skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems like if this is allowed to stand you'll get massive spam issues on iMessage within a few months... better to kill it fast.
Throw that stone in the SaaS glass house. $100/m for 10c of compute and $1 of a devs time.
I agree, the difference isn't large.
But my parent was asking for the difference, and I think that is the difference.
Nice try Shaun.

Light no fire? Its the least you could do after burning us like that.
Part of this is that your fears about the time the battery lasts and the cost to replace it may be unfounded. Batteries keep getting cheaper, and over those 10 years, you might really only get down to 75-80% capacity (Tesla, for instance, warranties above 70% for ten years or 100k miles, and there are people with batteries at 300k now, they last much longer).

Batteries in cars that are ten years old now may not fare as well. But we’ve just seen this explosion of improvement in technology. Today’s batteries last longer, and tomorrow’s will last longer than that.
It's not about the Moon
One of the complaints about Hashicorp products was that they were not accepting any/many contributions from outsiders. Not sure if that was the case with vault.
Certainly, there may be aspects of a particular 7b model which could beat another particular 70b model and greater detail into different pros and cons of different models are worth considering but people are trying to rank models and if we're ranking (calling one "better" than another), we might as well do it as accurately as we can since it can be so subjective.

I see too many misleading "NEW 7B MODEL BEATS GPT-4" posts. People test those models a couple of times, come back to the comments section, declare it true, and onlookers know no better than to believe it and in my opinion has led to many people claiming 7b models have gotten as good as Llama 2 70b or GPT-4 when it is not the case when you account for the overfit being exhibited by these models and actually put them to the test via human evaluation.
I wonder if they will have a natural language chat interface
iMessage is just the iOS texting app. When someone says "I'm having trouble getting Stranger Things to play on Netflix" you don't tell them "You should switch to Hulu". Netflix (iMessage / texting apps) has Stranger Things (texting) and Hulu ("alternatives" like Whatsapp et al) do not.

As an Android user, in theory I shouldn't care about iMessage. However, because of the way that iMessage creates schisms, miscommunications, lost communications, broken texting experiences and more between my Android friends and my iPhone friends, I have to. I would like the texting features of these phones to interoperate so we can all text together in peace.

I wrote up a scenario (user story?) that I think helps to explain the problems I think should be solved that seem to fly over so many people's heads, especially when they advocate for over-the-top messaging apps like Whatsapp to solve the problem (particularly in the US context): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38578101
I went this route too for organisations in onepassword. It wasn't right, there was no way to create a password / secret only the recipient could see. The org admin can always take access through their admin rights. You can't deliver to a personal vault. If it's changed I'll look again but support couldn't understand why it wasn't acceptable. Especially when your looking at the unseal keys for vault.
> They try to introduce DLC incentives, but those are almost always not enough

Honestly, I ultimately always feel a bit cheated when I buy a game at launch because whatever bullshit day one DLC they give us is nothing compared to what I'd get if I'd waited a few years and picked up the "ultimate edition" or whatever that will include even more content and be mostly patched up so it's a less frustrating experience too and often the superior edition sells for less than the price at release.

It's like companies just punish people who give them their money as quickly as possible. Considering the backlog of games I've already got it's smart to wait, but there are a couple franchises where really don't want to even when I know I'll probably end up regretting it.
Incomes have risen so sharply for high earners that the supply for hotels, cabs, flights hasn’t kept pace with demand from this segment. Hence the unaffordability.
Possibly a huge leap forward in open-source model capability. GPT4's prowess supposedly comes from strong dataset + RLHF + MoE (Mixture of Experts).

Mixtral brings MoE to an already-powerful model.
Quite a few of Russians have been using Hetzner's servers to host VPN services for personal use, for their family members, friends...

/sarcasm on

Thank you Hetzner, for making it so much easier for Putin and his Goebbelses to brainwash

Russians and turn them into North Korean zombies..

/sarcasm off

Roskomnadzor keeps blocking sites in Russia en masse, and Western governments keep enacting policies that keep us from accessing the truth and fighting the state propaganda.

Hetzner's decision won't hurt Putin and his regime in the slightest. In fact, it will make it even stronger..
I doubt manufacturing gets a percentage cut - doubt they want such a cut. Manufacturing likely charges by how much you ask them to produce. They will quote you a price for your order and maybe include a discount for large volumes.
Better to kill it early. I get spam calls on WhatsApp (an app which I absolutely loathe)
Wow. Imagine if every company paid their due of taxes :)
The way other games solved that is by having less random generation, trim down on samey or bad content and make a focused 50-100 hour playthrough that is really excellent.

If they took NMS and took all the best parts and crafted a more grounded fantasy survival game out of that it could be really awesome.
Sure, but it was also said about the web in the '90s and smartphones in the '00s and these "hype" techs ended up fulfilling their promise. It's not yet possible to know how the AI hype cycle will turn out.
Not sure how many others share this opinion, but I don't find the idea of "infinite" gameplay compelling currently. Generative AI is perhaps the next evolution of it, sure. But I play games for the crafted experiences that usually have a compelling endpoint.

As soon as I see a mechanic that is infinite by nature, e.g. a "radiant quests", repeatable randomised dungeons, infinite upgrade trees, etc, I lose interest.

If I wanted indefinite novelty I'd go back out into the real world?

The exception is roguelite games which have this concept baked into the design from the start. But things like Tiny Tina's Wonderlands' Chaos Dungeon, God of War's Niflheim (or Ragnarok's newly announced Valhalla), no thanks.
Somewhat of a hot take. Normal classification algorithms output a confidence weight, LLM's don't.
This means you can only use LLM classification if you don't care at all about managing your precision and recall metrics.

This means LLMs are useless for 90 percent of real business requirements. (Business actually wants some sort of binomial regressor, not a plausible-looking hallucination. Plausible-looking hallucinations are the domain of spam and copywriting.)
I wish I was that smart when buying 23andme. Bitcoin is also not anonymous, unless you happen to mine it up yourself. Does Nebula accept Monero?
What did everyone else do when their job was made obsolete over the last 150 years? They seem to have mostlyade out ok from wealth effects causing more demand for labor in other fields, often at better wages.

Your argument has no historical precedent for and lots against so the likelihood of it coming true can only be estimated as very small and you honestly shouldnt be worrying about it too much. Its equivalent to arguing that you are going to win the lottery. Somebody will win eventually but the proba ility makes anything but assuming it wont be you irresponsibke
This is what I did with FastComments. You just leave your username/email. If you already have an account, we send a verification email.
Two points:

"Normal" phishing is a bad example, because many phishing emails notoriously use misspellings and bad grammar on purpose because scammers don't want to waste their time on people with half a brain, they only want people dumb enough to respond in spite of the ludicrous misspellings. But in this Verizon case, that logic doesn't apply, because there was only a single targeted recipient.

With respect to "If your defense against phishing relies on your adversary not knowing what a legitimate request looks like - it's not a very good defense", I wholeheartedly agree. My point was only that the fact that Verizon responded to this fake subpoena despite the reddest of red flags makes me think that they must have horrible procedures generally for verifying these types of requests.
That sounds like a very realistic classroom experience. I think you missed the point?
> Am I to understand that official orders that instruct telco providers to provide the private communication data of people, are transmitted as smushes of pigment on thin pieces of wood-paste,

Yes. Or a PDF attachment on an e-mail, possibly scanned from something that was printed a few minutes earlier because someone had to sign it with a pen.

> trivially verify with the ordering entities public key

You're underestimating the complexity of establishing a PKI infrastructure to handle federal, state and local authorities, signalling which keys have what exact authority, revoking compromised keys, … and then doing tech support for some redneck judge that owns more guns than electronic devices.
Any evaluation of how AI is impacting business at this stage is too premature. ChatGPT is just a year old. Lots of people didn’t even get API access for months.

Organizational structures and even tech teams simply haven’t caught up.
From the HN guidelines:

> Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents. Omit internet tropes.
> The flashcards are around a million in number, organised into 19 subjects, 5-10sections each, 10-20chapters under each section and several subtopics under each chapter.

I am not sure whether Sqlite scales, but that would be my first suggestion.
I've heard the phrase "regulating yourself out of the market."

Do you feel this applies here?
A bit sad but that's Apple we're talking here, we all know how despicable they are.
How big is the market of "junior analyst-type jobs" globally?

Will disrupting or obliterating that industry make an impact on our lives? Will it add anything to the bottom line of OpenAI?
I vaguely recall something like this depicted in a TV show called Mr. Robot.

He was hired to find person of interest through a cell number. Impersonated or intercepted NYPD fax line? Forged some document that NYPD uses to obtain data from carriers. Sent the forged fax and just waited for a response.

Definitely more elegant than sending forged doc from a protonmail address. But nevertheless the same method.

edit: found it. https://youtu.be/AdHE5Nss4HI?si=b4Et34pHKx8p1uP9

Looks like he just used some public WiFi to remain anonymous and forged NYPD fax number to make it more legit haha. Have to rewatch this show.
Sure, but when fighting asymmetric warfare self control is paramount is it not?

Would you not be mad at the guy bragging that he’s a member of the Resistance? They are not the Oppressor with the capital O, but they are at least an asshole.
That is not even remotely similar to the claim you made. Nowhere in that sentence is the claim that privacy and security cannot exist without a vertically integrated corporation.

All they're saying is that the existence of third party software compromises Apple's ability to make blanket statements about the security and privacy of this one specific platform. An unofficial third party client breaks an established network of trust — which is an objective fact. If you doubt this, then you really should use this Chromium fork I just developed. Use it to log into your internet banking. Don't be scared. There's nothing to worry about. See, there's a lock symbol in the address bar and everything.
> details about the project, dubbed OpenBao.

Oh interesting, I wonder who did it.

> co-founder and CEO of DevOps automation biz Scalr and one of the organizers of OpenTofu, a fork of Terraform

Yeah, alright then.

Does nobody else find it even slightly on-the-nose that the guy behind the TF fork just happens to also run a devops company himself?

> Blatantly take someone else’s work

> mobilise the community by calling them hostile because of licensing

> spin up a business to build on the community

> make bank

Now I’m not saying that what’s happened, but I am saying it sure does smell funny.
What monopoly would that be? Apple quite literally advertises alternatives to its Messages app on the app store landing page.
How does knowledge want to be free? We're talking about generating derivatives of other people's art. Instead of hiring an artist I can ask the model to generate art in the same style for much less. Is that right?
It won't be fully there until it gives a confidence interval and has weights to manipulate precision and recall. These are baseline non-negotiable features.

Unfortunately the way LLM's are architected right now means they will never be "fully there".
Touring Aptera's Factory [video]
What I'm wrangling with is this:

I agree that a particular sequence of words is copyrightable.

What I'm struggling with is that facts _about_ that corpus of text are not copyrightable. A simple fact could be that the word "bar" is the 5th word. The 6th word is "jazz". Etc.

A model is trained from these "facts" across many source documents. It is thus itself a derived 'fact' given a set of training inputs and parameters, so then how could _that_ then be copyrighted?

Put another way - there's the origin text and then.. is it turtles all the way down and none of it can be copyrighted because its all math and calculations derived from that?
> If there was no YouTube, how do our kids get inspired to become scientists-- by watching the latest MCU movie? By watching cable programming?

Same as everyone before YouTube. Role models and seeing/reading things.
> Am I to understand that official orders that instruct telco providers to provide the private communication data of people, are transmitted as smushes of pigment on thin pieces of wood-paste, instead of a digitally signed file that the recipient can trivially verify with the ordering entities public key?

Was honestly having a difficult time determining (a) if this was sarcasm or (b) you just have no idea of the technical competence of many of these jurisdictions, not to mention the complexity of managing this type of public key verification system for the number of jurisdictions involved.
But the point of the article is that there aren't "a lot of markets" to disrupt. Or, at least, that most of these are markets that have very small margins or profits.
I don’t want just varied landscapes (or lore, or other content).

What I what is varied gameplay, with meaningful choices and significant player progression.

E.g. other open world fantasy games have skills, spells, character classes, different but balanced builds, etc.
All three reasons offered are cold and heartless calculus that leave Gazan civilians in immediate need unhelped.

EU nations accepted more than a million Syrians with more or less same issues along with way more Ukrainians.

But suddenly another Arab, another Muslim, immediate neighbor just coldly keeps the border shut.
Blackmail is such an ugly word. I prefer extortion. The "x" makes it sound cool.
AI: EU agrees landmark deal on regulation of artificial intelligence
> there is a small section handwaving away the potential impact on the search engine market

I would assume lot of IT folks might have moved to ChatGPT to ask IT (programming) questions instead of searching Google and lot of these folks also use Adblockers which blocked statcounter's trackers so the stats might be misleading by a bit.
> If you use a Sony A7 series camera, every month, the camera will take a picture upon shutting it off

So THAT is that mysterious click-clack of the shutter that randomly appears on my A7S2. I've been putting off sending it in for repair, but now I can completely avoid that. Many thanks!

Do you happen to have a link to some documentation for it?
This is one relevant read:

https://time.com/3035937/gaza-israel-hamas-palestinian-casua...

Why are we playing this numbers game? If Hamas hypothetically had killed 30,000 Israels would you be saying that Israel still has 12,000 to go? Every person matters and in a war there are no targets for how many people are killed, in wars people get killed for achieving some other objectives. I would imagine that even if Hamas had only killed 150 people in Israel we'd be in exactly the same place and the ratio would be 100x because there's a point where Israel has to (well, at least they think) reoccupy Gaza at any cost. Israel was almost there in previous conflicts, but backed off.

There is no war in history, as far as I know, but willing to be corrected, where the measure or who is wrong and who is right, or when the war should end, was some threshold or ratio in the number of dead people. A war continues until both sides agree to stop it. Wars have a terrible human price. I think something like 400,000 people have died in the war in Yemen. I think there are hundreds of thousands of dead in the Russian-Ukraine war (mostly soldiers but they're people, and young people, too. Many civilians.). Sudan is pretty bad. 600,000 killed in the Syria civil war.
Lol this is who asked whether it was at CMU - https://s3d.cmu.edu/people/core-faculty/titzer-ben.html HN is such a great community.
You can't "dump" a TPM. That's the whole point. They are designed such that the cryptographic secrets they hold (including ones loaded at manufacturing) are unrecoverable without an electron microscope and nation-state level resources (and even then, it would be extremely difficult if not impossible on modern process nodes).
Not well written but understood the same.
> I'm not saying its better than 70B, just that its very strong from what others are saying.

Gotcha

> Actually I am testing the 34B myself (not the 7B), and it seems good.

I've heard good things about it
> but I have the opinion that copyright laws were written and developed in a different era.

Unless I misunderstand what you are says, I'm pretty sure we had libraries throughout history.
Yes. Law enforcement should not get exemptions in the current environment because of the absence of effective safeguards. There needs to be a push to acquire effective safe guards across the board for law enforcement and government activities. That’s what they need to be making new laws for.

There should be consequences attached to abuse.
I find this kind of thing an abomination in real shipping code. In the real world this kind of thing breaks debuggers with the symbol size explosion and template meta programming is hard to reason about for most regular C++ programmers. It adds a real burden to compile times. It adds a real burden to debugging. It adds a real burden to reasoning over code you didn't write. Overall I see it as a big negative.
China poised to break 5nm barrier
It’s a poorly written and badly explained article. The first comment does a great job of explaining why, and how the new “firmware” actually works
Yubikey 5 can only store 20, which isn't a whole lot better. Are there yet any readily available FIDO devices that can store 100s of resident keys (I have almost 400 logins in bitwarden)?
I hope the launch for this one goes better than last time! They had to spend like a decade repairing their reputation to get to this point again
Yep, McLaren and Gordon Murray Automotive also use XP for their prototypes.
Who said this would be an RPG? To me it looks like a fantasy survival sandbox game along similar lines of Terraria or Valheim. Those tend to focus more on action and exploration of dangerous environments, and that creates a very compelling experience.
Every company wants to build more, ship faster. AI enhanced programmers increase output. Companies will just want to do more.

In my opinion it's depressing how slow development is. The non technical managers can't understand it either. It's complex and boring and error prone and fragile. That's what we need to fix.
Never giving this studio another $ after the NMS launch lies.
> [citation needed]

Whoops, you're right. Here's what Fields medalist Terence Tao has to say about it: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2023/12/05/a-slightly-longer-... "...sometimes, after a proposition has been proven, someone in the project realizes that in order to apply the proposition neatly in some other part of the project, one has to slightly modify a hypothesis ... Often one can just modify that hypothesis and watch what the compiler does. ... [W]ith well-designed proofs, the process of modifying a proposition is often substantially easier than writing a proof from scratch. (Indeed it is this aspect of formalization where I think we really have a chance in the future of being in a situation where the task is faster to perform in a formal framework than in traditional pen-and-paper (and LaTeX) framework.)"

> And if they explain that you are misunderstanding the system

I don't think that's a fair description of the sibling threads. If a mathlib maintainer says "no, we're not going to avoid LEM/by-contradiction everywhere in our proof library, that would be silly" because that's what most mathematicians today think constructivism means, as in rejecting the bulk of existing math entirely as meaningless - and then they add "but yes, there are places where we want to work with our own assertions about decidability, and not let classical reasoning mess that up" I think it's entirely fair to call the latter pretty close to a constructivism-friendly approach.

(Keep in mind that most practicing mathematicians don't work with foundations, so the fact that misconceptions like the above would be widespread is not surprising. The remaining argument is about the increased complexity of constructive reasoning, and it's entirely fair for a practical development to want to avoid that, and just work with classical statements. After all, most of the mathematical literature is indeed classical; it does not bother with the computational aspect or with the perceived messiness of numerical analysis.)
Elon Musk's new enemy: Nordic workers
It increasingly seems like Brightline West is actually going to happen which is great
Manufacturers gets paid, and they'll expect to make a profit. No, they don't take a percentage, but that's a rather academic distinction when the unit cost for manufacturing is $5 and your product isn't marketable with a price exceeding $50.
> Kinda-not-really-sorry. I still don't think any human civilization has come to grips with the tech yet. It's disconcertingly like machine guns in 1897.

Funny that you mention machine guns. There is a thesis to be written (if not already existing) on how both Truman and Eisenhower viewed tactical nukes as, well, very large conventional weapons and potentially usable as such on the battlefield, while still viewing strategic nukes as something different, akin to what you described in your second paragraph.

The thesis would deal with both presidents' military backgrounds affecting their opinions, and how being intimately involved with the discussion of just how much more powerful thermonuclear weapons are than fission weapons affected taking such a nuanced view, an ability that I think has been lost to later generations (I doubt 5% ordinary citizens can explain the difference between fission and fusion bombs I'd be amazed).
Maybe not, but people use it to know what to recycle and what to toss. At least some people do.