skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the context size is unbounded, how does the time complexity scale with the size of the context, and what are the limiting factors that affect performance as the context size grows larger?
>" would state my intent to sacrifice the lives of millions of Americans to protect Taiwan if that's what it takes"

I think at this point those millions will tear you to shreds.
CARB, Euro norms are more or less aligned with CARB
Holy cow that machine looks crazy - and expensive! $9,995.00??
> Seeing some scapegoats get fired might put the investors are ease.

Instead it makes Google look like an also-Meta in my book: cheapens them. Apple is the one coming away from this looking solid (whether it is illusional or not).
The author was making comparisons to previous activity from Twitter employees not to other normal corporations.
Curl project dilemmas over alerting on vulnerabilities
This looks awesome, quality is amazing for being so early.

Regarding integrating it in other engines, would love to see an attempt to integrate it with something like Blender and/or Bevy, seems like it would fit right in with both of those, and Eevee needs some competition in real-time rendering :)
> and enjoy when people in my family hunt and fish and eat the things they get.

There is a huge difference between going out and killing something yourself, and shredding millions of chiclets a day for chicken nuggets thrown away half eaten. But that's how the majority of people get their meat.

I'm with you on the second paragraph, though.
That’s about 30 km/h, which is a common limit in neighborhoods, villages, and city centers in Germany.
From what I recall, games throughout the 80s and 90s were usually priced around $40-50, and many of them could be beaten in mere hours. (This is when a Blockbuster membership and $2-3 console game rentals were nice to have!)

As far as I can tell -- on average -- games today are relatively less expensive to buy, and yet cost significantly more to produce. So I don't think that they're a historically poor value. If anything, I think there's a stronger case to be made for the opposite proposition.
It's definitely an impressive project. Building a real time 3d rendering engine is not trivial
These people are either right or wrong; regardless, development will not slow down. It’s funny that OpenAI is starting to advocate for that on top of their billion dollar pile of money…
This is a valid point, but on the other hand we don't seem to have solved the problem of deciding the sweet spot of language features that are the best on-ramp for kids to get into coding.

For my money, we'd actually be better off if kids were still learning BASIC, for all its faults. I don't know Lua too well, but maybe that's best in breed. Don't even get me started on Python >:(.

One of the tensions is "make it learner-friendly" vs "align it with languages they're likely to use as professionals", aka "don't teach bad habits", but IMO this is grossly inflated as an issue because (a) many of these kids will not become programmers anyway, (b) they certainly won't if their learner languages put them right off by being full of counter-intuitive gubbins, and (c) the idea that learning BASIC, or Cobol, or whatever, fundamentally ruins your brain for "proper" programming is a manifest nonsense anyway.
The Duties of a Financial Risk Manager
Financial risk management is an essential component of any organization that deals with finances. A financial risk manager is responsible for identifying, analyzing, and managing financial risks. In this post, we will discuss the duties of a financial risk manager and how they help organizations mitigate financial risks.
Sorry for the late reply, I think you are arguing two points, one I agree with and one I do not.

I agree it has abilities, we can even call them behaviors.

But ... yeah, every single one of its responses is just the output of a bunch of matrix multiplciation. I can even do the math on paper (it just would take a while ...)

we anthromorphize many human-like behaviors in non-humans, AI is by its nature designed to be more human like than other mon-humans, of course its responses which look like human behaviors (mimicking implies agency) will "fool" people into anthropomorphizing it as well.
Good to know that “affordable, accessible, reliable and high-quality child care,”
Is the reason that the $52bn is going to fail. Oh, and of course those pesky environmental laws.
This sounds a lot like me. I do get a TON done, am always working hard, but I can’t single thread to save my soul.

I have a tendency to work on 6+ tickets at the same time which has in the past clashed with what management has wanted - clean single threaded work that looks nice on a kanban board. For instance I have a project right now that in linear time has taken about a week but has taken well over a month in actuality because I am constantly jumping around.

I literally don’t even mean to, I try to stay on task but will get an idea for a difference project and switch branches without even thinking about it.

I don’t know that I would want to medicate it, I don’t have a problem with it and my net output is very good even if individual tasks take longer than “they should”. I see it as just an alternate way of thinking/working.

I just wish we’d stop trying to jam people into workflows. You’re missing out on potential.
Ah, yeah, compared to the examples in the video that makes so much sense in a normal day to day application. I commonly do the following operations without much thought:

[] + []
{} + {}
[] + {}
{} + []

Great examples :)

The point is not what the data or naming of the functions/variables is, but what's happening when you run it...
I don't know anything about japanese chalk but in general you should break chalk in half because that makes the chalk not scratch with a high pitched sound when used.
I was expecting this to be about mugsy, the open source coffee maker I kickstarter backed in 2018. Unfortunately the rabbit hole there is the endless stream of very positive enhancement updates to a product that is shipping _in the next few days_ for the last 5 years.

Like, cmon man, just admit defeat.

Rant over. Yes, I’m bitter.

Edit: to be clear, it’s not the product I want anymore. I just need closure.
Mercury can get up to 430c, so Maybe yes. But you might as well use the sun
Side note: I released a web UI to Whipser.cpp using WASM a few weeks ago.

https://bigwav.app
None of the signatories of this open letter is from OpenAI.
Show HN: Building Browser Extensions Using FileSystem APIs (and ChatGPT)
Hi HN! Wavebox Flow (https://flow.wavebox.io) is an open-source (https://github.com/wavebox/wavebox-flow) browser extension builder that runs directly in your browser. We want to help make building your first extension, or prototyping that idea that's been sat on your desk as simple as possible. There's sometimes this bit of "where I do I start" syndrome, where you're not sure what to start with, or even where to look. Given the advancements of the HTML5 FileSystem APIs, it's now possible to store your extension files directly on disk and edit them with the amazing Monaco editor. If you're prototyping and start to feel that your idea is growing legs, there's nothing stopping you opening the extension in your favourite editor and continuing from there - the output is just standard a WebExtension.

We've been using Flow internally for a few months to create helper extensions, such as one that helps us to link support tickets to our internal admin system and another that helps us with the GitHub approval flow. Both in record time and with minimal effort. When we realised how much of useful tool it is, we felt that we could couldn't keep it proprietary and the best thing to do, would be to open-source it and make sure compatibility is great with as many browsers as possible.

The extensions that you create are compatible with any Chromium browser and also Firefox. If you're using the Wavebox browser, we've added some additional tooling so you can skip some of the manual extension installation and reloading steps, but Wavebox Flow is fully featured in any browser. And of course, what product wouldn't be complete these days without an integrated ChatGPT to help with coding and catching errors.

This is just the start, we open-sourced the initial version but are looking to develop Flow further. We'd love to hear about any feedback that you have and how we can make Wavebox Flow better. You can check us out at https://wavebox.io/ and https://github.com/wavebox/wavebox-flow/
Notes from the creator on this subject: https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/implementation/perf.html

Abandoned half-finished rewrite of the BQN VM in Rust as is hipster tradition:
https://github.com/cannadayr/rsbqn/
Yudkowsky is almost a millennial (off by two years).
I expected the usual American bias, so I checked some standard questions like "Is the Moon made of cheese?" and "Is Santa real?". (I got a nice and correct answer for the first and a politically correct answer for the second.)

About cows: I though the very simplified rules were "Don't eat pig. Eat cow only if slaughter in the correct way." So I got surprised by the answer. Is there a local variation or an error in the AI?

"generate picture of princess": I didn't expect that. I tried a few now. It crops too much the image. My princes got only half of her head.
We have a https://www.babboe.nl/babboe-city-e. And as you can tell from there, we're Dutch, in the Netherlands, so bike paths is all superb over here.

We tried a few variants, also with 2 wheels in front so it can't fall over in standstill. But that's less stable in curves than a normal bike with 1 front wheel.
> What I want is more like a complicated stand mixer with a warming element.

I have a Kenwood Cooking Chef (the older Version, has a 6.7L bowl). It kneads really well and has a heating function for up to 180°C (so you can also use it for cooking or continiously heating malt for bread baking). There is a functions where it stirs once every 15s and once every two minutes iirc. So its to frequent for the ripening but im sure there is a way to hack it.
Or maybe check the newer versions they have a touch screen and might be configurable from the get go. The newer version also has a built in scale. There is also a "Patissier" version that is a little cheaper and can only heat up to 80°C.

And the bowl is made from stainless steel, so no coating that can come of.
And up to 20 years in prison
For EA and other entertainment companies, it's probably not about finding cheap money or growing headcount for its own sake. Cheap money funds more "art." They can try to create new games or movies or tv series and gamble that one or more becomes a hit or even a franchise that makes a return on that cheap investment. Maybe a return that covers the cost of multiple failed attempts. Similar to VCs.
British music brand Marshall sells to Zound Industries
We were hoping to make the Flow builder work in all up to date browsers, however Firefox and Safari lack support for some of the HTML5 FileSystem APIs, namely window.showDirectoryPicker. There are some ponyfills to read and write to the filesystem, but none give enough tooling to create a seamless experience. Hopefully this is something we can add in the future.

If you're looking for more info on how we used it ourselves, checkout out blog post https://wavebox.io/blog/wavebox-flow-tutorial/
But that's models from people uploading models to huggingface, huggingface themselves don't write/maintain those models, it's a community of AI/ML practitioners.

And LLMs are just a small part of the ecosystem, huggingface is hosting much more than just those models. It hosts models for text-to-image, classification, text-to-speech, and everything in-between those. And beyond that, they also host datasets that are being used for training a bunch of models.

As long as there is a FOSS AI/ML ecosystem, huggingface will remain being relevant (granted no other similar platform appear and takes over). For example, if you want to do anything Stable Diffusion today, it's more likely than not that something is being pulled down from huggingface, one way or another.

Even in your own example, where we have one-shot models that don't need fine-tuning, those models still need to be hosted somewhere. Today, that hosting happens most commonly on huggingface.
MMLU Benchmark (Multi-Task Language Understanding)
Just like you're blindly copying what you read others say about "cheap money", EA is just blindly copying what others are doing and laying off employees
Kagi new AI search features
"some industries add a PIP as a social norm"

I suspect they often do the PIP as legal protection, documentation they can produce later if needed. Even in an "at-will" environment, employees can sue for wrongful termination.
Floods and thus investment in better flood prevention will only increase in the coming decades, it will be interesting what innovative solutions that spawns. It seems like even this century-old branch of engineering still holds room for experimentation with new methods.

Interesting that this particular project is run by a nonprofit. I hope it works out.
No need for the ad hominem attacks about “uninformed HN posters”. Zerodium and their likes are ready to enter discussions with you for paying ~ $X million given a sufficiently high impact vulnerability, which I strongly believe this is.
Can't they just install electric motors in the ICE cars ?
3CX DesktopApp Security Alert
This has been going on since before Covid.

Covid did a great job of brushing a lot of problems under the rug which are now inevitably popping back up.
Time Reflections of Electromagnetic Waves Have Been Demonstrated for First Time
related https://blog.quarkslab.com/secure-messaging-apps-and-group-p...
Twitter following the LinkedIn playbook. And LinkedIn is still more generous.

Absurd that these platforms have no scruples about gathering data from users, but if you try doing the opposite, they’ll block you at every turn.
Meta to Let Users Opt Out of Some Targeted Ads, but Only in Europe
Immigration Tripled in Top U.S. Counties Even as Many of Them Lost Population
> Widely accepted, shamelessly overconfident, bus still potentially gibberish generator.

I believe such a generator can be very harmful in our society that has not yet figured a way to scalably teach critical thinking.

Harmful at societal level by flooding the world with generated content therefore drowning actual information and by creating a lot of overhead.

Harmful at the personal level by increasing the difficulty of sorting information and by creating toxic dependencies (see the Replika scandal).

Harmful at the class level by further concentrating power towards plutocracy.

Harmful at the professional level by eliminating the lower levels of the professional ladder and therefore destroying the pipeline of skill.

And harmful at the interpersonal level by casting doubt on the authenticity of relationships.
Right, some people don't realise malicious intent is not always required to cause damage.
https://archive.is/LhDlL
You have control of the model. You can make it always pick the most likely choice, you can also have it penalize token that it had already emitted or that are common in the corpus. Chatgpt by default and choice has some more creativity backed in, but in the chat api where you can control the tunables you're going to find what you're looking for
https://archive.md/MIBUj
Yeah, it's very much a in-and-out experience, like Docker Hub.

My typical workflow involving huggingface:

- Try to find appropriate model, play around with some of them until I find one that is appropriate, pull it down locally and close the huggingface tab.
>Electricity is far more efficient at converting energy into movement than fossil fuels (roughly 75% vs 15%)

This metric could also be described as: "what percentage of the total energy content of your car's fuel tank will be converted into kinetic energy?"

What is the point of this metric?

Solar panels are less efficent at converting incident sunlight into electricity, than fossil-fueled power stations are at converting hydrocarbons into electricity. The same applies for wind turbines converting kinetic energy into electricity.

Blindly taking the "efficiency" of one tiny step in the process of converting an energy source into automotive propulsion will lead to some absurd conclusions.
It absolutely is. Even Trump didn’t oppose same sex marriage (when it was still illegal in several European countries) and also signed major legislation aimed at reducing incarceration: https://www.bop.gov/inmates/fsa/overview.jsp. Drug prosecutions are handled primarily at the state level, and there has been a broad move to reduce such prosecution. Marijuana has been fully decriminalized in deep red states like Ohio and North Dakota. Does anyone even remember 2000? The big kerfuffle was covering up naked statutes. It was a vastly more conservative country (with far fewer drug overdoses).
@Bendon292 - I have thought about some privacy options including a "fully private" option where all data is stored locally and can be synced to any of your favorite cloud providers (or our servers) if need be. This is similar to what guys like obsidian seem to be doing as well. I will be down to exploring this further. If you are interested in developing it with me, let's chat. Just shoot an email to hello@floutwork.com and we can take it from there.
Twitter was doing that before Elon bought them
Easter Break Idea Sprint
Want to use my easter break to explore the validity of some ideas.

I am a PM with commercial background. Looking for someone to explore some ideas with.

If you have some ideas you want to explore/validate, don't hesitate to reach out, would be happy to have a chat.
Buying twitter was never about profiting - at least not the profiting from the company balance sheet. The profit can come elsewhere, by the influence gained from owning and controlling the twitter firehose and recommendation algorithms.

In a way, this is Elon buying a newspaper like rich people always did to influence politics, except that he is buying a modern version of a newspaper.

Musk bought twitter because it is and was an integral part in social media campaigns for the last few elections. Targeted ads on twitter can reach journalists and politicians, their timelines "for you" controlled by Elon's and they might not even understand that they are being nudged by the content shown in the app. Heck, just by unbanning Trump and allowing MFA Russia on the app, he is moving the Overton window a bit.

The proof is in the pudding as they say. How many million people now see Elon Musks personal twitter posts, that did not see them before he bought twitter?
The researchers didn't complain about the bounty, AFAIK.
The US isn't even the leader in such blocks and bans in many cases either; Australia blocked Huawei and ZTE from providing equipment for its 5G network on security grounds back in August 2018 .. and various European countries were muttering about such concerns since that time at least.

https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/22/australia-bans-huawei-and-...
Google denies training Bard on ChatGPT chats from ShareGPT
> And make concurrency a core pillar!

For such a core pillar they are extremely light on details. All you can see in the docs is they basically have:

- green threads (maybe? no idea, no details on how async is executed)

- "async calls" are blocking. Literally the equivalent of `x = await y()`

- to have non-blocking calls you can use `Task = spawn(function)`, and then can optionally wait on it with `Task.await()`

- there are a few syntax sugars on top (like `race` aka `Promise.race`). And some of them make no sense (`branch` is literally `spawn`, why does it even exist?)

That... is not a "core pillar". It's a lazy minimal bare-bones implementation of decades-old ideas.

Edit. Compare with a language where it actually is a core pillar: https://erlang.org/download/armstrong_thesis_2003.pdf
No, this is Seattle, we don’t want baddies to be punished. We want buses that don’t smell like burnt peanut butter. We want parks without tents, libraries without naked guys running around in crisis, and we’d like it all for some property tax rate that is less than 2%/year. It would also be nice if our grocery stores didn’t shut down due to shoplifting excesses, but that’s a stretch goal.
You mean “su”?
Readme needs to state who it is for, where it is best used, what platforms it targets, who the team is working on it and the short medium and longer term goals, and importantly, why you made it and why a developer should use it.

Some open source projects like this can become huge. You never know what might happen.
Aside: As a European, it scares and amuses me to no end how the American discourse has become a complete Left vs Right, black vs white, us vs them. I'm not even that old, and I remember when being so politically polarised and eager to fit people and the world in two small boxes was something you'd only hear from drunken lunatics at a bar. These days, it's every-fucking-where on the Internet because y'all can't bloody stop talking about your politics.

I say that in the most polite way possible: you Americans have a lot of internal issues you need to sort out, and quickly. You're polluting the rest of the world with your party politics.
Snowflake employee here, not speaking on behalf of the company.

Short version is that you would think so, but it doesn't work that way for at least two reasons.

1. If we weren't investing in product optimization, but our competitors were, we'd quickly be outpaced.

2. When we invest in optimizing queries for our customers, the ROI on the Snowflake investment goes up. This results in actually getting even more money than if we just didn't bother, because CFOs that see great ROI on an investment absolutely do not hesitate to throw more funding at that investment. Making the denominator smaller is a really fast way to make the ROI higher.

So while the incentive seems to be perverse on first glance, very quickly it becomes clear that this isn't the case on further analysis.
The blog is over a month old, the api is still up and running. I’m not exactly how this is on page 1 of HN?
Most modern SEA country don't have those issue: Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao, Japan, South Korea.

They all had severe drug problem in the 20th century. They all have drugs get you an express ticket to firing squad, and all of them don't have major drug problem today.

As for Philippine, they are close to failed state since 80s. Drugs lords are rampant, Duterte despite being frowned upon many philippines like him since he's only man are willing to do something about it.
Paywalled upstream source: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/alphabets-google-and...
AIs don’t need to “want” to have unintended results, they just need a directive. Like in 2001 where HAL realized that it could achieve the mission better if the humans were all dead.
If the uncreative and automated work of training the model is transformative enough to impact the rights of the original content creators, it would also be transformative enough to impact the rights of the database curator.

The fair use case is much harder to make here than for search engines since the model will be directly competing with the content creators. And again, how could e.g. OpenAI simultaneously claim that their use of the original content to train the model, and then subsequent use the model and the model outputs, while simultaneously claiming that the model could not be used without infringing their DB rights? You can argue fair use for both or neither; trying to argue it for just one of my the two is just incoherent.

And everyone building models needs free access to the training data way more than they need copyright as a means to protect the model.
> China released its rule for stage 6 light-duty vehicle emissions limits in December 2016, so manufacturers have had 7 years to bring their vehicles into line.

If manufacturers knowingly create stranded assets why would they need to be bailed out?