skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In spirit I think this is “open source”, and I think that’s how the majority of people think.

No, it isn't. You do, but, as evidenced by other comments, there's clearly people that don't. Thinking that you're with the majority and it's just a vocal minority is one thing, but it could just as easily be said that the vocal groups objecting to your characterization are representative of the mainstream view.

If we look at these models as the output of a compiler, that we don't have the inputs to, but that we are free (ish) to use and modify and redistribute, it's a nice grant from the copyright holder, but that very much doesn't look like open source. Open source, applied to AI models would mean giving us (a reference to) the dataset and the code used to train the model so we could tweak it to train the model slightly differently. To be less apologetic or something by default, instead of having to give it additional system instructions.

Model Available(MA) is freer than Model unavailable, and it's more generous than model unavailable, but it's very much not in the spirit of open source. I can't train my own model using what Meta has given us here.

And just to note, Google Gemma is the one they are releasing weights for. They are doing this and deserve credit for it.
This is an healthy mix of insane and fun. I love it
Yeah, I had to do a double take at that... Or maybe we both somehow missed an episode.
I will say it has the americana filling of violence/gore though (if gore is the right word for the boat scenes).
OpenAI Security Bots
I suggest u spent 5min on youtube to learn how motorcycles, bicycle and EUC's, brake.
A chunky portion of those dollars were spent on buying and pre-ordering GPUs that were used to train and serve LLaMa
Agreed. It's much easier to scan an orderly list of text than a mixture of text and images that also change positions depending on how wide the window is.
Changing your OS is easier than switching a toggle? What the fuck are we doing here?
I personally think that the model artifacts are simply programs with tons of constants. Many math routines have constants in their approximations and I don’t expect the source to include the full derivation for these constants all the time. I see LLMs as a same category but with (much) larger sets of parameters. What is better about the LLMs than some of the mathematical constants in complicated function approximations, is that I can go and keep training an LLM whereas the math/engineering libraries might not make it easy for me to modify them without also figuring out the details that led to those particular parameter choices.
> But as late as the Rover incident of 1867, where aboriginal people in Taiwan killed some US sailors, the Qing dynasty said to the US "Nope, that part of Taiwan, at least, has nothing to do was us, it's not our territory, take it up with them."

Please do provide a source, because I don't remember reading about Qing officials making any such remarks.
"Llama is not open source."

This is interesting. Can you point me to an OSI discussion what would constitute an open source license for LLMs? Obviously they have "source" (network definitions) and "training data" and "weights".

I'm not aware of any such discussion.
Elon has previously stated that he doesn't believe in advertising, "Tesla doesn't advertise".
I assume that's the reason why it's newsworthy.
It even looks like a tray in the versions of Windows before the UI got flattened, a slightly recessed area.
This article is rife with statements that appeal to "common knowledge" then back it up with "some doctors say" followed by implications of corruption because they took money from corporations.

I know there is concern over artificial sweeteners but I haven't seen any convincing evidence of the danger. Considering that artificial sweeteners have been some of the most studied chemicals out there, I'd expect to see some solid evidence. Most studies, including the one cited in the article, show a correlation between artificial sweeteners and diabetes but the criticism of those links is usually that the people who use artificial sweeteners are people who already have habits that would cause diabetes that they are trying to curb with artificial sweeteners.
I never took "Pre-Calc" and got easy A's in the calculus series.

In my opinion, college calculus is poorly named and instead should be named "Pre-Calc" and the real calculus course is then physics.
Emergence?
I think about it like this - seed oils are in nearly all processed foods. Read the labels of anything in your house that's in a bag, or will not expire in the next week. 95% chance there is sunflower/canola/safflower/sesame seed oil in it.

By avoiding seed oils, you tend to eat more whole foods. It's not an awful cue to pay attention to.
NY times was pay walled, but the others showed little understanding of what a fully mobilized war economy is. You can have wage freezes, job freezes, rationing, and harsh Market controls. Russia has only done these things to a very limited degree. Few countries have been fully mobilized since World War II
Thanks, I'll keep that in mind as I'll most likely have to figure out what that clunking noise is pretty soon.
In the best case, only s&p 500 companies have that kinda data and could afford AWS costs.
Some nice Multics features that I might like to see in Unix/Linux systems:

- long form command names/aliases

- ring security (and perhaps a more secure/isolated container [re]implementation)

- multiple entry points for executables (we sort of have that for busybox, but make it a runtime feature)

- improved memory safety for languages/compilers/runtime (legacy C code could be recompiled with memory checking, possibly with hardware support such as CHERI; stack could grow up rather than down)

- online reconfiguration (of CPUs, memory, devices, etc.) including dynamic splitting of a system (by bringing parts of it offline and then booting them up as a second system)

- smaller kernel (Multics ring 0 was ~628KB; SELinux alone is 2.5x larger[1])

[1] https://www.acsac.org/2002/papers/classic-multics.pdf
Or someone just punches retry
Besides, if we don't blow ourselves up, it's a virtual certainty that there will be another completely different geologic event in the next 100 years. And some completely different one on the following 100 years.

Hell, many of the changes from the current event are not even coherent with each other.

IMO, some people are just way too intent on pushing futurology around. (On something similar, people started pushing some grand event that would mark the end of the 20th century at the 80s. Of course, they pushed lots of different ones.)
Yes, I thought the same exact thing. Seemed so odd to hear him gush over his foiling and MMA while simultaneously expecting everyone else to migrate to the metaverse.
So, an article citing the US response to Covid as evidence that society has entered a "death spiral". With no mention of climate change? Written by epidemiologists?

Ah, the second author is John Ioannidis, who during Covid was put forward an anti-lockdown position forcefully and published a series of studies which scientists considered bad. I kept an eye on the debate and think he wound-up producing dubious claims of covid having a much lower fatality than was the case.

That's not to say I think the US responded well to Covid, that's big debate. But the "death spiral" argument can't help sounding a bit aggrieved here, even if many things threaten to make things worse in this society today; climate, pollution generally, rising inequality (that rose before-and-after covid), the thread of nuclear war (MAD has worked so but doesn't seem like a good long term plan) etc.
Facebook does not lease hardware like that because (what I was told during bootcamp) "the best return on Capital we can get from our hardware is adding more compute to facebook.com"
Of course not, because there are few to no desirable spaces that are underrepresented by men.
That's what's claimed. Could be an insider job instead though.
Evolution.

"Survival of the fittest" doesn't mean "That gene was gorgeous like Mr. Universe, so he won!" It means "Life threw something at a wall and this is what stuck. It died less in the face of actual real world conditions."

After you winnow away all the failed stuff, you have stuff that works. Do it for millions of years and amazingly complex and elegant stuff can emerge from the process.
Meta makes money by selling ads. they want people to be more glued into their platforms and sharing stuff. they hope that people will use their model to make content to share
This gibes with my experience in college -- I did more calculus in my physics courses than in my calculus courses.
That's amazing. Did you just type that out or did you spend a couple of years preparing it just in case?
People are thinking what open really means, and they're telling you this isn't open. it definitely isn't Open Source, as defined by the OSI.

Open Source has a specific meaning and this doesn't meet it. It's generous of Meta to give us these models and grant us access to them, and let us modify them,
fine tune them, and further redistribute them. It's really great! But we're still in the dark as to how they came about the weights. It's a closed, proprietary process, of which we have some details, which is interesting and all, but that's not the same as having access to the actual mechanism used to generate the model.
> An 80 IQ person can be a competent plumber

That is wildly incorrect.

This kind of snobbery toward the skilled trades needs to stop.

Edit:

https://quizlet.com/test/journeymans-plumbing-practice-test-...

A person with an IQ of 80 is not going to pass that test. He might get a job as a gofer, cleaner, general dogsbody, and "dude who has to carry all the heavy shit" for a plumbing contractor, but that doesn't make him a plumber.
Once I realized I only liked soft drinks because of the carbonation, it was easy to switch to seltzer water. Now not only can I not stand most sugary drinks, I've almost entirely lost my sweet-tooth for everything. I basically only drink water, coffee, and whiskey in various proportions but mostly water. A little cream in the coffee.

I'm still ok with honey, and every once in a while I have a hankering for a single scoop of ice cream or custard.

A few times a year I get a migraine or super bad headache. A can of coke, when you don't ever drink it otherwise, is super effective against headaches.
I am paying for ChatGPT. And I'm very willing to switch away from it for the same price because it is so unreliable, as in network problems, very sluggish performance.

But currently none matches its quality and data export capabilities.
Oh, my bad. I fail at reading. Thanks for the corrections.
Hate to break it to you but there’s a thousand court cases a day precisely because “specific legal definition” is a surprisingly flexible concept depending on context. Likewise when new technologies emerge it often requires reappraisal and interpretation of existing laws, even if that reappraisal is simply extending the old law to the new context.
In today’s world there are choices but the choice is made by those in power “for us”, so we don’t even need to worry about making a choice. They say you want windows, huge lawns, low rise buildings and planty of parking space. If you can’t afford it you go homeless.
That does exist, and decision makers do use it, SDGE models for example. But it's of limited utility.

Language, rather than math, is often a superior modelling tool for domains where our understanding is inherently fuzzy due to uncertainty caused by a structural lack of data. Sociology would be an example where math is just the wrong tool for the job. If you tried to do that you'd probably be verging on crackpottery like those econophysics people.
Wow it just straight up lies about the "authorities investigating" part. Wtf? This is a mis-information catalyst.
I guess its news because of his 2019 tweet, but I think its fair to say his strategy will change over time. To be really fair, he personally spend 40b+ on 'free' advertising to all his companies, every time he tweets, millions of potential people see it.
Don’t resistive losses in the wires increase with the square of the current?

I thought that’s why just pushing more current is not a great option.
Seriously? You want me to provide examples of white people who make unjustifiable negative assumptions about the characteristics of white people?
Actually right now the OSI is hosting ongoing discussion this year on what it means for AI to be open source. Here is their latest blog post on the subject:

https://opensource.org/blog/open-source-ai-definition-weekly...

Here is the latest draft definition:

https://hackmd.io/@opensourceinitiative/osaid-0-0-7

And a discussion about the draft:

https://discuss.opensource.org/t/draft-v-0-0-7-of-the-open-s...
Maybe it didn't in the past, definitely does for a while now. There are TV ads from 2022.

Regardless, why is Tesla advertising policy news, on YC of all places?
From the (almost) monopoly on violence.
http://archive.today/A0Q79
> like pesticide residues, metals, microplastics and the fossils of invasive species.

How much of that stuff is going to survive on geological timescales amd the concept of "invasive species" isn't really applicable to anything but conservationists that want to maintain a static environment.
The other comments look to me more like visceral reaction that aren't specially related to your point.

I see them more afraid of military power becoming commoditized (raging a war coming down to a straight economic calculus, more so than even it is now) with very little ethical control. Having people in the cockpit pulling the trigger was a line to cross.

You're focusing on the danger of sitting in the cockpit, they're focusing on the danger of having no one left actually thinking about pulling the trigger. I don't see the two as conflicting, you can have a drone with still a human making the decisions and being accountable on each of the strikes.

Not having domestic people die is uncrontroversial, making the military accountable is a way bigger challenge, so I'd see putting a lot more thought on that part to be a healthy stance.

In particular sense's point:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40082550

> There's an inflection point where technology accrues too much power to a ruling class, such that no amount of unrest or revolution is able reset the social order.
A lot of the expected usages for LLMs for "businesses" are about them making decisions, like agents, so I'm sure we will see multiple companies making the mistake of letting an LLM that has agent powers out in the wild and people will use these prompt hacks to get what they want.

Feels like a much simpler way of hacking systems.
The ribbon was invented when we had 4:3 monitors. Recently I helped my sister on a 16:9 laptop, yikes. The actual content of excel is left in a narrow long strip. Luckily it can be collapsed pretty easily.
Is a fair queue worth it vs spinning up more capacity? I've worked on multiple projects where we've ended up ripping out a queue and just spinning up more machines to handle the load synchronously instead.
Apple Ordered to Pull WhatsApp/Threads from China App Store
People love a new opportunity to bash on Musk.
This.

Sure exercise is a overall bigger impact, but adjusted for effort, eliminating seed oils is likey a higher effort/value proposition, and that means that at scale, more people are likely to follow through
The idea that taking away food also takes away what's human reminds me of Dazai Osamu's "Ningen Shikkaku"[1], where the narrator wrote in the first chapter that he had no idea what being hungry means, that he never understood what it means to feel hungry. People must eat to survive and thus must work in order to eat, but because the narrator never felt hungry, he does not understand how humans operated at all.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Longer_Human

"No Longer Human" seem to be the official English title, although a more literal translation would be "disqualified as human".
Creating Structure with Generative AI
The article covers this. Quite well in fact. A public company where the owner had said “Tesla does not advertise or pay for endorsements” had said they were going to start doing that and this is following up on that. These sorts of things are generally note worthy for public companies.

“Instead [of advertising], we use that money to make the product great.” That they feel the need to start advertising might mean the product isn’t as good as it was once perceived to be.

The article goes into this more. Asking “so?” Makes it appear as if you just read the headline and thought you knew enough to make a worthwhile comment here. Which I know isn’t true.

So?
Note there's a way to quickly turn off biometrics on an iphone.

Press and hold side button + volume up (or down) button until you see a slide to power off screen.

You don't have to do anything - at that point biometrics have been disabled and only a pin will unlock the phone.
You have to couple this with the strong ability to say no
Tangential question: how are people using GenAI for financial datasets for insights and recommendations? Assume tens of desparate databases with financial data. Does NL2SQL work well for this? Or OpenAI Tools (formerly OpenAI Functions)? What have you found that is consistently accurate?
> “We are obligated to follow the laws in the countries where we operate, even when we disagree,” an Apple spokesman said.

That sure didn't happen in the EU, did it?

Is Apple just more scared of China?
There is a really great talk on how the ribbon was invented:
https://youtu.be/Tl9kD693ie4?si=3o0PiiipTgqVQiYC (first of ten parts)
It was meant for very basic pages as I found out the hard way. It would freeze up with even moderately complex table layouts. I used it for my first paid website build. With money made I bought an Iomega Zip Drive.

I wonder where all the stuff I used back then is today. The plastic and metal scrap of late 20th century e-waste. Somewhere buried deep.
Yeah, I thought that might come up :).

I excluded 9/11 though because it's not a military action, wasn't rebuked with military action (at the time) and wouldn't have been prevented with military action.

It is best described as a terrorist attack. The prevention of which is a security function, not a military function.

The existence of a military did of course big a military response, one being an unprovoked attack on Iraq, and the other being a 20 year occupation of Afghanistan which achieved nothing.
This does seem to be the main problem in society over the past few decades - the erosion of trust in experts, both political and scientific. That isn't to say it's undeserved distrust, but it's very worrying. I'm not sure how they'll regain that trust, either.
This is you? You're fully qualified.
I'd argue most people here probably don't see current wars as waged in their names.

Perhaps if they live in Ukraine, but otherwise that looks like a tough sell.
Curious how you arrived at lumping "reinventing healthcare" with "not doing something good for the world". Your list looks like just companies you don't want to work for. Which is fine, just don't confuse it with morality. There's nothing inherently immoral about most items on that list.

At the end of the day, "good for the world" is overblown (see https://youtu.be/B8C5sjjhsso). Most software is boring, but it makes the lives of _some people_ better. If you want to impact a billion lives, chances are someone made a billion on it. Good luck.
Are those links connected to your comment?
Absolutely. It's clear that many areas adhere to the same formula. I commend those who shed light on this or at least pose questions; it's crucial to stay informed and make informed decisions.

I recently began following a prominent cardiologist with extensive experience in diabetes research and patient care. Incorporating his insights has transformed my life. Dr. Pradip Jamnadas focuses on addressing hormonal imbalances caused by diet and insulin production. After following his recommendations for over a year, I've witnessed significant improvements in all my medical indicators.

Needless to say, his recommendations are not normally what you hear her main stream medicine.
I’d also note at $2000 a drone a 100,000 drone attack would only cost $200,000,000 or half of the defense Israel mounted against 300 drones.
Having fewer wheels does not mean you have more traction - contrary to popular belief, a racecar can trivially out-brake a MotoGP bike despite weighing an order of magnitude more. The contact patch size matters more than the number of contact patches. This is ignoring the issue of perfectly balancing a unicycle to stop effectively, where just the time it takes to transition from leaning forward to backwards is a significant cost in time and distance for braking compared to any vehicle that has inherent lateral stability (such as a car or a motorcycle).

> I know my car only applies brakes to the front wheels.

I doubt this. What kind of car do you have? Almost all modern cars apply brakes to all 4 wheels. In most cars which have most of the weight in the front the brake bias is approximately 80% front and 20% rear. For mid-engine cars this usually shifts to 60% front and 40% rear. Some cars might be somewhere in between depending on their weight distribution. The limiting factor in braking is tires, and the way to improve that is by increasing the contact patch size - which is done by increasing tire widths, diameters, and the number of tires.
I put something like this on who's hiring threads. Got quite a few responses. Quite a few people out there who are just doing honest work - apps to collect data for research, apps that keep records of building valuations, payment collection systems for prepaid solar power. You don't have to save the world, just keep it moving.
Absolutely the former, which I've used on my own DNSBLs.

The second should also work, though I've not used it (or considered it prior to reading your comment).
There's also the obvious conflict of interest. How does that get resolved?
Think about these recipes in context.

You have a person who is likely overweight, they likely have a palate that is accustomed to eating a lot of sugar. This is a stepping stone to a better diet.

Say there is a cancer risk, obesity will kill them first.
> You are continuing to show exactly why you're not the target market.

You're continuing to justify the role of salesmen, which is an essentially parasitic role that results in higher prices for everyone.

If my company should get big enough that I have to hire someone to order stuff, I don't want that person wasting time on the phone with salesmen either. Every minute he spends on the phone listening to a sales pitch is a minute he's not actually doing the job I'm paying him for.

"Target market"... pfft.
> I'll be you ten bucks they got rid of people who bring up bad news and kept the yes-men. A company that doesn’t know what’s broken is doomed to mediocrity.

I used to have that attitude, but since then I've grown to learn that people who bring back news are also creating the problems without providing any solution whereas the "yes-men" excuse is a coping mechanism to rationalize why those who try to actually tackle problems and are smart enough to not raise them before they actually exist ir have solutions are indeed an asset to the team.

No one wants to deal with a pain-in-the-ass who creates problems for everyone out of thin air. That's what gets you fired. Everyone has to deal with real problems, and they don't need the distraction of having to deal with artificial ones.