skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The judiciary disagrees.

> One of EFF's first major legal victories was Bernstein v. Department of Justice, a landmark case that resulted in establishing code as speech

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/04/remembering-case-estab...
Expect the unexpected. It doesn't have to be a rational known ask. We are Hackers. We want to be ready for whatever. That day when there's a 4 screen display wall? Ready. Connecting to a thunderbolt NAS, a display, a desktop, and our friends laptop? Ready.

"What is the use case" is the deadening soul sucking most un Hackerly thing to ask. Computers are amazing general purpose machines & we celebrate their flexible utility. We don't know where flexibility always leads but we value it. We value open systems, open possibilities, open frontiers, not being bounded.

Edit: based on the voting, I guess only some of us on HN are Hackers! I also have example use cases too, to be constructive, but guess that's not enough for the cynics.
And they are able to use all of their clout to give themselves advantages while ignoring their country, like any leaders - only these also lack oversight.
The paper itself is here https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06127-z
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No one accounted for the Manchurian GPU!
I am in my mid thirties in an east european country. I barely had any exposure to Chinese culture, without seeking it myself, even though their written history is some 3000 years old. What I grew up on is pure American propaganda and interventionism.
Unity is a public company since September 2020. They did merge last year with a mobile adtech company called IronSource (which had also been public but became a part of Unity).
What do you consider "not-news" where one might hear about important things in the (near) future?
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The design seems pretty wild, I have much sympathy for you implementers
Some links:

- Repo: https://github.com/replit/ReplitLM/tree/main/replit-code-v1-...

- HuggingFace: https://huggingface.co/replit/replit-code-v1-3b

- Demo: https://huggingface.co/spaces/replit/replit-code-v1-3b-demo

- Early benchmark results: https://twitter.com/amasad/status/1651019556423598081

A lot about this project was surprising. We knew it was going to be good, but didn't expect to be this good -- especially surprising was the finetuned performance boost, and the fact that the model is decent at language tasks and reasoning (in some cases much better than much larger general-purpose models).

It feels like there is a lot more to do with this model, and I have a suspicion you can even make a half-decent chatbot (at least one focused on code) by finetuning it on conversation (and/or instruction) datasets.

Will follow up with a more comprehensive technical report and the UL2R version (fill-in-the-middle support).
"This threat": you mean the one described in TFA, or the one that one might presume from the headline? Because what is described in TFA threat seems new. But your comment dismisses it as "it's always been this way", when in fact, it hasn't.
Or mithril. People sleep on it but it's an amazing little library with a router.
Porsche synthetic fuels - https://newsroom.porsche.com/en/2023/sustainability/porsche-...
Turing Test, etc.
The 2x1 wifi card are intel specific while the 2x0 cards are CPU agnostic. As long as you have a card model ending in 0 you're fine to use any CPU.

As for why they did it I'd assume its slightly cheaper to build a 2x1 chip than a 2x0 as offloading the functions to the CPU would mean less components on the card itself. When you're selling 100s of millions of them every little bit counts.
You say:

>Rationality is something that makes sense for us

But I say:

Rationality is something that makes sense.

So nature cannot be irrational. For instance: we had the very logical Newtonian mechanics. But Mercury's orbit did not make sense. Later on Einstein saw another layer of logic that put both Newton and Mercury in more context, and now both make sense again.

When we see things now that make no sense, it indicates faults in our mental models, not in the things.

In the context of a person behaving or thinking "irrationally": their brain is just atoms and chemicals. It has to work right. If their behaviour and thoughts do not line up to reality, that's a feature of said brain.

Perhaps the irrationality is due to the brain giving too much weight to certain factors, or perhaps they are in fact behaving perfectly logically given what they know and you don't. Perhaps its workings can be improved in software, or in the next hardware generation.

But there's no spooky mechanism that can't in principle be modelled and implemented in a different architecture, ie, transistors.
That makes sense for the most part.

> The moment it really hits the fan, I expect MindGeek would immediately adopt it. They can't bear the idea of losing market share to some competing app with such features.

MindGeek would just buyout said company. MindGeek has practically a monopoly on porn and porn sites.

https://medium.com/five-guys-facts/8-19-16-davis-ce677114158...
> Simon Peyton Jones is reported to have said that lazy evaluation has been kept "to keep us honest about side effects", i.e., that size effects become immediately painful with pervasive lazy evaluation.

IIRC he wrote or said that lazy evaluation, was a mistake in hindsight.
Call Tim, he'll vouch for you.
FYI On Firefox Mobile, the slider touch area seems small, it's pretty difficult to get a gesture recognized.
I didn't read the book; it was written prior to 2013 when I heard him on a podcast conversation. Parts of it stuck with me, and I remember there being a more recent followup:

- https://www.econtalk.org/kling-on-the-three-languages-of-pol...

- https://www.econtalk.org/arnold-kling-on-the-three-languages...
> Web1 (roughly 1990-2005) was about open protocols that were decentralized and community-governed

The web during this time was marked by many commercial languages and app servers. (like ColdFusion, server products by Netscape and Sun, etc). A decent IDE was typically several hundred dollars. Corporate interests were trying to control the protocols and standards (Flash, ActiveX, Applets, etc). Even browsers were initially paid commercial products.
I started w music then realized I like hearing the morning nature sounds and so removed the music. Either way after a good run you still get the well being. I think something healthier for the mind about no music. But better to run with music than not to run.
The now-unfortunately-named "Password managers" help with this by providing various mechanisms to sync keys with multiple devices, so that every time you get a new device, you simply need to authenticate and transfer the key store to the new device.

The device's hardware security facilities are there to protect the keystore. They aren't /the/ keystore.

Find a key manager. iCloud Keychain, Microsoft Authenticator, Bitwarden, something. Use that. Concerns about migrating devices dissolve away.
hi HN! back again with an exclusive deep dive with Replit’s head of AI. I attended their developer day last week (https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1650989632413401089) just expecting a regular fundraise announcement and was totally shocked when they annoucned their own LLM and also said they would open source it. so immediately asked them for a podcast interview and this is the result.

my favorite learning is how they are pushing the state of the art - openai’s HumanEval is the industry standard benchmark for code LLMs, but Reza kindly went above and beyond to show how they use “AmjadEval” - using coder intuition to capture human preference on what output is more helpful to coders (see screenshots https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1653791019421569024?s=20)

please AMA!
I think some people managed to hack their way up google search! Is that a first?
Psst ... why don't you spend 30 minutes of quality time with chatGPT and get to the bottom of this? Get those personalised explanations and enjoy its unlimited patience.

I have felt the same in the past, related to a completely different topic. I know how it feels, it's like people are not saying things what they are, just using weird words.

"weights" - synapses in the AI brain

"tokens" - word fragments

"model" - of course, the model is the AI brain

"context" - the model can only handle a piece of text, can't put whole books in, so this limited window is the context

"GPT" - predicts the next word, trained on everything; if you feed its last predicted word back in, it can write long texts

"LoRA" - a lightweight plug-in model for tweaking the big model

"loss" - a score telling how bad is the output

"training" - change the model until it fits the data

"quantisation" - making a low precision version of the model because it still works, but now is much faster and needs less compute

"embedding" - just a vector, it stands for the meaning of a word token or a piece of image; these embeddings are learned
If you want to put yourself in the position of cutting through the hype, conceptual clarity matters. But given your opening and final sentences you seem to have entirely missed the point about distinguishing between intelligence and sentience. The AI researchers you view as hypesters think more precisely than that.

Edit: there is a lot of hype and bullshit around AI that needs cutting through. But unlike crypto, there's also some substance, so a blanket attitude of scoffing isn't helpful.
Alas, the biggest scams in crypto are more opaque than that. How many dollars does Tether hold, and in what forms? Where is all of this "commercial paper"? The biggest crypto falls are still to come.
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Do we live in a hologram? Why physics is still mesmerised by this idea
does anyone know what tool might have been used to develop this image: https://staging.cohostcdn.org/attachment/45fea200-d670-4fab-...
Uses different haptics for left and right turns as well.
I wish that was "under the radar" instead of "subject of a giant embarrassing marketing push"
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Unity doubled their headcount across ‘21 and ‘22 by adding ~3500 employees.
> Even using recursion is rarely a good idea as you loose control with your memory layout.

Functional programming? NOT TODAY!
Is the outcome still the same? Yep. It's revisionist at best, devious at worst.
Yes, really. Cnvi cards only work on recent Intel cpus and they’re a tad cheaper.

The problem is not Intel branded cards. Your card (ending with 0) is non-cnvi. Try an AX211 and it won’t work.
> I never used any of MS' office tools until a few days ago.

and then

> Outlook's web app doesn't even let you click into an email to mark it as read.

Did it occur to you that maybe a few days of use isn't enough for you to understand how to use office? Everything you complained about works fine, even if you don't understand how to do it.
But if you don’t already know a backend framework, Rails is probably not the best choice to learn at this point.
The modern/hardware equivalent of a WinModem.
You're operating under the assumption that Microsoft is the only one doing this.

This sort of thing happens regularly on Android though it's perhaps more subtle. I don't know how many times I've had to set the default browser, photo viewer, pdf viewer, etc only to be prompted to choose how to open a file and Google's App is first in the list.

They also implement features in their Apps to avoid your defaults:
https://i.imgur.com/9nzpTPG.png

Certain features like STT for the entire operating system require Google Assistant. And image search or real-time translation require the Google Search App to be installed. So you have to choose between being harassed by Assistant and Search prompts at ever turn, or disabling core OS features.
London in particular has the signs ("Look left", "Look right") written in words on the road surface itself at obvious crossing points, especially near stations etc. So pedestrians look down at them as they go to cross the road.
> It does because if you test your policies and scripts it shouldn't be broken.

Removing Edge, like the previous poster suggested, does break certain features. Also, you seem to suggest that standard Windows deployments are permanently and continuously idempotent, but they definitely are not.

The play is clear. Since this is a potential risky move, very few IT admins will try to remove Edge in the first place.
i'd love to work at a place that has KDE installed as a default, even people with zero linux experience wouldn't have any problem picking it up
An AI generated text is not remarkably different from one which a large corporation crafted through a large, collective work with a multitude of actors to elicit a particular reaction from a tested audience. This process used to be expensive and time consuming, now a robot can do it. Does that mean the robot is conscious? No. The AI does not feel pain and pleasure, it does not reproduce, it does not have repressed desires, like humans do. It is a vast, symbolic chain, a structure, not unlike many other structures humans have built, that appear to stand alone until you realize that they would not function without human hands and human maintenance.

If programmers manage to create new lifeforms then I will eat my words, but programmers only know about that aspect of human life that perverts biological reproduction: the social, cultural layer, the order of logic and language.
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Why so many in Georgia? Roughly 25% of all bank failures were in a state with less than 3% of population? Subprime lending?
Love my daily smoothie!!
> C like code was presented as C++

Blame Arduino for their stdlib.

> was presented as something not available in C++

You are putting things in the author's mouth, they never said that; only that it was not available in Arduino's stdlib.
Shit, I lost that when I went into the industry.
Small correction: the new teams client (currently in preview) uses WebView2 (based on Edge/Chromium), not Electron
“I want to believe”
I agree with this. For a lot of companies hundreds of thousands of dollars or single digit millions on fine tuning, inference, and so on is entirely feasible but using model weights with clouded legal status isn’t.
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The only possible application I can imagine for that would be videogames, though.

Because HTML+CSS+JS provides a fantastic cross-platform UI toolkit that everybody knows how to use.

Videogames create their own UI in order to have lots of shiny effects and a crazy immersive audio-filled controller-driven experience... but non-videogames don't need or want that.

Heck, I'm actually expecting the opposite -- for the entire OS interface to become based on Chromium HTML+CSS+JS, and eventually Electron apps don't bundle a runtime, because they're just apps. My Synology DSM is an entire operating system whose user interface runs in the browser and it just... makes sense.
A sous vide device makes it easy to hold a water bath at a precise enough temperature that I get C41 results at home that are indistinguishable from my local lab, at least to my eyes.
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even if chromium was freed from google, that would not be good enough. code-monoculture is dangerous. we really need multiple implementations of widely used applications to reduce the risk of exploits that would affect everyone. that goes for browsers, smtp or dns servers and anything else that is publicly accessible. (browsers are "accessible" through the websites we visit)

i am with the top poster of this subthread. i absolutely refuse to use anything chrome based to avoid furthering a monoculture.
That is not accurate, incidentally.

> "It's an interesting myth, and one I've heard about in general terms, although I've never heard the specific quote before. However, I have no recollection of any instance of its actually happening with 1-2-3 or with any other product I've worked on." And, "My memory of the early days (1984-85) is that we would get early betas of DOS to test with 1-2-3 and any errors that we found were 'bugs' in DOS and fixed by Microsoft."

> Try to imagine a customer with a working copy of 1-2-3 who installed a new version of DOS and 1-2-3 stopped working. Would they blame Lotus or Microsoft? Would their reaction be "1-2-3 sucks" or "DOS sucks"? Would their solution be to get rid of 1-2-3, or stop buying DOS upgrades?

[0] http://www.proudlyserving.com/archives/2005/08/dos_aint_done...
It’s unequivocally not happening in other browsers and they are doing it anyway. Call it what you want.
Again, no.

You do not need permission to withdraw your side of a conversation you engaged in.
The courts and state representatives have eroded the constitution for some time. The federal government should only be responsible for the military and disputes between states. The only option I see is to eliminate federal agencies and eroded the federal government's power. People don't give up power willingly. What's your solution?
I still think we should just have 12 months of 30 days and then a ~5 day long party at the end of the year. Or we could do 12 * 28 and then a 24 day bonus month.
I lost respect from Amnesty International after they denounced the President of El Salvador for the mass arrests and detention of gang members. They said they were guilty of "massive human rights violations" and said the president "engulf[ed] the country in a human rights crisis."

Which... sure, there might be human rights violations, I don't necessarily doubt there are innocent people caught in the crossfire. However, what they don't mention was that El Salvador had a murder rate as high as 103 per 100K in 2015, the highest murder rate in the world by country by almost double the next highest. Is that not a human rights crisis worth mentioning? It was so bad that BBC reporters were seeing dead bodies in the streets.

After the crackdowns (and, if you watch El Salvador's video, easily 90%+ of prisoners in their TCC have visible gang tattoos on them), they are now sitting at a murder rate of 8 per 100K. Not surprisingly, the president has a 90%+ approval rate.

That's what I don't get Amnesty International. From 103 to 8 per 100K. Thousands and thousands of lives will be saved every year. Is that worth the risk of a some innocent people with obvious gang tattoos being swept up in it? I'd say... yes, because we don't live in a perfect world, and El Salvador was quite literally in a state of war. But Amnesty International is more focused on their story than the people who obtained freedom from having to live in one of the most dangerous countries on earth. Think only about potential innocent victims in prison, but the 6,500 people who were murdered in a single year shouldn't be considered victims in the equation. I think it's pretty reasonable to say that, if there is a crackdown that arrests 60,000 (alleged) gang members, and has (let's say, hypothetically) 5,000 people innocent arrested (which, from the video, I think is high, but let's just say), but results in over 6,500+ lives saved every year (let alone countless rapes including of children and other crimes), there's a just cause.

I would have had much more respect for them, and I think the people of El Salvador would have had more respect for them, if they had accepted the crackdowns as a necessary evil under desperate circumstances; and then worked to identify and free anyone incorrectly swept up in the arrests. They could have done that - they could have started working hard to free the actually innocent, on a case-by-case basis. Instead they just denounced the whole thing... which, surprise, hasn't done anything. It definitely makes them feel good, even if it does literally nothing.
That's pretty neat. I wonder, is the user experience any worse than using airtags? Or is it functionally the same?
Who is aware? The atoms in the brain are aware?
This is the only social media site where it seems like the majority of people actually think CEOs deserve their inflated salaries. Probably because a lot of people here are CEOs (or hope to become one).

Sure, the boss of bosses should make more that the average worker, but 300x-500x more? Rationalize about "bringing value" as much as you want, but if this class division continues it will not end well for the rich.
The argument that undermines the price gouging theory is that consumer demand for optional Goods remains High and is also inflating. This indicates that consumers are not responding to higher prices by decreasing demand.
Sorry, I have to ask this: how does this compare to ChatGPT?
Isn't this the third time in a year they've announced layoffs?
24/7 surveillance except where/when you need it to the most sums up so much of our world today.
The second half of the news, not mentioned in TFA, is that they are going to close around half of their offices worldwide "in the coming years":

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/unity-lays-off-hundreds-more-c...

No info on which offices might be at risk.
we may both be right :-) This journal from the 1990s is very useful (not online, paper only?)

https://www.gnosismagazine.com/
Ahhh MS became M$ again.
It's not fake, it's a perspective. I'm not sure if "web3" is going to solve it though. The incentives are the same, so why would the outcome be different this time.
> Even at the time it caused some of the largest anti war protests in history

I often see this mentioned and I don't really get it. What did people actually do besides voicing their concerns and cozily waiting for the next election cycle?

Oh wow, people understood that their country is waging a war on the other side of the planet, hooray! What did they do about it exactly? Look at Assange's sorry state.

At least Russians had balls to burn some military enlightenment offices.

Western protests (except French, French are cool) are basically fun festivities.
Thank you! I asked for GPT-4 access via form on OpenAI website, they gave me the one with 8k context window, which is enough for 99% of articles.
As I understand it, the AX2X0 cards will work with any CPU, while the AX2X1 cards need CNVi support (so a newer intel SoC)
I don't think you could design a process that wouldn't lead to horrible outcomes. Rich people aren't rich because they are smart, but because they are selfish. Having someone like that lead the country will not lead to good outcomes for citizens.
I've never understood why so many folks have been fine while they quietly gobbled up large parts of modern dev toolchains given their history.
Industrialization and automation lead to higher human populations, so if your point was that the cost of supporting a human makes power tools more efficient than hand tools, I think you have it backwards.

Cheap energy makes efficiency less important.