skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not an arbiter of what's right and wrong. I'm just some guy who gets to decide which rights I'll stand up and defend, and which ones I'll allow to lapse. My reasons are irrelevant to whether my behavior contributes to the emergence or dissolution of rights (but I think they happen to be deontological arguments anyway).

Bodily autonomy, I'll defend in all cases, no need to argue that one here.

Property, not so much. It's part of a bargain. If the people with an outsized share of the property don't exercise their control over surpluses to ensure some degree of decency for all (which they haven't) then they're in breach of the social contract, and is time for a discontinuity in property rights that gives us a different set of people to try out the same contact on.
Cloud Native: Are We Paying Too High a Price?
Finnish daily uses shooter videogame to dodge Russia's press restrictions
Explaining and Interpreting “AI Anxiety”
It was interesting...except that it omitted SVG entirely. So one should take it with a grain of salt.
Have you tried to navigate AWS in general? Boggles my mind that they have built so much infrastructure on top of what is a truly awful UI.
People seem to have forgotten how Chrome captured the desktop market to begin with.
For many many years it was effectively almost impossible to download freeware without accidentally installing Chrome. Sites like download.com and even sourceforge wrapped everything in custom installers that would automatically include free trial of an antivirus, maybe some adware, and Google Chrome, unless you were aware and clicked the secret hidden opt-out link that was almost the same color as the background.
It is what helps one understand that demand and supply are not only things that dictate the price of even a very common goods, even in absence of advertisement.

Affluence of customers play a huge role.
> captive and lazy

This is my experience 100%
I have no problems with MS making Bing Chat a "feature" of Edge.
Nope. Tons of shops on taobao ship from abroad. Go where the customers are.
They’re unsure whether it’s from the planet or the star. Can’t they just check whether it’s from an ion of water or the stable molecule? (Which IIRC is a question of the spectra observed.) I remember from undergrad the chemistry in stars would often have pretty extreme ionizations like OH^-12. If it’s a high ionization and still on the planet that seems unlikely to be habitable as we know it (or something fleeting from a lightning strike).
Sounds like they are banking on keeping the "proof-of-origin" culture under tight control, distributed only to authorized cheese manufacturers. This is similar to how AACS decryption keys are only distributed to authorized Blu-Ray equipment manufacturers.
> They could literally destroy Microsoft if they started to hugely degrade the experience of Microsoft products on iOS and Android with dark patterns a la Microsoft

How? I mean, how does a degraded experience on android cause people to abandon windows desktops?

I just don't see the connection here: if Google, tomorrow, outright rejected any MSFT software on android phones, how does it hurt windows desktop deployment numbers? Maybe if everyone switched to Mac, but that would kill of android too...

This is what a working monopoly looks like. We've seen before this exactly how much crap users would put up with on the desktop, and still they didn't abandon windows.

There is nothing the mobile market can do that they haven't already tried to take windows market share.

In fact, there is nothing that the mobile world can do to Windows users that is worse than what Microsoft did to them, and yet those users are still chugging along happily paying for Windows every year.
Links from Google maps and Gmail open in Firefox for me. I'm on android 13.
Show HN: PuzzleMoji, a daily emoji pictionary challenge against ChatGPT
My friends and I have been discussing what kinds of games we can play with GPT that aren't typically serviced by a game specific engine. This was my take -- here ChatGPT is the guesser and you provide a 3 emoji clue.
My point is that Vercel's markup is higher than what's listed if Vercel is paying less than retail. As a specific example, if Vercel is paying Neon 10¢/GB/month for storage, Vercel's markup vs. their costs is 200% instead of 150%.
> Passive surveillance resistance is also a big use case of TLS.

For much of the internet this is not protected as people use Chrome that performs passive surveillance.

For me, I’ve accepted passive surveillance for routine day to day activities. So I don’t care if my http traffic is analyzed by Starbucks or anyone. My TLS traffic is deep inspected by google through chrome, at work it’s literally MITM’d and inspected by IT, and at home the dns data is tracked by my ISP or google or maybe not cloudflare depending on my DNS, and otherwise inspected through host headers by my ISP and everyone in between.

I don’t think this is even a factor in deciding if my site is http or https.
Windows has a configurable default web browser too.

If you click a link in any other application, it will open whatever browser you've set up as your default in the system settings. Microsoft just went out of their way to explicitly always open Edge.
NOTHING mentioned on this page can't be done natively or with extensions in other browsers. What is so revolutionary about it?

And I won't even mention the landing page for the browser itself which is just 2 page scrolls of "Arc is a browser and more..." with signup links for the wainting list, no description of what it is, what it does, nothing.
it is business as usual for execs to generate hype (increase share price temporarily).
One huge difference is that the $8.6 billion number probably included all the BTC and ETH that they were supposed to have and that was deposited with them. Those were actually liquid and worth a lot. When FTX failed they didn’t have the BTC and ETH people had deposited with them. The theory is that FTX/Alameda used it all to pump tokens they owned, buy real estate and make deals, and of course losing trades. No one in crypto values this new list at 7.3 billion. It’s actually a source of much ridicule and hilarity if it is similar to that list I posted.
Thanks, forgot where the analogy came from and should have taken the time to source it.
So long passwords, thanks for all the phish
>The notion "This can't be all thought is" is as old as the idea of AI.

Older still:

>It must be confessed, moreover, that perception, and that which depends on it, are inexplicable by mechanical causes, that is, by figures and motions, And, supposing that there were a mechanism so constructed as to think, feel and have perception, we might enter it as into a mill. And this granted, we should only find on visiting it, pieces which push one against another, but never anything by which to explain a perception. This must be sought, therefore, in the simple substance, and not in the composite or in the machine.

- Leibniz, 1714
This info is valuable. I subscribe to a lot of software's release notes, which very frequently have RSS feeds.
I don't know who would make such a monstrous HTML page UT I'm pleasantly surprised that once it loaded my phone can interact with it just fine.

Someone should probably tell Amazon that hyperlinks allow linking to other HTML documents, though, because that's a ridiculously long page.
I can send you an invite!

edit: sent.
humans are constantly reinforced from childhood that making confident claims about things we don't actually know well is often going to have negative consequences

If only that were universally true!
20 years ago this was a problem you could blame exclusively on MS. These days, they'd be negligent not to leverage their platforms to promote other products because the competition (Google/Apple) does so on a similar level.
Lots of people, perhaps. But not enough. Or not enough media coverage to reach enough people.

I was there marching in DC and even my close friends and family (in suburban DC) seemed to be unaware of the protests. I thought, surely, with 100,000 people protesting in the city, Black Bloc hanging from streetlights, speeches from celebrities, Jesse Jackson, a former Defense Secretary, etc., that it would pop up on the local news. I never heard about it.
There's just barely enough time on the middle and last levels to double back even with the faster clock movement for going the wrong direction. Fun little challenge
I second this recommendation to start with llama.cpp. It can run on a regular laptop and it gives a sense of what's possible.

If you want access to a serious GPU or TPU, then the sensible solution is to rent one in the cloud. If you just want to run smaller versions of these models, you can achieve impressive results at home on consumer grade gaming hardware.

The FastChat framework supports the Vicuna LLM, along with several others: https://github.com/lm-sys/FastChat

The Oobabooga web interface aims to become the standard interface for chat models: https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui

I don't see any indication that OpenLLaMa will run on either of those without modification. But one of those, or some other framework may emerge as a de-facto standard for running these models.
The Stanford paper's title ends with a question mark.

Are Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models a Mirage?, (2023)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.15004
If not convincing what argument for and against do you think is the strongest?
> we know how the English crown got to rule over Wales, Scotland and N. Ireland

That's true for Wales and Northern Ireland, but the original union of the crowns had the Scottish king becoming the king of both England and Scotland.

But yeah the US equivalent might be insulting the constitution or even the flag.
Totally agree. My management mostly is interested in estimates and deadlines . They never engage in discussions about productivity or quality. This results in people continuing ineffective processes and other systems. It also encourages people to make tests pass at any cost or close tickets even when there are deeper problems that should be resolved.

In short, the focus on estimates
Sumopaint X – WebAssembly painting web app with integrated Stable Diffusion
Long story short. Sumopaint used to be Flash based painting app. When Adobe killed Flash obviously there was a challenge: how to rewrite the app.

Few years ago we tried HTML5 approach but we weren't able to match the Flash version. The result was "ok" but many users were disappointed. Then we discovered WebAssembly and started rewriting from scratch. Now we are quite happy with it, although there are still many things we are going to improve.

Tech stack:
- C++ OpenGL ES2 graphics engine compiled with Emscripten
- React UI

AI features:
- Stable Diffusion generate, reimagine, instruct
- Remove background
- Upscale and enhance faces

Special features
- Symmetry
- Gravity
- Spinner Mode
- Perspective tool
- Object remove (our own patch matching algorithm)
- Coloring mode

Imports:
- JPG, PNG, WebP, PDF, SVG

Exports:
- JPG, PNG, SUMO, PDF

- Optimised for Chromebooks
- Optimised for iPad + Apple Pencil
- Supports all browsers (as we know of)

This application can be integrated to 3rd party services for product customization purposes. There are already some examples of this, such as you can design fishing lures (unique.kuusamo.app).

We're currently working on some audio features (yes!) and support for 3D objects (you can paint directly on the object).
Changes in gold reserves are missing from chart too.
"Probably" is doing a lot of work for you there. So far as I know, there is no reason to suppose that the chemical composition of the earth's crust is significantly higher in gold at deeper levels.
Could but who’s going to verify that they are not just feeding them garbage?
Russia Says Shot Down Ukrainian Drones Targeting Putin
My daily driver is Firefox but I also have Chrome open (for Google products) and Vivaldi for personal surfing. Easy switch considering I'm already juggling browsers.
Ok... care to explain why?
No, .com isn't implicitly USA centric, it's just the internet default. You mention .us yourself but then dismiss it because reasons.

Your American bias is just shining through, where of course you're not surprised.
I don't understand how to play, I seem to lose right after I get the key every time..
No matter how good am AI system gets we can rely on hacker news commenters highlighting hallucinations and saying “it’s only doing a simple <whatever> task” while totally ignoring whatever the system is actually capable of.

I agree that the goalposts will be moving for a long time (at least for some people)
But they didn’t. There were PWAs of the most popular Google products that worked just fine in Windows Phone.

Microsoft didn’t do the same with theirs. Outlook didn’t get an Android version until late 2015, Edge took a few years to arrive, and Bing Maps never made it.
I concur. Strangely enough for me to say — Arc changed the way I look at browsers. The UX is so much different and enjoyable. Not sure I want to get back to another browser after that. Now that I think of it — I might even be ready to pay for it. Yep, the change is that significant to me.
I believe that was already covered by "some very exotic solution to a fake problem that was simply invented as a cover for some convoluted financial fraud".
> Be sure to put in a firm deadline ("within 15/30 days")

Why would you give them this much time? In the US if you’re fired/laid off you generally are legally due your last check within a day or so.
I've tried Arc and have since reverted back to Firefox. It has a bunch of features I like, but one huge drawback that kind of kills it for me. Arc gives you persistent tabs across all open windows, and you wind up with (whether you want to or not) numerous open windows. That means I have to sift through 5+ open windows of identical tabs just to find the one window with the tab containing the Reddit comment I was in the middle of writing.

It ends up being more hassle than it's worth. Most of us use multiple windows to divide up separate, short-term pieces of work that we don't really need to persist very long, and Arc just doesn't deal with this scenario well at all. I think the only solution would be to somehow sync the state of all tabs across all windows (so my half-written Reddit comment appears in the same Reddit tab in every window).
> The US Government has gone to War with or at the very least militarily involved with the entire World except for 3 countries: Andorra, Bhutan, and Liechtenstein.

Which war do you claim that US has had with Sweden?
Regarding tourism, what would change without the Monarchy? Frankly, I suspect nothing. People would still be able to visit Windsor Castle, perhaps even more of it. People would still be able to see Buckingham Palace, and may even be able to visit it. The parades, Changing of the Guard, etc could remain or be adapted.

Does it really make a difference whether you see where the King lives vs. where the King used to live? Especially since in the latter case you may actually be able to see inside, as mentioned.

So to me tourism is a weak argument.
Want to be specific?
A prompt, or more like a list of them seems the most interesting customization. For example: "no crypto currency", "nothing from Keith Rupert Murdoch", "chinese realestate", "ukraine war", "forex" etc

Now that would be worth something...

Say, you want more than 6 filters they costs 50 cents/filter/month with a minimum of 5.

I think one would gradually make more and more of them?
Surprisingly, most of them don't, not to the level Microsoft does at least.

Can you give an example of another company as mercenary as Microsoft?

P.S. The Halloween Documents give a good overview of how Microsoft thinks.
Where was it claimed to be "new"? That's a different complaint than you had before... not sure how it's relevant to languages in the example.
That sounds like technobabble, which is to say big words like "instability" and "Bellman equations," but with little connecting logic.

If there is meaning behind those words, please write something with multiple paragraphs.

I don't see any reason why there would be a limit, instability, or otherwise, any more or less than there is on biological evolution. I also don't see any reason why there wouldn't be a limit. We just have no idea at this point.

I do think a diversity of tasks is critical. An AGI should be able to not just complete human language but:

- Play a diversity of strategic games like chess or Starcraft

- Perform machine vision like Stable Diffusion

- Predict the output of Python programs (and vice-versa)

- Write (correct) mathematical proofs and arguments

- Control a robotic arm or airplane

... and so on.

We can train all of those independently -- and we could do so in a single network now -- but we're at the very early stages of architecture for how those things would integrate.

At some point, the best solution is a very sophisticated intelligence. How close deep learning in current -- and future -- architectures gets us to super-intelligence is an open question.
So there's a waitlist for a browser...
You can do that by creating types for the pins, and using HKT via template metaprogramming when instantiating the classes that hold handles to the pins.

It the implementation code pretty?

Most likely not, but here we are discussing what is possible, not beauty.
Is the number of missing nuclear submarines greater than zero???
It's still an extremely risky thing to do. These kind of letters have legal value, any formal error can open you up to getting your demands rejected (and there's no plan B, the moment they find a way to get out of paying you legally you're effed up), postpone the payments indefinitely or other issues.

Don't do a lawyer's job unless you're a lawyer, because the guy on the other side will definitely get the best lawyer he can afford to retain as much of his money as he can
I would expect that most HPC programmers can learn Fortran or Cobol in a week or two. They are reasonably small languages, and Fortran would be sufficiently familiar to people who have both C/C++ with Matlab/Julia experience (typical for HPC). Would it be more proper to say it is not a skill gap, rather a "desire to work with old codebases" gap.

Which the article does admit:

> The skills issue with Fortran is apparently not just about learning Fortran, but more about being associated with Fortran and all of the legacy baggage that has given its vintage and its low marketability going forward.
>Reviewing this article and comment section has convinced me that it is politically possible.

How so?
Music settings like the Equaliser actually only apply to Apple Music. You can uninstall it but there is no systemwide equaliser, because why would you need one when you can use Apple Music?
Sidebery for Firefox is integrated with profiles pretty well.

In general, the article seems to be an overly excited marketing pitch for yet another closed source Chromium-based browser, the main feature of which seems to be a... vertical tab bar? Which seems to be mimicking Sidebery to a close degree? Underwhelming.
I'm always curious about the cost of these training runs. Some back of the envelope calculations:

> Overall we reach a throughput of over 1900 tokens / second / TPU-v4 chip in our training run

1 trillion / 1900 = 526315789 chip seconds ~= 150000 chip hours.

Assuming "on-demand" pricing [1] that's about $500,000 training cost.

[1] https://cloud.google.com/tpu/pricing
Good luck convincing Meta to release their models with a proper licence.
Not to me but to the company/institution and all its users. Of course the person who arranged it doesn't care because they are in a situation where they are immune to those particular consequences. e.g. they never use the system and nor do any of their senior managers so they can dismiss all complaints and report on how much money they saved.

If one innocently wants to do what's right for the institution, the shareholders or the taxpayers, one has to care. Its usually a tactical mistake to care of course - people who don't have a lot more freedom of action.
> The calendar schedule not being revealed is a just a privacy option, each person must opt-in to share the exact meeting details.

We've done this as far as I know. We also added each other to our directory. I can see the details of other team mate's calendars in the full view but this does not show up in the mini-view when you add a guest to an event.

With Google, when you create a new event and put in a user's email as a guest it immediately showed you a full list of their exact events with times and whether or not they accepted an optional meeting (an outlined or filled circle). It was great to see at a glance while you're in the process of creating the event.

With MS' calendar all you see is a red block of color around the times they are not available.

> Clicking an email definitely marks it as read.

It doesn't for me when using Chrome. When I click into an email the title remains bold and the inbox count doesn't decrease. Keep in mind this is the web app. I didn't install the dedicated app, but I also used the web version of all of Google's tools too.
The Duty to Document
> EEG or fMRI data only tells us about electrical activity in the brain, specifically the firing of neurons in different patterns and areas of the brain. We are yet to make the absolute connection of how that electrical activity translates into thought.

To do that, I think we’d need much higher resolution imaging, both in space and in time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_magnetic_resonance_... talks of submillimeter spatial for fMRI while a neuron is about 0.1mm.

It also says temporal resolution can be about a second. Whether that is sufficient isn’t clear to me. I think we know too little of the human brain to make a judgment on that. On the one hand, https://aiimpacts.org/rate-of-neuron-firing/ says a brain neuron, on average, fires less than 2 times a second. On the other hand https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fncel.2016.0023... talks of fast-spiking neurons that fire hundreds of times a second.

The current data is like trying to figure out how a CPU works from recordings that don’t show individual bits, but only show what parts get active when doing floating point calculations, when doing I/O, etc.
None of this is particularly surprising. I think there are a multitude of factors:

* Universities are teaching Python more than ever. When I started my undergrad in Physics everyone took C++, by the time I graduated it was all Python.

* Academia as a career track is not stable so people want to write code in something that they might have a hope of getting a job in afterwards. C/C++ are much more applicable in the wider world so anyone with one eye on the exit is likely to prefer one of those…

* Fortran itself is fine and even improving with fpm and the ecosystem changes happening, but the big Fortran scientific code bases are not much fun to work on.

* There’s no performance benefit to sticking with Fortran. You can make code fast in any language. The main argument that Fortran is faster than C/C++ is to do with aliasing which anyone writing performance critical code will know how to deal with anyway. Performance portability codes like Kokkos that let you run on OpenMP/MPI/CUDA but write code once are pretty much all C++ too.

* A few years ago, CUDA could only be used in Fortran with the PGI compiler which was commercial. This made it less attractive vs C/C++. This has improved now but it was a major factor for a few years. Even now I think they’re not at feature parity although it’s been a long time since I looked.
Funny coincidence, I was in Switzerland last week and indeed the cheese industry there is huge, and tasty.

The thing though, I got to sample a Brie cheese made in Switzerland but I thought anything named Brie could only come from France?

Nevertheless it was the most amazing cheese I had, much more bouncy and not runny or flaccid like President or Kolibrie brand. I asked the staff where I could buy it but they said it's a local product from Interlaken. :(