skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well right now it's just another website you have to go to with intent to use it like ChatGPT, but if Google built it into search it would get a ton of organic use from people doing things like googling error messages.

I'm not sure if this is what is planned of course, but that would be far more widely used than an otherwise siloed website you have to visit specifically.

Also remember that most people have at least never used ChatGPT, and most probably still haven't heard of it. We live in a tech bubble – none of my family had heard of it a few weeks ago. They all use Google search on a daily basis.
Maybe volumetric inefficiency is where "condensed" part of the announcement comes in? Just spitballing here, would love to know more details.
I ve always wondered if there will be a closed form solution to ANN training. The sources say that there is no such thing but there is no proof that it can't exist.
In Germany, Muslim students had their exams excused this week, when everyone else wrote them. They can take them next week
In the EU the "Right to be Forgotten" parts of GDPR and similar laws would likely apply:

"The data subject shall have the right to obtain from the controller the erasure of personal data concerning him or her without undue delay and the controller shall have the obligation to erase personal data without undue delay"

https://gdpr.eu/right-to-be-forgotten/

However, this case was in Canada and Google does not enforce this GDPR requirement outside the EU:

"we don’t apply these delistings to services for countries outside the EU."

https://support.google.com/legal/answer/10769224?hl=en
I hope this leads to a thriving open source ecosystem like f-droid (open source apps store) for iOS.
"Tech Bosses" are dictators and I'm always surprised that most people have absolutely zero intellectual challenge suspending the values of democracy for 8-12 hours a day.

Virtually all of the rights we learn about in grade school are suspended in the workplace. And while employees do have the ability to quit, they a.) still have to find some other dictator to work for and b.) are much more heavily impacted by a loss of income than the employer is the individual loss of skill.

So the dictators we work for day in and day out are aligned with other dictators. You aren't entitled to free speech in your office, so why would you expect to the people running your office to care about your free speech after hours?

edit: I'm still surprised that people are incapable of question the ideology that shapes your worldview. The very concept that "well you're working for someone else so the of course suspension of liberties is okay" is doctrine that you have been lead to believe since birth precisely because it benefits those people in power.
Yes indeed! I remember a store near me having B-17 bomber on the original 800, with it's synthesised voices and that was a glimpse into the future. I'll gloss over the ethics of a game about bombing cities, sold to children, but it was a more innocent age I guess.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-17_Bomber_(video_game)
I just did this for FF, worked like a charm! (I'm a programmer, but I've never put together a browser extension. This took 5min total.)
I have a BMI of 35 (obese) but have been weight training for 20 years and have a low body fat percentage.

It works as a rough guide as it is easer to calculate than body fat percentage. Most people that go to the gym don't have much muscle; so unless someone is a dedicated bodybuilder or powerlifter it's good enough. You can tell just by looking at someone if they have large amounts of body fat!
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ChatGPT will save the Flash, feed it with SWF spec, and it will create Flash player for you, maybe in year 2048...
Not entirely true. The resources devoted to making sure the backends for non-Linux platforms are correctly designed and implemented suffer a bit.

I say this as someone using GTK and who was forced to contribute quite a lot of fixes for the macOS backend (in GTK2), because I was one of the few people using it in the way we do on macOS.
Perhaps research should progress beyond combustion engines? Is blowing things up the only way? And my sense of wonder has been pretty much extinguished by the realization that space is a locus of human power dynamics and incorporation, not a utopian pursuit, but very selfish.
https://archive.ph/wz4Qb
Cool I'll look into this
Well said.

> If there was an annoying person then followed you around the mall, taking note of everything you bought so they could sell that list to the other stores in the mall for a profit, would you let them?

I use a credit card instead of cash, so I guess I have to answer yes to this one.
I don't disagree with the observation that fantasy entities like rebel alliance and the empire they are rebelling against are built using many of the same mechanisms brands are built with, and with similar goals (recognizability). But it's still ruining the focus of that list. Why not include dwarves? Or Robin Hood's merry men?

If it was "fictional logos", those star wars flags might have their place, but Atreides? Yeah, supposedly there's a falcon on their coat of arms, but I couldn't tell if that particular form is from the most recent movie, from a game or some fan art. And it's been only a few weeks since I've seen that movie, there can't be much visual brand going on if I don't recognize.
The window state is not the GTK devs problem but an app developer problem. One of the very first topics in the GNOME developer guide is how to use settings to save/restore window state on close/startup.

https://developer.gnome.org/documentation/tutorials/save-sta...
This isn't new it's just more obvious with this tech. Every sales team at nearly every company has been performing this dance for like hundreds of years.
Do you mean that this was probably an Ukrainian attack?
GPT leap-frogs ranking systems altogether by giving an answer without the user having to pilfer through results.
The same applies for all of Europe:

* "The [French] CNIL's guidance reflects the position of the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) and the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU)." [1]

* "although the CNIL’s decisions are only binding in France, these decisions should worry any website operators who have adopted similar cookie banner mechanisms to Facebook and Google in other European countries." [2]

[1] https://www.termsfeed.com/blog/french-cookie-compliance-2021...
[2] https://www.technologylawdispatch.com/2022/02/privacy-data-p...
Per the comment below some have companies formed around this work. Also, as long as they are spending that income locally they’re still bringing wealth to their country which is a good thing.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35654707
There are some links on my profile if you're curious.

Bonus:

1. Mark Karpeles has nothing to do with PIA:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21821832

2. Kape is a shit show:

https://old.reddit.com/r/PrivateInternetAccess/comments/11ej...

3. Jonathan Roudier has nothing to do with WeVPN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35561337

much more to come...
Indeed. I think it was Feynman who said something along the lines of "if you can't clearly explain something, you don't understand it."

From the pragmatic philosophical distinction, I've acquired an appreciation for distinctness that's as great as mine for clarity[1]. Incidentally, I always find it surprising how readable Peirce's popular works are.

[1] https://courses.media.mit.edu/2004spring/mas966/Peirce%20187...
The vulnerabilities in Flash were not in the SWF format or the AS APIs or their intended behavior. That was all rock-solid. They were in one particular proprietary implementation of Flash player. Ruffle won't have any memory-related vulnerabilities to begin with by virtue of being written in a memory-safe language.
Also this nonsense geoblock that still exists. I've already joined waitlist via Tor and then I was granted access. Yet when I visit bard.google.com without Tor I'm still informed that bard isn't supported in my country.
But it's the military, so you're going to have a lot more super muscly and jacked guys than the general population.

And it doesn't work well for the general population, anyway; it's a bad metric across the board. If you're very tall or very short, it misrepresents you. There are equally simple measures like waist-to-height ratio that have fewer issues.

See this article: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/265215#Waist-to-he...
The article is not about fraudsters
>Tough shit. China will just have to grow up.

Pretty funny reading the differences between this thread and the one from yesterday where Canada fined Google for not censoring information. In that one, people were all "Tough shit, Google has to follow the laws of countries they serve in! Not everyone is American, stupid Americans!"

Turns out, countries will have laws you disapprove of too!
So you gonna show me where the law carves out specific countries?

(4) Foreign election interference

The term “foreign election interference” means conduct by a foreign person that—

(A)

(i) violates Federal criminal, voting rights, or campaign finance law; or

(ii) is performed by any person acting as an agent of or on behalf of, or in coordination with, a foreign government or criminal enterprise; and

(B) includes any covert, fraudulent, deceptive, or unlawful act or attempted act, or knowing use of information acquired by theft, undertaken with the specific intent to significantly influence voters, undermine public confidence in election processes or institutions, or influence, undermine confidence in, or alter the result or reported result of, a general or primary Federal, State, or local election or caucus, including—

(i) the campaign of a candidate; or

(ii) a ballot measure, including an amendment, a bond issue, an initiative, a recall, a referral, or a referendum.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/22/2708#k_4
https://twitter.com/jaketropolis/status/1648802176762781702
You have my sympathy. I gave up on web development after CSS sucked all the fun out of it, and have stayed far away ever since.
Not only for AI, but for any other topic, you can reduce the noise while focusing on more interesting content within the same criteria. I am interested about AI/GPT (already building software using it and following their development) but you have to admit, SNR is low right now even in HN. The doomsday comments. The low quality substack armchair opinion piece about the end of humanity in the next week. The crazy tweets, etc. If you are actually interested in AI, you won't probably like these either.
This will hopefully change, like any other fad, and give their place for more interesting content on this same topic.
Not unhealthy, unless you don't drink enough before dawn
I am very worried about the potential impacts of AI across all societies. However, I think a reasonable argument can be made that providing all Kenyans access to the knowledge of ChatGPT could accelerate the nations development, rather than just eliminate all options. I’m not saying that is what will happen, but I am not sure AI futurists are lying to themselves. I don’t know how any side in this debate can be sure they are right. In fact, I think the best argument against the AI futurist argument is the wild uncertainty of what will happen and risks associated with that.
>It's much easier to build highly efficient hydrocarbon power stations - typical efficiencies range from 40-60%.

Just to expound on this. Power stations turn fuel to heat, and heat to electricity via steam turbines.

In ICE cars, that heat is the main loss of power. Whole systems in cars are built to get rid of that excess heat in the engine.
Once you've seen it happen you think to check for it pretty quickly.
The existence and popularity of sites like gasbuddy.com suggests that some number of people are willing to go out of their way to find the lowest price. I personally know people who will make a run to Costco for gas, even if they're not going to go in for groceries, because the price is good. There are at least a half dozen gas stations on the way to Costco.
There is some weak evidence out there that periodic fasting can induce a host of salutary changes in the GI-tract microbiome.

https://www.inverse.com/mind-body/fasting-gut-health-science
If you're not always looking for independent alternative sources of information and cross-checking claims from different sources while also looking for internal self-consistency then of course you're going to end up with a skewed perspective on reality engineered by some group of professional propagandists. Whether these PR specialists are working for governments or corporations in China, Russia or America is sort of besides the point.

There is a set of skills that's needed to objectively classify information that's found on the Internet or in other media sources (yes including books). Any rational democractic society would be wise to teach these skills to people from an early age, although certain groups (religious fundamentalists, corporate advertisers, government authoritarians etc.) would oppose this for obvious reasons.

The authoritarian elitist crowd doesn't seem to like it when the unwashed masses develop these skills; they'd prefer to have a population of brainwashed zombies who get all their propaganda from a government-provided list of 'acceptable sources' and who don't have the cognitive capacities and practical skills needed to independently test claims for veracity.
That example is wild. But I’m still pretty awed by the fact that we make similar verbal mistakes.

The temporal reasoning in these models is getting better than me. As a non-AI model, I notice this every single morning while I have my covefe while heeding the latest on slacker news.
It is a shame that it didn't lead them to stop smoking
Also, one factor to take into consideration is that the 9GW figure assumes that the refuelling is uniformly distributed throughout the 24 hours. That won't be true, I could believe peak usage being double the average. If that's true, the worst-case 9GW isn't what you need to work to, it's 18GW peak. If we go with the 2.6 billion vs 8 billion L ratio as telling us the true power requirement, that gets us back up to 2.925GW average, 5.85GW peak.
There are other unemployment measures you can go by if you don't like the one that "everyone" quotes.
> Every press? Nobody has ever proposed that

I was just using it as an example to illustrate why a micropayment button press is a different and more difficult decision than an upvote, because you asked why those decisions were different.

If you would not use them interchangeably, then of course they are different.
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Seems pretty much in line with what executives at other technology companies make. They are not in the bay area either. You can’t use FAANG as a measuring stick for everything.
I bet the weibo version is just a managed account by a pr person.
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Or to put it another way, look at the list of F500 companies, esp. F100, and notice how many of them are in fields like healthcare, foods, and oil & gas (plastics being a way to utilize leftovers from petroleum refinement).

Lots of money means marketing & propaganda campaigns to sway public opinion, and a swayed public opinion leads to voting in politicians friendly to corporate views.

Friendly politicos then are able to sway regulations in favor of corporations. From there you get Regulatory Capture, where the regulators are often handpicked by the industry they're ostensibly supposed to regulate.
When you instruct your browser to accept cookies for the few websites you log into, your browser is unable to limit acceptance only to the cookies that are strictly mandatory for proper functioning.

Instead, your browser will accept any cookie, including unnecessary ones, because it can't tell the difference.

Therefore, you cannot enforce consent at the browser level.
"Poverty exists not because we cannot feed the poor, but because we cannot satisfy the rich." - Anon.

I first began to encounter this when I as an idealistic teenager looked into why poverty/hunger still existed when we had enough food/money to wipe it out. Aid to low income countries often wouldn't get to the intended recipient. Their leaders would live like kings while kids would die from malnutrition. It just baffled me (still does) how someone could be so selfish.

Then I realized we in the US have it just around the corner. I knew someone who worked at a "remedial" high school where the kids struggled with hunger, homelessness, and addiction. All the schools in the area would shuffle any kid in danger of flunking to make sure their numbers looked good. They lived in neighborhoods I as a middle-class person would never venture into. We just do a good job sweeping massive poverty in the US under the rug.

This was a middle of the road state - then you look at states such as Mississippi and you wonder how we can live with ourselves.
I believe Tesla is going to execute exceptionally well in this regard with Tom Zhu running automotive. Like Elon, he is obsessed with execution and this is his entire focus.

Legacy automakers are run by management where this is not their life. No judgement, just an observation of force behind market participants.

With that said, energy is rapidly eclipsing the automotive business. Lathrop Megafactory has a two year book of work ahead of it, and Tesla will shortly be building another Megapack factory in China to keep up (Lathrop went from groundbreaking to production in a year).

https://ir.tesla.com/corporate/tom-zhu

https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article...

https://insideevs.com/news/630323/elon-musk-tom-zhu-comments...

https://electrek.co/2023/04/19/tesla-reports-massive-increas...
Unplayable. Took 4 tries for the correct spelling of Duck Hunt.
>Digital equivalents of nuclear weapons in the hands of people incompetent enough to fail rescuing hostages from Iran in the 70s.

Terrible analogy. I recall reading one of the soldiers who died on that mission had an American flag strapped to his chest.

Despite the failure and loss of life, Carter authorized another rescue mission that never happened. The engineering and planning that went into both were staggering.

What arose from the aftermath was the most elite helicopter aviation regiment in the world.

Oh, and the US also had nuclear weapons for some thirty five years already by the time that mission had taken place.
I’ve yet to see an llm score well on non-verbal iq tests like https://www.creativeorgdesign.com/tests/non-verbal-iq-test/
I agree, thats exactly the dynamics I'm worried about; AI only makes it marginally worse because you don't even need operators to push kill buttons...
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We also cut staff without notice in the US
I think the utility of memory editing is that training is slow and costly; updating is cheap and fast. Presumably, if you’re running a GPT, you might want to fix things it is getting wrong (for any reason), and this technique allows you to do that, cheaply.
It seems pretty stupid.

You could excuse not having adapted to, say, AI-assisted tools yet. The industry has to figure out best methods, then it has to trickle out so the younger instructors know about, and then it has to be propagated out to everybody, standardized, etc.

But word processors that could ignore fonts and provide word counts were pretty old tech by 2010! If you haven’t adapted your teaching to something that’s been widespread for decades… that seems like a willful ignorance.
https://ev-database.org/cheatsheet/energy-consumption-electr...
I've asked bard some coding questions around winapi that I've asked ChatGPT the last few weeks. So far not only does it give incorrect answers, it seems super confident in telling me the wrong thing.

E.g, does SendInput send to a background window? It told me not only does it but it is the only way to do it and then gave me examples where it got a handle to a window but then didn't even use it.

A few months ago this would be super impressive but after using ChatGPT there is no reason that I've found why I'd want to use an inferior AI.
Not entirely pointless. As a professional developer, I appreciate not having to support apps across multiple stores. And Apple’s rules have made it easier to explain to clients “yeah ‘sorry’ we can’t do [evil and/or privacy invading feature]. It’s against the App Store rules.”

I totally understand and empathize with the “it’s the user’s device, they should be able to do what they want with it” argument. I just have also appreciated the professional fringe benefits of the walled garden.

I do wish there was some way all the cool apps could run free while the ones we put up with are locked down and restricted even harder. Absolutely no one should install a side loadable version of the Facebook app.
It's really a shame that there is no 8-bit float support in the WebGPU spec. Even though few cards support it natively, it'd still massively benefit ML workloads.

Another annoying constraint but specific to wgpu (Rust's implementation of WebGPU) is that it does not support f16 yet (which IS in the spec), only through SPIR-V passthrough...
Sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen.
I don't think that's healthy either. For instance, I broke the fast on sunset, with water, some fruits and something else I don't remember. In the morning I started the fast with a couple of dates, a handful of shelled peanuts, and water.

By the time Eid comes, I feel my "hunger hormones" have gone back to normal, allowing me to get full with just the amount I need. No more, no less.
It's pretty amazing that after it has become unambiguously clear that there are no herd immunity benefits at all to be realized from the COVID vaccines, many still have the perspective that there is some communal protection benefit that one contributes to by taking the shots.
Lets see what the folks who say "this will create new,better jobs" have to say on how this will help the affected people.
Have you ever occurred to you that it might be the other way around? There was always one monotheistic religion and God, but then things got sidetracked and people started making stuff up.

Also, Moon is relevant in Islam, as a calendar and timekeeping, nothing to be worshipped.

Also, All Monotheistic Religions have had fasting (the 3 big ones that survived so far) but again, the worst enemy of the people is their own selves and not the devil, and thus they modified what was given to them.
The three insurgent groups acted across two campaings (two hot war phases). The first phase was dealing with Dudayev & Maskhadov and their following specifically. The second phase acted on the Kadyrovs group and the Khattab & Basayev group. The former essentially were bought out and negotiated out of the war via rivalry with Maskhadov, financial incetives, and several regional autonomy promises (they have their own militia and army divisions like the 141 Special Motorized Regiment). The latter Khattab group effectively became the most prominent force during the second phase, it had several field commanders from Middle East who organized acts of terror in major Russian cities. [1] The war ended with elimination of all the leaders and field commanders of the two separatist groups.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_al-Khattab
The publishers are working hard to give the term "open-access" a bad reputation in the scientific community, by charging researchers extortionate fees.
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Only 16 weeks?