skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed, from what I can see pushing the size of models higher and higher gets you better results but also scales up problems at the same rate. Smaller models are more controllable and more predictable, and just like anything else, specialization tends to produce better results than having one jack-of-all-trades tool that handles everything.

There are fundamental weaknesses with LLMs that aren't present in other approaches. There are strengths to LLMs too, but that's the whole point. I am much more optimistic about the potential to get multiple models focusing on different problems to coordinate with each other than I am about the possibility of getting a single LLM to just be good at everything.

There's a lot of really unbelievably hard problems that are showing up just with GPT-3, and as the model gets bigger, those problems are going to get worse, not better because in some ways they are a consequence of the model being so large. But like... there are domains where you don't care about those downsides, or where those downsides only matter for one specific part of whatever application you're building. So if you can away with just not having GPT-3 involved in that part of your process and doing something else... Don't pound in a nail with a screwdriver.
> Either the attacker has arbitrary code execution [...] or they don’t.

That's beyond reductive, even if we grant this website's fundamental premise which rejects economic cost analysis in threat mitigation. Many of the articles on this website are like that--1) it's possible (and even inevitable with sufficient effort) to circumvent mitigation X, therefore 2) mitigation X has no value. That's a huge logical leap that the author (authors?) often cover up with, "Trust me, I develop exploits".

EDIT: In case the post is changed, the full quote is, "Either the attacker has arbitrary code execution, and can ROP their way to the 'SPECIFIC execve entry point', or they don't."
Any thoughts on how this compares to the Purple Air system?
That sounds lovely. Coming from the countryside in Germany we did something similar as children. The night sky sure is awesome.
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There are lots of fun things you can do with optical circuits. One of the most fascinating to me was running multiple threads of execution through the same circuits at the same time at different wavelengths of light! I would speculate that there are similar sorts of things going on in optical transformers, but honestly trying to get deep enough into both the ML architecture AND the optical architectures implementing them is probably a month of spare time that I don't have at the moment :-).
Ugh, yeah. I used to adore Spotify's "radio" algorithm, but depending on the genre - namely indie rock - I constantly hear repeats now.
Short answer is "They don't go that dim." I don't know if there's a technical limitation or it's just not done, but the "1%" frontlight (most e-ink displays are frontlights, LCDs are just awful for every aspect of reading) is quite a bit brighter than reflected.

E-ink readers absolutely can be read without backlight, and I've experimented with that vs the frontlight for the past few months. The older ones (my Kobo Aura) require a lot of light to be readable, but are readable without much trouble by kerosene lantern. The newer ones (Kobo Clara HD) are better, and require less light, but all of them require an awful lot more light than a paper book.
As both a parent and someone who interacts with middle school educators, I can confidently say that there may be gaps in your knowledge that you are unaware of.

Children today are often smarter and more technologically savvy than many adults give them credit for: and some of them will start “business” to sell “internet access” to others.

Just a comment form from dad fighting with similar issues.
I think certain people a lot. As your wealth grows so do your ambitions for sone people. Self actualization is a pyramid onto its own. Power, influence, and legacy are attractive. Of course so is living a quiet life.
There is no end game when the end game is MAD. Neither did I nor 99.999% of the planet made up these rules, but they're just part of the game. Worst case scenario we revert back to living like its 900AD except with radiation.

That being said, humanity will go on. Even if the entire nuclear arsenal was detonated like a fireworks show gone wrong, I highly doubt all places on the earth will be affected. Hell we've been hit by a massive asteroid once, and life still went on. Highly doubt a few thousand nukes going off will be any close to that bad. Also its not like they're gonna nuke the shit out of Africa, S. America, or some pacific islands. Even if nuclear winter will suck and what not, again - some people will survive and for me personally that's all that matters.

I'm not one of the uber rich (and no I don't mean the trust fund kid nor the startup founder who had a 9 figure exit), so I don't really care nor know what they'll be doing. But I'm sure some of them will already have prepared for this scenario. If I was uber rich, I know I probably would have.

Most of us plebs will most likely perish. I will most likely be one of the first ones gone because I live in the bay area.

Some of us will survive though. Instead of slinging infrastructure or loading up test data, we will be forced to survive at all and any costs. If I survive, I am taking zero chances with people I don't know or trust. My water, my food, my shelter.

Again, no hard feelings and I have no expectations from others- I want to survive as long as possible because why not... Until we have a New California Republic or something like that, on God zero chances. Plus, it would be cool to rebuild.

End of the day, its just a game for better or worse. Might as well play it. I might get in a car accident and perish later today lol in which.. no ww3 for me.
>Many [0] people addicted to alcohol don't pick the cheapest option possible to get their fix, they go to pubs and bars with their friends if they can afford it.

Are they "addicted" to alcohol or just to the social aspect? The way you describe it, it sounds like the latter.
which makes this garbage even more indefensible.
> but I can't easily get a degree / certificate for say a bachelors in Mathematics? Or literature?

It's about supply and demand. The demand is not there, so nobody is going to invest the significant resources to create the supply.
If he was an American citizen, and performed those crimes in the US, I wonder how it would go with him being extradited and tried for that in a different country? Earnest question, maybe there are examples of it
I just borrowed a Tesla Model 3 that stopped for green lights. I asked a service person: apparently it is known to stop for a green light if there is no car ahead. The display shows a green light, a red line, and fine print saying that the car will stop for traffic control.
so what you're actually saying is that the POSIX elephant isn't (and hasn't been) actually standing on our necks after all?
That's an incredible and scary article. Thank you.
It talks a lot about performance, but the actual cloud load balancers such as AWS ELB or Azure Load Balancer are implemented in the software-defined network (SDN) and are accelerated in hardware.

For example in Azure, only the first two packets in a VM->LB->VM flow will traverse the LB. Subsequent packets are direct from VM-to-VM and are rewritten in the host NICs to merely appear to go via the LB address. This enables staggering throughputs that no “software in a VM” can possibly hope to match.

Personally I wish people would stop with the unnecessary middle boxes. It’s 2023 and there are cloud VMs now that can put out 200 Gbps! Anything in path of a few dozen such VMs will melt into slag.

This is especially important for Kubernetes and microservices in general that are already very chatty and have layers of reverse proxies five deep in surprisingly common configurations already.
Correct! Which is in itself an interesting bit that also serves to make the "dating scene" (that feels too small to encapsulate the whole problem) fraught: men are, for want of a better term, thirstier than women are, on average, only extend that slang to far more than just sex. If this is true, and I think it is, this will only leave more men milling about, unmatched, which can lead to a better fulfillment of "marrying up" for women, at the cost of more men remaining unmarried.

Of course, nobody cares about men in and of themselves, so that's not really a problem.
Someone posted here the other day that he lived in an area ranking high on the:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bortle_scale

Must be quite something.

I live in a civilized country but 45 minutes from the closest highway and far from any city, so I get to enjoy beautiful night skies. But satellites are already polluting it : (

Also, dumb question but: can't satellites be made to not emit any light and to not reflect it?
“Apple says the first vehicles with support for the next-generation CarPlay experience will be announced in late 2023, with committed automakers including Acura, Audi, Ford, Honda, Jaguar, Land Rover, Mercedes-Benz, Nissan, Porsche, Volvo, and others”
So will Musk be paying California taxes now that he spends most of his time there again and not in Texas? (mostly at twitter)
What's your problem with the links in that chain? We know (or, at least, papers argue...) that all of the linkages are true, and I (post author) link some studies that look at the end-to-end results - blue light vs sleep. With what I consider to be fairly straightforward results.

I write having spent the last few months testing exactly this sort of thing in my life. Nights spent with LED lighting, or LED lit screens, I take a long time to fall asleep. Nights spent on incandescent lighting (lanterns or bulbs), I fall asleep quickly. It matches the results of the papers I've linked, and I'm pretty sure "Reading a book on paper by lantern light" vs "reading the same book on Kobo by frontlight" is the same mental activity.
> After all, what is the point of copyright? To protect the interest of human creators.

Sorry if I’ve missed your point here, but the purpose of copyright in the United States, as written in its constitution, is to promote the progress of science and useful arts[0], not to protect the interests of creators. The exclusive license to creators is a means to an end.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law_of_the_United_St...
> The risk is that password manager vendors will end up implementing virtual authenticators backed by software instead of a secure element like a Yubikey, Secure Enclave or TPM.

Why are you saying that would be a risk? I want that to happen, so that I'd be able to back up my passkeys on my own terms.
Frequent Earthquakes make housing a rapidly depreciating asset in Japan. Homes are torn down and new ones are built all the time which is why they have such interesting architecture.

There relatively few old homes in Japan.
If he was learning physics and that stuff about topology came up, he'd notice his definitions weren't adding up and fix it. If he never saw it again then the maybe didn't need to learn it to accomplish his goal.
Is Mercedes actually building an entire OS, or does this really have something off the shelf underneath?
Thanks, I'll order some of those and put them through my spectrometer!
I used to drive a box truck at work and I can definitely confirm that google maps is used heavily. I used Google maps during almost every trip!

Finding random addresses in places you aren't familiar with can be difficult and waste a lot of time, with the maps app it would let us go straight to the destination.

I can only recall one time that Google maps lead us astray too! It's very accurate even in rural areas and on random tiny back roads in the middle of nowhere.
I threw a CD drive motor on a stick with plastic spoons and an ADC. Been logging data every second for a couple years. I think I'm near 20 million rows of unused data now.
cool well go do it then.
>They buy a few bags of groceries, which have doubled (or more) in price in the last year where I live - that might be a few hundred per month extra.

That's entirely inconsistent with government data[1], which only report a 22% rise since pre-pandemic.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CPIUFDSL
I always assumed that Midjourney, the company running the application, owns the copyright (if there was any) and that they assign it to you when they hand you back the image. The website is fairly circumspect around the whole issue as you can imagine.

It's not that different to a company paying artists.
By "social circle" I did not mean people I go out for drinks with - I'd call those "friends". I simply meant people I have something in common with, share the same values with, people I can relate to. If the candidate is older with kids (assuming I'm younger) - he/she should be someone I want to become in the future, someone I respect, someone I'd learn from. Race, gender, age, even education - does not really matter - as long as I'm genuinely interested in that person and feel like I'd enjoy working with them. After many years of interviewing and hiring at various startups this is more important to me than technical skills. Skills could be learned, personalities usually don't change.
Yep, and this is the worst of both worlds. You don't get the security benefit you would if the keys were stored in non-exportable hardware, and you also don't get the freedom to move them to a different ecosystem.
and yet somehow, he barely manages to mention a single non-POSIX OS API in the entire piece, either existing or posited. he writes as if we're living under the spell of POSIX ("the elephant") when it fact it is perfectly clear that we are slowly, cautiously, prudently incrementally adopting new models, some of which complement the existing POSIX API and some do not.
look great in kiwibrowser
https://kiwibrowser.com/features/
I don't think putting all your eggs in one basket is a smart long term strategy.
So can I get Hacker News styled as a 80s dark fantasy yet?
> prove compliance of a less invasive lip oriented device would be lower than current invasive devices

I can't prove it, but I think it actually makes a lot of sense. The interstitial CGMs like Libre/Dexcom are invasive (brief pinch on application) but they last up to 2 weeks and you can set and forget. I'd think any other non-invasive device that requires carrying it around, running wires, and being even a little pro-active would lose on convenience alone.

You could get some traction I'm sure, but the majority of people are going to gravitate towards the easiest solution, and applying a patch once every 10-14 days is pretty darn easy. Even if Apple could check glucose I'd still prefer a CGM patch so I don't have worry about always wearing the watch.
To run an AI model, you do not need a general-purpose computer, you don't need a powerful CPU capable of executing a wide variety of code. You mostly need massive amounts of matrix multiplication, and some simpler operations.

You also don't need very high precision: many models perform well even using 8-bit floats. This allows to ditch the whole digital approach and implement analog circuits, which, while sometimes less precise, are massively simpler and more energy-efficient.

So they built a mostly-analog device specialized for running ML models, and used optics instead of electronics, which allows to make certain things much faster, on top of the simplification.

There are known attempts to use electronic approaches, such as using flash-like structures that store charge as an analog value to store model weighs, and to do addition and multiplication right inside the cells.
I'm fascinated by your responses, I genuinely am. And you're not the only one responding in this way. But it's so alien to me.

Here's a way to try to work around things like range limitations in EVs and long charging times, by setting up infrastructure to swap batteries in and out, and your first thought is about maintaining the value of your vehicle, not the utility of the system.

> So who owns it?

Presumably they are all leased from the vehicle company. Think "Battery as a service", not "This is mine".

> What happens when you cross countries or state borders?

I don't know, this seems an odd detail to fixate on though.

> And if people don't own it, why would they take good care of it?

Presumably these are going to be relatively robust, and there will be some sort of conditions of good conduct on participating in the scheme, or part of the lease payment constitutes insurance against maltreatment. And does that particularly matter to you? The swap-stations make sure batteries are in good order before swapping them into your car.
Moreover, distributors probably won't bring down the price back to 2022 prices even if the production ramps up in coming months.
I've had similar problems since I was a little kid.

I do try and combat the blue light problem with nightmode on all my screens, turning off LED light bulbs, and, as weird as it might be, donning my red LED headlamp to get through the evening without much blue light in my life.

>I just appear to be some form of mutant.

This may be literally true for me given that I grew up in ground zero for the DuPont C8 poisoning.
not sure if you'll see this, but agreed!

This is what I'm referring to as "housing on the books" you've got this insane infrastructure that goes beyond simply charging.

I also agree, how much time are people willing to spend to save money and the answer is, a lot. Grows quite rapidly lower on the economic ladder you go.

To be fair, it's not saving 5-10 minutes. A Tesla supercharger still takes ~15m for only 200mi. To go to full charge, you'd be saving an 30-45m easy. If all the bays are full, 2-3 hours?!

But to agree with you, if you put the battery swap next to a charging station and charged less for the charging station (because less infra), how many people would be willing to simply take the lower cost and wait a bunch of time? Quite a lot I'm afraid.
I would need to see what the measured parameters were. If it was just whether or not people came down with COVID during the measurement period then the length of the period obviously matters. Stretching out when people are sick is typically a lot better than having everyone sick at once.

This is true for the populace at large, but is also true for smaller subsets of the populace. I recall an anecdote from a person who said they worked at a small firm where almost everyone was anti-mask except them. During the winter 21/22 Omicron wave basically everyone except them came down with COVID at once leaving that one person to hold everything together for a week.
For me it’s just the formatting. For the click to copy code and the tables. So yeah, paying 20/month for CSS. Still use gpt-3 when I get tired of the nanny sass of chatgpt. I don’t always want to gaslight a bot just to get a simple question answered.
Consent is a moral concept, not a merely empirical one. It is subject to moral judgements and ethical debates.
> 100× energy-efficiency advantage for running some of the largest current Transformer models, and that if both the models and the optical hardware are scaled to the quadrillion-parameter regime, optical computers could have a >8,000×

Maybe I interpreted that incorrectly but I thought it's saying a 100x advantage for current large Transformer models, and 8000x advantage for future quadrillion-parameter models? I didn't include those because I suppose that size of model is quite a few years away. Admittedly this is only based on the abstract...
Not a solution that works or is available to everyone, but for me, small doses of marijuana taken just before bed has changed my world.

I’m currently traveling and in a state where that isn’t an option and I haven’t had more then 4 hours in each of the past few nights. Will be glad to get some rest tomorrow.
My oldest is 10 and oldest daughter is 8, so we're approaching this challenge. We've talked to them in a broad sense about the issue, but your post made me realise that tackling it together is worth a shot. e.g., lots of talk about what the issue is, and what opportunities there are to address it. And then work together to devise a strategy. Not just them saying to peers "My parents say I'm not allowed to do x."
Check the previous post about my spectrometer.

You're doing the right thing, but I have a bunch of "smart bulb LED" posts coming up, and even the color shifting ones blat out an awful lot of blue compared to an incandescent, and they don't dim worth a damn.
Generative music is already indistinguishable from Nashville-style “country” music. The menace has been delivering hits for the past eight years.
At best, layers take 10 more weeks to produce. The egg price spiked almost a year ago.

Focusing on meat vs egg chickens is beside the point. Cal-Maine’s profit has skyrocketed, even as prices on other things have come back down, so clearly they’re not merely passing their expenses on to the consumer. Read the link at top.
At any rate, "elephant with blue skin" is a fairly basic prompt. You can go into excruciating detail with prompts spanning many many paragraphs, specifying lighting, perspective, positioning, colors, clothing, styles, patterns, etc etc etc.

Within a given domain, if you are very exacting with your prompting and start doing things like adding in weights, you can do things like eg. create portraits of your friends, or of characters you've imagined, or basically make things that you can either see or imagine.

There's a new problem though. You can easily make a picture of 1 thing/person/concept, but if you have more than one, they share the prompt.

Say you have an ever so slightly modded Stable Diffusion checkpoint, and say you want a picture of a

1boy with short_hair, 1girl with (long_hair:1.3)

Now these instructions are fighting each other. If you run a batch, you'll get

* a few images with what you thought you wanted (a boy with short hair and a girl with long hair),

* in some cases you'll get a boy and a girl both with long hair (because the long_hair:1.3 overrides)

* and in some cases you'll get a single person, who happens to have long hair (because of the long_hair:1.3) , and who is more likely to be female (because of implication: long hair was more commonly associated with females in the original dataset).

Of course, if you're smart, you might think to exploit this ambiguity on purpose.

On the gripping hand, this is obviously insufficient control.

So now we're getting newer systems that allow you to chain/layer prompts and apply different prompts with different strengths to different domains of your illustration. This means that you can have eg. your male character on one side, the female character on the other side, and deal with things like room decoration, the view from the window, and specific props - all with separate prompts.

And this is just applications of txt2img. There's also things like img2img, inpainting, and... well... new tools are showing up every week it seems.

If this hasn't crossed back into the creativity sphere already, it probably will by next month, and else the month after. (By manner of speaking)
The account name would be green if they made the account recently just to post this.
In my case, 100% of approaches were scams. One was quite scary, as it was clear the person had … issues, and they kept trying to get me to meet them in secluded places, while refusing to tell me what it was they wanted from me.

I have no idea what would have happened, if I had taken them up; maybe just a religious sermon, but I wasn’t taking any chances.

Most of the other contacts, were offers for me to participate in scams, like being an “American face,” of an offshore coding shop.

I suspect many were not exactly illegal, but were probably dodgy as hell. I like to think I have some personal Integrity (which folks around here, consider “quaint,” or just “stupid”).

I never had one single legitimate approach.

Not one.