skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People keep saying this, but I don’t see how an LLM is a complement to a social media website. People don’t consume more social media with more LLMs. Whats the link here?

Also on the Dwarkesh podcast, Zuck indicated one thing they’re afraid of is walled garden ecosystems they have to go through to reach users like with Apple and Google, and releasing open models is a way of preventing that happening with LLMs.
The technology is not only unreliable [0] the company will manipulate and change reports to suit police officers [1].

[0] https://eu.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/2018/01/11/ju...

[1] https://www.thetrace.org/2021/08/chicago-police-shotspotter-...
Hence book bans and torching, although it's backfiring because they're being too general to try and avoid coming across as too totalitarian, so things like bibles are being banned too. Whoops.
While better understanding is certainly useful, the framing does seem a little unfair to me. It's not like other treatments don't have their downsides. Most people will tell you they don't like seeing the dentist but few would say it's not worth it.

I've had bad trips on psychedelics and I actually think they tended to be some of the more beneficial ones for me in the long run.
If the folks at Open AI value the entity's future, then they should get on top of this and stop them. Axon's representatives are claiming that they have "turned off the creativity" for GPT-4 Turbo. Full quote here,

> Axon senior principal AI product manager Noah Spitzer-Williams told Forbes that to counter racial or other biases, the company has configured its AI, based on OpenAI’s GPT-4 Turbo model, so it sticks to the facts of what’s being recorded. “The simplest way to think about it is that we have turned off the creativity,” he said. “That dramatically reduces the number of hallucinations and mistakes… Everything that it's produced is just based on that transcript and that transcript alone.”

For an entity that was founded to safeguard us against AI risk, it is striking that no one at Open AI thought about the risk of people being imprisoned over the outputs of their next-token prediction models.

Perhaps it is my personal bias rearing its head, but it is striking to me that no one at the entity currently lobbying congress for AI regulation — including regulation that forbids others from training models — over "AI risk" didn't have people capable of making the observation; "if our LLM leads to innocent people being jailed, that will make us look very bad."
NUC is commoditized by super cheap N100/N305 products from China.
It should not be a surprise at all.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230129231747/https://www.waze....

https://www.waze.com/ads/
My insulin pump app would refuse. I want to say it was medtronic's.
10 is manageably terrible, but moving most stuff to the new control panel is annoying to say the least.

If you use an alternate shell then you get an error msg as it expects explorer/start menu.
Also the potential for massive job losses and even more wealth inequality. I feel a lot of the people who are philosophizing about AI safety are well-off people who are worried about losing their position of influence and power. They don't care about the average guy who will lose his job.
Lackluster demand for very expensive vehicles is down across the board, and Tesla has only been serving the higher-end market. A lot of manufacturers were banking on interest rates staying low but there was no way that could last forever - the average ICE last year cost more than the US median income, at a time when many other prices were also rising. Based on the people I know who’ve bought recently, an EV targeting Camry pricing and quality would sell a lot better than the massive bling-tanks they had sitting in stock.
Seems like this is true at the larger scale as well. For example, IBM and SGI etc helping to improve Linux in the 90s / early 00s.
Great comment!

It's unlooked that sometimes any implementation of an Obvious Good Thing requires an Obvious Bad Thing.

In which case we need to weigh the two.

In the case of a prerequisite panopticon, I usually come down against. Even after thinking of the children.
The difference is a foreclosure auction isn’t an accurate measure of value.
LA has a big central railway station in the middle of the city. Brightline isn't initially going to connect to it because reasons.

What reasons? They're building new right-of-way from Rancho Cucamonga to Las Vegas; doing that from Rancho Cucamonga to downtown LA is much harder, because there's all this city in the way. Now, there's existing rail there, but it's heavily used, and negotiating access won't be cheap. (Building an additional track along it also won't be cheap.)
Windows 12 when
So many formerly thriving American cities suffer because of insane murder rates and neverending gang violence. Journalists who study Shotspotter and other methods of stopping gang violence will almost never approach the problem with the intent of mitigating what amounts to a major public health emergency (if you can even call it that). Instead, they work to frustrate underfunded police departments and encourage police budget cuts as warfare rages on.
Yep. Google, the AI company, only recently launched image descriptions in TalkBack, which VoiceOver has had for years now. Google still doesn't have Screen Recognition, which basically does OCR and image/UI classification to make inaccessible apps more accessible.
UGV Rover: Unmanned Ground Vehicle Rover for RPi SBCs with Camera and Lidar
> getting bought out at a fair, even generous, price

Can you show me one example from the post-War era where we nationalised something that wasn’t about to fail?
Wow. Just...wow. I watched one of the videos very carefully. Absolutely natural movements of eyes, eyebrows, lips, even the hair resting on the woman's shoulders. The text even contained a double entendre, and the facial expression was exactly right.

Of course, I'm sure that whoever put these demos together also invested time in getting them right. Still: so would anyone seeking to put words in another person's mouth.

Imagine your favorite (or least favorite) politician coming out with a speech promoting something awful. Even if the video were immediately debunked, people would remember it. And many people would never believe the debunking.

This is the world we now live in: you literally cannot trust anything you see online.
Techies want control and customisation. People want convenience and smooth interop. The most used desktop OS is Windows not Linux. HNers often forget that they live in a tech bubble. Reminds of me when Dropbox was dismissed because anyone could write a little script to replicate the Dropbox functionality.

Not every app needs to be a web app or use internet yet most apps nowadays do. Either you allow ALL apps to have it or you don't. You will think that devs would make apps that don't need background services. It won't happen. What will happen is that every time you open the app, you will be nagged to allow background services to run. The only thing that would stop it is for that feature to not be available at the application level.
If you have a 3D printer, you can create stuff that passes my WAF.

Apollo does a decent job making their stuff more innocuous.
https://apolloautomation.com/products/sensor-stand?pr_prod_s...
Methane leaks are often by design when it's an oil well.

That's why you need to enforce flaring (burning the methane and releasing CO2 into the atmosphere) because that's better than simply venting the methane.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_venting

> Gas venting, more specifically known as natural-gas venting or methane venting, is the intentional and controlled release of gases containing alkane hydrocarbons - predominately methane - into Earth's atmosphere. It is a widely used method for disposal of unwanted gases which are produced during the extraction of coal and crude oil. Such gases may lack value when they are not recyclable into the production process, have no export route to consumer markets, or are surplus to near-term demand.
Until all the requests for help start coming in..
Does anyone understand the difference (in the benchmark tables) between faer and faer(par)? Which number should be considered important?
>> ShotSpotter seems like a good idea. Why am I supposed to be hating on them? I guess I'm out of the loop.

Because (right or wrong) people protested ShotSpotter and the city agreed to stop using it. But they keep using it.
We used Zoho at a previous job! While not exactly flash, I appreciated a few things like being able to automate a check-in when I arrived at the office, because their iOS app offered automation hooks.
That's pretty scary!
That's code for linear programming (optimization) not for linear algebra
It's up to the developer. Users don't know what background services are
>It might not be easy to do…

Understatement of the year. Which is why people who preach CICO and “just eat less” can set off those folks who have been down the diet rabbit holes.

I can only relay my own experience. It’s not CICO that is important, that’s just a formula. The important thing is satiety. You need to get to a point of eating less by activating your satiety center with less calories than before. If you are constantly hungry on any diet trying to eat less calories, you will ultimately fail without an external factor preventing you from eating more.
In a recent interview, Mark Zuckerberg said they're spending $10B-$100B on training and inferencing over the next X years. They see open source as a way to get the community to cut that cost. In his view, even just 10% cheaper inferencing pays for a lot.
That is a false dichotomy; both are easily affordable by the richest country in the world.
Might be a better idea to address the water scarcity issue than blow $12B in cash on sending more people there from a major metro area. When Lake Mead is gone, what will Vegas do? I’m guessing it’s all about waiting until it’s critical and imminent and then a very costly, taxpayer funded solution will have to be slammed in place.

Maybe it’s time to get serious about desalinization plants and get a pipeline to desert communities? They’ll sure as hell build an oil pipeline, so water should be an easy choice, right?
And calling AI a stochastic methodology that noone understands is also an oversimplification. My point is that scientific discovery and the formation of theories is not exclusive to scientists who follow a strict methodology.
Is this some kind of weird attempt to ask me to teach you how to do research? You've got the whole Internet in front of you, same as me. Go do your own research and come back when you have a point to make.
Open source done for money is doing it wrong.

One of the things that makes OSS so great is that it's not done with a profit incentive, so it doesn't exploit or rent seek from the user.

Many labor under the delusion that they can, or should, make money writing OSS though.
> It’s just another layer of crap that moves smartphones one step closer to being as ridiculously complex as Windows PCs.

So, useful computing devices? I'm for anything that pushes this plastic toy towards being a real tool.
The suggestion was to credit LeCun, not Meta. (Perhaps you were responding to the secondary suggestion also to credit Zuckerberg?)
Another bridge to nowhere. These rail projects suffer in isolation. Scaling doesn't seem palatable either.
> Meta is not in the AI business. Meta is in the attention business (in this case, actually, no pun intended). If AI is not your product (as in: not how you need to make money)

Companies like Meta use AI heavily for everything from recommendation engines to helping flag content.

It’s not true at all to say that Meta isn't the AI business. They’re one of the companies deploying AI at the largest scale out there.

There’s more to “AI” than LLMs and ChatGPT style chat interfaces.
I interviewed with these guys. At the time I could not fathom why you would want to pair LLMs with body cams and thought it was a case of hype and sticking LLMs in everything. What’s next, toasters? Guess this is a lesson to think a little more outside the box. But the certainty that hallucinations will happen and the potential to use models/prompts that prefer a certain version of the truth makes me very worried

Also, they make tasers. What could go wrong?
Yeah, most of my son's children books are from Taiwan (we're in Hong Kong so use traditional characters too) and I do see bopomofo sometimes. But it's mostly the normal use of furigana, doesn't seem to be used to give another alternate meaning/pronunciation to the word.
Depends, I work daily with console, so I just reasoned that a sequence of:

- exit game

- console shows prompt for new command

- command magically appears fully defined

- game starts again

is a normal "quit, recall with arrow up, restart". It's pretty evident and intuitive for most developers working with console applications and didn't require any thinking why those things are represented so. It's the first time I've heard of spritely goblins or seen that video.
Maybe that's MS' intent after all - complete control over the environment.

They're still using XML? Yuck. UWP was a horrible idea, but this new replacement might not be any better either.
That would make sense if you knew how hard things were going to be and if you could predict external responsibilities.

For example if I plan to meet a friend tomorrow, but tonight my child unexpectedly gets sick, I can call the friend and say, "Sorry my child got sick. How about next week?"

That might happen multiple weeks in a row, but eventually (assuming a patient friend) we'll get together and renew our connection. On the other hand, if I played it safe, and said, "I'm too busy for friendships now that I'm a parent," we would both have less friend-time.
AI and Open Government Data Assets Request for Information
> I kept hitting cases where things wouldn't verify, and the reason is due to something deep in the implementation that really only the authors would know about.

Can you recall a specific example? I'm not only curious how this comes about, but how Dafny expects you to resolve it. You must have to declare some kind of invariant for that property somewhere. This was the case when I played with C#'s code contracts, and sometimes this was challenging to ensure.
I wonder what the annual maintenance, utilities, taxes and other upkeep would be on that.
> Aren't Microsoft part of that community?

The MS employee who discovered the issue is definitely part of the open source community. A significant contributor to a major project AFAIK.
And also a counter point, just because things are simple, doesn't mean it is easy.

Those two things are separate and we often get them confused, when things are hard, we think it must be more complex than it is, which is not usually the case.
When estimating time for a task, every occurrence of the word "just" doubles the estimate.

"Just" always hide a lack of knowledge. Of the problem, of the environment, of the team, of what the future will be.
If you understand that, then you understand that homeschooling is a reasonable option if you want to ensure your child has a proper education. It would become your responsibility instead of offloading it.
If you look at the benchmark code [0] you can see it indicates whether Rayon is used for parallelism.

[0] https://github.com/sarah-ek/faer-rs/blob/main/faer-bench/src...
You cut the part of the paragraph that gives the actual context for the quote:

> In 2022, Microsoft said the next version of the server would turn up in the second half of 2025. It was originally planned for 2021, but Microsoft said: "Unfortunately, 2021 had other plans for Exchange Server. In March 2021, we confronted a serious reality: state sponsored threat actors were targeting on-premises Exchange servers."

They're not trying to use the incident as an excuse to push people off of Exchange, all they're saying is that the 2021 release was delayed because of the security incidents.

Here's what Microsoft actually said in the blog post (emphasis theirs) [0]:

> We will maintain the current support dates for Exchange Server 2013, Exchange Server 2016, and Exchange Server 2019; however, we plan to support the next version of Exchange Server beyond October 14, 2025. We are moving the next version of Exchange Server to our Modern Lifecycle Policy, which has no end of support dates. We plan on continuing to support Exchange Server as long as there is substantive market demand.

[0] https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/exchange-team-blog/ex...
Interesting, thanks. Any examples of adverts doing this? I'm curious!
Living in sewage tunnels and cars is also against regulation.
EU conducts 'dawn raid' on Chinese security equipment supplier
Fun tidbit: There's a point in the tech demo where he asks the rabbit device to "filter job candidates to ones that are LA-based"

When the r1 address replies to him, it attaches a new spreadsheet, and he opens it on-stage. But the spreadsheet it sent, that they then show on screen, has not filtered any candidates to LA-only. (The column next to their names shows labels on screen like "NYC", "Austin", "Miami", "Seattle", etc)

https://youtu.be/22wlLy7hKP4?si=tBt9szqE_AbJPRqW&t=1169 (exact timestamp)
Good catch, I did a search but none of these were in the top results for me (I guess that's the state of search these days).

My main point however was that India doesn't have an agreement with the EU regarding the transfer and protection of personal data (e.g. the EU-US Privacy Shield and related). So while the links above state how much Zoho cares about privacy, the platform is not suitable for use-cases including personal information.
For how much longer will this be true? Aren't they deprecating Office offline in favor of the online edition?
Do you want Reddit results to remain high on Kagi? You can just downrank or block it off you want to see it less.
No, it doesn't. You fill in with knowledge about regex, which isn't explicit in the error message.
Consistent overhead byte stuffing for binary logs. (2021)
Embedding content from one site to another like with an iframe, that requires cookie based credentialed login. As far as I’m aware, Cookies are still the safest way to use session tokens and require the browser to keep those hidden from JS environments with http-only, reducing the risk of XSS attacks.
Patching requests for fun and (concurrent) profit
Congress sends Biden a bill that could ban TikTok – after the 2024 election
A report which may or may not contain hallucinations and random shit will never be enough to cover your ass.

How would that work?
I agree, it can make your life completely hell, for years
That's a fiendish retort to the IP and copyright lawyers for attacking the older saying: "piracy isn't theft, it's piracy. Theft removes the original. Piracy takes a copy."

Now if I can't access my copy, somehow it's not to be recognized as theft.
Much, if not most, of their consulting revenue is for mainframe support and much of their "hybrid cloud" is just hosting mainframes.
Shopify uses Sorbet and a few companion projects (e.g., Spoom¹ and Tapioca²) to manage Rails projects of various sizes. While there are some holes, like you find with any gradual type system, I think you'll find the experience is quite good. The awesome-sorbet³ project has a comprehensive list of blog posts, conference presentations, and podcast episodes that dig into that deeper.

¹ -- https://github.com/Shopify/spoom

² -- https://github.com/Shopify/tapioca

³ -- https://github.com/andyw8/awesome-sorbet
Can someone explain how or why Israeli startups have historically punched above their weight?

For such a small country, they keep churning out tons of successful companies that get acquired by larger American and European counterparts.

I’m suspecting high levels of education plus a culture that encourages entrepreneurship and risk-taking, but there might be more to the story..
Just so we’re clear, this is what many would say is traumatic live footage of someone getting stabbed, like actual. And meta has taken it down on Insta and Facebook. But you don’t think it’s sorta weird that right now it’s circulating on X, due to the arbitrary decisions of whoever owns the platform on a particular day?
This is quite astonishing...
Both sides. Meta has tons of data streaming from their users (upstream) and more frequent touchpoints into their lives (downstream) than OpenAI.

None of that changes is AI is commodified.

Ergo, OpenAI wins if they have better models. Meta wins by default if everyone has equivalent models: existing business unimpacted, more access to users.
I think they did. Perhaps you didn't get to the bit about the Ayahuasca retreat?
Coined in 2022, we've made it to late stage without much hesitation.
It's 2001 according to the esolangs wiki. https://esolangs.org/wiki/Piet
It's an amazing success story (even if surely not without any bad spots), it makes me happy just knowing that it exists.

But I do wonder how much of its workability hinges on Basque nationalism rechanneled into something more useful than nationalism usually is. If that nationalism also had something like an independent state as a default outlet, the balance between cohesion and corruption creep might shift just enough across a tipping point. I'm really not sue that it can be replicated (but I'd love to be proven wrong!)
Technical debt can cause so much frustration and burnout to development teams. Software engineers can be aware of the side effects of technical debt. However, they often need to explain to the product team why quick and easy solutions to coding development are risky.

So, instead of stabilizing the situation, the business keeps adding more features, and the technical debt grows. Because of this, we usually say that technical debt is not a technical problem. For that reason, every software development team must try their best to prevent the technical debt from accumulating so it doesn't result in the worst-case scenario, which is a project halt.
I agree! I also think it would make sense for people not supportive of psychedelic treatments to be interested in this, for various reasons, including what you said, and also as an educational tool too teach kids so they don't try it illegally, which seems to be a major concern among those not supportive of this kind of research.

Full disclosure: I live in Sweden,a country famous among other things for it's Draconian stance on drugs, and I'm less than amused by the propaganda that passes for narcotics education here.
It’s quite a stretch to jump straight to innocent people being jailed because they’re using an LLM to summarise audio.
the former is run with no parallelism, and the latter with `parallelism::Rayon(0)`, which presumably means that it has some parallelism, though I don't write rust or know what Rayon is.

[1]: https://github.com/sarah-ek/faer-rs/blob/172f651fafe625a2534...
People meaning him, which is why he won't "chest thump" anything related to functional programming. After all, chest thumping is a display of dominance. The others witnessing the chest thumping are meant to be scared. You wouldn't hold back because they are scared.

Which is to say that he is not actually afraid, it's just a roundabout way to say that the only reason he is on the Rust trumpeting bandwagon is because it what is in fashion.
are you saying you now accept that "flushable wipes should never be flushed" might have been a bit incorrect? and you are just moving the goalposts now?
The metaphor is terrible, juggling balls of very different weights would already be nearly impossible. Trying to keep track of them so you know which ones you can drop is a much harder problem then just sticking to a number you can reliably juggle.
That’s the idea but it looks like this might not pull it off unless Intel aggressively gives away optimized libraries. If it’s too hard to get to the point where it’s actually competitive, most developers are going to use the faster iGPU.
Here's a link to some footage of the event:

https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/cpd-officer-responding...
Low hanging fruit is always a great place to start.