skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> congratulations, the text now looks something like 50% bigger than you intend it to be

Some of these "stacks" do make poor choices with respect to matching the overall metrics of the fonts, but there are any number of reasons why a font might display bigger or smaller than you "intend it to be" in a web browser. Web design fundamentally has to account for this.
It can't search text. It doesn't have access to any text. Anything it does works in a different way than that.

It is sometimes able to do other tasks, but unlike humans (or "AGI") it has a completely fixed compute budget and can't pause to think in between outputting two tokens.

(Btw, I tried to get it to derive addition from two 1-digit examples but couldn't.)
Prepare for governments to push CBDCs in the wake of the SVB collapse
There could be a new crater by an asteroid that impacted the moon this morning. The crater is big, but not quite big enough to be visible on the blurred "real" image you shot this afternoon. After Samsung's alogrithm enhances the picture it has a level of detail in which the crater /should/ be visible, but since that enhancement is based on older images, the cater remains invisible.

This situation may seem contrived, but it is actually quite common that people disagree about details that were present at a certain event and try to resolve the disagreement by referring to photos. Now photos can nolonger be trusted as arbiters.
You mean, like the underlying technology of biological brains? It’s all just differential equations, physics can’t really “think” or “have feelings”.
Doesn't seem to give me access immediately...
I get a "Download Microsoft Edge" banner instead.
Yes.

"If you provide any information that is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, or Zed has reasonable grounds to suspect that any information you provide is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, Zed has the right to suspend or terminate your Account and refuse any and all current or future use of the Service"

(Oxford commas, bruh.)

"you acknowledge and agree that you shall have no ownership or other property interest in your Account, and you further acknowledge and agree that all rights in and to your Account are and shall forever be owned by and inure to the benefit of Zed."
Maybe it doesn't like cabbage. Not all raw plants are "plant based foods".
False equivalence. Dolphins have exhibited general problem-solving skills in a myriad of situations, and thus qualify as a general intelligence.
So a small, regional ISP with a bunch of unused outbound bandwidth and spare rack space could be a good peer in this scheme, right?
Yeah this is a valuable point - AGI just isn't specific enough.

ChatGPT is, an artificial generalized intelligence. But is that a useful label?

I imagine we'll be needing to find a way to better define and quantify intelligence (which has been a vexing issue for a long time)
That's a bit of a circular argument, since there are radically fewer banks now than there were in the past. Just in the last 20 years the number of banks in the US was cut down in half; and back in the 1930s, there were almost four times as many banks as we have now. Fewer banks mean fewer bank failures.

A fairer comparison perhaps would be to see how many dollars of deposits (in some adjusted manner, like per capita, percentage of GDP, or percentage of circulating money) were imperiled as a result of bank failures back then versus now? A hundred banks failing in the 19th century each serving a few thousand customers each would be a much smaller impact than, for example, the hypothetical failure of Bank of America.
Well yes, but so did HSBC, Barclays and presumably all the other banks. So, reasons to be cheerful.
The alignment between their profit and your interests ceases to exist the moment they separate you from your money, and you become trapped in their ecosystem.
This looks fantastic! I love the idea that in 1996 typing with your thumbs was this CRAZY IDEA. Cut to every CEO has a "crackberry" and it was so obviously wanted.
During the Holocaust, the Swiss "neutrality" included wholesale theft of Jewish depositors bank accounts — which they finally admitted to in the 1990s but still refused to pay any of it back to the survivors until an American lawsuit forced them to — so color me unsurprised.
This sounds like the OSHA 10 class I recently had to do. I think the issue here is that if a business wants workers it is incentivized to make the tests as easy as possible, not to make sure their employees know what they’re doing.
And at the same time it's solving lots of problems that computers have never been able to solve in the past. I'm glad it's not AGI because we'd have much bigger problems, but for a 'language' model it does have interesting methods of rationality, and when put in a verbose mode it seems to do much better. I've not had time to play around and get the interface to see if it can self correct statements it makes like this on first shot.

Me: Hello, I am asking you a logic question. Please explain what "it" is in the following sentence

Me: "The X doesn't fit in the Y because it is too small"

G4: In the sentence "The X doesn't fit in the Y because it is too small," the pronoun "it" refers to "X." The sentence is stating that "X" cannot fit inside "Y" due to its size being too small.

Me: "This is incorrect, please give step by step logic on why you came to this conclusion"

G4: Apologies for the confusion. I will provide a step-by-step logic for my interpretation:

The sentence is: "The X doesn't fit in the Y because it is too small."
We need to identify what "it" refers to in the sentence.
There are two nouns in the sentence: X and Y.
The sentence structure is such that the reason for X not fitting in Y is provided after the word "because."
The sentence states that something is "too small," which is the reason for the lack of fit.
Since the reason for the lack of fit is being given, we can infer that the pronoun "it" should be referring to one of the two nouns.
However, upon closer examination, my previous interpretation was incorrect.
Revisiting the analysis, the correct interpretation should be as follows:

In the sentence "The X doesn't fit in the Y because it is too small," the pronoun "it" actually refers to "Y." The sentence is stating that "X" cannot fit inside "Y" because "Y" is too small to accommodate "X."

My initial interpretation was wrong because I didn't consider that "it" could refer to "Y" and that the sentence is explaining why "X" cannot fit in "Y."
Ask HN: Books, Resources to improve professional communication?
I work in a startup, managing a small team. I also end up interacting with customers, either to communicate product timelines, or apology emails in case something goes wrong.

I'm looking to improve the precision and directness of my emails.

Any good books or other recommendations?
> LLMs have been proven to demonstrate intent [..]

That's quite the claim. Can you provide references?
You have issues with training and promotion in the cases of judges and lawyers. Not insurmountable, but there will be a lag if we were to say "We need X% more lawyers now".

You also have the issue that in order to guarantee a trial as soon as all non-people concerns are resolved, you'll need judges and lawyers doing nothing. Once you're at 100% capacity, any additional case has to wait. And the length of the wait is indeterminate.

The real problem, people-wise, is juries. Juries are selected from the community at large. They're vetted and questioned. This takes time. And not for the criminals, but for the juries themselves. You could easily wind up with essentially professional juries, which runs counter to the idea of "jury of your peers".

And beyond that, all these cases need to be tried somewhere.
other comment explained the deal, but here's the answer you wanted:

"technologically, nothing is preventing that."
It is great for starters but my experience it everything AI generates needs to be double and triple tested and almost always manually modified to do exactly what you want to do. The 40% number just seems to be a tall claim and unless the data is shared and verifiable I don’t really give a crap about these claims.
>But LLMs have been proven to demonstrate intent

I'd like to see this proof. Everything we've seen so far is just the AI reproducing what humans do, which happens to be writing with intent.
Banning users who charge back is standard practice on all video game stores. They equate it to fraud in their terms of service. Imagine having an account worth thousands of dollars and losing everything because you decided to exercise your rights.

I'm so happy to see authorities are finally doing something about this abuse.
Or it could infect the corporate IT endpoint management software used on the systems of the engineers that author and review the firmware for said nukes, so extra code is inserted they never see.
Authenticity and Vulnerability Pay Off and Help You Win
I've finally managed to download the model and it seems to be working well for me. There's been some updates to the quantization code, so maybe if you do a 'git pull && make' and rerun the quantization script it will work for you. I'm getting about 350ms per token with the 30B model.
IPFS is very slow. It's like a cold storage. Not good for web-cache at all. Though Cloudlare provides gateways for IPFS, and again, we have a CDN layer here. It would be nice to see IPFS performance numbers to compare.
Yeah, I guess compared to the demimonde of 1920s Berlin one could say it's pretty tame.

But by that, and the other indications you are providing - "some are intimidating, some not... you can even walk safely at night if you stick to the large paths" are what I mean by falling fall short of the standards of what one expects from nice, decent and inviting city park.

As for the kids and families there during the day - it's not like they have much choice.

Where you from?

Let's just say I've lived in plenty of places in Europe - not necessarily 24-hour party people destinations like Berlin, but definitely not backwaters either - where one didn't have to think twice about taking a walk in the park at night.

I also remember a Berlin from not too long ago when it was ugly and decrepit (if in a beautiful way), for sure - but where one didn't need to be on one's guard in so many places, as now.
Diseconomies of scale also exist and are very real, and I theorize that many organizations try to overcome it by applying political pressures on smaller peers.
PiEEG device is finally available on the CrowdSupply platform after a long wait
With this device, you can easily turn your RaspberryPi into a brain-computer interface, making neuroscience more accessible than ever before. It's a super simple and convenient way to dive into the world of brain research.
So, if you're looking for an easy and affordable way to get started with brain-computer interfaces, the PiEEG device is definitely worth checking out!
The device will be produced in PCBWay
Yes, I was comfortable walking through it alone, but my parents weren't thrilled when we walked through it together

> dealers don't even annoy you usually

is not that strong an argument.
Ask HN: Why do we still have replay attacks on our cars?
So today my car got stolen in front of my house. It was a 2021's Hyundai Tucson.

We clearly see on some cameras in the street that it took less than 1 minute for the thief to take it.

I was not aware that the "replay" attack (as I understand consists simply in listening to my keys signal through my door and replicating it to open and start the car), so my key was not far at all.

So my question is, why is my worthless github account secured by a free android 2FA app which makes replicating attacks impossible, and my 50K€ car secured by the dumbest only-one-forever-the-same key ever?

Is it not possible in the car keys to make some pgpsign-like technology?

(Also I am now aware of the tiktok trend of stealing these Kia and Hyundai car because their security is so easy to abuse)
For the first bullet point, it could be worth it for the third party if they are using the server for something else, but have surplus resources that could be used for this CDN. And they might be paying higher rates initially to get enough peers to make the CDN worth using.
I think it's also a product of the larger economic environment. The old model of grow now and profit later seems to be hitting a wall, leaving companies scrambling to find profit streams in their existing customer base not realizing that doing so will hinder their growth projection leading to more scrambling for profit.

It's a vicious cycle, but when you don't grow in a sustainable way it seems unavoidable.
> There is simply no way of determining what the output is or could be and that's fundamental to the software.

I would argue that releasing a product that has the potential to do harm and that you can't predict the behavior of is radically irresponsible and should not be done.

> The example I think of in my head is a user opening MS Word, typing out "F* YOU" and then sending a screenshot to Microsoft telling them "How could your software offend me like this?".

That's not even remotely comparable, because MS word didn't create the output. The user did.
To me is the opposite, Docker promotes bad software development practices that in the end will hurt you. In fact most of the time when you hear that you need Docker to run a software is because that software is so badly written that installing it on a system is too much complex.

Another bad use of Docker that I've seen is because people cannot figure out how to write systemd units, that is damn simple (just spend a day to read the documentation and learn the tools that you need). Of course that makes administering the system so much complex because you cannot use the benefits that systemd will give you (thus you start using iperoverengineered tools like kubernetes to just run a webserver and a database...).

I'm maybe oldschool but i use Dockers as a last resort, and prefer to have all the software installed properly on a server, with the use of Ansible as a configuration management tool. To me a system that uses Docker containers is much more difficult to manage in the long run, while a system that doesn't use it is more simple, thus less things that will break, thus if I need to make a fix in 10 years I ssh in the system, edit the program with vim, rebuild and restart the service, no complex deploy pipeline that break, depend on external sources that may be taken down (as is the case) and similar stuff.
> GPT would just make up imaginary crates to use in some cases

I think this is where trial and error comes into play. If GPT makes up a crate for, say, an HTTP server, and the API is very close to a real HTTP server, then it's not a big deal. You can just swap in a crate you know works.

If GPT is making up a crate and also mangling the use of such a crate, then it's probably not worth the human effort to fix all of that.

The same is true with any language: you'd have to try it a few times to decide if it's even worth the time saved.

Copilot is probably a better product for coding regardless, although I think it's deeply unethical and hope it gets sued out of existence.
In short, those hacking groups are very limited in their self-strengthening feedback loops. They can get more money for equipment, hire more people. Maybe even make themselves more productive with stimulants and recovery methods. But, these things have diminishing returns.

What hackers can’t do is make a new version of themselves that’s ten times more capable and spin up a thousand copies of it. This isn’t so unrealistic for an AI. Maybe some people think it is. But, at least in comparison, I think it should be obvious between hackers and AIs which one is more likely to be have hyper linear self improvement and self replication in the next 50 years.
anyone here using a mac have an issue downloading the iso and making a vm with vmware? every time i try to do so, i open up the vm and it stays on a black screen with a message stating, ">>start pxe over ipv4."
any solutions to fix this?
And then 99% of the industry is nowhere near these perks.
peptoids
Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft/XBox and Google do this.

It's not relevant to Netflix.

Does Apple also do this?
That depends entirely on the use-case - for example if you wanted to build an AI to operate a self-driving car, just training on unlabelled data scraped from the internet is only going to get you so far. It doesn't learn how to do EVERYTHING (not yet at least).
> The fix would be a mix of changes to AML rules and the PATRIOT Act, transforming the system into something a lot more mechanical and objective. It might make some crime a bit easier, but that can be counterbalanced by e.g. increased funding to the police.

Without a real suggestion of what to replace it with, all I'm really hearing is get "rid of it and magic some some other solution."

Transforming it into something more mechanical and objective? Taking a pop culture related concept (a bit contrived compared to what actually happens) of "banks must report all transactions over $10k." Mechanical and objective. So now criminals do transfers in $9k amounts. And we sit around waiting for a new law to be passed to catch this loop hole while criminality runs wild laundering. Then the new law passes, they spend 1 week to circumvent it and we wait around for another law to pass.

It's like trying to legislate what specific exploits a company needs to have patched to say they prevented hackers. Then a new exploit comes out, it isn't in the law and that's used until the law catches up. It's useless.

The solution is recommend/require best practices and also require that companies are responsibility for the security of their systems. Meaning they need to stay on top of things in earnest, and not just say we have those 5 legally mandated patches so we did our part.

Current security is a mess - and I guarantee if companies did have the equivalent banking laundering laws applied for security, all of a sudden a lot of companies would be interested in "provably safe" technology. Instead of today's world of essentially "do what's convenient for security, but nothing that will inconvenience our profits too much."
I would add what "Ramen Meter" is meant to signify in the webpage. Looks nice!
That's a significant problem. A right that is very risky to invoke is effectively denied.
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/08/09/nocais-apology/ allegedly schizophrenia.
A family member noted to me yesterday (after being frustrated by the coverage and reading the regulatory requirements from the Fed) some stuff that is being poorly articulated by these articles.

Even under Dodd-Frank and prior to the Trump deregulation, SVB was in trouble and acting badly - and regulators probably wouldn't have caught it, nor would SVB have broken the law.

They had to do stress tests this year anyway. But that wouldn't have caught onto the fact that they parked deposits from (now forgiven) PPP loans into treasury bonds in a hold-to-maturity account (thus hiding the asset risk on paper, something that isn't illegal but is suspicious that they did to a degree beyond anyone else apparently), and it wouldn't get over the fact that the Fed's own guidelines for computing asset risk told them to only take into account a 1% rise in the Fed's interest rate (it actually rose 3%!).

Point being, deregulation (real or advocated for) didn't cause SVB to fail. It would have failed anyway. The actual data they base things on is bad, and the bank was nigh criminally mismanaged.
> Why do we feel the need to put financiers on a pedestal?

I don't put him on a moral pedestal. Just at the game of startups, he's one of the best. I don't take my moral advice from Lebron but I respect the heck out of him.

> interests that are largely unaligned with society

I think the jury is still out on SamA.

> With Musk going full villain

I can't disagree strongly enough with this. Musk is a hero. I'm not sure people realize how much censorship was winning in the USA prior to Musk buying Twitter. Scary days.
What problem does c2Rust solve exactly? Isn't it just gonna produce "garbage" rust.

Calling c directly is already possible in rust.
People have been calling them "Credit Sus" which I think is quite warranted.
You Can't Copyright Porn (2012)
All I know is that an app is the worst option. Self-publishing a puzzle book (perhaps marketing at people who want mentally stimulating games for children or the elderly) would probably be your best bet.
Isn't Samsung pledging a bunch of money for this project? The Samsung with a finance arm…

Tanking a bunch of their own investments doesn't sound like a great idea.
1 is something every CDN in the world already deals with. The metadata system ultimately needs to be its own little CDN, and can achieve the same level of performance (e.g. by deploying at the edge) just without the bandwidth costs.

2 is definitely an issue.

3 is a maybe. There's definitely a model where people with access to cheap servers and bandwidth can get on board and not have to worry about the application-level details, finding customers, billing etc.

4 isn't an issue as long as you are selling the CDN specifically for website assets that don't need to have pretty URLs.
This seems like an interesting project to bridge the "boil the ocean" approach of rewriting in Rust wholesale.

(For anyone else who found it slightly difficult to read, you can remove the added 0.06em `letter-spacing` using your browser's developer tools.)
Which Disney films use Unreal for final render? Disney has two separate path tracing renderers that are in active development and aren’t in danger of being replaced by Unreal.

https://disneyanimation.com/technology/hyperion/

https://renderman.pixar.com/

These renderers are comparable in use case & audience to MoonRay, which is why I don’t think you’re correct that MoonRay needs external contribution to survive.

“Used unreal” for on-set rendering is hand-wavy and not what you claimed. Final render is the goal post.
Right, but in SVB's case, since they are a member of the Federal Reserve System (like the Nevada example), they were regulated by the Federal Reserve in additional to the State.

The California bank in that example is regulated by FDIC because it's not a member of the Federal Reserve System.
> Passing such a test is not a property expected of the average human [..]

I'm thinking of the rabbit hole that is the hurdle to get citizenship in a particular country. "Outsiders" have to apply, pay, take and pass the test. "Insiders" don't have to take the test, they pass by default. Even if they don't know the answers to the test.
Scaling Kubernetes to 7,500 nodes (2021)
SLLaMa?
Does Apple App Store do this?
Do you know if any of them support GPTQ [1], either end-to-end or just by importing weights that were previously quantized with GPTQ? Apparently GPTQ provides a significant quality boost “for free”.

I haven’t had time to look into this in detail, but apparently llama.cpp doesn’t support it yet [2] though it will soon. And the original implementation only works with CUDA.

[1] https://github.com/qwopqwop200/GPTQ-for-LLaMa/

[2] https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/issues/9
USA can compete on quality and supply chain assurance. I'm not saying that SK chips are poor quality, but I imagine that a more expensive chip, or more expensive device is a small price to pay for reliable, accountable, and implant free assurance to the military or itar compliant corps.

also in the new and upcoming space age that is budding, quality assurance is a number one concern.
There's probably also a fair amount of "guilty of a lesser crime, but pressured by the plea bargain system to plea to a greater crime".

And, of course, innocent or not, there's merit in the argument of whether they should be able to receive mail, have actual physical books in their possession, and so on.