skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it really so surprising that something like this works given how human brain neurons work? My admittedly basic understanding is that these operate through an all-or-nothing principle for their action potentials (firing): they either fire or they don't, based on whether the input signals reach a certain threshold. So the output is already sort of binary in biological neurons. The inputs are more like continuous values, since they are the sum of many different neurons sending signals into each neuron, but in this paper the activations are 8-bit, not binary/ternary. Can any neuroscientists here comment?
Absolute Criminality! Behind the silk suits, the plush offices, the ivy league degrees, Finance is baldfaced thuggery.
The premise is false. Renewables are the cheapest form of new energy, which is why they're also the dominant form of new energy and why the targets are being met ahead of schedule.
Given he is recommending crypto in prison, it would seem like he has learned little.
I’d argue that the rich nations have an obligation to find a way to structure a less carbon intensive economy. The global south can benefit from the R&D that the west does. It’s not a forgone conclusion that the only way to grow is by burning fossil fuels, but the global south will certainly go that way if there is no known alternative.
I think you misread the article.
> How is a non generally intelligent AI like Gemini know now is a bad time to talk about Indian politics

It can't and any attempt to prevent such an issue will only degrade it's capabilities.

> Are models in general supposed to avoid offending anyone, anytime? Companies align the models so hard to avoid controversial opinions they lose performance. Is any kind of political question out

I 100% agree with you.

And that's why this is such a shitshow.

Google has been so slow with rolling out LLM capabilities despite basically inventing them almost a decade ago - OpenAI doesn't have a $1.7T market cap to defend and Investor Relations to deal with.
Looking at the data, Africa and Asia have been steadily increasing their renewables and currently have higher percentage than the US, though the US are catching up very fast thanks to the IRA

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-electricity-renewab...
I don't think in the workforce matters as much as out of the workforce actually. If you look at crime statistics, you'll see that it skews highly gendered.
This should be polarizing! Amazing not flagged yet.

Quick opinion:

> sentence of 63 to 78 months

No, too short.

> which recommends a sentence of 100 years in prison

Um, too long.
Definitely, but none of my obvious suspects from my immediate network are looking/a good fit. A post like this is both to find people I don't know who might be a good fit as well as to surface this to people I do know but that I might not have otherwise thought to reach out to.
The default iOS weather app is safe to use.
http://web.archive.org/web/20240228103928/https://www.nytime...
True, but if the CFO is running with admin privileges how likely is it that they are otherwise enough on the ball security-wise to be writing or even making decisions about code in an unsafe language? The whole point of safety standards is to avoid everyone needing to be an expert in everything: I can look for a UL label and know that someone else has taken care of the basics, even though our CFO can still do something crazy like leaving his space heater running under a pile of newspaper. That doesn’t mean having the other safeguards wasn’t a good idea because they don’t solve every problem.
There is no way it's going to be fewer than 10. Probably 30 if I had to guess.
I would lean towards this as well. There are countless examples of interesting mathematical patterns in nature. One can get pulled down this rabbit hole by watching some of Randall Carlson's videos [1] and I can see why people could be intrigued by the intelligent patterns. Having said that I am not discounting the possibility of something or someone creating these patterns only that they are replete throughout the universe and even found in natural objects on Earth. There is probably a formula one could use if the mass and composition of the star and planets were known that would explain the orbits.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/@TheRandallCarlson/videos
I know the Decimators would remove HDCP, as it's a known "trick" when trying to project from a Mac. But not sure which versions, and how well.
Antarctic English
Stanford's finest! LOL.
Fun to see ternary weights making a comeback. This was hot back in 2016 with BinaryConnect and TrueNorth chip from IBM research (disclosure, I was one of the lead chip architects there).

Authors seemed to have missed the history. They should at least cite Binary Connect or Straight Through Estimators (not my work).

Helpful hint to authors: you can get down to 0.68 bits / weight using a similar technique, good chance this will work for LLMs too.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.01981

This was a passion project of mine in my last few months at IBM research :).

I am convinced there is a deep connection to understanding why backprop is unreasonably effective, and the result that you can train low precision DNNs; for those note familiar, the technique is to compute the loss wrt to the low precision parameters (eg project to ternary) but apply the gradient to high precision copy of parameters (known as the straight through estimator). This is a biased estimator and there is no theoretical underpinning for why this should work, but in practice it works well.

My best guess is that it is encouraging the network to choose good underlying subnetworks to solve the problem, similar to Lottery Ticket Hypothesis. With ternary weights it is just about who connects to who (ie a graph), and not about the individual weight values anymore.
Or wind turbines...

Ofcourse transmission lines might be a bottleneck.
The system was designed to do that. It is not an AI problem it is a product problem.
I can't even imagine how a simple product such as theirs would even require 350 employees to operate it
The audio does not play on Firefox on linux, and the interactions don't seem to have any effect either.

Warning message in the console:

> An AudioContext was prevented from starting automatically. It must be created or resumed after a user gesture on the page.

On Firefox / android, this works fine.
The US once spread democracy all over the world, surely they can spread renewable energy the same way too.
No, that is incorrect. I don't desire other's property or wealth. I just want keep my money.
We're developing TQL (Tenzir Query Language, "tea-quel") that is very similar to PQL: https://docs.tenzir.com/pipelines

Also a pipeline language, PRQL-inspired, but differing in that (i) TQL supports multiple data types between operators, both unstructured blocks of bytes and structured data frames as Arrow record batches, (ii) TQL is multi-schema, i.e., a single pipeline can have different "tables", as if you're processing semi-structured JSON, and (iii) TQL has support for batch and stream processing, with a light-weight indexed storage layer on top of Parquet/Feather files for historical workloads and a streaming executor.
We're in the middle of getting TQL v2 [@] out of the door with support for expressions and more advanced control flow, e.g., match-case statements. There's a blog post [#] about the core design of the engine as well.

While it's a general-purpose ETL tool, we're targeting primary operational security use case where people today use Splunk, Sentinel/ADX, Elastic, etc. So some operators are very security'ish, like Sigma, YARA, or Velociraptor.

Comparison:

users
| where eventTime > minus(now(), toIntervalDay(1))
| project user_id, user_email

vs TQL:

export
where eventTime > now() - 1d
select user_id, user_email

[@] https://github.com/tenzir/tenzir/blob/64ef997d736e9416e859bf...

[#] https://docs.tenzir.com/blog/five-design-principles-for-buil...
The first line of your comment doesn't seem necessary to make your point.

There is a guideline that says "don't be snarky"[0] and I think it applies here.

Having produced a documentary (and being in the process of creating another one), I can't say that I agree with your view on purpose at all.

The purpose of either documentary or fiction movie is whatever the movie maker aims at. There is no reason for anyone to abide by your standard of "trying to get at the truth" when writing the scenario for Once Upon A Time in America, Jurassic Park, The Simpsons (the movie), or Bowling for Columbine.

I'd say most movies have an intent behind them. Further than that, we're art amateurs trying to interpret the meaning of abstract paintings in a gallery. Maybe the painter wanted to denunce the patriarchy. Or maybe they had food poisoning that day. Who knows.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
If that's what it was, analyzing an entire language would be an interesting lens into how a large number of people think about ethics. But this one is more interesting because it shows us how Google thinks about ethics.
If you read his full memo [1], it's the most Sundar Pichai response possible to a crisis. It's full of vague MBA speak ("red-teaming", really?) with the obligatory Google mission statement sprinkled in along with self congratulatory statements of their AI achievements. It does not inspire any confidence whatsoever.

[1] https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/1762849036363505996
Did you watch https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-Body ? It’s available on Amazon prime.
> I've worked on and in LLVM for about 5 years now (and I've contributed to a handful of programming languages and runtimes over the past decade), so I feel comfortable saying that I know a bit about how compilers and language development work. Not enough to say that I'm an infallible expert, but enough to know that it's very hard to claw back performance when doing the kinds of things you're doing (isoheaps, caps). Isotyped heaps, in particular, are a huge pessimization on top of ordinary heap allocation, especially when you get into codebases with more than a few hundred unique types[1].

Isoheaps suck a lot more in kernel than they do in user. I don't think it's accurate to say that isoheaps are a "huge pessimization". It's not huge, that's for sure.

For sure, right now, memory usage of Fil-C is just not an issue. The cost of isoheaps is not an issue.

Also, Fil-C is engineered to allow GC, and I haven't made the switch because there are some good reasons not to do it. That's an example of something where I want to pick based on data. I'll pick GC or not depending on what performs better and is most ergonomic for folks, and that's the kind of choice best made after I have a massive corpus.

> If I read correctly, you provide an example of an enum below that needs to be rewritten for Fil-C. That's probably an acceptable tradeoff in many codebases, but it sounds like there are well-formed C programs that Fil-C currently rejects.

Yeah but it's not a rewrite.

If you want to switch to Rust, it's not a matter of changing a union - it's changing everything.

If you want to switch to Fil-C, then yeah, some of your unions, and most of your mallocs, will change.

For example, it took about two-three weeks working about 2hrs/day to convert OpenSSH to the point where the client works. I don't think you'd be able to rewrite OpenSSH in Rust on that kind of schedule.
At the other end of that scale is Commodus, who wanted every month named after one of his 12 names: Lucius, Aelius, Aurelius, Commodus, Augustus, Herculeus, Romanus, Exsuperatorius, Amazonius, Invictus, Felix, and Pius
Well, with AI, we're now able to make that movie!

And, let's be honest, someone somewhere will watch it.

And make a YouTube reaction video of themselves watching it.
Hopefully someone leaks the spec. Maybe it's already available?

Note that the latest VESA specs are also restricted.

FWIW, it's easily possible to sniff the control channel of an HDMI or DP connection. At that point one could attempt to reverse engineer the enabling features.
iPhones, even when "turned off", run microcode 24/7 and allows them to participate in the "Find My" network. They are never truly powered off.
I think the biggest strategic oversight that Google leadership has made is not learning from Microsoft's Tay fiasco.

What Google should have done is setup an entirely separate startup (or startups) similar to the approach Microsoft has taken with OpenAI. Let a few young, ambitious startup CEOs lead the way and supply them with billions in funding which they must use in Google Cloud Compute AI spend - in exchange for a majority stake in their company and integrating with Google properties only.

Book the GCP AI revenue and get stock bump from YoY GCP growth. If the startup(s) misstep, claim the tax write-off then move on to the next batch. If they are successful over a five year stretch then just buy them out fully and get some positive news coverage over the successful strategic acquisition.

As a member of Mag7/FAANG, Google leadership must realize that any and all minor missteps are going to be blown out of proportion via clickbait articles.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_(chatbot)
What about google search? This is also happening for google image searched and need to be fixed!!
What did Ballmer do which was comparatively this bad?
Until you price in storage / making up the numbers with coal and oil at night
If OCF couldn't afford the fees paid to OCI, is there related risk to the other Open Collective entities (OSC, OCE, etc.)?

> Unfortunately, over the past year, we have learned that Open Collective Foundation's business model is not sustainable with the number of complex services we have offered and the fees we pay to the Open Collective Inc. tech platform.

-- "Open Collective Foundation Dissolution Announcement" https://docs.google.com/document/d/1odj1zfwqZgIyGOeBhv5QZxYH...
> They _invented_ transformers.

IIRC most/all the "Attention Is All You Need" authors have left Google.
Why Are We Screwing over Researchers Who Make Innovative Discoveries?
He talks about it as if it was someone else's fault.

His internal policies of extreme virtue signaling and DEI focus could only have led to that outcome. And now that I think about it, this was probably not a problem of lack of testing - it was tested and the results appeared as expected given Google's past of trying to mold society through subtle but deliberate biases in its products.
FTA:

>“I want to address the recent issues with problematic text and image responses in the Gemini app (formerly Bard),” Pichai said in the memo

How does your interpretation fit into the 'image responses' part? That seems to be referencing US issues.
There's no problem if you just cite which experts and their credentials, even better if you can add the direct quote to remove all ambiguity in the first place.
For the requirements.txt there is usually a so called freeze file that has the frozen dependencies in it.
We would insist it is named after George Washington instead, if that name’s stuck. The whole situation would be insufferable I think.
> this is also why african, asian, and american countries with no emissions targets won't just replace european consumption of fossil fuels

Yet they are.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-electricity-renewab...

Edit: Misread the post I was replying to but can’t delete it now. The graph is largely in agreeance with what OP is saying
It is truly indicative of the shortcomings of the supposedly enlightened Hacker News hivemind that Google - a company that has killed influential projects and sacrificed / cannibalised the integrity of it's core search product - should be condemned because it's latest AI malfunction is too 'DEI'.

Google's AI blunders are more systemic than the latest culture war. The cringe hate spewed by earlier models are just as incompetent as Gemini, these are nothing more than the flailing of a multinational who is incapable of fashioning a vision of a world they promise. These are bugs at the highest level, that are clearly poisioning every layer of Google. They are the same bugs that led to Google search shortcuts that pushed disinformation COVID.

This is a failure of rigour from the flailing of the world's self appointed organiser of knowledge. Your least favourite DEI minority has nothing to do with it. For fucks sake. Place your blame where it belongs.
As the mantra goes, double your prices.

To me, selling for $2 or $3 or $5 might be a better business model. You’ll make more money from fewer customers (less costumer support) and reduce the overhead of fees.

At the very least, the price should reflect costs. At best, you charge for value.

Price segments markets. Segmenting for people who will spend money is a better strategy than trying to sell to people who won’t.

Good luck.
The savings is with not having to deal with HR to manage the people hired to keep your local systems up and running.

The tradeoff is that if you have a sudden hit event you may simply not have the raw horsepower to handle the influx, but you also can't be hit with surprise $100k+ bills for a configuration mistake.
They are in extreme poverty because they can’t afford the fossil fuel to burn for economic development. As they develop, they might pick renewable because its cost is falling to the point it might become cheaper than burning fuel, at least for certain use cases.
> His later work is far more subtle, sort of about the pervasiveness of dystopian corporate cyberpunk themes underneath modern culture and style?

I sort of guessed that was where he went with his later work based on book descriptions, but honestly I still plan to read them because that idea is very interesting to me, and I want to read everything I can from authors I respect in order to try to learn as much about writing as possible from them, but you're right, I will probably like them less on a personal level.

For me, the appeal of cyberpunk is taking the dystopian parts of our society — surveillance capitalism, corporate omnipotence, consumerism, commodification, atomization, helplessness, poverty, all the subtle yet inescapable webs entangling us that are usually hidden beneath smiling signs and catchy slogans — and just putting it completely on the table, in full view. Cyberpunk is "hyper-real" — this painfully heightened reality writers can use as a tool to throw the hidden bones of our constructed reality into sharp relief like an X-ray, so that when the reader comes back to the regular world they can't stop seeing everything they saw, like an after image that won't go away even when you close your eyes. The sort of raw sex and drugs and hyper self-expression through transhumanism and so on, the cool factor — that's all almost like a cathartic reward for the dystopian aspects of the setting, while also integrating with those aspects and complexifying the commentary, instead of allowing you to escape it. More subtle commentary has its place, but cyberpunk as a genre is unique, and I think we need more of it.

> If you do want more Neuromancer, I'd recommend Richard K. Morgan's trilogy [0] (for god's sake, the books, not the TV series), Ian M. Banks' Culture books [1] (although maybe start with Excession, and read the others if you like it), or go retro for the original cyberpunk short story collections [2].

Thanks for the recs! All of those are very much on my tbr, although I'm struggling to get into altered carbon for personal reasons unrelated to the stuff I've mentioned previously ;P

> Do you have a link to where I can find your work?

I'm extremely flattered you ask! I haven't put any of my work up anywhere yet because most of my completed stuff is very early — when I was still finding my style and footing — and most of my mature, refined work is as of yet unfinished. I am however currently working on a cycle of novellas (titled Spectrum Fold :)) set in a sort of Gothic cyber+punk post-apocalyptic world deeply inspired by Gibson, Reynolds, R. Talosorian Games, and media like Edgerunners, Fight Club, Dark City, and The Crow. Depending on how comfortable you are with heavy queer and trauma themes (as well as the usual sex, drugs, violence, poverty, etc), if you send me an email I'll send you a link to my first novella when it's ready for release (probably later this year). I'll be publishing it as a DRM free epub on my self hosted server lol.
It's Parkinson's Law...

The more people you have, the more managers you have, the more you need to communicate, the more people you need. It's a death spiral
I was starting to think the land acquisitions weren't that big a deal, especially relative to other CEOs. But then he has to go be all goon-like:

"A couple of days before the interview, Benioff texted the same NPR colleague again, asking for intel on my story. Then he called me and demanded to know the title of this piece. During that call, he also mentioned he knew the exact area where I was staying. Unnerved, I asked how he knew, and he said, "It's my job. You have a job and I have a job." During the interview, he brings up more personal details about me and my family."
So LSL2 came out in 1988, Linux in 1991, so definitely NOT a reference to Linux. However both the game and Linux are a reference to Unix (Bell Labs, released in 1970s). The LSL2 developers clearly knew about Unix.
And the play on word "Eunuchs / Unix" is a reversal of the pun of the original Unix i.e. the authors of Unix were themselves making a pun on the word "Eunuchs". Here, what Unix was "castrating" was an even earlier (1960s?) operating system called Multics developed by Ken Thompson, who got frustrated by all the bloat and complexity, so sought to castrate down the complexity by writing the now famous Unix, whose paradigm spread far and wide and was re-implemented in Linux.
Why aren't these companies investing more into 3-dimensional chips instead of trying to squeeze more on the same 2-dimensional die when we're so close to hard atom-size limits?

A 3cm x 3cm x 3cm cube could fit a hell of a lot of transistors and gates even if it is 20nm.
How long is too long at a job? How short is too short? Ex-VP of HR explains
I think you're mixing up your populists here... AMLO (Andrés Manuel López Obrador) and Lula are left-wing (so you can maybe call them communists if you want to insult them, but not fascists), Orbán, Meloni, Erdogan, Putin, Modi, Trump, Bolsonaro etc. are right-wing/nationalist.
This isn't really how neurons work.

First of all, they operate independent of a synchronized clock, and they can also accumulate signals instead of executing on a input. Neuromorphic chips are closer to how the brain works, but they're still super early. I believe Intel has the best one with the Loihi 2.

(Not a neuroscientist but my wife is and that's what I understand from our chats)
This is incorrect. It was their query engine that was hard to optimize, not the language. InfluxDB has been working on a new query engine based off Apache DataFusion to fix this.

If you squint, this query language is very similar to Polars, which is state-of-the-art for performance. I expect Pql could be as performant with sufficient investment.

The real problem is that creating a new query language is a ton of work. You need to create tooling, language servers, integrate with notebooks, etc… If you use SQL you get all of this for free.
Zero.

Like most people.

Good luck.
Not all countries in Africa are dirty polluters (like South Africa). Kenya or Congo are basically all renewable
The Span Metrics Processor being replaced by the Span Metrics Connector is very, very OpenTelemetry.
Instructions misunderstood, released Bike S Air Pro
The unfair advantage is over other hunters.

Hunters would prefer to hunt by daylight, for the most part. If light-hunting at night were allowed, that would be the only way to take the best game, because as the comment you're responding to notes, it's much easier.

So everyone would be forced to do the thing they don't want to do, if they want to take a deer at all. That's a bad equilibrium, what we call "not sporting".