skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That was just the perfect reply, haha.

Seriously, they are definitely doing just what you've described, but even more advanced. Not that I think it's intrinsically wrong. It's much more efficient to have protocols for all the modes of interaction that are discovered, e.g. The collection of raw ideas expressible via internet web pages is like a test bed for the possibilities. They eventually graduate into ossified structures under the control of Apple, like Messages reactions, gifs, replies etc. (Even HTML/FTP/etc and browsers are sandboxes with much more restrictions than arbitrary methods of drawing/sculpture/sound/dance and other types of art.)

But with power comes responsibility. I'm not even sure it's possible for a corporation to be accountable to the full extent necessary for such control over so many people's interactions. There're unimaginable quantities personal stuff on their servers and clients.
Nearly every modern car shares or sells your data, according to Mozilla
Not the GP, but eBay is great for off-lease or just plain old computer equipment.
>It's likely that generative AI in general will be deemed fair use

What if you train it only on my huge repo of GPL code? You are just remixing my code.

Now you maybe think "let me train on 2 different devs GPL code", the remixed code will probably be 50-50 and you can get away with it ?

If the 2 number is too small then tell me what the number N should be ? From how many people you need to "steal" code , mix it and the output is "original" ?

Edit: my opinion is that AI should be fair, if you train it on open source then model should also be open source and output should also be open source.
I think this is just an artifact of people using much higher particle count these days. When you have more of them it's more noticeable that they are points.
Then I already have a laptop I can use round the house.
The issue is not "typed vs untyped", because frankly there was zero discussion about the relative merits of that in the PR - or even in the project, it seems. This is just another shining example of "Things DHH Does".
They haven't. You can't get a paper into SIGGRAPH that misses relevant existing research.
I do, because I don't have neither the skills nor the time to ensure that a company is respecting the laws, so I pay taxes in order to make sure that qualified government employees make sure that companies abide to current regulations

Also they actually put tracking pixels everywhere following people even when they don't have an account on facebook, how I am supposed to protect myself from this scummy company if even when I don't have an account they profile me? Should I leave internet?
I was told my in-person office (nothing at all special) cost the company 15K per month several years before covid, and when i was working part time remote, i have to either go full time remote (thus freeing that cost for someone else) or full time in person. i went full time remote, of course. Gotta imagine real estate is one of the bigger costs for in person software companies.
Sniffies. Don't open it at work.
Here's the extreme example I always reach for: Imagine BMW decides that it's cheaper for them to just make all 4 seat sedans instead of having some 2 seat models and some 4 seat models. They instead tell customers: "You're buying a 2-seater. You need to pay a $X/month 'sedan fee' to be allowed to sit in the rear seats." Would this be acceptable to many people? Of course not, and for the same reason that subscriptions for other things that are already part of your car should also be unacceptable.
That sounds terrible. I use default iOS for everything (with Ka-Block!) and when I had to use desktop I ran safari with no adblock.

I generally log in at home. Didn’t check from work often. Maybe once or twice every 3-4 months.

I keep gmail logged in, I had a hunch they look for that cookie/tracker
Yeah, that was never going to work out.
> The steel mill wrote the software, they've got a couple guys writing C# for an ASP.NET app that runs their custom CRM and pushes orders, CAD files around, keeping the workload consistent so that you don't end up with a bunch of parts in a row that all need the largest gantry crane at the same time, ensuring that patterns cut in-house are ready on time, making sure that the shop knows what color paint goes on each part, and so on. And that's not even getting to the custom automation software that runs on their PLCs and so on.

Then yes, they're at least partially a software company. (I personally tend to think it's a spectrum, with this steel company at the bottom and ex. Collabera at the top.)
No I think this was the goal. This wasn't just "start commuting to the office in your city", this was "pack up your life and move to Chicago, all software engineers have to work from that office now". It was obviously absurd and intended to force at least this many people out.
The view-dependent bit reflects the simplicity of the data. The data is similar to an oriented, stretchy box that you interpret as an oriented, stretchy, fuzzy ball (the Gaussian field). What you do from there is up to you.

Classically, researchers were interested in just using the splats at all. So, they just assigned a single color to each one.

This paper assigns a spherical harmonic-based color sphere instead. That gives it the view angle -> color function.

There is a second paper focused on moving splats. It just uses solid colored splats.

You could instead associate albedo/specular/roughness from real time materials and do real time lighting. But, you’d have to figure out how to generate/capture those values.
This is the least detailed foundational model release I have seen. Llama paper offers lot more details like ablations, loss curves etc. Falcon has data preparation details etc. Google's model release papers like T5 are some of the best and includes many ablations.
The telsa insurance already does this.

remember, the dark pattern of this is to raise the price, then discount for access.
Yes. It's very common for startups to go bankrupt, that's sort of the point actually, and it needs to not affect the founder's life too much when they do.
Yeah, we didn't have YC money for a website designer, unfortunately.
Sadly, finding a good cat sitter is a real-life thing. We are owned by a diabetic cat who also has severe abandonment issues and has been know to attack sitters without warning. We haven't been able to have a holiday since before Covid.
I'm not sure this looks at the correct resources. If I read TFA, they have an IPC of 0.85 on the benchmark, but a theoretical IPC limit of 6. So 50% usage would be IPC=3, a lot better than the benchmark. So execution resources aren't the bottleneck.

Also, this analysis skips the easily predictable jumps like loops. I remember 90% prediction being relatively easy to reach in most programs just because of loops. A better way would be to let the predictor not only respond with taken/not taken, but also with high/low confidence. If confidence us low, then a CPU could spend some unused part of IPC.

All of this probably wont work in practice, of course.
Sorry, I should have been less brief. I don’t deny that the ADL has been campaigning against xitter, I just hold extreme doubt that they are the main reason xitter lost half of its ad revenue. I think that is more likely caused by other factors.
Isn't what they're doing just how mouse keys works?
no need to steal the model if training process can be reliably replicated/adopted in clean room implementation with additional optimisations.

startup as legal entity has close to 0 value, most value is in intellectual property which is stored and transmitted by meatbags.
I think the genius in this scheme is that it doesn't show up as debt anywhere in the papers, and they can whine that evil capitalists are gouging the poor citizens while enjoying the money that seemingly came out of nowhere. And simultaneously look for ways to maybe get out of it by some trick and then re-sell the same thing again. If they just borrowed it the usual way, the headlines would be "Chicago city is getting deeper and deeper in debt", but now it's "Chicago city has to deal with unmitigated greed of capitalists, aided by heartless courts".
I think XXE would have been fine if it followed the same rules as ajax does in web browsers. Although i guess it is a glaring example of xml not being sure what level of abstraction its trying to be.

The real wtf is recursive entity expansion (billion laughs)
I think you pointed out the problem.

I suspect it has the same problem as ncurses: Not easy to learn, get proficient with, or rapidly produce something decent with.

I've been working on a project for a while that allows running any console program within it, and use text, keyboard, or mouse triggers to add a VT100 TUI, but it's uncomfortable to learn, very hard to get proficient with, and while it's possible to rapidly produce something decent, you're going to hit a hard wall producing something excellent.
Increasingly, the west has been using the very infrastructure of the internet to censor speech actually. So that argument doesn't hold. Where do you think we will be in 10 years? Do you think this trend is just temporary?

Will someone earnestly say "Just build your own telecommunications system!"?

Either way, it's actually a moot point, and I concede that infrastructure based censorship is extremely rare, but the "canaries" in the coal mine have indeed died, and people should be paying attention. See the EFF statement quite recently.

The real point is that if the public square is on the internet, which it is, then speech must be guaranteed on the internet, just as well as it is guaranteed in public squares in any town. It raises a terribly complex question, of who should regulate the internet to guarantee speech. In some countries like Germany, speech is quite heavily restricted compared to the US.

All major social media sites are natural monopolies, which will not break. If you are deplatformed, you are silenced. The internet grew to be something it wasn't envisioned to be, and our societies have not kept up, mostly because the western establishment actually enjoys the censorship which is provided by the private mega-corporations.
Maybe an easier job would be to cool Venus by blocking sunlight from reaching it. Then, terraform it.
Kill Your Adjectives
That’s just what the legacy automakers found, now isn’t it? I suppose anyone can write an operating system that a billion people will use rather easily, too.
Which "compliance domains" are you thinking of that require FIPS crypto for access VPNs? Be specific, if you can? Thanks!
Sadly, if they secede from the US, foreign capital will still dictate what goes on over there, be it American, Chinese, Japanese or Aussie capital. Their economy is mostly based on tourism --agriculture is small and I don't think becoming a socialist paradise is viable.

Anyhoo, Lahaina people and East Palestine people have received the short shrift from the gov.
Don't forget that 1 is normally the goalkeeper.
What really makes me nervous about the DPRK is just how successful they have been at getting the rest of the world to prop them up. Successful models get imitated.

Intuitively, we'd expect Kim to envy Putin, but at some point it occurred to me that the opposite notion seems to be better at explaining the behavior we've seen lately from Russia. If Putin's agenda were to turn Russia into a nuclear-armed failed state that the rest of the world has no choice but to prop up with aid in perpetuity, it's hard to see what he would be doing differently.
What godforsaken gear reports in binary prefixes? That's just... horrendous.
Yes, Tetrapak.
Indeed, but no other service I use suffers from this to this extend.
There are two common versions of this. There's "produce the same chip for everyone, test it, disable the bits that don't pass, figure out the maximum speed it runs as, sell things that turned out better for a higher price", which seems quite reasonable for a process with variable yield. Then there's "produce the same chip for everyone, soft-disable features for people who don't pay to unlock them", which seems much less reasonable. (Perfectly legal, and should be, just obnoxious and unpleasant.)
Ah, astrophysics, not macroeconomics.
First Human Organ Created Inside an Animal
Even binaries hosted on an official website can be hacked, if they hack the website and change the checksums. It happened to Linux Mint.

https://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/fr/security/news/cybercrime....
Introducing non-deterministic inputs into programs is already wild.

I think once we get past "make the LLM generate #$%!#@ JSON" we will start seeing a lot more of this, since we will then be able to constrain the code-paths that are followed.

I could absolutely see LLM-powered operators being introduced at some point, that we use just like an if statement.

Imagine "if(input like LLM(greeting))" or while(LLM(input) like "interested")

essentially distilling unstructured inputs into a canonical form to be used in control flows:

Switch(LLM(input)):
- case request
- case question
- case query
> They avoid paradox only because you cannot reason about the reasoning process itself.

All of ZFC can be formulated with an effectively computable set of first-order axioms and every valid theorem has a proof which is nothing more than a finite string of symbols which can be checked in finite time.

It's really odd to claim that "you cannot reason about the reasoning process of classical mathematics".
We give 2-3 examples and find that it works pretty well (few shot fine tuning) but haven't tried actual fine tuning yet so I don't have a 1-1 comparison.

We also have other spam filters that are not LLM-based. One of the main benefits of the LLM-based approach is that it's good at catching people who try to avoid detection (e.g. someone purposefully mis-spelling suspicious words like "pa$$word")
If the bottleneck is writing performant code then seems like that's the first thing AI companies should solve with AI. If that's solved then building applications on top of that foundation is very easy. Are there any companies working on this problem?
Yeah, said a guy who invested in them.
Status Quo Bias
Are you him?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Bright
Accepting sponsorship money from a company that designs and manufactures killing machines is a political statement, though. It is impossible to avoid political stances and live in the real world.
I am adjacent to a Mini (bmw manufactured) owner who reported a leaky sunroof to the dealer. Dealer examined the roof and concluded that “the frame has melted and warped” and accordingly the sunroof will always leak. Cost to repair: five thousand dollars.

There’s “declining quality,” and then there’s “the roof melts.” I wouldn’t consider buying a bmw for a long, long time.
I regularly max out at 70MB/s for other services, so the connection is actually pretty good IMHO
Indeed, he was definitely a natural :)
Having grown up in Argentina, it always annoyed me seeing players in any sport with numbers that don’t resemble certain position or role.
Even Project Farm is not perfect. His review for water pitchers is accurate but not giving the complete picture because he is measuring only one dimension of what makes a good water filtrations system but the video is acting like it alone determines how good the product is.

He measures TDS which I admit is one way to judge a water filter but people may have other considerations they have to consider such as are they looking to filter fluoride, bacteria, etc? Some of the poorly performing filters that fared badly in TDS filtering filter these other items much better/or handle the material better(not filtering fluoride).

Also small nitpick, he used one of the manufacturer's free provided TDS meters instead of buying a independent meter(the TDS meter was provided by the winning product). I know because I got the same meter provided free with my Zerowater meter. It seems accurate when I compare it to an independent meter but if you know that it was provided by the manufacturer it is not a good look.

Now this is the only video I have a gripe with because I have done a lot of independent research on water filters before seeing this video so these things popped out to me...but what about his other videos? I am not and cannot be an expert on all the different items he reviews so what else is he not testing properly or leaving out?
I just want to highlight that this a very US centric view. A user of copilot in the EU might be confronted with a totally different legal regime. (No fair use per se, no copyright transferability, ...). It seems quite a bold move as being an internationally active company if there is no small print...
I guess.

I read docs, I read code, I read SO questions, I read forum posts, I read blog posts, I read chat histories, I read GitHub issues.

And then, after I lost 1h-20h I ask someone.

Why?

When I started programming, people didn't help me. They were angry when I didn't know things. They laughed at me when I didn't know things. They explained things very badly. They didn't have time to explain things. They didn't know what they were doing themselves.
I'm talking about the moderation teams of various major social media platforms, like youtube, facebook, twitter, etc, and the NGOs which train and set the tone for these.
But as a long-standing (as far as computing is concerned at any rate) academic field of study, it has meaning, even if the precise boundaries aren't perfectly well defined.
Ask HN: Open-Source vs. Proprietary Software
Hi, I am in a bit of tech choice. we're in the middle of a crucial project, and we need some tools. Now, here's the issue - we can go with free open source tools, but they might lack some support and customization. Or, we can pay for proprietary tools, but they might be expensive and less flexible.

How do you handle this? Any advice or experiences to share on choosing between open source and paid tools for projects? My team's depending on this decision!
Pinky promise. Where's the legal agreement? I'm sure there's a cap on their liability.
Right, which is why I said its effectively what we have now (a situation that preserves their current territories), AFAIK, the situation barely effect SK life. It's just neither side believes the minute they stop pointing weapons at each other's borders the other side won't take advantage, and as far as I know, prior attempts to sit down and end the war officially require the other side basically give a full surrender. There's also a Chinese interest in keeping DPRK (it was Chinese MiGs American fighter pilots engaged in the actual war and I assume currently supplies DPRK with arms in a similar role to the US and SK) as a buffer zone, and a source of cheap labor and source for human trafficking in some cases. So both countries have a larger country/acting ally disrupting the politics.
A million subscribers would barely make it noticeable in Microsoft's books. You don't count until you hit a billion in revenue there. But an AI on every desk ? That's worth it.
It's a tough situation for sure. Though to add something that might be interesting to the discussion, I did a (very small) amount of animal research in college. The animals were generally treated with respect, much moreso than I think most factory farms treat animals.
I think, hooking up is going to stay, ZIRP or no-ZIRP.
It's pretty disgusting, but we all come from a long history of violence and pain. The only chance these species have to survive long terms is for us humans to figure out how (preserve DNA, leave earth, simulated environments, and so on).

In that sense, I wonder if it may be fair to preserve the DNA of victimised animals and clone them somewhere in the future when resources allow, to have a peaceful life.
it literally says Master's thesis on the first page.
The performance differences are so large (5x, 6x, and 18x faster) that I can't believe them. Is bun really faster on large codebases, not just on hello world?
I don't think parent meant that we should use box office number to decide if movie is great. Just that it is a most objective "score" attached to the movie title. For instance, one can use this score as a proxy to how popular the movie is.
Why are ablations useful? Their release report seemed very informative to me without getting bogged down in jargon.
Maybe so, but please don't post unsubstantive comments to Hacker News. We're trying for something else here.
I just leave an Airtag in my cars. Always know where they are.
Yes, they told all software engineers to move to Chicago within a few months, even ones that live somewhere like LA and used to or currently work from a Grindr office there. It is transparent union busting, and they hired the most prominent union busters in the country to advise them on this process: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Littler_Mendelson.
I hope this doesn’t end with another cookie banner for eu that shows after the original cookie banner. Ehh
Silly me, being on HN I clicked on this expecting to see something like a Singular Value Decomposition of Rotten Tomatoes ratings. Sigh.

I read the OP anyway. It's worth reading. The short of it is that movie studios and their unscrupulous apparatchiks are paying less prominent movie critics to keep negative reviews out of view of Rotten Tomatoes, for example, by publishing those negative reviews in a separate, more obscure blog.

Personally, I now trust only the reviews of a handful of movie critics whose reviews have proven to be reliable over the years.
Is anyone working on this? I'd love be able to work with a full spec.

I think colang from Nvidia seems like the "closest" so far, and that is pretty specifically focused on chatbots which is to bad.
matter of fact it does not, as when I posted this originally it was literally the last item on the front page. So, no. But keeping carrying water for this website and its companies! I'm sure they'll be real appreciative!

Edit: I should also note it is not on the front page any more
Didn't Copilot produce an exact copy of code including the comments?
Ah, gotcha! Do you have a rough idea of when the DSPy paper will be released? I'll keep an eye out.
I'm not sure at this point I want to apply and talk about our company's vision and mission.
What they really need to do is charge by the minute. No one wants to pay for heated seats in the summer. And why should someone pay for the option of heating when the car is parked? Or for the passenger seats when no one is using them. Instead they should have surge pricing for when the outside temperature falls below freezing, and the colder it gets, the higher the rate you pay. Maybe it starts at $0.10/minute but climbs to $1/min when it get down to -40 °C/°F. What could be a better marker of high social status than that?
You wouldn't have been obligated, they were also going to offer it as a 1 time payment for the same price they've always charged for heated seats. But, the subscription option is the only thing that ever made the news.
What if I learned to code based only on your huge repo of GPL code? I'd just be remixing your GPL code at that point, right? Will you brand all of my output as being GPL as well?
Based on the map in the SF Chronicle article, the southern part of city is a stone's throw from Pittsburg Antioch Bart. Might be wishful thinking, but hopefully this is what brings bart to Solana county. https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/solano-fairfield...
I'm not sure if you would call this a formal specification but I find the Go Language Reference (https://go.dev/ref/spec) quite approachable compared to other language specifications (looking at you C).
This is absolutely killing me (https://quailhq.com) -- I've got hundreds of antique stores trying to get us on the phone, all wanting to know why their card readers have suddenly stopped working.

It's going to be a long, long day.
I feel like humans have trouble with the concept that the environment is not just one single thing, and that something can be good in one way but bad in another.

Its kind of like all those wine is good for you vs bad for you studies where both are kind of correct but in different ways.