skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google and New Scientist claimed Quantum Supremacy in 2019.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2217347-google-claims-i...

Not sure what they have been doing with it since. Maybe everyone on that team has been on holiday?

And that massive breakthrough we are discussing here is actual not quantum at all...
Well if you stop reading any time anyone suggests you might have advantages you're not aware of then it's not surprising you don't think you have any advantages.
Monoliths Are Good, but Not That Good
It's very naive to think moving the datacenter to the EU makes it impossible for American agencies to data off it.
Taking a more holistic view perhaps.
Why not just give every voter his share of the money?
Yes, that's a great point.
Some names are generally unclear, but more often, they are unclear in a context.
Do you have some "contextual" examples?
When you think that I (and probably the vast majority of developers) used a pen and a paper for the first few years every time I tried to visualize more complex memory, then that's a big upgrade.

Especially because you can scroll through all the steps.
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Not sure if serious
Having protected shipping lanes is not just convenient at best. Why be so begrudging. It's an incredible achievement.
> "AI threatens to deepen the dominance of a way of thinking that is white, male,"

This was the claim. And I refuse this notion. The worst atrocities humans inflicted upon one another were derived from a fundamental belief that the "others" being oppressed were meaningfully different from the oppressors, and therefore was ok to oppress them.

And about people treating you differently based on their perception of you, that is a different claim. And that is just basic human nature. Everyone (man or woman, white or black) judges based on appearances, especially when that is the first (and sometimes only) information you have to navigate.
Um… bad bot?
Though if you own an Echo, Amazon is always invited.
Given the creativity in accounting possible for multinationals and the difficulty in capturing value added to other areas from activities in an area that's a number with very little actual value.
Yeah, anything that contradict s PEP-8 conventions looks unnatural in Python. :-)
Firefox's builtin translation is not bad either. I've seen it make a mistake here and there, or fail to translate certain words and expressions but it works generally well.
I noticed I enjoy working a lot more if I sleep more, but may also be because I quit most social media or both?
‘Succession’ Busts One of America’s Most Cherished Myths
> Pretty funny the WSJ is paywalling this

FSVO "funny". You have indeed quoted the entire article.
factually incorrect / nonsensical output
Andrew Tate Thought He Was Above the Law. Romania Proved Him Wrong
Finally someone cut to chase. Thanks you!
On many modern systems swap is quite small and not large enough to hold the entire system. For a 32GB machine, Ubuntu recommends 6GB and redhat recommends 6.4GB (20%). In a VM that number is much much lower. Besides, some libraries allocate memory in such way that you get artificial memory spikes in physical memory.

I know this because I spent this weekend debugging crashes in an LLM pipeline :(
I loved winamp. I miss winamp. The problem is, I don't have any mp3s. In college I found a giant CD book in a parking lot in the dorms. Realizing that it's owner was no where to be found, I walked off with it and ripped all the CDs to my hard drive (500gb at the time I believe) and forgot about the CD book. A few months later I was at a party listening to a girl talk about how someone stole a giant CD book out of her car in the dorm parking lot. That someone was me. I gave her back most of her CDs. I think some of my friends had pilfered some from me. Today, I don't have a CD player to rip CDs from, I don't have napster or limewire (thank god). I don't really know where to get mp3s from. I supposed I could torrent a giant stack of them. But there was a time when I downloaded all the music I listen to. I don't think it is a good thing. I don't seem to listen to new music as frequently. Streaming algorithms all seem to be unable to recommend new things and only recommend me things I have already heard. So while this project is great, I don't know how I would use it.
I’m getting pretty titled at the number of people who are ignoring everything I’m posting and claiming temperature is some unknowable thing because Knuth does not know what it is. Look at my link. This is not a concept specific to them. It’s a single term in the softmax selection.

There is no reason to assume that OpenAI has changed the definition of this term.
Generally I don't think you count profits that never happened as "cost to the taxpayer".

What if Facebook spend 2B USD on a product that was supposed to be wildly successful, but it failed big time, does that count as "costing the US tax money" as they never made the profit they could have made?
Apropos: https://www.rickgude.nl/work/winamp

EDIT: I had original link to https://physicalwinamp.com/
but looks like it might not be legit. I don't know anything about the project.
Reminder that 99% of donations to wikipedia are funnelled to shareholders and executives. Those tragic appeals they put out are lies.
Indeed. Professional woodworking equipment can also cut you, but that’s a risk we accept as we know their developers also care more about providing a tool that works and can be used responsibly by trained professionals. Yes we could insist everyone only hands us straight jackets in padded rooms, but I’m not sure that’d be a good thing.
Edition 19th: Why procrastination is a good things and you should 'skilfully' embrace it
The charachorder seems interesting but USB , not BLE, so not sure how that would work with this setup?
If you think stuff like mongo is any better than redis, you fell for the marketing friend :^)
One thing I do respect is that this article is hosted on Wikipedia. Not many corporations nor non-profits would host an obviously self effacing article.
> Is this anthropomorphizing? Yep. But that's the best way I've found to reason about them.

My take? It's like a high-schooler being asked a question by the teacher and having to answer on the spot. If they studied the material well, they'll give a good and correct answer. If they (like me, more often than I'd care to admit) only half-listened to the lectures and maaaaybe skimmed some cliff's notes before class, they will give an answer too - one strung together out of few remembered (or misremembered) facts, an overall feel for the problem space (e.g. writing style, historical period, how people behave), with lots and lots of interpolation in between. Delivered confidently, it has more chance of avoiding a bad mark (or even scoring a good one) than flat-out saying, "I don't know".

Add to that some usual mistakes out of carelessness and... whatever it is that makes you forget a minus sign and realize it half a page of equations later - and you get GPT-4. It's giving answers like a person who just blurts out whatever thoughts pop into their head, without making a conscious attempt at shaping or interrogating them.
An interesting way to look at it, the impact of a given percentage of revenue will certainly differ a lot between some tight margin reseller and a business that is basically market printing once established. But I can't parse the wording of the last sentence in GP post as "should be seen", it's to "should be". If there is ambiguity I fail to see it.
in addition to the other replies, there was an article a few weeks (?) ago that eye masks can help you with your deep sleep

found it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35807951

may not solve all your problems but it may be a puzzle piece
> collects some data that I would define as telemetry

Maybe the platform and os can be described as "telemetry", but logging the hostname definitely counts as stealing private data!

Apple by default uses the user's name as host name (eg. "John-Does-Macbook-Air.local"), so you could use this to determine if a specific person has installed your extension.

That is spyware, not telemetry.

The malicious extension could then, once it has determined a specific target user has installed the extension, ship a malicious update.
The main organisation that owns Wikipedia funnels all the donations into the owners.

Wikipedia doesn’t really cost anything because it’s just static text so they pocket almost all of the money.
So, what I don't understand is:

Based on the EDPB Decision [1], it seems the most weight of the decision is from paragprah 107:

> As explained by the EDPB in its Recommendations 01/2020 on measures that supplement transfer tools to ensure compliance with the EU level of protection of personal data (hereinafter ‘EDPB Recommendations on Supplementary Measures’) 243, when assessing third countries and identifying appropriate supplementary measures, controllers should assess if there is anything in the law and/or practices in force of the third country that may impinge on the effectiveness of the appropriate safeguards of the transfer tools that they are relying on 244. In this regard, the EDPB notes that, according to Meta IE’s assessment, ‘the level of protection required by EU law is provided for by relevant US law and practice’ and that Meta IE implemented supplementary measures in addition to the 2021 SCCS in order to ‘further ensure that an adequate level of protection continues to apply to User Data transferred from FIL to FB, Inc’ 245 . In other words, Meta IE has implemented supplementary measures on the basis of an assessment which concluded that there was no need for such measures, since, in Meta IE’s view, the relevant US law and practice were already providing a level of protection equivalent to the one provided under EU law

My follow on question, let's say they understood the risk, I fail to see any safeguards which could be equivalent to the EU law? FISA 702 + other intrusive surveillance laws basically make this impossible.

So it seems that because Meta:

> seems to identify its own test for determining suitability of supplemental measures by lowering the standard to include measures that can “address” or “mitigate” any “relevant remaining” inadequacies in the protections offered by US law and practice and the SCCs’ 249, and concludes in the Draft Decision that ‘Meta Ireland does not have in place any supplemental measures which would compensate for the inadequate protection provided by US law’

I'm just confused what would have been sufficient for Meta in this circumstance?

The decision continues in paragraph 121 to say:

> In this regard, the EDPB recalls that the IE SA carries out a detailed assessment of whether Meta IE
implemented supplementary measures that could address the inadequate protection provided by US
law 273. More specifically, the IE SA analyses the organisational, technical and legal measures
implemented by Meta IE and concludes that these measures cannot, ‘whether viewed in isolation, or
in tandem with the 2021 SCCs and the full suite of measures outlined in the ROS’, compensate for the
deficiencies identified in US law and cannot provide essentially equivalent protection to that available
under EU law 2

I am aware of zero technical and organsiational measures which could protect against 702 FISA DOWNSTREAM (PRISM), short of not transfering the data to US?

Thoughts?

[1]: https://edpb.europa.eu/system/files/2023-05/edpb_bindingdeci...
And the high tech of the US is privacy and rights violations?
Because it would look like "Google is holding my account hostage unless I pay them".

I can't believe I'm writing this, but this is where a middleman could help. Companies can pay a fixed subscription to become "Google Gold Partners" and get privileged access to tech support resources. Users with issues don't pay Google directly, they pay those companies to solve their issues with Google products. In this way Google is still incentivized to solve problems as quickly as possible.
Mexico's top human rights official targeted with Pegasus spyware
I wish I could get the telemetry, so I know when the modem wasn't working and needed a restart, or the NBN is just down...

I'm not what networks you're comparing the NBN with, but NZ is far better...

Also, not sure where you're getting the ~$1000/m number from, Telstra 's SMB NBN rates according to their website are also in the $100 range (no numbers for enterprise naturally), ~$1000 is probably either private Telstra fibre and covering the install cost or has better bandwidth/latency properties (from the NBNCo website it looks like there's Traffic Class 2 which is symmetric upload/download speeds, and Traffic Class 4 which is asymmetric, with Traffic Class 4 sounding the same as the home plan).
Regulators destroying markets isn't the slam dunk you might believe it is. Why not fine GSK out of existence any time someone dies from a mislabelled allergen? Even though that is far worse than data being processed in the wrong country (not even being mishandled, just the increasing chance of mishandling) it wouldn't be proportionate.
There’s a new EU-US data framework that’s expected to be ratified within a year which should make EU-US transfers possible again under new guidelines. Its possible this fine was intended to pre-empt the passing of any new frameworks and cash in on the uncertainty in the interim.

Fining foreign big tech over EU privacy nuances is like taking candy from a baby. The narrative zeitgeist on both sides of the pond is in support (stories of rigged elections for 4 years turned public opinion brilliantly).

While protecting your citizens rights is a noble cause, its hard not to see the moral hazard inherent in this approach.

Abusing your position as a desirable market to impose post-hoc tariffs via an endless stream of fines is questionable IMO. Especially while the US provides Europe with its extremely expensive military support blanket (NATO) against the angry bear at its door.
A pan-European survey, run by the Free Software Foundation Europe, has collected information from more than 1600 end-users and highlighted several obstacles to Router Freedom, such as lack of freedom of choice, provider lock-in and promotion of equipment running exclusively proprietary software.
A Uber DEI exec placed on leave after hosting event “Don't Call Me Karen”
At least the checkout clerk didn't shove a giant bilboard into your face asking if you want a subscription for their video rental and premium delivery businesses.
The accounting is not what matters. What matters is using your brain to to figure out if a fine is actually meaningful.

Comparing to revenue is a stupid way to think about things. Profit is the incentive to conduct business. Not revenue. And not global profit, but in this case Ireland/EU profits only, because that is the location fining them.

People are so eager. Every. Single. Time. To say that a fine does not matter even if it clearly outpaces multiple years of profits for the area given.
I’m not worried of dying of Alzheimers.

My grandma had dementia, she was “gone” way before she actually “died”.
So a hackers main goal will be to get your LLM data, and companies will be backdooring them?
No. You and those replying to you have completely misunderstood what the author wrote. My emphasis and a clarifying adverb:

> As a team member, you don’t wait until you have finished a feature or story to integrate your code to the mainline. Instead, you frequently - at least once a day - put your code into a healthy state that passes tests and [then] integrate it into the mainline with everyone else’s current work.

You get your local copy into a healthy state - build passing, tidied up, refactored - and then you push it upstream. The idea is precisely that you only push healthy code, and so never break mainline.
OK I was responding to someone else about their claim that being white had never benefited them. This is an entirely different conversation I don't know why you started it with me. I don't disagree with you so far.
Break the law to potentially get oversized profits, pay no tax if you are caught breaking the law. That's a perfect business plan.
I got my start in engineering management by supervising interns and then moved on to leading a team of 7. It was a great way to learn how to help other people do the work instead of just doing it, and I recommend it if it’s available.

There’s a lot of day-to-day stuff that I had read about but only really understood when I did it: how to agree as a team on a technical roadmap, how to give feedback, and how to hire. Probably the most difficult thing which took years was learning how to control my emotions; when you’re a manager and things are breaking, you can’t just jump in and debug, you’ve gotta figure out how to help the team perform at their best. Sometimes this is getting people the right tools, other times it’s giving them time to work things out, in extreme cases it’s changing the team members. I found making these decisions stressful until I had a lot of practice.
> However, pull requests sacrifice performance, including both delivery time and quality.

No. Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast.
If people donate 100m to an organisation claiming to be a charity and 99m goes into the pockets of the people running it then they’re going to question their donation.

Why are donations being spent on enriching people instead of improving the project? Millions of dollars would pay for a hell of a lot of articles written by experts in their field.
Not necessarily: they could terminate the initial connection close to the user and then run a new connection. While this sounds like it shouldn't help, because the second connection is fully under their control they can make it highly reliable and very fast. Additionally, any recovery from dropped packets (on the user's home network) only has the latency of an in-region connection.

This also sets them up for ruining a light cache in-region, and potentially scaling that up to handle more kinds of API calls.
Shareholders? It’s a non-profit.
Notice from NOYB, on whose complaint this goes back to: https://noyb.eu/en/edpb-decision-facebooks-eu-us-data-transf...

And HN thread for that link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36029050
It is a little ironic to think that people being patronaged by giant monopolistic mega corporations are fighting "against the system".
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This. It’s likely not worth it for most folks considering management. There’s no pay incentive. Significantly more people politics (managing up, down, side-ways), you’re in meetings all day AND expected to do other administrative stuff which will naturally fall outside your 9-5.

The worst part: once you experience the power trip, it’s also hard to go back. Even after knowing fully well that you’re getting the wrong end of the bargain. Truth is, for better or for worse, a good manager can have significant influence over many things (from roadmap, to people’s future, to their own future career prospects).

I find that it’s a tad bit easier to write my own destiny as a manager, without having to resort to changing jobs/roles.

Another big negative often not talked about: unlike software development, where your skills are transferable when you change companies - management = people and relationships. You lose them every time you change ships and have to rebuild from scratch.
Were they fired, made redundant, or otherwise "let go"? My assumption is that severance is only paid under such circumstances, but, as the grandparent poster points out, the linked article makes it sound like they chose to leave for new jobs.
The EU member states are responsible for protecting various rights of their citizens and they can't do that if the private data is placed in a uncooperating jurisdiction.
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There are two aspect to this, the message to the company and the message to the users:

Yes, the fines are small enough that they are normalized by the violating corporate as just as small additional cost of doing business. A dramatic negative externality gets trivialized. The signal to other corporates is: go ahead feasting on the corpse of user privacy, just do a proper cost-benefit analysis.

But, these fines are legal events, in jurisdictions that are relevant to large numbers of people.

The common argument "people don't care about privacy" is more truthfully "people assume that widely popular online businesses are legal and ok, since services that are not ok are generally not allowed to operate". In fact, when all sort of public institutions are actually on facebook (and other adtech platforms) and even encourage people to join and interact there, they actually endorse that implied legal status. This has been a fiasco that has cut to size any "proud" democracy out there.

News headlines of legal fines help puncture that implied institutional endorsement. The average user doesn't know that the fine is just 12 hours of revenue. They actually have no clue what sort of lucrative business is running behind their backs and against their interests. Using these legal events, provided they get some press, does help the argument of those pushing to use (where available) privacy-respecting alternatives.

Of course such is the ability of the public to get desensitized to any uncomfortable truths that eventually that effect will wear out too.
Yep. That’s the biggest one I know of as well.
I'd say this is something you learn by doing to a large degree. Just jump in there. Good luck!
While I think Wikipedia is highly suspect given its ample reserves and continued begging, it should not be upsetting for you. It should bring you joy that someone got treated well.
Seems interesting as it runs counter to the "common knowledge" that fine-tuning large LMs needs a lot of data and RLHF for good results.

Not that the absolute results are extremely strong, most likely I'd suspect as the base model is just not competitive to GPT4 atm, but the relative results seem very impactful. Maybe fine-tuning a large LM for specific tasks is more practical than thought before?
It seems like a completely desperate move to make such a fundamental change to something as wildly successful as Instagram.

I would suspect that zoomers who grew up on Tiktok are going to consume less social media as they age than previous generations. We are all are driven by a thirst for new experiences and a generation that grew up as digital meth heads are not going to be looking for something more powerful than meth.

Meta was probably a decent short Friday over $246.