skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems to be much closer to a general-purpose computer than any other smartphone I've seen.

For anyone not clicking through to the article, here is the feature list:

Secure supply chain centered on made in the USA electronics at Purism’s facility located in the USA

Device assembled in the USA

Publicly available schematics

The Liberm 5 USA is designed for security and privacy rather than for consumerism

Hardware isolation of components

Bootable from SD card

Removable radio modules

Replaceable lithium battery

Secure cryptographic removable smart card

Hardware kill switches put the product owner in full control over device

Private and secure operating system, PureOS

PureOS is fully open source and auditable for better security and privacy

No intrusive mystery proprietary code supporting surveillance and data mining apps or technologies

PureOS supports private and secure apps developed with fully auditable source code

Purism supports decentralized application developers centered on providing secure apps

Security and privacy protection by default

Librem 5 USA is supported by secure and private cellular service provided by Librem AweSIM

Purism offers anti-interdiction services to ensure devices are not altered in transit

Librem 5 USA supports true convergence with PC apps using a lapdock or mouse, keyboard, and monitor
I suspect that being a woman was both a help and a hindrance. Ultimately, it hindered her because she didn't get the reality checks that an unattractive person would have received - or when she got them, she didn't have to listen because there was a fawning group of VCs vying for her attention.

However, I also suspect most people would choose to have easy access to money due to network and attractiveness, even if it meant not having to accept the truth.

I don't think there are many lessons for anyone from Elizabeth Holmes' story, woman or man; founder or not.
I thought the tipster was a relative of an employee.
What is its training data cutoff date?
Same with uMatrix. However I do get YouTube ads... Twitch ads sound like they would be horribly frustrating because of the real time nature of the experience !
The quoted section says "both the former employee and the tipster", so "the tipster" here clearly refers to the non-employee who would presumably not have signed any NDA with Apple.
Even more off topic: A lot of very large companies (eg. Google, Reddit, Microsoft) use Mark Monitor as their registrar rather than either being their own registrar or using one of the providers everyone else does. Anyone know what they're getting that makes that particular company so appealing?
5u system, ML350Gen9. I ignore the errors, but of course that means that if a real error pops up there, I won't know. It's a lower-urgency server of my own so it's ok, but annoying as well in production.

I see the Z6 is a workstation unit, they're going to be more flexible there.
It’s a hardware company, so it’s not uncommon for software to be planned a few years out.
Congrats on the launch guys, you are everywhere these days! :)
I also watched an electrician do some wiring. He used a Milwaukee right angle drill to thread the wire through the studs. I bought one, and used it to do the low voltage wiring in my house.
Clicking on "Supercharge learning & ideation with AI" waitlist gives me: "404. That’s an error. The requested URL was not found on this server. That’s all we know."

Well done Google, well done :P
Life After Death: How Instagram Gives Life
In this short study, we will analyze the Instagram pages of five world-class musicians - Michael Jackson, Amy Winehouse, Freddie Mercury, Bob Marley, Prince.
> I didn't argue anything about humans being special

Above you said about AI LMs:

> There is no "their" and there is no "thought process"

So, unless you're claiming that humans lack a thought process as well, then you're arguing that humans are special.

> All this talk of AGI and sentience and so on is premature and totally unfounded

I don't see any mention of AGI or sentience in this thread?

Also, I don't think anyone could read this transcript with GPT-4 and still claim that it's incapable of a significant degree of self-reflection and metacognition:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35880148
By all means do use it as much as you can. I am using it too. However, dropping everything you do to chase the trend is risky business. It could yield a lot but could also be a waste, eg becoming a professional prompt engineer or such.
There’s more value in solving your current problems with it than completely delving deep into AI unless you were already on this path for some time.
Google announced it. [1]

> PaLM 2’s improved multilingual capabilities are allowing us to expand Bard to new languages, starting today. Plus, it’s powering our recently announced coding update.

That’s a bit vague, though. Bard might only be using it for some queries?

[1] https://blog.google/technology/ai/google-palm-2-ai-large-lan...
I have a few qualms with your solution...
10 years ago I used to go to the movies a couple of times a month but these days I just hate it.

People seem to talk a lot more than before. Teenagers that care about anything but watching a movie. People playing on smartphones at max brightness. I've even seen people answering their phone mid movie. Kids running around bored to death since their stupid parents thought it was a good idea to bring them to an adult movie.

Image quality just cannot compared to an OLED HDR with Dolby Vision. Sound is usually way too loud and honestly my Atmos home theater setup sounds better than most theaters.

After multiple shitty experiences I've just had enough. I prefer to wait a couple of months and just watch the movie at home either in Bluray or from iTunes/HBO/Disney.

Theaters could provide a good experience but they just don't care. They only care about selling tickets and food.
Writers on strike beware: Hollywood has changed for ever
But the asking price was $8k - you’d have to go in very hot to get yourself a 50% price rise (which would justify the broker’s fee in this instance).

However I am aware of how squatters behave, so this could actually happen.
Off the top of my head there's DistilBERT from awhile back. I also recall distilled GPT-2 models from before the GPT-3 times.
It’s actually not that pedantic, it’s like calling JavaScript “Java”. For stock options to be profitable the stock has go up. Stock grants are simply cash in a currency that may be more or less valuable than originally granted.
> They do ship continuously, but its pretty slow.

This is what you get for "Assembled in the USA."
Yeah, but Chrome has 10 times as many users than Edge...
Because it's a library made by AWS: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/05/cedar-ope...
"Most commonly used X today are clever optimizations atop old Y" is pretty much the story of technology, isn't it?
No, distilling step-by-step https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.02301 distills LLM to task specific model. That works, and I know of multiple successes. But it doesn't relate to choice of optimizing training FLOP vs training and inference FLOP, since the resulting distilled model is not LLM.
Sorry if it wasn't clear, but I was responding to your comments as a whole in this thread and other threads - for example these ones:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35878534

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35878406

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35878395

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35877501

The problem is being aggressively disputatious and using flamewar tropes like snark and name-calling, which is not allowed here, especially on divisive topics.

I hope that helps explain things. There's no way to eliminate the subjective element, but we try not to make any dramatic interpretive leaps in applying the rules. For example I'm pretty sure almost no one in this community would disagree that https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35878534 was a flamewar comment.
Huh.

I'm a photographer, and I'd never heard of Pixelfed before this. Now I've created an account on a server and am seriously considering setting up my own server (or servers) specific to the genres I practice.
One area where I noticed Bard was clearly behind (at least without crafting a better prompt) is getting from half-working program to a running program then sometime even to a correct program (I was using Python).

With GPT 3.5 and 4, I was able to just paste in the error and it'd do the rest. Bard however tried to tell me what the error could be, and wouldn't do well even when asked to fix the code.

Even GPT 4 though, when asked to go from specs to tests + code, would get stuck in a loop of making one test pass only to make the other pass and vice versa.
The program I tried to let it write was a query validator that can test whether a string matches a pattern that uses AND, OR and NOT.

It did well on parsing my specs into tests, but from there on it didn't go very well.
they already knew it, that's why they were striking
Thanks, it was a fun little project. I wish chrome had better support for JS in PDFs. I might have to figure out what it does support at some point.
Fair enough. Minor nit, the PR is not actually marked as a draft.
Yeah, I lost my first one like a week in when it fell into the (automatic—I'm not cool, I don't drive a manual) shifter. It was so small it managed to fit into the little gap in the rubber guard around it. Lost forever, or at least until someone tears apart the center console of that car for some reason. Only time I've managed to lose something that particular way.
This was discussed in the tipster's MacRumors farewell thread [1]. I'm not a lawyer to understand the context of it, but someone quoted:

> California Trade Secrets Act (2022) sections 3426 to 3426.11 of the California Civil Code

> (a) "Improper means" includes theft, bribery, misrepresentation, breach or inducement of a breach of a duty to maintain secrecy, or espionage through electronic or other means. Reverse engineering or independent derivation alone shall not be considered improper means.

> (b) "Misappropriation" means:

> (1) Acquisition of a trade secret of another by a person who knows or has reason to know that the trade secret was acquired by improper means; or(2) Disclosure or use of a trade secret of another without express or implied consent by a person who A) Used improper means to acquire knowledge of the trade secret; or(B) At the time of disclosure or use, knew or had reason to know that his or her knowledge of the trade secret was i) Derived from or through a person who had utilized improper means to acquire it;(ii) Acquired under circumstances giving rise to a duty to maintain its secrecy or limit its use; or(iii) Derived from or through a person who owed a duty to the person seeking relief to maintain its secrecy or limit its use; or(C) Before a material change of his or her position, knew or had reason to know that it was a trade secret and that knowledge of it had been acquired by accident or mistake.

It sounds to me like that would incriminate the tipster as well, if the leaked information counts as a trade secret at least, regardless of whether the former employee knew about it or not.

[1] https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/farewell-message.238918...
The tipster didn't work for Apple.
Heather Armstrong has died
No, the worry (such as it is) is that corporations ultimately benefit a class of humans (and at least need other humans to exist to exploit them), whereas AI, if it becomes independent, neither essentially benefits the capitalist class nor essentially needs other classes to exploit.

The people most concerned about alignment are capitalists, and they are mostly concerned with the benefit side, since they see aligned AI eliminating at least a large part of the need for the rest of humanity for corporations to provide the benefits it does to them as a plus.

While they talk about X-risk, what they try to avoid is that for everyone but themselves, they (especially with the exclusive control of aligned [to their interests] AI that they seek to use fear of unaligned AI to secure) are as much of an X-risk as unaligned AI, and a lot more real and present.
The explanation is terrible and long winded. Here it is dumbed down:

Vercel resells servers with additional stuff ontop. When you commit code to a git repository, vercel (optionally) runs a build step (like you would on a workstation). It takes the resulting files (HTML, CSS, JS, ect), and sends them to many servers around the world. When a user requests your site, it chooses the closest one. Those servers are also capable of running small scripts when information is requested from them, to add dynamic content. Metaframeworks (some combination of a backend (like Django) and frontend (like React) framework) can generate this dynamic code.

--- End explanation, que personal thoughts) ---

I quite like this "serverless" methodology, for a variety of reasons. While it's a paradigm shift, it makes my life so much easier. For simple sites, I just write my static files, commit them, and spend... I suppose less than 30 seconds clicking buttons to set it up forever. I never need to worry about server maintenance, uptime, or security. I never need to think about updating remote files. It's also incredibly cheap for my hobby projects, as I'm not renting a server that duplicates the work of every other one on the rack.
You now too have a wallet that slowly drains while you use the internet. Web3 wallets are just better integrated into it.

Also, there is a misconception that the cryptocurrency based web is like dial up. It isn't. What it is is:
1. a way to decouple the ownership of the digital goods from the service that gave them to you
2. a way to actually do privacy preserving computing
3. an open layer to build added value things that can interact with assets and services others have created (think web2.0 in the bookmarklets era but your bookmarklets can talk with any site)
The brother of the Apple employee does NOT work for Apple.
IANAL but why can’t you just say exactly “we’re not liable for how you use this product” ? How many lawyers does it take to add that to a contract?
What if we covered every warehouse in the mountain West with solar panels?
It didn’t help the slaves or the people being colonized…
Full title was too long for post:
Former Employee Of Technology Company Sentenced To Six Years In Prison For Stealing Confidential Data And Extorting Company For Ransom

The Verge reports that the employee worked for Ubiquiti. He was caught because his IP address was exposed "during an internet outage...[that] disrupted his VPN". I assume he had a software-based VPN/firewall that crashed while he was stealing data from Ubiquiti.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/3/23584414/ubiquiti-develope...
Frankly I did not perceive any difference in quality in Bard responses today and yesterday.

I think you are right, they probably dynamically choose PaLM 2 for some queries. Globally rolling out PaLM 2 for everything everywhere isn't Google style.
It's about slime molds.
The name 3.5-turbo sounds to me like it implies distillation. The release notes at the time also hinted at it IIRC.
Here is a simple change I did which reduced my phone usage:

1. Deleted all the native social media apps from phone

2. Stored passwords in a vault on my personal laptop

If I do need to "use" a site, I've to do it only through my personal laptop.
I agree it needs AI, but I was thinking it could be kept simple. You put features, ideal customers and the benefits on a board, then AI devises copy/messaging you could put in different places (on a landing page, in a social media post, or even generate memes?). It lists websites where to post that have your ideal user. It offers suggestions of what standalone tools you might be able to break off into one-off pages to do "engineering as marketing".

Since it's marketing for devs who hate marketing (I'm one of those) I think if you get too deep into marketing best practice it would be tedious/boring. Just give small actionable things you can do given the data you input about the product. That would be useful. Problem for me is I know what I should be doing, but I'd rather just code the product. So it's a hard problem to solve.
We need this for all ML-generated content. Especially for text.

There must be some industry labeling standard?
i hope you disable OS passtrough because it could be gore
Sure, I'm a little rusty, but you could perhaps sue anyone for "tortious interference of contract," I'm guessing all you'd need to show is something like "deliberate and intentional screwing around with someone elses source of money"

Folks below were also discussing criminal, which strikes me as unlikely but not at all impossible.

(Can you tell I'm a non-practicing lawyer?)
I’m amazed you haven’t heard of this before now. The entire West has had a fertility rate below replacement for decades and now even China has joined the party and India is going to be there really soon. The way Africa is developing they probably only have a few decades left. If we don’t find a way to turn this around then all of our golden years are going to spent desperately trying to prevent the global economy from collapsing.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_and_union_ter...
Cool, thanks for your encouraging words, gumby! I hope your friend will have much success with it. Should any assistance be needed, make sure you join the online community for 2quiet2market.
On one particular item - high power, high voltage small form factor DC-DC converter (that was few years ago) the price was around $300 on Mouser / Digikey vs $25 from Aliexpress. I needed 125 of those. Make a wild guess where did I buy from. And no, I did not get scammed. The converters are still merrily chugging along.
This comment right here is part of why the banking crisis has just barely started.

Tons and tons of people have their cash sitting in a shitty Chase savings account yielding 0.1%, while there are many FDIC insured banks offering at least 3% and up to 5%. As a critical mass of these people realize the options available, they'll rapidly move their money with online transfers causing more banks to collapse. The extremely rapid outflows are what killed SVB, Signature, and Republic who were screwed because they had too many low yielding treasuries because the Fed hiked rates so fast.

I've been yielding over 3% in a Capital One savings account since last year.
It's just gossip. Same impetus exactly: "I know something special and want to share it" is a basic human motivation. It's only in places like this where shy introverts are the norm that anyone would even ask that question.
feed it raw source code of what exactly?
The monthly payments for both of these mortgages are identical. The monthly payment on a mortgage with $486k principal @ 2% is the same as one with $342k principal @ 6%.
You can sell X% of your stock every year and pretend it’s a X% dividend. It’s the same thing. It’s not like you get any voting rights.
They even both have a near identical locale selector, with two big flags, when you visit from a Canadian IP. Makes me think one... drew inspiration from the other.
The answer to that question is 'It would cost more and produce less power than building out dedicated solar plants, which is what we should do instead, because aren't running out of land'.
I get a 404 when I click "join waitlist".
I am talking about the 3 larger models PaLM 2-S, PaLM 2-M, and PaLM 2-L described in the technical report.

At I/O, I think they were referencing the scaling law experiments: there are four of them, just like the number of PaLM 2 codenames they cited at I/O (Gecko, Otter, Bison, and Unicorn). The largest of those smaller-scale models is 14.7B, which is too big for a phone too. The smallest is 1B, which can fit in 512MB of RAM with GPTQ4-style quantization.

Either that, or Gecko is the smaller scaling experiment, and Otter is PaLM 2-S.
It's explained in my above link.
It might be possible to use an OG Thinkpad keyboard. Assuming it physically fits in the machine, the electronics are quite straightforward. People have already adapted old Thinkpad keyboards to work over USB. I am pretty sure they'll be too thick, but I will take some measurements anyway.

It is even conceivable someone is still manufacturing these keyboards. I see several companies listing Thinkpad keyboards on AliBaba, but I don't know AliBaba well enough to tell if they are manufacturing new keyboards or just selling old ones.

https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Genuine-New-Laptop-Ke...
Yeah, and the PaLM-2-powered Bard is still very meh. Not even GPT-3.5 level, much less GPT-4.
Expensive energy may have killed more Europeans than Covid-19 last winter
Probably not:

https://theconversation.com/chinas-military-might-is-much-cl...
How do you enforce that with a copy paste of ASCII text? I'm not against disclosure/attribution, but it'd be voluntary.
Yeah, a coworker tried an exercise like this, and it was basically (even with as-an-expert prompts) like trying to mentor a high school intern that's trolling you (except that it won't actually get better at anything in the process.)
Earlier you said:

> In my viewpoint, something one makes which can be built upon by another freely and without limit is what helps humanity.

Now you are saying that LLMs, and maybe even all software, should only be funded by the approval of appointed government committees.

Do you not see the contradiction in your viewpoint?
Oh, yes, Jameco is also a great company.
Interesting historical artifact however the conceptual paradigm used seems to be literally "stuff, links between stuff, and why" which is a bit of a cop-out even if essential and timeless.

The closing statement, proposing an interpretation of the social reality of computer based systems implementation at the start of the 1990s as "[deeply abd problematically] architect-less", is in severe contrast to present day reality in which "architecture" has run fully amok and any corporate project winds up wading through cloud architects, devops architects, etc.

Here's a concluding proposal of my own: It seems the needle has swung too far. Maybe we only have the architecture-kerfuffle because the platforms people build on today are systematically overbuilt and over-complicated? How about going back to 1991 engineering, where the stack was comprehensible, owned, and did not require multiple tiers of organised religion-like specialists to access and utilise?
Seeing the celebration from folks on receiving the items they paid for 1200+ days later was uhh, an experience.
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