skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Average user: "This replaces google for search."

Cookie Monster: "The internet is for porn." [1]

[1] youtube.com/watch?v=j6eFNRKEROw
Not to dismiss the novelty and power of LLM's but why would you turn to a black box language interface for that?

Wouldn't you expect a designed system to be more efficient, complete, reliable, and auditable? Most or those characteristics are critical to security applications and the nature of LLM's largely run counter to them.
That's how I approach analyzing a software issue as well. Start with the basics, is the application even running, is it actually reading the file you think it's reading etc.

So often it's not something weird.
Starcraft as the first eSport Game?
WoW as the first mass appeal Western MMORPG?
PUBG as the first Battle Royale and catalyst for Fortnite?
Minecraft for defining a demographic as much as a genre?
Dark Souls, Journey or Nier:Automata for redefining what actually constituted the role of 'online gamer' ?

The path from Quake or Perfect Dark -> Halo 2 was no great paradigm shift compared to the five above imo
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How many lives were saved by almost all Iranian missiles and drones being shot down before they hit targets in population centers in Israel?
… and it’s gone!
I'm pretty sure in my case because my moods move around in predictable ways. Medication has been a significant improvement to that. The major side-effect of one medication lines up with a genetic mutation I have. As a result, a supplement has significantly improved my short-term memory.

Neither medication nor moods have affected the brain fog that I was referring to, only time.
This partly happens because scaling of one vector is independent of another vector in different coordinate systems. The vector outside can scale but align with parent than the child inside.
>I"m British and can confirm this was the case

Ok, so there's a single country that allegedly had one category for anybody who's "brown". This does not matter at all.

>it makes just as much sense as any other categorisation of black. Its almost as if race is a made up social construct

Until someone needs a transplant. Or takes a genetic test. Or a legitimate anthropology course. Or when you need to call someone a racist.
Investigations detail concerns over Israel's use of AI in choosing targets
How/where are you hosting it?
> we have more than enough resources and means to distribute them to everyone

Do we? To what threshold? Sustainably?

We don’t have, for example, have the resources to provide every person on the planet with the quality of life of even a lower-quintile American. (Home, power, plumbing, car, petrol, varied industrially-produced foods, television, phone, internet, in-person education, security, et cetera.)
PAL60 was a thing, but a lot of older TVs didn't support it. A bunch of playstation (ps2, mainly) games had button combos you held down on startup to enable it or, more rarely, a menu option to switch. I learned about it while playing burnout 4, and that it only worked on one of the house TVs.

A lot of PAL ports of games ran slower because they weren't re-timed correctly if at all. On the flipside, being the last major region to get games, there was often additional content by the time they got here. Like the infamous "European extreme" difficulty in MGS3.
>I can tell you just from digging into the publicly available videos let alone some of the not publicly available information that you are greatly underestimating the complexity and costs of Netflix’s architecture.

Why do they need all that complexity to host a bunch of (not even that many) videos and user profiling?
As a side note since XKXD leaves this out and having gotten involved in implementing systems using physical storage for transport in the past, physical copying to/from media is a major issue in performance and capital costs.

Most large physical hard drives max out around 300-400MB/s transfer rate, so it typically takes several days to fill a single drive. And you can’t ship anything until all the media is written.

So either you have a ton of online, parallel drives (which dramatically increases capex, and decreases available storage due to physical space, power, and cooling issues) or you go really slow.

Even having 300 parallel full speed drive interfaces for instance, it would take approximately a year to fill those 3000 drives with data, and approx. another year to read all the data off. Which dramatically changes all the calculations.
Cyc was the last remaining GOFAI champion back in the day when everyone in AI was going the 'Nouvelle AI' route.

Eventually the approach would be rediscovered (but not recuperated) by the database field desparate for 'new' research topics.

We might see a revival now that transformets can front and backend the hard edges of the knowledge based tech, but it will remain to be seen wether scaled monolyth systems like Cyc are the right way to pair.
The Chinchilla laws were compute optimal scaling laws. They're not supposed to tell you what parameter-token combination will saturate a model.
>There are tons of ethnicities in Africa.

Only three large racial (genetic) groups in Sub-Saharan Africa.

>Which one exactly is the genetically stupid one?

You're trying to turn this into a normative claim, which it is not. And you started with the assumption that people are just saying this stuff for no reason at all.
That monitor scaler without DRAM was the prototype of the first G version. ;-)
Fugaku has a public dashboard (Grafana)

https://status.fugaku.r-ccs.riken.jp/
911 outages reported in 4 states as emergency call services go down temporarily
> I get your argument, but like I said, pretty much everyone is well aware of data collection and targeted advertising. And they still use those services.

I mean, sure. I don't think that's inherently wrong. All the parties making decisions in this transaction didn't do so at the same time, and I feel the temporal context is important as it amounts to a large scale "conversation" if you will between the public and Facebook:

- Facebook initially launched it's product some time ago and offered few if any features for ad targeting.

- As it grew in technical complexity and aptitude, as an organization, it created and refined more precise targeting measures which required more user data to operate, which incentivized the collection and categorization of more user data

- Users despite enjoying the product are (rightfully I feel) uncomfortable with the idea of being surveilled, but this doesn't necessarily mean they are prepared to stop using the product. Facebook has engineered their product to be at least somewhat addictive, and even that aside, social media is not totally without uses and enjoyable aspects.

- Users then instead of divesting from the product are asking their leaders to legislate rules about how much their data can be used in this way. Their leaders have responded with legislation mandating transparency and establishing rules about user's data.

- Facebook then responded basically saying "if you don't want us to use your data for this purpose, you need to pay X amount of money instead to cover the ad revenue we cannot make"

- Users individually make this choice, but also the leaders whom have been charged with working on this issue come forth and say, "you cannot paywall a user's right to privacy"

- The proverbial ball is now back in Facebook's court, it can either divest from it's EU users, or fall back on un-targeted advertising which makes them less money, or it can make the subscription fee give more back to the users and make it a more compelling offer where it can operate outside of being basically a protection racket.

I summarize all this to point out that users are not limited to simply using the product or not using the product. The EU suffers less from the malaise I feel has infected the United States, where we've forgotten that the letter of the law is not simply for punishment, but also to shape the society we want to see built, including incentivizing and disincentivizing behaviors of private organizations via regulation. In this case, users do want the product, but they are altering instead via public policy what is permitted to happen when they choose to use that product. That is a fair action on that part and Facebook's response, IMO, amounts to corporate whining. This is a reality of the business they've chosen to engage in: complying with regulations is not a new concept, and it is not unfair either: regulations are always subject to change at the whims of those in power, for better or worse.
That's right, they did blow up their own pipeline to Germany.
I also think that's where they wanted to go to. I read some previews that they planned on having an even more indirect control scheme with you being able to buying better control computers that offer better maneuvers. But we all know how messy the development process of Freelancer was...
Yup, any protracted war will resemble WW2 or Ukraine within a year.

It's an ugly truth that you need an advanced infrastructure to build these sophisticated weapons, that level of infrastructure is easily destroyed.
It's definitely not true that the Romans introduced winemaking to Georgia. It's been made there for 8000 years and might have been the site of original domestication of the vine. They still make wine in a similar way so that means these methods are even more ancient than your story about the Romans suggest. e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kvevri
What are human values, and how do we align AI to them?
No their claim is that there are dimishing returns for a fixed compute budget (in training) to scaling up data past that threshold vs. scaling up params.

This doesn't take inference into account either, obviously.
Hooray. More ways to end life.
Am saying that:

- most companies will do better to not try to replicate AWS (or the share of AWS functionality that they need)

- most companies aren't tech companies (not talking about the Netflixes and co of the world here) and would botch it, and at best get a costly + high maintenance bad copy
Could be many lines of removed code. I imagine they may have introduced a simpler interface offloading governance to configuration data.
Measuring personal growth
Compute optimal for what, training? There's nothing optimal in blowing up model size beyond the absolute minimal needed or you'll spent the equivalent of a country in electricity trying to scale inference later.
Nostalgia runs hard! So many hours spent in that game. I'm happy someone is also as in enamored with the magic as I am!
Had this bite me for my small-scale personal AWS setup. Have an AWS account I run some personal sites on, a Mastodon instance, etc. Got some Billing Alarms I setup that my bill went from normally $100 to $180. Got a $75 charge for USE2-ExtendedSupport:Yr1-Yr2:MySQL5.7 I mean I'm very used to Amazon's ridiculous fee structure but even this one caught me for a loop.
Our Kroger is 15% higher price than the walmart down the street, seems dingy and dimly lit in comparison, and I do not trust their meat department in the slightest. They put stuff up that stinks.

Been that way for 15+ years. I suspect the criminal activity dragging that store down involves management, not employees.
Makes me wonder how long some IT guy spent trying to diagnose the problem before hearing the news
https://archive.is/40WTx
They did like GNOME, but needed it to costumize it to fit their needs. And that what 'Cosmic' plugins do for GNOME. But with the newer version Gnome would have broken many of their plugins, a frequent issue with Gnome. They are currently selling products with Gnome as default.

So they could either spend resources continually keeping up with Gnome and adopting all their changes, or they could go away from Gnome. Gnome is increasingly pushing in their own direction, so this would increasingly get harder and more time consuming in the future.

Given what their costumers expect, it makes sense not to go into a totally different direction and invent something totally new and revolutionary. The new Cosmic should be reasonably close to the older Gnome based Cosmic.

They now have the freedom to evolve their DE away from Gnome, they are no longer constrained by Gnome applets (and their long term support) and I suspect in a couple years the difference to Gnome will be bigger then it is now. This is already visible, with the raw default version of newest Gnome (not the one Ubuntu or PopOS delivers) being quiet a bit different from what you get with Cosmic DE.

What would you have liked to see be different is maybe a more interesting question.
Just because most people aren't aware of anything doesn't mean something inappropriate didn't happen.
NumFOCUS Concerns
https://www.oct7factcheck.com/index

Please, check what claims were already debunked to avoid unwittingly amplify misinformation.
Personally I suspect some of the activities are "staged", because it would be weird to have a camera at that angle otherwise, but representative of things that actually occur.

I'm not really sure anything done in the average lab makes for a great picture tbh.
Yup this one hit me hard. USE2-ExtendedSupport:Yr1-Yr2:MySQL5.7 sent my bill up 70%.
What sort of shows were these that you worked on as a technical diver? Is this a Seaworld-type of situation? But not sure why they would need underwater lifts.
We were constantly sold this idea "we don't succeed unless you succeed." It eventually became clear that they had no commitment to individual success at all. They went from having 8-10 people in a cohort to have 30+ people, and starting new cohorts every week. It also turned out that Lambda was bundling ISAs and selling them off, so they didn't have any specific investment in actual students.
Pet peeve: This shouldn't be called computers. Doing so blurs the difference between what they and <the natural conceptspace cluster normally called "computers"> do.

This is a calculator: a machine cable of doing a one-off operation (implementing something interpretable as a calculation) before requiring further intervention. "Computer" should be at least reserved for those that can do a lot of instructions, preferably indefinitely, without human involvement.

And I don't think this is a terminological nitpick, it bleeds into a fundamental disconnect that leaks out in their puffery:

>The aim is to demonstrate how very simple reactions, simple enough that they occur in real physics, can be combined to perform mathematical calculations — which hopefully helps explain how large numbers of transistors can combine to play Doom.

No, it doesn't. No matter how many of these domino calculators you string together, you're not getting Doom (even with the appropriate hardware to use the calculation's results). To model the core dynamic needed to run Doom, you at least need the ability to indefinitely run such calculations, in a way that subsequent ones depend on the results of earlier ones. By construction, these systems can't do that, and provide no insight into how you would.

It does provide a demonstration that a (non-electronic) physical system can implement the dynamic behind addition. Cool. But I'm not sure what layperson actually has trouble on that point. There are lots of physical systems that do that -- the confusion, I think, would lie in how you can bridge the gap to Doom. (At least, it was for me when computers seemed mysterious.)

Cool, they found one more physical way to implement a specific calculation. Call it a domino calculator. Don't call it a computer, don't imply it solves the core difficulties needed to run Doom.

Okay, rant over, now you can accuse me of making a mountain out of a molehill.
I choose to agree. To close ones mind to a conclusion (that there is a creator) is as illogical as blindly assuming there is a creator just because somebody said there was.

One of the things that's always baffled me, and I say this completely honestly, is that if somebody looked at something like a Boeing 747, any high rise building, or well constructed, artistic looking bridge, and said "wow, evolution is amazing!" we would think them insane. But do that with something as intricate as a feather, or the brain (of any animal) and it's immediately acceptable.

Then there's the second law of thermodynamics, which seems to be ignored by evolution, where it seems to be accepted that entropy decreases over huge amounts of time.
That's a different bar than the one most relevant to this article. No one in the general public could access your data on AWS the same way Amazon could. But Amazon can use other logistics platforms the same way that the general public would and get all this information about how those platforms operate.

The bar you're talking about is more "How much do you have to protect data you give to a third party, such that it still remains a trade secret from that third party?"

Currently, all of AWS is covered by the blanket statement here[0]:

> As a customer, you own your customer content, and you select which AWS services can process, store, and host your customer content. We do not access or use your customer content for any purpose without your agreement.

That should provide a good caliber of ammunition for trade-secrets claims against Amazon if they violate this, because not only can the rest of the public not access your data on AWS, you have every reasonable belief that Amazon is not allowed to either.

I can't find any resources that suggest this policy is any different for their AI API's. Microsoft Azure also has strong protections around their branded offerings of OpenAI GPT-3/4 API's.

0: https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/data-privacy-faq/
Never had the soup, but wanted to. I figure that if I'm already eating soup with crackers, I might as well try soup where cracker is the main point.
> it occurred because Sam Bankman-Fried used customer money to...

This is a weird use of "because". You're saying roughly, "the fraud occurred because <the mechanics of the fraud>". That stuff is not why it occurred, it's how.

People do things for reasons.

> fund a lavish lifestyle

More lavish than portrayed in his PR and parroted by EA leaders, but less lavish than a typical billionaire in his situation (to say nothing of a typical crypto billionaire!)

Spending some money on nice, convenient living for himself and his team is not inconsistent with longtermism. To use a CS term, it's analogous to the concept of amortization.
Looks like the intended link here is:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/04/author-granted-c...

Note though that there's already a more active conversation around (the Wired version of) this story here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40076692
I guess that is one use for the thousands of fighter jets the US military has in storage.
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I'm assuming the blue utopia of California doesn't have agricultural pressures either then?
I was really hoping to build out an amazing API product and when time came where they want to release one it would make more sense to acquire us. Alas.
The more insane you think the FAA is, the dumber it is not to get a signed-off formal permit in writing with an embossed gold seal and a certified copy deposited with the Pope. Or whatever.
austen was one of paul g's favourite ceo
You can draw a whole span or div that is invisible with fonts in it and everything off screen measure it. Delete it or then show it or move it or whatever. But I've done this before with JavaScript.
Hi, ex Nortel Networks employee here.
I put in extra hours over 2 months to hit a deadline. People patted me on the back the whole time and during annual review I was given a raise, a promotion, and fat stock award.

Anecdata sure. But not all hard work is wasted.
It's not a 'lifetime license' for macOS if it comes with only a year of updates, because macOS regularly breaks backwards compatibility.

I'd prefer to see, $49 for version 1. Then an upgrade price in a few years when they release version 2.
The Gundam Hypothesis of the future of warfare:

> The main use of the Minovsky particle was in combat and communication. When the Minovsky particle is spread in large numbers in the open air or in open space, the particles disrupt low-frequency electromagnetic radiation, such as microwaves and radio waves. The Minovsky particle also interferes with the operations of electronic circuitry and destroys unprotected circuits due to the particles' high electrical charge which act like a continuous electromagnetic pulse on metal objects. Because of the way Minovsky particles react with other types of radiation, radar systems and long-range wireless communication systems become useless, infra-red signals are diffracted and their accuracy decreases, and visible light is fogged. This became known as the "Minovsky Effect".

The disruption of electromagnetic radiation is due to the small lattice of the I-field creating fringes that long wavelengths cannot penetrate, and that diffract wavelengths that have similar distance with the fringes. This diffraction and polarization process disrupts the electromagnetic waves.[23]

The only counter measure to the "M" particle in the series was to install bulky and expensive shielding on all electronic equipment, but only to counteract the effect it had on electronic circuitry. While this could be done for space ships and naval ships, this ruled out the use of precision guided weapons, such as guided missiles. Due to this, the military use of Minovsky particles ushered in a new era of close-range combat. This is the primary reason for the birth of the Zeon close-combat weapon: the mobile suit.[24]
Yes, compute-optimal for training only. The purpose of the paper wasn’t to determine the most economically practical model one could build, the most “intelligent” model one could build given some amount of compute.
Ganted this tool was built in a week, it is working amazing.

Create your custom link, share it, and track your click analytics. If the user clcicks it and they are on desktop it will show them a QR code to scan to go on their phone. Much better than using an <a href="sms:*">

Check it out let me know what you think
I have lived and attended school in Bolivia, and let me say, South America has a dictator tendency. It's no surprise that this is what may be being attempted in Brazil. At the same time the history of most South American countries is one that is born out of revolution, so it's also not something that lasts very long (with some exceptions), however the consequences certainly do.
Highly maneuverable reusable aircraft (even drones) are expensive, and a scarcer resource than missiles.

In modern great power military conflict, if you get to the point where you can fly F-16s or a hypermaneuverable AI dogfighting drone into visual range against an opponent [with inferior planes] who's out of missiles, haven't you already won?

If the opponent isn't inferior in dogfights, then instead of using ~$1mil munitions as expendables, you're using planes (and possibly pilots) as expendables. That's not a good or economical trade-off when missiles are as good as they are today.
It uses Reverie under the hood, which itself relies on ptrace (at least for the current, sole implementation).

> Since ptrace adds significant overhead when the guest has a syscall-heavy workload, Reverie will add similarly-significant overhead. The slowdown depends on how many syscalls are being performed and are intercepted by the tool.

> The primary way you can improve performance with the current implementation is to implement the subscriptions callback, specifying a minimal set of syscalls that are actually required by your tool.

https://github.com/facebookexperimental/reverie
Blow up model size, get lots of space and parameters to do the double-descent grok thing in, then distill it way way down?