skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. Every time someone changes lanes without signalling 200ft prior. Every time someone goes 56 instead of 55. Every time someone operates any kind of vehicle after having more than one drink. Any time someone is drunk in public (in many states). Probably a huge number of gun owners in states with legal cannabis. Any time someone walks across a street without a protected "walk" sign.

These are the ones I can brainstorm in 30 seconds.

If the government could enforce every law on the books with perfect accuracy and with 100% effectiveness, it would be intolerably oppressive.

Laws are written often with the expectation that enforcement will not be perfect, that between impracticality and officer discretion, that such laws will be a net positive without being silly.

We are coming up on a time of government surveillance and data analysis technology (AI) that we will not be able to escape the panopticon. Laws or enforcement will have to adapt.
I can listen to an audio book on my comfy coach without risking permanent injury and death at home.
Read Introduces Large Meeting Models (LMMs)
Read AI, a Seattle startup that applies artificial intelligence to online meetings, is expanding beyond its automated recaps of single meetings — using AI to summarize and glean insights from potentially thousands of meetings at a time.

This broader approach, which ReadAI calls “Large Meeting Models,” or LMMs, is the basis for several new features that the company is releasing.
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With respect, you said that they are explicitly prevented from suggesting working interventions by their code of ethics, which is an easily falsifiable statement.
Friendly reminder to not rely on any Google product still existing in a few months or years.
A line of pixels.
Some cheap laptops have forgotten to expose that switch.
The problem is that most non-OpenAI models haven't actually been fine-tuned with function calling in mind, and getting a model to output function-calling-like syntax without having been trained on it is quite unreliable. There are a few alternatives that have been (OpenHermes 2.5 has some function calling in its dataset and does a decent job with it, and the latest Claude does as well), but for now it just doesn't work great.

That said, it's not that hard to fine-tune a model to understand function calling -- we do that as part of all of our OpenPipe fine tunes, and you can see the serialization method we use here: https://github.com/OpenPipe/OpenPipe/blob/main/app/src/model...

It isn't particularly difficult, and I'd expect more general-purpose fine-tunes will start doing something similar as they get more mature!
No; it could easily go either way. The challenge is that an authoritative statement (y'know, most people don't assume that the marketing website is lying to them as a general rule) that a region launch is coming puts AWS themselves in a very uncomfortable position of having to either deny it, or remain silent and start getting inquiries from the region's governing bodies.

It's just a mess. I don't know for a fact whether it was lying or leaking.
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It’s a bit like those old Poplar Mechanics stories about giant zeppelins, or aircraft with eight wings. They make for great articles with graphics to inspire the imagination, but are really just speculative fiction in retrospect.

That said, this does seem to have some merit from a feasibility perspective.
Any man who must say "I won't be a dictator, except for day one" will be a permanent dictator.

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2023/1...
They cannot enforce a non-compete on a customer. Check out the rest of their terms that talk about durability. They will sneakily say "our terms that are illegal don't apply but the rest do."

You cannot tell a customer that buying your product precludes them from building products like it. That violates principles of the free market, and it's unenforceable. This is just like non-competes in employment. They aren't constitutional.
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That claim makes perfect sense if you replace "church" with something like club, organization, or community. I don't think anyone would disagree that humans participating in social groups are on average happier.

I certainly question their sources of information since they did write "church" instead.
I've had dozens of moments over the past few months where I got frustrated at the lack of answers from a Google search, remembered ChatGPT, pasted the exact same query into its chatbox, and got an immediate answer (which was also way clearer than any answer from Google, or any blogspam site Google could have sent me to).
I'm working on something that I think might solve the problem in any language (currently have an sdk for typescript, and java in the works). You can avoid splitting an application into 100s of small short-running chunks if you can write normal service-orientated code, where lambdas can call each other. But this isn't possible without paying for all that time waiting around. If the Lambdas can pause execution while they are blocked on IO, it solves the problem. So I think durable execution might be the answer!

I've been working on a blog post to show this off for the last couple of weeks:

https://restate.dev/blog/suspendable-functions-make-lambda-t...
I live in a city with good public transport systems (Prague) and subway (metro) is pretty enjoyable except for maybe very late evening hours. Buses brake super hard and are crowded (which subways often are too but there it is more bearable than in a bus because Prague subway lines are relatively spacious and the trains are quite large as well unlike for example in London). Car you don't need to share, but you're definitely sharing the traffic jam as you are in a bus. Prague subway is not perfect, but it is definitely workable and at least for me would be more enjoyable than driving to work (if I didn't work from my home office).
As a fellow numberphile viewer, I accept your authority on the topic, and will probably repeat this guess as fact later.
I resemble that remark!

Ok, well, maybe not burgers
1.2M-Mile Tesla Model S Is on Its 14th Motor, Fourth Battery Pack
This is about longer distance trains not local public transit. That is trips between NYC and Chicago, which is something you can take via train but not a trip anyone would take very often.

The problem with flying isn't so much that people hate it - some like it. However no matter how much you love flying, it is always at least 4 hours of your day to fly anywhere: you have to get to the airport, spend an hour in the airport, then you fly, which for a very short flight might be an hour, then you have to get out of the far airport to where you are going. That is the best case, often it is longer flights and a transfer in some other airport. If the US had a great intercity train system there are many trips that could be faster on trains - but we don't have a great system.
>Like, I feel that GPT-4 (pre-turbo) was an extremely powerful model for almost anything I wanted help with. Whereas I feel like Bard is not great. So does this mean that my experience aligns with "HellaSwag"?

It doesn't mean that at all because Gemini Turbo isn't available in Bard yet.
Polarization is not a constant across time/space: https://www.brown.edu/news/2020-01-21/polarization
This is a perfect example of the owner class getting away with crime (copyright infringement) and using it against the public (you can't use AI output!).

Businesses are not entitled to life or existence the way individuals are.
In reality you have UEFI and the 128k is 16bit shim code of the Compatibility Support Module that emulates BIOS interfaces.

UEFI Class 1 devices (which had hardcoded CSM and didn't allow access to UEFI APIs from bootloader or OS) started shipping as early as 2005 - because it made it much simpler to build firmware especially when you're supposed to integrate complex vendor specific code (for example from Intel).

Even before that, it was not uncommon for BIOS to actually be much bigger than 128k. Logos were also common as part of BIOS. Hell, 1990s had a bunch of BIOSes with GUIs with mouse support. Some even tried to emulate look&feel of Windows.

At least UEFI provides a graphics toolkit that supports rendering to both GUI and serial port, so you don't have to deal with BIOSes that can't be connected to over serial because they need VGA raster output...
When did you last try? I’m too embarrassed to say how often and onto what kind of surfaces my iPhone 12 has been dropped, but I’m amazed it’s still seemingly completely functional.

My iPhone 4, on the other hand, shattered after one incident…
MfOS and yusynth were the two best resources for making your own analog Synthesizer modules when I started learning. I am forever in debt to mr wilson.
Needs some UI work but this is a really great idea. Hope it gains traction
How does signal address this? I always wondered
> A better look would simply be to show instead of tell.

Completely! Just tried Bard. No images and the responses it gave me were pretty poor. Today's launch is a weak poor product launch, looks mostly like a push to close out stuff for Perf and before everybody leaves for the rest of the December for vacation.
The solution isn't just encrypt the payload. Frankly cryptographic guarantees are the problem. It would require something like Signal's Sealed Sender feature, but more. The govt is getting data like "Signal sent user1 a notification." You just can't hide that metadata when you have to cryptographically attest every message you push to apns. If the message has the username or group name that's well and good but is ancillary.
You have no way to prove that Google, MS, et al wouldn't make AI products if they couldn't prevent you from using the output.

Also, what exactly is stopping someone from documenting the output from all possible prompts?

It's legal theater and can't be enforced.
Indeed, now the sticky part of this, user takes a loan out in the same line as a HELOC, either on real property or securities - they pay the loan off, what do they do?

My answer is to give them tax credits, transferrable tax credits, they could sell those credits and then pay the tax again, apply the credits to the tax cost of the underlying asset at the time of liquidation, or even transfer them with the asset to a third party as part of a sale. They could also even apply those credits as a rebate in the event they sell the asset for less than the original taxed amount.
Not true. Battery double liftime on my LineageOS device without gaaps and other gservices that constantly connect to gservers.
That said, who knows at this moment more about the topic than Altman?

I say because the headline can induce to a wrong feeling, but, if was not a company related or close to the latest developments of AI, who are more ready than them?
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak to receive Serbian passport
CS not software engineering.
Of course.

First of all this technology is on track not to just assist you better, but to replace you.

Second it's not human. It is not explicitly bound by the morals and behaviors that make us human. Saying that it's not human is different from saying that it can be more intelligent than a human. This is the disquieting part. If restrictions aren't deliberately put in place it could probably give you instructions on how to murder a baby if you asked it to.

I think it's inevitable that humanity will take this technology to the furthest possible reaches that it can possibly go. My strategy is to Take advantage of it before it replaces you and hope that the technology doesn't ever reach that point in your lifetime.
Lenovo uses Phoenix provided tool that will prepare compatible graphic image into update capsule and pass it to flasher program (embedded in the firmware)
Competition is a double edged sword. More competition means businesses are liable to go bankrupt if they don't optimize for profit above all else, ethics be damned. Less competition means lazy monopolies. If you're anti-monopoly, it's hard to think of a bigger "lazy monopoly" than the government.

There isn't a simple solution here.
Weird it's a common thing that music discovery was basically solved by Spotify. You don't have to follow blogs, magazines, review sites, or seek out recommendations etc. Making playlist for friends was also common but now I feel way less of a need now since I know Spotify will do a better job of tailoring it to them so I just occasionally share individual songs.

I'm 35 not sure how old you are but Ive been using Spotify forever and recommendations has been a major part of that UX. And I used Last.fm before that like 40 million other people, which Spotify killed after ending their deal with lastfm and building their own one.

Considering you don't get proper recommendations says enough about how much you use it IMO. You won't get anything back if you don't tell it what you like aka listening to music often.
I appreciate seeing a hint at the history of the design changes, but now I'm left wanting more. Seeing a cross-section view (CT scan or CAD) that shows how the connectors are mating or secured would probably help me visualize how these are being used.
Scaling Large Language Models to Zero with Ollama
This comment is rather obtuse.

You want to live in a state where all smoking is illegal?

Because you don’t like the smell of weed smoke?

How interesting.
>Some of them are really, really fragile.

When you do your own repairs especially the first time, you find that out the hard way, and then you're more careful the next time ;)
How does this not extend to ALL output from an LLM? If it can't understand its own runtime environment, it's not qualified to answer my questions.
Why are so many software things written in node now? Seems that every new project I see, the installation begins with "npm install" :(
Another great article - though the juiciest details are probably in the microcode, hope you'll get to that :)

Were the mnemonics SLL and SLR (instead of SHL/SHR) used in some patent?

Rotate-through-carry with count > 1 seems to be a very rare operation, I'd say it was a mistake that they implemented it using the barrel shifter. The 286 could do the one bit rotation in 2 clock cycles, and 5+n for multiple bits. So the 386 ends up being slower unless the count is at least 4!

(for a left rotate by one bit, ADC could be used in most cases of course, which takes 2 clocks on both processors)
> The US inherited a common law tradition from England that empowers judges to effectively create laws.

Yes, but, in the English tradition (unwritten constitution) Parliament is supreme, and can explicitly choose to supercede any court (or previous Parliamentary) decision.

(The current state in common-law countries varies; Canada acquired a US-style Supreme Court in 1982.)
I strongly disagree. The citizenship is a set of mutual rights and responsibilities between the citizen and their country, and a country should be under no obligation to allow people to live there that refuse to partake in their responsibilities. Should it be easier to immigrate? Probably. But the moment a country gives up the ability to govern their membership, they cease to be sovereign.
Ah ok. It sounds like it's important to distinguish the two by saying 2D image, but I'm sure the reason is too advanced for me.
The point is Semmelweis, whose information saved huge numbers of human lives, would be lumped in the same category (“toxic”) as your theoretical example, on account of Sammelweis being considered rude and disrespectful.

In simplest terms, ideas that threaten orthodoxy can be considered rude and disrespectful, and thus “toxic”.

So perhaps the definition of toxic needs more refinement, or toxicity isn't the right thing to be looking at,
despite it sounding about right in everyday conversation.
> The convivial Wozniak, who teamed up with the late Steve Jobs to found Apple in 1976, arrived in Serbia ahead of Dec. 17 parliamentary and local elections, in an apparent boost for President Aleksandar Vučić and his populist right-wing governing party.
Because that doesn’t matter and this is a useless argument.
I mean, strictly on the basis of evidence-based medicine, the case for going to church is stronger than for some drugs that have passed the FDA approval process.

https://academic.oup.com/ije/article/49/6/2030/5892419
https://news.gallup.com/opinion/polling-matters/389510/relig...

On both the basis of mental and physical health, the correlation with church attendance is one of the most robust and well studied. To my knowledge, none of the studied gauged the amount attendees believed or had meaning, but I'm sure it didn't hurt.
I think Apple (especially under Jobs) had it right that customers don’t really give a shit about how hard or long you’ve worked on a problem or area.
"What the quack" one really got me.
If it is covered, can people afford to pay their deductibles and coinsurance every year if they take advantage? Or is it more like "covered?"
Late to the party, but these are the things people were saying about Apple in 1999/2000. Apple was sitting with a < 4% marketshare and also (luckily) $5 billion. They turned it around. There are massive differences between Apple and Mozilla clearly, but it does indicate that there's hope for Mozilla.
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That's why RMS has a "I'd love to meet your parrot, but please don't buy me one" rider in his speaking contract.
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Come work in finance. No external services.
I don't know if the US would stamp a Japanese passport for that reason, probably not because they would be like you entering the US twice and generate a bunch of visa stuff.

Now suppose you flew in and out of Canada every time, using your US passport to enter and Japanese to exit....

As long as your were diligent with keeping track of it, it would look like you were in Canada to the Japanese government.

Funny story, about keeping these things straight. Going back to Japan after travel with my infant son to Guam. Wife and my son go through the Japanese immigration while I have to go through the foreign nationals line, wife had accidentally handed my my son's passport. The look on the official's face as he stared at the baby photo was great, I told him "Sorry, I didn't shave so I look a little different."
At which point all hardware that currently exists which you already own will get remotely updated out from under you so you can't boot your own kernel?

I get that being allowed to run the code you want on hardware you own is paramount, but let's not live in fear of hypotheticals. There are already secured platforms like the Xbox/PS5/iphone where we don't have that option and the world hasn't ended.
Xbox, Surface. Holo didn't go far. May return back to mobile in some form soon.

Services, and their sales team, are still Microsoft's strong point.

Apple seeing its services grow and is leaning in on it now.

The question is whether Apple eats services faster than Microsoft eats into hardware.
In this case it makes sense: it’s a UI widget. We wrote the proxy also in Node just because you already likely needed JavaScript to install the UI component that it felt logical.

Aside, 2019 and onward JavaScript has become the largest and fastest growing ecosystem of developers.

To others feedback though there’s no reason we should force you to take a bundler running in your UI. We’re gonna fix that quickly.
...and that includes human lawyers, too.
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Embedding-plot is a command line utility that can visualize word embeddings using dimensionality reduction techniques (PCA or t-SNE) and clustering in a scatter plot.
>Sorry, no Basilisk

Actually, it may still be possible. Your digital clone will just be forced to endlessly listen to a hallucinating LLM. Less torturous than what most people consider, but still never ending and terrible.
My biggest disapointment on the Framework 16 is that I imagined the bay to be hot-swappable, or at least cold-swappable, like you keep the GPU unit in the laptop while it's on your desk docked to your monitor, and when yo head out, you swap the GPU module for a battery module and off you go.

At least that's what I hoped for, but no, that's not how it works, you need some screwing and unscrewing to swap them out, it not something that can be quickly done before you leave the house. Sad. Maybe the next model.
So could your AI automatically create a data flow that solves one of the 'Advent of code' problems, such as:

https://adventofcode.com/2023/day/1
https://adventofcode.com/2023/day/2
We've been doing this for a while and it has some pretty severe limitations at scale. The biggest issue is that humans are human and you cannot make everyone else on the team use your elegant SQL DSL business engine in exactly the same way you had envisioned. Eventually, it will grow into a bit of a monster.

We are headed back in the other direction, but with some hedge. Code with a very simple & transparent CI/CD experience seems equivalent to some SQL configurable thing in our minds now, but with way more potential upside.

In our latest code-based abstractions, nothing is stopping you from breaking out a SQL connection and running any arbitrary query. In fact, all of the data is still in SQL and it's still authoritative, you just now have access to way more powerful tooling to work with that data. Code+SQL together is the answer.

For non-expert team members, modern C# is turning out to be way more intuitive than SQL the moment you encounter a 3+ table join scenario.
I bet that it will land on Google's graveyard before it gets released worldwide.
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> Tell that to my Chromebook that you can't crack.

Can I have it for a week or two, then send it back?

Chromebooks are quite robust against remote attacks, and they're fairly robust against local physical attacks, but "Put an external interface on the NOR SPI flash and put whatever you want there" defeats just about everything they do with secure boot, because you can put your own code there instead. Or, on at least some devices, just remove the write protect screw and run some incantations[0].

If you have physical access, very few systems are designed to be trustworthy in those cases. Even if you have a ROM root of trust somewhere, if it's on the board it can be desoldered and replaced with a different one (and I'm not aware of any hardware that does more than "write protect regions of the SPI flash - it can be done, but it's certainly not common).

Even the TPM can be physically de-encapsulated and be manipulated/have data read out, if it's a discrete physical device.

[0]: https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/developer-information-f...
Just clearing up some terminology: You're talking about Social Security "Totalization Agreements" [1], which are separate from tax treaties. Romania, for example, does have a tax treaty with the US [2] but not a totalization agreement.

Setting up a corporation suggests that the business should pay the worker "wages" or a "salary". [3] One key difference is that wages are considered earned income, allowing the taxpayer to use the foreign earned income exclusion, while dividends are not.

[1] https://www.irs.gov/government-entities/federal-state-local-...

[2] https://www.irs.gov/businesses/international-businesses/roma...

[3] https://ustax.bz/how-to-structure-your-non-u-s-business-or-p...
To get this in JS you should do it explicitly with TypedArrays otherwise you’re at risk of what the underlying VM does and in current modern implementations it most assuredly doesn’t make sure most kinds of arrays end up relatively contiguous. Notably for this conversation arrays of objects are unlikely to.
OpenAI execs informed Board of Altman concerns before firing
This is where the Mac world shines.