skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So I had similar concerns regarding Windows 11, but I sat down, learned how to clean it up, and put a Creative Commons open source guide for others to follow. I knew many other reluctant friends who are senior devs at prolific companies in the tech space, and with my guide they seem to have no real remaining complaints.

It covers both the initial installation, as well as all my post-install recommendations. It eliminates I believe all the tracking, adware, suggestions, Cortana, feeding the Bing/ChatGPT machine, telemetry, etc. Absolutely nothing breaks. No need for a Microsoft account. It should be straightforward and to-the-click/keystroke.

https://github.com/GoofGarage/Win11Clean

If there’s any bugbears, create an issue. I’ll be responding to them every few weeks, and I try to update the release every 3 months.
Vanuatu sand art employs Euler graph theory
I would be interested in using this with an nftables backend. I would need to figure out all the manual nft commands to manipulate the firewall. Hmmmm
> It’s not impossible to put your own digital files on a smart phone and view them, but it seems significantly more difficult and annoying than doing the same on a personal computer.

Plex. It's an app. And you don't even have to put the files on the phone... you just stream to the phone from hardware at home. Problem's already been solved on the technology end of it.
Is it a laptop without a webcam? I remember Microsoft pushing webcams as a requirement for laptops, could have just been to make OEMs install them as a standard.
New AI tool lets users generate hi-res images on their own computer
Quite surprising to me. Bard has been available in Pakistan for a couple of months I believe.
Boosting Laser Power Will Help Them Blast Drones
Greetz to all who were at Revision this year :) I was always a PC guy but the Amiga scene is amazing.
I don't think many people actually care much about privacy. There are a few, and they're loud. But look at what matters in politics -- both major political tribes in the US are only interested in privacy and protection from the government as it relates to their own interest, but they are perfectly happy to use that power against their perceived opponents.
They didn't even check if Go was taken: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go!_(programming_language)
It is over for OpenAI.
> The question is can Microsoft extend that support for a cost?

I think it is reasonable to do this. The alternative is making all users pay for the extended support that only a minority need. I think after a decade it is completely fair that the users who value longer support can pay for it.
Never ever count on object key ordering, or even on there being no duplicate keys in objects. If the JSON texts you're dealing with can be processed -or even just stored- by other code then you're in for pain if you make any assumptions about object key ordering / object key dups.

Once you accept this then it stops being a problem.
The all products pack becomes less appealing every year somehow...
What's so bad about shutter sounds? Isn't it just mildly annoying?
Benchmarks: https://imgur.com/DWNQcaY ([Table 2 on Page 7](https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/gemini/gemini_...)) - Gemini Pro (the launched model) is worse than ChatGPT4, but a bit better than GPT3.5. All the examples are for Ultra (the actual state of the art model), which won't be available until 2024.
Any details on IP indemnity?

I have not really used Github Copilot out of concerns with IP; however, they recently added an IP indemnity clause that might have me take the leap. I use Jetbrains products (RubyMine) and would love to give this a shot instead.
So in terms of gold, real estate is currently kind of cheap?
Nine times out of ten, when there's a news piece about a senator advocating for privacy and constitutional rights with regards to tech, it's senator Wyden. He's on the senate intelligence committee and has a decent track record of getting shit done with bipartisan support, so he's not just virtue signaling for votes either (not to mention that he's basically unbeatable in state election with all the support he has in Oregon). He's 74 years old, I do hope someone will step up and carry the torch when he retires. It's a losing battle but it's still important that we have someone who is competent and well respected to fight it for us.
Curious that the metrics [1] of Gemini Ultra (not released yet?) vs GPT4 are for some tasks computed based on "CoT @ 32", for some "5-shot", for some "10-shot", for some "4-shot", for some "0-shot" -- that screams cherry-picking to me.

Not to mention that the methodology is different for Gemini Ultra and Gemini Pro for whatever reason (e.g. MMLU Ultra uses CoT @ 32 and Pro uses CoT @ 8).

[1] Table 2 here: https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/gemini/gemini_...
Do you have a fix for the taskbar?
“The kids didn’t care” because they are used to following backwards rules from grown ups.
Skipped to a random timestamp to see how it performed, and at 15:35, the AI explains that "C# does not support array or list initialization using brackets directly," a cleanup which, seconds previously, Resharper had suggested to the user. The presenters were too busy gushing about what a useful educational tool the AI is to notice the error.
Presumably, you’re more of a donkey (ass) man?!…
I think this goes for nearly all material things, as fantastic as they are, they're not magic. We get used to them very fast.
Interest rates spiked as the Fed tried to address inflation. Gold serves, in essence, as a short against paper currency. When inflation is running 14%, gold looks like a good alternative. So everyone was buying gold.
>The benchmarks also fail to capture things such as Bard refusing to tell you how to kill a process on Linux because it's unethical.

When I used Bard, I had to negotiate with it what is ethical and what is not[0]. For example when I was researching WW2(Stalin and Hitler), I asked: "When did Hitler go to sleep?" and Bard thought that this information can be used to promote violence an hatred and then I told to it....this information can not be used to promote violence in any way and it gave in! I laughed at that.

[0] https://i.imgur.com/hIpnII8.png
Being prohibited from disclosure does not in any way refute their promise to refuse. It would make it hard to prove one way or the other, but that is not the same problem.
Precisely. This is an existential battle for them so they cannot back off.
I try to buy PlayStation titles on disk as much as possible because I learned this lesson early on. A while back someone took control of my PlayStation Network account and deauthorized my PS3. I reached out to Sony and they said I'd have to wait the standard 6 month period until I could deauthorize the squatter's devices. During that time I lost access to any game I didn't have physically on disk. It showed me how ephemeral digital "ownership" is. I still pay for digital copies of games from time to time but much of my PS2-4 library is physical.
So basically what it is now but with view and occlusion culling?
Many processor vendors provide a mechanism to allow some bits of a pointer value to be used to store unrelated data; these include Intel's linear address masking (LAM), AMD's upper address ignore, and Arm's top-byte ignore. A set of researchers has now come up with a way (that they call "SLAM") to use those features to bypass many checks on pointer validity, opening up a new set of Spectre attacks.
Windows 10 Internet of Things will reach end of support on October 14, 2025. So a little less than two years.

Perhaps by then people will have found a way to tame the beast. I think the IoT versions are the way to go.
Only pro apparently which is not as good as ultra, ultras the one that actually beats got4 by a hair
I wish Google shortened the time between their announcements and making their models available.
I think you're nit-picking and failing to address the broader point.

1. The conversation may or may not contain information pertaining to an abortion.

2. The metadata (namely: "it's an abortion clinic") inherently contains such information.

The point is that metadata is usually the more interesting data.
As a woodworker, ya, it didn't make much sense. You sharpen tools to keep the output high quality and yourself safe. The analogy here would be like me tossing a $800 planer in the trash and buying a new one because it was dull.
formatted nicely:

Dataset | Gemini Ultra | Gemini Pro | GPT-4

MMLU | 90 | 79 | 87

BIG-Bench-Hard | 84 | 75 | 83

HellaSwag | 88 | 85 | 95

Natural2Code | 75 | 70 | 74

WMT23 | 74 | 72 | 74
regarding 12 -- some mold remediation procedures are relatively DIY friendly once you have a bit of knowledge on the subject

regarding 13 - now I'm confused. we're telling people how to clean mold when in #12 we're telling people not to clean mold. the whole piece here implying it can just be wiped away should be removed. simplifying mold cleanup like this is what leads to bad DIY jobs.
The government regulating what social media companies show you likely violates the 1st Amendment.
I forget where I heard it. Supposedly the amount of silver needed to buy a goat during Roman times is similar to today.

Cold metal seems to act as cold storage of value across history.
Simple. By preventing me from self-identifying as an asshole by forcing non-asshole behaviors -- you are infringing on my right to free speech, free association ( or non-association ) and many others such rights.

If you cannot see it, you yourself are not free.
I wasn’t aware that one could just copy paste and replace arbitrary UEFI boot files from user space? I was under the impression that they are in non-mounted partitions controlled by the system.
Commerce Secretary Raimondo: 'We cannot let China get these chips'
Gilded Age 2.
Many companies seem to settle (at least for now) for this hybrid model with 2 days in office. In most cases there does not seem to be a clear reason beyond compromise and "that's what others do, too".

My personal experience is that there may not be any thoughts or effort towards making the most of the days in office, which end up being like any other days (I.e. working in front of the computer screen) but in office.
I think you’re a little understating what happened to the developer.

There was like 3 uses of “unsafe” and the developer was being systematically attacked and harassed by the rust community for months.

It wasn’t “a bit”, nor would I call it “the usual”. The rust subreddit and discord literally organized brigading and harassment campaigns against the dude.
Fixing what? There are multiple sections in the guide addressing the task bar and start menu depending on what you’re looking to address.
The object key order thing is not a JSON spec compliance issue, but this one is. Either PG should store this escaped or use counted byte strings, but you can see why neither is desirable for a high-performance binary JSON format.
Gold is generally considered a hedge against inflation.

https://www.forbes.com/advisor/investing/gold-inflation-hedg...
It really is. OpenAI has the Apple model of release - when it's announced the laptop is in you freaking hands 3 days later.

Google announces vaporware that's never going to come out, or something that will be out in 5 months. It's frustrating and very bad for their image in the LLM space.
And Gemini ultra isn't available still as bard is Gemini pro
Sure, but it doesn’t mean that it stops being surprising. It’s like a “time is relative” kind of thing for organizational logic.

Imagine an organization on the scale of Google, with everything in it’s favor, being outmaneuvered by a much smaller one in such a transcendental endeavor. It’s like to a small country in Central America, coming up with some weapon to rival the US’s army.
Still can't use Bard in Canada.
in outlook's admin console, there are a few tools related to antispam, including a way to view stats about why or why not a specific email got sent to spam. IIRC it exposes the sender's reputation score among other things.
How would you recommend interested low-vision persons keep abreast of audio version progress?
Unless I’m mistaken - and I might be or it may have changed - Signal notifications on iOS just tell the app “hey, something happened, call the service and check for updates”.

I.e, the push notification itself contains little to nothing in terms of data/metadata.

You can also of course decrypt a notification by shipping an extension to do so, and maybe Signal does - it’s been awhile since I poked around it. I’d just be surprised if the Signal team didn’t analyze the issue to death and find the gaps.
He’s quoting from TFA.
Unless they make it open source, what benefits would it have compared to the tiny OpenAi models?
The difference is that the Windows 10 updates will be available as a subscription for regular consumers rather than being purely for enterprise customers. AFAIK this is a first for Microsoft.
> They do this to share development costs across a whole product line. Low volume, expensive products are subsidized by high volume, mass market devices

Usually it’s the other way around. Mass market products have thin margins and are subsidized by high end / B2B products because the customers for those products have infinitely deep pockets.

> Or do you want the high end chips to be sold in the mass market devices and for Apple to just eat the R&D costs?

Literally what Steve Jobs was steadfast in :). One iPhone for everyone. He even insisted on the Plus models carrying no extra features.
One thing to note is Copilot Chat does not work in JetBrains IDEs, yet. You have to use a text editor like Visual Studio Code instead.
Is there a fix for the insidious problem of updates changing your settings to less secure/privacy conscious ones or is that a constant fight we just have to fight if you're on windows?
GXO Logistics putting Digit humanoid to test
The Amiga isn't remembered as a technology. It's the ancestor of "Mac vs PC". It's the little computer that could. Where indies would hack cool stuff. It had a well understood spec that didn't change so much, so you could push the metal to its limit.

It's from a time where if you wanted games and you were a kid, you most likely pirated them. Wanna learn to code? Start messing with your game's files and hex editors. The demoscene was where the cool kids came up with ways to push the limits, beyond commercial software. Beyond that oh so lame Microsoft PC.

It's remembered fondly because it's a way to congregate the people who were there. I never had an Amiga as a kid, my parents had a PC. But I still care about that community. It feels like my people, when I started computers.

Much like music has genres and some might be nostalgic, so does the demoscene. It just doesn't get as many releases as on Spotify.

Respect to all the groups still making content for it. I'll share my favorite recent one, by TheBlackLotus https://youtu.be/W5_NMxW5UfE
From their blog post:

AI Assistant is currently powered by OpenAI and by our own models.

We are also working on integrating Google LLMs, and they will be available very soon.
> Large AI models have tight resources requirements. You physically can't use X billion parameters without ~X billion ~bytes of memory.

Well, X billion bits times the parameter bit size. For base models, those are generally 32-bit (so 4X bytes), though smaller quantizations ate possible and widely used for public models, and I would assume as a cost measure for closed hosted models as well.
The table is *highly* misleading.
It uses different methodologies all over the place.

For MMLU, it highlights the CoT @ 32 result, where Ultra beats GPT4, but it loses to GPT4 with 5-shot, for example.

For GSM8K it uses Maj1@32 for Ultra and 5-shot CoT for GPT4, etc.

Then also, for some reason, it uses different metrics for Ultra and Pro, making them hard to compare.

What a mess of a "paper".
As someone who has been test driving this, I feel like this should just be value-add to the IDE. A reason for the subscription beyond DataGrip and Refactor tooling. It's decent for what it does but an extra $10/mo or $100/yr on top is a hard pill to swallow when VS Code is free and Copilot is $10/mo.
Looks interesting! I'll check it out. We don't currently focus on chat apps and don't have a chat component yet so it'd be significantly harder to do this.
I think it's a coincidence, not an evil plot. Gemini is new but not confidential - niche, little used, never likely to be a real competitor, I agree with that. I don't think it being a common word is relevant - there are lots of common words they could use.

But particularly Google claim to organize the world's information. And right now they are claiming to be good at AI. And search. And they claim to be trying to do some kind of moral/ethical good on top - i.e. going out of their way not to cause harm, and to cause improvement. If any group on Earth had the skills and technologies to pick a name which wouldn't clash with anything, with smart people, language analysis and AI and all the world's data, it should be Google.

And instead they've landed right slap bang on the name of a competitor!

Isn't that amusing?

I wonder if there's any other name they could have called it which would coincidentally damage a small competitor in a way that has plausible deniability ("it's a common word" - they obviously couldn't call it "Yahoo! Mail" or "Baidu") and little pushback?
Note that the article glances over the first byte of image data which specifies how many bits each pixel occupies and sets it 07, which makes first 128 symbols of the resulting LZW stream byte aligned. This is probably never the case in practice (for the presented images it should be 1 respectively 2).
Apparently designed for mobile inference too, I've heard the weights on the nano model were quantized down to uint4.

Will be exciting to see how all of that plays out in terms of 'LLMs on phones', going forward.

People who know me know that I can be pretty curmudgeony about a lot of various technological things, but I really think that this could be a hard core paradigm shift in terms of mobile capabilities, lol.

Like, the real story here is the next step in the evolution of the role of mobile devices in people's lives, this is one of the biggest/clearest/most official 'shotd across the bow' that one could make for something like this, I think, lol.
It's amazing how nobody complains about this with any other operating system -- at least since Leopard/Snow Leopard (IIRC - that was the one that had major compatibility EOL).

The problem isn't the EOL. The problem is that the newer versions of Windows are user-hostile and the alternatives are being retired.
Yes. There are suggestions in the guide regarding handling auto updates.
I do find it a bit dirty to use better prompt techniques and compare them in a chart like that
what happened to magnetic mirrors designs?
But an ideological belief that nothing must ever be called treason, regardless of what happened, does not make for a compelling argument that particular actions do not constitute treason. To make that argument, you'd need to have a definition of treason that included something.
I Got a Vasectomy
> “If you redesign a chip around a particular cut line that enables them to do AI, I’m going to control it the very next day,” Raimondo said.
It'll also have 90% of the males castrated to make them more tractable.
> Kinda lame this isn't included in the "All Products Pack"

This is why the ownership model of software is so much better than some SASS offering. Modern SASS solutions are just about incrementally extorting more revenue from customers after locking them into a platform, as they’re driven to chase new “features”… And this is an IDE of all things…
> I'm probably naive, but what insights could a government gleam from Push Notifications?

Looking at my own phone right now, it just got a push notification that my wife has arrived at home. That could be useful if you wanted to track my wife.

> And why aren't push notifications E2EE?

That's a great question. And I hope the answer is "we're on it, they will be E2EE in the next release."
I've been following the Unison lang [1] for quite some. Wing seem to set similar goals? From the first glance Wing looks more polished, but there's "The Big Idea" behind Unison - is there something similar?

[1]: https://github.com/unisonweb/unison
Correct. That’s why I will continue calling it Twitter, to avoid confusions like this.
> implies native born americans are dramatically under represented.

Isn't London a major location for Google AI expertise?

Also, native-born Americans have family origins, and therefore names, from all over the world. (I'm assuming from context that by native born you don't mean actual Native Americans)
Not very impressed with Bard code capabilities in my first experiments. I asked him a very basic Python task: to create a script that extracts data from a Postgres DB and save it in a csv file.

This is the result: https://pastebin.com/L3xsLBC2

Line 23 is totally wrong, it does not extract the column names. Only after pointing out the error multiple times he was able to correct it.
One of my biggest concerns with many of these benchmarks is that it’s really hard to tell if the test data has been part of the training data.

There are terabytes of data fed into the training models - entire corpus of internet, proprietary books and papers, and likely other locked Google docs that only Google has access to.

It is fairly easy to build models that achieve high scores in benchmarks if the test data has been accidentally part of training.

GPT-4 makes silly mistakes on math yet scores pretty high on GSM8k
Despite that, it is accurate [0]. On a somewhat related note, Yugoslavia was one of the founding countries of the Non-Alligned movement.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Military_alliances_...
Go Developer Survey 2023 H2 Results
"Indefinitely" is a vague term. I'm serious - if we really want the FTC or some other more appropriate agency to step in and force a change in terminology, we must have something that is very clear and precise. Otherwise it would never survive a legal challenge.
I don't think he's antisemitic, but I think his beliefs rhyme with antisemitism, sufficiently close that he could go "yep, totally true" to a slightly-coded antisemitic trope like Great Replacement Theory without realizing he's endorsing antisemitism.
Believe me, I wish I could.
>”I talked with a few people there, and they didn’t quite believe me, because I was an outsider to the field,” Cao says.

See! This is proof, hackers win. (My definition of hacker may not match yours.)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35570690
I think that's one interpretation. Another is that proving the privacy and data protection aspect takes longer, regardless of whether the correct work has been done. Another interpretation is that it's not about data protection or privacy, but about AI regulation (even prospective regulation), and that they want to be cautious about launches in regions where regulators are taking a keen interest.

I'm biased here, but based on my general engineering experience I wouldn't expect it to be about privacy/data protection. As a user I think things like Wipeout/Takeout, which have existed for a long time, show that Google takes this stuff seriously.
It is mentioned near the end though.
Tons of them in the Denver area. From a purely mechanical standpoint the Cybertruck actually seems pretty damn good, if they'd put a more standard SUV/truck on it it would sell, I can't imagine anyone outside of Elon bros wanting to drive this thing.
So is the law implemented in various countries in Africa. It's up to you if you want to break the law by going there or not.
Notice how SimpleX (https://simplex.chat/) has no push notifications by default because of this issue.
This tweet by Sundar Pichai is quite astounding

https://x.com/sundarpichai/status/1732433036929589301?s=20
Polymath Robotics (YC S22) is hiring a robotics safety engineer – San Francisco
No it was just a bizarrely naive observation -- not even in a racist way, just really dumb and implied things that were not true.