skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Part of the insane costs of satellites comes from the launch cost: If the launch is expensive, the satellite needs to work, and it needs to last. If every kg you launch is $$$, it's worth using much more expensive materials to make it lighter.

If the launch is closer to the price of shipping a parcel internationally, you can cut a lot of corners. No more specially optimized titanium parts where cheap sheet metal will do. No more space-rated parts at 100x markup, launch with off the shelf parts, see what fails, and iterate based on that.

No more designing for super redundancy and quintuple-checking everything, if it fails let it fall out of orbit and send up a new one (LEO satellites deorbit reasonably quickly, so not a major "orbital waste" concern).
How to add Generative AI to your SaaS product
Every founder and product leader is asking themselves: “how can I add Generative AI to my offering?” And yet, only a few will get it right. Others will waste R&D effort and disrupt focus. So what can you do to make sure that your efforts are worth it?
Libraries are very nice for focused solo work, but all the ones I have been to are supposed to be quiet places. If you need to join meetings and talk they don't work very well.
There's a fix for that. Unfortunately it needs to be reapplied on every reboot:

sudo sh -c "echo 1000000 > /proc/sys/vm/max_map_count"
"The libraries wanted to make porn available to kids"

I couldn't find that mentioned anywhere in the linked article...?
I don't think LLMs are over [0]. I think we're relatively close to a local optimum in terms of what can be achieved with current algorithms. But I think OpenAI is at least as likely as any other player to create the next paradigm, and that it's at least as likely as likely as any other player to develop the leading models within the next paradigm regardless of who actually publishes the research.

Separately, I think OpenAI's current investors have a >10% chance to hit the 100x cap on their returns. Their current models are already good enough to address lots of real-world problems that people will pay money to solve. So far they've been much more model-focused than product-focused, and by turning that dial toward the product side (as they did with ChatGPT) I think they could generate a lot of revenue relatively quickly.

[0] Except maybe in the sense that future models will be predominantly multimodal and therefore not strictly LLMs. I don't think that's what you're suggesting though.
What about Blender foundation?
Can’t find the quote at the moment, but I believe one of the Belleville Three - either Atkins or May - claimed that techno was a rejection of Motown. So it was clearly on their minds, at least, even if they would have denied its influence at the time.
I was hoping that the title "Community Is the Future of AI" would refer to the exciting community that's growing around Generative AI in SF. There was an awesome hackathon this past weekend and a fun networking event on Friday. "Cerebral Valley" (not sure if this is a company or an unofficial org of people from hacker houses) is a major (but certainly not the only) source of such events [1]. VCs, Twitter influencers, early-stage founders, and college grads have all been organizing other events, and so far, it's been a magical community (and hopefully this community is a net positive for the future of AI).

[1] https://cerebralvalley.ai/
"(fact) America is a single market with a single language with basically a single set of regulations."

I'm probably being pedantic, but: the "single set of regulations" really is an oversimplification. Each state has it's own rules in addition to Federal regulations (trying selling cars in California that meet Federal emissions standards, but not California's). Plus, there are state taxes to consider.
Lets laugh and watch him make the "truth social" of AI, hopefully setting fire to another few billion in the process.
I would bet that Apple would still require developers to sign their apps, like they do on macOS.

That means you that if a vendor does something particularly egregious, stuff akin to malware, they can pull the certificate for that vendor. They don’t do that often: IIRC, they’ve only done that in macOS a handful of times.
What about a way to sign the new key with the old key?

If the host presents a new key, plus a signature from the old key which you already trusted, then your system switches to trusting the new key?

I can see that there are problems in that if you don't attempt to log in between when the new key is issued and the old key expires, then you won't be able to trust the switch and will have to re-authenticate via external means. That might be a problem, but it might be easier for some groups of people to manage than figuring out a whole new CA model?
they ought to have neck protection for sports like this
Is signal on iOS safer than signal on Android?
1. misleading headline. Should be "Breaking LUKS Encryption" (e.g. by brute force)

2. this is basically an advertisement
In case people are interested, I wrote a post about fault tolerance strategies of data systems like Spark and Flink: https://github.com/marsupialtail/quokka/blob/master/blog/fau...

The key difference here is that these systems don't store data, so fault tolerance means recovering within a query instead of not losing data.
...which pretty much ends democracy. Without the ability to criticize a government in power, one cannot build opposition. Hence, there is no democracy.
This is definitely possible to do in reverse. Unfortunately, the thing that makes the Python-MongoDB translation so easy is that Python provides utilities to parse and lex the Python source code. If you were to translate from MongoDB back to Python, you would have to construct the AST yourself. You can use `ast.unparse` to convert a Python AST into Python source code. The main issue that I find with aggregations is that they are prefix rather than infix notation. Converting them to infix perhaps could make them easier to understand as well?
One of the more bizarre parts of the Musk-Twitter saga has been Musk's unyielding support for censorship of tweets critical of Modi. [1] I don't really understand why someone who claims to be dedicated to free speech would ever take such a position? Does he intend for his "Everything App" to dominate South Asia rather than North America?

[1] https://theintercept.com/2023/03/28/twitter-modi-india-punja...
> Batman and X-Men comics are not the focus of these types of book bans

They never are. But hey, while we're at it, can we ban the bible, too? It's quite a violent book.
In my experience if works then it works; I can't recall any specific instance in almost 20 years of wine usage where it works fine for the first hour and then stops working at some specific point, although I'm sure there are instances where this is the case. I don't think it's a significant factor, especially because there are often multiple reports.
How Large-Language Models Can Revolutionize Military Planning
Databag adds federated video and audio calling
Have you seen the performance of standard ruby and python web frameworks in comparison? It's a massive difference
> If privatisation means opening up a line of business to all comers, it's good.

Not always. Often when this happens, it's just a race to the bottom.
Yes. One of the frontiers of current research seems to be multi-modal models.
Actually, I'm confused. They talk about running it in LXC containers, but where exactly he installs Portainer is still a mystery to me. Furthermore, the screenshots show a lot of VM icons, not CT icons. So where is this person using LXC?

edit: Wait, did they install docker/portainer on Proxmox bare metal? They say to access Portainer through the Proxmox host IP, but any CT or VM created on Proxmox would probably have its own IP on a Proxmox bridge. So the IP should be the IP of the VM/CT hosting the docker install, not the Proxmox host.
A clear case of inmates running the asylum.
I believe Altman, but the title is misleading.

Have we exhausted the value of larger models on current architecture? Probably yes. I trust OpenAI would throw more $ at it if there was anything left on the table.

Have we been here before? Also yes. I recall hearing similar things about LSTMs when they were in vogue.

Will the next game changing architecture require a huge model? Probably. Don’t see any sign these things are scaling _worse_ with more data/compute.

The age of huge models with current architecture could be over, but that started what, 5 years ago? Who cares?
Income demographics are almost certainly part of it, sure. I expect iOS also makes users feel safer or more comfortable spending money than Android does, and that the average iOS device in the wild is generally more pleasant to use than the average Android device. There could also be age-related demographic factors contributing (that is, Android users may skew older, and older people might spend less on software, and may tend to use their devices far less than younger smartphone owners—this is just a guess, though)

Whatever the reasons, iOS device owners use their devices a lot more, and spend a lot more money through them, than Android users, on average.
We run it on our VAX.

The article also says:

"I don't think anyone else is working on new protocol features; instead, OpenSSH comes up with them and then people with other SSH implementations either follow along or not."

One obvious exception is curve25519-sha256@libssh.org which is the preferred kex.
Hate is such a strong word… I personally prefer Windows 11 to the jumbled mess that MacOS has recently become. Windows Subsystem for Linux is a major improvement over the BSD junk running on Macs. The tabloid headlines and Edge are annoying but it’s easy enough to turn that stuff off.
I would certainly prefer to drive on a JICA-built bridge than a OBOR one.
Also:

> Mr. Thursfield has done much of the renovation work himself, including woodworking.
India has some previous experience with censorship. Maybe we will end up with "The Emergency: Part II"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emergency_(India)
How do you reconcile the premise of democracy (that the general public will be able to discern and organize for good) with calls to supervise what opinions they can be exposed to?
Sweden starts largest military exercise in over 25 years
Well, it's kind of a well-worn whine, with me. If you browse through my history, you'll see me mention it, from time to time.

TL;DR: I worked four jobs, in my career, with the last one being 27 years (25 of them as a manager, as well as tech). That was at a pretty highfalutin joint (a famous Japanese imaging company).

I finally got laid off, at 55, and started looking for work, and found the culture had changed drastically (I actually had done fairly well at keeping up with the tech, as that was my job). Old people like me, were very unpopular.

The interview process was pretty damn humiliating. It was made clear, that, even if some company did me the huge favor of granting me a job, I would be treated like crap. It was personal. People didn't like me, because of my age. In a couple of cases, they didn't bother hiding it, at all.

I decided "Bugger this for a lark," and retired early. I had the means, but hadn't been planning on it, for at least another decade.

As it has turned out, it was a blessing in disguise. Being able to do my own designs, process, and releasing, has been a joy. I've had to keep the scope humble, but it's really been great. I'm working with a nonprofit startup, where I'm actually helping a few younger folks to learn the ins and outs of what it takes to ship software.

I like working. I would have been happy to work for a great deal less than most folks, was willing to take risks on startups (as I was already set, anyway), had thirty years' experience shipping, would have been loyal, honorable, and had a fairly vast array of skills and experience, but, you know...eewww...gray hair...
> The lengths of their months were fixed and they had a 13th "intercalary" month that got inserted every few years to keep the months roughly in line with the seasons.

This is precisely how the current Hebrew calendar works.
The Progress of Reading (2018)
The real problem is that most people cannot tell whether they're buying proper encryption or snake oil.
> don't generally include dining in private establishments anymore than they do dining in private homes

That's an interesting hypothesis but it doesn't stand up to scrutiny. A private establishment isn't a home (indeed, there are often zoning laws against conflating the two, lest business interfere with neighbors' domestic tranquility).

Owning a business, including the protections under the law and the separation of the fate of the business from the fate of its owner, are protections granted under the law that are privileges, not rights. They are contingent and revokable. The same governing authority that lets government demand you not dump toxic waste in the river behind your factory lets it demand you serve every citizen who can afford your fees and has not transgressed in a non-protected way against you.

I agree that in the '30s we reinterpreted the general welfare. I like to tell people we're basically on US version 3 now. To our credit, we pulled this one off without the bloody civil war it took to hammer out version 2. But like the change to version 2, it was also quite necessary; we'd tried ad-hoc'ing a functional nation of millions together using massive individual liberty and we got ourselves a Great Depression for our troubles.

> Segregation in publicly funded institutions (so far as these are themselves legitimate) is unacceptable

The bus boycott wasn't about that. Nor were the lunch-table sit-ins. These were all parts of the civil rights movement.

> I'm not nearly as sure as you are that it would be a markedly more violent one.

As I said, you have more to learn from a closer study of the history of the civil rights movement. It was never about mere government equality; this is a government of the people, and those who fought for equality rightly recognized they would never get it without the hearts and minds of the people changing (something that, history has since shown, is a slow process but one that can be accomplished modulo outliers).

> Any obligation or consent should always be explicit.

Oh, it's quite explicit. Form a corporation, and here's the whole set of federal, state, and local laws you're now obligated to comply with. It's quite a bit more than the private citizen complies with.

... and you've completely dodged the fact that though we are born naked, the skin we're born into matters in this society, still. While that is still true, we impose obligations on our citizenry to make it less so specifically because we believe people should have the freedom to do that which injures no-one else... Such as share a lunch counter with a stranger in a restaurant that serves the public.
This makes no sense.

Democracy is not going to die because people spread false information.

Newspapers have had the monopoly on spreading whatever information they deemed correct (whether it turned out to be or not) for decades and have now lost that and they are pissed.

This is why there is a rise in apparent outcry that all of a sudden anyone and everyone can spread their message broadly where only a handful of organizations could do it before.

There's is no crisis in democracy. As long as the same tools are free to be used to counter whatever fact you think is false then you are free to have an open debate and correct the record.

The government having the power to decide who can say what and what is "true" or "false"... That's the real risk of bringing death to democracy.
pretty sure teslaquila was the closer parallel, but as always, life imitates art
Fair, though it seems more like Google just got in their own way with G+ by keeping it invite only for waaaaay too long.
It's always nice to hear Mr. Musk has not given up his cannabis habit.
To train and productionize large-scale AI you need people who are good at algorithms and data structures.
https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/new-ru...
Is there a citation for this:

> In one recently relevant example, one reason Github didn't take advantage of OpenSSH's protocol extension for offering multiple host keys (to enable upgrades or transitions) is that they don't use OpenSSH but instead a different implementation.

? I thought GitHub didn't use the host-key-migration capability because the host key change was implemented on a semi-emergency basis. I mean, in this case I don't think you'd want to start a host-key migration without announcing it, and GitHub wanted off of the exposed RSA host key very quickly.
Interesting, because Indian Government recently jailed an independent fact checker for a tweet he made 4 years ago.

This new body seems to be a tool to suppress dissent and promote the fake news machinery Government and the ruling party is notorious for.

https://www.cnbctv18.com/india/alt-news-pratik-sinha-mohamma...
It already is relatively trivial to fine-tune generative models for various use cases. Which implies huge gains to be had with targeted applications not just for niche players but also OpenAI and others to either build that fine-tuning into the base system, build ecosystems around it, or just purpose build applications on top.
for now at least:

HOW AN ACCOUNT CAN BE OWNED

Individual Account
An Account may only be owned by one person.

Payable-On-Death (“POD”) Designation
You may designate one or more beneficiaries (up to six) to receive the funds upon your death for your Account.

from https://www.goldmansachs.com/terms-and-conditions/Deposits-A...
Unchecked Censorship by the government can be a problem, but I find it hard to take voices in this space on face value since they are often the most vocal cheerleaders when a government or political party they like is doing the censorship since it's "Human rights" not politics.

Given the dissolving line between Social media and the Town square, who should be the arbiters of speech on Social media?

A committee appointed from "Interest groups" with all the right "credentials" and "expertise"? Effectively an incestous group with circular pats on the backs.

A separate body elected by the people just for this purpose?

Something else?
I find that forums are often some of the most useful results. The posts are typically written by genuine people, many of whom are passionate about the subject matter.

Reliability can be an issue, but the medium at least provides a number of context clues to help. Seeing how individuals write and interact is helpful when judging how much weight to give to their words.

Converting those forum posts into a generic and overly confident interface strips away useful information.
"The Children's Bible" is one of the titles on the list.
Perhaps the multi-master approach is the example of system where incoherent does not mean terminal illnesses.
In my opinion, SQS shouldn't be on that list.

You save a lot of time and resources just using SQS instead of setting up your own servers. And the lock-in is not as problematic as Lambdas etc.

It doesn't require much code change to move to an alternative message queue (RabbitMQ etc.), so the lock-in is minimal. In my projects, I just need to change a few lines of configuration code and the actual message processing code should remain the same.
> Democracy is not going to die because people spread false information.

That is exactly what is going to happen. People do not have the tools to discern truth given plausible misinformation.

> you are free to have an open debate and correct the record.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini's_law

> The government having the power to decide who can say what and what is "true" or "false"...

Indeed, that is a risk, but not the only risk.
I think you mean Stross
Nice catch! We sampled the github dataset to match the total # tokens seen by LLaMA during training: ~64B tokens (they only pass through 0.64 of their total Github dataset according to the paper). We have a lot of Github data and will make them available soon. Note, we also have not built this for compute optimal training. We are following LLaMA's lead and are training on more data for longer to optimize for quality, not compute.
> Fidel Castro [...] seemed to bow out in a graceful attempt to preserve his long-term legacy.

He ruled for nearly fifty years and his successor was his brother. Certainly no part of that can be described as "bowing out", gracefully or not ;-)
They have plenty of choices, like not doing crime or participate in black markets, what are you talking about.
March 8th. This feature was rolled back.
The two examples above are cases where he was correct actually.
> he pretty much admitted he's not an AI

Yeah, I also had a hunch he wasn't an AI. (I assume you meant "AI researcher" there :))

All joking aside, I wonder how that's affecting company morale or their ability to attract top researchers. I know if I was a top AI researcher, I'd probably rather work at a company where the CEO was an expert in the field (all else being equal).
Not sure how true it is but an Asian friend told me the race that an Asian hates the most is another Asian...

Looking at the immigration policies of China and Japan, I think he might be right.
my local libaries (king county, WA) have dedicated meeting rooms you can book online ahead of time!
By "marginal", I was thinking more of whether a BIOS is possible to ignore. The vast majority of PC owners never update their BIOS at all. If you buy a motherboard a couple years after its release, there may not be any significant updates from the manufacturer. It's not like the OS where you're downloading updates multiple times a month.

This is separate from the question of whether the BIOS should be open source. I'm inclined to think that it should, especially after the motherboard has been out for a few years.
GPT4 got a lot better at avoiding hallucinations, in my anecdotal experiences. But it ain't free yet.
Kishida incident shows protecting VIPs from lone wolves remains a tall order
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Something is wrong with this question[0]. It looks like the topic is Larry Sanger, one of the choices is Gerry Sanger, the "correct" answer is Jimmy Wales, and the explanation says Lawrence Sanger is the correct answer.

Something screwy here. Seems pretty good otherwise

[0]: https://i.imgur.com/Rht9jbu.png
Where do you look for a house in Italy or France?
The authors go to great lengths to insinuate, but not state outright, that these firms are replacing those laid-off workers with H1-B visa holders. They do this because the data is insufficient to draw said conclusion.

This data does exist for at least the top two firms discussed, because both Google and Meta are subject to the WARN Act and must provide public notice of the actual count of terminated employees broken out by job title, and the USCIS by necessity holds these records per-employee and -employer.

The argument for H-1B reform is compelling enough on its own merits, so it's unfortunate that "firm X laid off M people and hired Y people through H-1B" point is being used here. After all, these same firms hired more non-H-1B than they did H-1B employees during the same period.
Well, "no GPT-5" isn't the same as saying "no new trained model", especially in the realm of marketing. Welcome to "GPT 2024" could be his next slogan.
Read next: Slow Homecoming

https://airlightmagazine.org/airlight/issue-6/the-thread/
I'm curious to know what are the advantages of using those other implementations instead of OpenSSH. Was it mostly because Windows didn't have openssh? Or do they provide more features (or less! which could be good for security)? I have only ever used OpenSSH so I'm totally ignorant about everything else!