skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well antitrust is basically what stopped the deal from happening [1]. If they had gone through with the deal and done this strategy I imagine it would have been a slow 5-10 year shift, not an immediate action.

> The main concern among regulators was that Nvidia, after the transaction, would have the ability and incentives to restrict access to its rivals to Arm´s technology, which would eventually lead to higher prices, less choice and reduced innovation. [2]

[1]: https://www.ftc.gov/legal-library/browse/cases-proceedings/2...

[2]: https://www.pymnts.com/news/regulation/2022/collapse-of-nvid...
I found the PDF much more readable than the epub. The fonts or something. Finished it on my iPad using the stock PDF viewer, it’s pretty good in iOS (except it forgets your page sometimes).
UK really wants to arrest people for saying anything remotely controversial online. What the hell is going on over there.
They also did that for Cloud Formation in my experience. It’s better now that you can tell CF to forget about resources but I still get people asking for help dealing with a hung stack.
So weak to strong synthetic data still biases towards strong.

And strong to weak synthetic data biases towards strong.

Sounds like we're on the cusp of some kind of approach for unsupervised fine tuning, particularly with the trend towards MoE.

I'd guess we're maybe only one to two generations of models away from that kind of unsupervised self-talk approach being wildly successful at advancing net model competencies.
That's irrelevant. The point of the story, if you missed it, is that Europeans were not interested in adopting the Native American way of life and assimilating.

Cortez didn't arrive in Mexico and swear loyalty to the local king, and adopt their religion
Why don't particles from surrounding interstellar medium show up in the graph as matching the pressure of the solar wind?
Wow. This is just completely insane and shameless.

Marketing page: http://web.archive.org/web/20231214235524/https://www.cmgloc...

"It's True. Your Devices Are Listening to You."

Blog post: http://web.archive.org/web/20231214234802/https://www.cmgloc...

"No, it's not a Black Mirror episode-it's Voice Data, and CMG has the capabilities to use it to your business advantage."

"Creepy? Sure. Great for marketing? Definitely."

Another blog post: http://web.archive.org/web/20231214235309/https://www.cmgloc...

"We know what you're thinking. Is this even legal? The short answer is: yes. It is legal for phones and devices to listen to you. When a new app download or update prompts consumers with a multi-page terms of use agreement somewhere in the fine print, Active Listening is often included."
WHY DOES IT FEEL SO JARRING - EVEN RUDE - TO USE ALL CAPS?

Because you learned that, and it’s relatively new. Like full stops in text messages.
I hate it when people try to change the meaning of words.

Cartel means collusion. Collusion means people doing deals. Is there any evidence that guys from Harvard meet with guys from Yale and guys from Princeton and collude on something? Exactly on what are they supposed to collude? On who they are going to admit from the incoming cohort of applicants? How exactly could that happen? Each university gets thousands of applications. Are they going to rank them and say "I get this guy, you get this other guy, and yours is slightly better than mine, so you owe me one next year"? That's a nice conspiracy theory, but you can't keep this type of things secret.
Free BSD is a lot more orderly than Linux. It’s easier to learn and it doesn’t change as much over time.
I see the situation as a lot like the original IBM PC wars. Originally you had the IBM PC and a bunch of "compatibles" that weren't drop-in compatible but half-assed compatible - many programs needed to be re-compiled to run on them. And other large American companies made these - they didn't expect to commodify the PC, they just wanted a small piece of a big market.

The actual PC clones, pure drop-in compatibles, were made in Taiwan and they took over the market. Which is to say that large companies don't want a commodified market where prices are low and everyone competes on a level playing field - which is what "seamless transition" gets you. So that's why none of these companies are working to create that.
> Btw, you say "in the dry", but have you ever been in the desert on a cold night? I think you might reconsider just how cold "dry cold" can feel.

Lived in Salt Lake City for 60 years, so yes. And I would say that, to me, the cold in the Midwest is worse than the cold in the West, even at the same temperature and wind.

But after reading your response, another variable has occurred to me. The west isn't just dry, it's high and dry. Higher elevation means lower air pressure. Lower air pressure means fewer molecules hitting each square inch each second, carrying off heat. Is lower air pressure part of why the cold doesn't cut through you as much out west?
They were more focused on preventing competition than mining user data, yes. I remember that era well but I will agree that they had better UI design and documentation, in no small part because you couldn’t just assume people would find a YouTube video explaining how to use something.
> but nobody gets that it's the software and ecosystem.

Really? Because I’m confident Intel knows exactly what it’s about. Have you looked at their contributions to Linux and open source in general? They employ thousands of software developers.
Trying to wrap my head around that speed. It could go the distance of the Earth to the moon in a little less than 6 hours and 20 minutes.
Moore's law of progress, co-incendentally this also relates to Musk's cheap rockets also.

Should we do science now or wait 18 months for innovation to double and try then.
That is the entire question no? Nobody says it sounds easy. A way needs to be found that reconciles this. Smarter but acting within its brief? Faster but explaining the plan before putting it in effect? Faster and developing its own advances in sciences, concepts and ideas while still understanding who's boss?

But to be fair most engineers claim this is something that happens all the time - smarter people led by sub-optimal managers. And also to be fair, stories abound of managers being manipulated or misled or left in the dark by their engineers.

Or armies controlling most of the weapons but being faithful to the ideals of their country. Or considering that these ideals demand a coup.

So in that sense the problem is well studied. ... But the current results are insufficient and do not apply to things like LLMs.
This is what I hate the most about edge. I wouldn't use it even if it were the best browser around, just because they keep trying to cram it down my throat.

Make a product that's so good it speaks for itself and spreads like wildfire through word of mouth. That's what doing a good job is.
Citations required.

More importantly, Apple doesn't fab its own chips. TSMC does. Everyone has access to the same vendor. Similarly everyone has access to ARM cores. Yet somehow Apple managed to build an Intel/AMD competitor and others didn't? What am I missing?
For software developer desktops, MacOS is about as popular as Linux, and both still trail Windows.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/869211/worldwide-softwar...

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2021#section-most-...
More info in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Schickard#Drawings_of_... , but I can't find any detail about how it works.

I only found this description is Spanish https://historia.nationalgeographic.com.es/a/maquina-schicka...

The autotranlation of the relevant part is

> WHEELS AND GEARS

> According to these notes, the calculator watch was made up of two parts. At the top, using rods that moved horizontally, the Napier system was reproduced to solve multiplications, divisions and roots. At the bottom was housed the completely mechanized procedure by which the chains of addition and subtraction that were generated were solved. It must be taken into account that with the Napier method, if a number was multiplied by another that contained three figures, once the rods had been chosen and the results had been read, three numbers were obtained, the sum of which had to be carried out using normal procedures, without aid. This is precisely what Schickard's model resolved mechanically.
and do what? at that speed, all you'll be able to do is wave as it sails by. you're not stopping at anything at that speed. however, even at 400k mph, that will not reach the next anything of interest before humans are extinct.

here's some logic on why even getting to the closest star isn't likely: https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/33274/how-long-cou...
I’ve seen enough in the last 22 years to know how people behave when given arbitrary power over others.
He really should be cited. The paper is supposed to give context to the reader, so to not cite a notable paper that is relevant is doing a disservice to the reader and it does seem pretty sketchy to me (I mean only if it's notable, idk who Schmidhuber is).
It did, as I recall. But it was only one or two pixels, plus one pixel at the corners. It wasn't much if you weren't looking for it. And I wasn't - it hadn't occurred to me as a failure mode.
If you like this, get the Switch version. It's wonderful, and will still exist 24 hours from now.
That's weird. Which ones are you trying? I get great elixir help out of CGPT4. Sure, it needs close supervision - you can't just trust it and you need to actually understand everything it suggests, and it loves to "forget" things you told it just a moment ago about how you can't use a guard clause there, or whatever - but in terms of just getting a decent starting point, man, it's been a game-changer. The $20 I send OpenAI each month is the most no-brainer money I spend.

It was definitely pretty bad with liveview for a while, while that was under heavy development and API changes, but it's had a data update that mostly fixes that, and if you specify the version it's helpful there too.
People wiser than me have said for an age: the map is not the territory. Neither is the word the thing.
What are you talking about? Tekken is basically Knowledge Check: The Game, and the very first level of knowledge check (df+1) is going to be completely unbeatable for someone that doesn't know how to respond. In Street Fighter, you can guess right and jump over a fireball 6 times in a row and win.
> I don't know how baked on you're talking here

Very :-). I'm talking about a pan accidentally left on the grill or in the oven for too long until it smokes. The residue is pretty much what you end up with when seasoning cast iron cookware, and is very hard and resistant to usual household chemicals. It's far from the oily residue that is removed easily with paint thinner or acetone.
truncated title?
> So what exactly is replacing PFAS?

Good question!

Something chemical that will eventually also be proven dangerous, but only after a decade or so of exposure…

In another field, DDT was safe until it wasn’t, then came neonicotinoids…safe until they weren’t…and so it goes…
um, it's the most distant man made transmitter we're receiving anything from.

there's lots of things much further away broadcasting information to us. just go outside at night and look up. you'll see a bunch of 'em
I'm not sure history should be sacred. In the world of science, this is important, but otherwise, we didn't used to live in a universe where every embarrassing thing we did in middle school would haunt us in our old age.

I feel bad for the younger generation. Privacy is important, and more so than "the history."
A day in the life: a product designer at Figma
It seems fairy obvious to me that the simple solution here is for Apple simply send a cease-and-desist to Beeper to stop using their network in an unauthorized manner (and I mean that in the literal sense of “you don’t have permission to do this”)

The only reason I can think of that Apple is willing to let this go on is to plug holes in their system shown by a relatively benign opponent.
Not exactly, the model for the various slowing/drag effects are not known along even its near future course.

Edit: disregard, I think it's probably still measurable, just not as well.
You might want to look into the neurology research around when you consciously know about a decision and when the movement neurons about that decision actually fire.

It's quite possible that you have - every day of your life - had something other than the part of you with continuous subjective experience controlling your thinking.

Descartes was overly presumptuous with his foundational statement - it would be more accurate to say "I observe therefore I am." There's no guarantee at all that you're actually the one thinking.

We should be careful not to extrapolate too much from our perceptions of self in dictating what would or wouldn't be appropriate for AI. Perceptions don't always reflect reality, and we might cause greater harm by trying to replicate or measure against who we think we are with AI than letting its development be its own thing.
Go apply maxwell equations to real world situations and gain experience tackling the gravity of issues with free form 3d printing feyman diagrams for programming language bnf forms without material support. VR works too.
Given what I've seen from MS, it's more likely that X means agree.
Sure, but not that you'll hear about it if you do a search for "replication", and I suppose it also depends on whether you include brain science with psychology, as I do.

In my field (psychology/neuroimaging): injuries to the hippocampus obliterates the ability to form memories for associations between items/events (e.g. between multiple pieces of information in an episode space, time, items). However, it will not generally impair memory for individual items or features.

Children will often have worse memory than adults, but these differences are attenuated when you prevent adults from using or benefiting from organizational strategies at encoding and retrieval.
Asbestos can cause lung cancer, but also asbestosis and mesothelioma, for both of which the only known cause is asbestos exposure.

I’ve heard of a number of these cases of wives of construction workers contracting these asbestos related diseases, it’s a population that had a higher chance of contracting them (just like construction workers themselves exposed to asbestos, of which there were many in this country). As I understand it, none of this is disputed by any of the medical science, epidemiology or experts in those fields…

Since asbestos is still around in various (mostly old) materials, it is possible to have additional exposure unknowingly, but it’s quite rare to contract something like asbestosis or mesothelioma without known exposure.
Why would he sell for less than 2 million he would get nothing as well. Unless he restructured took preferred shared. But usually it is better to take a chance on a rebound.

A number of things could have happened. If he is not responding a cheap lawyers letter can clear that up. A sale could have some public records depending on who purchased.

How much did you own? 30%?
Intel 14th gen Core Ultra 14900H

Intel and AMD are both absolutely terrible at naming processors.
Presumably simply because there isn't as much density. The interstellar medium particles must be less dense but more energetic, thus producing the pressure that causes the heliosphere to be restricted.
I have recent experience talking to non-techie younger people recently about this very issue and none of them were aware of the security differences of SMS vs. iMessage.

Teenagers know that blue = iPhone and green = non-iPhone/SMS and that blue offers significantly more features and functionality vs SMS (delivered/read receipts, group chats, stickers, rich media, memojis, etc), which is the overwhelming reason why blue is preferred.
Presumably the exact location of the heliopause fluctuates due to perturbations in the sun's emissions.
As usual..

The target market for Windows are not you and I. The target market for Windows absolutely love this stuff. For every complaint about candy crush there are three decision makers playing it. He'll I've dealt with a cto that wanted help buying candy crush credits of whatever they are called.
NASA Learned to Love 4 Squirmy Letters
> If the amount of money available goes up, then one would expect that the price of other things, all else held equal would also go up

And if the amount of money available goes down for 18 months... then what?

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WM2NS

An "inflation hedge" goes up when inflation is up, and down when inflation is down. But in practice, BTC is closer to down when inflation is up, and up when inflation is down.
Databases Store and Retrieve Data
Probably not as better the devil you know. The alternative is scary to most.
Maybe you're the right person to ask. How do we know that the sun-particle-sensor or its wiring harness or one of its connectors simply hadn't failed?
If you own an ISP would you invest in an area where another ISP monopoly exists and all users in an area will have to pay sum to pay contract to move to your service.
This also about competition just not customer service though yeah I agree internet infrastructure should be financed and run by the local governments just like roads etc are and let ISP compete on services
You could've said the same for air travel in the early days.
Maybe Intel should start stepping up their Arc GPU game first.
Shouldn't this be considered an incident at https://status.ledger.com/ ??
Yep, the article is presumably for the reader, so context should be provided.
People are genuinely breaking their backs trying to carry water for Google here, making comparisons with looting ketchup packets from McDonald’s and other stupid stuff.

None of it changes the simple facts of this matter:

Google sold an unlimited storage plan, not unlimited with a big asterisk but unlimited with terminology such as “as much storage as you need.”

Google then decided they didn’t like that anymore, so they retired that plan and told people that they needed to either free up storage or upgrade within 60 days or else it would switch to read-only mode.

Two things are essential here: 1) 60 days was not enough to download all the data this person had stored, and 2) it said nothing explicitly about deleting data; instead, the heavy implication was that the data would remain stored with the caveat that nothing could be added or edited.

Then suddenly, Google informed the user that they’d delete his data within seven days.

That’s it, no “loophole,” no “ketchup packets,” no nothing.

A promise to be able to use as much storage as you needed in exchange for payment, an implicit promise that the data would be safe, and then a rug pull.

No amount of Olympic levels of mental gymnastics will change these facts.

If Google wanted to renege on its promises, it should’ve provided ample time to download the data. In a general sense, Google, one of the wealthiest companies in the world, needs to stop being a cheapskate and stop refusing to provide basic customer service on their consumer services.

The fact that their “Contact Us” option keeps sending people to a forum for most of their products, which customer service agents don’t regularly frequent, is pathetic.
Intel Meteor Lake Analysis - Core Ultra 7 155H only convinces with GPU performance

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-Meteor-Lake-Analysis-Cor...
T-Mobile does not give primary account holders access to messaging content of other lines, regardless of the relationship between users.
The old "anyone who disagrees with my world view is being bought" argument.

M series gains aren't just to do with the node. It's also because of the unified memory architecture and most importantly the fact that custom silicon e.g. Neural Engine is taken advantage of through the OS and SDKs.
> We first found out that GPA and GRE scores mean nothing. Neither GPA nor GRE scores are predictive of grad school performance!

I’m skeptical of these claims because I’ve heard similar things about the SATs, but: https://news.mit.edu/2022/stuart-schmill-sat-act-requirement...
I am guessing the number comes from multiple systems of independent sensors. So the assumption is that they won’t all fail at the same period in the same way
In the dark ages when internet access was limited and/or via dialup for most of us, there were several tools and protocols to work with what we had: email, ftp and usenet were some of the main ones. Usenet was basically a primordial set of distributed forums platform (and quasi-social network) where copies of the data were stored locally. It was how a lot of information got disseminated prior to the mid-90's when the web took off and then over.
French Company's Delivery Droids Look Like They Were Designed by Pixar
Preface, flavoring and perfumery are very nearly the same practice. You can view the back catalog of the trade rag Perfumer and Flavorist, which will include formulae and articles of ingredients or industry developments. Of course there are books on the topic. The Good Scent Company is a free online database of aromachemicals. Further, you can buy these ingredients from places like Perfumer's Apprentice, if you wanted to get to know some of them.

For natural ingredients, you can usually just google the name of it plus "gcms" and get a list of known compounds in it with percentages.

Not an easy profession or hobby to get into, though.
TED talks are like LinkedIn posts: Cringey and nothing you can do about it.
Only new Doctor Who is on Disney+. Old Doctor Who is on "Max", for some reason.
Yes. It fits with a curious child. Adding a custom prompt... I am an 8 year old before each request would give age related answers.
TBI = traumatic brain injuries?

And that hasn't worked all that well in the past: Even with strong impulse control, a highly considered state or government agency "for the general good" has often been serious bad news.

But also the current alignment definition kinda posits that no "oops" is allowed. That is, escape or take over is not recoverable (from a sufficiently advanced AGI). So, yes, progress and one step at a time - but the field in its current definition is looking for a magic bullet.
Is it fair to say that alignment is just the task of getting an AI to understand your intentions? It is an error to confuse the complexity of a specification of what kind of output you want, with the complexity of the process of producing that output. Getting superintelligent AI to understand simple specifications should be a non-issue. If anything, we would assume that it could be aligned using a specification of inferior quality to what a less intelligent AI would require, assuming that the superintelligent AI is better at inferring intentions.

If a little girl with no knowledge of cooking asks her dad to cook the macaroni extra crispy, his knowledge of how to do that isn't a barrier to understanding what his daughter wants. A trained chef with even greater skills might even be able to execute her order more successfully. Superalignment is nothing less mundane than this.

Advances in AI will lead to more ambitious applications. As well as requiring more intelligent technology, these new applications may well require more detailed specifications to be inputed, but these two issues are pretty orthogonal. In traditional computing, it is already clear that simple specifications often require highly complex implementations, and that some simple computational processes lead to outputs whose properties are highly difficult to specify. Why wouldn't the same apply in ML?
It’ll come back online. There’s probably some geomagnetic storm.
Problem then goes to how do I decide whether this particular idea is a dime a dozen or a unique idea... Everyone ends up going by feels when answering this question for any particular problem.
Funny how you are complaining about a corporation receiving billions in subsidies, when the article is about Starlink not receiving subsidies. Especially when the corporation is providing the service without government help.