skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not sure which I find scarier: that you knew this, or that I did too. And yet, I forgot my dentist appointment. Or maybe that’s why I forgot it.
Around Christmas time I always consider giving a family member one of my old smart phones. But then I remember I stopped using them because they got old and the battery life sucks.
Seriously. The system in question is a distributed one with multiple participants and the resolution, which is gated to specific versions of the Windows sync client, strongly suggests the bug is in that client.
The other night I went on chat.lmsys.org and repeatedly had random models write funny letters following specific instructions. Claude and Llama were completely useless and refused to do any of it, OpenAI's models sometimes complied and sometimes refused (it appeared that the newer the model, the worse it was), and everything else happily did more or less as instructed with varying levels of toning down the humor. The last thing the pearl-clutching pieces of crap need is more "safety."
There's more nuance than that. Total lifetime matters. If the first buyer keeps it 3 years, the next buyer may well keep it 3 more, or even longer.
On the multimodal front, Gemini Ultra asserts its dominance over GPT-4V across image, video, and audio tests. Google DeepMind supplements these claims with a detailed technical report, offering a nuanced perspective on Gemini's superior performance.
>Sweet Tomatoes (RIP, COVID-19) didn't really even have meat.

Can't speak to that particular brand, but a lot of buffets will have high-end meats that are hidden from plain sight. I went to a dinky local buffet not too long ago, and I found a prime rib roast on my second pass through. What they did was place the carving station in a hole in the wall so it wasn't sticking out, and then staffed the station with an extremely quiet man. Since your focus is on the buffet line, you completely miss him and his expensive meat (and also dim sum, and maybe a few other things. IDK, I just went straight for the prime rib).
Or actually book restaurant reservations?
Comcast is a monopoly. If they had competition they'd learn that quickly.

Google has alternatives on all their services except arguably YouTube and search
> Couldn’t we architect or train the models to differentiate between streams of input?

Could you? absolutely.

Would it solve this problem? Maybe.

Would it make training LLMs to do useful tasks much harder and vastly increase the volume of training data necessary? For sure.

> I believe there’s a little bit of this already with the system prompt in ChatGPT?

Probably not. Likely, both the controllable "system prompt" you can change via the API and probably any hidden system prompt is part of the same prompt as the rest of the prompt, though its deliminited by some token sequence when fed to the model (chat-tuned public LLMs also do this, with different delimiting patterns.)
Producers for consumer goods are consolidating left and right. No shit.

The FTC is responsible for this consolidation.
I might be misunderstanding what they accomplished here - doesn't this mean that oscillators needed to be found for all prime number periods?

for me, random coincidence that this popped up today, I just published a little holiday-themed GoL variant last week here: https://52games52weeks.com/gameofchristmas
I should have been more specific, the codegen alleviates a large portion of back and forth that would have otherwise been spent asking the backend devs things like “why isn’t this working”, or “what has changed”. There is still a lot of communication involved, but it relates more to the business objectives and less annoying fiddly things. For my current project the backend devs are using a cumbersome enterprise stack - the one saving grace for me being that they have swagger (OpenAPI) docs. As a front-end dev the codegen really helps to shield me from a lot of implementation specific backend stuff, as if the interface changes I am going to be informed about it from the Typescript compiler. Also one really great feature is that specific values for validation, such a min/max character length are also exposed and generated with the codegen so that is also another bunch of variables that I can worry less about when I implement clientside validation.

I’d really recommend taking a look at the tool I linked. I see a bunch of end-to-end Typesafety tools mentioned like GraphQL, Protocol Buffers, etc, but they seem overly prescriptive to me, and most of the time you are gonna be working some basic REST service and an OpenApi/Swagger doc is the best you are going to get from the backend devs.
I believe Qualcomm's QuickCharge 5 can use the full 48V of USB-PD. Given it allows 100W, I certainly hope so.

Regardless, QuickCharge 3 is 20V and it's been in a lot of phones since it was introduced in 2016.
Copyright law as it exists allows a creative process to create transformative works.

Computers cannot create copyright. They are not creative. Just because I save your image as webp or jpeg or whatever doesn't mean I have changed the copyright. Just because I zip it up with a hundred other images doesn't mean the zipfile is free of your copyright.

Effectively, computers are executing math, and math by itself does not construct new copyright, since copyright is the result of a creative human process.

As far as I can tell, current AI are fundamentally not too different from wildly complex compression algorithms. You compress a billion images down to a model. The model now can reproduce a fraction or the whole of the copyrighted work with some low probability. Rote and probabilistic compression.

The creator of the AI might own the copyright for what it produces if constructing the AI was suitably creative, i.e. if you construct an AI that trains on random noise and produces images, those are clearly something you, the author of the AI's code, can claim copyright over... But current AI seem like math more than anything else. It's plausible that reinforced learning or some other part of training does imbue creativity into the process, but that doesn't seem obviously true to me.
I think it is generally fine to not have out-of-cloud backups of data as long as you still have the primary copy locally (as opposed to data being only in the cloud), so you're screwed only if the cloud provider loses data the same day as you happen to lose your local data.
Ah good show :). I was rather preoccupied with the question but didn't have one handy. Well, I do, but my kid would roast me slowly over coals if I so much as smudged it. Ah the joy of the Internet, I did not predict this morning that I would end the day preoccupied with the question of rubber duck density!

I guess for me the question of whether or not the model is lying or hallucinating is if it's correctly summarizing its source material. I find very conflicting materials on the density of rubber, and most of the sources that Google surfaces claim a lower density than water. So it makes sense to me that the model would make the inference.

I'm splitting hairs though, I largely agree with your comment above and above that.

To illustrate my agreement: I like testing AIs with this kind of thing... a few months ago I asked GPT for advice as to how to restart my gas powered water heater. It told me the first step was to make sure the gas was off, then to light the pilot light. I then asked it how the pilot light was supposed to stay lit with the gas off and it backpedaled. My imagining here is that because so many instructional materials about gas powered devices emphasize to start by turning off the gas, that weighted it as the first instruction.

Interesting, the above shows progress though. I realized I asked GPT 3.5 back then, I just re-asked 3.5 and then asked 4 for the first time. 3.5 was still wrong. 4 told me to initially turn off the gas to disappate it, then to ensure gas was flowing to the pilot before sparking it.

But that said I am quite familiar with the AI being confidently wrong, so your point is taken, I only really responded because I was wondering if I was misunderstanding something quite fundamental about the question of density.
I always worry that this kind of investment is going to lead to the investors demanding the product be changed to no longer be FOSS in a misguided attempt to increase returns.
Maybe it was cjdns, I don’t know, but I couldn’t find the particular talk on YouTube by that name.

But yes, someday, maybe we’ll laugh at the current state of things and the shortage of IPs.
> they admit they don't now why that happens

No, they said “not sufficiently qualified to explain”. Which is not the same as not knowing, given that the same phenomenon can be explained on a lot of different levels depending on when you get tired of asking “why?” - see this video of Richard Feynman “explaining” magnets:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MO0r930Sn_8
RH user since RH4. Running Debian now.
Google makes so much money from ads that they can be insulated from this lesson as well.
What Else Can MOPA Fiber Laser Engravers Do? Weld, Cut, Clean, Color, Mill [video]
This is so cool!

Checkout this video for a cool overview, brief history, and demonstration of the Omnichord: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAIar0O-yvg
Don’t forget that McAfee was delivering virus scanning in a browser in 1998 with active x support, TinyMCE was full wysiwyg for content in the browser by 2004, and Google docs was released in 2006 on top of a huge ecosystem of document solutions and even some real-time co-authoring document writing platforms.

2008 is late to the party for a docs competitor! Microsoft got the runaround by Google and after Google launched docs they could have clobbered Microsoft which kind of failed to respond properly in kind, but they didn’t push the platform hard enough to eat the corporate market share, and didn’t follow up with a share point alternative that would appeal to the enterprise, and kind of blew the opportunity imo.

I mean to this day Google docs is free but it still hasn’t unseated Word in the marketplace, but the real killer app that keeps office on top is Excel, which some companies built their entire tooling around.

It’s crazy interesting to look back and realize how many twists there were leading us to where we are today.

Btw it was Office Server or Sharepoint Portal earlier (this is like Frontpage days so like 2001?) and Microsoft called it Tahoe internally. I don’t think it became Sharepoint until Office 365 launched.

The XMLHTTP object launched in 2001 and was part of the dhtml wave. That gave a LOT of the capabilities to browsers that we currently see as browser-based word processing, but there were efforts with proprietary extensions going back from there they just didn’t get broad support or become standards. I saw some crazy stuff at SGI in the late 90s when I was working on their visual workstation series launch.
No doubt markers are imperfect, and they can't respond to changes instantly. But that's way more vague than the "greedflation" narrative. The idea behind greedflation is that companies are systematically overpricing products, and no one is undercutting them because... (insert explanation here).

What that explanation is, nobody really seems to offer a good reason. Collusion is always a possibility, but there's strong disincentives for it. And it'd have to be a huge number of companies that are all colluding. There are much more mundane explanations, such as record spending. Is it really that surprising that record profits are made in a time of record spending?
I'm currently battling their support. Tried opening a Play account to publish an app to the app store but missed an email to verify my identity. Now the link in the email no longer works because "Google couldn't verify your identity" as I've had "too many tries" and my account is restricted meaning I can't publish the app.

Support just repeats the same things back that I've had too many tries and my account is restricted and I can't get a refund.

It's woeful how bad the support is to get such a simple thing sorted out. Don't miss that email if setting up a developer play account!

(If anyone can fix this my developer play account ID is: 7827257533299144892)
You can build a Turing Machine in the GoL. Then program a loop. The period needed to execute the loop is rather long (TMs in life aren't very fast), but every period beyond that is trivially just a different TM program. Finding oscillators shorter than the shortest looping TM takes is harder.
I love Golden Corral but when I took my snobbish Italian friend, he took one bite of the food and just walked out.
Statistics can do that. "If we were only X% durable, what are the odds we would have made it so far with no data loss?"

Then pick a threshold p value you like and that X% will be a reasonably confident estimate

If other words if you think you have 99.999999999 but you really have 99.9, Nature will correct you rather quickly. If reality persistently lets you get away with it, you can counterfactually deduce you must have more nines.
> The systems that I see most commonly deployed in practice are chatbots that use retrieval-augmented generation. These chatbots are typically very constrained: they can't use the internet, they can't execute tools, and essentially just serve as an interface to non-confidential knowledge bases.

Since everything from RAG runs through the prompt, unintended prompt-induced behavior is still an issue, even if its not an information-leak issue and you aren't using untrusted third-party data where deliberate injection is likely. E.g., for a somewhat contrived case that is an easy illustration, if your data store you were using the LLM to reference was itself about use of LLMs, you wouldn't want a description of an exploit that causes non-obvious behavior to trigger that behavior whenever it is recalled through RAG.
>> tossed it from knee height on to a folded up sweatshirt that was sitting on a rug on a tile floor.

> You tossed it onto a tile floor

You seem to have intentionally omitted some pretty important information there.
They're getting mixed up, the 400-800V systems are _only_ for the motors, everything else in the car still uses low voltage.

In fact, afaik every single electric car has two separate systems. There's a high voltage system (the main battery and motor(s)) and the low voltage (almost always 12v) system, usually with a traditional lead-acid 12v battery that is charged via a DC-DC converter connected to the high voltage battery.
This is all amusing. Not that it matters, but when I said "expert" I really meant any user that understands how to use PGP. Those of us born during the construction of the pyramids know how to use it because it was the only option that existed back then, and we still have that knowledge despite other options existing. Signal and other options are great, but you can't encrypt arbitrary data with it. PGP is really a different use case these days. And the ancients that still write emails.
>Because we all know corporations were keeping prices and profits low before COVID because it's good for PR.

Is this the same corporations that didn't want to pay "essential workers" a living wage and/or give them reasonable hours? I find it doubtful that they turned over a new leaf during covid because it was "good for PR".
> At least we won’t have to worry about it obtaining god-like powers over our society…

We all know someone who's better at self promotion than at whatever they're supposed to be doing. Those people often get far more power than they should have, or can handle—and ChatGPT is those people distilled.
Did you waste $7,000 of expert time, or did you just save yourself $7,000 on a hardware class?
They are not civil servants. They are employees of PostNord, which is a company owned by the government but the employees have the same rights as any other employee: to organise themselves. They've organised on a sympathy strike against Tesla, to boycott doing their work that would have Tesla as a customer in sympathy with IF Metall's strike.

All of that is completely legal and acceptable. Employees of a company (PostNord) are joining together with employees from another company to fight against a company trying to avoid the rules on how the labour market works here.

There's no "civil servant" in play. Everyone is a worker.

Accept that it's a different culture, maybe not better or worse than yours but different. Here the labour market is a free market, the government doesn't regulate much, and it's up to negotiations directly between the participants of the market: employers and employees. For that a lot of companies agree under a Collective Bargaining Agreement the minimum bar expected for employers to respect when contracting employees. These CBAs complement the bare minimum legislation around the labour market from government, they are a cornerstone of almost all labour relationship instead of heavy government regulations.

Those are the rules of the game, Tesla is trying to break them, and worse, they brought scabs to break through the strike, which is really not tolerated in this culture. Because of that they have the sympathy of workers from other industries that Tesla relies on, since Tesla is trying to break the social contract of the labour market, other workers feel that is infringing on their own rights since it will create a precedent for other companies to also ignore the rules of the game.

This is what is in play, I hope you understand it's not your culture, it's ok to be ignorant about it but I expect smart people to also be able to learn a different perspective instead of keeping spouting their ignorance.
I like these kinds of analysis of books because you can be almost certain that the author did not have historical populations in mind when deciding on settlement and army sizes.

Though I’ll admit Tolkien could be an outlier here. He seems to have been quite thorough on a bunch of things.
I feel like I'm going crazy reading this stuff.

Inflation is always greedflation. There's more money chasing less stuff so they hike up the prices on the stuff to capture as much money as possible, and that is inflation. That is capitalism with an inelastic demand curve.

If there were more goods and more competition then prices would lower.

They're always greedy, and if you keep spending they keep raising prices.
I don't know if that's the right kind of term, it's just a list of prompts I've noticed usually don't work in image generation models - specifically they ignore what you said and just make an image with some of the words in it.

This looks like a SD1.5-like latent diffusion model though. The giveaway is that it can't spell.
products will get so much better if user groups can figure out how to own the bugzilla
Cool, I've never needed a repairable phone. Ever. Never had anything break on any iPhone I've ever owned. I have accidentally immersed it in water several times though, after which it was totally fine. That makes the Fairphone useless from my perspective.
A ton of trucks are 24V, especially in EU. 48V in automotive industry is something new; I can't remember seeing it on any commercial trucks.

Electric bikes use 12V, 24V, 28V and even 56V. Nobody loves the weight and the cost of thick copper wires.

400V or 800V are charging voltages, because it's the operation with the highest current; to keep it manageable while transferring more energy you need really high voltages. AFAICT, motors inside a Tesla use 320V. I suppose that ICE-electric hybrids also use some reasonably high voltage to feed the electric motors.
Could Google be trying reduce its exposure to legal ramifications (i.e. compensation / class action)?
This is why you don't also download the music from stories when you download stories, no such agreement with Spotify.
This is not too surprising for Electrek, which is run by Tesla/Elon fanboys and mostly got popular by accident during the rise of the EV.

I like Ars Technica's car coverage: https://arstechnica.com/cars/
Counter-Electronics High Power Microwave Advanced Missile Project
The bigger problem is lack of context. When I speak with a person or review search results, I can use what I know about the source to evaluate the information I'm given. People have different areas of expertise and use language and mannerisms to communicate confidence in their knowledge or lack thereof. Websites are created by people (most times) and have a number of contextual clues that we have learned to interpret over the years.

LLMs do none of this. They pose as a confident expert on almost everything, and are just as likely to spit out BS as a true answer. They don't cite their sources, and if you ask for the source sometimes they provide ones that don't contain the information cited or don't even exist. If you hired a researcher and they did that you wouldn't hire them again.
I never ran llama2 myself, but I read many times it is heavily censored.
Not really use. They play music or YouTube etc. while showering.
Name brand products are often perceived to be superior (whether or not that perception is warranted, is it's own topic) so no doubt they can command a premium. Mercedes vs Honda. I've ridden in plenty of Hondas that are just as comfy as Mercedes, but the fact that the former commands higher prices is not price fixing or "greedflation".

Prices tend to go up because inflation is much more common than deflation. That I don't doubt. But the narrative behind "greedflation" is that something other than market conditions are causing inflation.
The mechanical backup for a drive-by-wire system is different to all those other things in that it's a critical safety issue. If _anything at all_ happens to the electronics while driving then it's important that you can stop the vehicle safely. That mandates manual brakes and steering, even if they're barely effective at all without power it's a lot better than nothing.
The only thing more tedious and full of specious proclamations than a "is Processor X CISC or RISC" geek slapfight is "how many bits is Processor Y".
What's a commonly produced thing that's 48v? I don't know much about this subject. Is it most industrial type stuff or is there consumer tier products using it?
Be careful with projecting these numbers forward. As far as I can tell, there’s no SLA for durability, only for 99.9% uptime (you can get 10% off your bill if this is violated)
Maybe my fingers are just too big but the watch for anything like texting is basically impossible for me to use.
Well, maybe the fact that sushi refers to the rice, not the fish. Cucumber avocado sushi is sushi. A piece of salmon, even though often lumped in to the category, is not. I'd rather have good rice and average fish than bad rice and good fish.
Luckily, if you look at the generational divide, it won't be long before people like Ballenegger are looked upon like those who defended slavery on the basis of the inferiority of Blacks--or like people who were bigoted towards Jews when they first started coming to this country in great numbers.

It is of course pretty sad and disgusting that he isn't already looked upon like that and publicly condemned.
i think that there isn't enough competition. So many brands are owned by the same corps, supply chains vertical, largely same grocery store products/brands in Virginia as California. You can't just raise prices unless you have leverage over competition.
This administration's pro trust busting is the start of a change i hope. Efficient capitalism needs competition more than it needs efficiency of scale. The sad thing IMO is thatnsocial spending at the bottom is being used as a scapegoat, when increased demand wasn't the biggest player.
You might also enjoy the following thread: https://forums.atariage.com/topic/205741-z80-vs-6502/page/2/...

The argument begins at the linked post and goes on for pages!
Your Dad did about 30 to 40k miles per year. This guy did more than 100k miles per year. Are the batteries also a flawed design?
Right. If you want to have an oscillator with period $pq$ where $p$ and $q$ are primes, then you can just use independent oscillators with period $p$ to one with period $q$. They'd already discovered a construction for $p \geq 61,$ and most of the values below that, so only 19 and 41 were left.