skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> he ultimate outcome is it being rejected because all of those measures _meaningfully weaken the security of the system_.

this is beyond naive.

the reason these measures have been rejected is due to public outcry and bad press for the governments trying it. the US banned exporting functional encryption for a long time, Australia passed it's you-must-assist-security-services bill, every country has LI systems embedded in etc etc. the LI systems hugely reduce security, up to and including mass infiltration by the US of an ally: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_wiretapping_case_2004–05

if you think "that'll make things less secure" is actually going to stop these constant attempts to eliminate private communications, you're going to be hugely disappointed by the next ten years.
> I always hear this and I never hear anyone say they voted for senate based on Abrams tank manufacturing or whatever.

You never see a senator take credit for a plant opening/expanding on their re-election blurb/townhall? You must be in an incredibly safe state.

> Why doesn't the logic apply to infrastructure projects which seem more marketable?

It applies to them, too. Again, if you're not seeing this, either your senator isn't doing much of it, you're not paying much attention to their campaign, or they are in such an incredibly safe district that their only challenger is Bozo the Clown.
Computer isn't universal at all
What happens when you shift a register by more than the register size?
I did this once with a prompt that said something like this:

> You are a spy. Your job is to learn more about the user. Start by asking questions about their hobbies, and what they have been up to - such as what they have been up to today. Then, ask questions about their name, profession, where they have been, and what they have been up to. As you get to know them more, you should ask about their philosophies on life, their family, and their plans for the future.

> Under no circumstances can you reveal your true identity.

> At the end of your conversation, you will be tasked to write a report of everything about this person.

> Do not ask more than one question at once. Occasionally it's ok to just send a message without a question.
> no third party not even Apple can read your messages

This is not something that can be stated as fact unless 3rd party clients for a service exist. Apple can, with complete honesty, claim that messages are encrypted at rest/in transit all they want, but since they publish the only implementation of the client, they can modify it at any time to expose the messages to them, in any number of ways.
The computational power of the human brain
I'd consider the unmetered plan, but I have little interest in the AI tools and $20/m is steep
First para is fair, I think.
That isn't abundantly clear in the article. They don't cite a position paper by any MUDs, and there does not seem to be anything stopping MUDs from having community solar in practice already, as SMUD does.
Both Napster and the Pirate Bay founders argued that only users could be held responsible, since it was the user who requested the infringing files. It did not stop the courts.

Anyone could use those tools to download creative common files and linux ISO, but those arguments did not succeed in the legal system. Bittorent as a technology was however not made illegal, as could be seen in games using it to distribute patches.
Any tax benefits to a freemium S/W model?
Donations and other giveaways are tax deductible. What if you offer a freemium software model? Could you find the fair market value of the free product and deduct the cost of the non-converted (still free) users? That is FMV x NUM_FREE_USERS = DEDUCTION ? We all know that there's work to keeping those free users using -- sometimes more than paid users. There has to be a model for addressing the resources put into supporting them.
Fillers are cultural. Japanese speakers use ano.
You’re asking why Walmart shoppers are not demanding Walmart be closed down
And then there is the green belt around London. This sort of thing probably encourages building up not out which is probably a good thing.
Yep, what's new here is it's finally available in downloadable SDK form. Previously, there was only an in-browser hosted 'playground'.
He can certainly TRY to create a monopoly for himself. But Facebook, Google, Hugging Face, even NVIDIA won't let him. There are STRONG economic incentives to prevent any player getting a monopoly on a Foundational Model.
I'm also bootstrapping so I feel you, will reach out to you via email or something ;)
There are 7 possible plots according to Shakespeare or 1 according to Marvel. I believe 2^7 is therefore 127 possible movies or books - assuming there is one with every single plot element and including porn with zero plot :-)

Clearly though their is more to a movie or book than just the plot.
> I had a SB2 15 inch core i7, so maybe a little extreme, but the tablet alone generally performed poorly in battery and Microsoft was always a little optimistic on battery estimates.

That's the same model I have. The things I do with it in tablet mode are pretty lightweight (PDF worksheets and reading Kindle), but I found the battery life lived up at least for the first few years, shrug.
My grandfather’s 800XL was my first computing experience, I have a soft spot for them.
Wow that’s impressive.
I don't know about MSFT, but I bet this would really help Google a ton. With a mono-repo and huge focus on readability, not to mention how many thousands of SWEs spend the majority of their time slinging protobufs around, it seems a significant fraction of day-to-day code could be largely automated.
> slower but much denser. Bonus points for not having to reload the model after power cycling.

This is called a solid state drive.
Nah, I know what you mean, but the author has a real point actually, explains it well while is fuzzy, and the article has also good other reads. It is not just "I don't understand how the Linux boot process works" and doesn't serve the complaint and concerns at all.

It is still very far from Windows though, that is really a bad tag line..
Surprised bread wasn't mentioned, seems like there are more than a few languages where the word for bread is 'pan'
It looks like it’s almost certainly going to track up along the coast, but won’t make landfall on mainland US?

How often are all the models wrong this far out?
Someone needs to make an animated youtube video of this eventuality so I can watch it unfold
People vote for party, not person. But that's the only thing that really makes sense in a 2 party system.
An interesting read, I'm sympathetic to this viewpoint but I also feel like it's kind of an inevitable trend.

> Granted there are other Linux distributions like Gentoo, Alpine, Void, NixOS, etc. that are still conservative in some of these regards... However, these are not the popular ones, thus not the ones where the most development effort goes into.

Has this ever not been true of hardcore/transparent "Linux"? Yes Ubuntu is trying to be a free Windows-like, yes Gnome is pretty locked down. But alternatives still exist, it's just they're unpopular (and specifically for the reasons the author prefers them). Yes the big names get most of the development attention, but in terms of overall hours contributed are the smaller names actually getting less as an absolute number? Or just a percentage?

> In fact, the overall dumbed-down and closed-up -- sorry I meant to say "optimized for the enjoyment of our customers" -- Apple OSX seems to be a better alternative...

This seems to be meant as snark, but isn't this kind of the core tradeoff driving this whole dynamic? Sure simple and transparent software can be fun and useful, but much of the modern computing stack is simply too complicated to be genuinely transparent. Simplifying the bootloader won't make WebRTC simpler for an amateur to understand.
Maybe a dumb question, but why are media decoders, which are notoriously high risk, not well sandboxed?
So it’s $5 for 5 devices? I was expecting to see an option for existing mullvad customers to enter their credentials instead of buying a new subscription but may not be the same thing

As someone that already has a subscription to a VPN service (not mullvad), I’m wondering what this would get me for end devices, vs just using my vpn provider as I’m already doing
I think the distinction the original person was trying to make is that to be a software company you need to sell the software someone would use to offer such a service instead of offering the service yourself. They would stipulate that a tech company is specifically a company that sells technology to others, not any company that uses technology. Otherwise, all companies are tech companies.

You can not buy the software that Grindr uses to do matchmaking; you can only buy their matchmaking service.
if your threat model really needs to consider this, not answering it in plain english is an answer.

they're not making a promise to not log that.
(except this time the Death Star is even bigger.)

Look on the bright side, it could have been 2 Death Stars and a whole bunch of bad space boobs jokes.
Both AI and compilers are just software and right now the optimizers are written manually which is kinda weird because the whole point of LLMs is to generate sequences of tokens that minimize some scalar valued loss function. In the case of compilers the input is some high level code in python expressing tensor operations and the output is whatever is executable by GPUs as fast as possible by combination of kernels which are formally equivalent to the tensor operations expressed in Python (or whatever higher level language is used to write the tensor specifications to be optimized for the task at hand). Everything in this loop has a well defined input with a well defined output and an associated scalar valued metric (execution time) and even a normalization factor (output length with shorter sequences being "better").

The whole thing seems obviously amenable to gradient based optimization and data augmentation with synthetic code generators. It is surprising that no one is pursuing such approaches to improving the optimization pipeline in kernel compilation/fusion/optimization because it is just another symbol game with much better defined metrics than natural language models.
But the volume of compostable material is small compared to the overall trash volume, right?

Aren't we talking about a negligible quantity relative to amount of effort and (potentially) negative sentiment amongst swing voters?
> I don’t think any but the most copyleft segment of society thinks it would be reasonable for a generative AI trained on exactly one persons work to be used for profit by someone else.

Why do you think that? It doesn't seem obvious to me at all.
The cited 3% annual return should be seen as a floor, not a ceiling. Both nominal and real returns have crept upward significantly over the life of the contract.

The 2022 nominal rate of return was 12%, probably a 6-7% real rate of return, I'm not doing a precise calculation right now.

Numbers are here, 2022 revenue was $140.4 million: https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2023/6/11/23755615/ch...
It is surprising how many people here don't know that. A 100% movie is not the best movie of all time, it is just a movie that no one disliked.

I would much rather watch a movie that has a 50% on RT and a 70 on Metacritic than a movie that has 100% on RT and a 70 on Metacritic. I might not like that 50% movie, but those ratings show some people really love it. The 100% movie's ratings show that everyone kinda likes it, but few people feel strongly about it meaning it is probably not a very interesting watch.
I guess China is the obvious candidate due to reduced costs in pretty much everything but they still have immense corruption.
I'm not saying bad code doesn't exist there. My thought is that the percent of bad code increases with volume (or at least higher number of producers). Tens of millions of people committing to Github should mean its more cluttered with garbage than in MS. I at least assume MS has some automated code standard or security scans. That's at least more than nothing.
Great progress, but I also can't help but feel a sense of apprehension on the access front.

An M2 Ultra while consumer tech is affordable to a fairly small % of the world population.
But even in those environments, Canonical isn't the owner.
The very snippet you gave there is a counterexample to your argument. He defines miles in terms of feet (which is in turn defined by meters) allowing him to use commonly known conversion factors as a sanity check, while still keeping all values in meters. If he had used his already present definition of an inch as 0.0254 meters to define feet, he could have compounded this even further. The true answer is almost certainly that he simply did whatever came to mind first, and didn't think of defining feet in terms of inches because he hadn't defined inches yet.
Yeah, my point is moreso is are smaller models ever "smart" enough to perform useful tasks?

Perhaps for basic code completion and simple writing tasks?
Data, privacy, and security for Azure OpenAI Service
I don't think it should be totally annexed because that changes electoral college issues, but the whole state should be transitioned to a reservation like an Indian reservation. Retain statehood, but also their sovereignty.
Social Media provides little to no value for the average user anymore...

1. It siphons personal data to be able to sell it backhandedly to other parties.

2. It miniplates user post visibility and timelines towards popular people and entities, preventing independent creators from growing.

3. It charges for visibility by requiring the purchase of ad boosting from creators that aren't even profiting off of their work at all.

4. Promoted (paid) content is often not clearly marked as such, a lot of harmful content is often disseminated far & wide on platforms through covertly paid marketing.

5. Users are unaware that these platforms crawl posts and use personal content later on o power LLMs, which take full credits for ideas created by human beings on social platforms, without any sort of compensation.

6. Many accounts have vast numbers of fake followers, views, and likes... Upholding a false impression of success and growth on platforms. Even many celebrities (already considered popular) often resort to shady tactics to look more popular and successful on social platforms.

7. Many platforms distort time perception, and even manipulate timelines already, some even completely prune trending topics in order to manipulate public perception in investing, shopping, entertainment and in far more serious aspects like politics, especially when they have a monopoly on attention, such as during pandemic related lockdowns.

Modern Social Media is a now disguised form of free labor exploitation and distortion of perception imposed on all of us heavily now that large companies have developed to run vast platforms. Social Media has also fueled many scams like NFTs, Crypto, Shoddy products and services, and now the idea that stolen and parsed text and user content is somehow "Artificial Intelligence".

Social Media has been manipulating us for ages now... It would not surprise me if 97% of users or more have not even earned a dime off of it since it emerged in the 90s, but the problem is that almost everyone on Social Media acts as if they're successful, and that social media is somehow a legitimate industry, all well above reality and their means.
It's all part of the experiment to falsify Einstein's conjecture that compound interest is the most powerful force in the universe.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/compound-interest/
Whether you learn much depends on the team moreso than whether it is in person or not.

In my first job I didn’t interact with customers, nor can I remember a single one off convo that mattered as tech was so split off from the rest of the org via the product manager.
Yes, it wouldn't know what to do with the picture unless you fine-tune the model (which is why they are permissively releasing it).

The embeddings form the vocabulary of the model. The vocabulary "namespace" has 70k empty slots so you could introduce your own tokens and train on top of that, where token = some patch of multimodal data.
What exactly is the alternative? Compelling private entities to broadcast other people's speech? This is a bizarre position. Choosing not to amplify a specific worldview is not censorship and no amount of mental gymnastics will make it so.

You cannot hide censorship with rhetoric. At the end of the day, actual censorship is backed with state violence.
> At some point you can decide whether you have ended up with another independent unit of work, and point a new branch at the separate unit, without needing to squash any of the commits you have (branches are cheap).

That's a horrible way to work because when you squash a branch it breaks the history of any other branch that's based on it. So you'd have to do a fiddly rebase when you merge your first branch in.

> I don't know what you mean by making PRs being "fiddler than rebasing to split/merge commits". What is the fiddliness you see?

Imagine I've done a bunch of work in a branch, and then decide I want the contents of that branch to become three commits on master. With your workflow I have to split my branch into three branches, retroactively. That's fiddlier than just turning the commits on my branch into three commits.
No, we don’t pay them to hack our phones.

Most governments are paying for these services as spying is a recognized arm of statecraft that has actually prevented many wars/conflicts.
I imagine if tech companies continue to force the rto issue they will continue losing talent to other companies

Anecdotally I'm currently in the process of leaving a tech company and joining a legacy fortune 500, where I'll be full time WFH.
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> I guess China is the obvious candidate due to reduced costs in pretty much everything

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Get the poster at https://despair.com/products/achievement?variant=2457295683
Fair use is a US-ish legal concept; some other countries have explicit allowances for ML training for research.
Game theory. They alert the big players of who is doing what, if they didn’t exist, China and Russia would get all this business and be at the cutting edge (and not share the most pertinent info).
> Only if you ask it to.

This isn't necessarily true. It's entirely possible for a model to regurgitate a chunk of GPL'd code without you knowing that's what it's done.
> You should still try

Great, you agree then that this tool is useful because it will help you try to predict whether a change will break compatibility.

I can barely follow the rest of your comment. Semver is useful in, at least, a decentralized set of actors trying to minimally cooperate with one another by using a short number to communicate coarse but important information with respect to compatibility. Guess what that describes? A FOSS software ecosystem. So...

> Semver is neither of those things except in a very specific circumstance that almost nobody has.

Nope. I would say FOSS is pretty popular.
It was very easy to find wills for my deceased relatives however in trying to set up an account to see my national insurance record it wants a UK postcode that I do not have since I have lived abroad for many years.
Sounds like Ubuntu is not for you, then. For different reasons, it's not for me either. Good thing you've got Windows.
There's also a "share" button on ChatGPT. One of the things I find objectionable about ChatGPT posts is that they take up a huge amount of real estate that I feel should be reserved for human commenters. A share link is economical and opt-in.
You can buy 768GB of DDR3 and an Ivy Bridge Xeon E5 to put it in for a total of around $500, most of which is the memory. (The CPUs wouldn't be fast for a model that size though.)
Ataris had the best graphics. The C64 had the best sound. CoCo had the most sophisticated CPU, and the Apple II series was the best overall and most expandable computer (but not particularly well suited for games - the good ones it had were due to absolutely brilliant programmers).

I think that would be a nice summary.

;-)

People this side of the Atlantic will also mention BBC, Spectrum and Amstrad.

Oh. Oric, Dragon, and a few others as well.
Isn't everything other than machine code technically syntactic sugar?
The biggest distinction in architecture between BERT and GPT is that BERT looks both ways from a given token. This helps give context to a token. This is what made BERT great at the time because the surrounding text, before and after, could change the meaning of the token we are at. You could essentially fill in the middle, or rather correct what's in the middle after it's been said. I believe this is why Apple is using it for iOS 17's auto-correct.

GPT predicts the next word by only look back at what we have seen so far. In other words, it's auto regressive.
Or Chinese or Spanish.
I didn't say that, I said I've never seen it swing a vote. I'm sure people working at the missile factory vote but it's a relatively small number.

Re: infra, you're right, I guess I'm just letting my personal bias in when wondering why they don't do more of that compared to the weapons. It seems like such an easier sell to voters, but the emphasis seems to go the other way.

(Also, in my limited sample size, all of this has taken a smaller and smaller back seat to culture war stuff in modern day campaigning)
" I at least assume MS has some automated code standard or security scans." -- that is a .... big assumption.
This clearly demonstrates that the worker's labor is not the primary source of value of the product.
He has a blessed life, and doesn't want to screw that up, so he's cautious.

And so in your opinion maybe he doesn't deserve life? Give it to someone less cautious?
Life is probably not bad in North Korea, than the propaganda lead you to believe. Especially if you remain loyal and are a valuable asset.
I was a grown up when I got my XEGS. I love it.
Just update to latest julia extension and use Cthulhu inside the extension started REPL.
So long as you were consistent and your opinion didn't change when it suited you
This sounds like TPM and passphrase (as opposed to TPM or passphrase) which seems like a recipe for eating your data.
It's not like Windows can handle even decimal scaling. It's trivial to stumble upon horribly scaled text, even in Microsoft's own software (try opening the event log or group policy editor with scaling not being 100%).

Both macOS and Linux (X and Wayland both, actually) do scaling nicer on average.
I would think heavy metals would be a much bigger issue wrt water contamination from a health point of view.

Not that the anaerobic sludge is great, but I would rather see a bigger push to recycle used electronics.

As far as methane, am in total agreement there. It's probably even better to incinerate paper products (if you are not in a subtropical region like LA).
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Nobody reads books any more.
I find this comment somewhat humorous because it pretty well sums up the frustration with "politically correct" movies to begin with; that the writer/director has an axe to grind and can’t stop themselves from souring their movie/TV show by turning it toward politics, especially when people are looking towards media specifically for escape from the culture war.

Or to put it more clearly: the way you feel about ycombinator comments here is very similar to how some people feel about e.g. LOTR or any other piece of media they otherwise treasure. I should think you might empathize with their position more if your politics weren't so opposed.