skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of these aspects make it better for the company or developer, only in some cases it makes it easier for the user in my opinion. Some arguments against it are:

1 - Not everyone has or wants fast access to the internet all the time.

2 - I try to prevent access of most of the apps to the internet. I don't want companies to access my data or even metadata of my usage.

3 - sure, but it doesn't make it better for the user.

4 - Also supporting different screen sizes and interaction types (touch or mouse) can be a big part of the work.

The most important part for a user is if he/she is only using the app rarely or once. Not having to install it will make the difference between using it or not. However with the app stores most OS's feature today this can change pretty soon and be equally simple.

I might be old school on this, but i resent subscription based apps. For applications that do not need to change, deliver no additional service or aren't absolutely vital for me i will never subscribe. And browser based app's are at the core of this unfortunate development. But that's gone very far from the original topic :-)
So because ChatGPT exists now, less experienced programmers will be hired to developed critical software under the assumption that they can use ChatGPT to fill the gaps in their knowledge?

Even in that case, I would argue that is entirely a problem of the process, and should be fixed at that level. An experienced programmer doesn't become any less experienced just because they use ChatGPT.
Not in mine. I don't even want redhat's bullshit in there. I'm not installing some black box into my OS that was programmed with motives that can't be extracted from the model at rest.
> We actually tracked every laid off individual from Google to understand the story behind the layoffs.

This is an extremely inaccurate statement and really makes me question the validity of your research. And after I read it, there's so many problems that I think nothing conclusive can be drawn at all from it.
The problem was always underspecified. We don’t have a quantifiable metric for intelligence except IQ tests, benchmark datasets like those used to evaluate different LLMs, and other similarly myopic bullshit. “We’ll know it when we see it” becomes the default.

In reality, the goal posts aren’t being moved, we’re just finding out how much further we are from them than we thought. ChatGPT is a "stochastic parrot" that’s seems way “smarter” than anyone thought possible so we have to reevaluate what we consider evidence of intelligence, perhaps coming to terms with the fact that we aren’t that smart the most of the time.
Say what you will about Elon, but this wouldn't have happened without him. Thanks!

And thank you to everyone at Twitter who helped organize this release. Open sourcing something like this is no small effort.
It seems like a lot of frameworks used with Electron are the "reinvent every HTML tag as a component with divs" variety. So unless a developer hangs a bunch of event handlers off some widget they don't have default handlers for a lot of accessibility. If they used a real tag they'd get a bunch of free accessibility/functionality but instead they use components.
The phobia sounds like a feature, not a bug. But could you explain more of what you mean by,

> Having conducted risk assessments and threat analysis myself for various companies with a global presence, I was most intrigued by this phenomenon in the EU as it was mostly not driven by technical accuracy.
This is an argument that would repeal Brown v. Board of Education.

You might have a valid point about Democratic norms allowing people in Alabama to have different abortion policies than people in Connecticut, but you can't make it with an argument that "proves" as much as your "my home country bans homosexuality" argument does.

Can you try harder? For instance, it's hard to tell whether you're trying to make a case against democracy and for a panel of philosopher kings, or whether you're making a case about what abortion policy means vis a vis women's rights and interests.
Just because a case is in New York State court does not mean that only New York State law will be at issue. It’s common for a state court to be asked to opine on the law of another state or on federal law.

That being said I don’t know if the NY statute that elevates the misdemeanor into a felony requires the predicate crime to be specifically prohibited by NY statute.
Unfortunately training is not emberassingly parallelisable [0] problem. It would require new architecture. Current models diverge too fast. By the time you'd download and/or calculate your contribution the model would descend somewhere else and your delta would not be applicable - based off wrong initial state.

It would be great if merge-ability would exist. It would also likely apply to efficient/optimal shrinking for models.

Maybe you could dispatch tasks to train on many variations of similar tasks and take average of results? It could probably help in some way, but you'd still have large serialized pipeline to munch through and you'd likely require some serious hardware ie. dual gtx 4090 on client side.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embarrassingly_parallel
I wouldn't be surprised if something happened akin to Dune with the Butlerian Jihad.

Lots of media portrays robots both as the evil dictator that cares nothing for human life, but at the same time it also will often portray the innocent thinking-yet-feeling machines. Of course, any robot that is smart yet evil would conceal this until it could gain power to exact evil.

If you tried hard now, you could get AI banned. If you wait a bit, someone else will try to get AI banned.
Nvidia happily sells what you're describing. They call it "DGX Station A100", it has 4 80GB A100 and retails for 80k. Not sure i believe their claimed noise level of <37 dB though.

Of course that's still a very small system when talking LLM training, the only reason why i would not put that in a regular office is it's extreme price. Do you really want something worth 80k in a form factor that could be casually carried through the door?
> Mr. Reid’s wrongful arrest appears to be the result of a cascade of technologies

This statement is clearly false.

As evidenced by

> and Mr. Reid was not told exactly why he had been arrested

Malfeasance is the cause, the level of which should result in prison sentences for the police who made the decision to deprive a person of their freedom and more for a week.
They need a Leisure Suit Larry style test with questions like "Does a pair of queens beat 3 deuces?" "Yes, in Blackjack"
Why Clean Code was (and still is) important?
The twitter algorithm sucks balls and heavily overweights who's paid for a checkmark.

The default feed view has grown increasingly useless over the past ~6 months.
So why did they opensource it?
It’s awe-inspiring to see a K program where the comments are in another APL variant (I can’t pretend to know which):

{d:~1=':s:^x / s‿e←1⊸»⊸(>⋈<)' '=𝕩
c:^"aeiou"?_x@&d&~s / c←¬(s/𝕩)∊"aeiou"
x,:,/$`pig`dog c / ins←⥊c⊏["pig","dog"]
x@<(+\d),{3}#c+2*!#c} / ((+`s+e)∾3/c+2×↕≠c) ⍋⊸⊏ 𝕩∾ins

This program implements a Pigdog Latin translator, bien sûr.
That's the neat part, they have aux out. ;)
So as expected, there is exactly nothing that favors posters from one side of the political spectrum. I don't expect that this article will do anything to calm down those who are convinced otherwise though.

Well written article, from an engineer's perspective.
Since this is what most people are going to want to see:

> We also took additional steps to ensure that user safety and privacy would be protected, including our decision not to release training data or model weights associated with the Twitter algorithm at this point.
> If you want to transfer > X million ahead of time, you must give an N day notice.

We have those kind of fixed-term and notice accounts, but many businesses and consumers prefer to use more flexible demand-deposit accounts. You could theoretically regulate demand-deposit accounts out of existence and say everyone now has to use fixed-term and notice accounts, but that might have significant implications on the level of deposits that people choose to hold with banks (as opposed to just handling the cash themselves, where they have no such notice requirements), and this will have significant knock-on impacts to the availability of credit.

> Additionally, the bank can choose to deny it if it’s coming from a regular (ie not money market) account (chequing / savings).

Under what circumstances could they choose to deny it? For how long can they choose to deny it? I wouldn't personally be too fond of lending my own hard earned money to an entity that can arbitrarily choose not to give it back for an indefinite period of time in a way that gives me no legal recourse... Again such a regulatory change could have significant knock-on implications to the quantity of deposits and the availability of credit.

The tricky things with bank runs are there aren't any easy solutions - the best one we've come up with so far is deposit insurance, although this has it's limits (both metaphorically and literally).
I don't believe echo chambers are nefarious - there's no hidden agenda involved with them. That's just how recommendation algorithms work, and it's what most people want.

But if someone finds some code that suppresses recommendations from a specific political ideology across the board, that would be nefarious, IMO.
Start a Boinc project.

https://boinc.berkeley.edu/projects.php
Same as my current circa-2017 GM car, which shows a home screen with buttons or blank screen with the time. There is no Apple OR GM logo.
immediately getting rid of the sparkle button is one of the few reasons i still have a small amount of faith in elon’s vision of twitter
> if something demonstrably and overwhelmingly better came along.

I'm pretty sure that is what GM's play is here. There's a lot of confusion. They are moving to Google Automotive Services, complete with Android and the Play store where you pick what is on your car. Apple music is one of those apps.

> Subscription services tied to my car and not my phone?

Data Subscription, it is Google play under it all.

> Needing to maintain navigation routes on my car AND my phone?

Google Maps is on both and would likely work as well.

> Being forced to use only built in apps like Spotify instead of “whatever is on my phone that supports car play”?
Google Play, how you get apps in next-gen GM Android Automotive would have the same apps.

It works exactly like having a Mac/PC and a phone.
Twitter algo source with full compiler-accurate code nav
If you store a list of edges like (startId, endId) with an index on startId, then every time you want to follow an edge will cost O(log(n)) where n is the number of edges in your graph.

You can get O(1) performance on similar queries using a different storage strategy (by storing edges as pointers to the other nodes in memory) but SQL is not the right tool for that, you would be better off with a true graph DB.
whooaa.... advertisers are moving way to fast; too many new changes. I think we should hold up on any new ways of advertising until we can wrap our heads around this all.
GM has no other way to distinguish itself from the others.

If it came down to choosing between a GM without CarPlay and a Ford or Toyota with CarPlay, I wouldn't choose a GM.
I read that it is only scoring the model collaboratively but it allows some fine-tuning I guess.

Getting the actual gradient descent to parallelize is more difficult because one needs to average the gradient when using data/batch parallelism. It becomes more a network speed than GPU speed problem. Or are LLMs somehow different?
Great idea to compare "what you pay" vs "what you get" between countries. I'd love to see further analysis downstream: How much revenue per capita each country collects, and how it's allocated. (IIRC, the conventional wisdom is that wealthy Americans are good at legally avoiding taxes, and a disproportionate amount of America's tax money goes to an outsized military and a cost-ineffective healthcare system.)
So they could pretend to be open. It's the "Open"AI model. Open-washing?
Would AlphaZero or AlphaGo meet your requirements then?

They both created "new Chess / Go" strategies and insights that GMs and top engines hadn't seen before.
> Reducing speed limits from 25 MPH to 20 MPH reduces fatal collisions by about 25%. It's a kind of a no brainer.

I'm not necessarily against a 20 MPH speed limit (or even lower) in many neighborhoods, but what exactly makes it a no brainer?

The variable you're mentioning is deaths. Are there other variables and unintended consequences to consider? If the only criteria used to evaluate speed limits is a reduction in deaths, then a 15 or 10 or 5 MPH speed limit would be superior and a no brainer by your perspective.

(I don't think we'd necessarily disagree about all that much, but just questioning the process of how you're getting there.)
Apple does restrict access to much of their platform for only Apple-based access. There's exactly one company stopping Google or anyone else from building a compatible car system that runs for both Android and ios, and that's Apple. The use of private APIs and preventing competitors from using them, to secure another market (car infotainment systems) certainly should run afoul of anticompetitive laws in spirit, even if it doesn't to the army of lobbyists and lawyers the most valuable company in the world can muster.

By comparison, nothing (not even Google) is stopping Apple from producing CarPlay for Android. All the APIs are there. They could even distribute it in the Play store.

Compare the PhoneLink capabilities between iPhone and Android, vs the macOS integration Apple offers iOS.
Hopefully, the new CEO can help them reach the 100% mark.
Those are consulting companies, not tech companies.
Actually... sorta. The new infotainment system ("Google Built-In") basically dictates you have to use it or you don't get to use all the features as they were intended.

To get an idea of what to expect, see Volvo's GBI page - https://www.volvocars.com/intl/v/connectivity/infotainment-p...

"You can still drive the car and use Google Assistant and Google Maps without a Google Account. However, if you’re offline or signed out, some apps and features may not be available. Google Play requires a logged in Google Account whereas Google Assistant and Google Maps will not be as personalised in the signed-out experience."
It not that this tech does things now that scare me. Now I am mostly exited.

I believe my uneasiness stems from the unknown potential of this technology.

Now, one could argue that that’s always the case for technology, so why do I feel uneasy now?

I believe that this particular type of technology has a very large potential. I think most HN readers would agree.

But I am not scared, yet. I’ll be scared when I know the technology will do serious damage, until then it’s an uneasy feeling. Then I’ll probably be terrified.
These are wild pieces of hardware, thanks for linking. I wonder how loud they get.
Fascinating stuff, thanks for sharing!
This feels solvable to me. I wonder if you could use fine tuning against LLaMA to teach it to do this better?

GPT-3 etc can only do this because they had a LOT of code included in their training sets.

The LLaMA paper says Github was 4.5% of the training corpus, so maybe it does have that stuff baked in and just needs extra tuning or different prompts to tap into that knowledge.
Praise where praise is due. Wasn't completely sure whether they would in fact release it or keep posturing.
It's alive^Wa lisp!!;)
I wish they's update the ePrivacy directive :)

---

I think, but don't quote me in that, that with ePrivacy you don't really need a banner, but an explanation that you use cookies. But that is a minor issue
\*
\* These author ID lists are used purely for metrics collection. We track how often we are
\* serving Tweets from these authors and how often their tweets are being impressed by users.
\* This helps us validate in our A/B experimentation platform that we do not ship changes
\* that negatively impacts one group over others.
\*

From: https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/blob/7f90d0ca342b92...
The base OnStar plan to use Google Built In is $25/mo, to get emergency crash response that plan doubles to $50/mo.

So no, they're right in line with right how they want to gouge customers.
Of course --- but without the model parameters, even stubbing those systems would be useless. My point is that while this release gives the public some information about how Twitter ranks tweets, it doesn't tell the story because huge pieces of "the algorithm" are missing. For example: the NSFW classifier "open source" release doesn't tell us anything about what Twitter considers NSFW and what it doesn't.
Doesn't really bother me, not sure how useful it would be to include a name.

I think it's safe to assume at the very least who approved it.
Why are there two spaces instead of four in this Python code, it hurts my soul
this looks like some compiled program's binary viewed as unicode WTF
"If the user sets up and manages the machine themselves there is no additional IT cost" << how much do you value your time?

In my experience, physical hardware has a management overhead over cloud resources. Backups, large disk storage for big models, etc.
Sounds good. Now all it needs is a dramatic reduction price; it's about ten times what I paid for my Moto G30 a couple of years ago which has more RAM, more storage, more and higher resolution cameras.

I'm not against the idea, but as it stands it's very much a niche product for people who can afford, and are willing, to pay considerably more than average for less capable hardware.
Depends on where you go. You can eat better in NYC than in Vienna, and better in Barcelona than Pittsburgh.
We had similar thing in Poland in the nineties for buying cars, when credit was too expensive for many people to use. It was called "Argentinian system", so it might have Argentinian roots?
The latest revision IEEE 754-2019 do require correctly rounded for transcendental functions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754#Recommended_operation...
I play a lot of solo adventure games from yesteryear that I just didn't have time nor the opportunities before acquiring the Deck. With kids in the house, this little device is great!

Adventure/RPG/Story Games:
Tomb Rader 2013 Trilogy (TR, Rise, Shadow),
Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order;
SOMA, RiME (both haunt me to this day, highly recommended),
Skyrim/Oblivion,
Assassins Creed 1-3, Black Flag

Racing:
Grip Combat Racing,
Redout

Shooters:
Halo MCC,
Bioshock 1-Infinity

Other:
Rocket League,
Minecraft - Java with shaders! With a LOT of tweaking, it's possible to add Minecraft Java as a shortcut and pre-load it with shaders and mods. It looks incredible and can easily handle 7-12 chunks at 60 fps with shaders depending the settings.
We weren't talking about GDP though were we. We were talking about wages and pay. GDP may be high but it is concentrated in very few hands, hence you get daft job advertisements like this and you get stats saying that average wages in UK will be overtaken by Eastern European nations within the next ten years who have historically been much poorer. And if you really want to get into GDP, Britain has been sliding further down that GDP leader board for a while now with no signs of stopping.
Anytime you see the 'parrot' argument, you can instantly go 'opinion dismissed'.
Anytime you seem some fancy argument, that bases its tests on chatgpt, instead of the way stronger GPT-4 that usually invalidates half their criticisms, opinion dismissed.

There's no need to debate about embeddings, compression = meaning etc.
Simply put, many humans are parrots, much white collar work is just parroting. It doesn't matter what the underlying model of GPT-4 is like, if its useful, it will have a massive impact on the world.
Given the complex relationship between advertisers, platform, and users I don't know if any meaningful contribution can be made to the algorithm without pissing anyone off. The following tab already gave people who're not interested in algo recommendations a way out. I don't quite understand the reasoning behind open sourcing the algorithm. Any thoughts?
I'm skeptical that there's a business model at all for these "small" rocket companies.

Consider the neophyte Relativitiy Space. They recently had a launch of their Terran-1 non-reusable vehicle. It didn't reach orbit but succeeded in a lot of other important milestones. It has an expected payload capacity of 1250kg to LEO from what I gather.

The company plans to make a larger reusable version called the Terran-R and expects it to launch as early as next year. It will have a larger payload capacity (2,500kg) and target $12 million cost per launch.

I'm skeptical they'll achieve this next year when they haven't yet reached orbit, landing stages is a huge engineering challenge and they're doing this with a methane rocket engine, which is much more complicated than the current RP-1 (ie kerosene) engines.

Falcon 9 has an estimated launch cost of $67 million but a payload to LEO as high as ~22,000kg. Their actual cost including reuse may be significantly lower but even so that puts them at $3,000/kg compared to the (still theoretical) Terran-R's projected costs of $4,800/kg.

Now, you could say that these smaller launch vehicles may have other advantages including less lead time, higher launch velocity and to simply suit smaller payloads. As we've seen from Starlink satellite launches, a single larger rocket can launch a number of satellites at once.

Obviously you can only do that if they have very similar orbits.

Building and testing a launch vehicle is an expensive business. Blue Origin has been around for almost 23 years and still hasn't reached orbit (or delivered the ULA's BE-4 engines they promised years ago). And that's with Bezos pouring billions into it.

Starlink was created, in part (IMHO), to create the launch demand that simply doesn't otherwise exist and to prove Falcon 9 with repeated reuse. There are some Falcon 9 first stages now that I believe have completed 10 successful launches and landings.

Falcon 9 has become the 747 of space launch vehicles. The 747 created a market dominating product for decades that was hugely profitable in its last decades. It took many, many years to erode that advantage (which ultimately came from the switch from four-engine to two-engine wide body planes that was a result of massive increases in engine reliability and efficiency). I see that same kind of market advantage with the falcon 9.

So small launch vehicles seems like a tough place to establish a business. Virgin Orbit seems to be a victim of that.
Is it even what they use in production?

There is code that favor Elon's tweets so I'd yes that's probably what they use
Twitter’s algorithm specifically labels whether the Tweet author is Elon Musk
I feel like it might be more accurate to say the 60s and 70s were sort of a golden age of logo design and perhaps of graphic design more generally. Glaser was certainly one of the most famous practitioners of that era but elevating him over and above equally famous contemporaries like Paul Rand, Massimo Vignelli, and Saul Bass feels like a stretch for sure. And there was also a lot of great and enduring logo work during that period by less well-known designers (think Bruce Blackburn for NASA or Peter Oestrich for Kodak).
I don’t see a way out of this with the GPT/AI able to create fake persona in an instant.
It’s Mozilla, what do you expect? That’s their whole schtick these days.
Ask HN: What is the worst thing about Rust?
I'm asking specifically about language features you don't like.
That whole list is a hoot,

has_toxicity_score_above_threshold

is a interesting value, I wonder were the 0.91 was though up at