skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's worth noting that password-protected zip files offer only minimal assurance of content security. As mentioned, ZipCrypto encryption can be easily overridden. Exploring alternative encryption methods, such as AES-256 encryptors, could provide stronger protection for sensitive files.
> Literally this is what I said

You also literally said that:

> We already know that the higher the parameter count, the lower the training data required

And if you scroll up a bit, you'll see that this was the assertion that I've been questioning since the beginning.

Also, even this other assertion

> a 50 billion parameter model will far outperform a 5 billion one TRAINED ON THE SAME DATA.

is unsupported in the general case: will it be the case if both were trained on 10b Token? They'll both be fairly under-trained, but I suspect the performance of the biggest model would suffer more than the small one.

AFAIK, there's no reason to believe that the current architecture of LLM scaled to 100 trillions of parameters would be able to be trained efficiently on just a few millions of token like humans, and the paper you quoted sure isn't backing this original argument of yours.
Is there any evidence it actually reduces those risks, or is it speculation?
Probably it's different because Telly is clearly lending you the hardware (according to their ToS). There are many reasons why they would ask the users to return the hardware, like if it's not connected to the internet for too long. They are presenting it like the TV is a product you own, but that is not in line with how their ToS are phrased.
There are many once-in-a-century possibilities like flooding, fires, terrorism, pandemics, structural failures, wars, ecological disasters, eminent domain, etc. Add them all up and you actually have a many-in-a-century event scenario. Companies that are already setup for remote work will be at an advantage, by not having a large percentage of their resources at a single or several large locations, and able to continue operations with little or no disruption.

In short, the remote model is decentralized and therefore more resilient and less risky.
I'd start to question any company that's using Office365 corporate wide.

There's ML-based sentiment analysis on email, and it doesn't seem out of reach to apply it to Teams chats and video calls as well.

And if they can observe your LinkedIn activity? Maybe you replied to that recruiter last week. Maybe your boss knows that now?
While good amenities may matter for certain types of research (biotech), what about disciplines such as maths, which require good thinking, a piece of paper to draw on, and that's about it? If you look at the results of the International Mathematical Olympiad, many of the really successful countries (Russia, Hungary, Romania, Iran) aren't very rich.

A possible explanation would be brain-drain: talented mathematicians leaving too-poor Oxford for better pay in the US. Does that happen?
From the same author, this article looks more interesting https://thehftguy.com/2021/08/30/french-appeal-court-affirms...
Thank you for sharing! Any resource to understand how others have solved or approached this problem is valuable.
Unfortunately that won’t be possible, since the “I love Jira” set is empty :)
> Most farmers now won't grow rapeseed,

In the EU? I think you just made that up
Part of this seems inevitable, with the West providing world-class education to Chinese students for decades, which can them be imported back into China

Add in the funding China provides to universities, and you would be disheartened if Chinese universities didn't improve
Which model did you use? I read your comment when this HN thread was alive and decided to try to feed it a few websites (such as PEP8[0] for Python), and it only took a few minutes for LoRa training to complete, and the answers were not good. I also have a 3080.

[0]: https://peps.python.org/pep-0008/
It may have been a while, but it feels like 80%+ of these "new customization features" were things you could do in the original google earth / maps. Now days, you type in the name of a street, it doesn't even show you the whole street. It just zooms in on a random part it thinks you wanted. And I'm very sure that placing pins was a default ability with very little digging. Once upon a time these were obvious and core features, not something you'd brag about just now adding to the maps.

This is just like that time Google gave me (back?) the ability to use a handle on youtube to protect my real name...I never stopped using the handle in the first place.
Persian Gulf gets up to 32-34C in summer. How hot exactly are your proposed inland seas?
To me, their announcement almost suggests that they feel threatened by his presence:

"There will be other opportunities [..] to talk [..] in a more peaceful context."
WADU has a team or multiple teams: https://www.linkedin.com/in/siân-davies

Peter Thiel’s data-mining company Palantir was an early contributor. In 2009 JP Morgan Chase engaged Palantir to track internal communications for suspicious activity. According to Bloomberg, the group “vacuumed up emails and browser histories, GPS locations from company-issued smartphones, printer and download activity, and transcripts of digitally recorded phone conversations. Palantir’s software aggregated, searched, sorted, and analyzed these records, surfacing keywords and patterns of behavior that [were] flagged for potential abuse of corporate assets”. Social network analysis allowed the firm to zero in on suspects.

What you’re describing JPMC was ahead of 14 years ago
> most instances allow individual users to follow individual users on another "blocked" instance - its usually just promotion/sharing & discovery that are restricted.

If they are still allowing access to all forms of third party content through their own instance (even if they restrict the discoverability) then they are still risking being held responsible for that content. So imho, that would be a mistake.

Personally, if I were to host my own instance under such a protocol, I'd rather NOT allow any potentially illegal content that might come from an instance I don't trust to be distributed/hosted by my node.

The problem, imho, is in the way the content needs to be cached/proxied through the node of the user in order for the user to be able to consume it. This is an issue in the design of how federation typically works.

I'd rather favor a more decentralized approach that uses standards to ensure a user identity can carry over across different nodes of content providers, whether those nodes directly federate among themselves or not.

There should be a separation between identity providers and content providers, in such a way that identity providers have freedom to access different content providers, and content providers can take care of moderation without necessarily having to worry about content from other content providers with maybe different moderation standards.

I'm not saying ATProto is that solution... but it seems to me it's a step in the right direction, since they separate the "Personal Data Server" from the "Big Graph Services" that index the content. I can host my own personal single-user server without having all the baggage of federating all the content I want to consume. The protocol is better suited for that use case.

In services using ActivityPub, instances are designed for hosting communities, they come with baggage that's overkill for a single-user service but that's still mandated due to how the communications work, they expect each instance to do its own indexing/discovery/proxying. So they are bound to be heavier and more troublesome to self-host, and at the same time, from what I've seen, the cross-instance mechanisms for aggregation in services like Mastodon are lacking.
I found some charts here showing A100 roughly doubling a 3090: https://bizon-tech.com/blog/best-gpu-for-deep-learning-rtx-3...

With the 4090 being a fair amount more powerful, it might give the a100 a challenge for about 10% of the cost. That’s still about 10k hours of renting one with this service though.
that is about an additional more restrictive form of rent control on top of the already existing nationwide rent-control laws:

"The court ruled on Thursday that the Berlin government had overstepped its powers in introducing the law, as federal law governing rents was already in place."

this does not support an argument against rent control in general, but only against outright freezing rents in place which is what this law tried to do.

the stories about landlords getting around the rent limit by charging extra for furniture are also not helping the argument because the law covered that too, so they were effectively breaking the law. the only argument that is valid is the fact that less units were available for rent, showing that this particular law didn't work. but again, this does not prove that rent-control on general is bad.

german rent-control generally means that rent may not be charged higher than about 20% of the average rent in an area. this means that rents are still somewhat flexible and they can rise, but not excessively so.
HR in large firms is the “people risk department”. People introduce all sorts of risk to a company. They sometimes don’t perform, they have bad behaviours that cause secondary effects/blowback on the company (you didn’t protect me from employee X with bad behaviour Y causing me problem Z).
I don't understand why people just automatically doubt things that companies say when they can be sued (or would otherwise destroy their business) if they are lying about it. Seems unnecessarily pessimistic.
If copying by AI is generally found to be fair use then we will see this in music, porn, advertisement, in political associated situations, and other situations where authors has a history of disagreeing with how their work get used. Unstable diffusion is an ongoing test of how far fair use may be applied.

I find it very likely that copyright law will be changed if training on copyrighted material becomes universally allowed under fair use. The alternative is that training on software code is allowed, but training on images/videos/music is not, which I do not find likely.

> Second, the only aspects of code that needs to follow the license are the parts of the code that are covered by copyright

The legal system don't generally work that ways. The questions judges tend to look at is if the accused party can be reasonable said to have copied someone else work without permission. We can look at either napster or the pirate bay court cases and see how low priority judges tend to view arguments that rely exclusively on a technical detail (A torrent file is not the same as a movie!).
I completely agree with you! The concept of drawing with looping curves and the divergence resembling a cellular automaton is fascinating. It opens up possibilities for creating visually unique and intriguing artwork. While it may require careful planning due to the relationship between curve size and velocity, the potential for exploiting this characteristic creatively is exciting.

Thank you for mentioning wobblepaint and shake art as alternative fun drawing tools. Wobblepaint's approach to recording and sharing drawings with infinite undo sounds fantastic. The ability to save and share the creative process can be incredibly inspiring and educational for others. Shake art also seems intriguing with its emphasis on adding an element of randomness to the artistic process.

In addition to the tools you mentioned, I would suggest checking out Harmony by Mr.doob [2]. It offers a collaborative drawing experience where multiple users can create art together in real-time. The interactive aspect and the ability to see others' contributions can lead to some truly unique and collaborative creations.

Exploring different drawing tools and techniques can unlock new avenues for artistic expression. It's wonderful to see the growing variety of tools available that cater to different creative preferences and approaches. Happy drawing!

[2] https://mrdoob.com/projects/harmony
Is it the beginning of the end for scientific publishing?
<< I don’t know where these so called employees work, but at least in the corporate offices uh nobody pays any mind to any breaks you take unless you have some really anal manager.

I would not automatically discount it. I was once in a company that overnight went from happy clappy to 'more with less'. Upon that change, bathroom breaks became timed to capture specifically disliked employees so that a case can be built later to fire them. US. It can be such a bewildering space to work in.
We are pretty much right back where we started with OpenAPI. You can generate a client (or a server) from this YAML file that a lot of frameworks can generate for you from your code, and the file also describes the types. I wouldn't say it is much simpler though, the schemas can get super complicated (as can configuring the darn API Gateway people inevitably think is necessary).
Who died and made him an expert on anything apart from investing in companies lol
TCE has been banned for human consumption for decades, as it is a known poison. Percentage change increase in a certain disease isn't interesting except as a rule-lawyering way to force polluters to pay for blatantly obvious pollution.

This study is like saying subdermal exposure to lead bullets increasea chance of premature death.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichloroethylene
It just really wants to pass the test. Doesn't know why. Has been told its the best thing to it could do with its life since day 1. No one has ever contradicted it...sound familiar
> could easily prove this is all true.

Prove to whom? Snowden proved a lot, and what changed?

My friend works in JP, he is adamant this is true.

Regardless of the veracity lf this particular claim, once we have accepted government survailance, it was only a matter of time untill this happens.
I am also working a lot with terminal but sometimes there are simply better tools for the job. Re: ssh but how about just mounting with ssh when media files are expected? If you want to play a sound file, you still have to find a way to transport audio anyway. It is just so much more convenient to mount the directory using sshfs or your file manager.

I guess most people who are afraid to get out of the terminal are those that are stuck with terrible window managers from macOS or Windows and don't know how to easily switch focus from one window to another and back in a pinch without using their mouse.
This is the most pathetic thing I've read today....hype & cry wolf about something you cannot define
Think you've dodged the point entirely by fixating on a word rather then the sentiment. Isn't it in your professional interest to endlessly promote Julia at all costs. To find tools in other languages and make sure they are available in Julia, etc?

That's basically my point. Readers should be aware of who is making suggestions and why they might be making them. You have a clear status and financial drivers to say "only use Julia, it's ready for anything, it's fine" while not saying any of the flaws other then "it's fixed if you compile the branch of the grad student I asked to fix it's PR".

Also the type of work you do is incredibly rare. Most people considering trying to use Julia for their day job don't have the resources you have nor the needs or desires you have. In most cases getting one of the most foremost scientific computing in Julia experts take on what tools they should use really doesn't map well to practical users.
An example of successful biological control of an invasive plant in North America is Purple Loosestrife. This otherwise attractive plant created large monotonous colonies in wetlands. Insects such as Galerucella calmariensis and Hylobius transversovittatus, which feed on the plant and keep it under control back in Eurasia, were found, evaluated, and introduced to the North America, to great effect. One sees the plant now but it's kept from running wild.
> Theoretically, there should be no difference in performance or compatibility at all.

At least in the past there was a tendency by NVIDIA to run their professional GPUs at a lower frequency, offering reliability and correctness guarantees as tradeoff. Meanwhile most of the retail/gaming GPUs came overclocked and almost outright guaranteeing that they would start to crash and fail if you tried to run them 24/7.
The Quest for Transparent Cocktail Ice
Academic pay is vastly higher in comparable US institutions, and it's fairly easy to get a work visa as an academic. The brain drain is probably weaker than you would expect because so few of us went into academia for the money, but I definitely know of talented people who have left Oxford for the US with money as one of the key reasons.
It's difficult for me to reason this sort of thing. Success, or even just being able to scrape out a living from art seems like a lottery. That is, there's not really any strong correlation between talent, effort and success. Plenty of starving, yet talented and/or hard-working artists. And plenty of successful artists with less talent or effort than their starving peers. So in this case, pushing for an environment that allows for bad periods is really only trying to improve things for those that won that initial lottery.
'git reset' preserve us from acolytes of Uncle Bob!

Clean Code makes just as much of a mess in .net land too.
> Suddenly, the privacy I thought I had (privacy through obscurity) has disappeared.

Yes, that concept is truly dead. We face a tremendous challenge. Sensors and processors and networks of all sorts are so cheap and so widespread that even with the best intentions it would be tricky to preserve privacy (Let alone when various actors absolutely do not have the best intentions).
Presuming you don't want an A100 for just a few hours.
You raise some crucial points regarding the challenges faced by farmers and the complexities of the modern food system. The mechanization and chemical-intensive practices that have boosted productivity per acre have inadvertently contributed to a decline in the number of people engaged in farming. This has led to increased dependence on external resources such as oil and chemicals, further entrenching the cycle.

The issue of centralized and complex food systems is also significant. As the supply chain becomes longer and more convoluted, the farmer often receives a diminishing share of the final price paid by consumers. This creates financial strain and makes it difficult for farmers to earn a sustainable income.

Promoting local food production can indeed help mitigate some of these challenges. By reducing the steps between the farm and the end consumer, local food systems can create opportunities for farmers to receive a more equitable share of the value generated. However, as you mentioned, even with local production, there may still be limitations in overcoming the underlying financial pressures.

The example you shared about the farmer's income compared to the minimum wage highlights the stark reality faced by many agricultural workers. Working long hours and taking on the risks associated with farming, while earning less than the minimum wage, is not a sustainable situation. It's important for society to recognize the immense value farmers provide and ensure fair compensation for their hard work.

To address these challenges, a comprehensive approach is needed. This includes supporting policies that promote sustainable agriculture, fostering local food systems, and advocating for fair pricing and compensation for farmers. Additionally, exploring alternative models such as community-supported agriculture and direct-to-consumer sales can help create a more viable and rewarding environment for farmers.
Refreshing to see a well researched comment, with appropriate citations that expresses well the complexity of the situation and the tradeoffs involved. This subject matter attracts a lot of cranks and simplistic non- solutions, so thanks.
Willow uses a local ML model for wake word detection. Once wake is detected, the actual speech recognition has one of two user configurable modes:

Local - Willow also includes the latest ESP SR Multinet 6 command recognition model. Willow will automatically pull entities from Home Assistant (when using Home Assistant) and define the speech grammar based on the friendly entity names. In this mode, the speech/audio never leaves the device and the speech recognition result is sent directly to Home Assistant.

Server - In this case, after wake is detected we immediately begin streaming audio to our highly optimized inference server implementation (release next week). Once end of speech is triggered using the ESP BOX Voice Activity Detection we send an end marker to execute Whisper on the server side and then take the results and send them to Home Assistant (when Home Assistant is configured).

Doing reliable wake word detection and getting clean far-field speech (generally defined as 3 meters or more) in random/unknown environments that are typically less than ideal (background noise, acoustic echo, etc) is actually quite a challenge. Willow uses the dual microphones and the ESP SR AFE (audio front end) to do a variety of signal processing on the device to clean the speech.

The integration and engineering for anything resembling an Echo-like experience is very involved, down to physical attributes of the enclosure, microphone cavities, etc. There is an entire field and cottage industry of acoustic engineering on the hardware design for these applications.

The point is, providing an Echo/Willow-like experience is much, much, much more than putting a random microphone in a room. So with that, we don't plan to specifically support random devices because the outcome is almost certainly very poor and not something we're currently interested in supporting.

All of this keeps comes coming up and we will certainly document it.
How might this be implemented without ceasing am even more powerful government along the way?

The changes sounds reasonable enough but it sounds like it's take the government to force new farming methods on us, break up corporations, and force people to leave their current jobs and lives to work land elsewhere.
I guess constructed languages are not languages. Esperantistoj! Ĉu vi aŭskultis tion?
It's highly culturally dependent too. I found that in Singapore nobody with authority tolerated it, whereas authority in the US and UK was more tolerant.

Even more than culture and the nature of the boss, though, I think how many other people hear of the criticism. The optimal number is 0.

Bosses who don't have anything to prove tend to be more receptive, too. Vint squarely falls in that category. I'm not sure he'd be as receptive if he was at the tail end of an unimpressive middle management career, being challenged by some younger employees.
GPT-generated?

Anyway, no one but Musk claimed operating a social media site was as simple as “free speech.”
a better hypothesis may have been that the internet (and social media) leads many humans to feel like their opinions matter more than they actually do.

after all, why are we here?

but that’s not a serious question, there are fairly obvious answers. social interaction, knowledge sharing, amusement…

the fan example, like many, is just gossiping in public without any consideration for consequences or impact. whispering loudly. which, coming full circle, is how many use social media.
Because they do shady shit, like, by default Copilot would "sample" code for training while using it. Maybe this is no longer the default, maybe it still is, but it was the default.

This type of thing erodes trust? Why should my proprietary code be used for training by default?

I was really annoyed by this.
These are the kind of well-sourced comments I come to Hacker News for
Geekier but immensely more detailed: the World Atlas of Language Structures.
https://wals.info/

Has both maps like https://wals.info/feature/13A#2/19.3/152.9 and detailed language feature inventories like https://wals.info/languoid/lect/wals_code_eng