skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They will setup DRM, or render the full site in canvas, or with wasm, or something, or requires a TPM trusted signatured in an approved web browser or some shit.

That was going to be WEI [1] but they shelved it for now. I expect they will be more subtle with the next project release after it gets renamed.

[1] - https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/08/your-computer-should-s...
AI Will Cut Cost of Animated Films by 90%, Jeff Katzenberg Says
Yes, but 32GB is a lot more comfortable. Upgrading my laptop last year was a huge QoL improvement
... and i get pissed at the excessive memory use when Firefox puts my 4GB machines into memory pressure.
Our generation grew up on offensive / edginess, things like late 90's shock rock, South Park, Jackass, Saw, etc. Nobody cares anymore, and it feels like nobody's tried to out-edge series like South Park. It feels like we've reached rock bottom so the only way is up. Which is a good thing btw.
11 billion+ startups in 10 years out of a thousand has already demonstrated scale.

There are tons of people giving $1M to groups of people who don’t have these returns.

Also, this is a comparison of working vs college. So it’s an opportunity cost experiment. Giving $1M to skilled management teams is completely different.
It's cool to see the work on Servo since Igalia picked it up. There was a lot of tech debt to work through due to years of minimal maintenance, but they seem to have been making real progress.

My personal hope is they push hard on the modularity angle. Seems to me that:

1) there's probably a niche to be filled by an OSS browser engine focussed on embedability

and

2) That it could be a huge boon for the long-term health of the web platform if there are build-your-own-browser "lego building block" libraries that people can mix and match to create new engines.
Try to Separate the art from the artist here, the clip is worth watching if you have 15mins
Swedish Tesla workers on strike; dock workers do not allow Teslas in
Likely it's my own Safari hygene but leaving too many tabs open for too long will consume memory (some ad heavy sites, youtube etc)

But generally I'll have zoom sessions, citrix, IntelliJ, vscode, Safari with a lot of tabs, etc.
Crimes Against Cloud (2022)
Remix's biggest feature for me, is that I most of the time don't need its documentation.

It has a simple mental model (exposed to me), and then it's platform specifics while using React as a templating language.
Elon Musk's 'GrokAI' Is Beating the Competition in Generating Cringe
I agree, 8GB is enough for a large number of people. But it shouldn't be in the pro line, and the upgrade pricing is insane.
My understanding (from binge watching Asianometry) is that the rare earth metals are not mined directly.

Instead they are extracted from ores in the tailings of large scale mining operations like coal or copper and refined by specialty processors.

It is not commercially viable to mine the rare earth elements on their own. Because the price is only $2k/kg, it makes more sense to build a business around all the coal (or whatever) that has to be moved to get a kg of a rare earth.

Because you still have to move all that dirt.

Basically, the price reflects only the costs of refining, marketing, and distribution. Extraction is sunk cost.
I'm terrified of machinery and give it the upmost respect without having watched gore content.
This is exactly the point I was trying to make, thank you.

I'm unsure why my comment's being received so poorly - for those downvoting - do you disagree with the court's decision? Do you think this does meet the definition for "harassment"?
I think my right to privacy out weighs a "think of the children" argument.
> Although the author OCR’ed the SAT questions and believes that they weren’t in the training data

I agree that the author of the tweet fairly underestimates the potential portion of OCR'ed contents in OpenAI's training data. In late August, Nougat[1] is released by Meta, this is an OCR model. Its performance are wild and the model is open source.

I hardly believe that OpenAI does not spend effort on getting more training from OCR content. I also hardly believes that OpenAI waits for a Meta paper to have an internal performant OCR model.

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.13418
I'm very excited about Servo. Can't believe Mozilla wasn't interested in it.

Not only the idea of an engine with great security and performance is an excellent one, but I also love the idea of a web engine as a component. This for some reason seems to have disappeared in modern times.

IE used to have an ActiveX control back in the Windows 9x days. You could embed a web engine anywhere you wanted. KHTML also worked like that. And in modern times... nothing. Neither Firefox nor Chrome seem to have interest in that kind of usage. Qt WebEngine thankfully exists, but in my understanding has a bit of an antagonistic relationship with Chrome, because Chrome doesn't care for that kind of use.

Plus Chrome is a Google thing, and Google things in my experience are their own world, making them annoying to build and integrate.

So I'm very much looking forward to having a viable alternative to integrate into our code. Both solving security concerns and hopefully making the integration less painful.
So what the hell is this actually supposed to mean? Is it just that macOS is better optimized than Windows? Even if we're being generous, last I checked Windows itself doesn't use anywhere close to 8GB of RAM on a 16GB system. And that's not to mention Linux.
This isn’t going to happen within the device’s useful lifetime.
It's mostly affecting people that log into Youtube and don't block javascript from google. That's why there are so many people with conflicting anecdotes.
Can you share the script? It’s a great idea
Might be because the secretary of state during Bush was a woman, as well as Obama. Both women pitched a "return to normalcy" with Russia - and both women were incredibly disappointed when their plans came to naught.

They didn't treat Kerry any better.
Memorization often gets a bad rap as the underachiever's shortcut. However, it's a fundamental component of any learning process! Our ability to reason, solve problems, and innovate is all built upon a foundation of memorized information. In fact, it's precisely the reason humans have thrived for so long; we were able to memorize and pass down knowledge culturally long before the written word, not because we were 100 times smarter than our nearest cousins. Without memorization, be it in our brains or AI algorithms, there's no foundation to build upon for higher reasoning.
Excessive swapping does wear flash storage. Flash storage has a eventual write limit, and once it breaks there are no paths of recourse for the user. That's common across Windows, Mac and Linux, and isn't FUD whatsoever (especially on a device without serviceable storage).
Not having ambiguities is actually the main selling point of PEGs. If you have two rules A and B that can both match the input, then a CFG A|B has an ambiguity (two possible derivations), but a PEG A/B explicitly says that the A derivation is chosen. The good part is that unlike a CFG, the PEG doesn't require you to go and fix anything (the / operator already did that for you). This makes the initial implementation of the grammar easier.

On the other hand, if you already have code in the wild that uses the old grammar G1, and in order to add new features, you introduce a new grammar G2 that is a superset of G1. You need to know if any of the existing code has a derivation in G2 that is different from its derivation in G1 (as that would cause backwards incompatibility). With a PEG, there's no way to tell, so you have to check this by hand (and mistakes are easy). With a CFG, you know that backwards incompatibility happens if and only if G2 has conflicts, and those conflicts are precisely the cases that are not backwards compatible.
When people say "oh look how amazing, it can solve programming problems!" when in fact it has only seen the models CHEAT, is an enormous problem.

For cases where finding the answer it's perfectly fine, but it's not fine for claims that it can code. There's a huge difference.
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> So every story can be framed by putting brackets somewhere in this sequence: RISE, FALL, RISE, FALL

Even more abstract: CONFLICT, CONFLICT, CONFLICT, …

Perhaps any story not rooted in conflicts would be horribly boring and so not re-told?
Try FreeCAD :)

A few days ago, I tried to have it produce an o-ring. It didn't work out so well https://i.imgur.com/zYDJXpT.png

Having it use Python behaved much better: https://i.imgur.com/8uQSFtZ.png

I also gave it a more complicated problem, and it didn't do too bad before it forgot all about the instructions. It clearly lacks 3d understanding, but I don't know if I could do better given what it was given: https://imgur.com/a/8GCjmlo

While doing this, I got a lot of "There was an error generating a response" responses, especially when the screen was mostly full of nothing. I don't know how to avoid this, but it definitely struggled picking out the few pixels of relevant detail from a mostly-irrelevant screen.
> If i recall correctly, there is also a part in the transcript where he admits he just didn’t know Russias true strength, and he never would have invaded had he known. Remarkably different language than he used at the time.

In the recording linked here he says (around the 8 min mark), while talking about Russia's strength in terms of the amount of tanks: "Had I known this my heart would have been even heavier but I would have made the decision even more so because I did not have another option".
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Lego fans told to change their passwords following serious cyberattack
> So, I can load a 12GB file into memory without swapping?

It depends on the file. With memory compression (which the article says they have), as long as the file is compressible enough (for instance, a repetitive text-only log file), you can. If the file is not compressible enough, however, like an already compressed video file, the true memory size is more relevant, and you'll only be able to load a bit less than 8GB (a bit less because the operating system needs some memory for itself).
Won't it? Devices can live a long time. And if the drives are user replaceable then even longer!
There's a good workaround for this presented some time ago at GDC (although it was still simplified). In Overgrowth, if I remember correctly, your body core is responsive, even if your legs have to catch up. You lean, because you'll stay running in that direction. Which is actually closer to the realistic movement.
>Epistemic trust essentially means assuming good faith unless shown otherwise. If societies didn't have that, they wouldn't function

Having lived in an authoritarian state where everyone had pure "eat or get eaten" mentality I strongly disagree. Epistemic trust is not a requirement for a society to function.

It is much safer to assume everyone is there to get you (by scamming, misinformation, theft, or plans to hurt you physically just for the fun of it) than otherwise. Having tgat mindset has never stopped me from trusting people that have shown themselves to be trustworthy.
It's wicked cool for the ~15 or so tech bros in SV doing that.

But outside of a couple of meme articles about how "someone bought a house with BTC!" the only use case I can find for crypto is money laundering or ransomeware.
This is a sub-section of the survey, shown only to people who responded with `Yes` to the `Do you develop microservices?` question.

I still don't understand how 19% of respondents picked 'Monolith' as a system design approach. Perhaps they coexist?
> They were an echo voice for state lies over state lies: "Masks do not work"

Wasn't the agreed position of the certifiably loony that the state made people wear masks? In order to "control them"?
My response was based on my own experience. Hence the remark.

What I've observed was also dictated by my own choices.
Thought so too . . .until earlier today when I noticed how chipper all the upvotes are making me.
"Enough" certainly. My newest Macbook Pro is 2013, so I have zero insight into the performance of the Apple Silicon devices, but the nature of software development is memory intensive in my experience. The biggest reason claiming "8GB == 16GB" is silly is that Apple doesn't have control over many of the programs that people are using (much as they would like to).

Maybe Xcode makes spectacular use of their own hardware, but do we believe that these optimizations are present in Chrome and Photoshop and Docker and Emacs (hahaha) and whatever NodeJS tooling and probably more that many developers are using at all times? I really, really doubt it. Unless the memory compression discussed here is capable of 50% reduction on average, then it's just a dumb thing to say.

Ultimately your programs all want to have some readily-available bytes in RAM, and most of them don't just cycle out constantly. 8GB is a hard upper bounds on multitasking, and while it might not be our grandpa's 8GB, I really have a hard time believing that it's comparable to 16GB. All this is is beside the point anyway: I switched to desktop like 5 years ago so I could affordably have 64GB and I could never go back. Turns out I don't actually want to take my work home with me, too.
this is a predictable worse latency due to CPU throttling, i.e nothing is suddenly introduced in the system. but the other case is worse i.e a non critical microservice can cause outage on your critical microservice.

imagine some non critical system like blog-service suddenly causing 2-3% new order creation failures
The money for this grant actually comes, in part, from the European Commission (via the NGI programme).
The problem is that "Pro" in the name of an Apple product no longer actually means Pro, even though that was true on the Mac line for longer than in the rest of their line.

AirPods Pro aren't meant for people doing professional audio production. iPhone Pro isn't for people who are professional... phone...ers???
Nvidia's New China AI Chips Circumvent US Restrictions – H20 Faster Than H100
Thanks for the insight!

A use case could be that anyone can provide a piece of content with the accompanying embedding and this can be used for semantic search. I.e. the search engine does not have to compute the embedding of everything, just the query.
8GB is not enough for electronification and for the even further enshittification on the web today.

I would tend to agree that needing 16gb just to browse the web is insane, but it’s where these apps are at right now and we should expect it to only get much much worse at an escalating rate.
Or the programming quiz problems it tried to "solve" were in fact posted elsewhere also so it cheated on the ones it got right too.
All the details about Humane's AI Pin, costing $699 and has OpenAI integration
Oregon DOES have socialized healthcare just like Portugal, though. The difference runs far deeper..
We're kind of splitting straws here. Whether GPT understands some of the rules of chess or whether it's completely relying on modulation between states, or whether it's using some other strategy -- it seems to be pretty obviously approaching chess using a different strategy than a human being would.

And I think that's the main point that janalsncm was getting at -- GPT thinks about the world and thinks about predictions and thinks about subjects like chess differently than a human would. It does not appear to "understand" chess in the same way that a human does when approaching the game.

Of course, you can have different definitions of understanding, GPT might be looking at chess more as a series of patterns or thinking about the shape of a game in a way that a human might not. But the value in understanding the distinction is that GPT is going to be good at some things that a human is bad at, and bad at some things that a human is good at, and understanding that it approaches tasks differently than humans is key to understanding why GPT struggles or succeeds at certain tasks.

I'm not going to run around defending other people's comments but for whatever it is worth, I don't think janalsncm's comment was unreasonable or lacked nuance. It didn't go out of its way to clarify that GPT isn't useless, it didn't go out of its way to say that it's still impressive that a language model can get the performance that it does get, but the basic idea of "hey, this is acting different than a human and maybe it shouldn't be directly compared to a human, and the deviations in its behavior should tell us something about the model" is sound.

It's not just sound, it's also useful advice for people to internalize. On a purely practical level, you will get much better results out of GPT if you modify your prompts and approaches to cater to its strengths rather than its weaknesses. To do that, you have to understand what the weaknesses and strengths are and you have to understand that imitation of human behavior does not necessarily imply that GPT is approaching or understanding those tasks in remotely the same way that a human being would. It is useful information for prompting GPT and you will get better results out of GPT if you understand that it's very often not approaching tasks from first principles.

And chess is frankly a really good example of that, it's a great example of a task where the end result initially suggests that humans and LLMs are approaching a task identically, and then upon further examination reveals that in all likelyhood, the model does not have the same first-principles or understanding of the rulesets that a human player does. It's striking because for a human to get to the same level of play they would need to have a fundamental understanding of the rulesets, and GPT is able to get to that level of play seemingly without building that level of understanding. That is an interesting thing to learn about GPT.
And long COVID significantly increases your risk of death from other causes, including heart attack and stroke.

I did read recently that a long course of acyclovir may be a working treatment, possibly even cure, for long COVID. But in order to get that out to people, we'd have to start taking long COVID seriously.
Yeah, you kind of want to say, "GPT, turn the cube into a sphere," and not have to do the clicks/drags yourself.
I've seen it code on completely novel tasks, so I'm not sure what you're suggesting here. The model can unquestionably code.
I agree it was happening before COVID. I think the internet could be part of the problem. But it wasn’t freedom of choice that caused the problem, which is what you claim. There’s much less freedom on the internet now, and if anything it’s much worse. If we’re going to blame internet then blame ads and big tech. Don’t blame people for watching cat videos, that’s absurd.
I've been on the internet since I was a similar age. I even obeyed all my parents' instructions (e.g. no using Google, no social media), but it's really only me being a certain kind of person – and a little luck – that kept me in any way resembling safe. Those rules, as stated to me, were absolutely not sufficient (e.g. I used Bing, and joined forums, and booted into QuickWeb to play The Fancy Pants Adventures because that wasn't disabling the filter). No way were my parents capable of policing my activity.

I, uh, mostly kept my parents in the loop, I guess? But they had to intervene and fix my messes on more than one occasion, and those were all things I hadn't told them about (some of which I even realised were big deals before they blew up). I'm quite lucky that none of that stuff's come back to bite me yet. (I don't think any of it was criminal, but that's pure serendipity: I had zero idea what the laws surrounding internet activity were, and I could easily have made an enemy of multiple governments without even knowing I should probably ask my parents about this cool new programming idea I had.)

The places I frequent these days are all safe for the kind of child I was, but the internet is much, much bigger than that – and, I suspect, more hostile than it was. I have no illusions that I could provide good, useful guidelines to a ten-year-old today.
That is great news for Servo! NLNet Foundation has been funding a lot of great projects lately. I see their name pop up a lot.
I think there's a phrase for it: Kids are assholes.
Yeah building a LLM get you to 92% in a week and then the rest of the 8% is years of slogging at corner cases.
You are correct that the keybed will probably be the expensive and tricky part of this - lots of DIY synths and controllers opt for push-button keyboards or capacitive touch for that reason. For small scale prototyping, there are templates for 3D-printed keys [1] and Doepfer also offers OEM kits for piano keys [2] (with unweighted keys being 175€ and weighted ones being 600€).

[1] https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3760403

[2] https://gael.doepfer.eu/index.php/en/item/manual-fatar-61tp9
I can't seem to resist the urge of asking, what was haunting about it?
Data?!
8GB of RAM per Chrome tab, fortunately Safari triple-compresses the memory to an effective total of 48gb per gb
Yes, but... so what? We see this type of analysis often, but I never see where it gets used to help understand something new, or make anything more clear. How do stories written with each of those plots differ? Do they vary in popularity over time? Why only those six, why not Rise-Fall-Rise-Fall or Fall-Rise-Fall-Rise? Etc.
Ruthenium is a bit different than Rhenium. But either way you can get it online. https://www.rwmmint.com/products/rhenium-metal
> Can't believe Mozilla wasn't interested in it

The fact that mozilla wasn’t interested in that really tells a lot about their priorities
Hitler had (poor) intelligence that the Soviets had thousands of tanks (they actually had more than the germans thought); he refused to believe that such a 'backwards' country could have such a strong modern military however.
> A bit weird to use Nietzsche as an example here, considering that he had zero formal education in the discipline called "philosophy" and spent most of his life as a hermit writer with nearly-zero readers.

Virtually no philosophers historically had a "formal education in the discipline of called philosophy" and most went unread. He received the sort of classical education that was regarded at the time as a sufficient perquisite and went to the same school Fichte did. He was appointed at a very young age to a professorship of philology.

This reads as the sort of slanderous cope that the "scholarly oxen" Nietzsche refers to engage in as personal attacks against a man who proved most of them to be engaged in useless make-work. There is no philosopher in the 21st century who has contributed a hundredth of what Nietzsche did and many of them still continue to plough fields Nietzsche proved to be without foundation, like moral philosophy.
This is exactly why in https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt we have put a lot of emphasis on scrubbing screenshots before sharing them with the model, and built tools to visualize the results.
Plotto by William Wallace Cook

https://www.futilitycloset.com/2022/03/30/tale-spinner/
There's a lot of money to be made in this industry.

There was a local university student in UQAM who made the news a few years ago and she publicly bragged she was earning a million a year.

Not everyone is going to be a top earner like this, but don't be delusional that it's only an option for lowest income individuals.
Wild speculation: With iphones being forced to open their web engine there might be some apps interested in embedding their own engines across mobile devices.
Our mouthpiece to complain and share outrage is what changed. In Desert Storm or Bosnia, you'd get a 5 minute update on the war, tucked inside a 30m national news cast (not speaking for everyone but the majority of Americans). Now you get nonstop almost-live combat footage, citizen journalists (a good thing), along with disinformation from bad actors trying to manipulate the narrative.