skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I will provide you a brief glimpse into the future. The FCC investigates and opens up the issue to comments. Despite pleas from an overwhelming majority of the population, those comments are ignored or deleted and the FCC resolves the issue as "reviewed." At the very most they hold a closed door vote where 2 of 3 or 3 of 5 of the panel side with the telecoms where they have cushy jobs lined up.

The FCC doesn't just tolerate these cable Crooks, they enable their existance.
From your post:

Pure CISC very easy to define - it have microcode, because of this could exist complex commands with few operands.

Pure RISC does not have microcode, it is fully pipeline.

You are wrong, I gave examples where you are wrong, and now you're trying to change the narrative so you appear to be right. Have a little integrity.
I'm with you on this!

Sure, I can allow users to run reports that take multiple seconds, but I'm generally not delivering that to the browser to be rendered.

And if I was, I'd crash the browser tab. Which is surprisingly easy to do...
Startup That Monitors Space Threats Raises $100M to Expand Satellites
I never understood these layoffs. Don't the management team see it coming and plan it? Seems like a knee jerk reaction which affects people. Sad to see them ruining Christmas

Downvote mfs.
Social mobility is literally only about money today, not too many opportunities to become a noble anymore.
And no you cannot "readily increase your earnings." The best indicator for a person's future earnings are still the parents wealth. There are outliers but basically social and economic success are largely inherited.

The people that don't realise this are nearly always the ones that grew up with a silver spoon and feel like they "worked hard" for what they have, when in reality most of their opportunities were open to them because of their social circle.
It's not exactly celebrated right now either.
> This will change really fast. I highly doubt AI will have free speech in France when citizens don't.

In countries such as France or Germany, Holocaust denial speech is illegal. However, they’ve never demanded that developers of word processors or email clients or web browsers modify their products to prevent their use for Holocaust denial. Sure, they might decide to treat LLMs differently from those older technologies - but there is no guarantee they will.

Mixtral acknowledges the historical reality of the Holocaust - unless you specifically prompt it to deny it. And if you are telling an AI model to deny the Holocaust, why should the AI model developer have legal liability for that, as opposed to the person who chooses to input that prompt?
Statistically how often do the same people work on more than one breakthrough paper?
Google Sheets and Excel are Turing complete
They are semi-rigid (not hard shell) and kept to the minimum pressure allowed by human physiology (~0.3 atm, not 1 atm): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_suit#Design_concepts
A stable company that pays out their profits as dividends is reasonably valued at some x*profits.

A company that reinvests these profits in things which investors believe will result in growth is valued x*future_profits, which is much larger - so if the leadership of a 'growth company' would announce that they're now a 'stable company' just paying out dividends, they would destroy most of the stock value of their investors, and would be considered an absolute failure of that leadership, since everyone involved has a strong incentive to replace them with someone who can make it (at least in the eyes of public) a 'growth company' again, doubling or tripling its value for the same revenue.
That'd be really dystopic.
All my research seems to indicate that tokenizing BASIC code on input was first done for Altair BASIC written by Gates and Allen. I'm not sure why you think they wouldn't be clever enough to come up with it. It's probably the only way one could get BASIC to work in the 4K of RAM available on the Altair.
Automation has been radically changing our societies since before Marx wrote down some thoughts and called it communism.

Things which used to be considered AI before we solved them, e.g. automated optimisation of things like code compilation or CPU layouts, have improved our capacity to automate design and testing of what is now called AI.

Could stop at any point. I'll be very surprised if someone makes a CPU with more than one transistor per atom.

But even if development stops right now, our qualification systems haven't caught up (and IMO can't catch up) with LLMs. Might need to replace them with mandatory 5 years internships to get people beyond what is now the "junior" stage in many professions — junior being approximately the level which the better existing LLMs can respond at.

"Transform society" covers a lot more than anyone's idea of the singularity.
Yes, Israel has destroyed a lot of Gaza. This is a big problem, especially for the "day after" the war. As for many people being unaware - most people are unaware of anything to do with this conflict and only know a couple of slogans.

To your question - how does bulldozing a park help? I have no idea. Nobody outside of the IDF really knows the specific reasons for bombing some locations. I trust the IDF to not be shooting rockets at targets for no reason, which is probably a level of trust that most people don't share.

I'm sure someone with more military understanding could offer plausible theories, but if you're inclined to believe that Israel is trying to level Gaza just to hurt Gazans, I doubt any theory they offer would sound convincing.
You can opt out of the personalized ads, but you cannot opt out of the data collection, storage and correlation.
2007 Tundra Limited is peak Tundra for me.
The Bayh-Doke Act at 40 : J health Polit Policy Law (2022)

Anything by William B. Bonvlian

Vitamin D fortification is a fun one, involved the creation of WARF in madison and proceeded Bayh Dole.
They actually have their own custom neural network accelerator called a TPU. They're one of the only companies not reliant on NVidia at the moment.

Until OpenAI showed up, they were widely considered the leader in AI research.
Isn't there a lot more controversy surrounding this individual that is not touched upon in this article? Didn't this person cover up fraudulent studies by another professor and for someone associated with Epstein?
yep absolutely - have seen a few of those. And how well they work is what inspires me to want the next parts, which are (a) send the surrounding lines and output as context - notice above I can ask it about "these files" (b) automatically add the result to terminal history so I can avoid copy/paste if I want to run it. I think this could make these things absolutely fluid, almost like autocomplete (another crazy idea is to actually tie it into bash-completion so when you press tab it does the above).

CodeLLama with GPU acceleration on Mac M1 is almost instant in response, its really compelling.
As of Dec 12, 2023 at 04:42 PM (eastern?) the Status Page now reports "Merchants may encounter error messages when operating store admin — What happened? Some merchants may experience errors when trying to access/operate the Shopify admin. We are investigating and will keep you updated."
Using Giant Mirrors to Light Up Dark Valleys (2013)
No wonder Netflix continues to make shitty shows. People are watching shitty shows.

I don't watch the shows that the bulk of Netflix viewers watch!
But some things will get worse in ways we didn't foresee.
Ed Greenwood was also quite popular. And a couple other authors wrote a number of pieces for the Forgotten Realms series.
I think if your prior includes "trusting others is a moral and character weakness" then I don't think it's useful for us to discuss this topic further.

As for actuaries, in the US, the GINA law prevents health insurance companies from using this data. I think legal protection is much more important than attempting to hide my DNA.
Arbitration almost always favors the company, why else would they push for arbitration instead of respecting your rights?
I dislike repeating myself but once again, per Wikipedia, apartheid is a "system of institutionalised racial segregation".

That Amnesty article contradicts that definition. It's talking about mistreating people in East Jerusalem, aka The West Bank, which again, is not part of Israel, has its own government, etc. And what is the primary race of those people in the West Bank? Arab. And Arabs comprise how much of the Israeli population? Around 20%. And are those Israeli Arabs being systemically mistreated, as though by apartheid? If they are, then this "apartheid" not only directly opposes Israel's declaration of independence, but it's a strange type of Apartheid that is highly supportive of Arabs becoming doctors at roughly double the expected rate per capita in Israel.

Yes, Israel is treating people differently, but it's not based on skin color or race. It's based on whether they live inside its national borders.

This is a complex and nuanced situation but please try to understand that it's dangerous to unilaterally redefine words the way that Amnesty does in that article. There's a huge difference between widespread systemic racism and some bad apples illegally occupying land outside a nation's borders.
Yeah, What I wrote came from that really. I should have mentioned it.

I mean it's a compelling breakdown IMO.
Check out Recoll with Recoll-WE https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/recoll-we/
Thanks for trying it out! That's good feedback on the voice. It's actually a voice clone of a real voice actor, but I agree there are moments where it still feels not quiittee there.
I mean, E3 was a business tradeshow. That's why people like me who never went have rose colored glasses, because we didn't see how dry it was, just the press show excitement leaked to us. It was retailers and publishers making shelf space deals and some annoucement press conferences. A lot of the industry cross pollenation was taken up by GDC for devs, and I'm not sure how it is these days but I went to Penny Arcade Expo in 2015 and it felt very much like the indies and fan conventions. Pandemic changed things, but I"m not sure how these expos are these days.
I use Devuan GNU/Linux, with Cinnamon as the desktop environment. Maybe there's some MacOS (or *BSD) specific issue?
No - it's $37M - it should be less than 20% for sure. They HAD 5500 employees. After the layoffs, it could be close to ~30% - which is INSANE - but not as absolutely crazy as 50% would be.
BG3 was disappointing from a monetization perspective? How on earth, it sold over 20 million copies in less than a year!
I'm finding it hard to understand what you are after.

Is it given a researcher, P(second breakthrough paper|first breaktrough paper) for some definition of breakthrough?
It depends on the characterization you give Palestinian citizens; are they captives of Hamas, are they complicit in Hamas holding hostages and firing rockets at civilians, or are they just part of Hamas?
Hence the mentioned hx-disable. Presumably you wrap any user content with that, right?
Did you stop reading the comment there?
Not saying the pay isn't outrageous, but most of the executive pay is in equity, which probably cost Hasbro next to nothing. They can't pay those laid off workers, probably making little more than minimum wage, with that.
I can see a real advantage in slowly resolving an election. Rather than a lot of inconsequential drama then one final binding event. drag the event out over a period of time and throw out one person each round. It might keep things human scale rather than meme scale.
This sort of thing underscores how impossible it is to stay safe in our society. If you can't even get medical care without your data being mined for all it's worth, what can you do?

So utterly depressing.
They burned a lot of goodwill WOTC had by pushing them harder and harder to carry the rest of the company. A move last year to change the terms of the OGL lead to massive community backlash. They are lucky Baldur's gate has been such a hit and GOTY material. If it wasn't for that a lot of fans would still have a bad taste in their mouth in regards to DnD.
Basically a ton of arrows point towards EOY as a good time to do this. January has the most layoffs, December second most. In industries with seasonal hires, you get rid of them after the rush. Additionally, company budgets tend to be yearly, so you adjust to the new fiscal year's budget at this time too.

I wonder what kind of social change would occur if each company was randomly assigned a quarter in which their taxes were due instead of everyone defaulting to the same exact time.
The problem comes when you sanitize out something that would be legitimate. Consider SQL--O'Neill will have a problem with you sanitizing his name.
RIP E3: the 28-year-old videogame trade show is done and won't be returning
Really helpful on both fronts, thanks for the thoughts. Both the sandbox and migration use cases make a lot of sense.
In my house, guests are required to remove their shoes before entering. Also coasters must be used for beverages.
I doubt very much, GFiber has been around here long in those cities (limited area) too, but for some reason, it has never tried to expand into other cities nearby.
I think Google's goal is to try to make the market more competitive, it doesn't try to take over other ISPs.
> with the goal of a two state solution with Israel and Palestine co-existing according to the 1967 borders

Why are the 1948-1967 borders considered so important? They lasted for 19 years.

Also, in 1967 Gaza was occupied by Egypt. Do people want that again?
By "participation in a Nazi organization", do you mean buying stuff from a Nazi online shop? And the "totally separate situation" is this same antifascist organization's target selection?

But no, let's return to the original claim - we are to believe every one (or at least most) of the doxing victims were "plotting genocide", they weren't just trying to stop immigration to Sweden? Based on what?

Even the Nordic Resistance Movement [1], the only far-right terrorist organization mentioned in the article, and which this online shop is merely "linked to" (according to AFA Sweden), are only against immigration - their wiki page has zero mentions of genocide or expansionism.

If we applied these skewed "standards" to the AFA itself, they would also be plotting genocide, a mass famine to break Sweden's national resistance, akin to the Holodomor. But of course the guilt by association and demonization only ever go one way.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_Resistance_Movement
Apollo 1 was very much not production hardware. "The Vintage Space" channel on YT has a good rundown, "Duplicate Apollo Spacecraft". They didn't lose any crew on production hardware, although 13 was close.
> but most of the executive pay is in equity, which probably cost Hasbro next to nothing

It's costing the investors who they work for that much money.

It might not be impacting the balance sheet.
No. Next question?

Like it or not, the utility and cost of anything space related these days has gone up and down respectively.

With billions wasted worldwide each year on frivolous weddings, unused education and ridiculous fashion...I feel like space exploration is one of the few things actually worthwhile.
The interesting point here is that the two founders had previously co-founded a similar AI company, Adept, that raised a much larger amount of funding ($415m vs $57m here) to build foundation models:

https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/two-co-founders-of-...

Why did they leave only to create a rival company in the same space? One could argue that Adept is more focused on native multimodality and agentic models (https://www.adept.ai/blog/act-1) developed with longer-term research horizons in mind, but Essential also seems to be aiming at frontier-level capabilities in models trained from scratch.

My bet: as with OpenAI/Anthropic, there's both a philosophical divide and a power struggle to be found in this backstory.
There are US military bases in the Kurdish administered part of Syria. The US has troops stationed here for many reasons, one of the biggest ones being to protect the Kurds in the region(just recently the US military shot down a Turkish drone flying in this airspace)

Turkey already has a lot of human rights violations on its record, but, if it got to the level of Israeli repression in West Bank against Palestinians, there would be a lot more sanctions against Turkey
We know right where each came down.
If it's like the ones I worked with, serial connection to the System 36/38 in the back room.
Designing and Developing Python Applications [in LibreOffice]
Honor Among Thieves wasn't quite the all-time great that Baldur's Gate 3 was, but I thought it was pretty fun and enjoyable.

I think the other D&D game that came out recently (Dark Alliance) is probably a better example of devaluing the brand.
> Are you claiming you've always scored 100% on every multiple choice test because you've been "fed the answers"? What kind of dumb response is that?

In giving it answers, you gave it context to infer the right one. You narrowed the search domain. It does have the same effect on humans, which is why multiple choice tests are easier than others-- when you show up to take the test wholly unprepared, you're looking for the most plausible answers based on the context you're given. Fortune tellers and Clever Hans work the same through interactive reactions.

You take to insult but I'll challenge you again to run your experiment and provide only wrong answers for all of the questions. Bullshit your fortune teller and see what answers it comes back with in the impossible situation you create.
You’re not convinced by “our technology will make data analysts 10X faster and give business users the tools”?
The best parts about the D&D movie were the practical effects, which were obviously effects but obviously practical and therefore charming.
> I think if your prior includes "trusting others is a moral and character weakness" then I don't think it's useful for us to discuss this topic further.

I agree, if you can't justify trust with reason then it's hard to trust your argument that relies on trust. Trust can be broken, and your stance doesn't address that concern.
Israel is surrounded by nations which want to see Israel destroyed, and which have banded together in the past to attempt exactly that (e.g. the Yom Kippur War in 1973). If Israel fails to retaliate against aggression forcefully enough it could embolden the surrounding nations enough to form a new coalition and attack.
> mistral-7b-instruct and openhermes-2.5-mistral-7b

mistral-7b-instruct is one of Mistral’s models; openhermes-2.5-mistral-7b is a third party fine-tune, so says nothing about Mistral’s policies.

Furthermore, the reason why openhermes is “safe” is primarily because it was fine-tuned using GPT-4, and so has thereby inherited some of GPT-4’s “safety”. I’m not sure if the “safety” is an intentional desiderata of its developers, or more just an accidental byproduct of a decision to use GPT-4 to help further unrelated goals
I am disappointed in the decision to allow this.

Can you walk me through how the below commentary is adding value to the HN community? What % of participants will walk away from this conversation with a positive perspective of their peers?
Fair enough. I'm probably more exurban than rural although I'm in the middle of land with a lot more forest than houses. Cellular around Concord/Lincoln on the train is pretty awful though, but it's perhaps not universal.

Also fair that hot spots can be better than phones. My brother had one up in Maine but it went to Starlink and, more recently, to fiber.
Have to disagree. LLMs in their current form are not the end all be all of AI architectures. Seems like the co-authors of the original transformer paper are in a good position to find other valuable applications of the results described in the paper. They are also probably in a good position to see what other advancements are on the horizon that can be productized. Not sure why you would write them off as being too late to the game as though the game is already over. It's only over if you think that grabbing mind share on the current LLM hype train is the goal.
I don't know what they're talking about with "available only in hardcover". Hypermedia Systems is here: https://hypermedia.systems/ available in HTML online, ebook format, hardcover, or you could go to the github repo and probably transform the source into whatever format you want: https://github.com/bigskysoftware/hypermedia-systems

X posts as screenshots suck though.
People have feet and can move between cities...

They're pushed out, either through police violence or a complete lack of viable social support systems. There's many ways to discourage folks from sticking around through ad hoc policies without putting it explicitly into law, or else to simply not mandate the kind of support that other cities have.
I'm also assuming that Video For Windows is not the core of the dependancy ;-)

This should be highlighted as the number one feature in the brightest and boldest font possible.
And a non-addict could leave the stove on. People do dumb shit. Keep in mind most "housing first" initiatives don't literally provide "homes". It's usually apartments.
Well, it was preceded by an history essay on cosmetics. Many cooking websites precede the recipe with an essay....
On the control surface, I mean less the surface itself than the mechanism behind, i.e. the moving parts.
Neat! How specific is your solution to Postgres? Could it be ported to another db engine?

(And, how are conflicts resolved? In a huge system with millions of records coming from everywhere it can fast become nightmarish?)
I've long thought about getting an old Bravo CD burning robot, and making it run "backwards". Always been a "I oughtta" project
I'm a D&D player, and have definitely noticed a drop in quality of 5e products to the point where I just wasn't interested in buying anything after witchlight. Being a DM, I slurped up every book to steal ideas and encounters that I could use with little effort.

My group also all had the same visceral reaction to the OGL kerfuffle early this year and moved to Pathfinder 2e. I had a lot of fun with 5e, but it had already grown stale for me before all of the madness and short sighted decisions anyway.
Doesn't surprise me a bit. Deal with anything sensitive and companies are very prone to cooperating with the police rather than have them cause trouble when they don't get what they want right now.
I think the rockets being fired into Israel is one threat, but the far greater threat is just Hamas repeating the October 7th invasion again.

They've said, numerous times, that they will do it - invade Israel again and again, killing as many Israelis as they can. (Leaders have also said they will kill Jews anywhere in the world, btw.)

If Israel doesn't take out Hamas, it is entirely unclear if it will be able to prevent them from carrying out more attacks in the future.
Lego is a fascinating case study. They've gone entirely corporate - so many of their expensive new products are branded partnerships. I guess it had to be done. There must be an HBS case study, or several, about this.
Yeah, mine is owned by the state instead, dirt cheap. I can do more things with fewer restrictions, I have more freedom. Anyway, I have to put together the gun I 3d printed, take my completely unregistered truck to church, then maybe go hunting without a license, then come home to my house where I pay $400 a year in property taxes. All legal.