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With today's LLMs I could see them used as a way to speed up the generation of transformer code, but I'm not sure you could trust them to 'just work' as the layer.
For those who won't bother to RTFA: the trains run cooler than other trains, so they are taking advantage of the difference such that the net result is the same temperature in tunnels, but the interior of trains can be cooler.
This looks more and more like the UBA merger in The Morning Show.
That was the first thing I thought when I read the title, and is the reason I did not click the link. I had the misfortune of being exposed to images of this sort by someone back in school and I'm not exactly desirous of experiencing that again.
As a java backend dev, I am envious that Java doesn't have a modern equivalent of Blazor.
https://huggingface.co/microsoft/Orca-2-13b

https://huggingface.co/microsoft/Orca-2-7b
Correct, and Dr. Power also retweeted a tweet from @Scobleizer that says:

Who held the gun that killed OpenAI?

Hey
@adamdangelo
all evidence points at you.

Wanna come on my show?
I know, I hope Apple will decide to expose it to everyone in the future, since it's already implemented..
This is no longer true. Twitter now has 2 browsing tabs that you can easily swipe between.

The first is a “For you” tab which contains recommended content based on YOUR browsing habits (and a “Not Interested” option to curate, just like Tiktok).

The second tab is a “Following” tab which is strictly tweets from people you follow, in chronological order.

It’s pretty great now. Twitter used to be nothing but quasi activism and rage bait. Now it’s exactly what I envisioned it could’ve been, which is nice.

But stay away from it if you have the reddit mindset of “If I don’t agree with it, it should be banned”, because your feelings will get hurt.

It feels a lot like the internet 10-15 years ago, it’s great.

But I can freely talk about sports and shoot the shit without worrying about triggering an autoban for saying the “badspeak” term or phrase which is currently flavor of the month.
Yep. I think you've explained the origins of most decisions, bad and good - they are reactionary.
https://archive.ph/k7GJM

TLDR: "A Nvidia Corp. engineer, during a video conference call with his former employer, had one of those oops moments. He shared his screen, leaving a file up that contained data about robocar technology that he had stolen from his previous company, Valeo SE."
The irresponsible thing is to not explain yourself and assume everyone around you has no agency.
No, it has a mandate to determine whether an investment is legal or not.

Have you considered it may be impossible to fulfill because by their very nature these things cannot pass the tests to be legal?

> why doesn't anyone do so instead of battling the SEC in court?

Because none of them meet the bar of legality. Because they do not meet the most basic requirements of consumer protection, transparency, fair market trading. It's not the SEC making requirements for crypto so stringent, it's crypto's complete failure to fulfill the necessary criteria for a registered security.

As others have said - the SEC aren't going to make it easy for me to register my ponzi scheme either, should I blame them when I get shut down for running it anyway? Cry about how they're making it difficult to figure out how to follow their guidelines? Whine that ponzi schemes are not being allowed a simple way to compliance? Or should I maybe re-evaluate what I'm trying to do?
I think that’s easily explained by how levered Microsoft is to OpenAI/Altman. Microsoft would likely suffer hundreds of billions of market cap destruction as well as major reputation damage if this partnership collapsed and on a personal level Nadella would very possibly have to step down, giving him even more reason to want this to succeed.

I think people are so tempted to contrive these multilevel conspiracy theories where Nadella and Altman are thinking many moves ahead while the board is just a slow moving group of idiots when the much simpler explanation is they are desperately trying to restore confidence. I think the main tell on this besides what was already said was Nadella making the announcement before market open- this is a guy feeling major pressure from shareholders about the strategy.

The problem with that though is that he is making impulsive decisions with imperfect information and taking major reputation risk in the process.
> they don't tell you anything about a battery replacement, but instead suggest a new iPhone!

You keep repeating this, but battery replacements were a thing before this whole debacle. I got them a few times, I think they were like $79 (yes definitely more money than the sus extended batteries I'd buy off eBay for my HTC Evo). I realize society collectively forgot about them once the back stopped coming off the phone, but surely a tech savvy hackernews would realize that they couldn't use the same battery forever without replacement.
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As a worker, ask yourself some questions: was HR hired to represent you, or to represent the corporation? Is HR part of your personal legal counsel team? Who signs HR's paychecks?
Okay, automating Apple account logins on a fleet of macOS VMs is still rarely treaded territory, so it takes some real technical chops, even if it’s mostly stitching together other people’s work. TLS termination on the hand takes <1hr following a guide, if you haven’t done it hundreds of times before…
Don’t worry just criticize stripe and he’ll show up lol.
This is what I’m confused about. There are plenty of product people who would have been chomping at the bit to release ChatGPT if they knew their organization had the tech. I’m not sure what makes him unique here.
Doubt it. Ad blockers still work on MV3, just not as well. The vast majority of people won’t notice a difference and the ones that will are the same ones that probably switched already.
I bet you live in a different climate than me. ...and your kids are likely older. These factors matter dramatically.
It saddens me how right you are. Things have become so polarized and tribal that there isn't much room for nuance.

Can't climate change be a big deal without being an extinction risk? Covid was deadly, but mostly to certain demographics. AI is dangerous in the way that the Manhattan Project was dangerous, but maybe that's not sufficient reason to stop pursuing it. Etc.

But I think people are so overwhelmed by this hyperconnected and ubersensationalized world, flooded with ethical conundrums daily, that they only have the bandwidth for snap judgments. Into this bucket or the other you go, thought, no time or energy for a closer examination!
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Goodreads' data is…not good. So I've returned to one of the oldest tricks in the book: good old scraping - and actually end up with pretty decent data.
If it's an iPhone, then iOS will suspend background apps in favor of foreground apps. If your phone is lagging it's almost certainly because the foreground app is resource-intensive.

If the foreground app requires more resources than are available due to background apps, it will suspend background apps to free up those resources.

Apps don't really have much they can do to get around this, assuming you're not jailbreaking or installing local profiles.

Well-built applications will have already saved state with every interaction. When they go to the background they will start unloading unnecessary resources and prepare for possible suspension by saving any additional data. Then when they're suspended, their state is saved to a snapshot that they can load in later so it's as though they never were suspended.

There _is_ more capacity in recent versions of iOS for an app to use background resources, and to start a background process automatically. Still, the system treats background processes with a lower priority and terminates them for using too much power way more aggressively.
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As if the typical user (not anyone that browsers hn) actually reads the _big fat popup_ and would just click through anyways. With no care or worry about what that pop up said or the implications.

Apple “You clicked a pop up that said you accepted random shutdowns and reboots due to a degraded battery instead of allowing us to degrade performance to enable a stable experience with a degraded battery.”

How would you explain the above to tech illiterate people? Increase suppose calls because you allowed a user to chose between degraded yet stable performance versus seemly random (to the user) reboots and shutdowns?
Add eslint and jest to pull your hairs of you head. I managed to get it right last week, but I'm pretty confident that next upgrade I'll have to revise most of it.
Have you actually read the sister's accusations? They read like the rantings of a paranoid schizophrenic. One or two things, I could believe, but the sheer volume of ridiculously extreme accusations is impossible to believe.
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A really important nuance here is that they are building on top of Llama-2, the pretrained model, and not Llama-2-chat.

I really think the entire field is doing a degree of damage with the chat fine tuning beyond what might be expected, because regularly part of that chat instruction is an emphasis on identification as a LLM.

The problem with this is that nearly all of the training data it's performing next token prediction on is text generated by humans.

So there's an inherent narrowing of the model scope with most of the fine tuning I've seen such that while pretrained models are harder to use, I regularly prefer them over chat models when both are available as even at similar temperatures the quality and variety of language is much improved in the pretrained over chat model.

This fine tuning was only introducing bias towards logical step by step analysis and problem solving techniques, and the results are great. But I'm willing to bet that an identical fine tuning on top of the chat model would have been much worse on the evaluations - not just the compounding of a typical fine tuning loss of a few percent, but more like a double digit relative difference.

It's quite frustrating that the anxiety over model safety is likely throwing out tens of millions of dollars worth of data in the pretrained model when only chat models are available for the SotA, and I hope in the future a lighter touch is taken on fine tuning the pretrained model and instead of focusing on safety inherent to the model it is just set behind a safety oriented discriminator or 'editor' which filters or modifies responses accordingly.

I'd happily take a 2-3x increased API cost for a much more broadly capable and performant model with similar safety characteristics but without the handicaps that come with it.

So while a lot of the gains here might be due to the fine tuning, I expect at least part is shrugging off the baggage of the chat/safety fine tuning as well. Even in the first detailed example, we can see that while Llama-2 goes off rambling later on, its statement of the relative knowledge of John vs Llama-2-chat is much more clear and connected between initial conditions and result particularly regarding theory of mind (i.e. "he assumed" vs the latter's "it must be in").
Since taxes can be paid in coin, it's clearly a liability to the treasury regardless of whether it's recorded on a balance sheet as such.

In practice a coin is a token that represents a liability at the Fed much like a deposit. That token can be used to claim an actual deposit at the Fed (by agents, not little people, obviously).

I'm not aware of a law that requires a coin be bought by the fed at face value. It just seems to be the historical norm. If you're aware of such a requirement please let me know.

In summary, the coins are not the "money", they're just tokens that for historical reasons the fed buys from the treasury at face value and can record at face value in their balance sheet. It could in principle just as easily be the case the fed is not required to balance with anything from the treasury (e.g. not T-bills) against new money creation - they're just forced to hand over the deposits to the control of the treasury. The net effect would be exactly like the coin case (hence the trillion dollar coin nonsense).
IMO You will need to keep fooling around (rereading, linking, reclassifying and thinking about it all) for meaningful insights to arise. Personal insight can't be just "extracted", especially if you don't have a clear goal in mind. It will magically rise within you (and not on the computer screen) when you are fully immersed in all the data. So don't expect the database to do the work for you. It is just there to make it easier and give you a better foundation to work with.

LLm could help bridge that gap a little more, but never 100%.
I feel called out - I have created a HN account recently in order to comment on this matter.

I consider the recent events as crucial to the future of whole industry. I follow them extensively and I am greatly interested in participating in a conversation with informed people. What better venues are there? Twitter? Reddit? Those two platforms are sadly full of uninformed trolls.
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The more likely explanation is that D'Angelo has a massive conflict of interest with him being CEO of Quora, a business rapidly being replaced by ChatGPT and which has a competing product "creator monetization with Poe" (catchy name, I know) that just got nuked by OpenAI's GPTs announcement at dev day.

https://quorablog.quora.com/Introducing-creator-monetization...

https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/31/quoras-poe-introduces-an-a...
That only works if the money and power you acquire is enough to pay somebody else to do the work instead of you.

If you don't make enough to sustain yourself and others to work on a cause more useful than a cause you could work yourself on then it doesn't make sense. Basically taking a standard 95k non-fang SWE job isn't better than taking a 50K SWE job at say Red Cross.

Also if you can get some 10M job at OpenAI but you also are certain that you could use those same skills to independent develop some drug that will say ~12M in lives/yr then you shouldn't go to OpenAI.

But there's also no true scotsman.
The title is wrong. They don't "blame ad blockers" they admit they slow down ad blockers. So it is their conscious choice, not some sort of "adblockers cause issues" thing.
Well, duh. You're holding it wrong. /s
I'm sure this question can be answered better by the employees themselves and they voted very clearly that they don't want a leadership unter the current board that ousted Sam and Greg.
As for why customers care about who the CEO is, i'm not even sure if you're seriously asking these questions.
I'm a big fan.

Will never touch Latex again, so much inconsisteny, so much pain. Let alone doing (and memorizing) simple things like page setup and setting the font size to the point. In Typst it's just simple and efficient, and I even don't need to explain anything of the following code (except maybe "leading" which is spacing between lines, "tracking" is space between characters, "spacing" is space bewteen words):

#set page(
paper: "a4",
margin: (x: 2.0cm, y: 2.5cm)
)

#set text(
font: "Noto Sans",
size: 4em,
weight: "regular",
fill: black,
tracking: 0.2pt,
spacing: 115%
)

#set par(
justify: false,
leading: 1.75em,
)

See all options...
https://typst.app/docs/reference/text/text/
https://typst.app/docs/reference/layout/page/
https://typst.app/docs/reference/layout/par/

The documentation is very thorough and kind of.. flawless.

The two theses of the founders (linked in thread, search tu-berlin.de) are an interesting read and show how they resolved the complexity of typography into simplicity and efficiency.

Using plugins is easy (you can write you own too), just add a line (e.g. #import "@preview/codetastic:0.2.2"), it will download the plugin when compiling (you can also clone the git repo and reference it locally).

Try to compile to pdf:

#import "@preview/codetastic:0.2.2"
#box(codetastic.qrcode("https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38354422"))

typst compile filename.typ

The plugins repository (https://typst.app/docs/packages/) is filling rapidly and has already some cool ones like codelst (show codeblocks, highlight lines and reference them), codetastic (generate ean + qr-codes) and showybox (beautiful boxes whose style can be stremalined across a whole document easily). And they only started going public early this year...
Not to say that the language itself isn't super powerful but you can literally program qr-code-generation in typst (which is what the plugin author did).

Beautiful...
#box(fill: gradient.linear(..color.map.rainbow))[Typst rocks.]

Matthew Butterick who created Pollen approves too:
https://forums.matthewbutterick.com/t/typst-another-typesett...
Similar with my Surface Pro 4. After a couple years of casual use (it was my "browse on the couch" computer) the battery was significantly degraded.

I think a big part of the problem is that "off" doesn't necessarily mean "off". If you just do "Shutdown" from the menu it is just some kind of suspend or hibernate state (I'm not sure which...PC hardware and Windows have a bunch of different "not fully on" states). It's still doing stuff that uses power. It's also doing periodic things like automatic updates.

The net result I believe is that even though from my point of view it was only being used occasionally, it was actually going through a battery cycle almost as often as if it had been my main computer.

I haven't used Windows in a while so don't remember all the details, but I think if you hold shift while invoking "Shutdown" it shuts down more than a shiftless "Shutdown". There are also command line commands that will shut down even more.

I never did find a way to shut it down enough that I could not use it for a week and still have a usable charge on it.

Hey, do you have occasional problems with disk encryption? Every so often when I open it I get some obnoxiously bright screen telling me I need to enter my Bitlocker recovery key. But if I cancel that it goes ahead and boots and has no trouble decrypting the disk.
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Why does it seem so wasteful?
> Um, are we just skipping past the whole colonialist era and straight into some sort of enlightened modern age? Even then, Russia's European too.

yes because we are not in the colonialist era
From reading the comments, seems like it would be useful for battery power storage in the home (since it's cheaper and safer, and weight doesn't matter), but not great for a car yet (since it weighs more)
"every day, from 9AM to 5PM EST" is a thing that can be represented through calendar RRULEs. Usually libraries exist to help with this (Python has one, conveniently called rrule!). This is a thing to describe recurring events, has a spec and everything. So there is a thing.

And you're totally right about `time` existing, it slipped my mind that time has a tzinfo slot. I do think you should still take care and I would avoid having any naive time objects just floating around beyond the serialization layer though.
I really like the post that they mention (https://www.secondstate.io/articles/fast-llm-inference/). The reasons for avoiding python all resonate with me. I'm excited to play with WASI-NN (https://github.com/WebAssembly/wasi-nn) and that rust code is very readable to load up a GGUL model.
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Node.js, TypeScript (compiled script...), ESM modules, versions, and the dependencies tree hell... You guys are adopting the masochism, the problem is that you are dragging the rest of us into that hell.
It sounds like you agree with me aside from some vague historical wishy-washiness.

Ironically, Russians don't really see themselves as "European".
This is why I use bun now! It just works, NodeJS is such a shit show right now, feels like the python 2->3 move.
I spent a decade with C# and .Net and even in its current form which is easily the best it’s ever been I vastly prefer to work with Typescript.

Yes, you do need to set up some rather strong governance around it for it to work for multiple teams, but you should really be doing that with any technology, and once you do, it’s just excellent. Part of the reason for this is that it’s basically designed from the ground up to require that you build and maintain “template” projects, have strong linting, testing and pipeline governance, so there is a lot of freedom to make it work easily for your organisation exactly the way you want it to. Typescript is obviously not alone in this, but it’s far less opinionated than something like .Net.

The main reason is that .Net always becomes burdensome once you start using it’s included batteries. This isn’t really an issue with C# as much at it is an issue with it’s libraries. Take OData and Entity Framework as an example, the .Net magic behind them sort of share the same model builder, but they do so differently. What this means is that a lot of the cool OData features like patch doesn’t actually work with EF, meaning you’ll either have to rewrite a lot of the model builder (don’t) or have to work around it. .Net has always sort of been like that. It variates between being 50-90% “done” but it never really gets there until it moves on. Like EF, much of the EF 7 road map isn’t implemented yet, but here we are, moving on to EF8.

I think for a lot of use cases it’s a wonderful technology, and Blazor will probably be awesome until Microsoft moves on, but at least around here, it’s also a technology that doesn’t really see adoption in anything but small-midsized companies, and in my opinion, .Net is part of what hinders growth. Obviously not a huge contributor, but once you step out of where it excels, you’re just going to have to fight .Net so much harder than you will with Typescript. Which is sort of interesting considering they are both Microsoft products which align more and more. That being said, it’s not like it’s bad either.
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Technology only moves forward, you never have a choice about that. The choice is either to embrace it or not. At least OpenAI is building this under public scrutiny. How many firms or governments are building the same thing in the shadows? Hint: more than zero.
That's a bit of a false dichotomy - just because they follow Sam Altman doesn't mean they can be incompetent. OpenAI was successful because of the rare mix of leadership with a vision and competent workers to back it up. Sam leaves, the vision dies. Workers leave, the product dies.
No matter what, OAI is pushing AI forward, but they aren’t the only ones pushing. Governance of one nonprofit has no bearing on the direction of the tech at large.

We are going to have to learn to live with AI advancements no matter what and probably do what we can to ensure it is regulated.
> Apple is almost certainly aware of this at the C-Suite level

What makes you think this?
The point is not energy density, or momentary power. The point is low price and immediate availability.

There is a lot of solar and wind electricity wasted in the world because there's no economical way to store it. LiFePO4 batteries are > $100 / kWh, last time I checked; a practical powerwall costs like a small car, and is also a major fire hazard.

We badly need cheap, non-toxic, non-flammable batteries we could deploy massively outside of cars, drones, and phones. The announced battery looks like something that may fit the bill.