skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The refueling risk and cost is being borne by SpaceX, not the taxpayer. The SpaceX HLS portion of Artemis (aka the refueling) is a fabulous deal for the taxpayer.
Even if it is run locally, does it sync between your devices?

Considering we seem to be putting safety largely out the window, I can see someone saying "yeah I want to be able to ask my other computer what I did on a different computer" or whatever. Thats valuable! Ignoring the risks that involves.

Also, even if it is run locally that likely means that some sort of additional logging (possibly screenshots given the mention of "photographic memory") on top of what is already in the system logs to achieve this.

Windows 11 LTSC, which will hopefully have these features ripped out, can't come soon enough.
Maybe I don’t speak Windows fluently enough, but this sounds exhausting. I guess I don’t see the benefit of using Windows for anything.
Are you referring to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Chinese_milk_scandal#Arre... ?
Sorry for the offtopicness, but please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40418627 regarding a flamewar that happened over a week ago. It's important that this not happen again.
Interesting read. But given the many possible causes:

# IC degraded due to being manufactured looong ago (~35y+)
# Bad manufacturing batch
# Storage conditions
# Chip at some point pulled from other systems/boards? (which had previous owners)
# Fake chips
# ESD damage

I'd say "one or more of the above" is more likely than "AY-3-8913 chip has a bug". Or in other words: (probably) nothing to see here.
> demilitarization of departments would be a great step in making this country safer.

there needs to be a qualifier attached to that comment: safer from police. It won't make the country itself safer. demilitarizing the police will not prevent schools/churches/movie theaters from getting shot up by someone. demilitarizing the police will not stop gang violence. by all means, reign in the out of control over weaponized "peace" officers, but please, let's be realistic on what that will actually do to overall safety.
OK, so:

"The AST type represents the syntax of the language. Each inhabitant of this type is a representation of an individual program in the language."

I agree.

But my

AST does not "represent the syntax of a programming language"

stands.

Thing != Thing's type.
AFAIK Schrems II prevents transfers of data to the US.

AWS has datacentres around the world, including multiple locations in the EU.
No, 7B LLMs only need about 4GB of RAM.

There is extremely little quality loss from dropping to 4-bit for LLMs, and that “extremely little” becomes “virtually unmeasurable” loss when going to 8-bit. No one should be running these models on local devices at fp16 outside of research, since fp16 makes them half as fast as q8_0 and requires twice as much RAM for no benefit.

If a model is inadequate for a task at 4-bit, then there's virtually no chance it's going to be adequate at fp16.

Microsoft has also been doing a lot of research into smaller models with the Phi series, and I would be surprised if Phi3 (or a hypothetical Phi4) doesn’t show up at some point under the hood.
"To ensure your privacy against malicious use, we seed about 15% of the logs with fabricated entries that don't actually correspond with what you were doing on your computer."

"Wait a minute... doesn't GPT-4 still have a 15% hallucination rate when it comes to document summarization?"

"Moving right along..."
>No one cares for power saving.

I bought a MacBook Pro just to have 20 hours battery life, even if I don't like macOS too much.
I think that if I tried to rank-order strategies optimizing for fundraising, "act as if I'm trying to invent technology that I think stands a decent chance of causing human extinction, in the limit" would not come close to making the cut.

I don't see Anthropic making very confident claims about when they're going to achieve AGI (however you want to define that). Predicting how long it'll take to produce a specific novel scientific result is, by its very nature, pretty difficult. (You might have some guesses, if you have a comprehensive understanding of what unsolved dependencies there are, and have some reason to believe you know how long it'll take to solve _those_, and that's very much not the case here. But if you're in that kind of situation, it's much more likely you're dealing with an engineering problem, not a research problem.) Elsewhere in the comments on this link, their CISO predicts a 50% chance of hitting capabilities that'll trigger their ASL-3 standard in the next 6 months (my guess is on the strength of its ability to find vulnerabilities in open-source codebases). That's predicting the timeline for a small advancement in a relatively narrow set of capabilities where we can at least sort of measure progress.
https://archive.is/VuSn0
> Even FAANG companies like Google follow this rule.

Google also uses 100
Color me skeptical - sounds like more anti-administration FUD from the WSJ (or because it gets clicks). It seems to me that the malaise is more irrational than backed by any actual macroeconomic circumstance.
Agreed, and on top of industriousness is mental flexibility. Being more open to strike out and learn something new to improve their job opportunities (as a double major is just that, learning more than just one subject).
I think the official line from Microsoft would be that most software should be using .NET anyway, and in that case the same binary should Just Work on either architecture. In reality there is still a lot of native software though, so who knows how that will play out. Games in particular will always be native.
Letter says UNC Chapel Hill records professors
yes. the flagged comment wanted to sell moffkalast a bridge, w/o further explanation. i interpreted it as him saying that the human brain isn't governed by evolution and calling moffkalast naive.
> We now write everything in one of the worst and least optimizable languages this side of TCL, and that doesn’t hold back deployment.

Javascript?

If so, why do you say it's a least optimizable language?

Do you mean for ahead-of-time single point in time static compilation, rather than code evolving within a JIT afforded real runtime statistics?

I don't have numbers but as an old optimizing compiler person I'm asking because it's plausible you know datasets i have not seen.
This is the worry IMO. It's fine to dump it on a server with SQLite, but once you start hitting scaling limits, you're in for a potentially rough migration.
Coming from the "old ages" when a PC didn't even feature a (3D capable) GPU and all was about getting all the possible juice of the CPU... shaders now allow incredible things in a very small size, as long as you stick to procedural content. shadertoy.com features an insane amount of great samples.
The allocation is plenty cheap, but creating the stack trace is expensive in pretty much all structured exception systems, and it is noticeable in loops, not necessarily even really tight ones.

So yeah if you’re parsing thousands of url candidates and expect many will not parse, don’t use exceptions to communicate the expected errors. Otherwise don’t worry about it.
You can get GitHub Copilot for free
Right, and that's part of the problem -- the top comment usually has a lot of replies, and so the 2nd-top comment isn't seen as much. So even people who might agree with the 2nd-top comment a lot more than the top comment might not even see it, and not upvote it.

(And especially if you see the top comment, and disagree with it vehemently, you might dig through the replies to that comment and start posting rebuttals. You might get tired of the topic before you get down to the 2nd-top comment, and leave the submission or the site entirely.)

Being the top comment is self-reinforcing, even if other comments actually do reflect the majority opinion better. I don't think we can say that the top comment is the majority/prevailing opinion. That's just the opinion that, due to lucky/random circumstances, got the most initial views and upvotes by people who agree, which then feedback-looped itself into staying the top comment.
In Germany it's the same in theory, in reality even bogus causes are approved by the judges who neither the time and knowledge to really check the inquiry.
How much voltage noise can get from a PSU to the cpu these days? I wonder if a better one lets you get closer to the theoretical limit.
If I have to chose between a state where that dude with the knife is still at large, and a state where people are too afraid of dissent because they're worried about their attendance at a protest showing up on their public record, I'll take the dude with the knife.
Except both Tim Cook and Jeff Williams knows even with Apple's $200B capital it is still not be enough fund a future TSMC competitor ( Intel ) that is price competitive with TSMC's current offering.

They may have a better chance helping Samsung Foundry but they dont want their SoC IP to be known to their direct competitor, that goes the same to Intel.

On the other hand TSMC dont start building out a $20B 2nm GigaFab and then look for 2nm customers. That is just not how it works.
Being the designated "tech" person for my extended family and friends circle, I don't think I could recommend this to any of them because of the privacy nightmare.

At least with Apple you have a single vendor who is vertically integrated and makes a huge song and dance about data privacy. Even if you discount their PR and marketing spin, IMHO you are still miles ahead of the likes of Microsoft + (pick one) HP, Asus, Lenovo and the rest of them.

There is no way I would trust any of them not to take advantage of the data gold mine.
The net of your "Responsible Scaling Policy" seems to be that it's okay if your AI misbehaves as long as it doesn't kill thousands of people.

Your intended actions if it does get good seem rather weak too:

> Harden security such that non-state attackers are unlikely to be able to steal model weights and advanced threat actors (e.g. states) cannot steal them without significant expense.

Isn't this just something you should be doing right now? If you're a CISO and your environment isn't hardened against non-state attacks, isn't that a huge regular business risk?

This just reads like a regular CISO goals thing, rather than a real mitigation to dangerous AI.
Foreign nations own a lot of that debt. How does the analogy extend there?
It's impossible for me to watch without premium too
Poll: Social Media Calendars
Do you, or someone else in your organization, use a social media calendar tool or a social media posting tool that incorporates calendar functions?
Yes for a variety of purposes
Yes but only to schedule posts
Hm true, it does matter a great deal on laptops.
It's not even about accuracy, it's about the erosion of privacy
so by all of this, you are implying that DAs are taking these cases to trial and winning. this is where I am not familiar. what jury has heard one of these cases and convicted? what DA has brought a case to trial. where is this happening. you seem to have some form of awareness that this is the case. share it so we can all see where this is happening.
Bigcapital - Launches the Early Adopters Plan to attract the BETA users
Google takes shots at Microsoft for shoddy security record with enterprise apps
Indeed. It's the difference between already having substantive reason to believe you committed a crime, and surveilling you willy-nilly looking for a crime to pin on you. The less arbitrary access law enforcement has to your data, the more difficult the latter becomes.
That’s a bubble
Game composers usually composed their music on a MIDI workstation keyboard, sometimes only preparing a final mix on a Sound Canvas (or GUS etc). So it may be that using a higher end synthesizer is closer to the way the developer intended the music to be.

I don't think this is a huge problem though, waveforms on sound ROMs are normalized so their peak loudness is as loud as she goes, no matter what the synthesizer. Even Sound Canvas models have different sound ROMs over time, and Gravis (and later, Creative et al) shipped enhanced GM sound fonts as well. I just like instruments to sound more authentic. I understand though if people want that Roland Sound Canvas sound too, or MT32 even. MT32 still can't be properly emulated. I own the real deal and it sounds much better than MUNT. Hats off to the MUNT team but like most (all?) software emulations of hardware synthesizers, something is missing.
Yeah, great idea! I think there should be some simple ways to increase the perceived speed. Either with other moving objects like you mention, or by altering the environment, e.g. with fog, tunnels, overhangs, etc.
Even at its current leisurely pace, the game is still fun (and even hectic at times), which is encouraging for what it might become after some of these enhancements can be implemented.
What's worse, is they don't even use it to solve crimes. People will send police ring camera evidence of crimes and the police often ignore it

So you know this will be used selectively, when they want to, and only then.

But, be assured the feds will not give it up. They keep on renewing their spying powers over Americans and will not give those up either --which is a worse violation of the US constitution.
Now go type "facial recognition arrest false positive" into your favorite search engine.

https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/police-say-a-si...

> And in New Jersey, police wrongfully arrested Nijeer Parks in 2019 after face recognition technology incorrectly flagged him as a likely match to a shoplifting suspect. An officer who had seen the suspect (before he fled) viewed the face recognition result, and said he thought it matched his memory of the suspect’s face.

I bet this officer also sent the same email: "That’s him! Thank you very much," before arresting an innocent man.
Try having a non-English Windows.

Now you have to divine the English name of a Windows app or feature, because although its name is localized when you‘ve already found it, search may or may not only look for the English name.

Or vice versa.
Looking at the landing page for the new Surface devices (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/surface) the top third of the page looks really amateurish in terms of web design. Clicking one of the "Meet the new" buttons really drives it home.
Yeah, “ARM-based Linux laptop with 22h battery life” is much more interesting to me than “Windows 11 ARM-based AI PC”. If the TPU can eventually be utilized by open models under Linux that’s just a cherry on top.
That country is Thailand.

It's not just the 2 or 3 letter combinations, but knowing the combinations that work well together to form bingos (using all 7 letters) that lead to better chances for victory.

I just wonder, since they don't know English, but do recognize the patterns of words, couldn't one play what merely resemble words if it's beneficial? That is, play the "word", "HACKISH" to score at least 69 points (19 for letters + 50 for the bingo).
> Google's own competitor never got off the ground, leading to them just acquiring it

They only put about 1.5 years of effort into "getting it off the ground" before acquiring YouTube in 2006. I think they just didn't want to try anymore when they knew they could buy the YouTube audience.

Of course, GV continued to exist for a few more years because Google, but still. GV always seemed half-assed.
It's really not. WSJ (and others) abuse paywalls by using Google-specific schema to have their paywalled articles show up in Search and Google News. That's my opinion of it. I do share your concern, but I think it ultimately ends up being beneficial for everyone. In the case of HN, the site can propel stories into the stratosphere, and that puts a lot of eyes on the paywalled site.

As for blind-eye, the other option would be to disallow paywalled stories entirely.

From the official Hacker News FAQ,

> It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds.

> In comments, it's ok to ask how to read an article and to help other users do so. But please don't post complaints about paywalls.
There's too many applicants for that. You're getting canned responses because a human probably never even saw your resume. The other issue is that there is a small amount of people are _extremely_ unstable. Giving them any kind of feedback encourages them to harrass the company and employees. It's like 1% of applicants, but when you're dealing with this many people it means you are guaranteed to run into someone like this, so it's often policy not to give specific feedback.
I appreciate that Anthropic is building up internal teams to solve this, though I would also like to see a call to action for public collaboration.

I believe that AI safety risk mitigation frameworks should be developed in public with extensive engagement from the global community.
Definitely a tragedy of the commons situation.

I've used a number of tricks to circumvent paywalls over the years, and they all get shut down after a year or two.
My layman's understanding is that the key to desensitization is that it has to be below the level of a certain kind of reaction.

Allergies occur because the immune system incorrectly associates a substance with a bad reaction, and so attacks it as it would a pathogen. The problem is that the allergen isn't a pathogen, and so the immune system can't actually kill it.

There's a treatment for pet/pollen/etc. allergies that works by injecting a very small quantity of the allergenic substance every week, slowly building up tolerance. The body learns that the small dose didn't cause problems, and slowly gets accustomed to higher and higher doses. If the doctor sets the dosage too high, the body has an allergic reaction and then that allergic reaction reinforces the immune system's determination that the substance is dangerous. The treatment response to this is to drastically reduce the dosage and try again.

If the sibling comment's assertation that oral exposure was desensitizing was correct, that wouldn't explain why some people develop food allergies later in life. (As one anecdotal example, my Wilderness First Responder instructor was slowly getting more and more allergic to mangos.)
This sounds completely insane to me. Are people worried that China is going to mine out the moon before the US gets there? You're talking about trillions of tons of material, it won't be the limiting factor in your lifetime. And this assumes that lunar mining/refining is even practical.
> That’s fair, we can’t even prove humans aren’t like you say - although the brain is vastly more complex than a neural network analogy lets on. I suppose once these models become sophisticated enough we’ll have to treat them as conscious until it can be proven one way or another.

I suspect that a lot of the complexity is legacy code and/or incidental to the implementation. Cells have to do a lot of things just to continue living. Likewise, a lot of what the brain does is just control the very complex biochemical reactor that it lives in. ie: whales have big brains relative to humans (though they are a much smaller % of their body).
https://archive.ph/2024.05.17-145842/https://www.foreignaffa...
Does the link you provided state that Google doesn't run ads on Russian produced content?
Apple will do this in ~3 years or so and everyone will call it the biggest leap (“visionary”) in the history of computers
This is increasingly likely, even just considering entirely valid reasons for it. As the world gets increasingly specialized, value is often found at the intersection of multiple disciplines/niches. Low-hanging fruit is still there, but getting harder to find and increasingly competitive. Multi-disciplinary endeavors generally are finding more success these days, and to be successful they need to have some team members who know both/all pieces thoroughly.
I am honestly not excited about the "AI" tech here--I'm excited about the battery life improvements that will come from using ARM chips. Battery life was the reason I chose an M1 laptop over the alternatives. Hopefully we can get some more competition in the space with these new chips!
That's correct. The paper assumes that we understand that compliance results in safety.

From your response I gather you want to disagree?
Double majors are smart, hard workers who can endure more pain than average. (Who willingly signs up for that except for driven individuals?)

It'd be good if we had more proxies for assessing this.
"Some proofs" are the proof used to verify that the definition of an affine scheme makes sense, and the author motions in the direction that every single proof in algebraic geometry uses identically wrong arguments when using the language of "canonical" maps.

Thus the replication crisis of mathematics is revealed. In the words of John Conway: a map is canonical if you and your office neighbor write down the same map.
In my experience, the slowness have come from two main areas:

Naïve Active Record objects - that is, hydrating rather than explicitly plucking. AR is horribly slow when it constructs db objects.

Streaming and recreating hash objects over and over and over again in for-loops. For a primary construct, it’s surprisingly slow to work with.
Are they secure boot locked or can we crowbar Linux aarch64 onto them?
Your keyboard has a button with ‘1’ printed on it. When you push that, you don’t always get an integer or a rational number. You can convert what you get to either. So there must be overlap with ASCII somehow?
Not quite. Hidden at the very end of Microsoft's blognouncement[1] is this tidbit (emphasis mine):

> We look forward to expanding through deep partnerships with Intel and AMD, starting with Lunar Lake and Strix. We will bring new Copilot+ PC experiences at a later date.

So it's less Microsoft pivoting to and giving ARM a try again but rather testing the waters and distributing the risks by introducing ARM into a line of laptops and tablets that will still be fundamentally x86. Arguably, the only reason ARM is first to store shelves is because Qualcomm released this generation first before Intel and AMD.

This isn't as significant as Apple throwing Intel out to pasture and converting to ARM wholesale, not yet anyway.

[1]: https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2024/05/20/introducing-copi...
Oh man nail fungus is a whole other thing! Fascinating topic. If you believe random Redditors for example, going keto can get rid of it
Thank you! I'll definitely think on that. Honestly one exciting thing I'm realizing is that my customers could be any business in the 500k to 10m revenue range, which is why I'm having this question about staying in SFBA. At least until I decide to try and chase bigger ones (which might need me to have funding/more capital/people).
Yeah this sucks.

Also search and retrieval isn't that bad anymore? Spotlight gets a lot right. Google gets a lot right.

Dystopian panopticon implementation aside, I just don't think computers are that bad at most things people use them for that we need a whole paradigm shift like Recall.

Until this technology starts doing things like reading my email for me and letting me know only the important things and I trust it to the point I can stop checking email, this is a nightmarish stopgap using screenshots and LLMs.
> about my different US HCOLA city. (And I hope comments don't make me regret candor.)

I mean there's only a few of them that standout, so you're already self-selecting to the point where it would be less noticeable to just name the city; rather than make it mysterious+bring attention to it.
My guess: Canada?

I knew a nurse that would smuggle bottles of it back to the USA from Canada.

It has a fascinating history :)
"AI PC", it's a new buzz in Computex 2024 event.
The thing is that everything I need just works on my ARM Mac and it’s been so for couple years already. Yet I keep hearing that “MS is committing to ARM”.

Don’t get me wrong, I’d love myself a Surface that’s super fast, responsive, has many app and good battery life. But I just can’t get myself to buy one whenever I try it in the store. So MBP+iPad it is, year after year.