skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Generative AI: Transforming Advertising Beyond Imagination
Samsung Foundry renames 3nm process tech to 2nm
I trust that people will come up with interesting uses for the new technology.

> In the early 1940s, IBM's president, Thomas J Watson, reputedly said: "I think there is a world market for about five computers."
Build your own robot cloud portal
> I seriously wonder what direction to take my career, exactly.

same. future looks very uncertain. on one hand, the new figure of "ai-assisted x" where x can range from developer to copywriter to a whealth of other primarily creative job will replace the non ai assisted variants due of the tangible increase in productivity

on the other hand the reduction in these cost possibly means 5x less capital requirement to build a startup, whose primary cost today is personell, at least in their early stages.

wether will that increase in company creation be enough to raise the demand for personell to a level where the society is stable I don't really know.

the primary risk I see is not from career prospet but from the massive capital investment that is required to be in the club of model providers, these will be the new elite, with unparallel power over economies and entire states. if you think the robber baron period was harsh, wait until three companies are ingrained in every aspect of your life from bureoucracy to healthcare and having to have to argue with a self moderated model instead of a bureaucrat, and if that's not enough imagine that maybe you have a uncommon or suggestive name and the model won't believe you no matter what proof you might give it. imagine these model being part one way or another in the production of entartainment, generating a monoculture that is extremely prude and milquetoast. or in general the model being wrong about anything really, you cannot reason with them.

my concern is that there's a lot that should be happening right now at a legislative level, not in term of stifling innovation, but let's say putting certain role outside of the sole control of AI, which it isn't, and if we wait to be reactive about it, it's gonna end up like it did for self drivin: blood on the road and I cannot have my car acting as a taxi and earning for me during off hours because for safety reason only the tech owner can profit from it, yeah, right.
I've spinning up a new Shen implementation from scratch, in Racket, which integrates directly with my Prolog implementation, Scryer Prolog:

https://github.com/mthom/scryer-shen/

Several innovations are documented in the README. Both the Prolog implementation and the type checker are written in / hosted by Scryer (Prolog implementation is done, the type checker is in progress). Scryer has many powerful constructs for monotonic reasoning which should help to take Shen's type checker in particular to new heights of power!
> This confirms what everyone who ever touched AMD GPGPUs knows -- that the only thing holding back AMD from becoming a 2 Trillion dollar company is their absolutely atrocious software.

I actually rather enjoyed the AMD Software in particular, since it made very easy to tweak graphics (limit framerates to 60 when I don't want the GPU maxing out when games/software don't support it by default), setup instant replays with a hotkey press (like Shadowplay, where it has a constant recording buffer of the last X minutes) and also both power limit the GPU (when my UPS wasn't very good) as well as overclock it automatically (since I still want to squeeze like a year out of my RX 580).

Except that any version of the software/drivers after around 2020 crashes VR titles after less than an hour. And that there is no software package for Linux and CoreCtrl isn't as good. And that sometimes the instant replay thing just doesn't work. And that I haven't been able to get ROCm working with any of the local LLMs even once across both Windows and Linux (DKMS sure loved to do a whole bunch of pointless compiling upon each apt upgrade).

I'm honestly considering either going for Intel Arc as my next GPU because I'm curious, or just going back to something from Nvidia, so it's probably a split between: A580, RX 6600, RTX 3050. Or maybe I can hold out until other parts drop in price, time will tell.
€600 doesn't stretch very far anywhere in Ireland these days; you'd struggle to find a room for a fraction of 600 in a location where you can walk to a train to Dublin. Mightn't be possible at all tbh.
Ha just googled this and realized this is exactly it. Makes a lot of sense as a forcing function to better understand your messy thoughts
Oh that is very different but very cool, thanks.
You already made a faulty assumption — that we're interested in "classifying the data" in the first place.

Maybe we already know everything about the dataset. For example, if it's line-of-business customer data gradually built up by a sales team, then the brains of the salespeople have likely already done all the "implicit classification" needed to generate good questions about the dataset.

And this is, by far, the usual scenario for Business Intelligence questions: someone with "business-domain knowledge", e.g. an executive, has formed an intuitional hypothesis about the data based on their personal experience; and so they ask someone with "data-domain knowledge", e.g. a business analyst or data scientist, to test that hypothesis.

It's actually rare, in my experience, to have a tabular-data dataset that someone is motivated to understand, that doesn't also "come with" a set of people who can already act as (good!) models trained on that dataset, to aid them in that understanding. (Sometimes these people can't find each-other — but they do usually exist.)

AFAIK, having reams of entirely opaque and ill-understood tabular data, such that you need classification/clustering to get started on asking questions, only really happens in the sciences: sensor-network climate data; longitudinal-study medical-outcome data; census data; housing-market data; etc. In other words, it's almost always universities and governments — not businesses — that care about analyzing opaque tabular data.

And that's a key to understanding the constraints in play for choosing models! Because business-driven analyses are usually time-constrained in some way (potentially even needing post-training question-answers to be generated in soft-realtime); while institutional analyses usually aren't. Big difference!
Most of the studies showing negative effects of screen time are also low quality and rely on self reporting.
Thanks for situating this in history! It's easy for people to look at the project and be like "why no RPi?" without understanding that when LibraryBox started, Raspberry Pi's didn't have onboard wifi, and the travel routers we chose to support were SIGNIFICANTLY less expensive as well. We're in a very different hardware world now.
Congrats on shipping! I enjoyed today's puzzle; love that movie. I found myself wanting to stop the song while I typed my answer, because it was a bit distracting. But I guess that's part of the game, right? If you stopped the song, you could "think on it" for minutes before typing your answer.

Fun concept.
> I've never read a law...

Funny that.
Nit picking, but floating point is not commutative either.
dude, thanks.
Because the US enforce their rules on world wide.

That's not legal but who's gonna stop them.
My wife's car has a stalk that you can turn the end, turn the inside. It has a slide that moves up and down inside of the inside rotating part. The stalk can go up, or down, or double up. You can also pull the stalk towards you. It's bonkers.
Can anyone confirm if this actually works in practice for GenAI? In general, CUDA translation layers are usually broken for SOTA ML applications.
Google didn't supress the content; they declined to pay for advertising alongside that content. That's their prerogative.

If you sup with the Devil, sup with a long spoon.
I can understand your frustration but were you not aware of the software lock in when you bought it? I'm not defending the ownership erosion, but I avoided these things specifically because of who was selling it and how it was locked to them.
To what end is any extraneous intelligence put to? Much of what we value most was created due to extraneous intelligence.
I'm not referring to any specific religion. I'm just saying they were religious. Which religious tradition has the most great minds is a separate question and I don't know the answer, but I would suspect Christianity. But all I'm saying here is that most great minds throughout history were religious.
Confuse your enemy. Disrupting civil communication before large scale maneuvers is part of the modern doctrine.
Oregon OKs right-to-repair bill that bans the blocking of aftermarket parts
So which loophole let him get away with it?
> It's not going to tell you which part of your service is inaccessible.

Scroll up the thread a bit; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39605354

Even here on HN, where people should know better, people take its incorrect attribution as useful info. TikTok isn't down. X isn't down. Google isn't down.
It's actually NVIDIA saying you can't reverse engineer anything you build using CUDA SDK in order to run it on another platform. If someone else built it with the SDK and you have never downloaded the SDK yourself then you would not be bound by this agreement. I don't think you could get the cublas etc libraries without agreeing to the EULA so it includes what you are saying, but also includes apps or libraries you build yourself using the SDK.

"You may not reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble any portion of the output generated using SDK elements fo the purpose of translating such output artifacts to target a non-NVIDIA platform."
It's in the article I linked. I didn't say it was all immigration's doing just a piece of the puzzle. Also it doesn't mean it solved the labor problem just reduced the intensity, wage growth is still good, just not disastrous in inflation terms.

There is no difference between a worker not existing and one not willing to work, but wages are still up and many people left the market permanently during covid (also in the linked article).
IP address X-posure now a feature on Musk's social media platform
I don't really know. I posted this link in the r/webdev subreddit and there was some pushback that this isn't code that is fit to charge clients for and that it shouldn't be trusted for serious engineering. The point was completely missed- I think an AI agent can supplement your understanding if the documentation is usually targeted at professionals. It's also perhaps a more engaging medium for some learners.
Life has a growth imperative. Frogs don't need capitalism to breed until they reach their environment's carrying capacity.
Show HN: Broadcastify Calls, a full-featured managed radio calls ingest platform
But maybe the didn't recognize until now.
Thanks but... no thanks, you've missed my point entirely. Why would I want to run peer to peer software built by developers whose security stance starts with curl-bash? Would you curl-bash a webserver? an email server? No? Probably even worse for your source code repository then right?
That is right, I haven’t read the book, and I’m probably never going to. I’ve read some of Diamonds other work, and I have heard this argument a lot (particularly about the animals) and like you said, there is a lot of self evident arguments against it. Not just the fact that there were domesticated animals in the Americas, but also like the buffalo existed (and was probably semi-domesticated like the reindeer in Sápmi) and could probably be domesticated just as easily as the Water Buffalo in Asia.

But I have a deeper problem with Diamond’s book, and the main reason I will probably never read this book, is the fact that I believe he is asking the wrong question. The question of European colonization should not be about capability, but of consequence.

Brutal armies have in the past from all over the world been able to siege, occupy, colonize and genocide vast areas with nothing superior but their brutality. The Mongol army for examlple might have had a superior breed of horses, but what they had above else was complete disregard of the human lives of their victims. Same with the Huns, or the Japanese imperial army, and yes, colonial Europe.

Guns Germs and Steel (the explanation, not the book) sound to me like a post hoc analysis, an overfit if you will, to fit history neatly between the lines, and tie it together with a nice bow. Asking the question, „but how could Europe do this?“ is an extremely colonialist thing to do, a euro-centric world view. If Jared Diamond wanted to do history, he wouldn’t ask this question. He would ask: „what were the consequences of actual people victims of these crimes?“ Yes this is ideology, but I would argue that Diamond is also full of an awful world view which doesn’t fit in historic analysis of this century.
Yes and everyone understood what was meant from context without the pedantry.

Do you really think people don’t know which continent the UK belongs to?

Do you think people are in danger of thinking the UK is actually in Africa or Asia when the colloquialism of ‘Europe’ is used?
Part of it is that for a lot of Europeans this is still in living memory I think.

It’s really interesting to me how recently some “modern, first-world countries” were still dictatorships or still undergoing rapid democratization. France, Spain, and Korea are all dramatic examples, we totally don’t think of it in this context but at the start of the 80s Korea was a backwater under a military dictatorship, in the 50s France was a quasi dictatorship under de Gaulle with internal instability and unrest, Spain was under a fascist dictator until 1975, etc.

Plus there is the other factor that the structure of European cities and societies is much more amenable to protests and political action, where the US citizenry is atomized by design.
I work a lot with Android, but didn't really have much reason to use it when I can just run an emulator. It's sad to see Microsoft killing it so early.
I (unfortunately) read most of his works alongside a lot of the post-modernist cannon while participating in speech and debate. While he may give some interesting speculative reasoning about the nature of state power, he's ultimately fashionable nonsense.

Lacan, Zizek, Foucault, and Derrida are The 4 horsemen of the epistemological apocalypse.
That resume thing is a great example of why the lines here are so blurry.

I'd categorize that as an "indirect prompt injection" - a term that was introduced in this paper by Kai Greshake et al: https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.12173

I didn't notice at the time, but this added a tiny bit of extra confusion because indirect prompt injections (while a very smart term) don't necessarily require string concatenation. They mostly do - they're still usually an example of a trusted prompt ("analyze this resume") concatenated to untrusted input - but there are likely examples of "indirect prompt injection" where the trick is more about the hidden input, not necessarily the concatenation piece.

Indirect prompt injection is defined in an actual citable paper though, so they did a better job of providing a concrete definition for that term than I did!

I actually think of "data poisoning" as something else - as an attack where you leave malicious data lying around the Web in the hope that an AI model will be trained on it as part of its pre-training data, as opposed to data that's fed in as a prompt. That's how OWASP define data poisoning: https://owasp.org/www-project-machine-learning-security-top-...
>7714 Euros is expensive (it's more than I pay for a year's rent in a small appartment in Berlin for instance)

What apartment can you still get for less than 640 Euros in Berlin today?
Buttons and knobs are great --some MFGs went overboard on frankfurter finger knobs and buttons as well as making them look as cheap as possible --like dull grey cheap parts as if manufactured by Hasbro.
> My FB password is 96 bits from /dev/urandom in a GPG-based password manager I wrote for myself a couple decades ago.

We have the same approach to password management!
There have always been a number of reasons for why somebody might believe in the supernatural, the sibling comment points out one of them. Two important reasons have declined substantially over the last 200 years.

First, the "God of the gaps" has basically disappeared. All natural phenomena in our personal experience are understood well enough that we can say with confidence that nothing supernatural is required to explain them. That doesn't mean that every individual understands them well enough, and while it's not a hard binary distinction, there is certainly a correlation between spirituality / belief in the supernatural and lack of understanding of natural science.

Second, religion is to a large extent social glue. As humans increasingly live in large cities, social glue in general is disappearing, and religion is just one facet of that.
JetBrains TeamCity Multiple Authentication Bypass Vulnerabilities (Fixed)
The problem is the source of the reports and display of the reporting.

I'd trust Down Detector a lot more if it was filled with Hacker News community -- people who are able to understand that there's "DNS" and "Routing".. and that your phone can have internet access at home while your home PC does not.

I personally hate Down Detector's graphing because it can make it 'look' like there's an issue when there isn't really... Facebook with 500,000 reports looked as down as Google with 1,000 reports... For equally sized / used entities, I would not trust that "Google" is down with 1,000 reports. I had a coworker ask me what was going on with the internet because "everything is down.. Facebook, google, gmail, microsoft!" (when seeing the Down Detector home page)

DD should normalize the graphs against the service history in some way. A service shouldn't spike because it had 30 reports / hour for a day, then suddenly has 100... when it has a history of being out with 100,000+ reports. The 100 reports are probably mis-reporting, but you can't tell until you dig into each service, one by one, with separate page loads.
Best one is still just the good old lines of code written.

It’s trivial to both measure and game, so not much time gets wasted trying to figure out either part. If you can’t beat Goodhart’s law, join it.
If I ran Windows on my Legion Go, I'd probably be looking into WSA.

Windows is famously crappy on touchscreens. It would be really nice to have something like ChromeOS or Android be the UI for a gaming handheld.
Hey, looking into this now. I believe the vote buttons actually do always send us feedback, but the UI could probably be better there.
> That said, getting there strikes me as pretty challenging. Automatically detecting a down state is difficult and any detection is inevitably both error-prone and only works for things people have thought of to check for. The more complex the systems in question, the greater the odds of things going haywire. At Meta's scale, that is likely to be nearly a daily event.

Well, in principle, the frontend just has to distinguish between HTTP status 500 (something broken in the backend, not the fault of the user) and some HTTP status code 4xx (the user did something wrong).
Does "Chad" have positive connotations now? When I was younger it was fairly derogatory.
WSL is an important developer tool, with a lot of (paying corporate) users. WSA was a limited toy.
> All these things together is why I believe that systems like NixOS or Guix are the future (but of course there might be other developments in that space).

That, or actually keeping control over the dependencies?
I remember sometime in the last decade Google had an extension to run Android apps in Chrome. I tested it with a comics app, which I wanted for the bigger screen, and it worked fine. When I tried to search for the extension years later I couldn't find it.
Thank you for the reference @flohofwoe - I overlooked this!

Sounds fantastic.
The Impact of Pre-Allocating Slice Memory on Performance in Go
Aha, so we'd need clean-room re-implementations of those libraries too, in principle.
Sometimes they get sidelined by vcs, but you can't see it from lower levels. Other times they started something else, and have insider information that the company will not work
What's wrong with the pocket casts webapp?
WSA was around a lot longer than that, at least in beta. But I never saw any excitement about it at all.
Unsure how I feel about this

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That happens more than it should. The Six Foot rule during the pandemic was based on a slide from a conference presentation in the 50s, citing a 1930s tuberculous study and wasn't relevant to viruses. A Medical researcher got onto this early as "social distancing" wasn't working and she had trouble finding any credible source and found the 1930s paper and then started following citations back into the 1950s to one slide. It was just repeated on and on with no continuation of the actual source citation.

[edit] here is a link to the original NYT article from June of 2020 https://archive.is/ZuSyc

https://www.wired.com/story/the-teeny-tiny-scientific-screwu...

Archive link for research and education.
https://archive.is/z14Ia
A different approach to VR by Philip Rosedale
We are more cynical with Microsoft, and joke about embrace extend extinguish.
Wait, you thought they started after 2022?
I originally had the default 'pause' functionality up until yesterday but a lot of friends had given the feedback that it can exploited and that a running clock adds to the gametime pressure.
Why the outage?
A few different movies have this song in it, would be cool to accept any of the correct answers, depending on how easy that is.
> Where I come from, when you say if you do X, I'll pay you Y, it's unethical and a tort NOT to pay Y if you do X.

Two wrongs don't make a right.

I did agree that companies are being unethical if they don't pay, that does not give the leeway to then act unethically because of them. Again, ultimately who pays the price if an exploit that was sold is then used in the wild by bad actors are real life users.

Also, the case being discussed is not about companies not paying X, the comment I replied was talking about not paying what the highest bidder would pay, that is not the agreement for a lot of zero-day programs offered by companies trying to secure their software, they give ranges of payments depending on severity of the exploit, not a "we will pay whatever is the highest bid you can get for your exploit".

Is it guilt tripping to ask about ethical questions around infosec? That sounds to me like a thought-terminating cliche, attempting to terminate a discussion for what I believe is very clearly an ethical issue. It does have ethical ramifications, I will not stand on the side of "I will just auction to the highest bidder a potentially harmful exploit", that does not sit right with my moral code.

> As long as the exploit vendor doesn't say they're doing anything illegal, I'm in the clear. I've had 1 vendor say that they were engaging in illegal activities, and refused to sell.

What stops an exploit vendor from lying to you?
Actually, what we're doing from DRED isn't that far from what you're suggesting. The difference is that we keep more information about the voice/intonation and we don't need the latency that would otherwise be added by an ASR. In the end, the output is still synthesized from higher-level, efficiently compressed information.