skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But then your LB is a single point of failure! Even if you were to spin up duplicate copies of the LB that could be failed-over-to in real time, there is still the drawback that you are bounded by the number of requests you can store on a single machine.

I think what you actually built is a message queue engine that forwards the data to the consumers, not a load balancer.
For context: this is pretty surprising, given the significant amount of independence Deepmind had within Google. So much so, in fact, that they tried for a long time to be spun off from Google: https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-unit-deepmind-triedand-f...
rule of thumb: media sharing startups gladly host porn when they're early, small and growing. Then once they mature, get big enough, the Adults Take Over, they then ban the porn. Seen this sequence happen a dozen times from afar over decades.
I like line-noise passwords for most things, but I prefer random words (diceware style) for places a password manager doesn't work, which conveniently tends to be less sensitive anyways - if I'm entering a password into a TV one letter at a time on a remote that's not really meant for it, I prefer a friendlier password, but I also don't care if my Netflix password has as many bits of entropy as something important.
> Huawei's lead in 5G is well-documented

Well documented in Wired, lol! I would settle for just one peer-reviewed article in a reputed journal. Even written by Huawei authors.

> backdoors intended for law enforcement

When did Chinese law become global law?

> Your points (1, 2) have nothing to do with what I have written, why do you side-track the conversation?

Talking of sidetracking, didn't you mention Instagram vs TikTok? Lol.

Anyways, just like your Instagram vs TikTok comment, my comments are relevant. They are about companies banning other companies with superior tech. Claims of sidetracking are usually surfaced when there is no viable defense.

Not to mention, Huawei was caught with its pants down stealing code from Cisco.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/02/13/chinese-company-huawe...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10485560675556000

https://blogs.cisco.com/news/huawei-and-ciscos-source-code-c...
Cause they are fucking rad! Its grandiose and big but plausible, its like some one heard of archimedes lever and took it as a challenge. Basically it sparks the imagination :)

Is that sort of collision inevitable or can you have parallel orbits that don't collide? I'm ignorant and this is the first I'm hearing of this issue. Last I heard the material science part was the heartbreaker.
Awesome, I was really hoping that kens would take a look at the 432 chipset given his experience reversing the 8086 and the fact that the 432 is on a similar Intel HMOS process. Particularly because the 432 has a lot of commentary on why it failed, but unfortunately lacks a lot of hard details on what all it actually was.

If people want to read more, some of the best docs I've found are the academic literature on the chips.

Instruction Decoder: https://doi.org/10.1109/JSSC.1981.1051633

Execution Unit: https://doi.org/10.1109/JSSC.1981.1051631

Interface Processor: https://doi.org/10.1109/JSSC.1981.1051632
> GTK is maintained by 2-5 people. They cannot maintain every API forever.

But they like to rewrite it every couple of years. /s
> Shouldn't the same logic then apply to people? Yeah, figured as much.

I like that you smugly answered your question for them. Tilt at the windmills and strawmen all you want I guess.
> When Shane Legg and I launched DeepMind back in 2010, many people thought general AI was a farfetched science fiction technology that was decades away from being a reality.

Well it was at least a decade away.
I am also interested. I use Raindrop, Pocket and Liner for all of my bookmarking needs.

How do we contact you?
Show HN: MaxAI answers questions about how PostHog works
Ideally both to be safe...

Maybe just add a third neutral participant to have three spying forces for no breaks.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-36...
Why should it matter that China and the U.S. have incompatible political values? And what does that even mean? It's not like the two systems need to interface in ways where that matters. If you're trying to negotiate a treaty it doesn't really matter how the other country's delegation got their jobs.
Free hosting for the masses of porn on the internet is a low interest rate phenomenon.
let's agree this is bad and hold them accountable
Regardless of preferences in British heavy metal, there's a trademark footgun problem.
If you're not blowing up at least some rockets you're overbuilding your rocket body hence wasting weight.
About time and finally for some very serious competition against O̶p̶e̶n̶AI.com but unsurprising that DeepMind would be directly involved [0] and merged with Brain.

Now lets get on with accelerating the real AI race to zero and the big fight against O̶p̶e̶n̶AI.com, X.AI and the other stragglers.

Stay very tuned to this.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35508997
Makes me wonder if we can create an unsupervised AI model to "infer" features of an organism through only its genetic code.
It's extremely, extremely tiny compared to the impact of the thousands of commercial airplane flights that happen every day. Plus, methalox burns very cleanly, second only to the much more dangerous and finicky hydrolox in terms of environmental friendliness.
A couple of thoughts:

- This does not seem unexpected. Google is panicked about losing the AI race and pushing resources into DeepMind is a logical step to mitigating those fears.

- Google has currently given ~300M to Anthropic and has a partnership with them. I assume Google continues to see potential in both avenues and won't neglect one AI team for the other. I'm guessing that DeepMind will be their primary focus because of the numerous, real-world applications already at play.

- It's tough for me to compare Google DeepMind to OpenAI GPT4. They seem to be very different approaches. Yet, they both have support for language and imagery. So, perhaps they aren't that different afterall?

- Still waiting to hear more from Google on how they plan to leverage their novel PaLM architecture. The API for it was released a month ago, but, to my awareness, has yet to take the world by storm. (Q: Bard isn't powered by PaLM, right?)

Overall, I am not convinced this will be massively beneficial. I don't trust Google's ability to execute at scale in this area. I trust DeepMind's team and I trust Google's research teams, but Google's ability to execute and take products to market has been quite weak thus far. My gut says this action will hamstring DeepMind in bureaucracy.
Ah yes, I thought, scrolling past the Learjet 45, the de Havilland Vampire, the Caproni Ca.161, all high-tech jet aircraft of the space age... hang on, the Ca.161?! I must say I'm sceptical that such a single-engined biplane could reach 50000 feet. The most advanced piston-powered aircraft, the four-engined Lockheed L-1649 Starliner, had a cruising altitude of no more than 30000 feet.
you need only see BuzzFeed's stock skyrocket 150% in 1 day to understand when the CEO mentioned they would leverage ChatGPT, and now you see why the CEO is playing the AMC playbook now. next comes the insiders liquidating their holdings, while the leaders rambles on with BUZZwords

first it was EVs, now it's AI
LSD also gave me recurring intrusive thoughts for about 5 years after taking it. I’m better now but I wish more people knew about the potential risks because it wasn’t worth feeling “enlightened” for a few hours while on the drug

Based on my experiences I think MDMA likely has much more therapeutic value. To me regular psychedelics merely give the illusion of profoundness rather than actual profoundness, though I’ve heard they are the best treatment for cluster headaches and I’m not against people with treatment resistant depression giving it a shot
I have a feeling that the MIPS-based Octeon SOCs are EOL or close to it, and Ubiquiti is allocating everything to the Unifi versions of the same hardware.
> Google has an ethical and moral responsibility

irrelevant (and subjective anyway). it only matters if they have a legal responsibility.
What do you mean by "corporate"? In the past, I'd have wagered C#, Java second, though I'd consider JavaScript / TypeScript to be quite more frequently utilized. Go / Rust / C++ are always good choices.
> I have more hope for the species

I don't think that a bolide crashing into our planet and flash-boiling the oceans will care about our hope. Not every danger we are facing is anthropogenic sadly. Some things are just up for luck and happenstance.
Or DevOps?
Haha, that's exactly the question the South Americans are asking of Europeans who have denuded the land they are in and now demand others don't.

Take the beam out of your eye.
Absolutely none but they are getting into the too good to be true territory.

Given they are legit, they should take this as a compliment I guess.
I would think javascript/html/css are pretty big. at least as a secondary type thing.
Their existing “all research/no product” approach is becoming increasingly untenable. This had to happen if Google wants to remain a going concern.
> I’m sure you will have lots of questions about what this new unit will look like for you.

Can any HN Googlers comment on what this announcement means? Is this announcement just a PR move to get people to pay attention to upcoming announcements? Or does it actually have deeper impact to the way Google functions with internal teams?
ChatGPT changed the game. Big G getting scared of falling behind.

G bought out DeepMind a long time ago. I wonder what they offered C-level execs this time around.
NOTE: you missed the qualifying word "illegal" in my proposal. You can continue to take all legal risks just the same as before, but all shielding disappears if/when you commit to doing illegal activities. Hold CEOs and boards directly accountable for illegal activity.

edit: went through the thread and realized I didn't make it explicit that the proposal is to go directly at executives and board only in cases of illegal activity. It was implied but not explicitly clear. Making this edit to clarify my intent.
exploding 4 minutes after launch is the second worst thing that could have happened?

I don't think you know much about rocket history, do you?
My God, where on Earth did I get 100,000? I mean that's a lot of words, plausibly more than I will ever hear. And how did it just cancel out anyway so I got roughly the right entropy? This will frustrate me until I understand how I fucked it so totally
How does this fit in with Bard? I see no mention of Jack Krawczyk here, who is listed as its product lead.
Again: the Falcon 9 works. It works now. It is a rocket, built by the same company which is building Starship.

You are driving at a point by pretending there's some important difference because "in this industry".

It's the same industry. Building the same type of product. By the same company.
Because they achieved what they were trying to do? They said if it got 50 seconds into flight it was a success and it did. No Spin, they literally mentioned this objective before the flight, it's more wild for people to suggest that it wasn't despite it exceeding it's objectives.
I am generalizing but a lot of the space community and certainly a lot of SpaceX fans were deriding the several scrubbed launches of SLS/Artemis. I am not suggesting that it’s the exact same people, and the context for each vehicle is very different.

Nevertheless both the SpaceX and NASA approaches to this are valid engineering approaches.

Whether this particular failed launch is a long term success remains to be seen. If the next 5 Starship launches all explode, maybe the NASA approach of get it right first is the way to go when it comes to space flight.
ah, sorry man, I wasn't trying to insult you directly

Your post is basically saying "Hey, all those times in your life that a company screwed you over were actually good, and you were wrong to be unhappy about it", and I wanted to debunk that for you and anyone else who reads what you posted
If it starts pointing toward space you are a having a bad problem and you will not go to space today.
what is an example?
I'm going to guess it involves engineering prompts.

Which requires a surprising amount of skill and experience!

I still haven't found a 100% reliable way of getting a LLM to always produce results in JSON for example. See https://twitter.com/genmon/status/1646194992761782278

State of the art techniques to get GPT to return JSON

- logic: Responses must match this JSON schema
- demonstration: For example…
- appeal to identity: You are a chatbot that speaks perfect JSON
- cajoling: Remember always return JSON!
- threat: if you don't I SWEAR I'm gonna–

I wrote more about why I think prompt engineering deserves more respect than it gets here: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Feb/21/in-defense-of-prompt-e...
Exactly! Falcon 9 is not only the most-launched rocket in history, it's also the most reliable rocket in history! And people got all caught up in sensationalism when Falcon 9 explosions were still common, too — I guess it doesn't drive ad revenue to wax on about the value of iterative design and rapid, frequent failures.
I prefer the actual interview. Very intriguing and entertaining to watch. Not really interested in Politico's left spin on it.
I came at it too from a 'I've done this for more than a decade' perspective as well. I simply found that it's advice was already something I knew, or outright wrong, or wrong but very convincing that it could work.
When was the last time Google was proactive rather than reactive? It feels that this is the same for all big Tech firms except for Microsoft.
An expensive, public way to prove Mike is the dictionary def of "fraud".
After over 20 years of ambiguity, I don't think I'd honestly have the energy to worry about this if I were the person at ICANN deciding the headlines; it could have easily been avoided had the .NET framework just picked a less confusing name.
Why is this linking to a random markdown page?
I don't use TikTok but I have used the youtube shorts algorithm and it seems like its almost intentionally shit and trying to stir up people. I try and watch one linked short about something sports related on the home page and scroll feed automatically propagates with super low quality right wing, hustle and Jordan Peterson propaganda content.

We can deflect saying "Anyone who knows a bit about recommendation systems", blame my use of the platform or play these off as a technical problem but imo it seems like Google and the other tech companies know exactly what they are doing in these use cases and are just cynically deploying this content with the culture war filter on because they know it makes the most money. I think when people ascribe political leanings to tech companies that maybe the mean belief of their employee's but as an org it is not the standard opined ultra left havens.
I apologize for the confusion.
Looks like DeepMind will no longer be able to pursue academic research with the pressure to monetize. Talent exodus could happen similar to what happened at Google AI where many prominent researchers either went to OpenAI or started their own companies
Both Brain and DeepMind had more researchers than OpenAI and more money too, yet Google couldn't use all that to produce anything. I don't think the merger will be very useful here, since I doubt google has any kind of resource constraint in place. Deepmind was not even making any products, or even any plans. They did lots of flashy stuff like microing blink stalkers in Starcraft but it was always hard to see where would all that lead to.
Yeah, you'll probably lose in the end, but at the same time you make logging more expensive and difficult. This is a pretty standard playbook for environmental activists, for better or worse.
Corporate meaning big businesses; not startups or SMEs.
Take their wireguard config, change allowed IPs to include only the IP of their SOCKS gateway.

And then use the SOCKS proxy over Wireguard while nothing else on your system is routed through it.

That's the only way you'll get Mullvad "split tunnel" on OSX.

Edit: Should have replied to the sibling comment but I guess this will do.
DeepMind is going to stop making models to do MineCraft speedruns, and instead start making models to improve search results and ad click through rates.
Oh yeah rereading it's clear they meant specific equations, not just using Latex expressions as the corpus
https://nnethercote.github.io/perf-book/print.html
We tried it to get meal ideas and help manage a new diet with restrictions on calories/fat/protein.

Measuring each across meals and snacks each day and verifying each ingredient is time-consuming.
The whole "Buzzfeed News is actually good" was pushed after they released the Trump dossier (which multiple other news orgs passed on) while including a statement basically saying "we haven't corroborated any of this, good luck". They were basically used as a dumping ground for "sources close to the matter" journalism which WaPo and CNN then could use as a source to make it look more legitimate (same with business insider).
Looking at offline games, yeah. While I havn't looked into it in a really long time, I know it was pretty trivial to bypass 15 years ago, and my understnading is that is hasn't changed much in that time.

Valve seems happy with it being good enough that just copying the game folder won't work, and thus pirates must seek out specialized tools.

Of course, all of that assumes the game in question even implements the Stream DRM. Which is completely optional on the game developer's side. Many do implement it, since they are pulling in the steam sdk anyway. (Even then it is not strictly needed, I've had steam achievements pop while running a DRM free version of the same game before, because the developer specially wanted that scenario to work. I suspect it also requires owning the game on steam. I wish I could remember which game it was that did this.)
.. Sundar is announcing that DeepMind and the Brain team from Google Research will be joining forces as a single, focused unit called Google DeepMind

This would be enough as an anouncement, rest of it is just sugar coating.
About fucking time someone cracked the whip and get the money sinkhole that is deepmind to producing something that contributes to the bottom line.

Only took something that can potentially take out Google (GPT4) to make it happen.
And, then in 1989, they released the i860 [0] with similar promises to similar failure.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_i860
While ultimately I think this is probably a very good organizational change, to have similar teams working on similar projects under the same leadership, it does seem to spell trouble in the short term.

I can read between the lines that Google is done having Deepmind floating out there independently creating foundational research and not products. Sounds like this is a sign that they've internally recognized they are behind and need all their resources pulling in the same directions towards responding to the OpenAI/Microsoft threat.

It also seems to signal that they won't have their answer to Bing in the short term. As they say, nine women can't make a baby in a month and adding people to a late project makes it later.
So statistically [0], expect this product to be shut down in 2027?

[0] https://gcemetery.co/google-product-lifespan/
Cant believe when i heard this news of google lacking ai development despite being front runner in tech for too long and with all that talent under the hood.

How times changes or is it true that nothing good lasts long?
For more of the story behind the development of the iAPX 432, check out "iAPX432 : Gordon Moore, Risk and Intel’s Super-CISC failure":

https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/iapx432-gordon-moore-ri...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35412342
One of the first things Zelensky did after Russia invaded was to outlaw all other political parties.

The U.S. government is fully supportive of this one party state.

It's all realpolitik. Our leaders would never let a country's system of government override its usefulness to us. The Cold War is awash with examples of us supporting terrible dictators who aligned with us against the USSR.
AI will take our developer jobs – now what?
> Evil is a useless word for psychologists

And psychology is useless in a debate on morality. And therefore, unless you prove your antecedent of evil being an illness, when discussing crime.
Their Pulitzer [0] was for this series [1] about China's detention of Uighur Muslims.

[0] https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/megha-rajagopalan-alison-ki...
[1] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/meghara/china-new-inter...
> “One foot on the brake, One foot on the gas”.

Back in the days this could also be used for performance reasons, to keep the turbo on, preventing it from needing to kick in again upon re-acceleration out of of the corner (back then turbo lag was huge and the "kick" was hard to control).

This technique was known to be very harsh on the engine but some races pilots would do it anyway.
I wouldn't put it in carbonara, but Marcella Hazan's recipe[1] includes it and she's about as big of a "pasta sauce authority figure" as you're likely to find.

[1] https://www.latimes.com/recipe/marcella-hazans-spaghetti-car...
Yep, I was thinking of initramfs on /boot vs. direct root fs mounting, not GRUB vs. LILO.
Presumably named a la The Compleat Angler (a book on fishing from 1653).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Compleat_Angler
IMO both Webb's deployment and this Starship test can both be kick-ass displays of engineering prowess. Kick-assery doesn't have to be exclusive to fully-completed deep-space missions!
True. Very true.
These are pretty tall claims but I'm not finding sources to back them up
> Snow tires don't hold a candle to...

Yeah. They do.

I've driven pretty much every combination of FWD, RWD, 4WD, and AWD, with and without snow tires, in a variety of winter conditions. The "other tires" were regular all seasons, not high performance summer tires or anything.

RWD with all seasons is really bad in snow, and mine generally didn't leave the parking lot in winter, because it simply couldn't. When you can start it, put it in reverse, let the clutch out, get out, and watch a wheel turning without the car having moved an inch, it's not a good day to take that car.

FWD with all seasons is better, because there's typically more weight over the drive wheels, but they're not great in snow.

4WD/AWD with all seasons (I lump them together because while there are some differences, it doesn't matter in typical snow) is far better, and hysterically fun to drive (drift all the wide corners), but it's still somewhat tricky in snow. And, yes, you do get better braking with 4WD, because the front brakes slow the rear wheels too (most of the braking force is on the front wheels, especially at initial application). The catch is that when you lock the wheels, you lock all four and have zero guidance, vs just locking the front and at least continuing mostly straight (or, usually, whatever the local downhill is).

FWD or RWD with snow tires is, by far, better than AWD with all seasons.

And then AWD/4WD with snow tires is just a case of "What snow?"
There exists regulated markets in which businesses are not free to do anything they want. Banking is already regulated and is a necessity in modern world. Essential banking services should be treated like a utility.
I was taking a VLSI design course around that time; our instructor came into class with a fist-size block of plexiglass, with an iAPX 432 chipset embedded in it. A gift from Intel. The chips were HUGE.

I have Elliot Organick's book on the 432. It is not fun reading.
Just changed the break btw! Now it says 'Next:' in the title and displays the description as suggested :)
I actively avoid imgur anyway because of the insane amount of JS