to use mental and communication bandwidth to ask for something it’ll be something more impactful usually. The exception would be must have things that might also integrate with slack such as annual leave management etc.

If slack apps were like cloud resources and teams could “spin up” what they need it might be different.
The human brain hasn't had to "evolve" to learn writing. Our brain hasn't really changed for many thousands of years and writing has only been around for about 5000 years so we can't use the argument that "human brains have evolved over millions of years to do this" - it's not true.

GPT3 essentially needs millions of human years of data to be able to speak English correctly but still make obvious mistakes to us, so there's clearly something massive still missing.
The number of people ITT who are reading interpreting ChatGPTs output as intelligence is too damn high.

I thought Ex Machina was unrealistic because of its dependence on AGI, or at least having a theory of mind. As it turns out, in the real world,a LLM trained on Tinder data could probably get the job done.
> Some chargers are working fine.

Yes, there are better and worse ones. Spend your money at the better ones.

> BP (ironic)

Why is BP ironic? They're in the energy business. So is Shell.
> Why does it need 100x the dataset? Sentient creatures, including humans, manage to figure stuff out from as little as a single data point.

Because machine training doesn't involve embodiment and sensory information. Humans can extrapolate information from seeing a single image because we are "trained" from birth by being a physical actor in this world.

We know what bread looks like, what's mustard is, what a sausage is. We have information about size, texture, weight... all sorts of physical guesses that would help us pick the right tool for the job.

Machine training only relies on the coherent information we gave it to them, but that data also represents something we've created by experiencing the world through our bodies. So giving them more data can increase the model precision, I'd assume. It's also a kind of shortcut to intelligence, since we don't have to wait years/decades to make these models do some useful work.
This is written by some researcher with big dreams for the technique they have just developed...

But the chance of their technique being mandated by law worldwide into a fledgling field of technology seems pretty much nil.
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I can't add much to the conversation other that I also do use Archlinux
Does anyone know if there's a German version of this video? I tried finding it but couldn't.
> unless they're riding on the really narrow side roads

That's most of the cycling that happens, from what I've seen. (I also live here)

> The big roads do have painted bike lanes

Very ward dependent; some places do, many don't, and even in the places that do they're a recent thing.

> Another thing here: cyclists are legally required to carry liability insurance, in case they hit a pedestrian.

That's a very recent change - I think it was only last year or the year before.

> Anyway, you're not going to replicate Tokyo's success with cycling by simply copying one feature.

I suspect you might if that feature was "make street parking illegal", because everything else flows from that - narrow streets become possible, sharing those streets becomes necessary. But my point is mainly that this idea that segregated cycle lanes are the sine qua non is very wrong; Tokyo definitely proves that much.
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I expect these responses to be just that, regurgitation.

Case on point: I was playing using MRKL/ReACT like prompts with simple models like vanilla FLAN-T5 and GPT-J. Clearly they didn't work as well as using GPT-3 (text-davinci-003), presumably due to being too small to present emergent abilities out-of-the-box and without finetuning.

The funny thing is that when I prompted GPT-J with something like a ReACT prompt, it started responding with text that seemed to come straight out of a sci-fi novel about an AI gaining sentience. It is very amusing how "creative" these models "can be" sometimes.
I always enjoy seeing a bottle of Montelobos mezcal sitting on a shelf behind the bar in a place far from Mexico. Over the course of a month, I drank one Istanbul restaurant’s Montelobos supply.

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That would be absurd! You'll merely have to purchase a crypto token that proves that you have a license to create a mental image of the copyrighted subject, which is after all the ultimate intellectual property.
I lament the lack of flashing red matrix light displays on modern supercomputers
Wow, two BSs? You got patience!

I hope you stick with Prolog. It's a unique thing. If only more people understood it, and used it, in their everyday work.
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Its more like sales/sales-adjacent people sell and buy from other sales/sales-adjacent people, and the added price on top of what the actual product is worth is what keeps everyone who is sales/sales-adjacent employed.
Yes, I fixed the link, thanks!
> was ready to stop many of these creators and companies from sharing podcasts on Apple and Amazon, and keep the content exclusively on Spotify

Then should we bash Spotify for this, the specific creators, or just stop behaving like entitled babies? I doubt that Spotify threatened to de-platform any creator on the basis of exclusivity. They just offered money for exclusivity and the creators took it.

This happens for everything related to entertainment. Why we're not e.g. blaming Steam/Sony/Nintendo for paying for platform exclusives?
Isn't this a similar argument to "you can't outlaw metalsmithing" if there was a ban on carrying knives?
One word: RUN.

Long version:
Linode has been a good provider for many years. We farewell them and are sad to see them having the same fate as Heroku after Salesforce acquisition.
For a good example, the red shading here is what portion of downtown Edmonton, AB is dedicated to parking:

https://i.redd.it/p7fofu76ols91.jpg
Yes, this is a shame. Building a low-idle-power system with desktop components is far harder than it seems, unfortunately.
I spent way too much time on a late night trying to do this. I only managed to get as far as a reasonable approximation of “LIST GAMES”, Falken’s Maze and all.
"the debt is enormous"

Out of interest, how much of that is caused by the law degree being (as far as I understand it) a postgraduate degree in the US? Here in the UK you can just go straight to law school if you want without a first degree.
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> On the contrary, I don’t think there’s anything respectful about assuming that the OP doesn’t have the agency to decide for themselves whether they want to respond to my question or not.

If being respectful means anything it means reading their post closely and trying to understand what they were trying to convey. You can't talk about denying someone agency if you won't pay attention to what they're telling you.

> How do you know that?! How do you not see that the OP can make this decision for themselves?!

They did make that decision for themselves! It was clear from their post!
> the Siberian shamans’ use of (red and white) fly agaric mushrooms to enter the spirit world is believed to be the source of the Father Christmas myth.

but the "Father Christmas" in english tradition was green.

https://www.ssgreatbritain.org/why-is-our-father-christmas-g...
@UI_at_80x24,

On the contrary, you ARE ALSO the target audience. It is stated so explicitly multiple times - for example "existing users will not be left behind", "you get to choose", etc.
I am very passionate about consulting because I have found a common, recurring situational problem that I have been able to develop a thoughtful, repeatable and iterative process around solving.

There are some people who are exceptionally talented at making something from nothing, knowing how to apply the first steps towards a goal quickly and with great confidence and take great care to sow the seeds of sustainability and success into a project.

A exceptional Consultant is basically like “The Wolf” in Pulp Fiction.

Moving the needle from zero to ten (correctly and sustainably) is difficult. Getting it from ten to ninety is easy. Getting it from ninety to one hundred is almost a perpetual state.

Consultants enjoy the perspective that working on a single project for 10 years is effectively spending a quarter of one’s career on a single project. To consultants, the life of the tenacious, loyal, unquestioning worker bee is naive and wasteful.
Sweet idea. Kind of like a mini Jira within slack I guess.
The problem was never the GC per se, see TinyGo, Astrobe, microEJ, Meadows among others, rather always chasing the next big thing that could bring users, while leaving the other behind not fully done.

Now C++, Java and C# have many capabilities where D had an upper had back when Andrei's book came out, and naturally new competition also came into play with better corporate support.
i really wish they made the documentary correctly, especially given how much time they had since the events to work on this.

i get the pushback from the current administration for any media criticism, but i am surprised by how many indians are unaware of these events. i hate to see them only get an incomplete picture.
There is such a ban in England, 4 years in prison, see how it's working out for them: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn04...
You can do a lot of shortcuts with the pathing, because you are doing a lot of pathing on a graph that doesn't change much from frame-to-frame.
Tell HN: Stripe closed my GPT-3 G.Sheet addon because they think I “sell essays”
Apparently Stripe is closing GPT-3 tools because they "are unable to accept payments for the sale of essays and other academic work". I tried to appeal but no luck. What can I do? The tool is EndType.com and I obviously don't sell academic work
Actually, the MacBook Pro with M2 Max CPU can be configured with 96GB of ram. The Mac Studio with M1 Ultra can have up to 128GB of ram.
Been going without a case with the newer iphones and I must report their engineering is simply spectacular.
A brand new iphone 14 flew off its stand from my motorbike riding 80 km/h on a Vietnamese highway. No case. It now has just a few scratches on the sides and thats about it. A few years ago, if my phone fell of the table I would expect it shatter, now it just dinged up a bit and still water proof, I'm honestly very impressed.
Anyone here can comment on how good or bad is the support on OVH or Hetzner when opening a ticket?

I'm taking this chance to move my VPSs to an Europe-based provider, and if possible I would prefer to choose based on how good their support is when something happens.

I'm also open to different providers if anyone has a suggestion, preferably based in Europe.
Europe energy prices :/
Here in Texas it cost maybe $5/month to run a 45 watt little server (pc)…
Nothing kills disks faster than spinning them down.
Demystifying Linux Kernel Initialization
I would assume, more in a fashion close to LSTMs with a hidden state than by re-ingesting all the tokens every time.
"When a fail-safe system fails, it fails by failing to fail-safe."
>> It’s possible that will be harmless but this is doubtful, and either way I do not feel good about these companies rushing to push out a half baked product.

It might be half-baked, but this is the apex of the top peak of the hype cycle. Now is the time to strike when the iron is hot, Hot, HOT$$$.

I hope I'll be alive next year to see what happens when the dust settles.

(edit: no no, I'm OK. But one never knows eh?)
Must feel pretty bad being a rank and file dev at DeepMind and realizing that your leads had all the talent and funding in the world that they could have used for building language model products and instead they heavily invested in solving board games.

Then you realize they get paid >x10 of what you are and they're fine, but the next layoff is likely gonna get you.
You are describing centralized and walled-garden services run by middlemen. The significant difference of a blockchain is that it is a decentralized protocol that any individual or state can build upon, much like HTTPS.

Pix, for example, is managed by the central bank of Brazil. Ethereum, on the other hand, is not managed or controlled by a single state actor.
This is great. I'm all for the convenience of paying with a card, and use it for 99% of my transactions, but cash has a place in a free society. Without it, the state and the banks have the means to shut off a person's participation in society. That's too much power going to unaccountable people. To say nothing of the surveillance a cashless society affords as well.

A cashless society is incompatible with a free society.
>Neither "Akamai’s cloud computing services" or "Akamai Connected Cloud" sound like viable names.

Haven't we gotten pretty used to Amazon Web Services?
p.s. I've also been using the browser since the earliest days of Netscape Navigator, and I am on the Thunderbird team.

I'd also be pissed if I got left behind. But it's not happening.
https://peel.fm/5a69bff

Really fun to drop the kick & cowbell for a few bars then bring them back in.
There's a lot of claims being made by officials in this article. Be nice to see the data.
Looks like it's just a way to utilize chips with defects, instead of throwing them away.

Some of the missing gigabyte is probably used for a memory mapping algorithm.

Anyone who has dug deeper into this issue?
Alternative from https://peel.fm/e38d7e2: https://peel.fm/9f9074d
> When I wear mine around campus, I feel like a walking billboard advertisement for corporate law.

I never understood the appeal of free swag. Here we have someone who feels like a walking billboard yet still decides to wear them. I get it if purchasing a $20 non-ad-supported t-shirt poses a significant financial burden, but most students aren’t in that position. Why would you choose to be a frigging ad then? Especially for questionable companies, say Palantir, which IIRC used to be quiet a common sight on Stanford campus.
“The heart of” can mean many things, is this runnable or not? Also, they should open source the weights as well so that their claims can finally be verified independently.
The people who left probably said that they would want to work on stuff usable by the public, this seems like an answer to that.
I think you are witnessing the subtle lengths some people go to cause harm to others. Its very nuanced, a bit like watching the British MP Jacob Rees-Mogg or Sacha Baron-Cohen as Ali G or Little Britain.

Its the sort of tactics lawyers would use when cross examining witnesses or defendants.

So when you step back and see all of this going on in society, much of it, with an air of authority behind it, what you are witnessing is the very intellectual exploitation of the less fortunate. Such a human trait and the Germans have a word for some of these behaviours... Schadenfreude.
why not using the python as the input source?
Since most people write program using python nowadays, this may lead to a bigger impact.
The Lie of Personal Responsibility
They have their own LLMs such as PaLM
There are some companies that behave like its still the 1960's, and try retain employees for the long term (a "job for life").

They are a vanishingly small minority, and usually not tech companies - but traditional companies that use technology and have in house dev teams.
Cities: Skylines is probably the best SimCity these days.
So they need to overprovision, and compensate for effects - that is fine.

However, only advertising "usable size" is truthful, everything else is misleading.

It is sad that the legal system tolerates such cheating because it makes it harder to find the actual properties of the product. Or even makes it impossible to actually know how the product will actually work.