skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doesn't reducing the number of neurons drastically reduce memory requirements?
And on my Mac. Safari does not exist elsewhere anyway (anymore).

I hope Kagi will succeed in bringing a credible alternative (Webkit) to chromium or Gecko on Windows/Linux, but it’ll take time even if they do it!
you can swipe the address bar to switch between tabs. Better than nothing.
You can do that. It even asks you whether to put it at the bottom when you run Firefox (Android, not sure about iOS) the first time.
I'm a happy Worldcoin user. If the providers are happy and the users are happy I'm not sure what's cartoon villainish about it?
A news outlets lends credibility by publishing an op-ed as much as Samsung lends credibility to what you're saying when you're on the phone with somebody. Newspapers have always been and should be part of the public sphere. Their mission should be to investigate, interview, report, publish, and let the reader form her own opinion. Not to shove their own opinions down the reader's throat. A serious newspaper will interview both sides of any conflict, and print their viewpoints uncensored.

Do you want to read the an op-ed written by Putin or Biden in the New York Times or do you want them to write "That horrible man doesn't have opinions that align with ours, so we won't print him so that our readers are protected from him"?
> This is just obtuse, and we both know it.

Why? Should it be obvious to me why you would oppose Arab immigration but not, say, Swedish immigration? In a thread about Swedish gang violence?

You claim I'm preaching but I've made no claims. If you're tired of avoiding questions about yours I guess I don't feel sad about that so far.
Seems like most of the people who want to join google these days, "why do you want to join google", "for the tc and prestige"
"How the heck was Atari still losing money on computers in 1982?

They had great hardware; the Atari 800 was Jay Miner's penultimate masterwork before he went on to design the Amiga chipset; it was still considered good as late as the mid-eighties.

The great hardware didn't languish in obscurity; Atari was one of the best-known brand names in the industry.

Nor did it lack software support; Atari was perfectly positioned to support their machines with cartridge versions of arcade games, and Star Raiders is still cited as a killer application for home computers."
Yes, if we start redefining words for rhetorical convenience, the argument devolves into semantics.
The distinction, and this is an important one, is that cookies have a hard cap of 4Kb of data per domain, making them nigh-useless for that purpose. All they are good for is recognizing a given user server-side across multiple page loads and storage of a few handful of user preferences. Cookies also get sent with every request, so using them as storage is just asking to balloon your bandwidth costs.

On top of that, using localStorage for storing large amounts of data rarely involves anything like a cookie warning because it's 100% client side unless manually sent back to the server. And even then, if you anonymize the data (i.e. you don't care who's storage you are using), you still don't technically need any warning.

All this to say: There is basically no relationship whatsoever between pervasive cookie warnings and the usage concerns you are voicing. Both are valid concerns, both are important stakes, but they have nothing to do with one-another.
It can still be open source. The AGPL was designed for protections in that scenario. Unless you’re suggesting the AGPL is insufficient. There’s another one that’s really similar, too.
The conversation was about how many spam messages we received, not how many were caught or how. But since you're curious: sendmail + SpamAssassin, running on my own server.
Oh, "the balloon". A quite common technique.
I agree. Of all the legal proceedings against Don, this is the most appropriate imo.

But... There is one thing that gives me pause about the Biden case. It is understood that Hunter had some capacity of access to the home [1]. Likely this overlapped with his hard drug and prostitute lifestyle. What are the chances that a state sponsored person managed entry to the house with Hunter and then had free reign of it while he slept or was in a drugged state? Does this factor into the risk assessment of the forgotten documents and culpability of Joe?

I admit I'm biased as I don't like Joe, so would prefer he is a one term president.

[1] https://www.newsweek.com/hunter-biden-joe-biden-classified-d...
There is no cloud, dude. It is someone else's computer.
Deeply buried somewhere it is written they can do anything with your stuff that resides on their computers.

Or simply they can do it, then it'll up to you to sue them.

Good luck!
Grocery delivery services are crap. They have problems with improper substitutions and low quality produce.

Plus Costco doesn't deliver, and that's where many of us do our bulk shopping with large vehicles. (You can order from Costco through Instacart in some areas but it's one of the worst of the delivery services.)
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Personally all large company processes start to rhyme and things feel like ground hog day.

After spending the first 10 years of my career at 100K+ employee firms, I've only worked at 500 - 2500 person companies since.

There's benefits from a process perspective of working at a big place and understanding what guardrails may be useful, and I suppose later in career boomerang back and sort of slowly coast into retirement..

But mid career if you know what you are doing and want to deliver, huge firms can be very very stifling places.
I wouldn't dig too deep into M. K. Bharadkumar's views. He was part of the Indian Attaché to the Soviet Union and later Russia and Uzbekistan, and worked closely with both them when supporting the Northern Alliance during the Afghan Civil War in the 90s [0][1]

He leans pro-Russia and anti-American.

[0] - https://valdaiclub.com/about/experts/341/

[1] - https://new.thecradle.co/columns/mk-bhadrakumar
> it's surprising how often coincidences and mistakes can appear malicious

Seems just like the recent news where YouTube was intentionally throttling Firefox, which turned out to be a not accurate representation.
Yeah, I think I fit into this category. If I see a new model announced, it’s been nice to just click and evaluate for myself if it’s useful for me. If anyone knows other tools for this kind workflow I’d love to hear about them. Right now I just keep my “test” prompts in a text file.
The inference you made is that Google actually was evil all along.
Shielding isn't some distant future technology. Many simple compounds work as great shields, including water. That's been proposed as one of the ways to deal with extreme space weather events when traveling to Mars - using the water storage as an emergency shield. But of course you can't just put some giant shield up over the entire Earth for many reasons that I think should be pretty clear?

Unfortunately, Earth will literally never be safe from extinction. Nor will any planet. The first thing that should happen once we set foot on Mars is planning for the settlement of the next planet, or moon, to follow. That doesn't mean we should neglect any planet, most obviously including Earth, but the benefit of having 8 billion people is we're more than capable of doing more than one thing at a time.
Yet Hillary did both as was not prosecuted.
You don’t need to do that. You can install it via apt from the Mozilla ppa, then it updates automatically along with everything else.
> Trans people make up what, 0.001% of the population?

So it's fine subjugating them?

> long as it keeps people from discussing raising taxes on the rich

In what polity are trans-rights activists not economically left?
Sure but that doesn't make it "random" . I don't get why top comment was listening to podcasts knowing full well that you will be given possibly inaccurate facts. I have hard time accepting that podcasts are audible wikipedia, such a strange take is top voted comment.
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It was easier to thread this needle in an easy-money environment than now, when everyone has suddenly grown much more conservative.
Flutter is a really amazing project, independently of its roots within Google. If the author has spent nine years working on it, then it's understandable why he'd stay at Google even if he didn't like the taste of the Kool-Aid. And it seems he's still working on Flutter now, so clearly it's a passion project for him. Do you blame him for chugging that Kool-Aid as long as he could?
I think it'd be more accurate to substitute 'polite' or 'courteous' than 'nice'.
If you were involved with W3C around the time of XHTML 2.0 through to HTML 5.0 via WHATWG Ian is a well known person.
I have Firefox 120 on Android, but I'm unable to search for my extension (IPvFoo) on the addons page. It works on Firefox Nightly 122, and previously worked when Nightly was at 120.

Maybe the launch still requires a server-side change?
Both your sources show that only 30-35% of nodes run on AWS. They seem to support my point that Ethereum would continue running during an AWS outage, not your point that Ethereum runs "solely" on AWS.

Furthermore, the cointelegraph article misquotes a Messari report as if it's discussing the current state of Ethereum as having central points of failure, when it's really discussing a hypothetical upgrade to Ethereum that was never considered nor built.

Finally, node percentages don't actually matter in terms of chain uptime. What really matters are staking validator percentages, since they are what determine chain building and finality.
> Very easy to hate them if: 1) Any innocents die because of their leaks.

Idaho drivers have been killing innocents on the street at a rate of one every two days for the past decade or more, yet people seem quite capable of not hating Idaho drivers, so this outcome is much less certain than you’ve declared here.

It’s much more likely that people will hate them first for being gay, furry, and/or hackers; and then claim any plausible justification for pre-existing hatred, whether imagined or real, whether statistically significant or not, so that they feel morally authorized to execute hate upon others.

I’ve always assumed this group was an hate-promoting operation, rather than a bunch of prideful idiots bearing cool labels. Either they’re incredibly stupid and are unconcerned with the hate they’ll bring down upon others — or they’re intentionally bringing down hate on the the labels present as. They seem quite able to hack, and they selected the exact labels that get the media to publicize their hacks, so it’s difficulty to defend a Hanlon’s stupidity outcome. Either way, it’s incredibly disappointing to see.
I'm not sure I buy the idea that Ilya was just some hapless researcher who got unwillingly pulled into this. Any one of the board could have voted not to remove Sam and stop the board coup, including Ilya. I'd bet he only got cold feet after the story became international news and after most of the company threatened to resign because their bag was in jeopardy.
Gemini sued over $689M in customer withdrawals
The biggest pain point with Android FF for me is that there's no way to get it to close all of the tabs when you close the application.

I have to go through and close each tab one by one first. It's driving me up the wall.
> We need to sit down and find an example where some money-making endeavor made life worse for most people, and scrub those dollars from the record. Perhaps we'll do this yearly.

And then what? Just sitting down and finding out that some thing some people did made some other people's life worse won't put the gains of the first group of people in jeopardy — unless you do something more tangible. What do propose that should be?
At one point, we (lead dev (me) and lead designer) colluded to submit a terrible homepage design to a nit-picky CMO to buy an extra 2wks of development time.

She'd given us 6wks to completely rebuild a small corporate website, and we knew we needed at least 8 (it was still a nearly impossible rush). She exhibited a classic micromanager habit of the inexperienced: she needed/expected everything, including copy layout, to be pixel perfect in Adobe before any coding could start.

So the developers had the real design we knew she'd approve already in development while the design team showed her the version filled with ducks. She performed exactly as we anticipated and work continued as though she was never consulted. It was a risk, but she was extraordinarily predictable in her duck removal...

It's not something I'd do to someone with an opinion I respect. Thankfully she left right after that. Probably with a story of how she single-handedly saved the redesign herself, but whatever. ;)
Amusing qualifications for the senior engineering roles they’re hiring for:

“Deep understanding of what is a computer, what is computer software, and how the two relate.”

Right after the senior ML role that requires people understand how to write “algorithms and programs.”

Kinda hard to take those kinds of requirements seriously.
> If you truly believed that Superhuman AI was near, and it could act with malice, won't you try to slow things down a bit?

No, because it is an effort in futility. We are evolving into extinction and there is nothing we can do about it.
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>perhaps that organization will inevitably develop into something resembling IBM.

So an over 100 year old company that makes 10s of billions of dollars?
It is though. Being an ad supplier is different from being an ad exchange. Or would you describe the New York Times or HBO as "ads businesses"?
I personally felt the best icon of original Google culture was Craig Silverstein, whose departure greatly affected the various intergrouplets that were holding the company culture together. In that sense, I wouldn't place all the blame on Sundar, although he didn't necessarily help.

But all hope is not lost yet -- even though the work environment might change from big family to big company to big factory as the company size grows, it has gotten to the size where there are now pockets of families that are cohesive among themselves. I believe these fractals of families will be what carries the culture forward.
I've switched to Firefox a couple of years ago because I was increasingly uncomfortable with Chrome effectively becoming the new IE, and honestly I find it works just as well in vast majority of cases. Now that Chrome is starting to become overtly hostile to users, I'm very glad I made the jump already.
> An LLM isn't an artist and I'm not a piece of software.

Hard disagree on both counts, but for the sake of argument let's go with your assumption.

> But if you think the LLM output other to be copyrightable in its own right, who should hold the copyright?

The LLM, being a piece of software, should logically be treated like any other piece of software used to create a work by a human artist. It is a tool. Let's say there is a song composed for a synth keyboard. Should the copyright go to the person who designed the keyboard? The person who owns the equipment that made the keyboard? The people who recorded the samples that each key stroke references? The person who curated the samples for the keyboard? The person who owns the keyboard? To the person who figured out the sequence of keystrokes that produces the song? Or to the person who hits those key strokes when the song is being recorded?

Well the person who designed the keyboard gets the ip of the keyboard's design. The person who owns the production hardware does not inherently get any ip. The artists who created all the works sampled get the ip to their specific samples. The curator would not get any ip for the collection but they might if they did something transformational, like passing those samples through a filter. The keyboard owner does not inherently get any ip. The composer gets the ip to the composition in general. The artist who played the song for the recording gets the ip for that specific recording of the song. If I were having a conversation with someone, I would say that the person who figured out the sequence of keystrokes is the person who holds the copyright.

Likewise, the creators of the LLM would hold the ip related to its design, but a specific output of the LLM would belong to the person who thought of a way to make it produce that specific output - ie the prompt writer. Those who made the inputs would own the ip to the part of the inputs which remained untransformed in the final work. Curating input for the network training would be equivalent to curating numbers for a phone book - the collection itself is not copyrightable but some transformational work (like cleaning the data in a specific way) would be. Owning the hardware the LLM was trained on would not inherently grant any ip rights.

Of course there is some grey area where it might genuinely be unclear who holds the rights to what (which has always been an issue with intellectual property laws), but the idea that just because it's sometimes unclear who contributed what to a work means no work was created at all is obviously folly. Others might have a different opinion than I on how the existing framework should be tweaked to accommodate this new technology, but it's definitely not a major departure.
Yep me too. There is also a discord server “biocord” which seems nice, but for some reason I am just unable to use discord. I don’t enjoy hanging there as much as on regular news aggregators as HN and Reddit.

I was also musing about making one myself using lobste.rs GitHub. But I never looked into it much.
I remember while there was a push to adopt Firefox, there was another reactionary push against "alternate browsers", most likely from web devs who were frustrated that they had to support something other than Internet Explorer. What an interesting time.
Microsoft's internal memo about the chaos at OpenAI
Do you mean something like MirageOS? https://mirage.io/
There are things that are worth knowing and there are things that are easy to measure and the overlap is disappointingly small.
Ford is killing the Explorer hybrid because cops are buying all of them
I don't know what you mean by "manipulated" but these flags were, and are, coming from users, not admins. The most likely explanation isn't sinister—it's that readers were fatigued by the tsunami of stories about this saga, and were flagging the ones that didn't seem to contain significant new information (a.k.a. SNI: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...).

I realize your perception was that all the negative ones got flagged, but this perception is most likely a function of your own preference (you're more likely to notice it when a story that you agree with gets flagged, because people are more likely to notice what they dislike: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...). Probably Sam feels like all the positive stories are getting flagged :)

I wrote a longer explanation about how we treat story floods like this from a moderation point of view, if anyone wants to read about that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38357788.

Edit: and this applies to the OP, which actually does contain SNI. I've turned user flags off on this submission and changed the title to be the article's HTML doc title, which is more specific.
I get what you're saying, but I also live in the world and see the mechanics of capitalism. I may be a person who's interested in tech, science, education, archeology, etc. That doesn't mean that I don't also have political views that sometimes overlap with a lot of other very-online people.

I think the comment to which you replied has a very reddit vibe, no doubt. But also, it's a completely valid point. Could it have been said differently? Sure. But I also immediately agreed with the sentiment.
Absolutely. And I'm sure the talker had a "<wait for laugh>" in their transcript, which they had to quickly skip since people were taking it seriously.
No conflict, no interest.
When has open sourcing your business's core software not been a risky strategy?

If you are a software as a product company and you open source your software, someone else may put it into a box and sell it beside you.

If you are a software as a business process company and you open source your software, some else may build into their business and compete against you in whatever your marketable output is.

If you are a software as a service company, and you open source your software, someone may build a service that is remarkably similar to yours.

Open source is great for things your company depends on --- maybe you get community improvements, and you can build and change it how you like; but if the core of your business is open source, that's a choice that makes it very easy for competition to form. OTOH, if you want to build something that other companies depend on, and there's open source alternatives, it's going to be hard going; I wouldn't use a closed source web server or database server or search engine, given there are good open source options; although maybe if those options don't work out, I'd consider a closed source vendor.
>Microsoft might end up entrenching themselves the way they did in PCs through the 90s, possibly including a more successful attempt to control the browser/web experience

That fear was kind of overblown. In those days of Steve Balmer, Microsoft was far less focused and organized, too high on its success with Windows and Office, for such a slow, large and bloated ship to react quickly and precisely enough on this.

Just look at what they did with Zune before that. It was not a bad product at all, but it was too little too late for consumers to give up on Apple and jump ship to Microsoft.

They did react here as well, but just like before, by the time they had a desirable and competitive mobile OS, Apple and Google had already reached critical mass adoption that no matter how good Microsoft's offering was, they wouldn't have been able to recoup the lead lost to Apple and Google both with consumer and developer adoption.
I feel so much exactly what you're describing here...
It's you who are naive if you really think the majority of those 7xx employees care more about safe AGI than their own equity upside
I know what you meant but generally really unfair to even mention or phrase it like that. “Downloading things in snap” is more correct.

Snap has done such a disservice to open source software’s perceived quality.
« Google workers are nice humans therefore the company is doing good (tm) things »

Maybe it’s time to stop drinking the koolaid.