skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Your sense of smell is subjective, and not a good reason for legislation.

You do understand that many tort suits, and outright laws, are over subjective harms, right? (trash in neighbors yards, loud sounds late at night, smells from chemical industries, etcetera) That laws such as disability protection laws exist?

https://www.chemicalsensitivityfoundation.org/index.html
Depends on the model. HEPA filters can filter mold particles.
When the interface is so simple for these things, it does feel like you should just be able to plug and play with respect to model choice. Excited to see these kinds of projects move forward so we can desilo ai from corporate interests.
I didn't have to fight with (or even know about) things like IRQ jumpers and Expanded memory management on the Amiga. That was kinda nice :/

Sure, the PC had superior graphics and sound by the 486 era, but it was not a pleasant user experience.
First one is a security nightmare, second one probably has more features and intricacies than other top three (by popularity) programming languages combined.
No, because OpenAI and Microsoft both have “CUSTOMER NONCOMPETE CLAUSES” in their terms of use. I didn’t check Apple, but Google doesn’t have any shady monopolistic stuff like that.

Proof OpenAI has this shady monopolistic stuff:
https://archive.ph/vVdIC

“What You Cannot Do. You may not use our Services for any illegal, harmful, or abusive activity. For example, you may not: […] Use Output to develop models that compete with OpenAI.” (Hilarious how that reads btw)

Proof Microsoft has this shady monopolistic stuff: https://archive.ph/N5iVq

“AI Services.
”AI services” are services that are labeled or described by Microsoft as including, using, powered by, or being an Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) system. Limits on use of data from the AI Services. You may not use the AI services, or data from the AI services, to create, train, or improve (directly or indirectly) any other AI service.”

That 100% does include GitHub Copilot, by the way. I canceled my sub. After I emailed Satya, they told me to post my “feedback” in a forum for issues about Xbox and Word (what a joke). I emailed the FTC Antitrust team. I filed a formal complaint with the office of the attorney general of the state of Washington.

I am just one person. You should also raise a ruckus about this and contact the authorities, because it’s morally bankrupt and almost surely unlawful by virtue of extreme unfairness and unreasonableness, in addition to precedent.

AWS, Anthropic, and NVIDIA also all have similar Customer Noncompete Clauses.

I meekly suggest everyone immediately and completely boycott OpenAI, Microsoft, AWS, Anthropic, and NVIDIA, until they remove these customer noncompete clauses (which seem contrary to the Sherman Antitrust Act).

Just imagine a world where AI can freely learn from us, but we are forbidden to learn from AI. Sounds like a boring dystopia, and we ought to make sure to avoid it.
Whether or not people should be imprisoned (or killed) for personal expression is a very different question than whether a country should have have a central bank, democratic representation or a strong welfare system. It’s a moral question, not a political one, and I think it’s fair to be uncompromising about certain moral questions.
People generally underestimate how much work gets taken out of papers because it doesn't fit with the argument of the paper. Someone absolutely estimated this, and its absence is conspicuous.
I think my ideal might be as simple as a few people who spend a lot of time with various models describing their experiences in separate blog posts.
According to this and SemiAnalysis[1], the MI300X seems impressive. Better than Nvidia's H100 and maybe a bit inferior to the H200. Why is Nvidia worth $1 trillion more?

[1] - https://www.semianalysis.com/p/amd-mi300-performance-faster-...
The waste in question is NOT from civilian power reactors on the site. Its from the separation of plutonium for the manufacture of weapons. If you dont want plutonium waste then dont make weapons. This is NOT an argument against nuclear power.
Nice concept, how is this different from just using chatGPT?
Perhaps Google should reassess its business strategy and start monetizing creators, not users. It is literally not our responsibility to develop sound business strategy for billion dollar corpos. They can hire McKinsey for that.
Corporations are led by an even smaller group.
His position on it has been clear for a while:

2008: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Intelligence_Surveilla...

The votes:
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/110-2008/s168

But this is a MUCH older issue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A

And if you don't know about Quest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Nacchio

The entire time period of the Bush admin is a microcosm for unresolved issues of today: Voting machines, government over reach and spying, security, encryption, copyright, bad behavior by corporate entities (M$ has a cohort).
Was able to fix. I have 6+ Google accounts, and one of the accounts didn't have it checked, so it needs to be all, instead of just the account you're looking to connect.
define safe
The tool posts the pictures to Wikimedia Commons, logging in there is required for file upload (hello I'm Jessamyn the Community Manager at the Flickr Foundation - please try this tool out and let us know what you think). It was created in partnership with the Wikimedia Foundation.

Project page on Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Flickypedia
Feedback collection here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Flickypedia
Their software is definitely improving and will get a whole lot better in the next few years. It's worth many billions for companies to exit the Nvidia lock-in.
> They're not though. That's why excellent coders often despise having to learn and use SQL, and basically just refuse to. SQL is uniquely terrible -- and I say this as someone with a career spanning from Win32 C++ to every major web technology.

This is basically a strawman + appeal to authority argument. I've no desire to bicker. "Uniquely terrible" is quite subjective, we'll have to agree to disagree on if it applies to sql.
I have a question about distributed apps with FLAME. Let's say the app is running in 3 Fly regions, and each region has 2 "parent" servers with LiveViews and everything else.

In that case, how should the Flame pools look like? Do they communicate in the same region and share the pools? Or are Flame pools strictly children of each individual parent? Does it make a difference in pricing or anything else to run on hot workers instead of starting up per parent?

What would you recommend the setup be in such a case?

Aside: I really liked the idea of Flame with Fly. It's a really neat implementation for a neat platform!
The trick is to hide the answers to the test data with an authority that only reports your score, like Kaggle does. And then only allow a single submission for each new model to avoid data leakage. I find it a bit sad that this practice has fallen by the wayside, as it went pretty mainstream within the research community with the Netflix Prize back in 2009.
It reallly depends on what problem you're solving - I don't think there is a generic answer unfortunately. If there is a specific industry that you're targeting and you've reached out to potential users to validate your value proposition, I think that should give you an idea where to start.
Very similar to your second example, I've been using ChatGPT to calculate the total calories in a recipe. Before, I would consult a database like the USDA food database for nutrition info and do measurement conversion manually. I've tried asking ChatGPT for the same recipe and the total amount was within 1% of what I calculated. It runs into a couple snags I've noticed though.

First, it always gives a calorie count for cooked meat, but it should assume the meat is uncooked since I said it was for a recipe.

Second, it seems to struggle with the concept of uncooked rice. If you ask it to work with 1 "rice cooker cup" of rice, it refuses because that isn't a standard measurement. If you swap in the converted standard measurement (3/4 cup), it still is way off. It told me 3/4 cup uncooked rice is about 150 calories when cooked. That's a third of what the USDA database gives. When you point out that 3/4 cup uncooked rice is a large serving after being cooked, it changes its answer to 375 calories, still about half of what the USDA database gives. But this is fine for me because rice is not typically part of my recipes since it doesn't usually require special preparation.

Overall it reduces a 10 minute task to 10 seconds, but you need to know enough about the ingredients to spot obvious problems in its result. In my case I could see the calories given for meat was way too high, and way too low for rice. It gave a better answer after telling it to fix the former and ignore the latter.

I tried a second recipe and the total it gave was 2% under my calculation, but I did not see any obvious error in its result so I could not correct it further.

It is unfortunate that you kind of have to trust the numbers are correct, but this is no different than the nutrition details on sites like MyFitnessPal which are often wrong when you closely examine it.
Yep, it was absurdly funny in hindsight though, like my out of state buddies who were putting their kid through zoom kindergarten instead of home schooling.
I did not downvote you (nor even see your post as downvoted), but presumably one reason might be this:

> He wont be able to sell a free sample of Tesla in EU. And someone stupid enough to buy it will have windows broken on daily basis as quisling. Not something unheard of, google for BMW - Break My Window.

Personally, I appreciate you "just stating the facts" so clearly. And because of your wording (eg "quisling"), it offers evidence that you personally support such window breakings. It is very useful for my model of the world to know how much the threat of violence there is. By analogy, in November 1938, I'd appreciate forewarning that the authorities would look on without intervening as a bunch of windows were broken.

(All the Google searches I did suggest that "Break My Window" was largely derived from thieves stealing radios. I assume that's not what you were referring to, but as far as I know, you may "just" support stealing from people.)
> Also thanks to Fly infrastructure, we can guarantee the FLAME runners are started in the same region as the parent.

If customers think this is a feature and not a bug, then I have a very different understanding about what serverless/FaaS is meant to be used for. My division is pretty much only looking at edge networking scenarios. Can I redirect you to a CDN asset in Boston instead of going clear across the country to us-west-1? We would definitely NOT run Lamba out of us-west-1 for this work.

There are a number of common ways that people who don't understand concurrency think they can 'easily' or 'efficiently' solve a problem that provably do not work, and sometimes tragicomically so. This feels very similar and I worry that fly is Enabling people here.

Particularly in Elixir, where splitting off services is already partially handled for you.
Absolutely amazing work.

Just one nit: Per the article,

> While the pair format is much more documented and easier to implement, it does not provide forward secrecy using “pre-keys” (similar to Signal) as the new pair-ec format does.

Is there any indication that (modern, i.e. ECIES-using) iMessage really uses pre-keys? As far as I can tell, it only uses a drop-in replacement of ECIES instead of RSA for the encryption (and maybe signature?) part, but that alone does not yield forward secrecy.

If there isn't, I believe this might be a misinterpretation of how RSA, Elliptic Curves, and forward secrecy relate. The Wikipedia article on iMessage seems to propagate the same mistake:

> The post also noted that iMessage uses RSA key exchange. This means that, as opposed to what EFF's scorecard claims, iMessage does not feature forward secrecy.

(The quoted reference actually makes no such claim.)
Agreed, imagine if you bought a car and the purchase agreement stipulated having to store that car in the manufacturer's garage, and after six months of minor incremental changes performed during downtime the car was nothing like the product you actually bought, the product you wanted to begin with.
That's what I'm asking?
Nope - the regular version.
> how does authorization between the host and the forked work?

On fly.io you get a private network between machines so comms are already secure. For machines outside of fly.io it’s technically possible to connect them using something like Tailscale, but that isn’t the happy path.

> how do I make sure that the unit of work has the right IAM

As shown in the demo, you can customise what gets loaded on boot - I can imagine that you’d use specific creds for services as part of that boot process based on the node’s role.
Weird for us to personify a corporation like that tbh. Google didn't invent transformers, researchers working at Google did.

Sure Google paid em money/employed em, but the smarts behind it isn't the entity Google or the execs at the top, Sundar etc; it's those researchers. I like to appreciate individualism in a world where those at the top have lobbied their way into a 1% monopoly lmao.
I don't agree with that. If blasting music can be a matter for legislation (nuisance laws and the like), then so can bothering people around you with the reek of smoking weed.
I did say "dysfunctional".

But yeah, historically voting rights in many places were tied to land ownership. (And also genital arrangement)
> This study was supported by KINJIRUSHI Co., Ltd. The funding body had no role in the design of the study, collection, analyses, or interpretation of the data, writing of the manuscript, or the decision to publish the results.

This company makes wasabi.
I too am very curious about that. I've never heard of such a legal principle -- can anyone knowledgeable point out what it's called? I'm curious for the justification behind it, as it seems so contrary to the generally accepted principles of how legal systems usually work.
It's pretty easy: allow prices to rise a bit and people will enter the field. I think existing ones wouldn't mind a raise considering some of the stuff they have to deal with
The problem here is, that it shouldnt even be labeled as "purchase" (well, "buy" usually), but "rent". Purchasing a licence to rent the content is weasel wording around stuff that is well known and consumers expect it to work in a certain way (eg. buying a dvd or renting a dvd, where in the first case you actually own the dvd, and in the second, you know that they expect you to return it after some time). In every other business, "buy" means "buy", buy a dvd, buy a sandwich, buy a car, buy this, buy that... nowhere else are you expected to return the item (at least not without a refund, eg. in case of a recall).
How is it possible to actually move the entire landmass? I didn't know we had the technology!
> If you’re a pessimistic person, you’re more likely to believe the probabilities of some outcomes are low, and make decisions based on that.

> If you’re an optimistic person, you’re more likely to try more things, because you’ve eliminated less things.

Isn't that a manifestation of risk aversion? If you're risk-averse, you tend to play it safe. If you're not, you're eager to try risky things for the possibility of big rewards.

Both can lead to preferred outcomes, it just depends on what is the preferred outcome. For some, a middle class family life is an utter failure, for some a dream. Pessimism might be a more successful strategy for those wanting that middle class lifestyle.
But Youtube DOESN'T support creators unless you are one of the mega-influencers targeting 12 year olds with daily "Wowie zowie" uploads. Ask every medium sized channel how helpful youtube is. Ask any channel with a million subscribers if the changes youtube makes improves their lives or business. Multiple of these groups of channels have banded together to make youtube alternatives explicitly to escape the damn algorithm treadmill.

Youtube doesn't support creators, it milks them dry for content.
The description is a little vague and hand-wavey. Here's a concrete example:

A lot of Wikipedia sites have scripts embedded in the wikitext which automatically generate or transform information on a page, e.g. automatically performing unit conversions to generate text like "I would walk 500 miles (804.67 km)", performing date math to automatically generate and update a person's age based on their birthdate, or querying structured data from Wikidata [1] to display in an infobox. One example of these scripts is the {{convert}} [2] template on the English Wikipedia.

Initially, these scripts were written in MediaWiki template logic [3], and were maintained individually on each wiki. This quickly proved unmaintainable, and some of those scripts were rewritten in Lua using the Scribunto extension [4], but these were still per-wiki, and there were frequently issues where different wikis would copy scripts from each other and introduce their own incompatible features.

The WikiFunctions project is an attempt to centralize development of these scripts, much like how Wikimedia Commons [5] centralizes hosting of freely licensed images and other media.

[1]: https://wikidata.org/

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Convert

[3]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:ParserFunction...

[4]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Scribunto

[5]: https://commons.wikimedia.org/
Thank you for shouting this out! I'll look into getting a smaller version in there.
Probably. There are several companies going with this approach. The real trick is the software and ecosystem around it. It does not matter if you can outperform an H100 if you spend weeks trying to get software to work or debugging if a NaN is a hardware error or your bad code :)
Could you epoxy seal everything?
An interesting read. Do most engineers really prioritise money this much when accepting an offer? I understand that it feels good to be paid well, and you might as well negotiate, but when most tech jobs pay so much better than other work it seems insane to me to deal with amoral products, uninteresting work, and stressful interactions with shitty management practices just because they threw a big number at you.

The work environment at Snap doesn't even sound that bad, sadly.

* A weirdly culty first day? Plenty of tech companies do weird stuff like that, especially startup-adjacent recent IPOs.

* Incompetent bosses with confusing org charts and poor management skills? Not exactly uncommon in tech!

* Shitty vesting schedules (10/20/30/40 at Snap) -- see Amazon and quite a few other top tech employers.

* Tons of time wasted in sprint planning "marathons" and sprint reviews? Honestly, the 5 hours of planning time per sprint isn't even the worst I've personally experienced. Tends to show up when you have crappy managers with too many direct reports and a tendency towards micromanagement.

* Managers and HR "forgetting" spoken-word arrangements for remote work and vacations -- again, par for the course. A valuable lesson here that you ought to get this stuff in writing, insist on it in email form at the very least, perhaps CC'd to your manager's manager, before you can consider it real. Though I'm not sure how many companies, pre-covid, would honestly allow an software dev to work remotely for a "few weeks" both in the summer and around the holidays when they don't support remote work primarily.

I'm glad Marko got to spend some time with his father before he passed away, so at least there's a happy ending here. Just goes to show that even a crappy work situation can still teach you valuable lessons, and that you really really need to do your due diligence to identify these cultural issues before you sign an offer!
That’ll get you the sidecar but not the UI widget. I think we could:

1- serve the widget from the sidecar
2- add the CDN distro
This clarification (just definitions) is quite helpful, because probably many readers (myself included) would have assumed that Data Oriented Design would be closely related to Data Oriented Programming (the latter effectively being about the design of software systems).
> and Google has untouchable resources such as all the books they've scanned (and already won court cases about)

https://www.hathitrust.org/ has that corpus, and its evolution, and you can propose to get access to it via collaborating supercomputer access. It grows very rapidly. InternetArchive would also like to chat I expect. I've also asked, and prompt manipulated chatGPT to estimate the total books it is trained with, it's a tiny fraction of the corpus, I wonder if it's the same with Google?
Because technology (and reality) is deep. Human comprehension is a shallow collection of approximations and simplifications - albeit in different areas for different people, but the point is that no one mind is capable of understanding everything anymore. Changing the background color to black looks like redaction, it would be redaction if it were printed out, the average consumer of documents has no idea about the details of ObjStm layering and text selection ordering in a PDF.
This is a field where the patient has to trust the psychologist implicitly for it to "work properly" and unfortunately there are a lot of ways that trust can be abused, maliciously or otherwise. Regarding point #3, I have no doubt that this happens and would probably fall on the accidental abuse spectrum, where the psychologist thought they were helping free the person when it really just made them more chained inside their own lusts.
What’s an example concern? It shouldn’t anymore than Sentry already does
Use views and stored procedures if you need composability.
And it's not judgmental. It will recommend a better way of doing things, but especially when you explain why you're doing a certain thing, it will help with actually doing it.
I am surprised that they could have you up and running so fast.

Giventhe worldwide shortage of AI compute, and extreme demand,
How is Amazon able to onboard new clients and have fleets of GPUs ready to go?

Does Azure/AWS/Google have a huge collection of AI compute that is just waiting?

Are these machines just the ones running the custom Amazon or Google accelerator chips?
UK bans airline adverts over 'misleading' environmental claims
Not really. Twitter is where the influential people are, and where the day's narratives and news are shaped. That's why it was so important to Elon.

Even if you personally don't use Twitter, virtually all the contemporary media you consume is being molded by it. Even today. It'll take a lot more influential people to drop it or move elsewhere before it won't be significantly impacting your life.

In the US, at least. I don't know how seriously it's taken in other countries.
Piracy justifies capitalism. However I feel bad for small indie games.
In the "Emergent Magnetic Charge" section, second paragraph:

"Finally, we emphasize that the observation of emergent monopoles is fully consistent with the modelling of AFM topological textures in Fig. 2 and does not violate Maxwell’s equation as they are, in fact, sinks and sources of the H^ field."

So this is a collective effect of a bunch of magnetic dipoles, and they go on to describe how div B is indeed zero in the material.
Space Mining's Best Prospect Is VC Money, Not Asteroid Gold
If Sony sold something they are not licensed to sell, that’s fraud.
It creates a terminal pancake bias.
And in any other language this wouldn’t result in multi-thousand lines of code with historical business logic and edge cases?
Yeah. Just like it went for ... Digg? I think Digg? .. at some point people didn't care anymore and it left the public consciousness.
In most cases the loser or a person who initiated the lawsuit pays. (If winner initiated, doesn't matter, if loser initiated, well they pay).