skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kind of weird to dump on Khan like he was liar and a flunky.
My kids have benefitted by his very clear educational videos as have millions of kids around the world, many of which no doubt are economically and "genetically"(?!!!) disadvantaged.
this is not about any of those things

this is about business and legalities about business
So you propose that if a new natural resource is discovered in one place then everybody should flock to that place and exploit it until it is exhausted and then move to another place?

While I am supportive toward freedom of movement, I also believe that there should be certain control to limit over exploitation. The example with the home was perfectly fine to illustrate that there are always limits as the resources are not unbounded.
I am not entirely following. The m2 and m3 “scary fast” specs cost way more than my setup.
MetaGer: Privacy Protected Search and Find
Sorry I didn't see this until now. You can still be polite, and speak your truth about something. If someone takes office to someone else's understanding of situation, that is really about wanting to create bubbles of perception for the person that doesn't want to hear an alternate oppinion. We cannot live in a healthy world if there isn't real discourse about the problems in life.
The employer healthcare doesn't make any sense to me either. At least it's a normal expected thing, though.
I remember in the late 90s/early 00s PC Magazine or something had an ad in the back for a "monster" 47 GB hard drive. That's so quaint now.
>computers with little RAM have to swap this data to the hard drive

The hard drive? What machine is sold with a hard drive as swap in 2024?
Nextcloud running the News app [1] on your own server, either an old laptop/desktop or a SBC like a Raspberry/Orange/Banana/${fruit} Pi. You'll get total control over whatever you do with the thing, as much 'free' cloud storage as you want and loads of other possible services. It runs fine on a Raspberry Pi 4 or one of the equivalent boards from other manufacturers.

Source: I've been running this before the Owncloud/Nextcloud split, it works as advertised.

[1] https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/news
I'm confused by both of your replies. Of the very few colleagues I consider friends, we interact outside of work and more importantly exchange texts. In fact most of my friends are from previous jobs. If you had no private contact info to use after a layoff, I would think you're either very shy or these people are forgettable.
Solar and wind are great when it’s sunny or windy. We need dams for green energy the rest of the time.

Comparing max wind capacity to actual outputs from dams is nonsensical. Wind typically produces 30% or less of its max capacity over any period of time and it does so unreliably. The energy from damns is much more valuable.
Thank you for the shift in tone: I'm honestly unsure what you mean, steelmanning: you worked as a consultant at a university and not all work you did involving experiments was for IRB experiments --- I guess what I'd say is, the fact you're able to make that distinction does seem to confirm my initial observation that the grandparent of my original post in this thread was drawing on IRB-style experiments
to condemn excesses of colloquial-style experiments in tech.
Copyright was never conceived to apply to technology like this and the onslaught of copyright suits (like the NYT one) underscore its fundamental rent-seeking nature. No doubt these latest changes to GPT-4 are in response to the suits they’re presently fighting. However these cases are ultimately resolved, the end-user will be the biggest loser.
I got info from the linked page. If it wasn’t clear from the end of the post, I’m not really a fan of Facebook. Thanks for pointing out the sentence I missed. It really doesn’t match my mental model where information that’s put in on a single contact is shared together as with contact exports, so I missed that as I read. Still unfortunate to see Apple compiling personal info together like this.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38954317
Windows 98 ran on 16 MB as a pretty enthusiast configuration and it let you browse the web. I recall Outlook was about as capable as now too for most uses (mail, calendar etc).

They say this is happing due to abstraction and saving development costs but I'm not so sure anymore. Windows 11 infamously has large swathes of boilerplate copied around apps that many of their engineers don't even know what it does.

At this point we're far into abstracting abstractions and those abstractions bear their own complexity that may or may not be more complex than what we began with at a fraction of the resource cost...
I would wager this is a big reason:

> This crate provides bindings to AWS-LC-FIPS 2.x, which has completed FIPS validation testing by an accredited lab and has been submitted to NIST for certification.

If you are in a regulated environment, that’s reason enough.
People have been buried behind a Mississippi jail since 2016, attorney says
At least their planes don't fall out of the sky, because some morons cheaped out on the software and they don't have to get special inspections every other week because Boeing forgot to put a bolt in the Rudder, Door etc...
I remember things like Translate Server Error (https://i.redd.it/kqqkgaro8ir71.jpg) and other instances of error messages finding their way into places where the output would normally be (another one: https://i.imgur.com/RAVOuwg.jpg ). It's not surprising to see this is now happening with AI too.
Seconding that recommendation!
It’s happened to me a few times lately that I’ve heard music playing that was as vivid as a recording. As soon as I became aware of the fact that it was playing in my head and not in reality it stopped. I can’t make it start at will. I’d love to hear of other people’s experiences with this.
No... tech. will destroy us... I think it already started but not sure if most people will notice it in 10 years from now.
Which, in practice, means senators representing an extreme minority of US citizens can block hugely popular legislation. California itself has a larger population than the least populous 21 states combined, yet gets the same 2 senate votes as each of those other states. The Senate is a hot mess as far as political game theory goes.
You’re a few inches off: https://healthland.time.com/2013/06/03/its-true-you-can-get-...
While I agree Apple’s RAM prices are absurd, there’s no reason to overstate them. It’s $200 to go from 8GB to 16GB, and $400 for 24GB.
Leveraging Large Language Models to Boost Dafny's Developers Productivity
> Each individual file, unless otherwise noted, is released under the terms of the MIT License. A copy of this license can be found in LICENSE.mit.

Worth . . . noting . . . that every file with license info says MIT; none say anything else. So the "unless otherwise noted" is purely future-proofing.
Gasoline? clean water? Huh? We're talking about Amazon here. I find it hard to believe you're a real person. What a bizarre comment.
I tried this and Alexa replied:

The temperature in Nyagen, Russia is current -31 degrees...

I'm an American but I've been to Nijmegen so I think my pronunciation was ok.
I primarily use Observable to build interactive tools, as opposed to Jupyter which I use more for exploratory development and analysis.

Here are some of my Observable notebooks which illustrate the kind of things I use it for:

https://observablehq.com/@simonw/search-for-faucets-with-cli...

https://observablehq.com/@simonw/openai-clip-in-a-browser

Those are both from https://simonwillison.net/2023/Oct/23/embeddings/

https://observablehq.com/@simonw/gpt4all-models provides a readable version of JSON file on GitHub

https://observablehq.com/@simonw/blog-to-newsletter is the tool I used to assemble my newsletter

A killer feature of Observable notebooks for me is that they provide the shortest possible route from having an idea to having a public URL with a tool that I can bookmark and use later.
I worked on a BLE mesh-based smarthome product.

Bluetooth, as a whole, gets complicated quickly.

It was a bit of a pain to work with, but I think it was more the SDK/implementation than the spec itself. Iirc this company had created its own "mesh" before the official Bluetooth spec so working backwards to conform to the official spec was rough.

There were a few annoying limitations around max hops and leader election that were tricky. This mesh needed to have a single "gateway" node to go between the mesh and a normal BLE connection to the phone.

I still think BLE mesh is a better solution than ZigBee/Z-Wave.

I don't know if there's been good progress on client SDKs to have an easier time interacting with BLE. Getting bluez to do what I wanted was not simple, and a lot of the time it wasn't compatible with hardware.
Mine was 50/50 at 2035 after GPT-2, and with GPT-4 it is more like 90/10 with 50/50 being sometime in 2028 (that's for pure intellectual work).
> Does making this sort of claim not make you… tired?

Nope. Being used as an unwitting guinea pig for a trillion dollar corporation sure as hell makes me tired though. It's extremely tiresome and demoralizing, knowing that just so much as browsing their website contributes to their profits.

Basically we should have to consent for them to profit off of us in any way.
I guess gen z will be immune them, with all their HPV vaccines.
A gun can also force people to participate in transactions they don't want to engage in.
Offshoring will go quite similar to how work from home did. In fact, remote work is a prerequisite. It'll cycle for the same reasons. Same goes for outsourcing things to AI, even when the AI can do the work 50% better than a human.
> All dams have spillways.

That's a broad statement that doesn't apply as generally as you suggest. For example, low-head dams generally don't have spillways though in essence function as a spillway. They're entirely passive structures with no mechanism for the owner/operator to change the water impoundment or flow rate.
> Do an MVP in your spare time.

I think you gravely misread my comment if this is your first suggestion. I am essentially saying that what I would want to do is closer to starting something akin to DeepMind or what OpenAI looked like in the beginning. There is no clear minimal viable product because the goal is to create general intelligence. There are many demonstrations of narrow cases of generalizability and I even have work that demonstrates this, but the stronger sense and actually trying to build sentient machines.

I would make the argument that there is an advantage in what I'm proposing. Since the existing labs that are trying to perform a similar goal are all following similar paths. The chance of beating them using similar methods is quite low. But if you believe (as many researchers do) that the conventional approach is not correct or not efficient, then it reasons that you should take an unconventional approach. I'd also say that my preferred method can be great publicity for them if we do allow for a fully open research platform (open training/models/communication) and given the goals the computational costs are not quite what they are for OpenAI nor DeepMind. As I believe I could do a lot of work with a small team with only a handful of A100 or H100 nodes. That's pocket change to the Musk types and especially if split between multiple entities. It is a high risk high reward situation but I think also low cost.
You are so correct. The only thing different about China is government oppression and nothing else. You cannot make omelets without cracking a few fake eggs.
I think the purpose of automating product descriptions is far more likely to be to pay fewer people than to improve the quality of the listings.

I think if the purpose was to improve the quality rather than to crank them out - they probably wouldn't have let such severe and obvious errors get through, certainly not in such a large quantity. If I was tasked with doing this, at a minimum I would kick any listing that contained the word "OpenAI" into a QA queue rather than publishing it. Since they obviously didn't have even the minimal filters to catch errors, I have to infer they never spot checked their output for sanity. Because they didn't really give a shit.

It feels like someone doing their job to me too, sure. That job being to spam. When I see a watch, I infer the existence of a watchmaker. When I see a pile of spam, I infer the existence of a spammer.
Conventional RPG warheads still cost money, a lot of money if you want them to reliably explode.

Javelin has a warhead capacity of 9Kg, for the same bang so to speak ( armor penetration) you would need drones that can hoist 9Kg, those don't retail at anywhere near $1,000.

That doesn't mean that cheap drones are not effective means of weapons delivery, they are as this war is showing. They are akin to side arms, when penetration is not a factor they are useful, but they are hardly a replacement for heavy guided munitions like Javelin.

Man Pads are by no means perfect, the current gen is 30 years old, they could be made much smarter and lot cheaper than $250,000, however just $1000 drone is not going to replace them yet.
My guess of what may have happened reading between the lines of many reports is
- Boeing originally instructed Spirit to loosely fit the plug and not secure it because they planned to remove it to fit out the interiors. In this case Boeing would be accountable to secure the plug door after the interior is done to the right specs.

Somewhere down the line, Boeing probably decided not to remove the plug to fit the interiors and instead just load them through the main bigger openings only. They probably did not document/log this change in practice and think through implications and probably did not update instructions to Spirit to secure the plug door going forward (or maybe they did but Spirit didn't pay attention)

Hence we have many planes with Spirit assuming Boeing will secure it as per the previous practice and Boeing not securing it because they didn't remove it while fitting out.

Now the obvious question is if Boeing or Spirit has deviated from documented production practice in this area, have they deviated in other areas and hence the entire production process of max lines will probably need to be re-audited
Every Mega Man Game's Lore Explained in Obsessive Detail [video]
I agree with your point at the highest (pretrained model architect) level, but tokenization/encoding things into the frequency domain are decisions that typically aren’t made (or thought of) by the model consumer. They’re also not strictly theoretically necessary and are artifacts of current compute limitations.
Btw E5 != E5 Mistral, the latter achieves SOTA performance without any labeled data - all you need is a prompt to generate synthetic data for your particular similarity metric.

> Unlike existing methods that often depend on multi-stage intermediate pre-training with billions of weakly-supervised text pairs, followed by fine-tuning with a few labeled datasets, our method does not require building complex training pipelines or relying on manually collected datasets… We leverage proprietary LLMs to generate diverse synthetic data for hundreds of thousands of text embedding tasks across nearly 100 languages.

It’s true that ultimately there’s a judgement call (what does “distance” mean?), but I think the original post far overcomplicates what’s standard practice today.
Honestly, I use cosine similarity because that's what everyone else does and I haven't spent even a moment considering any of the alternatives.
The dams being decommissioned are all really small compared to those great big BC dams.
Amazon does not enforce electrical standards, nor does any store anywhere in the world. Where do you guys come from making these extremist arguments? Just.... wow.
Adversarial Machine Learning
The physicist quoted does not appear to make the claim given in the headline.
There was a lot more of that hazardous carcinogenic stuff 50 years ago though. Baby cribs used to be made from asbestos. Every other person was a smoker. Houses were painted with lead. This trend is very very recent.
Piece of rag article that doesn't explain anything useful.
Very cool.

Would be awesome to see the equivlant for the x360 to be released.

Especially as games are nearing end of life, knowing the matchmaking/online internals and API without the need to capture it....superfluously...
In addition I see no studies or cited research about how many birds were killed by the increase of wind power, or other environmental impacts that the massive increase in wind turbines may have caused.
And Hamburg has terrible salaries, too, if the €2500/month take home I was offered for a senior engineer role by one of Germany’s biggest companies is anything to go by.
It was ad-revenue supported I presume?
Does uBlock remove ads on google? As in, google search ads that are inserted into the search results?
"a testament to our unwavering commitment to printing excellence" is almost certainly a GPT output—I get this self-praise often when trying to use ChatGPT 4 for marketing text.
Exactly this approach.

I was able to get a 3 x 16A switched outlet, with power monitor for about $6 USD each.

https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256805494808710.html?spm=a2g...

I've had a few glitches, but I'm blaming my rookie experience with this before I blame the product directly.

Expect a long delivery time from anything at aliexpress though.

I was originally seeking a whole-house energy monitor, but the 200A CT Clamps are too big to fit on the main lines into my distribution center, because there are too many other wires around it.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240113013404/https://i.imgur.c...
Somehow this thread has attracted a large number of the “Apple sucks, look how much they charge for X” crowd. It’s ok to fanboy about your favorite hardware and software, but it’s also ok to have differing opinions. I use Windows, macOS, and Linux. I use macOS because I enjoy the casual experience significantly more, I prefer it for browsing and productivity and 8Gb of ram is plenty for that use case. I use Windows for software development and gaming, I have 128GB of ram in that system because it’s nice for games and running Hyper-V without compromising. I use Linux for self hosting, proxmox, docker, and more and that system is a retired R720 with 192GB of ram.

The article is objectively correct, RAM is cheap these days, some apps waste ram, some apps just realize that there no reason not to stretch their legs a bit to offer a better experience. Chrome often gets the short end of the stick, but Chrome does objectively well with RAM considering how inefficient modern web development is. They’re doing the best they can in the modern web dev landscape.
The prompt engineers took it down.
Why people still make the appeal to nature fallacy, for starters.
The table with index types in the slide "comparison" is inverted
Problem is they don't say the same thing to everybody.

Do eyes emoji mean you are looking at it, or you want me to look at it, or that you have seen it? They don't really say anything.
I quite liked them as well. Made them very readable even in small sizes.

But then again, I also loved the Android's old blob emojis[0]. Some specific ones were weird but mostly I really liked the amount of personality and movement they were able to express. But as far as I've been able to tell, most people seemed to hate them, for whatever reason.

[0]: https://emojipedia.org/google/android-6.0.1
> terms and conditions

Nobody reads that stuff.
> My guess is dynamite blasting

Exactly right! I was involved in a 'lake tap' project in Oregon where the concrete plug in the diversion tunnel was mechanically demolished down to the minimum safe thickness, then we came in and finished it off with explosives.

A gate structure was first built farther down the tunnel, to allow the operators to again close off the tunnel or chose a given flow level and let me tell you, having to sidle sideways through that partially open gate to go place explosives into the remnants of the tunnel plug was an interesting experience.

Here is a presentation put together on the project: https://ndiastorage.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/ndia/2005/tr...
Right, my point is there is some point at which our "generation" of dialogue transitions from subconscious to conscious. This is true for people with or without inner dialogs.
Musk is fucking nuts but he still is able to make other people do amazing things. He didn't need to lie multiple times about the Tesla truck to make it a success though...
trace spans are structured logs, they just also happen to correlate into a tree, ymmv
The higher end M2s just run more chips in parallel. The bandwidth is there to support the GPU.

The latency of LPDDR is higher than desktop RAM, so it relies on the cache to get around that, and the cache is about the same as most x86 CPUs. So there isn't much benefit in the real world.
Your work is not free from derivation which is what GPT4 does in the overwhelming number of cases. If there are small outliers and it regurgitates something word for word, we can handle it like most other instances of copyright infringement as we do now. File a takedown notice and that particular phrase can be explicitly filtered out post output generation. Easy.
not pointing any fingers at all, except to point out that if you engaged in industrial espionage you would undoubtedly then come up with a plausible cover story and hope nobody probed the logic of it too much
Way longer than that too. Transmitting encrypted data packets over radio waves was a thing during the cold war. Tune in to a certain frequency at a certain time, of course you must be in range too, record the packet then go back and decrypt it.
Cosine similarity is not affected by the size of the vector but only by the angle between them. This means that vectors with large or small values will have the same cosine similarity as long as they point in the same direction.

In semantic search the magnitude of vectors isn’t relevant - if you needed a measure that took magnitude into account than Euclidean would make sense. E.g. image embeddings based on pixel intensity.
Do you know that an afterlife doesn't exist?
This feature already exists for LLM's -- you can provide them with the list of actions that it can do. This is how you integrate with an API. You describe your "turn on the lights" endpoint and so when you say "I need a bit more light" and it knows it can do something about it.
tribal genocide was accepted in England in the 1200s ; actions against Australian native people and others, in the 1800s iir
The only reason the US or any other country gave up chemical weapons is because they are nearly useless anyways.

There are plenty of other weapons (such as mines) that the “international community” has “banned”, but are very useful in a war. Any country that doesn’t or can’t expect the US to come to its rescue ignores such bans and still manufactures them in great quantities.
Show HN: Element behaviors as an alternative to custom elements
I'd like to know your view about element behaviors
That's not my repo, is a friend's repo
What are people using k-means for? I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve had a good a priori rationale for the value of k.
We need AGI/ASI to hit and be a good thing.
yeah thats the struggle i had too. Found I'd snooze on my phone but then they're in my desktop.
Then replace "destroyed" by "conducted a raid in", or even leave it out altogether, and nothing about the point of that sentence changes.
This is ridiculous. More people should be following Brittany's approach and record these things. These HR shit shows are only going to end when people make them public and hurt the image of these companies. You did great Brittany.
I laughed when I saw the headline, saw it was Google, and then the article is just a list of everything they are removing. It's almost parody.