skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And then you lose out to the competitor who only factors in 2 years of updates. Who then loses out to the competitor who doesn't factor in costs at all.

And then suddenly that last company finds itself successful and needs a plan to actually stay in business, so they update their EULA and start pushing a subscription service.

Or, more commonly, they just go out of business.
Scientists find antimatter is subject to gravity
Agreed. It’s too bad company leaders want nothing of the sort unless it’s a boulder on one side vs a pebble on the other side of the scale.
I’ll let you have the last comment and won’t comment after this, but you’re equating a company not providing the feature set you want with bullying. Especially when they’re multiple alternatives with the feature you want, I think it just comes down to an entitlement mindset.
Great point! That could be the subject of a follow-up article. Noted!
The fact that this kind of kernel patch is in any way relevant to one's resume is exactly the thing that is getting out of hand. And the author links to his linkedin profile in the footer, and well, the reference to this patch/contribution/whatever is there, unsurprisingly (and it is the only thing there that they cared about enough to expand upon).
Only 12% have zero friends? I would have suspected more. As an adult it seems you either have friends from childhood/college or you don’t have friends.
I'll summarize this for people who don't want to read through the PDF, or aren't familiar with the jargon.

It's a discussion between two people, Jerry and Anil. Anil seems to be representing the Chrome team, and Jerry the Ads team and/or sales.

7 months prior, some feature related to Chrome's omnibox (url/search box) was rolled out, leading to reduced searches ("SQV"). Jerry is asking for this feature to be rolled back (undone) to restore lost revenue. Anil is trying to keep the feature by finding other ways to make up the lost revenue.

Anil is opposed to rolling back the feature because it is a user-visible change that was approved by all parties and launched months ago, so it will be frustrating to users to lose the feature and to developers to see their work canned.

Anil accelerates the launch of some other features to improve revenue, but Jerry is not satisfied. After some back and forth he sends the final email laying out his case: the revenue impact is too severe, sales is going to miss quota, quarterly earnings will be below forecast, stock price will decline, employees will lose out on stock-based compensation. This last email is cc'ed widely so I think Jerry was trying to build more pressure on Anil/Chrome team.

edit: do read the pdf though, there's a lot more detail in it.
The DOJ can't magically pull out a time machine to record conversations that happened but were never written down.
That’s a fair question and I think it can be asked more generally: “I struggle to imagine the use cases where X runs on the edge / servers & makes more sense than other ways to access X.” You are balancing the cost and speed of X in different locations, the cost and speed of accessing X over the network, and whether you have existing infrastructure deployed there already.

Cloudflare Workers and other edge services tend to make sense if you want more power than the client (e.g. phone) can provide, low latency to the service, and easy-to-scale deployments.
I did not find that yet. Can I read that anywhere?

My understanding is that if the initial patch was not signed off then the maintainer could not sign off his patch, unless he wanted to take on the liability of certifying that the contributor was indeed allowed to contribute the initial patch under whatever license we are talking about here. That sounds like a legal risk I would not be willing to take.
Quantifying risk / reward in biotech investing
I hope, one day, it leads to consumer benefits. And not just for the uber wealthy
It is new though. These AIs are known for being somewhere between outright wrong to subtly wrong, while not presenting a separate layer.

When I searched something, I was given lots of results and could individually make judgements. With ChatGPT, people are treating these answers as authority at a much more dangerous level than you would have from engaging with a search engine or sourced material.

I will grant that yes, googling and Wikipedia can also get things outright to subtly wrong, but the presentation can make those inaccuracies more apparent.
I would hope the author of the post corrects this, "I wanted to fix it differently" is not even close to "I like my version better."

It's still a bit crap to not get proper credit, but it's not fair to put words into someone else's mouth either. The author isn't paraphrasing, he's sharing the story he's told himself after being upset.
While those are some eventualities that may pose a threat, I fear a post-AI world where nothing changes.

We'll have an AI with a 200+ IQ and millions of children excluded from a good public education because the technocrats redirected funds to vouchers for their own private schools.

We'll have an AI that can design and 3D print any mechanical or electronic device, while billions of people around the world live their entire lives on the brink of starvation because their countries don't have the initial funding to join the developed world - or worse - are subjugated as human automatons to preserve the techno utopia.

We'll have an AI that colonizes the solar system and beyond, extending the human ego as far as the eye can see, with no spiritual understanding behind what it is doing or the effect it has on the natural world or the dignity of the life within it.

I could go on.. forever. My lived experience has been that every technological advance crushes down harder and harder on people like me who are just behind the curve due to past financial mistakes and traumas that are difficult to overcome. Until life becomes a never-ending series of obligations and reactions that grow to consume one's entire psyche. No room left for dreams or any personal endeavor. An inner child bound in chains to serve a harsh reality devoid of all leadership or real progress in improving the human condition.

I really hope I'm wrong. But which has higher odds: UBI or company towns? Free public healthcare or corrupt privatization like Medicare Advantage? Jubilee or one trillionaire who owns the world?

As it stands now, with the direction things are going, I think it's probably already over and we just haven't gotten the memo yet.
People already hate cyclists enough. Now it seems they'll be blamed for autopilot stopping too
Knowledge is power true, but even more powerful and rare is tacit knowledge. A vast collection of minor steps that no one bothers to communicate, things locked in the head of the greybeards of every field that keep civilizations running.

It's why simply reading instructions and gaining knowledge is only the first step of what could be a long journey.
That book is great. This one is also quite good.

https://books.google.com/books?id=EkPMBQAAQBAJ&printsec=fron...

Handbook of Algorithms for Physical Design Automation
edited by Charles J. Alpert, Dinesh P. Mehta, Sachin

The information is available if one looks for it. It's a tough subject though.
attribution is just as free as information.

AI should not behave as if it has inherent knowledge, there should be aknowledgement similar to, 'i saw on the web the other day'; or 'i was cURLing on coolrecipies.com and it gave me a new idea for halloween cake'
What are the SOTA benchmarks for LLMs now? Love the progress on opensource models, but would like to see an uncontaminated and objective framework to evaluate them.
The last part is interesting! What kind of use case would the users prefer to have it slower?
Is the reviewer having a bit of a go at the book’s superficial exploration of group membership and social cohesion? I know the social sciences deal in a lot of questionable science-like work, so it’s hard to tell from the review if the book has a proper point (or two) and if the reviewer is making light of that meandering, albeit fascinating, incoherence.
I think GP was mocking and not serious, but if we assume they were, can liberals not be against censorhip and in support of free speech and free information?
I’m not a public health expert but I don’t see how the status quo is preferable to letting anybody buy codeine at CVS. I’m seeing a lot of suffering in my neighborhood and a lot of money going towards it that could be better spent on other problems.
This all smacks of the 80's craze against rap music and video games causing violent behavior.

Where is the evidence that access to uncensored models results in harm (that wouldn't occur due to a bad actor otherwise)? And where is the evidence that said harm reduction is greater than the harm caused by the measurable loss in intelligence in these models?
>historically known to be... racist

As many (most?) American institutions historically were

>virulently anti-immigrant

To prevent wage reduction as a result of an influx of cheap labor

>outright violent against non-union workers

When "scabbing", or not cooperating with their fellow workers to secure better terms

There are reasonable criticisms of Unions historically and the concept of Unions as a whole, but I'm not certain your quoted comment quite hits the nail on the head.
can it run on my macbook air locally yet, with acceptable performance? Guess the answer is still no
Hey ya'll, just wanted to share the little mac app I made to wrap llama.cpp's server.

It's called FreeChat. The idea is to make an app you can send to someone who knows nothing about LLMs and have them up and running a local model as soon as their download completes. At the same time, I want it to be my daily driver for testing new models so I'll be adding more advanced parameter knobs soon.

The inspiration was just playing with the incredible llama.cpp and realizing just how capable both the Llama 2 models and M1/M2 Macs are.

Happy for any and all feedback. I hope this is useful for others.
A naïve question but genuine. Reducing atmospheric pressure reduces boiling point, so would a pressure pump mixed in with heating be beneficial?

Relatedly, Howard energy efficiency be affected if you didn't heat the water to be desalinated, but just evaporated it using low pressure? Would it be less, more, or equally efficient than using heat alone?
information != nukes

One directly blows people up, the other gives humans super powers.

Giving individual people more information and power for creativity is a good thing. Of course there are downsides for any technological advancement, but the upsides for everyone vastly outweigh them in a way that is fundamentally different than nuclear weapons.
I think they want both...
Unions are meant to be effective in situations where the balance of power between capital and labor is heavily tilted towards the former.

In a situation where there is an actual competitive market and people can leverage their skills and experience towards better salaries on their own, the effectiveness of a union is much lower, though there is still industry wide benefits such as normalization of health insurance standards, anti-cartel advocacy, general working condition standards, etc.

I think the police union example is a bit of a bad faith example - there is more to that one than just "union bad, mmmmkay" - it's institutionalized power and would NEVER be a market driven situation.

Teachers, generally speaking, work in a single employer market, meaning the power dynamic is again tilted towards the employer. Without a union, teachers would likely have even worse conditions than they currently "enjoy" in the USA (and frankly Canada). Hell even now they basically work overtime for free due to expected "extra curricular" workloads outside of school hours and in many cases have to supply their own materials just to be able to do their own job.

Yes, there are disadvantages (as there is in all things). But these do not mean that unions are fundamentally broken.
And many countries ban the possession or distribution of those blueprints and the united states had a ban on re-publication of those 3d designs from 2018 until trump reversed it, and even now it requires a license to post blueprints online.

And you failed to respond to the argument that you can anonymously post deepfakes with no way of tracing it back to you, and so it becomes impossible to enforce. You can't shoot someone with a guarantee that there will be no trace with a 3d printed gun.

Nevermind the fact that it's not even clear it should be a crime in some cases. Should ai production of a ed milliband sandwich style photo be banned?

And should replying to a user with personalized responses based on the data you've collected about them based on their facebook likes with LLMs be illegal? I don't think so, but doing it on a mass scale sounds pretty scary.
thanks. gPodder seems to be the missing piece.
Tell HN: Laptop Runs Without Battery
In case this helps extend battery life and reduce waste, I'm sharing this information:

My 2012 laptop battery holds about an hour's worth of charge, I rarely move the laptop, and it is plugged into a (presumably lead-acid) uninterruptible power supply, so I discharged the battery to about half, shut it down, removed the battery, and booted back up- that it works fine was no surprise, but it felt like something to share.

As I was typing this, the power went out. The UPS isn't connected to the laptop in a "smart" way and so it's up to me to shut down. No problem. The wifi will continue awhile and then it too will turn off.

Questions:
-does removing the battery like this, for a battery that doesn't regulate itself like the one in my 2022 Dell work laptop does (I set that to stay between 50 & 80%), help extend battery life?

-what software do you recommend for gnu/linux to take input from the UPS to tell the laptop to shutdown?

-what are the potential harms of a power outage on a laptop or desktop without a battery of any sort? Possibly some data loss (I use EXT4 and I understand "journaling" is helpful in cases like this?), possibly some hardware & tear?

Thanks for your consideration.
If it wasn't hard, Afghanistan would have been a nuclear power by now, Pakistan wouldn't have had to sell nuclear secrets to North Korea via Barclays, and Saudi Arabia wouldn't have had to reach a tacit agreement with Pakistan either.

It's the expensive enrichment facilities that are the bottle neck here.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37675879
>Plenty of cars have a "traffic jam pilot" feature that seems indistinguishable from this. I don't get the hype behind this announcement.

The difference is that the company is putting their money behind their promises.
It is like you want to buy a product , one company gives you 5 years warranty and the other offers 0 days warranty but they show you some ads and cherry-picked stats.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman reportedly discussing a new AI hw project with Jony Ive
How to find your fat-burning zone
`pip` is a horribly broken way to install more than 1 Python package on a single Linux OS install and I sincerely wish the LLM people would move away from it because I neither want to run every new project in a Docker image, nor do I want to start a new Nix project for every Python project I want to try out
I had friends who worked on a very popular consumer electric device before who revealed the ugly economics of it to me.

Cost to build, around $7. Retail price, over $30. Profit for the company, around $3.

Distributors and retailers took the remaining.

Selling stuff in physical stores is a nasty business. I remember these numbers whenever I see people complain about app stores taking a 30% cut.
My solution: on all of the keyboards I've programmed (which are all ortholinear or vertical staggered ortholinear), I have a numpad layer. When I hold down F my right hand home row is vim style arrows. D and it's a number pad. S and it's a symbol pad. Common programming delimiters like <>{}() are not on a layer, instead they're hold/tap with my modifier keys on my base layer (Inspired by the space cadet keyboard).
I'm pretty sure most software people do understand that the work leading up to the fix was the most valuable part.

I feel like what some people don't understand is that there are contributions like this all the time, and it is often better to take the submitted code as a proof-of-concept than bring a newcomer up to speed on the maintainers' coding standards.
Lots of successful FOSS projects have no 'elements of capitalism', depending of course on how you define the latter. Same goes for much scientific research, and many other enterprises.
Absolutely agree. Everything is much easier now to build, but harder to market/compete.
X has ditched a political misinformation reporting feature, researchers say
Pricing?

I thought Deno was some sort of node.js replacement. What am I missing and can I use this either locally and/or self hosted without paying for it?
> The critical thing that appears to have happened is that a feature was rolled back because it hurt search queries.

Where are you getting there being a rollback? The earliest emails in the thread say there won't be a rollback, and the newest email asks for that decision to be reconsidered. Nowhere does it say that a rollback actually happened.

(The reddit thread isn't about a rollback, it's about an ablation experiment on a small % of users.)
https://archive.ph/UfRPp
IF I had an idea good enough to scare an AI safety ninny... why would I say it?

Honest and serious question!
Please rename it, or at least make sure it corresponds to actual neural operations. It's terribly confusing for practitioners.
even worse, detect aibot dissrespecting robot.txt, and redirect it to a poison page
> This industry is really bad about rewarding competence.

If you promote the competent people, you leave the incompetent ones to do the actual work.
Well, "good" has a few dimensions to it:

1. Speed of output (not very fun to wait multiple seconds for each letter to be output)

2. Coherence of output (how far back does the model remember the context of the conversation?)

3. Variety of output (how's the diversity of the model's vocabulary? How about topics it can plausibly discuss?)

You can easily get comparable speed, so nothing of interest to really compare there.

I haven't done particularly strenuous coherence comparisons, but for my uses, at least, megacorp and self-hosted models are pretty comparable. Though you do need the better models to get the best coherence simply because they retain more tokens in memory.

Variety is, in my opinion, where the megacorp models still rule. Most of my dabbling has been with models designed to be writing assistants and they can certainly generate plausible strings of words and follow a general theme, but they barely "know" anything (generally when using them to write fiction, you would provide them a "factbook" that they can work from). ChatGPT by comparison can generate plausible responses to a surprising breadth of technical questions, although it definitely has a feeling of being generated from scraping certain online sources since it's decent at answering devops questions but bad at obscure grammar and physics questions, at least in my experience.
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One big one is speculative decoding for larger models, the more “accurate”* the smaller model, the more the speed up on the bigger model

* as in matches the token that the larger model would output
IMHO it depends of the scope you are looking at. if you change the focus in space (cells, atoms etc, or planets, galaxies) or time (plants, planets), ones significance can easily be questioned. not seeing it that way would be egocentric
It's the sunk cost fallacy.

This is why Max Planch (German physicist) has quipped that science advances one funeral at a time.
I'm glad to see someone is working on this. I spent a good amount of time prototyping a similar idea a while back and decided I wasn't the right one to solve this problem, but I think it is a very important one. I was going into it with a group-only approach, as the 1:1 connections make things feel more serious versus being one person in a group. Though with groups you don't want to feel like you're the stranger in a group of existing friends, so having it create "fresh" groups is ideal (unlike Meetup).

Good luck building this, I'll have to keep an eye on it.
This Mercedes Benz press release, "our revolutionary world first highway driving stack is gonna change the world," has real Elon-Musk-of-10-years-ago energy to it.

Meanwhile, Tesla FSD is driving a million miles per day around town, not playing follow-the-leader on a highway.

I find one of these significantly more impressive than the other.
The men who work at Apple would be coerced. Of course we are all coerced by the law in matters of morality, I.e. the 10 commandments. But you’re wanting to put “my sideloading” at the level of theft or other such crimes. That’s unreasonable and entitled thinking.
Nuclear weapons is probably not the best comparison, but there are very dangerous infohazards where the only thing missing is the recipe. For example, there are immensely destructive actions that individual misanthropic people can take with low investment.

Talking about them is bad for obvious reasons, so I'm not going to give any good examples, but you can probably think of some yourself. Instead, I'll give you a medium example that we have now defended better against. As far as we know, the September 11th hijackers used little more than small knives -- perhaps even ones that were legal to carry in to the cabin -- and mace. To be sure, this is only a medium example, because pilot training made them much more lethal, and an individual probably wouldn't have been as successful as five coordinated men, but the most dangerous resource they had was the idea for the attack, the recipe.

Another deliberately medium example is the Kia Challenge, a recent spate of car thefts that requires only a USB cable and a “recipe”. People have had USB cables all along; it was spreading the infohazard that resulted in the spree.
You can show it delayed by like a week maybe
Super-fast Sphinx docs, and SNOB driven development
These are all just lints, not proof systems.

The big problems in C are:

* How big is it?

* Who owns it?

* Who locks it?

Those are the problems which cause trouble after the program has first started to work at all.

These lints don't help with those problems.
ChatGPT can now browse the internet
Hey how do you like the tented thumb cluster? Have you used the boards with untended one? not Ergodox but something with an actually decent thumb cluster?

Also - open source it!! Ppl will be def very thankful and the code quality is secondary VS not open sourcing (if you were so inclined).

I am def very interested in that cluster design - how you managed it on PCB level
Time-based one time password is surprisingly simple
If that's true, in what world is ROCm a priority for AMD at all? They can't even throw a few old cards on the project?!?
You keep stacks of 100 dollar bills inside your physical property?
Uprooting and moving with work and family is hard and expensive.

So, as the Stephen Stills lyric goes...

If you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with.

My best friends may live hours away but it's all upside to still befriending those who are physically nearby every day when you walk out the door. You never know where it'll lead.
Thanks for speaking up. I love how well you elaborate the reality of trauma and life choices.
> "They are directly responsible for a lot of cancer in their patients"

I would like to see extraordinary evidence for this extraordinary claim.
The article says development (locally) it uses SQLite. On deployment to Deno it is part of their cloud offering
The Dark Side of Tech Culture
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30611748
> where safe options would have worked fine

Thats a very short-sighted view IMO, software engineering is not just about technology choices.