skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everyone is missing the point, it seems (please BOFH me when wrong);

Its not going to be all about "llms" and this app or that app...

They all will talk, just like any other ecosystem, but this one is going to be different... it can ferret out connections as BGP will route.

Gimme an AI from here, with this context, and that one and yes, please Id like another...

and it will create soft LLMs - temporal ones dedicated to their prompt and will pull from the tentriles of knowledge it can grasp and give you the result.

AI creates IRL Human Ephemeral Storage.
Can you reconstruct a real 3d model from it? What is the accuracy?
Catcalls: Exotic cats discriminate the voices of familiar caregivers
Same, I sold at the peak. Don't hold on to your winners for too long, the stock price is not entirely a function of the company's financial success. A lot of it is just on whims and cycles.
Sure but that assumes that everybody has to pay for their own internet connection, which is not true. If it were, there wouldn't be any children on the internet at all, yet we know that isn't the case. There is no shortage of places to get online these days without having to directly pay an ISP.

If you run a website and you're liable if a child accesses content that the gov says children shouldn't be able to access, do you post it anyway? or do you assume everybody is a child unless they show you some ID?

Or asked a different way, suppose you run a gas station and you sell beer. The law will punish you tremendously if you sell alcohol to a minor. Do you assume everybody is old enough to buy beer since they were able to gain access to a vehicle (which you must be an adult to legally own) and sell to whoever, or do you ask to see people's ID?
CMC is a private liberal arts school that costs 60k in tuition/yr and only has only 13 hundred students... But I guess in some circles it's well known that it's not as left leaning as it's peers like Amherst or Oberlin.

Berkeley vs U Chicago or Berkeley vs U Virginia would have clicked.
It’s a bit of both. Been discussed here before quite a bit too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31619076

I love using it as an example of how implementing something so simple can lead to learning about so many seemingly unrelated things like context switches and memory alignment.
If you remember, lmk how it goes, very curious how others react to it.
> It's easy to see the possibility that society just views car theft as a normal occurrence ("insurance will cover it"), or perhaps too burdensome to enforce

Does society believe it's acceptable behavior though? I haven't seen any evidence to support the theory that we do. After all, if we did, we'd be out there stealing cars.
Somehow nobody ever complains about the depictions of Jesus as a white man with flowing blond hair. (Spoiler: Jesus was Semitic, and would've looked Palestinian or Syrian. He was also Jewish.)
Ask HN: Who is excited for OpenAI's Sora?
It is amazing to see how far AI has come where now anyone can be a hollywood style filmmaker and the barriers to entry are now lowered because of technologies such as Sora.

I have never been more excited about this and the new possibilities this would bring to content creation.

Who else is excited about this?
The problem also cannot be corrected by letting them run wild until they are 18, and then locking them in a room until they are 50, and then releasing them.
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Thanks for that fascinating explanation!
Allow me to offer a different opinion. There is little sense in applying logical security when physical security is lacking. CANBUS should not be accessible by taking apart headlights. Communication buses must be protected from physical access, i.e., trip the alarm system or disable the car upon unauthorized access. There can be no logical security without physical security.
> architectures like RWKV, Mamba, and various others, which incur cost that is linear in context length, O(N)

These are actually O(N*M) where M is independent of inference time context length, but it controls the actual amount of information that gets retained during inference. Ignoring that factor of M is misleading.
@maxime_cb - Great answer, thank you for the detailed response.
Is it not available through Amazon Bedrock?
Tailscale updates pricing structure: Free plan now Personal plan
See also the changelog [1]. They've also added a free trial for paid plans [2]. Notably, new Personal accounts (formerly Free accounts) that use custom domains will be assumed to be commercial unless the user opts out of the free trial. This doesn't affect existing Free accounts [3].

[1] https://tailscale.com/changelog#2024-02-21-service

[2] https://tailscale.com/free-trial-offer-terms

[3] https://tailscale.com/pricing#i-am-a-user-with-a-custom-doma...
Sora, within the last few days. But it's mostly been GGML and the community making accessible inference at the edge a reality. Can't beat that, tbh.
I was going to say the same thing: this sounds just like early Markov N-gram generators.
Yup, just the fact that topology is often rather poor, you're making it impossible to translate motion capture data for a lot of things. Facial expressions come to mind.

I understand the reasons for different representations for reconstruction, but what we really need is to translate that into a mesh that is actually useful.

Its great to have something as a reference, don't get me wrong, but we are still far away from even being able to discreetly assign materials to the object's various parts.

Another big issue is licensing, most of these are not allowed commercially.
If you can get it on purpose, you can get it on accident. There's no perfect filter available so companies choose to cut more and stay on the safe side. It's not even just the overt cases - their systems are used by businesses and getting a bad response is a risk. Think of the recent incident with airline chatbot giving wrong answers. Now think of the cases where GPT gave racially biased answers in code as an example.

As a user who makes any business decision or does user communication including LLM, you really don't want to have a bad day because the LLM learned about some bias decided to merge it into your answer.
I have a theory that Firefox gets under reported in a lot of stats because its users are more likely to use Adblockers. Statcounter for example is going to be blocked by most Adblockers; stats based on server logs will be more accurate.
Most modern keys already have cryptographic rfid transponders which must be in place to turn off the Immobilizer system.

Unfortunately, Immo can be trivially disabled/bypassed/reprogrammed on many cars using the canbus or odb2 interface.

Also trivially editable in many ICUs is the mileage, airbag (crash) history, etc.

The main vector is that this data typically exists alongside performance parameters and user data like registered keys and fobs, so is accessible either by catching the ecu in bootup/program mode, by buffer overrun attacks, or often just by asking nicely.

This is basically doable by anyone who can to chip tuning or ECU remaps. It’s technical, but not that technical. Many ECUs require JTAG access inside the ECU housing or even desoldering the serial flash chip, but many do not.

I just bought a whole setup for this from AliExpress for about 100 dollars and it’s worked well for me so far, just a specialised JTAG adapter with some cables really.

Pretty sure if you wrote drivers for chip tuning software to use a buspirate it would work just as well if not better.
So if they wish to apply censorship they forgot, or suddenly discovered a reason for, they want you to be obligated to take it.

Good faith possibilities: Copyright liability requires retraining, or altering the underlying training set.

Gray area: "Safety" concerns where the model recommends criminal behavior (see uncensored GPT 4 evaluations).

Bad faith: Censorship or extra weighting added based on political agenda or for-pay skewing of results.
The American tech industry is far more generous than in other countries, and Americans tend to forget this fact.
That would be a step in the right direction.
Newbie jj convert here.

jj is not patch based, like pijul, but snapshots, like git.

A sibling commentor points out the change id stored by jj: it is true that at the moment, this isn't really exportable to git in a native way. However, there is a path forward here, and it may come to pass. Until then, systems like Gerrit or Phabricator work better with jj than systems like GitHub.

However, all is not lost there either: tooling like spr[1] allows you to map between the two universes.

At my job, at least one person was using jj for six months at work without any of the rest of us being the wiser. Some of the rest of us are trying it out. A really nice thing about jj is that you can use it without anyone else needing to, thanks to the git interop.

1: https://github.com/getcord/spr
Good idea. So basically we're seeing if LLMs get this kind of thing: https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/646238/how-do-i-con...

> Draw a graph of the function on the blackboard, showing a and b and a crosshatched area representing the integral. Put an x on the horizontal axis. Erase the x and put a z there. Does that change the area? Erase the z and put a smiley face there. Does the area change? Why/why not?
Desperately trying to catch up to Microsoft.

I really like Gemini. It seems to give better results than ChatGPT, although definitely a lot slower.
If everyone is great. Someone has to draw the short straw.

At MIT they said: You know the kid who sat at the front of the room. Now you are with ALL of the kids who sat in the front of the room. Guess what? There's still going to be a kid who sits at the front of the room.

I'd imagine Google or anyplace with a stiff engineering filter will have the same issues.
Last time I discussed (results from a similar study) this with some higher ups, their knee-jerk reactions was: "If they managed to deliver as much in 4 days as they previously did in 5 days, then it sounds like they were slacking off more prior to the experiment."

I think that for some leaders, no data in the world is going to convince them that one day less of butts in the seat can be a positive thing. They'll forever chase the idea of maximizing 5-day workweeks, and that's that.
RaspberryPi has PCIe, you can attach NVMe SSDs with an adapter. You are not limited to the SD card.
What is the correct number of put options to purchase at IPO? And for which strike date/price?
This makes me want to write a post, "If programmers had to work like mechanical engineers". There is much overlap, dealing with changing requirements, fickle clients, struggles with realities of moving from design to production, etc. but imagine if a program crashing had the same legal, monetary, and personal safety implications as a cars brakes failing?

To put it another way, there's a reason Toyota has an order of magnitude more employees but a comparable networth to Adobe and it's not because doing things in the real world is easier.
Historical Curiosity:The town of Portland in the Australian State of Victoria was founded in 1834. The main street is called Bentinck Street.
I agree with you, I'm just not sure how you'd wright the law that makes them clear the low bar when that bar might need to move up before the bill even becomes a law. That's why I would prioritize some kind of "security update bill" instead of trying to legislate the low bar that needs to be crossed.
This kind of happened in The Office, where Michael Scott spread a rumor about everyone to cover up the fact that he was about to get caught gossiping inappropriately about a co-worker.
Boeing 737 MAX program chief ousted after cabin panel blowout
I...

I am dumbfounded.

With the current state of the market why in the name of all that is holy would you depend on one vendor to get to another?

I dont need to be at the whim of one vendor to get to the next one. What happens when the vendor in-between goes out of business or wants to present their own service or...

I have no words for how bad this idea is.
Messages in iCloud is separate from the inclusion of the iMessage database in the regular iPhone iCloud backups. Could you check what that setting is set to on your newly setup device?
If Kissinger got one, why not Musk?
> If you assume the world is against you and dangerous then setting into an ambiguous space is probabilistically negative.

I have seen zero evidence that this is not true in my 31 years on this planet.

> If you have faith that things work out for the best, it lets you set out on such a path easier.

As Louis C.K. said:

> "An optimist is somebody who says, 'Maybe something nice will happen?' Why they fuck would anything nice ever happen?"
gemini seems to have problems generating white people and honestly this just opens the door for things that are even more racist [1], the harder you try the more you'll fail, just get over the DEI nonsense already

1. https://twitter.com/wagieeacc/status/1760371304425762940
The clickbaity titles are leaking into the beginning of their articles.
Somewhat bizarrely I ended up doing exactly that as a uni project. Writing a parser for the Mapsforge format in TypeScript was a bit of a weird experience. The funkiest bit was trying to get the range request stuff to work properly offline via service workers.

My only regret is not putting more effort into getting WebGL working, I just used the plain canvas and it was a bit of a bottleneck.

demo: https://files.george.honeywood.org.uk/final-deliverable/#16/...

blog: https://george.honeywood.org.uk/blog/map-from-the-ground-up/
The argument for the Flipper Zero is that it's an independent building inspector.

People are being sold houses where the builder says they're made of brick, and if not for this product, the pigs might live in a house believing it's brick until a wolf blows it down and reveals a thin layer of stucco over straw.

The home sellers are saying "but wolves and building inspectors alike can use this tool to blow down houses!" (porcine building inspector use rather crude inspection methods). But it would be irrelevant if the houses were made of brick and not straw.
> is not deeply insulting or unforgivably disrespectful: It's a mandate from management.

What kind of logic is this? Is your boss deciding what's dignified or respectful for you? This way of interaction sure is still as disrespectful. The blame is just not (all) on your coworkers then.

The assessment of "unforgivable disrespectful" doesn't rely on actionability, nor requires naive attribution of an offense.
The (second?) AI bust is inevitable. Didn’t think it would be this fast though.
>The guard rails are there so that innocent people doesn't get bad responses

The guardrails are also there so bad actors can't use the most powerful tools to generate deepfakes, disinformation videos and racist manifestos.

That Pandora's box will be open soon when local models run on cell phones and workstations with current datacenter-scale performance. I'm the meantime, they're holding back the tsunami of evil shit that will occur when AI goes uncontrolled.
The official PyTorch implementation of Google's Gemma models
Head First Design Patterns. It's a recent and very friendly introduction to the popular Gang of 4 - Object Oriented Programming book.

I love this part of the journey for folks because it opens the door to a world of possibilities that has dramatically more structure and form. Thoughts and ideas become less "what if.." and more puzzling together the best interactions between certain design implementations.

At risk of rattling on endlessly in my excitement for you, TDD became a very interesting and enjoyable way (for me at least) to implement these patterns and gain a better understanding. I think you'll find Martin Fowler, TDD, and IoC/DI are peas in a pod.

(I realize you said Python and this was Java. I'll see if I can find something Python friendly. If you'd like to try your hand with Java....I highly highly recommend Spring Framework and more specifically Spring Boot. Spring is an IoC Container Framework where the Dependency Injection is done for you on the fly. So much to throw at someone but if you'd like to connect on it, I'd be more than happy to give you a running start.)
This is a TOS, meaning their enforcement option is a lawsuit. In court, if you convincingly argue why it would take an unreasonable amount of effort to update, you win. They can't compel you to unreasonable effort as per their own TOS.
As a data point, using the Huggingface Transformers 4-bit quantization yields reasonable results: https://twitter.com/espadrine/status/1760355758309298421
Unfortunately I can't take credit [0], and I think I originally heard this term from a military friend. But it stuck with me, and it has definitely improved my communications.

And I wholly agree re: the last paragraph. It's surprising how often the last thing in a very long missive turns out to be a perfect summary/BLUF.

- [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLUF_(communication)
I don't disagree with the premise that car manufacturers should do better, but the same people that insist messing around with a Flipper Zero is Serious Business tend to be the same people who say regulation of things like vehicle standards and an unwelcome interference with the free market. I stand by my claim that the headline reflects a childish mindset instead of looking at both sides of the issue.
It might ask for permission to use the microphone. If you can't find it, try going to the website's homepage, where you can enter your phone number to receive a call.
Intel to manufacture chips for Microsoft as AI drives demand
Those looking for useful uses of the category of (locally small) categories will similarly be disappointed.
> Somehow nobody ever complains about the depictions of Jesus as a white man with flowing blond hair.

Many people do, actually. And my art history may be bunk, but comparing depictions of Jesus in Medieval vs Renaissance European humanist art suggests artists in the latter period were more keen on a little more historical accuracy.

Also, generally speaking I imagine it's a little different with Jesus and other major figures from Christianity. Inculturation has cultivated the habit of various people adapting these characters to their cultural contexts.

While "white Jesus" may not be popular because of the white supremacist legacy, there's a wonderful world of South East Asian and African Jesuses and Marys.
I think you're also going to see a lot of institutional knowledge bleed out via older workers who can bounce due to the capital market performance.

https://www.axios.com/2024/02/19/american-retirement-boom-hi...

https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/4405350-telework-is-a...
Yeah, it's all mostly junk.
Pegasus is in constant development, its not one off spyware
Ask HN: Is Google violating their own ads ToS?
Just got a google Adsense ad on Forbes.com. When I clicked to see the info about the ad (the whythisad page), it says the ad is based on “Google’s estimation of your interests, based on your activity on this device”

However both on my Personalized ads settings as well as My Ad Center, I have personalized ads turned off

So is google just ignoring my preferences and displaying personalized ads anyway?
"The only way to deal with some people making crazy rules is to have no rules at all" --libertarians

"Oh my god I'm being eaten by a fucking bear" --also libertarians
"Google One AI Premium" - I just spilled my coffee reading this... I dont know what this is?
Of course, but it’s not just UX that’s being traded off but also potential for mass adoption, and evangelism is likely not enough to close the gap.
Why Promises Are Faster Than SetTimeout()?
That's a wasteland, but probably not a desert. Per the link, it gets 569 mm of rain a year; dry, certainly compared to most of Germany, but most definitions of "desert" run around 250 mm/yr (consensus, but even if the cutoff is off by a little bit, it's over twice that). By comparison, Denver, which is arid but not a desert by anyone's imagination, is around 368 mm/yr.
Isn't this already measured and reported more comprehensively by TechEmpower[0]? Rust frameworks take the top three positions on the chart, and all the Rust frameworks are ranked as follows:

ntex
may-minihttp
xitca-web
viz
axum
actix
salvo
saphir

Honorable mentions:
trillium
warp-rust
ohkami

0: https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#hw=ph&test=composite
Most of the 7B models are bad at knowledge-type queries.
Might want to at least try to mitigate the prompt injection and definitely make sure none of the openai tools are enabled: https://i.imgur.com/DQCHMup.png
After read the article... all the reasoning... I think I could go with this for such reasons exposed:

perl -ne 'last if $. > 500; /mail/ && print' access.log

When you're done with the part after the &&, remove the 'last if $. > 500'

For me, the most useful use of (gnu) cat, is cat -A weird.file

It saves my day or solves weird issues (X-files) with files generated by (not so) junior sysadmins, copy/pastes, end of lines, invisible diffs, etc... many times each year.
From one of the Twitter threads linked above:

> they insert random keyword in the prompts randomly to counter bias, that got revealed with something else I think. Had T shirts written with "diverse" on it as artifact

This was exposed as being the case with OpenAI's DALL-E as well - someone had typed a prompt of "Homer Simpson wearing a namebadge" and it generated an image of Homer with brown skin wearing a namebadge that said 'ethnically ambiguous'.

This is ludicrous - if they are fiddling with your prompt in this way, it will only stoke more frustration and resentment - achieving the opposite of why this has been implemented. Surely if we want diversity we will ask for it, but sometimes you don't, and that should be at the user's discretion.\

Another thread for context: https://twitter.com/napoleon21st/status/1760116228746805272
Russia arrests dual US-Russian citizen
I just tried Claude and it give good concise responses to software questions. I don't like AI services from Microsoft or Google because I have been burned out by them more than once when they change the terms of their services or kill a whole services just because. Not that Open AI or Anthropic can do the same but at least I give them the benefit of the doubt.
We're talking about downloadable weights here, so they can't turn them off, or force you (through technical means) to use a newer version.
It's how we went from mathematics, theory of computation, algorithms, programming language research to everybody is a web-developer.
So what makes a city more walkable?
It's a local model, they can't turn it off. It's files on your computer without network access.
It inserts mostly colored people when you ask for Japanese as well, it isn't just the dataset.
What do you use it for? I'm genuinely curious because I've not had any better results than ChatGPT, though I use it a lot for code and for asking questions about history, and "what does <person x> think about <topic y>?"

For example earlier today I asked, "What did Frederick Douglass think about the US Constitution?" and "Did Patrick Henry propose any solutions for ridding Virginia of slavery?". I haven't tried those exact queries but I've tried very similar in the past and Gemini refuses to answer and lectures me about how it can't know what a person thinks. When it does answer, it often gets basic facts blatantly wrong. Like recently it told me that Karachi to Newark is a "domestic flight." I also haven't tried Gemini Advanced so there's that too
Their government programs have hit some snags recently too. The KC-46 and Starliner programs have not exactly been smooth money-makers for them.
For getting a flavor of training LLMs without needing to be at one of the pre-training companies, it's very accessible to fine-tune a relatively small open source LLM such as Mistral 7B. (There are many tutorials.)