skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's pretty cool that you *actually* built this necessary Developer interface aimed towards accessibility of HPC!
They are talking about the cool spaceship disguised as cephalopod: Tanigia danae (2 meter long).

https://schmidtocean.org/wp-content/uploads/Taningia-danae.j...

All that their preys see is two big oblique glowing cat-eyes before to be snared by lines of sharp hooks and killed by a bite. "Night at the African Savannah" style, but without all the roaring.
Semaglutide is still under patent in the US till at least Dec 2031 (say Wpedia).

Blockbuster drugs still under patent usually don't have alternative avenues of supply that are significantly cheaper than the main avenue. I wonder what law or regulation allows this alternative avenue to persist.
Ooh, shiny!
It explicitly does, as is noted in the article.
Yes, it's weird to get outraged about furry porn being AI-generated. Who gives a hoot?
I'd be interested in knowing if anyone is seriously using the assistants API, it feels like such a lock in to OpenAIs platform when your can alternatively just use completions that are much more easily interchanged.
They give you a general release of liability, as noted elsewhere in the thread.
I'm thankfully not seeing AI overviews on mobile firefox... is this just a desktop thing, just a chrome thing?
Absolutely nowhere on that page is mentioned what you’ll actually pay for the compounded drug. Spoiler - $300+/mo
No, there's more. It's a thread. He really should've used twitlonger or something like that. Here are the tweets:

Stepping away from this job has been one of the hardest things I have ever done, because we urgently need to figure out how to steer and control AI systems much smarter than us.

I joined because I thought OpenAI would be the best place in the world to do this research.

However, I have been disagreeing with OpenAI leadership about the company's core priorities for quite some time, until we finally reached a breaking point.

I believe much more of our bandwidth should be spent getting ready for the next generations of models, on security, monitoring, preparedness, safety, adversarial robustness, (super)alignment, confidentiality, societal impact, and related topics.

These problems are quite hard to get right, and I am concerned we aren't on a trajectory to get there.

Over the past few months my team has been sailing against the wind. Sometimes we were struggling for compute and it was getting harder and harder to get this crucial research done.

Building smarter-than-human machines is an inherently dangerous endeavor.

OpenAI is shouldering an enormous responsibility on behalf of all of humanity.

But over the past years, safety culture and processes have taken a backseat to shiny products.

We are long overdue in getting incredibly serious about the implications of AGI.

We must prioritize preparing for them as best we can.

Only then can we ensure AGI benefits all of humanity.

OpenAI must become a safety-first AGI company.

To all OpenAI employees, I want to say:

Learn to feel the AGI.

Act with the gravitas appropriate for what you're building.

I believe you can "ship" the cultural change that's needed.

I am counting on you.

The world is counting on you.

:openai-heart:
I think I would point to Go here as a good data point for mollification. Its `string` data is conventionally UTF-8. Go has been a huge player in web services over the last decade and a half, and I'm not sure I've seen a rise in the problem of junk data.

The people behind Go were also the people behind UTF-8 (Ken Thompson and Rob Pike). Go's `string` data type is thoughtfully designed. If you iterate over the characters in a string that contains invalid UTF-8, you get replacement codepoints, just like in bstr. Go has transcoding and normalization libraries that work just fine too.

I don't think there are much if any weird interactions with normalization or other such things. When you're doing Unicode operations on a conventionally UTF-8 string, you just treat invalid UTF-8 as U+FFFD. That's really all there is to it. Everything else works. Unicode algorithms are defined over codepoints. So all you need is a semantic for how to convert invalid sequences to codepoints. And Unicode (Chapter 3, Section 9) provides exactly that for you.

Or in some cases, you can just leave the invalid UTF-8 as-is. The last example in bstr's docs for its "to_lowercase" routine[1], for example, demonstrates how you can perform a Unicode-aware algorithm on a string that contains invalid UTF-8.

We've all been burned by mojibake before. I get it. I'm not totally discounting your viewpoint. I do tend to think that "required UTF-8" is probably the better thing for a primitive string data type. But you really do absolutely need to also then support conventional UTF-8. Otherwise you're cutting off a ton of very valid use cases, and potentially forcing others to either take a huge perf hit or to do something dangerous like `unsafe { std::str::from_utf8_unchecked(..) }`. I've seen people do the unchecked variant before just because they had a `&[u8]` but needed it to be a `&str` because they wanted to treat it as a string without doing a second pass over the data. And believe you me, you'd see a lot more of that if I wasn't so careful to provide both `&str` and `&[u8]` APIs for all string oriented operations. ;-)

[1]: https://docs.rs/bstr/latest/bstr/trait.ByteSlice.html#exampl...
Only Nvidia? These predictions are maybe misleading? And might present bad information to unaware users?
There's only one reality that we're all in all the time.
To quote Geoff Hinton

"AI winter !!!!????"
> Capitalism actually works if you let it.

Right. This is why drugs like BPC-157, mentioned above, go for $25/month. There's a lot of competition on the gray market, and often the only way for vendors to differentiate themselves from the pack is on pricing, so drugs rarely if ever sell for more than double their manufacturing cost.

In the world of legitimate patented pharmaceuticals, the manufacturing cost is not even a consideration. It is often -- as it is here -- less than a single percentage point of the sale price.
I see wine as being pretty much obsolete so I'm interested too in finding out what people are using wine for at this point.
I’ve sure seen better results from throwing more compute at the problem and we’re going to have a lot more compute in 20 years than we have now.
Hush money payments and NDAs aren't illegal as Trump discovered, but perhaps lying about or concealing them in certain contexts is.

Also, when secrets or truthful disparaging information is leaked anonymously without a metadata trail, I'm thinking there's probably little or no recourse.
Another common example of this not being true is Google's closure compiler, which does non trival code transforms (inline, peephole ops, ect..)
I don't think this is true. Look at the number of people buying Modafinil off Indian websites.
My hot take on these GLP-1 drugs is that they won't work long term for most people. If the plan is to give the drug to as many obese people as possible and take a victory lap, thats going to fail.

I don't think its resonable for most people to continue taking GLP-1 antagonists all their lives. Its been widely shown that most people rapdily gain back ~2/3 of their weight after stopping semaglutide. This means that the people who lost weight did not build sustainable weight management habits during their time on these drugs.

IMHO a better solution would be to design individualized weight loss programs which would help people build sustainable healthy eating habits, and change their relationship to food while using GLP-1 as a tool to help the process and motivate people. I understand that is much easier said than done, especially at such a large scale.

Maybe the answer lies in a combination of various actions, some ideas include,

- Medicare and Medicaid negotiating to reduce the cost

- Possibly offering lower/higher dosages based on needs to better manage cost

- Offering incentives/discounts when GLP-1 is used in-combination with health coaching.

- Offering GLP-1 drugs with lifetime maximums similar to Orthodontic procedures such as braces or clear aligners, with some exceptions based on medical needs.

- Reduce food deserts, especially in rural and low income areas.

- Penalize companies which sell seriously addictive / unhealthy foods. We did that with Cigarettes! Unhealthy diets filled with addictive sugary processed foods cause similar harm to families, society, and future generations.
I read the farms (mostly CWC's thread, some absolutely phenomenal original research), I'm aware of what generally happens there. The only real rule is that porn can't be posted for its own sake. It exists and has a right to do so.

The farms exists to shame degeneracy. It started as CWC farms to track the behavior of Chris-chan, of course it's going to be a crazy place. This does not mean they don't deserve access to the backbone of the Internet. You're making moral judgements about who gets to practice legal speech.
What is compounding? What raw ingredients do they start with? How is it possible?
ITT: a bunch of laymen thinking their 2 second proposal will outlawyer the team of lawyers who drafted these.
Huh? I would imagine that content that is about people’s feelings and the things those feelings are about, would be more likely to offend? Who gets offended by content about like, “How navigation would be different if space were like X?” or, “How would sheet music for music in a world with two time dimension look? Might we have music where along one direction the frequency is increasing in magnitude, but decreasing along another, played to depict a scene in which a pursuer gets closer to a target along one direction of time but further along the other?” ?

(Though, I’m not sure if two time dimensions exactly makes sense, because like, R\{0} has two connected components, which seems connected to the distinction between the past and the future, while R^2\{0} is connected (though not simply-connected) , so I’m not sure if the distinction between past and future, can still be made? Maybe if instead of a 0-dimensional point we have a 1-dimensional curve? )

As I imagine it, for the most part, the further something is from human experience, the less it would tend to remind people of whatever things in life they find objectionable.
> In most cases there is no free exercise whatever of the
judgment or of the moral sense; but they put themselves on a level with wood
and earth and stones; and wooden men can perhaps be manufactured that will
serve the purpose as well. Such command no more respect than men of straw
or a lump of dirt.[0]

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Disobedience_(Thoreau)
When he was fired there was a short window where the prevailing reaction here was "He must have done something /really/ bad." Then opinion changed to "Sam walks on water and the board are the bad guys". Maybe that line of thinking was a mistake.
It’s common not to sign them, actually. The people that don’t simply aren’t talking about it much.
This to me is like the "don't be evil" thing. I didn't take it seriously to begin with, I don't think reasonable people should have taken it seriously, and so it's not persuasive or really all that interesting to argue about.

People are different! You can think otherwise.
Another aspect in addition to what others said: digital color libraries are generally available for free or low cost.

- Pantone recently removed its color libraries from Adobe products to make them an additional subscription of $14.99/month
- Pantone colors are always a subscription on color readers/spectrometers unless you buy X-Rite's high end readers. RAL is available for free on most color readers.
- NCS is a bit between RAL and Pantone in that regard, they sell an affordable color reader (for its full spectrum capabilities) that includes the NCS library, but it is a paid subscription for other readers, albeit cheaper than Pantone.
Yes! Yes! Yes!

It sounds like Wine might be able to run Paint.NET again.

That's pretty much the only app that still has me reaching for Windows at this point.

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55513
If a contract barred me from providing criticism I would not imagine that I could sidestep it by uttering positive criticism unless my counterparty was illiterate and poor at drafting contracts.
This is true.

I was once fired, ghosted style, for merely being in the same meeting room as a racist corporate ass-clown muting the conference call to make Asian slights and monkey gesticulations. There was no lawsuit or payday because "how would I ever work again?" was the Hobson's choice between let it go and a moral crusade without a way to pay rent.

If instead I were upset that "not enough N are in tech," there isn't a specific incident or person to blame because it'd be a multifaceted situation.
hey I made this, the repo now supports running models locally.
check it out here: https://github.com/rashadphz/farfalle
They can't even clearly define a test of "AGI" I seriously doubt they're going to reach it in two years. Alternatively, they could define a fairly trivial test and reach it last year.
Any real world performance comparison between QLoRa and LoRa?
Frankly, I wouldn't begrudge a website for not correctly parsing an svg I composed entirely with javascript.

It's annoying you can't just "flatten" or "bake" such an svg like yours into one composed entirely of elements (unless one exists?)
Fentanyl seems to be tainting a lot of black market drugs lately. I'd want to test anything if it came from unofficial sources.
XPQ4 – Windows look'n feel for your Q4OS desktop
Under duress in the contractual world is generally interpreted as “you are about to be killed or maimed.” Economic duress is distinct.
RE: Q4OS https://q4os.org/
I guess the best way (not an option anymore in many places) is to not let the bureaucracy take hold to begin with. Because once it exists, it will defend and expand itself forever.

I have a friend who bought land in my community (suburbanish/ruralish California) with the intention of building his "dream home" and moving in. He's finding that the costs of permitting, studies, hearings, inspections, engineering, and other bureaucracy are about 1.5X what building the actual structure will cost. Granted, he should have done more research first before buying the land, but he didn't and now the land may just stay vacant forever or until he finds a new "sucker" buyer for it. It should be dead simple. Buy the property, start pouring the foundation the next week.
Wow, that's pretty bad! In Texas it's +/- 3 seconds[1]. Which I wouldn't want to use for precise event logging, but for human use is fine.

[1] http://www.naesb.org/pdf2/weq_bklet_011505_tec_mc.pdf
Ask HN: Build to Order Hardware (IoT)?
Hi HN.

I'd like to make a very small IoT device, ideally I design it and I'd find a company that can both manufacture and ship straight to consumer. Does this exist ? I understand that I'd still have to pay to finish the design and for a few prototypes, but I don't want to have to handle the full sales life cycle. I don't want to have to worry about inventory, funding, returns and all that stuff.

This is more of a passion project of mine than anything else. I plan on making all the software running on the device open source, and I'll encourage others to write their own software as well.

I basically want a raspberry pi zero( or possibly another small SBC) + a screen and a few buttons in an nice enclosure.
Thanks for the feedback. Some corrections:

We do use multi-level caching, and you can achieve 5x higher performance by using it correctly. FFI is already implemented, just not published, because we want to release it with graphics rendering, which I think will be really cool. Haskell/GHC uses a graph and trees too, and nobody would say it is not practical of useful. And while it is true that arrays are king, there are many SOTA algorithms that are implemented in Haskell (including compilers, type-checkers, solvers) because they do not map well to arrays at all.

The main reason ICs are not fast is that nobody ever has done low-level optimization work over it. All previous implementations were terribly inefficient. And my own work is too, because I spent all time so far trying to get it to run *correctly* on GPUs, which was very hard. As you said yourself, there aren't even loops yet. So, how can we solve that? By adding the damn loops! Or do you think there is some inherent limitation preventing us to do that? If you do, you'll be surprised.

HVM2 is finally a correct algorithm that scales. Now we'll optimize it for the actual low-level performance.
>In a statement provided to PhocusWire, the company said, “Rathi Murthy, Chief Technology Officer, and Sreenivas Rachamadugu, Senior Vice President, Core Services Product & Engineering, are no longer employed at Expedia Group. This decision is the result of a violation of Company policy.

Does this mean they had a relationship
From the website linked in the readme:

“A lot of research has been doing in this are and we can expect a lot more in 2024 in this space. I promise to share some clarity around where I think this industry is headed. In personal talks I have warned that multi-agent systems are complex and hard to get right. I've seen little evidence of real-world use cases too”

These assistant systems fascinate me, but I just don’t have the time and energy to set something up. I was going to ask if anyone had a good experience with it, but the above makes it sound like there’s not much hope at the moment. Curious what other people’s experience are.
How to Survive and Thrive in the AI Apocalypse
So buying them separately and mixing them in your mouth is legal? It's like combining 2 pieces of open-source software and selling them under one product.
I thought I was the only person who watched that movie!
Ask HN: Is Angular still relevant in the new world?
I'm currently in school and in 3 classes so far they've used Spring and Angular.

I've been putting off learning a front end framework because I dread front end work, but now that I'm exposed I'm considering diving into Angular.
At work they also use Angular for some projects (big-not-bleeding-edge-slow corp), but I was wondering if out there in the new world Angular is still a thing.

Is it worth my time to dive into Angular or you see it as a dying framework?

Thanks
The fact that you don’t know the answer to this question, and don’t even seem to think it is relevant, is chilling.

People want to be able to ground your work—which you are claiming is the “parallel future of computation”—in something familiar. Insulting them and telling them their concerns are irrelevant just isn’t going to work.

I would urge you to think about what a standard comparison versus Haskell would look like. Presumably it would be something that dealt with a large state space, but also top down computation (something you couldn’t easily do with matrices). Big examples might include simply taking a giant Haskell benchmark (given the setting of inets it seems like a natural fit) that is implemented in a fairly optimal way—-both algorithmically and also wrt performance—-and compare directly on large inputs.

Sorry to trash on you here, not trying to come across as insulting, but I agree that “reductions per second” is meaningless without a nuanced understanding of the potentially massive encoding blowup that compilation introduces.

We want to believe, but the claims here are big
What about paint.net is drawing you in from windows
Many moons ago the "cdecl" tool turned out incredibly useful to check if I got declarations right.

cdecl> declare bar as const pointer to array 5 of pointer to function (int) returning const pointer to char

char * const (( const bar)[5])(int )

Also online at https://cdecl.org/
I am curious as to why you think wine is obsolete?

Proton uses wine heavily, so there is a massive market with the steam deck using wine to run their games.
Does it relate to applications in time series? How does the hierarchy play a role in Transformers?
> it could save the health care industry billions as these people with obesity will otherwise require epesneive treatments if the remain obese.

"Could" is doing a lot of work there. We don't really know what to expect for these patients 20 or 40 years out.

Long-term outcomes and population-scale polypharmacy risks are not really clear, and won't be for decades.

These drugs enable a valuable intervention for individuals at high risk of health hazards and it's fantastic that they're available, but the perspective changes when you look at outcomes for tens (hundreds?) of millions of people over long spans of time -- there are a lot of inescapable unknowns. One can't actually be sure that the benefits of fast, widespread use will outpace the costs, or at what scale.

Many genuinely effective drugs have gone through exactly this kind of hype cycle only to lead to regret, embarassment, and/or skepticism later on.

Good science, and the good public policy that's informed by it, moves slowly.
The insult against anyone who pushes back a little bit is not a good sign, I agree. From all we can see now, the massive speedups being claimed have zero optimal baselines. I badly would like to identify these.
As a child I used to watch a TV programme called Tomorrows World. On it they predicted these very same things in similar timeframes.

That programme aired in the 1980's. Other than vested promises is there much to indicate it's close at all? Empty promises aside there isn't really any indication of that being likely at all.
A harrowing read, but [2020]
There are things on the website aren't legal speech or are at least legally questionable. Harassment is illegal for one.

The owner is fine with revenge porn being posted, and this has gotten him blocked by some hosts. He's also said he won't ban users who commit illegal acts.
You haven't worked with many contracts, have you? Unenforceable clauses are the norm, most people are willing to follow them rather than risk having to fight them in court.
Ah, thank you so much! Twitter doesn't make that clear at all, and I don't have an account there.
Historically, Pantone & Munsell in the US of A.

Pantone is really print-oriented, even if they've surfed on the brand to expand to fashion & cosmetics. That's why the standard Pantone PMS colors don't have whites.
Munsell is more general purpose.

But RAL & NCS are also used widely, and will probably both keep going up in popularity for reasons I outlined in my other comment on this thread.
Way back, Microsoft added a feature to Microsoft Office tool suite to interrupt your work with a "helpful" paperclip.

Unrequested AI features remind me of that paperclip.
Shaving off the frontend costs is not going to be nothing. I don't know if Dolphin is still using FXC/D3DCompile or if they've switched to DXC, but FXC is infamously slow, even for very simple shaders. Dolphin's shaders are medium-complexity IIRC, so I'd expect removing the frontend to be a decent win.

The driver PSO compilers aren't amazing but they're also not terrible. Most games do some form of hash-n-cache for PSO compilation and while stutters are still an issue, it's not the worst in the world. With the frontend gone, I'd expect ~50 shaders per second to be roughly stutter-free.

Being smarter about specialization is probably a good idea -- having a blend between "GPU interpreter" and "full specialized pipeline" is where I think you should head. Several of the weirder TEV features could probably be moved to branching on dynamic buffer contents.

Not to mention using newer features like bindless to merge draw calls. I always wanted to do that but got too busy before I stopped working on Dolphin :)
author here. I thought there might be a machine instruction for this but wasn't sure, I also didn't know Julia had a count_ones that counted the 1s.

Thanks! With this the timings are even faster. I'll update the post.