skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In principle, I'm not opposed to a pause.

However, in practice, enforcing a pause entails a massive global increase in surveillance and restrictions on what can be done with a computer.

> Track the sales of GPUs and other hardware that can be used for AI training

So we now have an agency with a register of all computer sales? If you give a computer with a a GPU to a friend or family member, that's breakibf the law ubless you also report it? This takes us in a very scary direction.

This has to be a global effort, so we need a system of international enforcement to make it happen. We've been marginally successful in limiting proliferation of nuclear weapons, but at significant international and humanitarian costs. Nuclear weapons require a much more specialized supply chain than AI so limiting and monitoring adversarial access was easier.

Now we want to use the same techniques to force adversarial regimes to implement sane regulations around the sale and usage of computer equipment. This seems absolutely batshit insane. In what world does this seem remotely feasible?

We've already tried an easier version of this with the biological weapon research ban. The ban exists but enforcement doesn't. In that case, a huge part of the issue was that facilities that do that research very similar or the same as all kinds of other research.

An AI Pause has the same issue, but it is compounded by the fact that AI models can grant significant economic advantage in a way that nuclear/biological weapons don't so incentives to find a way to skirt regulations are higher. (Edit: it's further complicated by the fact that the AI risks that the Pause tries to mitigate are theoretical and people haven't seen them, unlike biological/nuclear. This makes concerted global action harder)

A global pause on AI research is completely unrealistic. Calls for a global pause are basically calls for starting regime change wars around the globe and even that won't be sufficient.

We have to find a different way to mitigate these risks.
He used to be. Now he is head of Search. He became Head of Search at exactly the same time as when Google Search started becoming completely shit.
Yeah, we get the same crap constantly. “You have to be faster”

“Ok, are you going to remove the mountains of red tape, reviews, and documentation that make a 2 week project take 16 weeks?”

“Well, we can’t do that. Here’s a motivational story about boats”
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I thought you must be misrepresenting the article, but no, its almost as bad as you said:

> He praised the teams working on Gemini, the company’s main group of AI models. He said they’ve stepped up from working 100 hours a week to 120 hours to correct Google’s image recognition tool in a timely manner. That helped the team fix roughly 80% of the issues in just 10 days, he said.

psychotic
Same for me. A very specific non technical example was when I was searching about Natto , the Japanese fermented soybean food. About how to make and tips on how to better prepare it.

A search in Google yields pure SEO garbage. Adding site:reddit.com gave some good advice around natto and even pointed to some cool YT video (natto dad or similar).
My biggest issue with Zoho is the integration between Zoho CRM and Inventory/Books. Making sure they are in sync...is basically impossible. Off the top of my head, inventory, taxation and images do not sync at all without breaking significant portions of the standard Zoho workflow. One can see their org chart through the way the two have been put together. The integration makes the entire thing completely unusable, since now it becomes impossible to track products across the sales lifecycle.
I am not convinced this is ever going to actually happen. Google won't roll this out until they are sure that their new solution basically has the same effect for advertisers as cookies, but with a new fancy name with "privacy" in it (when its anything but).

Google needs to be forced to spin out Chrome to someone else, it is a clear conflict of interest when nearly every (or every? are there any that haven't?) other browser has already taken steps for actual privacy instead of dressing up a new tracking system.

While we wait for this to never happen, we should be encouraging everyone to use any other browser so google doesn't have the marketshare to strong-arm the web anymore.
How old are the kids? The age where kids understand harms/problems of current AI should be less than kids needing personal WhatsApp for social life.
Unless I know exactly what I am looking for, I don't remember the last time I used Google to discover information.

First it was one sponsored link - now it's SEVEN. At some point even the masses catch on to the grift.

This is a desperate "something DO something" plea.
It isn't the food.

> 3rd party software developers insist that I’m running the absolute latest OS

3rd-party food developers insist I'm running the absolute latest gut microbiome ;)
Nowadays there are low cost Chinese kits that directly add AA/Carplay to most of those early integrated systems without even replacing the unit. They’ve reverse engineered the lcd and touch screen interfaces so they can hijack the screen.
Maybe a dumb question, but, is OTP "Open Telecom Platform" in this case?
What's the main advantage over AsciiDoc?

Although it's already on your roadmap, but it definitely needs more complex examples. Fiddled around a bit with links to same-doc references. Got it to work, but took a while.
They were supposed to be a non-profit mission driven organization. Having a product can be in alignment with that. In fact, I would happily pay for a product because I think paying for products is more constructive to humankind than the advertising business model.

The problem is that they have a for-profit arm.
I don't know why you're downvoted, the original deadline was set for January 2020.
> I think one should attribute a good amount of credit of this to Yann LeCun (head of meta's research)

Isn't this more attributable to the fact that whilst Open AI's business model is to monetise AI, FB has another working business model and it costs them little to open source their AI work (whilst restricting access by competitors).
China is less than 10% of the worldwide vehicle market (5M / 60M). The big difference there is that they are second only to Norway in the fraction of their vehicles that are electric (60%). Which means that about half of all electric cars are currently sold in China. There's little room for growth in China -- overall demand is flat, and EV share will probably top out at 90% or so.

It'll hurt if Tesla can't keep selling ~600,000 cars they sell in China in a year, but they almost certainly can't grow that number.

EV growth for all brands will come from increasing the share outside of China.
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oh, I actually hadn't realized that this is what they settled on in the end. ffmpeg is the quintessential package where options make sense so good that that's still supported.

The other issue I experienced with homebrew around that time were related to having different versions of openssl installed because I had some old codebase I had to run (and for performance reasons didn't want to use docker). But that's definitely a edge case.
the web version of Microsoft Teams doesn't work with 3rd party cookies disabled. I have been eagerly awaiting this change so I can use browser teams, it is the one thing I care about that doesn't work with 3rd party cookies disabled.

edit: to my surprise apparently web teams (both "old" and "new") no longer needs 3rd party cookies enabled. Last I checked was a few months ago.
Does your definition of demographic include "the demographic of people who only eat at restaurants that are constantly booked and one has to fight to get a table at"?

In which case, sure, you're right: that doesn't exist in all large cities.
Is there something similar but for STM32?
If you bought a VHS you don't have automatic rights to a BluRay copy.
So you're concerned about the cultural influences? Or the impact on development/learning? Both? Curious about this process, everyone planning on having kids is going to have to figure out the "AI questions". How are you planning on handling LLMs/AI usage by your kids going forward?

edit: realized after the post you're not OP haha
That says more about you then it does about the site. :)
Having worked at Google, this is entirely self-inflicted. This once internal now leaked video [1] summed it up pretty well. There is so much process you have to go through to do anything. A lot of it makes sense but it comes at the expense of speed.

More than a decade ago OKR (Objectives and Key Results) culture set in where once you just worked on things until they were ready. OKRs are really insidious because what qualifies as an acceptable goal depends on how much you're liked and the political muscle your org has. It also means the smallest unit of time because a quarter and if you had to approach another team for help, the soonest they would help you was the following quarter and that's only if you had the muscle to get onto those OKRs.

At a more macro level, Google is insanely profitable. I'm not sure what the current employee count but the per-employee profit is probably sitting at or above $500,000 per year. That's after all expenses. Yet the relentless pursuit of profits (which shrink over time) means further exploitation of surplus labor value.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t6L-FlfeaI
it's best explained to anglophones as a voiced 'd', not anything to do with 'r' or 'l'
SpaceByte: Towards Deleting Tokenization from Large Language Modeling
Scribbles. Blogging for Humans
Since Framework calls itself a consumer electronics company, it seems broader than being a 'computer company'. Under consumer electronics they could make almost anything, including home appliances, like microwaves, dishwashers, coffee makers. Or home entertainment like speakers or televisions.
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> But there's a limit to what even extremely price-conscious customers will accept, and their service quality and support was just not up to scratch

I totally agree! I've worked on Chinese CSPs and they are annoying. IMO they could have been much better, but they are extremely insular and fall into the same trap of lack of localization that I mentioned in my comment.
But you do have the right to transcribe your VHS copy to bluray yourself. Format conversion is not illegal.
It would be interesting to relax the color requirements such that you could encode a program into what looks like image noise. Sort of like steganography, but instead of hidden data, it's a hidden executable program.
"He praised the teams working on Gemini, the company’s main group of AI models. He said they’ve stepped up from working 100 hours a week to 120 hours to correct Google’s image recognition tool in a timely manner."

So, assuming they work 7 days a week, that's 17 hours a day. Leaving 7 hours for commuting, sleep and life. And it feels like he's offering that up as an example of "move faster".

Just wow.
This is not exactly the fault of VW/Renault etc. China has quite explicitly encouraged technology transfer as an important strategic imperative for their local firms, so if these companies wanted to play in the (obviously growing) Chinese market, technology transfer was the price to be paid.

(Another example of this is the high-speed trains in China - the first generation was built by JVs with Siemens/Hitachi/etc with an explicit policy of technology transfer, but the newest trains in China are now local, built on top of the technology that has been acquired.)
The only good thing about Teams is the fact that I can use the web version to join meetings and avoid using Teams.

It had one @&_+ing job...

And they managed to instead product design something with 2 (3?) different chat models, limitations around every corner, an incomplete API for basic use cases (e.g. getting notified of @'s), and an embedded ability to build entire apps inside Teams.
Do you mind me asking, what does the last calculation do: pi=(pi * 100 | 0 ) / 100;

EDIT: Ah, nvm. It's truncating the result to 2 decimal places.
Also is perfectly aligned with Yann’s goals as an (academic) researcher whose career is built on academic community kudos far more than, say, building a successful business
Merced to Bakersfield is exactly right. Build it there first, figure out how to build it, fuckup where it's cheaper and gain the experience so when you have to tear up downtown LA and SF you know what the fuck you're doing and can get in, get it done right the first time, and then get out. No one wants to live in a construction zone, but it's worse when something goes wrong and the construction zone lasts 3x longer than it has to.
I mean, if those engineers were doing it by choice and getting million dollar bonuses each, maybe not. But probably.
Yes, Gleam runs on the BEAM and has bindings for that OTP
1. These were anti-Israel Jewish protestors.

2. They “shut down a major thoroughfare.”

Seems fine.
> Raghavan clarified that the failure in image generation wasn’t due to a lack of effort.

> “I want to be clear, this wasn’t some case of somebody slacking off and dropping the ball,” he said.

So what is he saying then? Is he indicating they were sabotaged on purpose or that stuff just happened randomly - “an algorithm error”?
How about a Framework inkjet printer? That would be nice.
I’m curious why you think I’m grasping for straws? It is clear that Meta can like open source and meta can like it not for charitable or esoteric “values” but for the business benefits it brings.

Maybe I should have mentioned the better part of a decade on the inside, if there were “values” beyond “how do we crush our enemies”, “how do we keep regulators at bay” and “how do we win the war for talent” relating to open source, well, I haven’t seen them.

You really think “open” is a business motivation enough to dump hundreds of millions of R&D into this ;)
“If there’s a clear and present market reality, we need to twitch faster, like the athletes twitch faster,” he said.

“There is something to be learned from that faster-twitch, shorter wavelength execution,” he said.

Raghavan urged employees to “meet this moment” and “act with urgency based on market conditions.”

After that he goes to praise the teams working 120 hours a week, that's basically 17 hours a day.

Early in my career I'd have been angry, surprised or in denial at hearing this sort of rancid garbage. Now I see this in so many organizations, this is just a symptom of the deeper rot and top-down dysfunction.
the C-level equivalent of poking the business with a stick and mumbling, "c'mon, do something..." when youve clearly run off all the talented, sidelined all the most dedicated, and turned your once thriving tech company into an ambling rudderless dumpster fire that occasionally immolates its best products for no reason and runs down pointless features because you spend more time reading Gartner than reading O'Reilly.
“Almost half struggled with existential confusion and “derealization,” the sense that everything was unreal.”

That’s existential clarity. There is no such thing as color in light. There is no scientific reason to believe in free will. Still, an awareness of this doesn’t change our experience that there are colours and we have choices.

What would be interesting is to understand the mechanisms of “mild delusions” that the brain creates to allow/motivate us to function. And why this is inhibited in some people after using psychedelics.
Good for laser engravers, but rotating a bottle painted with gold felt tip marker will make some mess on bottle and rollers. Some markers will have too much drag and bottle will not rotate leading to lost steps.
Damian Conway… a name to conjure with.

What are the advantages of the Podlite design?
The price of being first - you are much slower to make any new changes.

I'm Polish, our internet infrastructure is miles better than German. Paying via phone is norm.
Were I cross the German border, I'd think it's a museum.

But we didn't do anything particularly right. We just could implement our infrastructure on the newest ideas, while for Germany they're stuck with what they had as pioneers.
Plus with Mythbusters in particular the best version is only available illicitly. That is the fan-edit that removes all the fluff, and just streamlines the show into just the core Myths (inc. setup and testing).
In fairness, he seems to effectively have CNBC reporters sitting in with the crowd at the company all-hands. He would probably come off the worse if he started saying things of substance. In his position I'd cancel the all-hands.
I think I correctly recognize who my enemies are (OpenAI and the small set of people who think they're the only capable stewards of AI). People allying themselves with the OpenAI/AI-safety folks are allying themselves with our enemies and regardless of the merit of their arguments in some philosophical sense I will oppose everything they do
I've never heard of a company that wants their employees to move slower.
Could encode more operators into shape ratios / proportions, line thickness etc.
I used ManageEngine MDM before, which belongs to Zoho. The support is excellent, even though I was only using the free tier, they did everything to assist me. Open the support chat, one minute later you are chatting with a human (!), not some robot that you have to trick to eventually speak to someone.
> "He said they’ve stepped up from working 100 hours a week to 120 hours to correct Google’s image recognition tool in a timely manner"

Either Prabhakar Raghavan is abusing his employees or spewing bullshit. Given that working 120 hours in a week is working 17 hours a day, I'm calling bullshit.

But even if it's not, the idea that a multi-billion company like Google wants their employees to "step up" and work 17 hour days 7 days a week is actually disgusting. That he would praise such an idea shows a moral rot within Google that almost certainly goes beyond Prabhakar. No matter how much they're making, these are people being exploited by Google and Google is holding them up as an example to the rest of their employees.

"Look at these drones sacrificing their health, life, and families to squeeze another few cents out of my stock compensation package. You should be more like them."
> “I began to suspect that I was either in a dream of my own construction or trapped in some kind of fake reality constructed by someone else,” he wrote in an essay in 2020. “Could I be in a coma or some afterlife limbo state?”

I've had similar thoughts while completely sober, wondering if the world was fake and I was just dreaming it. Usually when sleep deprived, after having just finishing a novel and coming out of the novel's world. Given that I'm susceptible to this kind of thinking, I've decided to steer clear of psychedelics because I can imagine that a bad trip is a real possibility. As a student, I was offered to try Salvia Divinorum and reading reports of bad trips on erowid (one person reported feeling like he was a brick on the wall for an endless amount of time) completely dissuaded me of trying it.

Anecdotally, my cousin has taken LSD repeatedly and has had psychosis episodes that she thinks might be triggered by that. She's diagnosed with Schizophrenia though and has a family history of Schizophrenia so psychedelics were probably not a great idea for her.
>Pause capabilities research until we have proven strategies for aligning AI to human safety.

If the power of AI deserves this reaction, then governments are in a race to avoid doing this. We might be able to keep it out of the hands of the average person, but I don't find that to be the real threat (and what harm that does exist at the individual level is from a Pandora's box that has already been opened).

Think of it like stopping our nuclear research program before nuclear weapons were invented. A few countries would have stopped but not all and the weapons would have appeared on the world stage all the same, though perhaps with a different balance of power.

Also, is the threat of AI enough to be willing to kill people to stop it? If not, then government vs government action won't take place to stop it and even intra-government bans end up looking like abuse. If it is... I haven't thought too much on this conditional path because I have yet to see anyone agree that it is.

Then again, perhaps I have a conspiratorial view of governments because I don't believe that those in power stopped biological weapons research as it is too important to understand even if just from a defensive perspective.
Yep clearly not obvious, I was also pondering if One Time Password. Would be a rare case where editoralizing the title could be handy
A webrtc service would work better.

Instant.io or sharedrop.io work wonderfully.
Much agreed, and this is prompting me to experiment with other search engines to see if they cut off also the interesting humans sites. With todays google I feel herded.
> Throwing a couple of older devices running older OSes onto that test plan should not blow your budget, and if it does, you probably shouldn't be writing that banking software to begin with. Also, almost all of your testing is automated, right? (Please say Yes).

Surely no. Emg. Installing on phone?
I launched what was ostensibly a web analytics platform that was just an Google Sheet we shared with partners attached to a JavaScript snippet for webpages. Very lean and unusual for Google. But we had to use internal tools and libraries to ensure this tiny tool was “Google Scale” and were subject to company-wide deployment restrictions as well as PR-sensitive launch dates that took what was mocked up internally as a JavaScript MVP by one of our engineers in 1 week almost 10 months to launch formally and with the exact same shit MVP Google Sheets interface. This was a “no red tape” project where execs cleared a path as best they could.

Yeah…faster isn’t going to happen.
I hate the new trend where they make ridiculous faces on the thumbnails. I know they’re doing it because it must be increasing engagement, but it’s so annoying.
Yeah, the way I see it Meta is undermining OpenAI's business model because it can, I have serious doubts Meta would be doing as it does with OpenAI out of the picture.
If we are interested in AGI safety, we should experiment with slightly unsafe things before they become hugely unsafe, instead of trying to fix known unknowns while ignoring unknown unknowns.

We should open source current small models and observe what different people are actually doing with them. How they abuse it. We will never invent some things on our own.
> IBM did not respond because, in the meantime, Bill Gates purchased an OS from Seattle Computer Products that was written to emulate the look and feel of CP/M. He then sold a one-time, non-exclusive license to IBM...

Yeah. It's incredible how IBM handed the golden keys to the castle on a plate cut in a solid 100000000 carat diamond to Microsoft.

This has to be the absolute worst business deal ever made in history: 3 trillion market cap for Microsoft. And IBM created that.
What a clown. Should have thought about 10 minutes into the future before he hobbled the company by laying off staff and sending everyone rushing to the competition. When you're publicly admitting that the competition is eating your lunch, you need to use your $100B cash hoard to invest in catching up, paying people to take the risk on you instead of working for the winners.
Boycotts aren't the only way to hold companies accountable
Zoho prices strategically. For example, it ensures that the price for the help desk product, ZohoDesk is the lowest in the market; across all tier it is priced at USD 1/month cheaper than the next cheapest competitor, FreshDesk.
Removing Reflections from RAW Photos
I like Gleam over Javascript, but Elixir seems much more expressive to make use of OTP