skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
do you... have any plans to upgrade? A gen 2011 computer is going to get harder and harder to make work. even a used macbook from like 2019 would probably be a steal at this point, and that's 8 years further along

All the new AI toys especially seem to love beefy newish hardware and especially GPU hardware if available
That depends on whether the board was there to provide cover and protection against regulation/nationalization or whether it was supposed to have an actual role. Apparently some board members believed that they had an actual role and others understood that they were just a fig leaf and that ultimately money (and employees) hold the strings.
Helen Toner resigned from the OpenAI board
The most reliable cars come from the end of a production series right before a facelift. Yeah, the car won’t look as new but a lot of the engineering challenges of the new design don’t get worked out until later
We're going to see reliability drop as Toyota and others downsize and turbocharge their engines.
Ah, that happened to me, too. Back in June or July. I couldn't be bothered to fix it for months, and it eventually took me a full weekend to get it working again.

Turns out there's some extremely specific weirdness with docker on ZFS. I had to install a userspace FS overlay or something.

But even after all that, I pretty much never use the damn thing. The web interface is the slowest, most bloated and broken thing I've ever had the misfortune to interact with. The desktop and mobile apps have the absolute bare minimum features, and still somehow manage to be broken and unusable.

It sure sounds like a cool idea to glom together your files and email and jira and calendar and everything else into one unified dashboard for your life. But it takes nearly a minute for the web ui to respond to anything. Browsing files takes minutes. And absolutely forget about music or photos, that barely works at all.

At this point, I just use it as a place to blindly dump all my files. I get a notification every. Single. Day. that my backup succeeded, so my files are probably safe I guess. Can't turn off the notification, or filter notifications in general. So I have an unending torrent of useless garbage notifications that perfectly hide any truly important notices.

As much as I want to like it, it's just bad.
When LoongSon started the transition from MIPS to their own ISA, important parts of the RISC-V standard such as the Vector, Crypto and Bitmanip extensions weren't yet ratified.

Their long-term strategy is to support other ISAs through binary translation, thereby skirting around IP issues associated with them and making the hardware ISA matter less anyway.
The diplomacy here reads like a carefully prepared company press release.
As he should, in his public communication. Talking bad about anyone would only reflect poorly on Sam.

In private, I can only assume he’s a lot less diplomatic.
Not particularly. I am still worried about their data security (considering the credit card leak in March). A new board doesn’t fix that.
BLUFFS: Bluetooth Forward and Future Secrecy Attacks and Defenses
We Spied on Our Teenage Daughter with a Hidden Camera. Now What Do We Do?
It’s actually the capacitors that fail first because they have a liquid electrolyte
There is no reason both can't be true. He may have seen his chance to get more pliable management in place, but you'll never know unless he speaks up which he likely will never do.
huh, my 2014 Mazda 3 (manual 6 speed) I find quite fun to drive. It feels light, it's not some powerhouse but its immensely spritely. It feels like, given the constraints, the engineers were still trying to make something that feels good. Very different from Corollas or Civics that I've owned.

I actually bought the 2014 model rather than 2015 because I wanted the last year made in Japan, though I don't know how much of a difference this makes.
how is it out of line to understand that disrespect invites the same? the above example's departed professor would surely agree ;)
I think they (OpenAI as a whole) showed themselves as a loyal, cohesive and motivated group. That is not ordinary.
Tesla has its own principles, and collaboration is a big part of them. One reason so many engineers apply to work at Tesla is that they get to see their ideas implemented quickly and without excessive bureaucracy.
In many societies, the rights of women have declined from one period to the next, although I guess "women" don't constitute a "large, militarily powerful" group.

For example, in Korea during the Joseon/Chosŏn period, the status of women gradually declined due to Neo-Confucianist ideology. Women stopped inheriting property in the seventeenth century. They lost the right to intiate divorce, while men could still intiate divorce under seven grounds (disobedience to parents-in-law, failure to bear a son, adultery, jealousy, hereditary disease, larceny, and talkativeness). Widows lost the right to remarry, and were seen as inconvenient for the family. Women were forbidden from playing games, partying outdoors, and riding horses.

The decline of women's rights happened in other societies, too; I just happened to have a book about Korean history on my desk.
If Musk feels attacked by giant advertisers, he can just boost their competitors
> I wonder why they still do that, seems like it only hamstrings developers.

Two reasons:

1. It exposes you to patent trolls, which is fine if you have no money so they won't come after you or have too much money to bleed them dry in courts.

2. If you license third party IP (which had been the case for every console after, perhaps, Atari 2600) you are also bound by the agreement with the third party, which has its own reasons, generally related to the reason #1.
Reminds me about how India 2016 demonetization https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Indian_banknote_demonet... where the argument was this will curtail black money with no data to support over a decision that affect billions of people. There were deaths related to this “I think so” moments
I get the same error, and there's no `ape` file to make excecutable, hm.
> Memory bandwidth is becoming the ultimate spec.

Only in applications that are constrained by memory bandwidth. Many applications are not constrained by the memory bandwidth on modern architectures with significant cache.

If you have an application constrained by memory bandwidth, carefully selecting the server would make sense.

> In related news, Apple reduced memory bandwidth in their M3 chips by 25% compared to M1/M2:

Not exactly. M3 Max has the same 400GB/sec memory bandwidth as the top end M1 and M2 chips. It’s only certain lower tiers that have less memory bandwidth than their equivalent tiers in previous gens.

But it probably doesn’t matter for most applications.
The top pipe is submerged, and the other pipe is a simple valve. As the volume inside the container cools, the air pressure reduces, since the pressure of air outside the container is connected to the volume of water underneath, the pressure of air pushes the volume below and that squeezes the water past the valve at the top.

The pressure from the column of air at the top pipe is not sufficient to overcome the volume of water in the closed container, and so remains neutral.

That's the best I can describe this effect for you. ChatGPT would probably do a better job.
I don’t think they necessarily owe the public an explanation, and I’m fairly sure that privately everyone that needs to know, already knows.
You can solve the run-detectors issue with:

sudo wget -O /usr/bin/ape https://cosmo.zip/pub/cosmos/bin/ape-$(uname -m).elf
sudo sh -c "echo ':APE:M::MZqFpD::/usr/bin/ape:' >/proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/register"
sudo sh -c "echo ':APE-jart:M::jartsr::/usr/bin/ape:' >/proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/register"

You can solve the zsh permission denied issue by either (1) upgrade to zsh 5.9+ (I upstreamed a fix for this bug in zsh two years ago) or (2) use the sh -c workaround you discovered. If that one doesn't work, then it likely needs to be chmod +x. If the execute bit is set, and your sh still isn't working, then please let me know, because I'm not aware of any sh that still doesn't support APE.

See the Gotchas section of the README https://github.com/mozilla-Ocho/llamafile#gotchas
I currently use a Git GUI (SourceTree) because I used to use a GUI when working with TFS, CVS, and SVN. So when we switched to Git, the CLI paradigm just seem unfamiliar to me.
Ever since the Spectre/Meltdown attacks came out, it became a big liability not to do dedicated cores.
There is one more month. Why is everyone saying it is the end of the year?
It works. I think the only issue is that you may need to run `pnpm.exe` instead of `pnpm` (or I just installed it incorrectly. Installing on Windows is a bit tougher, but I haven't experienced issues with the symlinks).
He doesn't look like the guy into revenge. He seems extremely goal focused and motivated. The kind of person that'd put this behind him very fast to save energy for what matters.
Combined with the ComfyUI Manager extensions which provides an index of custom node packages and can install missing ones from a loaded workflow it makes it very easy to get up and running with a new workflow.
Your graph says the single core performance of the high tdp option is lower than any of the M3 models and the multi core performance is lower than both the pro and max. It is close though, but it's also comparing CPUs out now to CPUs to be released in the future.
Anyways the whole discussion is moot, tracking of users is illegal. Im sure slavery versus freedom of employment also has a huge impact on the amount of revenue a farm might have. Protections and regulations are usually created for a reason.
I’d love to get my hands on one of these. They’re MIPS machines that are on-par with the Intel core i3 14100. Loongson is also involved with Deepin Linux, so they’re attempting to build out a Chinese-native technology stack. While I generally don’t care for things under control of the CCP due to surveillance concerns, I do love competition for bringing about new tech innovation. We’re now getting back to the 80s/90s as far as diversity with AMD64, MIPS, RISC-V, ARM, OpenPOWER, and then semi-custom variants of RISC-V and ARM. It’s fun.
Operation 404: Usdoj, Pipcu, Ace, MPA, IFPI, ESA, EPL Target Pirate Sites
That's Hero's aeolipile, mentioned near the end of the article.

Most scholars tend to agree that Rome [1] was nowhere near an Industrial Revolution. One take on it is here: https://acoup.blog/2022/08/26/collections-why-no-roman-indus..., but the general tl;dr is that a) even if you backported a fully working Watt steam engine to Classical Antiquity and they could manufacture it, there's nothing that they could use it for [2], and b) the Roman economy isn't really in a shape that encourages the kind of industrial innovation feedback loop you see in the Industrial Revolution.

[1] Side note: at the time the aeolipile is developed, there is no independent Greece; Rome thoroughly conquered all the polities in the Balkans in the 2nd century BC. Classical Greece is largely 5th century BC. The aeolipile dates to 1st century AD, rather late in Roman history.

[2] The historical motivation for the steam engine was of course draining coal mines, and the Romans weren't really using coal in enough quantities to require it. The Industrial Revolution itself was initially jumpstarted with textile production, which Rome was even further behind in--the spinning wheel wasn't developed until after 1000!
In my opinion the key takeaway is that compute is becoming commoditized much more rapidly than anyone expected, and that IP is becoming less and less relevant compared to fabrication, energy and land. For consumers of cloud infrastructure, there is little concern how many teraflops per cubic meter or per watt hour other than very locality-specific edge use-cases.

Laptops and phones are are already a SoC with IO in a particular form factor, and sever farms will go in the same direction with minor differences in the energy or rack density that come out in the wash.
Gas prices drop more than 60 days in a row
You can buy systems based on earlier Loongson CPU's from Ali Express right now if you want to. I can find dev boards, some small raspberry pi-like devices they call Loongson Pi as well as the tower-pc-like LS3A5000-7A2000 system.

They seem pretty expensive for how weak they are, so probably not much point in buying them besides to play around with the architecture.
I love Deno. I’ve been playing with it for a long time now. But the fact that Deno Deploy still doesn’t have a “deploy” button but we’ve got cool crons just seems… backwards?
Outsourcing taken too far...
Meta reveals plans for 2024 global elections
Meta has laid out plans for political advertising in 2024, as some of the world's biggest democracies — including the United States, India, Indonesia, Mexico, and the European Union — are set to hold elections.

On Wednesday, the tech giant revealed its blueprint for the upcoming elections, which remains largely consistent with previous years. Nick Clegg, president of global affairs at Meta, announced in a blog post that this includes the blocking of new political ads one week before U.S. voters go to the polls in Nov. 2024. Clegg also referred to the $20 billion the company has invested in safety and security for global elections since 2016, writing, "No tech company does more or invests more to protect elections online than Meta — not just during election periods but at all times."

Meta also said it has identified over 700 hate groups from around the world, of which 400 are white supremacist organizations, in an effort to fight interference operations and harassment.

A key difference, however, will be seen in the face of consumer-generated AI content. Earlier this month, Meta announced that it will require political advertisers to disclose AI-generated content posted to Facebook and Instagram. This pertains to any image, footage or audio that is "digitally created or altered" to depicting something or someone that did not truly occur or exist. Meta's policy will apply to all social issues, electoral, or political advertisements, globally.

Political advertising on Meta's platforms has and continues to be a contentious matter. During previous elections, accusations of rampant misinformation — and a clear failure to block said misinformation — have tainted Meta's self-declared reputation of prioritising the protection of elections online. Globally, the company has been accused of charging less to certain parties than others for advertising, including India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party. In 2020, the U.S. Federal Election Commissioner criticized Facebook's permittance of political ads, saying, "The company has no idea how seriously it is hurting democracy."
UC Santa Cruz researchers build AI to prevent drownings
Unless I’m missing something, Diablo was exactly this.
He could just buy the company at an even greater discount a second time, with no partners even.
There is a collection of new tools trying to address this exact problem such as Nitric, Winglang and Ampt for example. (disclaimer, I work on Nitric)
Not at all. It was still a really cool writeup. Worth the read but just wanted to see an electronics project.
hey everyone,

I'm chris, the creator of Garden Of AI. Garden of AI is an assistant designed to comprehend natural language and perform the appropriate tasks required.

Unlike AI assistants we've had till now, GOA is able to perform actions based solely on what you type, including connecting to your camera, creating a tool to calculate a company's GR, checking the stock price of a company, creating a simulated piano to practice on, etc, all without being told how to do any of it.

Its currently still a proof of concept and so you can expect some bugs & errors, but try it out and let me know how it goes.

Cheers
This line is really interesting:

> The best interests of the company and the mission always come first.

That is absolutely not true for the nonprofit inc. The mission comes first. Full stop. The company (LLC) is a means to that end.

Very interested to see how this governance situation continues to change.
"The average price for a gallon of regular gas stood at $3.25 a gallon on Tuesday, according to AAA. That’s down five cents from a week ago and 26 cents from a month ago...

"The median price, which can give a better sense of what most of the country is actually paying, has fallen to $3.06 a gallon..."
I'm not sure you need to submit every NYT tech article posted today.
You can manually download the `ape` command from https://cosmo.zip/pub/cosmos/bin/ Please see the Gotchas section of the README for the copy/pastable commands you can run: https://github.com/mozilla-Ocho/llamafile#gotchas
Also, it's massively, asynchronously parallel, in that it's not driven by a central clock signal.
Just FYI, for those who aren't neck deep in python land all the time, python is going through a bit of a packaging, environment, and dependency management explosion at the moment.

Lots of competing ideas and implementations are being thrown around, though probably not as bad as when javascript went through the same process. There is definitely a large benefit to seeing how things like rust have handled this space.

Anyway, poetry is part of this explosion, but is one of the relatively better known and widely distributed options, so much so that for anyone on-the-inside it probably seems obvious.
I think I accidentally did something like that with lentils during the pandemic. I stocked up before and I limited my shoping, for safety and to consume the things I already had. Which was mostly lentils with butter and rice with a bit of dried simple vegetables.

I noticed I was loosing weight without the intention to do so and without being hungry. I was even a bit concerned because I dropped to a number on the scale I haven't seen in a decade. Once I started shopping again and bought more interesting and varied foods (including some sweets) the weight quickly came back up.
Meta targeted young users, ensnaring them with addictive tech, states claim
It does feel like an employee that did really well out of the gate and is starting to coast I their laurels.
That’s an unnecessarily snarky answer given the two people above are clearly both in similar roles. The parent comment was asking where to find the option in the tooling they both shared.

Snarky replies comparing CTO to cleaning staff don’t even begin to apply.
Does paperless have the same support for workflows and indexes as Mayan? I use these two features heavily to automatically place documents into a hierarchy (eg payslips into their financial year). That and the ability to add arbitrary fields like 'parent', which then means I can created a linked list style association between documents, for example a series of correspondence. It's been a while since I looked at paperless and its forks, but I understand it's not quite built to have such extensibility/flexibility?
Looks like they are close to implementimg the ideas the ideas from this 2021 paper:

Automated rip current detection with region based convolutional neural networks
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03783...
> Toyota … ~2006-2010

The 5th Gen Camry was one of the first, if not the first, cars with drive-by-wire throttle.
I don't think you understand where those comments are coming from. I didn't interpret it as malicious but rather venting his frustration. It's obviously (very) inappropriate, but there is a (very) big difference between speaking out of frustration and hate. And the apology was after, not before that remark, to be clear. If you have it out for yourself as a Musk-hatee, for one reason or another, I don't think it's meaningful to argue on the semantics. It's not going to win back advertisers, but that's a problem for X/Twitter to deal with, not me. But IMO, and just my view, he's done what is reasonable in apologizing for his remarks, and sometimes you can't do much more but just move on. Likewise, there is nothing of value to extract from these types of debates, hence my last point on focusing on meaningful actions over drama.
if i was him id leave, do my own thing.
do more like the power shell way

I just checked the GitHub page [1] for Microsoft PowerShell. It looks written in C# and available on Win32/MacOS/Linux, where DotNet is now supported. Do you use PowerShell only on Win32 or other platforms also?

Everyone seems to want to invent their own new esoteric symbolic query language

Can you give an example of something that PS can do that is built-in for text processing, instead of a proprietary symbolic query language?

[1] https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell
> I got 2,646 space-separated As followed by what looks like a forum discussion of video cards. I think the context window is ~4K on the free one?

The space is a token and A is a token right? So seems to match up, you had over 5k tokens there and then it seems to become unstable and just do anything.

Probably easiest way to stop this specific attack if so is to just stop the model from generating more tokens per call than its context length. But wont fix the underlying issue.
There's tons of examples:

North Korea, after the Korean war, their living conditions got way way worse than when under Japanese occupation, even though their military has improved.

Afghanistan, since it's been overtaken by the Taliban, even though they are mightier from a military standpoint, the living conditions have become worst.

The Soviet Union post WWII, they came out of it as a military superpower, but the damages from the war meant their living conditions were way worse.
Gosh sure is hard to have a business if none of your employees want to work for you.
This attack is impressively effective. Huge congrats to the authors as well as to nialv7. [ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38464757 ]

If anyone needs an out-of-the-box solution to block this, my company Preamble (which offers safety guardrails for gen. AI) has updated our prompt defense filter to include protection against this “overflow attack” training data exfiltration attack. Our API endpoint is plug-and-play compatible with the OpenAI ChatCompletion API, meaning that you proxy your API calls through our system, which applies safety policies you choose and configure via our webapp. You can reach us at sales@preamble.com if interested.

Respectfully, upwardbound — member of technical staff at Preamble.
That is exactly why I bought a Mazda earlier this year. I wanted to upgrade to a larger car (since 2010 I have driven a 2 door Toyota Yaris it was getting to hard to manage without extra doors) wanted something plain, reliable that I could count on to "just work", I was torn between Toyota Corolla and Mazda 3. What ultimately titled the decision was the waiting period. Here in Australia the Toyota had an 8 month wait and the Mazda 3 had 10 week wait.
I'm a little dubious as to the benefit of buying a game engine company, when you can just build an integration.

Amazon Lumberyard always seemed like a strange idea. Yes, AWS, Twitch, and other integrations might be cool, but those should all have public APIs.
who makes the most reliable new cars..and why is it Toyota
I'm not going to consult a lawyer for every contract I sign such as buying a car or signing a lease on a house. This might be handy for the small contracts. Lawyers are expensive.
I have found this step-by-step tutorial for Postfix, Courier/POP & SASL with MySQL admin on Ubuntu LTS 22.04 (Jammy Jellyfish) most helpful [1]

[1] https://www.postfix-tutorial.com/
Actually I think it’s going to increase the total for most average income and above folks..

But you do make an interesting point, that marginal might be lower which may change the math. Hadn’t considered that.
I think you think I'm someone else.
i'm still not clear what the accusation against Altman was... something about being cavalier about safety? if that was the claim and it has merit, i don't understand why it wasn't right to oust him, and why the employees are clamoring for him back
Biological studies of clavine alkaloids targeting CNS receptors
https://nitter.net/sama/status/1730033079975366839