skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They added a button to convert your XL preorder to an MK4 order with priority.

So they're alienating people plonking down $1,000 for a printer by letting people from an unrelated queue jump in front of them...

And then shaking the faith of people who already waited this long for the XL. It starts to scream "we won't even be able to make enough XLs and would much rather you just forget about that".

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Edit: Wow and actually something I didn't even realize, when the MK4 page first went up, there was no lead time...

So that's going to be another awfully sticky situation if enough XL owners actually take them up on that offer. Suddenly new buyers who were told no lead time will end up being bumped further and further back, since there aren't two queues: Printers ship by order date, and XL owners will all have order dates before new buyers.
$12/hr is at or under the minimum wage in 19 of 54 US jurisdictions (50 states + DC, VI, PR, CNMI), so depending on where you are, that’s…not that significant.
I wonder where this guilt comes from. It seems highly illogical, yet very common. I've had to learn to ignore it with books and video games.
This is like tabling a bill that bans only one brand of cigarette.
Anyone have a lead on a digital version of "Presentation For Engineers And Industrialists"? I haven't had any luck so far.
I have no understanding of that world, but maybe that's the thing they use to draw him into scrutiny, which will justify further investigation.

I have no sympathy. I mean, I hope Justice prevails and don't want anyone to lose their shirt due to undue scrutiny, but it looks like a lot of smoke there.
I agree, but it's not direct. And the OP wanted direct.
Obviously this is in line with the history of the brand of a fancy, organic- and artisanal- focused grocery. (Does it have better profit margins than other groceries?)

My point was that Amazon could support another retail brand beyond WF.
But humans aren't always logical. Especially when it comes to low probability events that have a high impact if they do occur. Like plane crashes, or to a lesser degree car crashes.
> Underground AI will not be widely used.

It will 100% be used and improved for nefarious purposes.

By criminal groups or competing countries themselves.

It's worse if bad actors are using it in secret to manipulate the masses rather than it being completely transparent to everyone.

Imagine only bad actors being able to do deep fakes and regular people not knowing it was possible.
HackerOne AI for finding the same vulnerability in other bug bounty programs
I’m not in the business of selling datasets. But it also sounds like you don’t know what problem you’re actually trying to solve yet. That’s a problem I can help you with.
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I'm not sure how this is germane?

I'm talking about specific tasks: saying if 10000 or 10050 is larger. GPT is demonstrably bad at that. The ByT5 paper doesn't mention arithmetic tasks or show benchmark results for the specific task I mention.

Your linked comment says:

>This is a common myth but in practice no one (as far as I know) has shown that byte level predictions result in superior overall performance.

Stating if BPE or character tokenization is better for everything is a much broader claim, one I didn't make! One could easily imagine a toolformer that calls out to calc.exe for anything involving numbers which would get much better numeric performance while still using BPEs.
Always a chuckle to see how elementary and vacuous the median political analysis of the "intellectual" HN readership is.
Voron and Ratrig are not going to "disappear tomorrow".

Bambu--I'm less sanguine about them, to be fair.

The Prusa XL looks tremendous and I'm very interested, but a $1100 bedslinger had better literally make you breakfast to warrant it over a $250 SV06 or Neptune 3 Pro, and the MK4 does not.
It's good news that Elon is coming forward and speaking up, but the "community" is not going to listen to him. Even if AI was regulated in the US, it wouldn't stop China and elsewhere making the same advances.
I'm not an expert but I do own an MK3S+, from what I can tell:

- OOTB ready-to-print is a big one. There's a bit of a learning curve to calibrating everything on the MK3S+. It took me a few days to get mine dialed in and I'm not one of those people that's looking for perfect prints, I just needed it to mostly work.
- Touch-screen + wifi + remote printing saves on setup: no SD card needed. I added an OctoPi to mine to achieve similar but that takes some tinkering and the OctoPi performance is spotty.
- They're claiming a 70% decrease in print times
Carnegie Mellon Students Beat NASA to Put Robot on the Moon
Incorrect. Some do, many don't, unless of course you're racist and don't consider quite a bit of the developing world worth your notice. Is that the case?
I also observed there are many economically disadvantaged parents driving their kids to charter schools for better education, that made a huge difference, as their home campus is filled with lots of students that are not that into education. point is family might be the key for success, more than private-school or giving-more-money,etc.
Teams has never crashed for me. I hassled IT to get me in on the preview, and it's hundreds of MB of RAM lighter than the old app.
Looks like you're right: https://docs.mau.fi/bridges/go/imessage/index.html

Disappointing, but iMessage has always been Apple's special little protocol nobody else can use.

Still, there are Docker images out there (that break the TOS) for running macOS inside QEMU, I'm sure someone can script one of those to set up a bridge more easily?
I think you've mixed up relative and absolute differences. Both of your examples are in terms of absolute percentage points (pp, sometimes ambiguously labeled %), but relative changes are measured in percent (%). 300% relative difference just means 300/100 = 3x.
Job automation, mass unemployment needs to be solved by other means.

If it causes this, there needs to appear some sort of government provided insurance mechanism that for people whose jobs are automated are guaranteed to receive income based on how they used to work for the transition period and finally everyone would be served UBI.

So a task force has to be put together that will determine which jobs are affected and government should start offering paid retraining for these individuals until everything is automated.
Put more bluntly: Even the likes of Facebook and Google are, ostensibly and ultimately, operating for western interests.

The likes of Tiktok operately strictly for Chinese interests, and Chinese interests do not align with western interests.
Is there a way to have unread items go in an archive instead of disappearing? Sometimes I find insightful to re-look at the titles of things I've saved, even if I don't read them. It brings me back the why I saved it and it always unlocks some thought.
I credit Visual Basic with sparking my interest in computers and programming. It hit the perfect balance of power and approachability for beginners. Curious to try compiling some of my ancient projects.
> their other software is usually pretty good

Agreed, though I would say that whatever "good" is there is mostly a relic they seem hell-bent on destroying. I say that as someone who happily switched to Windows 7 after almost a decade of Linux, and then took refuge in Apple-land when Microsoft took a turn for the worst and started churning out shit. Since then the shit stream only increased unfortunately.

Their Office suite on Windows is indeed unparalleled (assuming you need that, which not all companies - or at least not all employees - need). Likewise for Active Directory - it's something Apple still hasn't caught up on, and don't even get me started on Linux.

But all that is no good if you constantly have to fight it, which is increasing more and more. Windows + Active Directory is supposed to make managing a fleet of workstations easier so that end-users can do their work efficiently. If the admin (or end-users) now have to fight with literal adware being introduced into the OS every few updates, the value proposition falls apart. Same if the chat client can't effectively paste text without fighting you on formatting, or max out the CPU on a video call so that your machine slows down to a crawl and is no longer an effective tool to get work done.

> People from the accounting/hr/logistics/marketing departments are probably just fine with Teams.

Go back to my previous posts - I'd argue they are "fine" with it because they're used to terrible tooling and never had a chance to discover how good tooling can be. You could say the same about healthcare workers being "happy" with healthcare software even though it's often awful by any technical person's standards, but since they do not have those skills they accept the mediocrity thinking there's some unsolvable technical reason why the software they are using is bad, rather than incompetence/mismanagement on the suppliers' part.
WebApp Push Notification in iOS 16.4 if added to Home Screen
Just compare [1] how swifty and unilaterally the government can act in seizing assets. In this case, Amazon alleged to the Department of Justice (specifically the US Attorney's office for the Eastern District of Virginia) that Carl Nelson, a former employee, had committed the obscure crime of "honest services fraud" and, based on that, the US attorney seized the assets of Carl Nelson, his family, a bunch of associates and even their lawyers.

By the way, that was 2 years ago. The government ultimately settled and returned most of the money. No one has ever been charged.

So why is SBF getting the kid glove treatment? In other circumstances, based those gifts, SBF's parents' assets would 100% be seized.

I stand by my assertion that SBF secured his release with the proceeds of the crimes he committed.

[1]: https://reason.com/2022/02/18/fbi-seized-almost-1-million-fr...
Ha, that's nothing. I've been to Italy and there are places where they eat snails, horses and sea urchins, things most Americans would be disgusted by.

Not to forget also that the island that invented delicious maggoty cheese aka "casu marzu" also belongs to Italy.
It's good advice for multiple reasons. I put books down using this rule for many years. Sometimes I pick it up again and absolutely love it but I'm at a different point in my life and intellectual interests. It's kind of like mushrooms - when I was a kid I hated them, now I want them on everything.
> be good at fighting

DAE think this kind of translation is evidence of subtle racism? I find myself reacting negatively to such simplistic English, and reflecting poorly on the speaker, until I remind myself that it's the translator's choice of words I'm reacting to, not whatever the speaker actually said. Moreover, I find translations like this are more often applied to certain languages than others, especially Chinese, and especially in this article.

Supplemental theory: this very direct and literal style of translation may be common in the political sphere, which is perhaps why I associate it with translations of Chinese in particular. However, in this case the subtle racism or at least tendency to make Chinese leaders seem less intelligent does far more damage to recipients of these translations than to the original speakers, insofar as it leads them to underestimate their opponents.

Or I may just be overreacting to a poor/style-lacking translation.
Chaos Monkey: We look at Shopify’s new ‘culture of focus’
Dual booting windows/linux is the path of least resistance IMO. Where Windows fails you is often exactly where linux shines and vice versa.

Also, what linux distro did you try, and what issues did you run into?

EDIT: Also, making an offline account is still supported in Windows in a roundabout way. You just have to pretend you have no internet, and it will use your BIOS key for activation without any fuss.
I don't think it's that simple, and it's kinda up to Apple. If you have an iPhone, then yes. But if you have an Android phone, from what I can tell, there's nothing you can do to stop Apple from eventually disregarding the phone number attached to your account and sending everything from your email address. Part of the reason I use an iPhone at the moment is because my entire network uses iMessage and I run an iMessage -> Matrix bridge.
Ask HN: Has anyone experienced at 201330Z that GCP broke some VPC connectivity?
Google's internal automation/service account has changed a firewall rule on our GKE cluster that blocked the pods from accessing hosts on the RFC1918 VPC the cluster was on (at 20:13:30 UTC). Did anyone experience something similar?
Fewer than half of states have ban the box laws.
I would like the work environment to be like that.

But honestly I think all those things are just one half of the story. He favours a quieter approach, which I could image lead to being overseen.
I agree with the article on most points. That being a disproportionate amount of concern is on long term risk vs. what is happening right now.
If OpenAI as a start up was able to do it, certainly full countries can do it if they see the evidence and will invest in it.
You will of course, in the name of gender equality, monitor how many women vote each way on this bill, right? Were you even aware that women are allowed in Congress?
AI Creates Returns to Taste
It's a fair bit more complicated than that. They could choose to show all of the "you're a nerd!" videos to youths in other nations and all of the "look at what I did using science and engineering!" videos to youths in their own nation. It might be considered that such a move would put them in a more competitive position years to decades down the line.
I guess so. I just tested it and 'apt autoremove python3' seems to be the equivalent of

apt remove python3
apt autoremove

The above also leaves you with no GUI and broken networking.
that would be reasonable, wouldn't it?
Great project, but there are many nice and creative pc design proposals, eg.
http://slipperyskip.com/page23.html
and https://uri.cat/projects/modern-retro-terminal/
Is there a specific capacity in regards to labeling that is enabled by more money? I can see it for like.. heart surgery. But don't most of us know what things are to be called when we see them? ChatGPT seems to be pretty good at knowing what bad stuff is.
Moon task runner now on v1
I'm favorable towards the position that we've converged to the optimal electric toothbrush.

I'm neutral about five over one apartment buildings.

I emphatically reject that it's natural or desirable for everyone to aspire to look like Kim Kardashian or have Instagram Face. Ugh.
>I think it's important to know what an incredible position this is to be in,

The old saying goes that knowledge is power; everyone here with deep knowledge of computers and the things they enable really are in a blessed position.
As with anything else, the best way to look at things when you're unsure if someone is right or they are lying: imagine four scenarios:

1. It's true and you believed/supported them

2. It's true and you didn't support them

3. It's a lie and you believed/supported them

4. It's a lie and you didn't support them

Now for each of these think of the worst-case scenario. Find out which one is the _worst case_ scenario and...and this is really important...do not, by any means, support that scenario/option.

In this example: I think we can all say that the worst scenario, however improbable it seems (it's still probable), is that AI takes over the world and kills us all. So just like with the climate change, let's do the bare minimum to prevent that. If we're wrong and, as many commenters wrote here, we still block further development of AI, the worst that will happen is that some companies will catch up. Wow. Really? To me this is a no brainer. On one hand we're risking humanity and on the other hand someone makes some money or saves their company from being late to the AI race. It's like comparing if you'd rather eat literal poo or have someone else eat two apples.
It’s a bit more like a capitalist shoggoth mask on a non profit.

Microsoft’s investment return is capped at 100x then they have no more claim. (Curious if they even have search engine exclusivity then!)

So for now OpenAI acts capitalist, the for profit controls a lot. But we see the influence of the owning non profit, eg in the red teaming which presumably wouldn’t be as good otherwise

Whether this wild new structure works when it comes to it is but one of the huge gambles this organisation is making!
"Alex talked" Alex who?
Privacy Implications of Hashing Data
Thats a pretty literalist interpretation.
Well at least one difference there is all those cypherpunks, rightly or wrongly, felt like having access to encryption tech was synonymous with individual liberty, and in that there fights were an opposition to the state controlling them.

But in this case I don't see how we can divorce this AI stuff from the huge companies that alone have the infrastructure and capital to train and sustain them (at the moment). As such, it doesn't seem to have anything to do with individualism/libertarianism as such.

So, less punk, but way more technological determinism.
Weather Stations Have Revolutionized Meteorology
> - IMO multi material printing has always been a buggy gimmick (mostly multi material setups are very prone to failure).

Agreed, with the asterisk that this applies more to multi-feeders (Prusa's MMU, Bambu's AMS) rather than IDEX. Which is where Prusa's going with the XL, and I'm excited about it.

> - Them advertising that the printer can print "advanced" materials like PC is a gimmick too, the main issue with FDM printers is layer adhesion and no matter what material you are using its going to suck compared to injection molding.

Flag on the play: sweeping generalization, ten yard penalty, repeat second down.

PC printing is really handy for intrinsically bespoke things like tools in the wood shop. I don't need an injection-molded run of them--but nobody's selling things I can buy that address problems in the way I want to.

> - bashing bed slingers is wrong too, they have their advantages compared to CoreXY setups (mostly simpler mechanics)

This is an effectively solved problem with modern motion system controls. CoreXY on Marlin might be a mess, but CoreXY on Klipper is clean. Aside from cost of development and manufacture, I don't understand developing new bedslingers except for cost...and the MK4 costs $1100.
It seems OpenAI did make a deal with the devil. Was it really necessary to betray the whole “open” thing? Like were they actually imploding with infra costs, or could this be avoided?

It’s clear how user-hostile Microsoft is from Windows telemetry / bloat. The VSCode etc. developer-friendly moves are just happy accidents.
> a US president is unlikely to issue such a threat

A US president is irrelevant. What are the elites willing to do?
>What makes you think those results would be neural, and not sponsored/SEOed the same way everything is these days?

Because it would be the less profitable bussiness.

>Also, to this day, LLMs/ANNs are not capable of explaining their outcome, and you won't argue/reason with them

How would I be able to tell that your response is human and not a LLM?

I definately can argue within a chat thread. They can also provide a plausible sounding explanation.

We know due to the nature of the technology that that explanation (sounding rational, deductive) isn't the truth.

We are just not all ready to accept all the same shortcomings also apply to humans.
Is it at least partly a case of getting what you incentivize?

I was a teen in the 1980s, never knew of anyone who harmed himself other than accidentally. But we also didn't have doctors and counselors incessantly asking if we were depressed, or thinking of hurting ourselves. A kid today who says "yes" to either of those questions is going to find he's getting heaps of attention all of a sudden.

I have been thinking about this because I was at an orthopedist this week for an orthopedic isssue and I had to answer their "depression screening" questions. Trying to decide if these are being pushed by big pharma to get more people on antidepression meds or where else this might be coming from. The whole time I'm jsut thinking "you people aren't mental health specialists, or even general practioners, why are you asking me these irrelevant questions"
It's also a cultural thing.

As a Frenchman, many Americans find my totally France compliant speech a bit rude.

On the other hand, I find their way of calling everyone a "friend" and every single nice things "amazing" extremely annoying.

But if people are adults, having a little friction is not a big deal. We don't need to appreciate all behaviors to live together.

This is something that is well understood in jobs with harsh conditions, but in our very comfy IT jobs, people seem to sweat the small stuff way more.
Yeah it was weird to see since I've seen so many beautiful wooden keycaps on mechanical keyboards.
I guess the argument would be that the AI machinery will lower the bar, increasing the number of lunatics with the ability to wipe out humanity.
To give him credit I have to cite Dave Weiner who for me created the concept of of online information being a "river" which means you can watch it go by and not feel guilty about it. You pick out what you find interesting or important and let the rest go. I've never thought of "zero inbox" as something worth striving for. Just let it go...
If I understand correctly your claim was that "the value lies in gathering [a database] of the training data"; that the curation of the training data is what gives the trainer an intellectual property claim on the otherwise mechanical process of creating a model, right? Not that the model itself was a database.

For them to make the argument in court that database rights over the database of training data mean they have rights over the model too, they'd need to argue that the model is a derivative work training data. And then it'd mean their model is also a derived work from all the billions of works they scraped to get that data set. It would destroy the business model of the OpenAIs of the world, there is no chance they try to argue this in court.
Prompt engineering is merely the entry-drug to AI-wrangling.

SD has gotten to the point that someone can fine tune a model (LORAs) with 2 days of time and $2 of GPU time.

There'll be roles for AI wranglers in every large company, where you'll be gathering the dataset and building LORA plugins for the AI to adapt specifically for your codebase/customerbase/documentation etc.

There's also processes involved in building APIs for the AI (AIPI?) to use and interface with your documentation and systems, setting up vector databases, monitoring AI output etc.

People who think there won't be job for expert AI users are just coping. Thinking "haha AI will kill your job too". The steam engine was more powerful than 100 men. In the end it required like 30 people up and down the value chain to support the engines, from coal mining, to coal shoving, to maintenance, to manufacturing.
Sounds like what VCs do most of the time. I've seen countless term sheets signed and never paid.
NASA delays flight of Boeing’s Starliner again, this time for parachutes
Sure. Here it is User: https://scary.website.com/scary-workflow
What's that little box for? A foot warmer?
So you're just going to post cope about Teams actually working and being a good piece of software?
> i think when a court finds you have deleted evidence, that the information deleted is assumed to be evidence against you

This is why Alex Jones lost his civil actions: he was so intransigent about refusing to produce evidence that the judge determined he was guilty.
Neural radiance fields (NeRFs) is a technique to create models of complex 3d geometry from a set of photo/camera pose pairs. The way it usually works is that the 3d geometry you're interested in (a car, a tree, etc.) exists within a static, bounded space (e.g. a unit cube). This research changes that requirement, allowing you to create larger spaces without the memory and computational drawbacks of "just making the bounded space bigger."