skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's this thing called "critical mass". Below that, you do not get an explosion, and no engineering breakthrough is going to change that. Per Wikipedia, the smallest critical mass is 2.73 kilograms, for Californium 252.

For that small a yield, you'd want just barely more than the critical mass. But:

1. The yield is probably a very sensitive function of the mass. It's going to be hard to get the yield to be both greater than zero and less than, say, a hand grenade.

2. You need explosives to make the implosion happen. Those explosives will almost certainly themselves have yield higher than a firecracker.
Who among us has not wanted to see a not-consistently-candid CEO / director / etc. removed from the organization?

I see signs of Toner trying to spin things to save face.

“for years, Sam had made it really difficult for the board to actually do that job by withholding information, misrepresenting things that were happening at the company, in some cases outright lying to the board … [Altman gave] inaccurate information about the small number of formal safety processes that the company did have in place … For any individual case, Sam could always come up with some kind of innocuous-sounding explanation of why it wasn’t a big deal, or misinterpreted, or whatever … But the end effect was that after years of this kind of thing, all four of us who fired him came to the conclusion that we just couldn’t believe things that Sam was telling us, and that’s just a completely unworkable place to be in as a board”

Thoughts:

- The claim that this had been going on for years is presented as support for the decision to oust Sam. This is a spin, because an easy criticism is that, if this had been going on for so long, why didn’t Toner do anything about it years sooner? As she says herself, all along she had been responsible as a board member for “providing independent oversight over the company,” so there was a years-long lapse in effectiveness in her oversight duties if her claims are true.

- The emphasis on “all four of us who fired him” is an attempt to provide social proof that she did the reasonable thing. It doesn’t help answer the question of “why” — the purpose of the article — so it’s rhetoric serving some other purpose.
At some point they will figure out, that people use VPNs to access messengers. Then they will go after the VPNs. Think of the ChIldReN! And the TeRrOrIsTs!!11
And then we will have a situation here similar to China, where most VPNs do not work, and assumingly only state-cooperating ones work, but are actually illegal now.
It wouldn’t be a nuclear explosion, but a fizzle.

too far below critical mass, unless we’re talking ‘hyper compressed collection of 5-6 digit number of uranium/plutonium atoms’

Which at the point you’re using hohlraums and igniting the collection with petawatt class lasers, I’m not sure ‘firecracker’ levels of measurements have any relevance anymore.
Is blocking a bridge also terrorism? Or is it just federal employees that get to not have anyone bothering them?
kinda seems obvious application people are going to be able to generate revenue from this, but maybe i'm an idiot
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Haha yeah I get it, the straw that breaks the camel's back is usually not the actual problem, but everything that came before it.
Disagree with everything you're trying to say. Terrorism has evolved into a doublespeak term used to describe your systems' quasi enemy...This was just civil disobedience and like any form of civil disobedience (that isn't directly sanctioned by government actors) they got slaughtered. The government in Canada pushed through extremely draconian Wuhan-styled lockdown rules and, just like what Camus wax-philosophized over, there's a breaking point with subjugated humans and a price those subjugating put on their own "hurt".

"The six thousand crosses which, after
such a just rebellion, staked out the road from Capua to Rome demonstrated to the servile crowd that
there is no equality in the world of power and that the masters calculate, at a usurious rate, the price of
their own blood."
I have been thinking for a while that one goal of the GDPR could have been to combat foreign big tech companies within the EU. This seems like quite a shift if privacy was genuinely the main concern. Am I missing something here?
I loved how they bridged the gaps. Further development of the world which made me appreciate Fury Road even more. When I saw the trailers I thought it looked terrible and was a cash grab. After a friend got me to go see it, I was happily proven wrong.

I don't think telling a story out of sequence from existing material means that it's a cash grab.
All the major web companies disable swap so no work has been done to optimize it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40506582
The first thing you see when you open Firefox is an ad for Amazon and Expedia.
Bees have followed a different evolutionary path than humans, and have reached a different local optima. Communism is "natural law" for bees.

Communism works for bees, it does not work for humans, because humans have not evolved into a beehive.
What is the end task(e.g. RAG, or just vector search for question answering), are you satisfied with results in terms of quality?
Sure, and Meta might keep blowing 11B+/year on new GPUs. But, NVDA needs growth. They need Meta and MS and AWS and Google to spend 20%+ more/year on new GPUs and/or find new customers who can/will drop Billions/year on new GPUs. We're talking staggeringly large $.

And that's not even mentioning that anyone with that sort of money is already developing their own GPUs.
If you read the original publication on this[1], they mention there’s a stray commit publishing the internal variant of the SDK intended for the actual Google warehouse database. So the code bases probably live close enough together for someone to accidentally pass the wrong folder name or something.

This has been fixed, but the commit and all it’s changes are out there—and tragically, published alongside a copy of the Apache 2.0 license (intended for the document warehouse API SDK), which officially sanctioned freely copying and using the code. So there is really nothing Google can do about it.

[1] https://ipullrank.com/google-algo-leak
I've been against Starbucks since they destroyed the Coffee Connection here in Boston, and that was 30 years ago. In all that time I've never read a single story about them to change my mind. They just suck.
They're pushing similar laws through in the EU as well.
I think it might go the Google vs Oracle way. The courts might do the right and ethical thing (Google wins) but the basis will be a specific workaround (fair use of APIs) instead of something beneficial for society as a whole (APIs can't be copyrighted).
I have some problems, hope someone corrects or enlightens me:

> images and videos sent to others will be scanned automatically and possibly reported to the EU and the police.

I would like to know what exactly “reported to the EU” is. As far as I know, EU is not some nebulous eye in the sky, and certainly is not in the business of judging file uploads. Thus, a new body of authority needs to be formed, its competencies defined, as well as the rules of it interacting with the member states.

By necessity, this upload judge won’t be sifting or monitoring any individual Jean-Paul Mrkvička across the platforms. More likely, it will monitor how much suspicious stuff gets reported from which platform, and go after the outliers. Say, Telegram would be far more likely to raise the sus-o-meter than iMessage.

Then, it remains to be seen how the said organ would deal with suspected under-reporting by the platform or conflicts with GDPR or, say, German privacy laws which are stronger in places.

Then the question about the police. Which police is it supposed to be? Europol? Local police in the member states? The latter will surely invite the inevitable increase in mandatory paperwork and bogus reports. After a few false positives, I bet if the police gets handed down reports and those reports are not about people already suspected from some other sources, they will be swept under the rug and allowed to rot by any police officer with a little bit of wrinkly brain. It’s as if they don’t already have enough paperwork to deal with and, you know, real actual crimes to solve. Sure they will come knocking a couple times to innocent folks who sent beach photos with their kids in frame to the in-laws, but that’s until they find ways to work around these reports.

Correct me if I’m wrong, please, but I feel pretty confident it will go this way.

> images and videos that are deemed potentially suspicious by ‘artificial intelligence’ technology.

This is some unbounded optimism about reliability and accuracy of any “AI” to date, must I say.
Actors use stage names all the time because the actors union doesn't allow duplicate names. Emma Stone's birthname for example is Emily Stone, who is another actor. Actors and musicians are also known to seek as much uniqueness as possible to be able to trade on that uniqueness. If you were a talented singer or painter you'd have trained early on to develop your own distinct voice or style, it's how the music and art schools work.
This is interesting because the district court seems to initially have decided the opposite of Tom Waits vs Frito Lay (http://tomwaitslibrary.info/biography/copyright/frito-lay/).

Looks like the appellate court came to the same conclusion though, a famous person's voice is distinctive to their identity and intentionally imitating it is a type of false association claim.
I was already looking for how to get out of the UK with the Investigatory Powers Act 2016, before the Brexit referendum, owing to glaring deficiencies such as the Welsh Ambulance Service being on the list of government agencies which have the right to access, without a warrant, the preceding six months of internet connection records for anyone who isn't a lawyer or a Member of Parliament.
This felt like what an LLM, trained on hackernews data, would output if someone used as prompt "Give me the most stereotypical comment about sending nudes to woman that a hackernews user would write"
>What’s preventing you from buying a second set of SSD drives and swapping them into planes end of day?

The arrays are custom parts made to interface directly with the radar and are VPX modules. VPX edge connectors are not rated for very many matings, believe me we've tried.

Every-other-day flights also keep the pilots comfortably within their sleep limits.
I also got a new Corolla recently, but I did have to opt out of the features that phone home to Toyota.
I just saw a video about a Nissan truck where you can't get transmission parts -- you can only buy entire transmissions. It's outrageous. Seal leaking? Time for a new transmission!
I have not seen anything unnatural and I hate this type of adjustment but I'm very very impressed so far
What do you mean used to take 15% commission, that has never stopped since the small business plan became available.
What's this weird obsession with Americans? I'm Canadian, and it's only white liberal Canadians that have this super weird rose tinted look at their own country because they blame everything on the US. Maybe you're privileged enough to not relate with the issues highlighted, but that's just your own bubble.
Yeah, it's a dupe of the one that gets manually kicked off the front page after less than a day.

Shameful, really. The importance of public critique & awareness of OpenAI's leadership should go beyond the interests of YC.
Critical mass is a function of neutron absorption cross section, neutron emission (during fission) properties, neutron reflection rates, and density.

Those critical mass numbers are assuming either STP or ‘not abnormally insane’ density levels and little to no neutron reflectivity or moderation.

But production nuclear weapons already get below what we’d consider critical mass by using density improving tricks (with the explosive lenses), neutron reflectors, initiators, etc.

Still, anything less than a kg would require some truly amazing tricks, and ‘firecracker’ sized would be likely microgram sized fissile material samples. Which yeah, good luck.
Not implausible, but I'd say we're 10 years out from the FAANGs replacing their silicon AND CUDA.
That's fair use. Fair use is limited to commentary, search engines, criticism, parody, news reporting, research, and scholarship.

OpenAI will try and claim fair use, but I don't think they'll succeed.
It's not possible. There is a minimum critical mass, which can be reduced with reflectors etc, but not down to even a 1t TNT yield.
> A lot like Apple did with ARM, eventually pushing Intel completely out.

Apple has the unique advantage of controlling the entire stack. Anyone who wants to compete with NV on anything AI has the disadvantage of NV's full stack - OS drivers, acceleration drivers, userland libraries, compute kernels - being extremely well developed, whereas everyone else's is a bunch of crap.
Parody is considered fair use because the public knows that it isn't the celebrity.

This isn't the case here.

If you want analogies it's like creating a Ferrari body, putting it around a cheap car and trying to sell it.
That's correct!

I've tested the build-with-compression approach used here with all the datasets in JVector's Bench [1] and there's near zero loss in accuracy.

I suspect that the reason the DiskANN authors used the approach they did is that in 2019 Deep1B was about the only very large public dataset around, and since the vectors themselves are small your edge lists end up dominating your memory usage. So they came up with a clever solution, at the cost of making construction 2.5x as expensive. (Educated guess: 2x is from adding each vector to multiple partitions and the extra 50% to merge the results.)

So JVector is just keeping edge lists in memory today. When that becomes a bottleneck we may need to do something similar to DiskANN but I'm hoping we can do better because it's frankly a little inelegant.

[1] https://github.com/jbellis/jvector/blob/main/jvector-example...
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I deleted my LinkedIn account fifteen years ago, disgusted by their spammy, underhanded behavior, and I have never regretted it.
Again?? I guess the plan is to try until they succeed. When one victory is enough and attempts are unlimited...
If you think Israel has more supporters on social media than Hamas, you definitely don't use twitter and probably don't use facebook. And you definitely don't use Tiktok, which is overwhelmingly anti-Israel.

As another commenter said, the social media "battlefield" Israel is massively asymmetrical in Hamas's favour. This isn't to say Hamas is using botnets or anything like that, my view is that the anti-Israel sentiment is mostly "organic" (though it is clearly helped along by propaganda from Hamas and other anti-western groups).

As a Jew in North America I'd appreciate if Israel would not use botnets and astroturfing, because antisemitism is a big problem here in Canada, and stuff like this gives ammunition to antisemites who want to say "all claims of antisemitism are fake."

Winning an argument via lies or deception is a Pyrrhic victory; it's more important to "keep the truth on your side" and maintain your credibility and honesty.
Would be cool if it supported the OpenFeature SDKs out of the box.
> The EU claims to be democratic, but actual legislation is passed without much democratic input.

Note that this will still require a parliamentary vote before it passes, even when the governments endorse it. Considering the elections for EU parliament are next week, I'd definitely recommend voting on a party against this. EU Parliament has already voted out previous versions of this exact law.

Besides that there are also your national elections, as any nation could veto a law like this.
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If you're interested in learning more about the level of damage caused by various nuclear weapons, the site NUKEMAP (https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/) provides a much more detailed set of parameters.
https://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/24/technology/cisco-briefly-...
Activist boards are not good, and this was a successful strategy to oust a board that would have micromanaged and ultimately hindered the company’s success. I think Altman did the best thing for the company and hopefully the new board will also put the company’s best interests forward.

Having discussions that don’t paint the board as default good and the company as default bad has become impossible on hn.
Just to be clear here, which of these two circumstances do you believe is at play in the johannsen v OpenAI dispute?
It's political, a lot of users don't like divisive topics being featured on HN.
Ouch. This is, sadly, par for the course in the States, and it's all too attractive to bottom-line-obsessed executives with no stake or incentive in the lives of the workers beneath them. It doesn't help either that H-1B's are hurting natural born citizens' ability to get employed, even with a decent skill set.
The EU is pretty weird ideologically I think. It somehow manages to neutrally combine every ideological position into one while cancelling them out somehow. It’s like centrist, communist, and strangely fascist while being warmly benign and benevolent all at the same time. But beyond this, it’s clear that its only ideological position has become “more EU power centred on opaque bodies in Brussels, whatever it is we just need more EU. We are blind to anything that is outside of that. Speak to the unelected president of Europe if you don’t like it”.
I know of these:

- Immutables
- Autovalue
- Mapstruct
- Checker Framework

There's quite a list here https://github.com/gunnarmorling/awesome-annotation-processi... (Though I don't think Error Prone is actually an annotation processor, but rather a javac plugin.)

There's some irony in that Immutables and Autovalue are often named as alternatives for people that dislike Lombok's implementation but do like (some of) Lombok's features.
> Obviously, it is against the law to capitalize upon another person's likeness without their permission.

This seems similar to MikeRoweSoft.com[1] which was ultimately settled instead of being tested in court.

Maybe closer, does this line of thinking mean that the twins Mary-Kate and Ashley Olson[2] couldn't have distinct professional acting careers without one another's explicit permission because of their similarity (capitalized on for Full House) as one would necessarily infringe on the likeness of the other? That seems like a bridge too far.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_v._MikeRoweSoft

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary-Kate_and_Ashley_Olsen
Can’t you always ask why something wasn’t done sooner, no matter how soon it was done? I understand that longstanding issues can cover up real causes, but just because an issue is longstanding doesn’t mean it isn’t the real cause.
Make your point without the personal attack. Personal attacks are against site guidelines. Also, you persuade people better without them.
[dupe]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40514983
$10k seed funding for a DeviantART alternative on ActivityPub
You’ll enjoy this thread on Reddit from last year: https://www.reddit.com/r/Portland/comments/13ft7q0/who_else_...

Awesome to see soo many remembering that cat. Also,

> I was a programmer for Powell's for 22 years. One thing I programmed into the lookup stations at the main store was a search for fup got you a picture of him.
There are tons of models that match this list if you drop the no-DBW requirement. My 6-speed Wrangler is throttle by wire and I have no issues on-road or off-road. You can also usually adjust the throttle if you don't like the feel. Maybe take a look at Subarus if you want no-frills AWD.
It's a particularly amusing statement when the elections for EU Parliament are next week, from June 6th til 9th.
Probably, but I'm not aware of any Java library that provides that functionality.
I think one of the problems is that they'll just ban the apps from the app stores if they don't comply. Including Matrix clients.

Tech savvy people might be able to compile/sideload/apk download (etc.) their way around it.

But it's very difficult to get friends that you're talking with to do the same, when they don't care or don't know how to.

So all your data will just be scanned on your friend's side.
[dupe]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40496967
I don't have a great understanding of how all of these options for betting against something work, but in practice betting against anything seems too risky even if you are 100% sure it will fail, because you also need to know exactly when it will fail, and the longer out you think it will be the less you stand to make and the more risk. Even the most overpriced or poorly ran companies are never going to fail on a predictable timeline.

It's pretty obvious TSLA is massively overvalued... but will it crash this month? next year? 20 years from now? who knows.
My read is that investing into AI is the trendy thing to do in 2024. No CEO will have to justify pouring money into AI; they would probably be seen as negligent if they don’t. It’s just the zero-risk strategy at this point in time. That’s not to say that there is no value to be realized, it’s more a question of how much value and at what price. If in the next 12-24 months we find out that AGI, robotics and the end of labor is not as imminent as some have hoped and that perhaps not every car dealership needs an AI chat assistant, and the first companies announce reductions in their AI spending, the dominos might begin to fall. Or not, let’s see.
It's called governance. That's literally what a board of directors is for.
> computing power has and continues to be the oil of the digital age.

What would they use this much compute for though except chasing AI/AGI? If the current ever larger transformer race doesn't lead anywhere NVIDIA will crater hard since there isn't anything else worth that much compute currently.
Wow... That site (continue.dev) managed to consistently crash my mobile google chrome.

I've had the odd crash now and again, but I can't think of many sites that will reliably make it hard crash. It's almost impressive.
Cost savings in marketing, advertising are already substantial. Large businesses are running pilots with on-premises LLMs with promising results.

Aaron Levie of Box.com has been outspoken about it:

https://x.com/levie/status/1793479934645842141
As well as those without, presumably. Google 'recklessly violates privacy laws to spike ad profits' as a matter of course. That is their business model.
“simply by cutting out the network latency between the steps, OneContext reduces the pipeline execution time by 57%)”

how does this fit in with barebones langchain/bedrock setup?
You should have just run pron in a background tab 24/7 to give the person checking a really bad day.
Pet peeve: the more people visit, the less likely it is that your message is shown to the next visitor.

("visit" more likely referring to the GET, not the POST request)
Except this is not the parliament, this is the commission (the representative of the governments of each country)

The parliament is usually against such measures. (And the EUCJ, etc as well). The same parliament that has an upcoming election in 3 days.
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This looks like the Cell CPU, how's it different?
[dupe]

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40478923
Fair use only applies to copyrighted material. A voice, a mode of speech, is not copyrightable. Step one in a copyright defense it to prove that no "taking" occurred, or that any involved material wasn't protected by copyright (Lohan v. GTA). Only then do you get to affirmative defenses such as fair use (Hustler). This case would not get that far, not absent evidence of literal copies of her recorded voice being played back by the software.
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