skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Copyright doesn't apply to ideas. It applies to works, which are specific, complete expressions of ideas.

I was attempting to say that in my first sentence.

> they copy human-expressed knowledge and art styles on an industrial scale, thus destroying revenue streams that supported or encouraged creative expression in the past

I currently have no opinion on art works as my focus is on knowledge and LLMs. I just did a search on Amazon for "child care" and found 40,000 books on the subject. I doubt the world needs 40,000 books on child care so if LLMs remove the revenue stream from these authors maybe they will spend their time writing books the world needs.
This is part of the mismatch between comparing Alexa/Siri/Cortana to a chat based LLM right now. If you just want chat and info retrieval, today’s LLMs are way better then the conversational dialogue, search, and q&a capabilities any of those assistants have. But, if you want relatively predicable task completion for things like smart home control, timers and alarms, real time weather updates, etc. (basic but frequently used interactions) or any integration with your phone or computer directly, there’s a lot to do that isn’t solved yet in the LLM space and is more of a system integration and action choice problem that the existing assistants have been hammering away at for years.
> In any case, I don't think anyone is qualified to credit or discredit a claim in a medical or psychologically diagnostic sense without a clinical interview (something that few psychiatrists are qualified to perform by the way). That's not what I'm doing here. What I'm pointing out is the unreliability of recovered memory.

Uh huh... and in another comment in this discussion you've gone on to speculate that she has BPD, with the implication that her accusations shouldn't be believed for that reason.
Yes, but no more than a non-Bayesian’s. The difference is mainly that the Bayesian approach makes more of its assumptions explicit.
Interesting, I didn't know that. Thanks for bringing that up.
I just installed 4.2, and it was indeed smooth.

Impressive improvements, and I like the new interface! I probably test the battery usage and applications, see if I can switch my workflow to Qubes!
72241,1417

Ziff Davis owned the 72241 set of IDs. Bill Machrone was 72241,10.

(I was lead sysop of the ZD Executives Online forum and backup sysop of the Computer Shopper forum.)

Also it took everybody forever to realize everything on CompuServe was octal.
The roadmap of IONQ has them producing 64 logical qubits with error correction within 2025. Whether or not they succeed, I think time will tell as theyve stopped publishing and a cofounder stepped down to return to teaching and research.

Quantinuum, the Honeywell merger, expects billions of revenue in 2026. Honeywell gave up on transmons and joined up with their $260m investment into Cambridge.

Speaking of transmons, Rigetti is facing delisting

IBM is still going hard on transmons and selling mainly to universities.

Google had sycamore but were still waiting to see if they’ve solved the cascading errors inherent to scaling

Microsoft invested heavily in majorna fermions for compute — which might not even exist. They are not an authority on the physics
There’s also https://wasdk.github.io/wasmcodeexplorer/ which highlights the bytes.
Which locations are those?
You caught that before my quick edit - I replaced “each” with “most”, but I agree with your amendment. It’s the one thing we can each absolutely start doing today. And the choice to do so is a meaningful one that changes each of us and the people around us.
If a train with a GM diesel engine delivers raw materials to a Ford factory for making F150s, you would conclude that consumers whould start driving trains to work?

Is that your argument?
Don't think that follows. I doubt all their cloud services run on Apple hardware. They make consumer devices.
I suppose the use of unsafe pointers liberally is disgusting to some.
Maybe you could try to be a bit charitable and understand what they meant because I don't think that is so bad.

Of course it could have been said in other, simpler terms perhaps, but that can be attributed to stylistic choices. I'm not too offended by that.

It's rare that people rethink something in terms of (multi) linear algebra, it can be a good reframing for an idea.
I hope you'd do so cautiously, as you wouldn't want to hit something that caused it to stop in the first place.
Xterm's sequences support switching between 10 fonts quite reasonably, it's just that most people never configure a font ahead of time.
Really it still does, in a way. The ”apps” in the app switcher work that way. Even if the app is still live in memory, it’s not rendering to the switcher all the time. And if it was killed, then the pic is all that’s left.
I've never heard anyone promote frequentist statistics. I've only ever heard Bayesians on the 'offense' talking about why their framework is better. To be clear I am someone who doesn't really understand the faultlines.
I don’t have ads. No wait times.
This just goes to show the problem with centralized platforms.

This kind of what-content-is-allowed drama doesn’t exist when everyone just has their own self-hosted blog.
Maybe the meaning of life is to play factorio!
That's why it's for constructing a prior that you change later; your study itself should update the prior in the direction of being more correct. But it's not like you can do better than "the best available prior" (by definition).
Apple doesn't even support NVidia cards on their Mac Pros. The technical details are above my head, but the way Apple M* chips handle PCIe make them incompatible with GPUs and other accelerator cards. Whether you use macOS or Linux.
If you read the comment thread I linked to, you can find links to most of them.

The real kicker for me is how absurdly high the effect is in the recent studies. You should basically see A students failing tests when the teacher closes the window.

You should see huge swings in standardized test scores based on building ventilation.

Companies with good ventilation, should absolutely dominate their markets.

And nuclear submariners operating at 10,000 ppm should basically be non functioning if there is any kind of dose dependent effect (which the studies in question say there is).
And probably Intel processors and Linux in their datacenters.
And even if they do pay, larger companies often insist on net-60 or even net-90...so you have to wait potentially months after delivering work to get paid. For a small or new shop that alone can put you on the ropes, especially since the companies most likely to do this are likely to be large enough and pay well enough to be the bulk of your inflow.
Right because their anti-competitive practices prevent me from using the services I pay for the way I want to.
Except people will argue your privacy rights are violated by having cameras .. at least in SF .. they'll also argue it's racist by showing stats that poor people pay more of a percent of their income and so it's harder on them and there are more poor people of color than not.

They're supposed to add a few speeding cameras next year except ....

https://www.sfmta.com/projects/speed-safety-cameras

See the steps. I suspect it will never actually make it to the final step before some group successfully prevents them from being put up
Finally, some decent competition for Not Hotdog!
Ceers-2112
> The biggest expense was purchasing a PyCharm professional license at $116.58

I mean, awesome that they value good tooling to spend on it but https://www.jetbrains.com/community/opensource/ almost certainly means they qualify for a complementary license
It's called putting your money where your mouth is.
Multimodal, not multimodel. Multimodal referring to the different possible modes of input (text, picture) into the model.
Yikes, this is a pretty judgmental post. I spent my time as a kid joining bands and being in plays, but if someone loves building homelabs, what’s wrong with that?

To your point about diminishing returns in technical skills vs social skills, as a senior engineer, I completely agree, but I have the opposite takeaway! I love to build at home and expand my knowledge of pure computing, because it’s a love of mine that I don’t actually get to do much of at work.
Fantastic write up - keep going (please)!

Agree more practical examples but disagree this is too abstract.

I’m thinking starting at more common scenarios then jumping to container networking. Ie - Flow of a packet on a simple node, a two interface node, then namespaces, and then quirky virtual stuff.

Another example - I’d love to see how iptables actually works. Maybe how to use ebpf to implement iptables things like source/dest NAT, Masquerade, etc.

But yeah I learned a ton here. Thanks
https://ceers.github.io/

Papers: https://ceers.github.io/papers.html
What does "expects billions of revenue" mean, precisely?
Have you ever added such services yourself?

It's effort.
I would argue that “info retrieval” is also something the LLM space has yet to yet to solve to a human level of reliability, but I think your comment is right on. I see this all as part of the greater symbolic vs. stochastic (/neat v scruffy) dynamics
I think your expectations are wrong. They sit there in silence with a few leaks here and there and some github projects, people speculate and get all excited about extrapolating those things. Then Apple deliver what works which may or may not be related to it.

What they don't do is sell you a lie a year before release then deliver shit (like every other fucking vendor).
Modalities and models are not the same thing.
SAQ transmission scheduled for Christmas Eve morning, Dec. 24th
Successful urban wind energy prototype
I was thinking about the waymo incidents.
Of those, literally the only one I’ve heard of is GitLab. Hard to imagine “ShipBob” is a “big win” for YC.
Yes, I would prefer to have my hobbies be subsidized.
Last I looked expert consensus on factoring RSA-2048 was about 15-20 years out but with a wide divergence of opinion. You might find a less optimistic take today,
Many big “open source” releases in the AI community recently are not licensed for commercial use. Not really OSS at that point (ex:fuyu model from adept)
> Ah, my daily reminder that HN comments will pull complete opposite conclusions out of their ass that are unequivocally disproved by a 10 second google search.

I'm only this confidently wrong about 10% of the time. I'll take it as acceptable losses.
AFAIK all their cloud services run on x86 hardware with Linux, including Xcode Cloud (which runs macOS in a QEMU VM, in a way that only Apple can technically and legally do).
Until i see the data suggesting what the article is saying, i'll assume it's just some journalist intern trying to hit their article quote by taking a 1 sentence they saw on linkedin and blew it up to a full article.
No, actually it is not. Stop with this dehumanization of Palestinians. They are human beings. They are not worth less than you just because they are on the other side of the fence.
With iOS 17 they added a tiny little LLM to the predictive typing. I have the newest and greatest iPhone but I feel that I very rarely see it in action. I must assume that it’s just too slow at to keep up with my typing at the moment. Or it’s just not large enough to give very many useful suggestions.
Standardization on this will be good.
I’m not sure, probably. But they are usually skipping out on not only income tax, but self employment taxes. I have to say I don’t find myself bothered by it as much as tax evasion.
Um no we should not presume the accused is innocent; we're not a justice system at all, we're a commentariat. Nor should we presume the accused is guilty; the information we have is precisely what we know, which leaves the question open, and it would be wrong to presume an answer either way. We should assume the accuser has a probability of being correct and not invalidate their claims based on some spurious framework designed to justify doubting them.

Especially not when there's a HUGE and incredibly well-documented pattern of "ignoring accusations of abuse against powerful people" which our society is, like, right in the middle of trying to get better about (while for some reason you are advocating for undoing all that progress?).
yeah, aren't the new M3 chips supposed to be really good for ML training?
Modal, not model
> there is no good science that shows people can be prompted to create false memories of deeply traumatic or personal events such as you are saying. There is definitely no good science showing that recovered memories are more likely to be false than true.

You're absolutely correct that theres a poverty of experimental research in implanting / recovering memories of sexual abuse. It's difficult to devise experiments with any ecological validity in this area, for obvious reasons. However we have the existence proof of thousands of such allegations proven to be false [1]. For obvious reasons, experimental studies on implanted memories of sexual abuse would be unethical, but less than half of US clinical psychologists believe repressed memories can be recovered accurately, and 95% agree that recovered memories can sometimes be false [2].

While child sexual abuse is horrifically common. Given the age of the victim during the alleged offence, and the delay in recovery, this particular case seems extremely unlikely to be true - in the absence of any collaborating evidence.

> Much of the rhetoric around the potential for falsely recovered memories comes from a foundation that was founded by an alleged abuser and has a loose relationship with scientific truth and a fairly sketchy history of protecting child abusers

I'm much more familiar with the work of Elizabeth Loftus on the construction of memory than I am with any media facing foundation. Her lab research shows it's trivially easy to create memories of early childhood experience - although again, she never researched implanting memories of abuse. She also did some great work on demand characteristics in psychotherapy - i.e.: unconsciously producing behaviour performatively for a therapist, such as symptoms or false memories.

[1] https://www.npr.org/2023/04/18/1170710006/texas-continues-to...

[2] https://www.bps.org.uk/psychologist/false-memories-childhood...

[3] https://webfiles.uci.edu/eloftus/KanterKohlenbergLoftusCogTh...
One of my favorites is "hold on one second i need to grab something from the oven, be right back!" then mute the phone and forget about it.
Out of core computations. While your python and R script will choke after reading few hundred megs, my compiled binary cli will keep streaming through many such files with memory usage sitting somewhere near zero.
Substack has done an excellent job of showcasing how much writers need editors. I live my life in between the two awful worlds of programmers who have never had a humanities class and are therefore functionally illiterate, and writers who are so fearful of technology and are unable to move past the need for a "platform."

The publishers that most writers adore would never profit from white supremacy, yet they are fine with a middleman, no different than airbnb and Uber, that has no publishing standards because self-publishing on a blog or something similar is some antiquated symbol of failure in the modern literary mind.
It depends on the context. I very much agree, that I cannot take anyone seriously talking about human right abuse and not ever condemning Hamas. But I don't think that one has to say it everytime, when critizing deaths of children. And we don't know the concrete examples in question.
Not at all, just that the engineers at Ford would be more proud if the train used their own diesel engine. And that this kind of thing affects public perception. “Ford is not for heavy duty”
As a manager I always do that.

First, I want to make sure I understood what engineers were explaining. I'm not as much in the code anymore and it is vital for me to rely on their expertise to understand technical details.

Second, I sometimes include some clarifying questions or try to tease out something that I feel was overlooked.

Third, when I repeat back I try to make it more concise and to the point. It's kind of a coaching moment I guess:) some of my reports struggle with succinct, effective communication, so I try to model how I think they could have conveyed the information with half the amount of words/time.

I absolutely don't feel that it's awkward. I just say "ok let me try to summarize to make sure I understand/get this right".
Instead of WhatsApp, why not build on Telegram? Telegram’s APIs are built quite well for this type of thing. You can still do it via voice messages [0] or you can even build what Telegram calls a Mini App [1]. And it’s all very straightforward and free!

[0]: https://core.telegram.org/bots/api#voice

[1]: https://core.telegram.org/bots/webapps
Also:
https://github.com/BurntSushi/xsv
https://csvkit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
What opinion is expressed by the title below?

"How to install Windows 11 on a device that does not meet Windows 11 requirements"
While annoying for users who don't want to connect their accounts: very fair point. Cool product!
I wouldn't call it disgusting. It's just typical unsafe go code. The named return parameter in `getRuntimeHasher` is irritating, as all such parameters in go code are. If you're going to return values, do so explicitly in the return statement. In go code, seeing `return` at the end of a function does not mean that the function doesn't return any values, and that can lead to harder-to-read code.
>Are Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models a Mirage?

https://openreview.net/forum?id=ITw9edRDlD

Abstract

Recent work claims that large language models display \textit{emergent abilities}, abilities not present in smaller-scale models that are present in larger-scale models. What makes emergent abilities intriguing is two-fold: their \textit{sharpness}, transitioning seemingly instantaneously from not present to present, and their \textit{unpredictability}, appearing at seemingly unforeseeable model scales. Here, we present an alternative explanation for emergent abilities: that for a particular task and model family, when analyzing fixed model outputs, emergent abilities appear due the researcher’s choice of metric rather than due to fundamental changes in model behavior with scale. Specifically, nonlinear or discontinuous metrics produce apparent emergent abilities, whereas linear or continuous metrics produce smooth, continuous, predictable changes in model performance. We present our alternative explanation in a simple mathematical model, then test it in three complementary ways: we (1) make, test and confirm three predictions on the effect of metric choice using the InstructGPT/GPT-3 family on tasks with claimed emergent abilities, (2) make, test and confirm two predictions about metric choices in a meta-analysis of emergent abilities on BIG-Bench; and (3) show how to choose metrics to produce never-before-seen seemingly emergent abilities in multiple vision tasks across diverse deep networks. Via all three analyses, we provide evidence that alleged emergent abilities evaporate with different metrics or with better statistics, and may not be a fundamental property of scaling AI models.
That’s just so dumb though. You can write a book “like Dan brown” and it’s fine. It’s absolute nonsense to imply that ai can’t generate something unless there’s something similar enough that’s open. Anyone can claim that a book is like another book because that’s a dumb and pointlessly subjective metric.
MultimodAl, not multimodEl
I thought I recalled seeing this before due to its Welsh name and (as is often the case) some are from their domain and some are from the GitHub repo; the ones with over 100 comments are

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37561155

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29690877
Yeah, I've heard that said, but it assumes the older apartments will drop in price. If there's more demand than supply, why would they drop?
The only computers I’ve seen that ever came with BD drives were basically home “multimedia” PCs — if anything, I’d suspect most of these computers are more likely to already be in the trash than in the possession of someone interested in installing Linux on them.

Most people, nerds and otherwise, stopped using optical media for sneakernet years ago, and for good reason: you can buy a 5-pack of 64 GB USB 3.1 flash drives (which hold more, and are faster than, a 50 GB BD-R) for $23 on Amazon.com.

For comparison, a 25-pack of 50GB BD-R discs will run you $45, and of course that doesn’t include the drive. It’s still less expensive per GB, but it’s also far less useful because you can’t really share a burned Blu-Ray disc with anyone the way you can share a USB disk.
> Thank you! I feel like it had to be said.

Yes. Regularly and repeatedly.

> I gotta warn you my hiring budgets are frozen atm

That's quite fine, I just started a new job beginning of December 2023 and it's going to be a while until I start looking around (likely part-time / weekends but who knows, we might disagree on the promotion when the time comes in 3-6 months).

> all that came with a cost of me not being very popular with the C-suite of the company, but that's life. You can't win all people's hearts, you just gotta try to do what you think is right.

I wonder if "popular with the C-suite" is as good as many people make it out to be. If you achieve results then the fact that you're not singing everyone else's tune should not matter... but I've lived long enough to know that many people will view you as an enemy of some sort; a wildcard that must be tamed and molded and reshaped to be like everyone else. Because frak your personal approach that actually works, right?

Humans' social behavior is both savage and puzzling to me. Appreciation of personal style very rarely exists in work.

Anyhow, huge topic. I'd love to discuss it after I ping you over the email. :)
>To say that odors aren't odors unless they are consciously perceived is like saying UV isn't light because you don't consciously perceive it

No, I'm saying that EM doesn't produce colors unless it's visible light. What you're saying is that not only are cold, pressure, and pain flavors, so are any additional effects on satiety or insulin response or whatever triggered by any interaction with receptors on the tongue.
You might not have any interest in google "[having] enough to eat this Christmas", but you do have an interest in some sort of a free video platform existing.
You're going to be disappointed. You'd need to blind yourself. That red wavelength is at the bottom of the visible spectrum. Any light that looks not-read is above this threshold. That includes old kerosene and acetylene lamps from before cars were common as well as all other "white", "yellow", or "amber" lamps.

Also, halogen is an old lamp type that has been in use since the 1960s. Then towards the 1990s, there were changes in optics with "projector" housings for halogens, and then the shift to high-intensity discharge (HID aka xenon) lamps. The latest ones now are LED, of course.
I'd say we need to go back further, quantum is in the era of the Babbage difference engine.
Given Ghidra's sponsor, I would expect particularly strong support for mainline platforms used in the US (eg, Qualcomm, apple silicon, intel, ARM)...and curiously, but perhaps not talked about much, strong support for Chinese hardware, based on their leadership wanting to look at US' potential adversaries?
I feel it would be better to just roll out a google doc as a living documents, and publish a pdf or html version as the official document.

I used StackEdit for a while, but it still requires to know the markdown syntax.