skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Matt Levine

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/authors/ARbTQlRLRjE/matthe...

He does interesting commentary on current business news, and deep dives on complicated financial matters. He's so freaking hilarious that stuff I'd expect would bore me becomes must-read stuff.
I prefer "to go" over "takeaway" for two essentially meaningless reasons:

First, _go_ is older than _away_. According to Etymology Online, go dates back to Old English ("gan"), while away in sense of "at a distance" is from 1712. Second, I get to save a syllable.

So "to go" is older and less effortful than "takeaway". Also, both work.
> Do you think lawyers who leverage ChatGPT will take the made up cases and present them to a judge without doing some additional research?

You don't?

https://fortune.com/2023/06/23/lawyers-fined-filing-chatgpt-...
Andrej Karpathy's Talk as a Blog: The Busy Person's Introduction to LLMs
I've found Andrej's talk the best out there to explain LLMs in the simplest possible way. He has a unique way of making complex ideas simple.
This transcription-like blog is for those who prefer reading to watching.
Your caveat is not the norm though, as everyone is putting a lot of faith in them. So, that's part of the problem. I've talked with people that aren't developers, but they are otherwise smart individuals that have absolutely not considered that the info is not correct. The readers here are a bit too close to the subject, and sometimes I think it is easy to forget that the vast majority of the population do not truly understand what is happening.
https://www.avforums.com/
> Do you think lawyers who leverage ChatGPT will take the made up cases and present them to a judge without doing some additional research?

I generally agree with you, but it's funny that you use this as an example when it already happened. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/06/lawyers-have-rea...
To be fair, Wireguard is incredibly easier to setup and maintain than OpenVPN, pretty much not comparable. I don't know how easy it is with Tailscale though so I can't comment as to how much harder Wireguard is compared to it.
yes, most projects fail because of incorrect CI/CD choices. Or the wrong issue tracker.
> On Linux it doesn't even use the page cache

This is the case on FreeBSD as well, ZFS uses its own cache, but UFS and I guess other filesystems use the kernel page cache.
When was the last time they added a new permanent component to it?
this was plausible
You can integration test, you can use the debug plugin for htmx, you can format them with vs code extensions, and there is a highlighter available, though it’s not that important seeing as how each attribute is pretty simple.
> On the other hand, the Fairphone 5 is hardly a ball of fire when it comes to processor power. Though it comes with the fastest industrial chip (not a Snapdragon) made by Qualcomm, that puts it squarely in the mid-range rather than rubbing shoulders with more exotic devices.

I think performance might be what limits its actual useful life. I have had to replace phones more for being slow (since software is always eating up more and more performance) than for actual physical failures.
for 2, I will say anecdotally I have never in my life bought something directly from an ad until the last 2 years on instagram. It actually found things directly useful to me that I did not know about beforehand (I did still go through an hour of research or so, but was amazed at the algorithm discovery capability)
Yes, that's what I wanted to do, change the CSS values (based on ids, I guess).

I'm pretty sure I've heard of D3, I'll have to check it out. Thanks.
Even from a compensation point of view, they presumably have a better chance for a big exit of some kind at a startup vs as a Microsoft employee.
The way I would do it is simply: no matter what, the employees get to vote down things their managers do. They can vote to do nothing, have no organizing body, and pay no dues, but they still get to vote, so if they want to prevent their bosses from doing something exploitative to them, they get to.

This model does not put you in a group anymore than being an American citizen puts you in a group by giving you the right to vote on things. In my version it is like how you get to be in a political party if you want to and not be in one if you don't, but you get to vote either way. The right to have some say against your manager's power in your life (short of quitting, that is) should be unassailable.

The fact that quitting is "all or nothing", and often not an option to people because the cost of finding a new job is high and often prohibitive to specifically the people who are most disenfranchised, makes it a poor and almost useless way to exercise power. Unions allow, in principal, for there to be intermediate pressures between "quitting" and "asking nicely".
Anything that gets more Ruby out in the world is positive in my book. Great looking project!
I miss Fresh Choice, the mostly-vegetarian buffet. They went broke because the buffet itself was a lose and they were making money on the extras.[1]

[1] https://www.mashed.com/1374299/chain-restaurant-buffets-disa...
Are you saying this because of the diddling accusations or for some other reason?
Ha good point, and yes I agree Swype continues to be the best text input technology that I’ll never be able to use again. I guess I just committed genericide here but I meant the general “swiping” process at this point
Igon Value Problem
A big part of the comp is in equity, and since OpenAI has an uncommon equity structure it is unclear how that would translate to Microsoft stock.
Systemd Brings BSOD to Linux
> Fairphone promises five Android version upgrades and at least eight years of security updates, with an aim for a total lifespan of a decade.

Impressive
i would guess a lot of OpenAI employees are sitting on some pretty valuable stock/options if the company doesn't implode
AI: artificial incompetence
Nvidia is the single biggest hardware supplier for anything related to AI. Apple's name essentially doesn't come up in conversations about AI. If Nvidia wasn't a meaningful player in the AI space and they put out a library for their hardware, I'd also say it didn't feel like a "commitment".
i think it's safe to say that you're not the average phone user.
This is blatantly false. And Luke never worked for us.

(I am the longest serving engineer at Blockstream).
atoav: this sounds like at great exercise. Have you written any public article about that?

The main reason for writing this article was
* My curiosity - what secret is behind all strange bytes in a graphical file
* To spend some time doing something weird, that I know have zero effect of my career and no chance of giving and benefits or profit in the future.
December's update isn't available on my 7 Pro yet.
At a previous company, engineering teams selected SLIs and SLOs based on what was easiest to implement and measure. Nobody had devops, SRE, or performance testing experience. Your SLC seems like a really great interactive primer. I imagine a lot of engineering teams need help in this area.
turing tumble is super fun. Really cool graphic-novel style instructions too.
Well, google has a history for faking things.. so I'm not not surprised. I expected that..

All companies are just yelling that they're "in" the AI/LLM game.. If they don't, share prices will drop.
> also a devastating weakness of the system for its most important intended application (exchanging messages between humans). PGP's key management system is literally the last thing you want in a messaging system.

Strong words, but why?
Although its sound is legendary, I can imagine it's not that complicated a chip. Had anyone ever tried to replicate it with discrete components?
instagibbs has worked for Blockstream in the past, but that's all I can see.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1731900441800155459.html
David Sacks and A16Z tried to take down Parker Conrad
Daily Wire and the Federalist Sue Biden State Department over Censorship Effort
"The U.S. Department of State (“State Department”), through its Global Engagement Center
(“GEC”), is actively intervening in the news-media market to render disfavored press outlets
unprofitable by funding the infrastructure, development, and marketing and promotion of
censorship technology and private censorship enterprises to covertly suppress speech of a segment
of the American press."
From the lawsuit...
https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/12/DailyWire-v-State...
Why no linux builds?
The parent comment was referring to free ($0 a month) models. With those, companies don't need to plan around the possibility that Stability AI hikes up the price afterwards.
Anthropic Says "Skill Issue"
Am I reading it right that performance was roughly comparable with GPT-3.5? How is this even possible?
> Well, there's no balancing downside to doing it this way.

With the dockworkers example there is a massive downside: you mess up all industries doing any export or import. You really need a large buy-in before doing something that can mess up all unrelated industries, and thus potentially employment. In a small country no union operates in a vacuum, you'd quickly lose all goodwill.

Edit: I think I answered off your point, which was about the specific company. Yes I don't think there's any big downside now, but if Tesla was playing by the book they would have the industry behind them. They are just choosing a more difficult way.
You quickly realize that most restaurants serve terrible food and so it isn't worth eating out at all.
There is one for Elixir too, Flame: https://fly.io/blog/rethinking-serverless-with-flame/
I think you're reading a lot into GP's comment that isn't there. I don't see any ragging on people critiquing it. I think it's perfectly compatible to think we should continually improve on these things while also recognizing that things can be useful without being perfect
Broader principal - if your "free speech" is all about performative offending and fight-picking, then you need to be told that YOYO for the associated consequences and costs.
Should I feel bad with this context because my ELO is 1150 in Age of Empires 2? That's like 70% percentile-ish. Oh well.

Hypothesis: This dude will stagnate at gold or platium-league, or 1100-1200ish or equivalent in an RTS game's ranked ladder.
As if OpenAI employees would have any problem landing a new gig...

Going from an agile startup environment to an F50 is a huge leap culturally.
It's like going from Summer science camp to the army.
I am actually working on getting a Linux build put together. I honestly didn't expect to even have macOS at this point, so, one step at a time :)
I'm not a fan of current approaches here. "Chain of thought" or other approaches where the model does all its thinking using a literal internal monologue in text seem like a dead end. Humans do most of their thinking non-verbally and we need to figure out how to get these models to think non-verbally too. Unfortunately it seems that Gemini represents no progress in this direction.
I think there's an extra layer for the heavy addicts.

One is straight up ego, it's not just about creating, it's about telling yourself you're the next Knuth and Wirth all in one, you'll be the one to revolutionize how we do things, it will go down in history.

But it seems they don't like corporate megaprojects, they're not creating features and functionality as much as they are invention new abstractions.

And of course the ultimate addict project is a new programming language.

Some seem to be deeply disturbed by things not being open source and as simple as possible.

If there's a simpler way, even if the CPU savings aren't relevant and it takes far more effort, they want to explore it.

Sometimes it seems like they don't actually like tech at all, they like ideas. They want computers to be bicycles for the mind more than abstraction layers to outsource parts of life so we don't have to learn how tax papers work.

But they seem upset like they feel some responsibility to get the rest of us to use simpler tech and protect our privacy and add more logic and elegance to our software.

I think there's definitely multiple types of addicts with different motives.
Ultimately depends on the restaurant - we had an AYCE sushi, hibachi restaurant we loved with a style different than a conveyor belt that gracefully handled the issue.

The restaurant had a to-go by-weight option. For the dine in patrons, you would check boxes on a menu slip with your order, quantity, etc.

Their menu included a simple request that patrons reasonably finish each plate before submitting a new order, that being honest kept their prices reasonable, and that patrons wasting entire orders would be charged on a per-weight basis for the wasted order at their discretion.
Boffins devise 'universal backdoor' for image models to cause AI hallucinations
CPU speed isn't usually the thing that kills a phone, it's running out of memory. If they oversize (or allow upgrades of) the memory it could easily last that long.
You keep saying this. It's not true.

(I work for Blockstream, and we have no current employees in the top 10 contributors for this release AFAICT)
And then when you do your account gets locked immediately for 'suspicious activity' and they ask for phone details and/or photo ID. X is going to be WeChat with payments etc, they need real people's details.
Not for sale in the USA. I looked at their small whitelist of countries they ship to in the final step of checkout.
To the question of whether it could have intent to deceive, going to the dictionary, we find that intent essentially means a plan (and computer software in general could be described as a plan being executed) and deceive essentially means saying something false. Furthermore, its plan is to talk in ways that humans talk, emulating their intelligence, and some intelligent human speech is false. Therefore, I do believe it can lie, and will whenever statistically speaking a human also typically would.

Perhaps some humans never lie, but should the LLM be trained only on that tiny slice of people? It's part of life, even non-human life! Evolution works based on things lying: natural camouflage, for example. Do octopuses and chameleons "lie" when they change color to fake out predators? They have intent to deceive!
Vertical AI SaaS
> The number of non-tech ppl I've heard directly reference ChatGPT now is absolutely shocking.

The problem is that a lot of those people will take ChatGPT output at face value. They are wholly unaware that of its inaccuracies or that it hallucinates. I've seen it too many times in the relatively short amount of time that ChatGPT has been around.
What about the non-salary part of comp?

For most employees, their OpenAI stock would have been worth even more than their salary at its current valuation, and it has the potential to potentially be worth quite a bit more in the future.

Replacing it with Microsoft stock would have made it a sure thing - but also with much less growth potential.

I'd be really curious to hear if Microsoft actually got so far as to figure out what to offer OpenAI employees in terms of an equity offer.
> When you look into details like 911 calls over Wifi shouldn't actually share priority with 4k VR porn.

That's irrelevant, because sane people don't try to stream 4k VR porn and make 911 calls simultaneously on the same device. Just give each device ~64Kbps (enough for even a uncompressed phone call) that it has exclusive first dibs on. For robustness, give each modem ~1Mbps that it has exclusive first dibs on, so 16 people in the same house can't stomp on each other's traffic[0].

This works fine even if the porn and the 911 calls are both going over indistiguishable TOR connections, as they ideally should be in order to deny ISPs the physical possibility of not having net neutrality (though that's not always practical).

(A alternative option is to always allocate marginal bandwidth to the device that's using the least bandwidth total, which avoids having to know what a phone call costs, but seems like it would harder to make reliable in practice.)

0: Technically this is the only part you can properly enforce, since a user could reprogram their modem to give more bandwidth to certain devices, but the 64Kbps/device limit is good default, and if they change it, any problems are on them.
This is the paper's author presentation in this year GNU Radio conference [1].

[1] Ultra-wideband SDR architecture for AMD RFSoCs using PYNQ based GNU Radio blocks:

https://events.gnuradio.org/event/21/contributions/418/
95%-tile isn’t that good, and there’s a corollary that I often see, where there’s a plateau of people way past that (say 99.5%-tile) of several hundred people who are good but clearly not the best. This is people who are actually working hard at something and are in basically every context indistinguishable from being the best but they themselves know that there is still a ways left to go. I’d argue that it’s actually not super hard to get to this point in a few things (say, maybe an hour a day on it) but then the difficulty ramps up exponentially until you’re basically dedicating your life to get past that. It’s interesting to see people who pick being 99.5%-tile at a few things versus those who choose to give their all into one thing where they become, say, top 10.
There are two lawsuits.

1. to force the government to allow Tesla to pick up license plates directly from them rather than using PostNord.

2. to force PostNord to deliver license plates.

Preliminary rulings are for Tesla on #1 and against Tesla on #2. That seems right to me.
It really is just noise, more precisely a kind of Perlin noise combined with a "color burn" blending mode. It is not dithering, though it looks like it because it is applied on a gradient.

The idea with dithering is that you start with a smooth image (high color depth) and quantize it, that is, reduce the number of colors. If you do it the simplest way, by integer division, you will get banding. To reduce banding, the idea is that for each pixel, you choose between the rounded up or rounded down value semi-randomly, with a probability depending on how close you are to each value. It will give gradients a noisy look, but if you happen to be on exactly the color you want, it will not look noisy at all. Even though dithering can be a stylistic choice, it is more often a technical one, so that you can have a good looking image with a limited palette.

Here, the effect will result in a uniformly noisy texture, and it will not reduce banding if present. I think that for aesthetic purposes, it is better than true dithering.

In addition to the aesthetic value of adding texture to the object, just like dithering, it can also improve the perceived quality of the image. For example, it can mask defects and increase the perceived sharpness.
I see what you're saying, but my point is that even for non-competitive pursuits in the physical world many can involve deep levels of skill that take years to develop. Cooking is another great example, almost anyone can make dinner for themselves but making a really delightful meal for guests requires a lot of skills that take a lot of time to develop. You can go quite deep there, and while hard to measure become better than 95% of home cooks would be impressive.
Chess is an unusually good example of there being a system in place to rate people. Master of, say, CSS is not like that.
These are very cool. https://www.spielzeug-meiners.de/marken/simba-dickie-baby-un... fun to see kids learning how to use a wrench and screwdriver and washers.
True. This is why I think it's pointless to try to use copyright law to defend yourself against AI companies. Right now, anyway, I don't see any law (or any other mechanism) that provides any protection. If I did, I wouldn't have had to remove all of my websites from the public web.
The insight here is that the speed of correction is a crucial component of the perceived long-term value of an interface technology.

It is the main reason that handwriting recognition did not displace keyboards. Once the handwriting is converted to text, it’s easier to fix errors with a pointer and keyboard. So after a few rounds of this most people start thinking: might as well just start with the pointer and keyboard and save some time.

So the question is, how easy is it to detect and correct errors in generative AI output? And the unfortunate answer is that unless you already know the answer you’re asking for, it can be very difficult to pick out the errors.
Apple? They seem to be asleep at the wheel as far as AI goes. I thought their focus was hardware. Siri is a piece of junk.
It's an open question whether moving to Microsoft would have been a good deal or a bad deal. But I'm pretty sure that most people seriously contemplating a move were definitely considering the dollars, even if not exclusively. (Although I expect most people signing a petition were not actually serious.)
Motivated by this article, and already thinking about handing down my current phone to a family member as a Christmas gift, I visited the Fairphone store (https://shop.fairphone.com/ though likely available only on Amazon in the US) and read one review (https://www.theverge.com/23895548/fairphone-5-review-price-f...). Here's why I'm holding off.

1. No wireless charging. Switching to this phone would require a big change in my household's ecosystem (sorry to use a big word for a small thing, but I can't think of a better one). We have $10 wireless charging discs all over the place, and it's nice to be able to charge whenever we set our phones down. I don't want to take a step backward.

2. The Verge's review suggests the camera is OK but not great. I've been taking Pixel photos for years, and my phone is always the one people ask to use for group shots at social events. I don't want to fuss with taking a picture ten times just to get the lighting right, and the Pixel almost always meets the bar on the first shot. It sucks that a consumption device like a phone has this one critical input feature, and that there is still so much of a computational photography gap between certain brands and the rest, but that's how it is, and it prevents me from seriously considering any of them. (This isn't unique to Pixel; I hear Apple does well in this area, too.)

3. Just a nit: why is the case 40 euros? I expect to pay a premium for the phone because of the specific compromises in the design and the resulting low volumes. But this is just another run-of-the-mill TPU case that I expect I'd have to routinely replace every couple years. I don't use screen protectors, but I have an even more allergic reaction to the 33-euro price of the one for sale. I know there are aftermarket options, but I'm already taking a risk of poor part/accessory availability in the future because it's a niche product, so I don't know whether they'll still be available when I need them years from now.

By the way, I do own a Framework laptop (11th-gen CPU), and I like it a lot. I plan to swap out the motherboard next year. Unlike the Fairphone, the Framework didn't impose cost and performance compromises right out of the gate. I support sustainability, but there's only so far I'm willing to go.
In the current telling, anyway. And there was nothing like "science" until well after it grew to many thousands.
How do you define "bad rep"?
Your implication that OpenAI has "AGI" is unsupported and implausible imo.

LLMs are impressive, can increase productivity for certain workers in certain industries etc, yes but avoid reaching like that please.
It is a similar position as with chromium and web standards. Doing stuff without their agreement is kinda pointless in the same way, but if they aren't gonna cooperate what are you gonna do, give up and just do whatever they want?