skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something that seems often forgotten in these discussions is that it's not just putting the entire company in jeopardy, but the customers, clients, and vendors as well. Security seems to be some magical obstructive force to these people because any concerns besides their own convenience are purely abstract. Well, ask anyone who's had their identity stolen from the hundreds of breaches in the last couple of years if that concern is abstract. Staff who can't see past their own desk to understand the role of security are a serious danger to society.
I see your point, arguably the iPhones keep getter better, maybe only marginally, but Google search has clearly degraded in quality massively. I get why people treat them differently.
Great essay; impressive content.

The fact that it's very unlikely for any of the current models to create something that even remotely resembles this article tells me we are very far away from AGI.
Wayland is a piece of the linux desktop software stack. If you're on a Mac or Windows, it won't mean anything to you. Linux historically has used X11 for drawing the desktop. Wayland is a replacement for X11. It's big news because it's been a long time coming, and fixes a lot of longstanding issues. Unfortunately it also creates some new issues (screen sharing, hot key apps, etc), but they're being actively worked on and are very close to being completely solved.
But what does that actually show?

Humans have been communicating with other humans via text for ages. Fooling a human that the person on the other side of text communication is also a human isn't too hard, especially when they are not looking for signs of deception.

Even if they are aware it is a computer, humans will anthropomorphize literally anything. Animals are obvious, but we'll even extent it to simple objects like cars. We'll talk to them with zero expectation of any response or sign of sentience. It's a suspension of disbelief, really. It's not any different than kids playing Cops And Robbers, people performing a theatre play, or playing a board game with friends.

CASA seems to suggest that humans will view any computer interaction as one between two humans. That's not just interacting with chat bots, that's also something like opening the Configuration Panel. If you ask me, that's a massive stretch!
That really depends on where you're going. Maybe you want to go to a different lake, or spot on a long river, than the train or bus line goes. Maybe your skill level or body benefit from a specific kayak you own. I think this kind of all or nothing perspective, that seems to presume that _no trips_ should involve a private vehicle are not constructive. (I say this as someone who does not own or regularly drive a car.)

But _most_ trips probably aren't to go kayaking, and I think it's worthy to consider what a shared transit system that could support a meaningfully larger fraction of trips would look like. What the bus system in your city need to look like for more people to commute on it, or to take it when grocery shopping, or when going out to eat at a restaurant a few miles away? Those are probably the trips people are making more often, which transit advocates should be concerned with, rather than your occasional trip to recreate in nature.
Especially if they've been planting in the same plot for years.

Rotate your nightshades, people! If you keep planting tomatoes/potatoes/eggplants/etc in the same plot year after year, the Fusarium will build up and destroy your yield.
We didn't have any issues at all, worked for over a decade and it was super fast. I'm curious how you'd think they would be wrong?
So we can see stuff at z=13.

What I can't get my head around is that the Milky Way either formed around the same time, 13 billion years ago, or it formed from stuff produced by galaxies that did. But we can't see the primordial Milky Way by pointing our telescopes at z=13. These old, faraway galaxies must have been formed just faraway enough from where our galaxy formed, that the expansion of spacetime has prevented their light from reaching us until "just now".

So I wonder what distances apart the places where the primoridal Milky Way, and these two distant galaxies, must have been for the light to take so long to reach us. Like, the Universe was a lot smaller then; galaxies were much closer together.

Galaxies at z=13 must have formed shortly after the Dark Age ended, and the Universe became transparent - like a few tens of millions of years - less than the time since the dinosaurs were knocked out (I'm assuming galaxies can't form in a plasma Universe, but maybe I'm wrong).
Taxis are public transport.

The sort of public transport you're talking about isn't a substitute, since it doesn't go everywhere, and never will.

So, dogma aside, automated taxis are the actual solution and, with a bit of imagination, can provide the kind of public transport that is both efficient and environmentally friendly, and that goes everywhere.
"The purely prompt-driven ones are essentially just ChatGPT in a trench coat. They’re effectively a way of bookmarking and sharing custom instructions, which is fun and useful but doesn’t feel like a revolution in how we build on top of these tools."

This is missing one important aspects of GPTs: fine tuning. As with ChatGPT, the UI allows you to thumbs up / thumbs down replies, which results in data that OpenAI can be used to improve the model. If (and I have no idea if this is the case) OpenAI invests in finetuning individual GPTs on their own distinct datasets, a GPT could diverge from being a "chatgpt in a trenchgoat" pretty significantly with use.
Another commentator touched on how those stats can be misleading, so I want to stress that it is often touted as the only relevant metric. You never see it presented in context of total number of indictments, overturns on appeal, break downs by offense, etc. I'd even argue it's ONLY relevant in the context of other stats.

For example, the other issue I didn't see the other commentor speak on is it can lead to UNDER enforcement. It can create an incentive to ignore "complicated" wrong doing, or quickly dropping charges against those who plea bargain to preserve a high conviction rate, even if it's against the public interest.

So when you see "conviction rate" it's impossible to know if they're actually good at prosecuting. You can only tell they're good at identifying cases where a conviction is highly likely.
don't underestimate exponentials
SMS and iMessage are wholly separate protocols.

People who are not you care if messages are encrypted. And reply differently when threads are available. And so on.
If I recall correctly, a certain South African entrepreneur who overstayed his visa pitched a vacuum-based transport system which he provably knew will not work at critical funding stages of high-speed rail projects in California.

Correct me if I'm wrong.
I'd prefer Firefox to try keeping compact view supported.
So...happy ending ?
Cable lobby and Ted Cruz are disappointed as FCC bans digital discrimination
Often the "stochastic parrot" line is used as a reduction on what an LLM truly is.

I firmly believe that LLMs are stochastic parrots and also that humans are too. To the point where I actually think even consciousness itself is a next-token predictor.

Where the industry is headed - multi-modal models. This really I think is the remaining frontier of LLM <> Human parity.

I also have a 15 month old son. It's totally obvious to me that he's definitely learning by repetition. But the sources of training data is much more high bandwidth than whatever we're training our LLMs on.

It's been a couple of years since GPT-3. It's time to abandon this notion of "stochastic parrot" as a derogatory. Anyone stuck in this mindset really is going to be hindered from making significant progress in developing utility from AI.
It reminds me of how you can export a 3D model and inject it into a webpage via ThreeJS/.glb file. Granted this one too, you can individually import the parts/move them for animation.

(it's not passive/just working like an iframe)
I work in the film industry, not tech, but I like to read hacker news and see what’s new with you programmers.

Just in case nobody else is far enough outside the industry to tell, this is a hilariously nonsensical post title for us ignorant laymen. It sounds like a fake product out of HBO’s Silicon Valley.
I only get pings for direct @'ing, is this not the norm or are people acting you regardless?
Excuse me… You’re calling women what?
One of my favorite games, Soul Reaver, was written by Amy Hennig (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Hennig), and I knew about this for decades now. As someone who played games my entire life, girls and women have given me the most judgement for doing so. This entire ideology of shoehorning representation into everything seems to ignore what the people actually want. At least in the West, video games still carry a stigma and is associated with not being productive. Maybe if the energy is directed in this direction instead of the group of male nerds (that would love to have more female contact) there would be better results as women would just flood the industry as it is no longer seen as lame.
If it was fast as VSCode or Sublime I could get used to it...
> "We haven't yet found a specific neural structure for recognizing faces" is far from evidence that no such structure exists.

proving a negative is, famously, quite hard. an unsolved problem, even. facial recognition has a plethora of evidence beyond an argument from evolution. the notion that we humanize tools is one that, as yet, lacks that evidence. I urge people to be more skeptical of arguments from evolution. we understand very little about our evolution and it's easy to insert our own worldviews and beliefs into such arguments, allowing them to state virtually anything we like in a plausible envelope with the shape of a scientific argument. I'm not just calling the argument about humanizing tools pseudoscience -- I'm applying it equally to every other argument from evolution that lacks other motivating evidence.
I agree with you on high density confinement livestock production. But is there evidence of antibiotic resistant strains in animals causing issues for humans?
I assume you are measuring the pulse/stress level of a candidate. Is this a proxy measurement for a lie detector?
>How about we require ranchers to decrease their animal density so they don't need to use so many antibiotics?

That would massively drive up meat prices and anger voting consumers who won't be able to afford meant anymore, and also anger voting meat producers who will go bankrupt from slumping sales and have to lay off workers, all of which who will direct their anger at the politicians who restricted the use of antibiotics in animal farms. So not gonna happen politically.

Consumers have to either accept higher meat prices (not gonna happen), or accept that we're too many consumers on the planet for everyone to be fed with organically grown meat (also not gonna happen), so we just kick the can down the road and sweep the dirt under the rug until the titanic hits the iceberg and there's no way forward anymore.

Here in the rich EU countries we have some rules and regulations on meat production, but enforcement is very lax and it's an open secret that those certification seals of approval are basically worthless as animals are still caged together crowded in their own filth, with massively infected open wounds full of puss, and pumped full of antibiotics just to stay alive long enough to become burgers. You should Google those images if you want to become vegan but lack the motivation.

It's a political tragedy of the commons that's found in a lot of other areas in our lives/society which we know for a fact are wrong and are harming us (or others from less fortunate parts of the world), but we still stick to them because they're very profitable industries generating $$$ and jobs, and they're such a tight part of our daily lives, they're nearly impossible to undo today, like all the pollution from car dependence, microplastics, the cheap cocoa and coffee industries driven by slave labor, etc.

See the dead body spaghetti episode from Rick and Morty, it's pretty good satire on our collective hypocrisy on this topic.

We know those are all bad, but we choose to look the other way and not do anything about it because we love our lifestyles with cheap car traveling, cheap shipping, cheap meat, cheap coffee, cheap clothing, etc. and all the associated profits.
Firefox Wayland is still kind of iffy when I have the Nvidia driver enabled on either of my AMD CPU/Nvidia GPU machines. Sometimes it doesn't launch, among other unreproducable things.

Of course it works perfectly if I disable the Nvidia driver. It also works fine in XWayland, but then rendering (to my eyes) looks choppier.
> they're good at identifying cases where a conviction is highly likely

Which is entirely relevant to their competence and job performance, of course.
I had a chest infection lasting months from mid-june to mid-October, and despite a run of Moxy, then Augmentin, then Roxy, and finally Cefalexin, nothing worked. Out of options, I tried a friend's suggestion: raw garlic and honey. After three weeks, my symptoms and long COVID issues improved. It was a stubborn infection that caused me to over-relying on antibiotics, as the article suggests. Makes me wonder about GP's exploring alternatives, especially with rising drug resistance.
I am the same, I found a book I could hyper focus on. That was the Chaos Walking by Patrick Ness

I was so fully pulled into that world I was quite sad once I got to the end because I know I'm not probably never going to find a book like that again.

I do this with most texts I have to read each sentence 3-4 times because I know I will have made up half of the words I just read.

I have the same issue with my brain not really thinking about the current situation, if I'm talking to someone I will get bored in a minute or two and it's a real effort to force myself to pay attention.
I have an unusually large amount of freezer space. What I have done in the past with zucchini and swiss chard (another vegetable I usually grow a lot of) is (for the zuccini) shred it, squeeze out as much water as I can, then freeze it and use it to bulk up stews/soups/congee-ish dishes through the winter with vegetable. A suprisingly large amount of it can disappear into a dish so that it reduces caloric density (if that's a thing you are trying to do) and making a tasty dish create more servings.

For swiss chard, instead of the shred/squeeze step I just chop and cook before freezing.

The larger point is that I have been slowly moving to the bulk of my garden space being dedicated to vegetables that can, in one way or another be preserved (canned, tried, fermented, frozen, or just straight up stored like winter squash, onions, and garlic), with only relatively small amounts being dedicated to things that _must_ be eaten fresh.
Blender 16yo winner of UK young animator of the year
Bing Chat is now "Microsoft Copilot" in potentially confusing rebranding move
That is pretty friggin awesome. And even more awesome that you can just copy over whatever d64s to the image that I assume are easily accessible in the c64 environment once booted. I was considering trying something like Combian64 but this seems way tighter. Edit ah too bad actually was looking for something that would work with my pi400 but I guess bmc64 only works up to pi3. If anyone could port bmc64 to pi4 or make it work that would be amazing (unfortunately not I as I don’t have the technical know-how)
Because doctors and farmers have more effective representation than anyone who looks at the whole.
I want documentation, especially block diagram be the first class citizen of a programming language, such that parsing the code will generate project visualizations that can help me understand the big picture.
If you run Lighthouse against that website it will provide actionable suggestions for improving it. More info: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/lighthouse/overview/
Magic Carpet Ride
Honestly it's probably just that demoscene minded people see the word and click because of nostalgia and belonging. You'd rather upvote this than an AI link or something about ventures. It's part of our identity :)

PS: Amigaaaaaaaaa
Right at the opening, we have a fundamental (and common) misunderstanding of what LLMs are.

When humans read the statement "A is B", we semantically transform that into a logical association. LLMs do not perform any semantics or logic.

Here's a simple example to demonstrate:

If we trained an LLM on something like "A is B C is D D is C.", we might be able expect the continuation, "B is A". If we then gave that LLM the prompt, "What is B?", we might expect the continuation, "B? is What".

Large models like GPT present more interesting continuations because they are trained on larger and more diverse datasets. More diversity also means more ambiguity, which results in continuations that are less predictable and more illogical.
Still super disappointed that GPT's can only consist of a single model. When I saw the leaks, I was thinking they're creating an Autogen like framework but with a drag n drop UI. Now something like this would make custom GPTs much much more powerful.
It's not the only cause, but yes.

Could also be hormonal, sickness, stress, lack of quality sleep/nutrition, etc. for men the drop off in testosterone definitely can manifest in feelings of lethargy.
This is really neat. I wonder why she doesn’t irrigate with drip tape though.
Sad but true. It's hard to find much positivity in news these days.

That's one of the reasons I like tech news. We have some positivity in the form of "Check out this cool new tool!" or "I did this weird thing with a 1,000 Rasberry Pi units." Tech news can be educational and entertaining without reporting on everything awful in the world, though there's some of that too.
Yes it works for C#!
> Literally nothing about autonomous vehicles stops cities from improving public transit.

What do you mean by 'literally' here? Seems like these ride-sharing companies do have impact on public transit.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-24/do-uber-a...

https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2018/07/25/uber-and-lyft-are-ove...
And in case you ever wish to experience a demo party yourself, here is an always up-to-date list of upcoming parties around the globe.

(Yes, these days there are a lot of streaming-only parties, and that's very nice, but no, this is nowhere comparable of being actually part of the fun on-site. So leave your sofa and go to the real thing, please.)

https://www.demoparty.net

And yes, the US demoscene sadly is pretty much dead for a couple of decades now (with a couple of EU sceners getting exported there from time to time).
Will Isambard 4 Be the UK's First True Exascale Machine?
Amazon announced Trainum last year and recently announced their partnership with Anthropic, where Claude will be trained on Trainium.

https://press.aboutamazon.com/2023/9/amazon-and-anthropic-an...
I made a similar one https://chat.openai.com/g/g-OTqSYCpL5

The main issue is it pretty hard to make it stop giving docs for v3. And since API changed (methods and node names) it often gives frustrating answers
This is more impressive than Chaos Theory 64k demake. They didn't have to go that hard!
Google DeepMind Trains 'Artificial Brainstorming' in Chess AI
> don't expect much sympathy, feels like saying "The war out there is hurting my ears."

Portraying your enemy as privileged and without legitimate concerns and denying them sympathy, as you have done, is a key element of the attack against them. But consider his example of "all lives matter" [1], or perhaps "it's okay to be white" - the mildest possible expressions of white self-advocacy, have been reframed as hate [2].

When the mildest, most inoffensive defense you can put into words is ripped from you using a targeted hyperstitious cascade, so their Radio Rwanda [3] can continue unopposed, you should worry. The war isn't "out there" - it's on your doorstep.

[1] Even looking only at police killings, per homicide committed (not per capita), more whites are killed by police than blacks, so it is a valid concern.

[2] https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/stop-white-hate-sign-bel...

[3] https://www.newsweek.com/help-me-hate-white-people-entry-bes...
Raincoats are much cheaper than cars.
It blows my mind that companies can get away with telling employees they will forever be remote only to ignore their own directive a few years later because of...reasons.
ASM!
serverless compute and storage are a great thing. the chronic silverbullitus that plagues industry since the dawn of time doesn’t change that. nonsensically bad systems will be built.

lambda is very reliable, more so than ec2. for serious systems, use it to manage servers.

s3 and dynamo are the same thing with different settings. yes dynamo also adds a kitchen sink, but the only feature you should use is CAS.

s3 is x10 cheaper for storage, x10 more expensive per request, x10 slower per request. dynamo is the opposite.

many great system designs can run properly serverless, ie without any ec2 or ec2-spot. they are simpler. serious systems require you to understand what lambda/s3/dynamo give you and what they do not.

more systems can be designed by adding ec2 and/or ec2-spot. the same understanding is required.

s3/dynamo are equidistant from every point within that region. there is no cross az bandwidth cost. there is no bottleneck. there is no contention. a lot of cool designs fall out of this.

lambda can burst to thousands of cpus in a second, for a second.

ec2-spot boots in 30s, and often has very large nvme physically attached.

there’s nothing fundamentally wrong with misusing all these tools and building inefficient systems. the builders will probably do better on their next system. if the owners wanted it done better initially, they could have hired more expensive builders.
for lua, compile to luac is a cheap way to hide the source to me
How do you celebrate that number?

Edit: nm, I don't want an answer.
That article shows that it takes about 50x as long to train gpt-3 with intel's offering vs Nvidia. At least in the current environment, if you are training llms I think almost no amount of cost savings can justify that.
Uncanny vallAI
AMD Unveils Ryzen Embedded 7000: Embedded Zen 4 for Industrial, Edge Solutions
Microsoft does have the benefit of not having any customers other than themselves, so volumes are smaller.
This a Linux thing.

Essentially, in an operating system you need a way to "draw" things on the screen. And a way to properly "move" the boxes "draw".

Previously, the usual* way to do that was using XServer (XOrg). Now you would imagine that the server would take commands from applications, and would draw them. But it was the inverse (for various historical reasons)! However, the most egregious thing was that it ALWAYS ran as root. And while tries had been made to reduce the attack surface, it had to fundamentally change (I am skipping over other parts related to performance, scalability, or future proofing).

And that's where Wayland comes in, and literally flips the whole thing on its head. Now the issue is XOrg has been around for maybe 40 years or more ! And that was not going to change easily. Distros did their absolute best to allow double use, but adoption grew very slowly. Eventually, supporting and testing for two envs will grow complicated.

Anyway long story short, almost everything about Wayland is better IMO, actively supported and is the future. But migrating to it has been complicated because they were undoing 40 years of habits, hardcoded bugs that grew into features, and had to come up with new testing.

This is something I typed up rather quickly so please take a peek at the Wiki page for Wayland you will find a much more complete history
Isn't it more efficient to just say Slackware? ;)
Did you miss the disclaimer at the bottom that both visual artwork and prose were produced by a combination of generative AI tools and creative prompting? The entire seamless watercolor style piece was just a long outpainting