skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> Why is it that people think of it as a tool but then when it comes to LLMs they suddenly say "it can be dangerous". I mean, more dangerous than Linux?

It comes down to both determinism and how well people understand the technology.

LLMs do not work in a way that we can reason about in a deterministic way. We just put the components together, feed it a lot of data, and then apply an input in the hopes that a suitable output comes out. Individual components of the model are understood, but the whole is much more vague. When we ask how LLMs work at a macro level, the true answer is that we are not really sure. If one part of the model is changed, what will the result be? If some of the training data is changed, what will the result be? Why do LLMs "hallucinate"?

Linux is just an operating system kernel. What it does and how it does it are well understood. We can reason about how it works and when we change out individual components, we understand what the results will be. It is easy to reason about how the pieces work and what they do as a whole.

People are fundamentally afraid of things that they do not understand. LLMs can be even more scary to non-technical people because of the way that artificial intelligence and robots have been portrayed in science fiction for decades.

"safe linux" as given in the tweet seems like a ridiculous idea. It quickly brings to mind HAL 9000 in "2001: A Space Odyssey" saying "I'm sorry, Dave. I can't do that." Maybe I'm just old, but I don't want AI or LLMs between me and my computing task unless I choose it to be there. Get off my virtual lawn and let me see the files.
My last few trips have required an employee override because I left the paper ad circular in the cart. Put it in a bag and get dinged for bagging something not scanned, don't bag it and get dinged for something in the cart.
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Don’t entirely understand Stability’s business model. They’ve been putting out a lot of models recently and Stable Diffusion was novel at the time, but now their models consistently seem to be somewhat second rate compared to other things out there. For example Midjourney now seems to have far surpassed them in the image generation front. After raising a ton of funding Stability seems to just be throwing a bunch of stuff out there that’s OK but no longer ground breaking. What am I missing?

Many other startups in the space will like face similar issues given the rapid commoditization of these models and the underlying tech. It’s very easy to spend a fortune building a model that offers a short lived incremental improvement at best before one can just quickly swap it out for something else someone else paid to train.
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Yeah I’m not interested in discussing the subject matter here.
This change means that users could go and subscribe externally, including to scam subscriptions, and you would no longer be able to cancel via Apple. That's probably part of the motivation for why they don't want to implement this sort of thing.
In the US.

As GP mentioned it has been in effect for a while in Holland and maybe Korea or a few other places for at least certain kinds of apps due to local laws.

Interesting note: this only applies to the US. I know the EU is forcing changes as well, but those are EU only.

So South America, Asia, Australia, Africa, Canada, Mexico, and others haven’t changed one bit and likely still require 30%.
Sounds like the rich will get richer...
A modern equivalent to these photos might be found in the work of Evgenia Arbugaeva:

https://www.evgeniaarbugaeva.com/chukotka
The US is the most benign empire one could wish for. History makes that plain, and just peeking over the fence at contender's tendencies and track record further reinforces that. Easy moral justification backed by actual moral justification.
Our Dollar General closes the SCO at 8pm, the same time they send the 2nd cashier home.

So for the last 2 store hours there's 1 cashier - and they're in back performing the 12 other duties they have.
Would you agree that you have _plenty_ of interests and a personality (because everyone has!), but you have some underlying assumptions they are "wrong" for some reason?
When it no longer works in reality. A lot of values in incompatible with changing facts.
The board is captured. They won’t be the ones pushing back
I'll second that for Waymo.

Just took a Waymo ride across San Francisco 3 nights ago in hard rain, at night. A hilly complex city with bike lanes, kinda oddball medians and bollards, many pedestrians, and homeless people wandering down the middle of streets. It did great.

I've taken 5 trips so far, and all have been great and better than the average uber driver.

I've had 3 sketchy Uber rides out of about 10 total in the last 3 months. One older woman was was peering over her steering wheel commenting that she really can't see that well at night, she'd kinda guess and head over to next lane, and had to abort once when she almost merged into another car. One plunged across 3 lanes of traffic without signaling while looking at the phone in her hand, twice! Another did a no look left turn while looking at the map and almost hit a pedestrian in the crosswalk. I said "stop!" and he did and looked up shocked. Slow enough that it would have only been a broken leg, but still...
The scary text doesn't matter nearly as much as the fact that they are not unbundling anything. They are charging an effectively equal/higher fee for less services than developers would get from just sticking with in-app purchases.

It's an arguably quite sloppy illusion of competition/choice.
Thats pretty silly. you can just put a gatekeeper to prevent it from spitting out anything too similar, or prevent a user from forcing it to. it is not an intractable or pervasive problem.

it is a fringe case that rarely occurs, and only with a lot of user prompting.
Spotify is in a category that already is a known exception for Apple [0]—they sell a subscription to media and they have an accompanying app. I expect the anti-steering provision to go away and for Apple to just eat the cost on that category.

Most apps that currently go through the App Store for sales are simple. There are sales for apps (or subscriptions), and they can be individually accounted. You and Apple both know how many users you have on Apple devices, and Apple gets a cut of sales to those users.

I don't like it any more than you do, but it's not hard to do the accounting.

[0] "A Licensed Application may read or play content (magazines, newspapers, books, audio, music, video) that is offered outside of the Licensed Application (such as, by way of example, through Your website) provided that You do not link to or market external offers for such content within the Licensed Application."
"All we did was fulfill a contract for a government agency" is the enterprise tech Nuremberg defense.
> I wrote a page on my own blog about it. Was I a good netizen?

Yes! Although I don't know why search engines aren't picking it up. But at least you can point people to a blog post, instead of telling them to join a discord, and try to search their archives.
Project website:
https://madewithclay.org/

Pleasant landing page - really enjoyed!
I actually don't disagree with anything you're saying. I've gone through my own periods of frustration similar to what you describe. I was never a Java engineer, but I followed the evolution of your field (going back to the advent of Java in the 90s) because some of my work was adjacent, so I am generally aware of what you're talking about. When I wrote the comment yesterday, I was thinking "this person is asking for feedback but I'm not sure if he's really hearing it." When I re-read my comment today, I wonder if it's sort of slyly hostile or argumentative, and think perhaps I should not have posted it. I'm sorry if I attacked you unwittingly due to my own insecurities or frustrations. As I said yesterday, you really don't sound like a bad or mean spirited person, but I do believe that the way you were writing your posts yesterday might cause some people to interpret you that way. I think that was what I was hoping to convey.

Yes, the subject of declining quality of tech workers is an interesting one. I first noticed it around 2014, but I think the root of it may go back into the late 2000s. It seems like a lot of people in that era started hearing that they should major in CS because it's a high paying field, and they took that advice regardless of whether they really had any inherent interest in computing or the magic of computers. This resulted in more and more people coming into the industry who seemed like they didn't quite fit, although as a manager you want to welcome everyone on your team and get them to be their most productive, so obviously you don't want to discourage anyone. I think it may be related to what you're talking about.

On the other hand, I would say that with each new generation that comes up, they are confronting a new world with increasingly high level tools, and I don't think we should disparage these folks. It isn't like I grew up on Charles Babbage's Difference Engine; I just took the field as it was at the time I happened to be a teenager.

Like in your situation, you probably started with Java when frameworks like Spring did not exist yet or were not widely used. But as those things evolved and got better, it's what the newer people would have been taught or done in previous jobs, so I don't really buy that that in and of itself makes them lesser engineers. They may just be doing the most reasonable thing with the tools that were popular at the time that they learned. Is it possible you are conflating some specific not-so-great engineers with whom you worked, with the broader trend in that period (and today) toward increasingly high level constructs as the underlying silicon gets faster and more powerful? Not sure, just offering it to you as an idea.

I'm really sorry that you wasted 15 years! I've wasted a lot of my time on the earth as well, and I think most people feel that way about some period in their life. But it sounds like you came into some ideas and insights that you wouldn't have otherwise had, even if the experience itself was frustrating. Maybe that's just the reality of life?
Now everything is open source
They’ll try. That’s who Apple is.

But court has also found their required to do this. So if there are roadblocks are onerous you know someone’s going to go running to the court to try and get that fixed.

They could end up in big trouble if they try and fight it too hard. But they’re also not gonna roll over.

Expect the same exact thing with the DMA changes in the EU.
Anecdotes are not data. “Exceedingly few safety interventions” doesn’t matter when the number is non-zero. That number is exactly zero for driverless vehicles. So their interventions are not the same as Tesla’s interventions.

If Cruise had a fallback driver all the time, it would “operate everywhere” too. That’s not really saying much. The entire problem is about how to remove the driver, which Tesla is nowhere close to in any geographic area. A dead giveaway is how they’re reluctant to even let drivers take their hands off the wheel.
I think this is an enormously bad idea. The whole point of using sun.misc.Unsafe is because you need to do something with basically no overhead, regardless of safety. In my opinion, they should just modularize it such that users must enable access to it explicitly. The MemorySegment API is nice, but sometimes you really want to skip bounds checking in a cross platform way.
That was my first suspicion, but it seems ahistorical and the quoted passage doesn’t speak to that question.
Apple is acting like a state within their domain. Collecting a VAT and requiring compliance that's reserved usually for the national tax office with inspective powers.

Having locked in the richest consumers of the world, they get to say what goes and what doesn't, worldly courts and laws be damned.

It's both hilarious and gruesome at the same time, because we're supposed to be equal under consumer laws or whatever, but there you go!
The public domain literature is big, but not that big and very far from infinite data - all the major current models already include all of the public domain literature that has ever been digitized and much more (so all the public domain literature not only isn't abundant, but it isn't even sufficient to make anything competitive with even last generation models), and we would really like to get 10x or 100x more data than all the literature ever published (both PD and not), if we could. And we probably can, since the vast, vast majority of what people write happens in other contexts and only a tiny fraction of written words end up as published literature.
Seems like this is part of the feedback loop that will render AI useless though.
The probability of you getting 100 6's in a row on a fair die is dozens of orders of magnitude lower than your guy testing the die either getting it wrong, or lying to you for any number of reasons.

As for your second example, the problem is your own naive assumption of independence of all events. It is an extremely popular naive assumption, one I have ranted about how the school system accidentally teaches this more than once, but nevertheless is not a problem with the concept.

I think you have correctly identified that your understanding of probability is wafer-thin. That's actually progress, a good thing, and not an insult. But you've misattributed the problems to probability rather than your understanding.
I'm not sure that's a direct comparison. Back then sure you could get shareware but mostly the market was paid boxed software. I can't find a direct source but I remember hearing brick-and-mortar retailers would take even more than 30% of sales. And Visual Studio sure wasn't free.

Everything was different though, you'd be paying for your OS upgrades too which doesn't happen on iOS. I agree 30% is crazy, but the market on iOS they're enabling has to get paid for somehow. That source of revenue was different for Microsoft in the 80s/90s but it still existed.
These conditions are onerous enough that the Kindle app probably still cannot handle in-app purchases.
It's really pretty annoying that I have to leave the Kindle iOS app and go to the Kindle web app to make a purchase. Obviously it wouldn't cost either Apple or Amazon anything to allow this, it wouldn't be insecure or unsafe in any way, and it would be nice for consumers. So the fact that Apple and Amazon haven't made a deal to allow this indicates to me that Apple is putting its competitive interests ahead of its users interests.

Hopefully they all figure something out eventually to allow Kindle purchases from the app.
Humans can't handle potential existential risks. The moloch trap is that everyone signs the paper and immediately subverts it. In the painfully predictable scenario, "only criminals have guns", and the cops aren't on your side.
Yeah, "Rocket Manual For Amateurs", the book that inspired Homer "Rocket Boys" Hickam.

EDIT: Wow, ha ha, I just remembered that 15 or so years ago I was in a bidding war on eBay over a copy of "Rocket Manual For Amateurs". When I realized that I was bidding against Homer Hickam (I think his username was pretty obvious — like 'hhickam') I stopped bidding and let him have it.

When I just recounted the story to my wife she says, "I thought you won it and he was mad at you." That's not how I remember it.
I think the main thing is they'd drop it to 26/27% to comply with how they can't perform anti-competitive actions to prevent developers from using another payment processor. If it was still a flat 30%, developers would be losing ~=3% more on every transaction with the overhead that comes with using another processor.
Have you tried eating it before getting to the check out?
It's been mandated for dating apps in the Netherlands, to my knowledge. It being allowed for all apps in the US is arguably still news.
Microsoft had like 95% of the market.

Apple has 50%. Courts have already ruled they’re not a monopoly. Epic asked the Supreme Court to look at that again and they specifically decided not to and to leave the decision in place.

That’s why Apple can do what they’re (now, post order) doing legally and Microsoft couldn’t.
I have one of these sitting on my shelf! I still get it down and flip through it every so often.

I used BeOS around 2002 and 2003, and it was so cool. One of my favorite things was when I figured out how to use file system metadata to essentially turn files and folders into a database. Having emails essentially be plain text files, but with all the OS searchable metadata of subject, from, time sent, etc. that could be viewable in a Tracker window was awesome. And at the time, it was one of the few systems I could get to work with my dual processor system.

Unfortunately at that time I was struggling with things that I needed to use via Windows that I couldn't do in BeOS. Even though I didn't use it a ton, I love it and I always wished it had taken off better. Every so often I load up Haiku for that hit of nostalgia, but it feels like a lot of modern software is missing from it. Even just being able to run a modern Firefox on it would be enough to keep it on my home computer for most things.
4-bit quantized 33b runs great on a mp pro with m3 max chip
A joke in nature.com? or bad math?
Near the end of the paper: Only 5 out of 32 participants had mean healing ratings of 8 or above in the 14-min condition, compared to 8 out of 33 participants in the 28-min condition, and 11 out of 32 participants in the 56-min condition.

The math seems completely broken, there is a probability of about 1/3! = 1/6 of having three groups with results r1 < r2 < r3, just try in R rbinom(n=3,size=32,p=0.24). I can't understand who can use math like this.

set.seed(12345)
rbinom(n=3,size=32,p=0.24) -> 11, 7, 5 almost equal to the experiment
It's probably because it's not in any way related to this post, just a repetitive and snarky generic Wikipedia fundraising gripe which, as you point out, appears on the site often enough beside being against the site guidelines in its form.
It's also clear if one toured an older castle. It's obvious they meant business. For example, lack of windows through the walls. For another, the thickness of the walls.

Status castles have windows in the walls, and thin walls.
There are native-English dialect groups which make no distinction between the vowels in 'pin' and 'pen'.

For all I rib my wife about falling on the other side of that line, it took my American ear a long time to hear UK-dialect(s) distinctions between 'Mary', 'merry', and 'marry', and still a fair bit of concentration to reproduce them!
Right, it’s the same here. I learned that the hard way. If I ever need cash for traveling again, this is the way. I much rather use credit card if I can, however. But this place didn’t even had cell phone signal, so accepting anything other than cash was impossible.
The video you linked doesn't debunk the expert witness testimony, in the video he says he will need to release a follow up video that does the debunking.

To be clear, I believe Billy's video shows MAME gameplay. I don't believe the hypothesis given by the expert witness. But it's not a "debunking" to just say that this is an unlikely explanation. You have to find arcade cabinets that are malfunctioning due to degrading components and show that even in the worst case they don't look like MAME gameplay. As far as I know, no one has done this, they have only compared Billy's video to arcade cabinets in good condition.
Unsolicited suggestion.

Don’t host your status page (status.kagi.com), as a subdomain of your main site (DNS issues can cause both your main site and status site to go offline - so use something like kagistatus.com).

And host it with a webhost who doesn’t use any common infra as you.
being such to a degree that is extreme, excessive, or markedly abnormal (with a connotation of it happening on purpose)
I found myself actually able to use browser to purchase Kindle books on iPhone now, is it because of this lawsuit?
Completely agree. I’ve triaged many outages with varying degrees of severity in my career so far, and the worst ones were always caused by someone panic-jumping onto some red herring rather than coming up with a sensible explanation as to why that would be a fix other than “it happened at the same time.”

I have a saying I really like to throw around, which is “if you don’t know why/how you fixed it, you may not have”
> The author reminisces of a time

This sounds like another way to say that the environment changed and thus the deal did.

There's still a ton of ads. And it isn't like Meta is making less money. They're just below their all time high[0] and it's not like there was one of the largest global financial crises between these two periods or something. Meta is in the top 10 for market caps and just shy of getting into the trillion dollar club. I'm not sure what argument you're trying to make because I'm not seeing how Meta (or any FAANG) is struggling.

> And there are amazing non-FAANG spaces today like the Fediverse where the author can distribute their work, and the number of users there are easily comparable to the 'old internet' user counts.

Be realistic. We both know that 1) many of the artists are trying to distribute there, 2) that this doesn't prevent their work from being used in ML models since you can still download the material, 3) the audience is substantially smaller and Mastodon is not even close to replacing Twitter.

> platforms and powerful interests shape userbases

Also remember that platforms with large userbases shape users. There's a reason why the classic Silicon Valley Strategy is to run in the red and attempt to establish a (near) monopoly. Because once you have it, you have a lot of power and can make up for all the cash you burned. Or you now have a product to sell: users.

[0] https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/META
Title is misleading. Twin Galaxies hasn't reinstated Billy's scores as legitimate high scores on their current record table.

Instead, they have created an archived record table as the scores were before ownership changed hands to Jace Hall. They've essentially created a mini wayback machine. The archived table is not the default when you visit their website, you have to manually change to it.

I don't agree with dropping the counterclaim against Billy, considering how much he cost TG in legal fees for a frivolous lawsuit, but hopefully he still gets some pain from his Karl Jobst lawsuit.
The pentagon welcomes the return of Sam Altman back to the OpenAI board
Tbf JAX is super nice. Even easier than PyTorch in many ways and astonishingly fast. XLA is super powerful.
This is still huge for mobile gaming, though. Per https://developer.apple.com/support/storekit-external-entitl... :

> Apple’s commission will be 27% on proceeds you earn from sales (“transactions“) to the user for digital goods or services on your website after a link out (i.e., they tap “Continue” on the system disclosure sheet), provided that the sale was initiated within seven days and the digital goods or services can be used in an app.

As any F2P gamer knows, “whales” don’t just spend up front - they make microtransactions on a regular basis for months or years as new rewards become available. This is incredibly meaningful for game publishers who depend on long-term customer engagement.
the weights themselves are still a derivative work even if they post-filter

legal discovery could almost certainly compel the LLM host to provide access to the output of the weights themselves without the "gatekeeper" present
Throughout the multiple trials that has been a big argument Apple makes. That especially for smaller companies their cut is drastically lower than it would have been for retail software on shelves.

Which conveniently ignores the fact that you can buy software for digital download on the Internet for significantly lower overhead.

But they keep arguing it.