skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't think anyone exists who doesn't game and also watch video on the same system.
Actually I have a dedicated computer connected to my TV to watch videos. My gaming computer is dedicated to gaming (and doesn't get much use these days). I have a Linux computer for everything else.
Are you saying you can’t imagine the scenario where you’re a director of a corporation that has a share price of $50, and someone offers to buy every share of the company for $60, but the director says no to the offer and won’t let a deal at $60/share go forward?
I stopped using search, I have switched 90% over to chatgpt.
I gave up on that link after the third or fourth captcha..
Coding of domain names to wire format at gigabytes per second
It looks nice, but it's more important how usable is it?

With current Slack UI, getting to all your unresponded messages and your starred channels (you also want to be saying things, not just reading them, so "Activity" might not be enough) is one click away and above the fold (depending how big you make the Slack window).

However, it was annoying to search for people you haven't interacted with in a while, esp as you use auto-hiding for such conversations. Though improving auto-hiding could have been better.

I'll use it for a while before making a call, but it's not like I have an option: hopefully it remaind possible to run the old client for those who really find the new UI unusable.
I'm sure the Chinese have a bunch of legalese bullshit for why they locked up those innocent Canadians, but we can look through it and see the real score. Right?
I mean..it's not designed to spit out facts, only what it sees a lot of.
> A particularly eyebrow-raising claim […] is that the 40-year-old CEO has claimed he was employed as a spy for the British government. He also insists that he's spoken to more than one prime minister about building AI for nation-states.

> Earlier this summer, Forbes published an exposé that highlighted his "history of exaggeration," and in its opening lines notes that Mostaque's claim that he has a master's degree from Oxford didn't hold up to scrutiny.

Those statements are very precise and can really only be true or false. I can’t verify the veracity, but if they’re false, he is lying, not embellishing or “exaggerating”.

There is a forgiving attitude towards compulsive liars in tech startups, and perhaps business in general, but that’s a cultural decease. There is no reason for journalists to play along in shifting the Overton window way into this kafkaesque relativistic worldview dictated by a small group of sociopaths and their enablers.
When I worked at Meta, the execs said that many users think they're being spied on when they see ads based on a conversation they've had in real life, but the execs categorically denied that this could be happening, and said it's all just a coincidence. I thought this was a completely unfounded denial, since Meta had no way of auditing 3rd party apps on the user's phone, and it's perfectly plausible for another app to spy on their conversations and then use that to provide targeted ads to the Facebook account associated with the individual's email.
I didn’t say they intended death for the POSIX subsystem, but that it was included to satisfy requirements for government contracts. It had the obvious additional advantage of allowing UNIX software to be recompiled for Windows with minimal changes.

The Wikipedia page agrees that it was included from the beginning to satisfy government requirements - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_POSIX_subsystem
It will depend on the application, how often sessions expire, how often you need to input a new TOTP, etc.

In particular, think about bank transfers, each requiring a different transaction code (not technically a TOTP, but similar in spirit).
A more accurate analogy would be preventing an intelligence of even conceiving racist thoughts.

I don't know how GPT handles censorship though, would love to find something about it.
the clockwork-pi uconsole is a handheld small linux device with 4g options; don't know if they are shipping yet.
LLM decoding is dominated by memory bandwidth, and 3090Ti and 4090 happen to have the identical theoretical memory bandwidth
> Arresting a foreign national for activities not on our soil which are not illegal in their home country

Russia has government-sanctioned hacking groups who operate outside of the US. If a member of one of those groups, known to law enforcement, traveled to the USA or Canada do you feel it would be unjust to arrest them?

This is a flimsy argument for why the Huawei CFO being detained was unjust, IMO.
> our first non-peaceful transition of power

I know what you mean, but the phrasing seems odd given that the US has gone through multiple transfers of power because POTUS was murdered.
I'm not saying remove all the guardrails. It's just a philosophical question. We don't know what OpenAI is doing to ChatGPT behind the scenes, but clearly changes have been made.
Can you point to where in the Copyright Law of 1976 (which was the codification of the fair use doctrine) it states that an AI creating new images after being exposed to copyrighted images during training means the new images are "unauthorized derivative works" even if they do not resemble the original copyrighted image?

(Let me remind you that what the act states is that fair use explicitly applies to, but is not limited to: "criticism, news reporting, teaching [emphasis mine], scholarship, or research purposes.")

Or perhaps you can point to settled case law on the subject?
Oh, that's what I like about that show the most. He gets the guests uncomfortably outside the zone of a normal interview, both with the specificity of the questions as well as the pacing. I'm sure it's at least partly on purpose. I agree that it feels a little like a thesis defense, but I like it when you can hear the guest (someone who is usually at the top of their field and used to answering softball questions) thinking "christ, what am I supposed to say to that?"
I guess you think this is an important point. Judges exist to determine what is the correct way to read the law. They don't always get it right, but that doesn't mean anyone's opinion is as good as anyone else's.

GP (or GGP, or GGGP) claimed that courts were owned by the capitalists and were interpreting laws in Big Tech's favor, contrary to the legislative intent (whatever that is). Obvious nonsense.
It sucks to be seven years old and work in a textile factory, and they totally get screwed. So we chose to ban that. Slavery is another labor practice we've banned. Not sure what your point is about freelance writers.
YouTuber Assembles 3D Printer, Then Creates Life-Size Plastic Clone
Google crawls the entire page, not just the subset of text that you, a human, recognize as the unchanged article.

It’s easy to change millions of pages once a week with on-load CMS features like content recommendations. Visit an old article and look at the related articles, most read, read this next, etc widgets around the page. They’ll be showing current content, which changes frequently even if the old article text itself does not.
I misunderstood your reply and thought you were saying “I have a very definitive view of the future” has a tvtropes so I Googled it.

Interestingly, a different Bloomberg article from June has a slightly different version of the Mostaque quote, was also questioned by a commenter on HN, and "emadm" (I'm assuming that's him) responded: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36512994

Edit: There's a third article with the same quote too: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-28/stability...

That's three articles within 6 weeks by Rachel Metz and Mark Bergen using the same quote. I found it interesting too but that's a bit much (and lazy).
Facebook doesn't have to be the one doing it - a 3rd party that controls an app on users' phones could be selling transcribed data to companies that want to run individually tailored ads on Facebook.
It was a bad faith question, much like your own.
Reality of Missing Out
I stumbled on to this term ROMO and then pondered on it. I have gone back to my childhood, teenage and to recent years to explore my missing out feelings.
The trouble is that most people will become homeless if they don't get a job. As long as there is a steady rate of unemployment, there are people that can't meaningfully decline whatever conditions are in their employment contract.

And that's what this pretty good system doesn't account for: the inherent coercion of a fundamentally unjust system
Show HN: Gpt4 runs on windows hyper-v and Kubernetes
Not strictly speaking, sure, but I believe that the applicable phrase here is, "Same difference."
According to https://www.reuters.com/technology/key-events-huawei-cfo-men...

A court in the USA had issued an arrest warrant for the Huawei CFO.

The USA had to issue a request for Canada to detain her for extradition to the USA due to the arrest warrant.
A 1.5 factor of safety in aerospace? Outrageous. I’ll give you 1.1 and I’m being generous!

I’m kidding…
What makes you think they don't get permission from the user?
A RISC-V Capability Architecture Orchestrating Compiler, Architecture, and Syst
Decapping is well within the realm of hobbyists, I have thought about putting together an open source equivalent of the JetEtch, which can sometimes be found on eBay for fairly cheap. My main concern is that the chemicals used are really dangerous.

Things like laser glitching are feasible in the $thousands range and power or RF glitching is in the $hundreds range.

With low cost fiber laser cutters and etchers, lots of techniques can be applied. I imagine with the high resolution X-ray stuff starting to come onto the used market, lots of things for hardware hacking will become extremely affordable.
Toronto as Utopia
DARPA AI Cyber Challenge Aims to Secure Nation’s Most Critical Software
C'mon. I'm totally into tech etc. and even I never use Twitter (er, "X") at all, and never have.

Who actually uses Twitter? No one I know.
But british hacking groups would never ever be arrested for doing the same thing.

Politics exists and it drives these decisions, there's nothing more hideous than someone who exercises power to destroy lives and pretends its merely procedure.
I have that same problem with Popular Mechanics on my phone's browser, but not on my laptop. So there is some kind of problem there. The difference is my laptop has an ad blocker.

It makes me wonder if everyone who doesn't have an ad blocker has such a lousy experience on that site. Does the web designer at PM know that some people can't even read their content?

I would happily accept ads if they weren't so often a security risk, if they were actually directed (they often say they are, but they're not, judging by the rubbish ads I get on my phone's browser) and if they didn't mess up the view so badly on some sites, like this one.

If your browser has Reader Mode, that might solve the problem.
It is well known that GPT-4 is downgraded because of GPU capacity. They ran out of GPUs to even train new models on, hence downgraded the consumer version of GPT-4 to free up GPU resources.

'refining and improving' skills doesn't particularly matter, because they could have just continued to serve the frozen GPT-4 0301 version without any issues, if they weren't forced to downgrade GPT-4.
Wikipedia’s strongest SEO weapon is how often wiki links get clicked on result pages, with no return.

They’re just truly useful pages, and that is reflected in how people interact with them.
Artificial Intelligence Cyber Challenge to Protect America’s Critical Software
I think the modern strategy is to have the whole thing under water.
Congrats! Ours is 7 months and being there for everything has been a joy.
Lots of American businesses still use fax, especially law offices and real estate offices.
Location: Vancouver, Canada

Remote: Yes, looking for remote jobs in: Canada and USA, San Francisco Bay Area, New York, Los Angeles (PST)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: React, NextJS, Vue, Nuxt, Angular, TypeScript, Javascript, NodeJS, Graphql, GIT, Tailwind

Resume/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dMYsLlcVWwcpY8Nt3pqjjXs-lJd...

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Email: prachirai00@gmail.com
Any atttept to apply skeptical (in the proper sense of the word) thought to AI is valuable.
More likely should he do a podcast with Lex Fridman, no?
That used to happen a lot, so much I started refusing packages that arrived with a different vector than the one I selected. It's annoying because almost every e-commerce on earth didn't track in the order shipping options, but on the other hand you don't need to wait for shipment you can already work out for the tracking number if there's something wonky and cancel from there.
another question I would like to know: which cloud provider provides the cheapest GPU?TQ
I’m more worried some “bigger players” have exclusive access to its capabilities while the plebs get access to the basic version
I had the worst customer service experience with T-Mobile than I've ever had with any company.

There's literally nothing that could get me to go back to T-Mobile.
Not a coward.

I can't tell you the number of times I've felt like I know absolutely nothing, that is ok and I've met a lot of people who go through it even if they've been doing this for 20+ years. What you feel as "knowing nothing" is the universe telling you the scope of what you are trying to master, it is meant to humble you, don't let it crumble you.

As for doing things from scratch, that isn't as easy as it has been in the past, look for a project doing something that speaks to what made you get into computers and engineering and see what you can contribute, sometimes the money aspect of this industry is what kills it's soul.

Take breaks, give your brain time to rest and get perspective, do things that are far, far away from anything to do with engineering and don't forget absolutely none of this at the end of the day is ever worth harming yourself over.
IIRC, in the PHP3 / PHP4 days, the only database binding available in out-of-the-box PHP was MySQL.
The Long Tail in action
But you don’t get good responses. Instead it’s just, “I hadn’t thought of that” or “That’s a good question but I’d need to think about it awhile.”

The idea that an expert should be able to give a fully-formed answer to a novel question on the spot is not a good one. Thinking takes time, which Cowen doesn’t give his guests. Subsequently most of his interviews are notable for their anecdotes or trivia, not for insightful responses.
> can't *easily* be traced to me

Yeah, it would be identifiable to others, so that’s a violation of your privacy.

A more accurate analogy is if someone shared a picture of the back of your own hand or something that would be basically impossible for anyone but you to recognize.

I’m not saying it is or is not a violation of your privacy, but your example is flawed.
Take a look at how well India's biometric Aadhaar program is doing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aadhaar#Impediments_and_other_...
The Panorama database (1) was written in something like PDP-11 code, running on a translation layer, from the very beginning until now (ish? I don't keep track of it). Meaning the author wrote translation layers for:

68K Macs running 16/32 bit not-32-bit clean MacOS
68K Macs running 32-bit clean
68K Macs running multitasking systems
PowerPC Macs running System 9
PowerPC Macs running MacOS X
Intel-chip Macs running 32-bit MacOS X
Intel-chip Macs running 64-bit MacOS X
(likely) M-chip Macs

That's a lot of translation! I only spoke with him about it back around 2002, but at the time he seemed satisfied with the solution, preferring it to rewriting the whole app every time Apple updated something.

(1) http://provue.com/
Re 2:

* It's barely a 'news' publication, it's the UK LadBible social media network of schlock.

* Not her face unless there's some heavy heavy filters doing the lifting. See:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/exclusive/article-12387247/...

for a possible 'correct' image.

In general news organisations (Daily Mail, et al) have been doing a poor job sourcing images for minor stories, they frequently assign interns to scour social media for the name and often come up with right name wrong person photos.
Westworld’s “This doesn’t look like anything to me”.

(Man they really ruined thy show hard. Hey people like the concept of rich tourists fucking and killing robots, let’s remove all of that after the first season!!!)
How so? Because of the "easily" qualification? Is this ironic? If it can't be traced to you it is by definition perfect privacy.
> But british hacking groups would never ever be arrested for doing the same thing.

Sure they would. What makes you think otherwise?
We tend to be introverted (for reasons), and if you can code you're more likely to have the socioeconomic status to be able to transition, or rather the same conditions are correlated with both abilities. It's also a non-public-facing industry in general, which makes it less likely we'll be discriminated against in hiring or employment. So part of it is predisposition and part of it is simply greater visibility.
I can attest we do have that in Seattle, I've been ticketed by mail for accidentally turning into a street that was designated bus-only
It isn't. You could perhaps make an argument that it's more likely to try "likely" passwords first, which means it will find theoretically strong but predictable passwords faster but should actually take longer to crack unpredictable passwords.

And of course it's trained on password leaks... but so are the people who write password cracking algorithms.
Dont drivers have the option to refuse rides ?

Or simply stop using uber ?
> I guess you think this is an important point.

I don't really want to get into the importance of it here. But I do think it's true, so I replied when you called that specific point wrong.

> GP (or GGP, or GGGP) claimed that courts were owned by the capitalists and were interpreting laws in Big Tech's favor, contrary to the legislative intent (whatever that is). Obvious nonsense.

Which comment? I don't see it.
The CEO to the side, how is the business side of Stability AI? I believe it’s hard to build a business on open-source AI at this stage. Perhaps through rendering services to other or awaiting for selling themselves? Meta can open sourced their models and weights because they make tons of money from other sources but a startup can only burn investors’ money, though.

For the community, open-source AI is a blessing, no question.
Good take, I mostly agree. However, I think there's a difference between explore-exploiting free vs. paying customers. If you are free user, that's what you should be expecting.

But as a paying user I am expecting consistent quality. If they cannot provide that, they should be charging more so they can provide it, or not offer paid plans at all. What I don't like is being cheated into paying for something that doesn't offer to quality of service initially demonstrated or promised.
Per Dollar, India’s Emissions Have Dropped by a Third
Ah, Unilad.com, one of the most trusted of news sites!

When every single link on the page leads to another page on the same base domain,
you know you are dealing with a site that pedals in nothing but clickbait.

Move along, nothing to see here.
It's gonna take 5 years to ramp up and I wouldn't call just $170k "tech wages". But I'm glad UPS drivers are getting more it's a backbreaking job.
I'm curious what locale you're in and how popular WhatsApp is there. I feel some sort of way about having to make a WhatsApp account for this sort of communication, over, say, a phone call, text message, or email
You think you can “try” crack? sorry this comment has me in tears
> The advice isn't "no new launch vehicles should ever be invented ever", it's "if you want your human spaceflight program to be on time and on budget, don't include a new launch vehicle in the plan"

And that advice is being questioned. Starship aims at cost reduction which can't reasonably be achieved by incremental improvements to the status quo.

The "on time" part with Starship is what was formally promised to NASA with the Moon landing vehicle. This may - probably will - slip, but I currently doubt it will slip a lot. Other times regarding Starship are in the realm of estimates or wishful statements. The "on budget" part is something which I doubt even SpaceX accountants may answer - just as software engineers have troubles answering the time - and therefore budget - of a system to be delivered.

The law shows its age. On the other hand, it never claimed to be an absolute truth.
I think there's an ongoing bias for many of us. During our lifetimes things have changed so rapidly, and generally positively, that we kind of assume that this is the normal direction of things. And so when things slow down we look for some profound meaning to it. In reality, we have all been fortunate enough to live through a really weird time in history.

One of my favorite quotes: "The more important fundamental laws and facts of physical science have all been discovered, and these are now so firmly established that the possibility of their ever being supplanted in consequence of new discoveries is exceedingly remote. ... Our future discoveries must be looked for in the sixth place of decimals." - Albert Michelson, 1894

That quote is from from Albert Michelson of the famous Michelson-Morley experiment. [1] For some really brief background, before Einstein it was believed that light had to have a medium to travel through in space. Light was seen as a wave, and waves can't propagate in a vacuum. That medium was called the luminiferous (light) aether. Morley set out to experimentally prove the existence of this medium by showing that the speed of light measured from 2 perpendicular directions would be different, given that the trajectory of the aether, and thus the speed of propagation, would be different.

Yet he kept measuring near the exact same value for light. He was so convinced in the correctness of the luminiferous aether (which had dominated scientific thought for centuries, and was imminently logical) that he doubted his own results and would continue to repeat similar experiments for decades. Hence, the context of his quote. But then of course Einstein was soon enough to be on his way and discover relativity, which would not only completely invalidate the aether but completely revolutionize science. And then quantum mechanics was also right on the way.

The point of all of this is that Albert Michelson was convinced science had effectively come to an end in terms of major discoveries, let alone revolutions, let alone those driven by one off thinkers, in much the same way you do. And there's no real reason to think anything has really changed. Science has historically always had long lulls, as well as societies driven to the point of assuming as absolutely true ideas which are ultimately proven to be fundamentally and completely wrong, and whose assumption of truth was actually one of the reasons progress lulled.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelson%E2%80%93Morley_exper...
Yeah I just have hardware I like running openwrt behind the modem doing all three jobs, with Tailscale Funnel doing the job of port forwarding so I basically never need to interact with the provided modem's interface. Because you're right, it sucks.
Can the X chromosome explain greater male variability?
I was looking in to BLE sniffing and was very surprised to learn this can't be done with a typical Intel wifi+Bluetooth chip (like an ax201 for example).

Is this a hardware limitation, or a limitation of the Linux Bluetooth stack? Or maybe I'm just wrong?
I have a $5000 128GB M2 Ultra Mac Studio that I got for LLMs due to speculation like GP here on HN. I get 7.7 tok/s with LLaMA2 70B q6_K ggml (llama.cpp).

It has some upsides in that I can run quantizations larger than 48GB with extended context, or run multiple models at once, but overall I wouldn't strongly recommend it for LLMs over an Intel+2x4090 setup.

It's competitive, but has significant tradeoffs.