skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not a single file unless it's tar'd or compressed or whatever. It's completely normal to distribute software projects as some form of archive. This is doubly true for a "leak" like this where you want the single file to spread around.

I agree that it would be nice to have it browsable online, like in a github repo or whatever, but that's a separate issue.
> I, too, could not read a chapter of Harry Potter and then tell you how many times a word was used. This isn't what my brain (and by extension LLMs) is good at. However, if you told me ahead of time that was my goal for reading a chapter, I'd approach reading differently. I might have a scratch pad for tallying. Or I might just to a word find on a document. I'd design a framework to solve the problem,

What is the relevance in what a human would do? This is not a human and does not work like a human.

I would expect any piece of software that allows me to input a text and ask it to count occurences of words to do so accurately.
I guess in that case you can just browse other websites. No website can pander to everyone.
Do you know that OpenBao is actually funded by IBM?

I'm biased (co-founder) but you should take a look at Infisical for secret management: https://infisical.com
> A slight over simplification, for example s&p was negative 1% per year from Jan 2000 to Dec 2009. Plus the cost of your leverage.

For the 2000s, a US-only investor would only have been saved from the S&P500 by having at least 20% bonds and rebalancing:

* https://www.forbes.com/sites/advisor/2010/09/13/its-not-real...

Of course if you were not US-only, but rather internationally diversified (and rebalanced), you would also have been fine. Diversification is important, even for Americans (cited sources in the description):

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FXuMs6YRCY
The rule goes into effect 120 days after it gets published in the federal register, and at which point all previous non-competes are unenforceable EXCEPT for senior executives.

Senior executives cannot enter into new non-competes though.
> The Commission also finds that instead of using noncompetes to lock in workers, employers that wish to retain employees can compete on the merits for the worker’s labor services by improving wages and working conditions.

I absolutely love this.
Because we have a Democratic administration that is taking this stuff seriously.
Having a "real" publisher still carries a lot of cred whether it should or not.
This is a stunning change. We already have a uniquely strong economy. If the US keeps trending toward tackling anti-competitive behavior, we may avoid a downturn for quite awhile!
570 pages of rule making, which addresses garden leave agreements...

https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/ftc_gov/pdf/noncompete-rule...

>With respect to garden leave agreements, as noted previously, commenters used the term “garden leave” to refer to a wide variety of agreements. The Commission declines to opine on how the definition of non-compete clause in § 910.1 would apply in every potential factual scenario. However, the Commission notes that an agreement whereby the worker is still employed and receiving the same total annual compensation and benefits on a pro rata basis would not be a non-compete clause under the definition,350 because such an agreement is not a
post-employment restriction. Instead, the worker continues to be employed, even though the worker’s job duties or access to colleagues or the workplace may be significantly or entirely curtailed. Furthermore, where a worker does not meet a condition to earn a particular aspect of their expected compensation, like a prerequisite for a bonus, the Commission would still consider the arrangement “garden leave” that is not a non-compete clause under this final rule
even if the employer did not pay the bonus or other expected compensation. Similarly, a severance agreement that imposes no restrictions on where the worker may work following the employment associated with the severance agreement is not a non-compete clause under § 910.1, because it does not impose a post-employment restriction.
> Israel seems content to keep Palestine as a ghettoized territory, leaving local administrative matters to Palestinians

I don't understand this. Are you saying that without Israel in charge, Palestine is and will stay a ghetto?
I'd do it like a human would. If a human was reading the legal case they would have a notepad with them where they would note locations and summaries of key arguments, page by page. I'd code the LLM to look for something that looks like a core argument on each page (or other meaningful chunk of text) and then have it give a summary if one occurs. I may need to do some few shot prompting to give it understanding of what to look for. If you are looking for reliable structured output you need to formulate your approach to be more algorithmic and use the LLM for it's ability to work with chunks of text.
I just couldn't fathom the big three phone platforms not implementing this on a device that we all have and is capable of same if-not better dynamic voice integration.

At the very least, I hope products like the Rabbit spur these companies to start innovating again. Even if they are smoke & mirrors, the interest shows there's demand for these features.

Site Note: I've noticed Google Home's voice assistant has declined over time -- it used to handle complex queries and now it can barely understand simple directions. It used to understand me perfectly in the noisiest environments and now it makes many transcribing errors.
> Consider the difference between the verbs "look" and "see".

> In Japanese, there is no difference. They are the same verb and they mean the same thing. Japanese learners do not understand why English speakers draw a distinction, and they struggle to use the correct word when speaking English.

Isn't that like 見る and 見える?
Huh? There were updates a few months ago https://www.macrumors.com/2024/01/27/apple-confirms-next-gen...
Then why do the creators of this vacuum advertise the fact that it's really good at raking? And unlike your analogy, to actually figure out that it's bad at raking you have to read a bunch of academic papers?
This is pretty big given the current stagnant job market. I expect a lot of startups to come from this change.
As another example, it's how QuakeWorld (and some other modern improvements on Quake) work.

You're supposed to have a licensed copy of the game for the non-redistributable content, but the code of QuakeWorld is modern, runs better, etc. as opposed to trying to install Quake 1 itself from Steam and hoping that it runs.
Voyager 1 transmitting data again after NASA remotely fixes 46-year-old probe
Was Flash ever really good for anything close to normal programming?

And Java applets with their loading times and dependence on the visitor having Java installed ... nah, not really a competitor.
Honestly, while I agree there's a massive price discrepancy, I don't know that I even see Behringer as the "lower end" option anymore. The lowest end is a laptop and pirated VSTs. Behringer pedals? Yeah, those are because you're poor (or just don't care, I guess?) but synths? The K2 is better built than the MS20 mini, the Wasp reissue doesn't have a good equivilent I know of, and their 303 clone isn't any better or worse than the other similarly priced 303 options - and it's easily hackable.

I mean, don't get me wrong, I still think Behringer as a company is doing bad things to the music land scape and that they've done some pretty horrendous IP theft and racist stuff, but I don't think "because you're poor" is right either.

To the point though, yeah, no, TE absolutely won't get a black eye for this: Nobody cares, and hardly anyone but tech bros even know. It's no worse than their wooden choir thing.
First time I've heard the benefits at IBM described as incredible.

They're constantly doing small layoffs if not spinning off entire divisions. Even if you aren't personally affected, it's disheartening to find out when people you work with are the target of a "resource action". Their headcount has dropped 150K from 2010.

They did a weird sleight of hand a while ago where you only got a 401k match if you were employed at the end of the year. I see now that they've dropped all 401k matching and have shifted to some kind of small pension program instead.
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> Instead, under the final rule, employers will simply have to provide notice to workers bound to an existing noncompete that the noncompete agreement will not be enforced against them in the future. To aid employers’ compliance with this requirement, the Commission has included model language in the final rule that employers can use to communicate to workers.

> Under the final rule, existing noncompetes for senior executives can remain in force. Employers, however, are prohibited from entering into or enforcing new noncompetes with senior executives. The final rule defines senior executives as workers earning more than $151,164 annually and who are in policy-making positions.

> The final rule will become effective 120 days after publication in the Federal Register.
Exactly. We should start building global database connecting DNA with medical history.
It's OK but still not what the eye sees.
IBM has a median age of 48 as of 2020. While it's true that they've repeatedly done stuff that smells a lot like age discrimination, it's still a pretty old company all things considered. Compare that to Google, Facebook, etc.

I work for Red Hat, acquired by IBM. None of the older developers working for Red Hat have been laid off. Actually developers as a group were mostly left intact by the one layoff we did have.
New policy: no more non-competes
Why would you expect that? You have no basis to have that expectation. The product isn't being presented as something that can do that.
This seems incredibly important. I know non-compete rules personally held me back at a previous tech job.

I'm interested to see how this hits finance firms – I know people who were forced to take a year off between jobs (although they were compensated the whole time). Always thought that would be a pretty sweet deal.
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Number of HN complaints per day posted.
Those wall street middlemen are way better a designing mutual funds and ETFs than I am. I am happy to pay for their expertise.
You absolutely could count the number of times "wizard" was used if you had the book in front of you. Similarly the LLM does have the chapter available "to look at." Documents pasted in the context window aren't ethereal.

This explanation/excuse doesn't hold water.
Going off of the press release, it doesn't go into effect until 120 days after publication and doesn't apply to current senior executives which are defined as "workers earning more than $151,164 annually and who are in policy-making positions." I would also imagine that it will immediately be challenged in court.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is likely to file suit: https://www.uschamber.com/finance/antitrust/chamber-comments...
If so, Consul → OpenCabbage, Nomad → OpenNoodle
I was referring to the document still having the semantic structure. E.g. masonry.js also supports relative sizing, so it doesn't need to know the screen size beforehand.
> Being trans is a huge hassle, and not something done as a lark to get into female spaces.

I think this might have become a little motte and bailey. There's a whole gamut of people covered by the same rule, and not just people who genuinely have gender disphoria.
It is both true that the FTC's mandate is broad enough to include this and that this might get successfully challenged in the courts.
The shares they own give them 51% of the votes because when they negotiated a deal that gives them a lot more votes than anybody else. They own about 12% of the company.

Those numbers are for both of them combined. If one of them had a serious disagreement with the other they could join forces with other shareholders to create a new 51% majority.
This describes my own experience 100% accurately.
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So what is your point?

Claims of context-window sizes increases do imply that information can be extracted from such windows. So this is not trivial.

The counting example is a simple case, the "how much is this insurance policy going to cover this damage" is also a calculation.
You're missing the point. The point is to make it harder for scammers. Yes, I can safely extract files but on many systems if you double click a zip instead then there you go. Either way, it is always best to not download when you don't have to.

The question here is "is there a reasonable alternative that doesn't require the user to download." The answer is unambiguously "yes" and unambiguously has higher utility.
I've made AI assistants that are perfectly accurate with products, pricing, etc. yet still maintain a human quality: https://github.com/bennyschmidt/ragdoll-studio/tree/master/e...

You can accomplish this with RAG.

Your overall point is taken though, the LLM itself is not enough, fine-tuning is not always feasible, and I think no matter how good an AI persona gets at, say, teaching yoga - for some yoga students it will never replace an in-person instructor.

However for a game NPC, online agent, Discord bot, etc. not to mention research, translation, tutorials, summarizing, etc. there is a lot of present day utility for LLMs.
Like in iOS with SiriKit?

Blame app developers for prioritizing implementing less useful features.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/sirikit/
This appears to be the correct link:

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/ftc-bans-noncompete-clau...

'“If they can issue regulations with respect to unfair methods of competition, then there’s really no aspect of the U.S. economy they couldn’t regulate,” said Neil Bradley, head of strategic advocacy for the Chamber.'

Neil Bradley admits the US economy is fundamentally unfair.
Unlikely they are in a policy making position.
It's about time! Nice to hear some good news for a change!
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There was a cable-based serial terminal networking system called LocalNet, which was all over the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus circa 1985. The LocalNet modems/concentrators connected terminals and computers throughout the campus. You'd fire up your terminal, hit ENTER for a prompt, then type CALL xxx,yyy (xxx and yyy being hex addresses) to reach a particular host. The host just saw it as just another RS-232 modem.
Isn’t the solution to this particular problem to do what a human would do? I just tried this:

Write me a short Python program that will count how many times a word occurs in a given text.

Sure, I can help you with that! Here's a short Python program that counts how many times a word occurs in a given text:

```python
def count_words(text, word):
words = > text.lower().split()
count = 0
for w in words:
if w == word.lower():
count += 1
return count

text = "Snapchat is a fun way to share moments with friends!"
word = "Snapchat"

result = count_words(text, word)
print(f"The word '{word}' occurs {result} times in the text.")
```

You can replace the `text` variable with your own text and the `word` variable with the word you want to count. Let me know if you have any questions!

Seems to me that if you give an LLM an environment to run said program it would be able to automatically do this with the correct prompt. This doesn’t solve the insurance policy problem at all but the solution to these problems is different in my opinion.
Nuclear reactors, of course.

Antarctica was chosen because the area on the mainland between 90 degrees west and 150 degrees west is the only major piece of land on Earth not claimed by any country[1], which makes it a good place place to locate businesses that do not wish to be subject to regulations on Artificial Intelligences. Plus it's much more inconvenient to attack than it would be if you located it in a volcanic island.

[1] Sez wiki.
any idea why Maverix is not listed? https://www.maverixpe.com/
The first software I cracked was in 2004 (some video converter software), the motivation was simply that I can’t afford it, but the “feeling” you get after is like a drug, then it’s more of a challenge knowing that it’s doable no matter what, just like lock picking, then that spark just dies and you stop cracking them.
I suspect this is bad for California, its lack of noncompetes was a huge differentiation for a while.

(how bad? I don't know.)
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The internet deserves a ripped copy of that CD.
Noncompetes for fast food workers are totally unconscionable.
Mostly games on Oculus. I haven't played online socially, just with friends IRL - one has a really sweet room all set up for VR. Also back in the 90s-00s, on the more primitive arcade systems. I haven't looked at the "metaverse" yet.

It's not like I'm against fun, and if there is more emphasis in the "metaverse" on meaningful social connection, that's good. Games and activities that get you moving around are also a very positive development. Wii was one of my favorite consoles (but was hardly immersive).

My brother is a former pilot and sprung for a full setup so he could play aviation sims. I haven't done a movie yet.

As I said I have nothing against headsets or immersive digital experiences. I do think in this day and age it's worth being more protective of the word "reality", compared to the 90s. Not just in a political sense. The core business of Facebook is advertising and data brokering. I know I might sound like a quack but they really do want to control perception of reality and for us to stare at their screen for as long as possible. Partly because there are ads there, and partly because as we do they stare back at us and take measurements. So that's why I don't accept their "Reality Lab", "The Metaverse", etc. marketing language, and to the extent they control VR it is not VR. They don't want to build the metaverse a la Snow Crash, it will be more like the social -> news feed -> analytica history, plus raking app developers.
Where have you read that creator of LLMs say their products are awesome at counting? It's just the opposite.
Hogwash! I demand a free market for my business, but a closed market for my assets.
a zip archive is not executable unless something has gone very wrong.
I asked 100 devs why they aren't shipping faster. Here's what I learned
As I said elsewhere, it's not. It's an open source project, under the Linux Foundation umbrella, with all of the good licensing that goes along with that. It has some contributors who are also IBM employees, but to say they're "funded by IBM" is a bit of a stretch.
If his leaving is unrelated, that would fall under the first possibility of the parent comment, no?
Options are also contracts and the FTC seems to have succeeded in regulating those.
I've worked in a financial company running on mainframes. They were the least reliable part of the whole organization. The only reason they're still around is they've become hostages of the mainframe. My experience is that nobody actually likes the mainframe or respects it. They just tolerate it.
According to this they own 86% of class B shares together: https://www.investopedia.com/articles/markets/011516/top-5-g...
> FTC doesn't really have the ability to do this, since contract law is part of state law

The federal government can absolutely regulate both employment and contract law. (Merger agreements are contracts. The FTC was established to block bad mergers.)

Whether the FTC can do this is untested. But that’s more a Chevron issue than a federal powers one.
I suspect this won’t survive a challenge in front of the current Supreme Court, unfortunately.
whoa, that existed? sheesh
DDG uses bing as it's backend.
Disagree. That one was not in question for years. Only Peter Scholze proved it and said he's not completely sure
Does anyone know the history of noncompetes? It seems like a case of Tacit Collusion[1]. But if there is no competitive advantage to the noncompete, how did it catch on?

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacit_collusion
As others have said, this is common in Chinese writing. The unique thing about furigana is that it's typeset above/beside the kanji for the second meaning.

Perhaps the more interesting thing is how even songs will often use kanji for a concept but the sung lyrics are expressed in furigana, but IIRC Chinese culture has this too.
Why the forced push by big companies into this VR thing?
The point is that this isn't even really useful because it's not a minimum reproduction of the problem they're actually interested in.

LLMs are bad at counting no matter what size of context is provided. If you're going to formulate a thought experiment to illustrate how an LLM stops paying attention well before the context limit, it should be an example that LLMs are known to be good at in smaller context sizes. Otherwise you might be entertaining but you're also misleading.
Does this change a lot for many people?

This doesn't mean you can scurry off a just build a competing product/service to your existing employer. You probably also have NDA and/or IP agreements too.

> The Commission found that employers have several alternatives to noncompetes that still enable firms to protect their investments without having to enforce a noncompete.

> Trade secret laws and non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) both provide employers with well-established means to protect proprietary and other sensitive information. Researchers estimate that over 95% of workers with a noncompete already have an NDA.

Trade secrets would generally include anything from code, approaches to problems, product roadmaps, customer lists, etc (so spans not only engineering... but also product, sales, etc).
They tell you whatever platitudes you want to hear, just like what they say to the CPUC. That doesn’t make it true. The rates have gone way up, far faster than inflation or undergrounding can justify. Also, who is to say undergrounding is even necessary? There are grid enhancing technologies like composite cables that make undergrounding totally unnecessary in most cases. The reason for a lot of fires is cable sag, because they’ve been using the same technology for a century. Which is not surprising when your regulator is asleep at the wheel and gives you zero incentive to innovate.
What if Apple bought them?
Election year
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Here is a free data collection that tracks AI startup fundraising by stage, type, and region. It includes social links and investor information pulled from public records. I think this would be useful for founders here.

https://www.frontieroptic.com/ai-hype-train
The dominant culture in the company began to mimic the history of Raghavan: failing upwards, short-term gains with long-term detriment. When you get back far enough you begin to see a recurring pattern of it with these MBA/exec types who basically only have a bean-counter, extractive, understanding of running a business or making things.
A) I think it’s important to acknowledge that in many ways Google is actively trying to keep CPC low - what they care most about is total spend. A low CPC means an effective advertising network where interested consumers are efficiently targeted. Their position is complex thanks to their monopoly status over online advertising.

B) I don’t think it’s fair to characterize recent layoffs as some put-off collapse… criticize Google all you want for running a bad search engine, but right now they’re still dominant and search is the most effective advertising known to man. They’re raking in buckets of money: they had 54K employees on 01/01/2015, and 182K on 01/01/2024. Similarly, they made 66B in 2014, and 305B in 2023. The latest layoffs are them cleaning house and scaring their workers into compliance, not the death throes of a company in trouble — they’re barely a dent in the exponential graphs: https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/GOOG/alphabet/numb...