skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That post-truth world had already arrived ~6-7 years ago. Social media algorithms powered by primitive iterations of weak AI was unleashed upon an unsuspecting world and the effects are...not great.
Good catch lol
Ugh, thanks.

That shows the absurdity of trademark infringement and confusion if a company deliberately licenses their trademark to an independent company. I'm surprised they can be said to be using a mark if all they are doing is licensing it to someone else. IMHO it should be used in a court as a self-admission that there are no confusion concerns and it's just legally wrapped asset fuckery.
Reading through the memo, the GTM/use cases/market seem to be void of any kind of beachhead strategy?

I see lots of technical stuff, but the complete business plan & roadmap seems to be lacking any kind of tangible use case that is showing me how they plan to differentiate? (The technical reasons they state seem to be fairy minimal, and I don't see anything that competitors couldn't do either.)

The reason that I'm weary about this: I've spent a few years in an "innovation division" after customers repeatedly asked for such a service. Turns out the budget for long-running innovation-as-a-service is a hard sell, because in the end someone always has to pay for it, and innovation just for the sake of it gets old really quick. The long term survivors where the ones who continuously innovated for a particular use case - so more on a project basis...

So I'd assume that, just like with blockchain & VR/AR, the biggest value will be in very specific use cases in very specific verticals, as opposed to the "spray & pray" approach, offering an "AI as a commodity".

Or is this really just a EU FOMO play, i.e. US is doing it so Europe can't stay behind?
(Probably hoping for EU funds/grants via that "Cedric O" guy.)
Elaborating on that:

1. The founding team’s track record and credentials.

2. there is currently no major independent player in the EU of OpenAI’s scale.

3. EU entities will prefer working with an EU based partner over OpenAI.

Having the LLaMA tech lead is a win. Having someone ex-OpenAI can bolster their position even more.

Now the anti-thesis:

1. It is gradually becoming apparent that models trained on high quality data don’t need to be so big.

2. phi-1 from Microsoft is < 1.3B parameters and can compete with GPT-3.5 reasonably well.

3. In addition, it seems GPT-4 is not one model, but a collection of 8 models trained on different datasets. Along with the above, all of a sudden - training GPT-4 like models is coming within the reach of an average person.

All in - nobody has won this yet. And Meta open-sourcing their research was the cleverest strategic play that I’ve seen in a while. It has done so much to weaken their competitors while really pushing AI forward in an open way (so much for “OpenAI”).
It seems you are right, dude :)
https://archive.is/O3e9K
Yes, it is left over momentum from the big bang. It's crazy to think, but objects are still in the process of "settling down" 13.5 billion years later. They will probably continue to do it since there is no other force acting upon them.
>If this was common advice in lab science 50+ years ago then why is it even an issue today?

[...]

>this paper ought to be a hypothetical as such exposure should not happen.

Of course it shouldn't happen. We all wish bad things didn't happen...

I am having trouble wrapping my head around this comment. I don't think people are purposefully exposing themselves to the chemical... Like yeah, of course everyone hopes that they won't need to know what happens when someone is exposed to benzene, but that doesn't mean we don't study it anyway. I don't think "hypothetical" is the word here since the possibility of benzene exposure is very real.

The implication here seems to be that, as soon as you discover the negative effects of exposure to a certain chemical, that chemical is instantly no longer a threat to anybody. Just because we may have known about this ~50 years ago, doesn't mean that we can just stop worrying about it.
I just use M-x org-store-link when I get somewhere in an ebook that I want to take a note on (this works most places in Emacs, not just ebooks). Then I use org-roam to capture the note, and link it to whatever I want to discover it from, so I can find the note later.

There are other features / extensions like org-roam-bibtex and org-cite that I haven't quite integrated until my workflow, those also look useful for dealing with ebook references (and other kinds of references).
Open Source JANUS Standard for Undersea Communications (2017)
Would be extra cool if "vinyl" is a new name for a design concept that shall replace skeumorphism.
SSD missing from SAP datacenter turns up on eBay
The sheer audacity to claim that 'fossil fuel industry' has "created significantly more problems than it has actually solved"

If you leave the SF bubble for a split second, and think about the foundations of modern industry, you would realize fossil fuels have created tectonic value for society, that's why transitioning away is so so hard.

All the 'real problems', like housing costs, medical costs, education costs, occur in the most highly regulated areas of the economy. Not technology.
Also good to remember that Apple Inc. infringed on Apple Corps until 2007.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer
They had 4 days of air
When they launched. At $250k, they probably had some drinks on board for a 24 hour trip, and 3 days of no water is considered survivable. So air is most likely the limiting factor, but it's possible they messed up the drink provisions extremely badly.
Banks love money laundering
There's a few actors that just fit in a niche like that. I'm thinking Steven Segal, who's been playing the same role in the same film for decades now. But his movies are sold and played on TV all the time, there's definitely an audience for his brand of... whatever he's selling.
Suffering is an anathema, and only acceptable when necessary because no better ways are available. Deities can't avail themselves of such methods.

Eg, sawing somebody's leg off without anesthesia was the best we had before anesthetics. Today it'd be outright barbaric outside of extenuating circumstances like anesthetics being unavailable in some sort of emergency.

Whenever we get to the point where we can fully and painlessly fix up somebody's leg by using some sort of scifi device, then cutting it off even with modern anesthetics will become morally unacceptable as well.

The more ability, the less justifiable suffering becomes.
Digital visions: Computers and Art (1987)
Perhaps "back in the day" means something different to you than it does to the person you're replying to.
There are plenty of ways to fingerprint you aside from cookies, as you’ve probably surmised (“sophisticated methods”).
That’s the beauty of helping others! It’s a form of self-indulgence which is entirely ethical. Normally “self-indulgence” carries with it a negative connotation. In the case of altruistic behaviors, it’s actually a positive thing
Some really basic searching seems to reveal that the company that holds the patent seems to be a small-time patent troll. Which is unsurprising given the patent.
This response is kinda all over the map. My point was simply -- if you don't get it, or want to moan about it, then I think you need to at least discuss the alternatives. If you can't, then it might be an indication that these apps are solving a problem in a domain you perhaps don't fully understand.

Now -- does this particular app solve this particular problem better than Slack? That's a fair Q, but, again, far afield from my point.

I have a real problem with this abstract beefing with other peoples' products and tech choices, that takes place in land that without alternatives. Show me the code for cross platform GUI development that doesn't look something like this. Explain how it's better than this, and how we should all be using it, instead of this. Until then, these criticism ring hollow to me.
Good points. I especially like the claustrophobia one in planes.

On the other side, there are textbooks about "emotions". I own a Cognitive Behaviour Therapy manual (seemed interesting) that goes step by step through how to conduct a session (it is aimed at therapists or at the reader being their own) as it progresses. As a textbook, similar professional references could be more useful than say reddit or some blogs. Those other sources on the internet will be mostly derived from the reference materials in the field, or from personal anecdotes.

I can imagine textbooks exists on how to deal with people on the spectrum, or for them to recognize social cues, or how symptoms of depression look like.

I am still skeptical. You did not say anything of the sort, but the scientific method is not the opposite of emotions. It shows us what we know of emotions so far. Psychology has the reproducibility scandal but it is our best try.

Even in the case of planes, I would not be surprised if an engineering manual mentions a minimum space for passengers to be comfortable, as part of regulations, or any other data that might as a side-effect solve the claustrophobia issue.

TL;DR. Scientific knowledge is not antithetic to "human" knowledge. Scientific knowledge is what we actually know. Otherwise we have mysticism, or faith.
By the numbers: The ‘urban doom loop’ in San Francisco versus Boston
> In the case of AT&T, pricing can start at $55 per month for a 25Gbps plan ... Cox internet is similar, with plans starting at $50 per month for a 100Gbps or 200Gbps plan...

I absolutely refuse to believe those speeds are offered at those prices. Otherwise, I'm getting totally ripped off.
They likely don't want third party apps at all, but this is the method they thought would be more palatable than just coming out and saying that. They want to control the experience end-to-end, like Twitter and Discord.
Because Steve took the name off a Beatles Album. It wasn't extortion
This is great, and as an aside I want to mention that if you are in high school and you are smart but maybe not ready for college, joining the military out of high school, using your GI Bill to get an engineering degree, and doing a good job and getting good grades is a first class ticket to true middle class.

You graduate debt free, eligible for Pell grants, you get paid BAH (monthly housing stipend) and you don’t have to rush 4 years of school but can take your time. Military service + engineering skills after graduating at, say, 26 years old and you’re set up for a good ride. Plus the VA loan when you’re ready to buy a house.

But if you don’t have a Purple Heart or you aren’t really old you better not park in those “veterans parking” spots I see at Lowes.
I agree but I think it's a problem that they are using it wirelessly. I hope they have backup batteries..
I Will get confused if I was going to see the exact Apple logo on a fruit box though. What about a music record with the same logo before Apple was in the music industry?

I think any kind of confusion is what raise the question of if it should be ok or not. But here the logos don’t even match…
Does it work with 9.6 version?
10 things everybody must read to be ready for the post truth world
Having dealt with WD's warranty process once, I pledged myself never to deal with that again. After dealing with a broken web-form, I got charged $380 for a non-existent warranty replacement drive. When I disputed the charge on my credit card, I got a phone call from some mid-level executive who apparently was pissed their number was given as a point of contact. When I tried to explain the problem, they insisted I owed them $20 for returning the drive "late".

Probably the worst technology company I have ever dealt with.
Apple's union-busting practices violated employee rights at NYC store
> If it's the fastlane, then there are other lanes.

In these scenarios it's usually two lanes in each direction, and the slow lane is filled with a line of semi trucks that have hard limiters set somewhere in the 65 MPH range and can not go faster no matter what, even if the highway limit is 70 or higher. Those truck drivers will do anything they can to maintain their max speed.

Some utter jackass then decides they don't want to be behind the trucks, but they also don't want to go faster than the trucks, and we end up with a line of annoyed traffic led by one dipshit.

> I suspect the person is doing the speed limit, maybe a bit over, in the fast lane -- and you're just and ASSHOLE.

Your position assumes the posted speed limit is set reasonably. Here's a hint: It's usually not on highways. I mean ffs there are eight lane divided highways with 55 MPH posted limits. You can't possibly defend that nonsense.

Most controlled-access highways the speed limits should start at 75 and as proven by the Germans beyond any doubt ∞ is a perfectly reasonable limit for rural stretches with good visibility and quality pavement.

Beyond all that, you are not the cops. It is not your job to enforce posted speed limits. If you are intentionally choosing to get in the way of a line of traffic when you have a reasonable option to not do that, YOU are the asshole.

I just can't even contemplate the level of selfishness it would take to be in the passing lane, looking at a line of annoyed drivers behind you and open road in front, thinking "man all those people are assholes for wanting to get past ME".
Invoking the name of another revolution doesn't automatically make this new one equally as beneficial. I don't follow your argument - what monopoly is going to be be undermined here? What information will the AI give people access to that wasn't already available?
Good comparison. An AI companion will never talk back or tell you that you're wrong. Kind of similar in my mind to how fast food restaurants won't serve you anything that's too "hard to swallow".
dup https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36385533
> The title is quite deceptive.

Surely a blog post from Android Authority, a site dedicated to Apple's biggest competitor for mobile ecosystems, wouldn't sensationalize an article for the purposes of clicks.
> Either: (a) present the option of using UniversalInterface to interact with X object, in addition to interface that’s much more idiomatic and closer to how X object actually behaves.

> Or, (b) come up with an alternative universal (or flexible) object interaction interface that’s much more flexible than UniversalInterface.

That’s, basically, what COM/Corba/… are. There, UniversalInterface has an additional call “If you are a Foo, give me your Foo interface”, with Foo as an argument to that call.
Whenever we have invented new mass media (books, radio, television, social media) it has taken a generation or two to manage the impacts, on a societal level. And in many cases, the intervening period was fraught with conflict and discord (religious schisms, rise of fascism, etc).

The big problem is not whether you or I are ready. The problem is whether the "average joe" is ready for what's coming. No good in being ready if the rest of society is tearing itself apart and drags you into a war.
I hope this doesn't come off as overly cynical, but this is a wildly popular misconception about what HR is for and does. Google "HR is not your friend."

Some companies might have a mediation program to mitigate employee/manager disputes, but the vast majority do not. If OP had lost the confidence of their manager and doesn't see any options to regain it, then there is nothing left but to move on.
Truth has never been that important. Humans spent thousands of years thinking a giant man living on the mountain threw lightning bolts from the sky, or the spirits of their ancestors watch everything they do, or fairies and gremlins and whatnot cause mischief. They still managed.
actually would be worse than knowing or not knowing
Another redesign for iPhone as EU changes battery rules
But then how is this so different from running "docker-compose" and then do whatever you want withing the container? Is the difference just that they provide ready-made Docker images for certain environments so that you don't have to create your own? Can I get the same images on Dockerhub then?
A very very sharp tool.
A Pulsar, that's not really spinning but oscillating back and forth, becoming a very highly precise instrument of time measurement as well:

https://physicsworld.com/a/pulsar-timekeepers-measure-up-to-...
South Korea to Drop ‘Killer Questions’ from College Entrance Exam
I am regularly astounded by the depth, breadth, and usability of https://marxists.org.
He mentions in the video that he saw the idea in "a math exchange post" and he also has a link to the exact post in the video description. Doesn't that count?
Quotes from the Memo:

"We will distribute tools to leverage the power of these
white box models, and create a developer community around our trademark. This
approach is an ideological differentiator from OpenAI; it is a very strong point
argument for hiring highly coveted top researchers, and a strong accelerator
for development, as it will open the doors for many downstream applications from
motivated hackers."

So they're trying to build a community of inventive 3rd party developers, however:

"Business development will start in parallel to the first model family development, using the
following strategy

- Focus on exploring needs with a large industrial actors, accompanied by third-party
integrators that will be given full access to our best (non-open source) model"

Suggests they be will sucked into the enterprise market as I said above. Still, the last line:

"Co-design of products with a few small emerging partners that focuses on
generative-AI products."

Suggests a wildcard: one of these "small emerging partners" might come up with the $trillion black-swan application of AI.

[I'm going to bookmark this comment and reread it 2 years from now to see how wrong I was]
You need tracker blocking extensions, and/or a "degoogled" version of Chrome like Thorium or Brave.

My usual loadout is Thorium + the EFF's Privacy Badger extension, and sometimes UBO.
Having a standard installation for tools and libraries goes a long way to being independent of operating system updates.

Compiling and making versioned, packages of them (for example, in /opt/corp/prod/lang/gcc/12.3.0/... ) means that there can be a known good set of tools independent of operating system version and when the latter is upgraded, users can still build their products using the same paths and versions.

This is before the widespread use of containers, but doesn't change the advantages of having a reliable set of installed tools where users are in control of what versions they use.
Aren't pointers pretty much universally 64 bits, except for some old or esoteric machines?

And why would you not be able to treat one as an integer? Are there any examples of such ISAs?

Finally, floating point formats do differ, but that shouldn't affect anything except precision and binary format. Also I'm pretty sure "float" is standard IEEE 32 bit and "double" is standard 64 bit, with predefined exponent/mantissa sizes. The only thing that could differ between arches is endianness, and by far most ISAs have settled on little endian.
Well, no. The two things take input in two different forms, and one is substantially easier than the other.

It's a bit like if you claimed that a program that voice to text is the same as one that does text to text.
Are they subject to the UK's equivalent of the UCMJ?
Very interesting! Keen to know what all models it supports currently and what’s in the roadmap?
Just shutting off from the Internet is the likely result, IMO.

I'm halfway there already. I think social networks (HN is better, but not great), dating apps, hell even stuff like automatic parking apps or online shopping, are just gradually sucking the joy out of what it is to be a human.

For the most part, nowadays, I pretty much just use my phone to organise analogue fun.

Once places like HN become obviously just all-bot then there won't be much reason for me to even go online other than phone calls and messaging.
It is also the reason why the planets revolve around it
The real problem here is the idea that it's somehow wrong to prefer to marry someone with money. And because that is seen as a morally bankrupt position, we then need to jump through hoops to justify their preference with a "generous" interpretation.
We now have pidfd, because we actually need process handles and treating processes as files is the best way to do so.
"By the time we began the acquisition process, we had already met the CEOs of Google, Facebook, and Microsoft, and members of the senior teams at Amazon, Apple, and others."

That's already a milestone few small companies can accomplish.
The Soviet/Russian Perimeter (aka Dead Hand) second-strike system uses rockets with transmitters flying cross-country to alert the Russian missile fields in case of a decapitation strike.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Hand
That's unfair fair to the oil companies. They at least produce power and a wide variety of very useful materials for industrial applications.

The AI tools generate spam.

Oil has a trade off that's at least intellectually defensible. Spam does not.
Eye witness testimony, public key encryption, reputation matters. No more anonymous viral "information".
He told CBS News: "You know, there's a limit. At some point safety just is pure waste. I mean if you just want to be safe, don't get out of bed.

Don't get in your car. Don't do anything. At some point, you're going to take some risk, and it really is a risk/reward question. I think I can do this just as safely by breaking the rules."

https://metro.co.uk/2023/06/20/titanic-sub-ceo-was-worried-a...
I would never get on a plane with the pilot anywhere but on the plane either.

But, the point of skin in the game isn't that it reduces the risk, it's a moral issue of who bears the risk. Skin in the game means you don't get the upside without the downside risk. That's it. It's not some magical pixie dust that makes people act rational, or follow safety protocols.
I don't necessarily believe in anything, but being there and doing certain activities like prayers, rites, etc. actually kind of touch me in some level it's hard to explain. It makes me appreciate nature while hiking. It certainly wasn't the same when I was younger and more ambitious. I would not have believed I'd go out my way to memorize prayers, poems, rites willingly. The opportunity to make friends with older folks, mentor younger people, and see other "normalcies" expand my perspective on life and happier as a result. Overall, healthy communities help a lot in terms of dealing with loneliness, you feel a sense of belonging rather than just wandering without purpose or just focusing on unhealthy obsession stuff.
Is anyone else out there allergic to old books? As a kid I loved reading and collecting books, but at some point in my teens I became allergic to older books. After about 15-30 minutes of handling one my nose would be running as if I had a serious cold.

Luckily now we have e-books so I can buy everything on there.
Absolutely

https://www.youtube.com/@thethoughtemporium/playlists

Homeboy genetically modified a virus that would repair his lactose intolerance and then tried it on himself. It worked (until the stomach lining wore down and was replaced with fresh cells, and he just used it again).