skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Recall that Toner et al sat on the board of a nonprofit, not a company. See the nonprofit's charter:

>We will attempt to directly build safe and beneficial AGI, but will also consider our mission fulfilled if our work aids others to achieve this outcome.

>...

>Our primary fiduciary duty is to humanity. We anticipate needing to marshal substantial resources to fulfill our mission, but will always diligently act to minimize conflicts of interest among our employees and stakeholders that could compromise broad benefit.

>...

>We are concerned about late-stage AGI development becoming a competitive race without time for adequate safety precautions. Therefore, if a value-aligned, safety-conscious project comes close to building AGI before we do, we commit to stop competing with and start assisting this project.

https://openai.com/charter/
Sorry, but no. Tesla would not have thrived in any of the Great Lake states due to winter cold. I didn't bother reading the article.
cool mate!
Why would you want chunks that big for vector search? Wouldn't there be too much information in each chunk, making it harder to match a query to a concept within the chunk?
Rephrasing the question for amusement: how many kilotons of TNT would it take to compress a gram of plutonium to criticality?
The massive capital investments are mostly coming from companies that are going to be selling these as services, so not necessarily the product builders themselves. I think there will be a lot of products finding revenue coming.
Bye Tesla
These seems very tiny models and as I understand it LLMs behave fairly differently at different scales.

The speed performance gain seems to only be on an M2 chip and I wonder if there's already much better non-GPU optimized attention approaches out there for those use cases.
I'd say OMEMO[1] is the standard for XMPP these days, not OTR/PGP.

I switched my wife, family, and a few friends over to XMPP. Aside from the lack of "stickers" in Conversations and Dino, they seem to be doing okay[2].

[1]: https://conversations.im/omemo/

[2]: But then again, this is the only way to reach me, so maybe they just don't complain to me directly.
totally agreed. I've been on the inside of two public fiascos. In both cases, rumor and intrigue ruled because the powers that be would not issue statements. The most prolific one I was on the inside(ish) for was Donglegate from the SendGrid perspective. I firmly believe more open communication would have made that go better.
"...We introduce write-snapshot isolation, a novel isolation level that has a performance comparable with that of snapshot isolation, and yet provides serializability. The main insight in write-snapshot isolation is to prevent read-write conflicts in contrast to write-write conflicts that are prevented by snapshot isolation."
Waymo is currently under investigation for multiple incidents, not all of which it had previously disclosed to the NHTSA [0]. The recent light pole incident also doesn't help [1].

If they are doing 50k rides a day, then they would appear to have a remarkable safety record.

It will be interesting to see if these investigations lead to a repeat of the Cruise debacle or if this will become the price of doing business.

[0] https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/us-saf...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAZP-RNSr0s
I'm not wise but I do know we'll all end
It would be hella interesting to me to see internal uses of dbus vs varlink. I don't think the proposition was that dbus is removed or goes away (it's the standard FreeDesktop IPC after all), but the scuttlebutt I ran into was that there was an intent to be able to run without it. That a large part of the systemd mono-repo ought be able to do what it does without it, and especially critical & especially especially boot critical systems. It would be interesting to see & weigh over time which parts have support for which IPC, to see if varlink is indeed growing or converging.

You are 100% dead on, btw; thank you for saying! The overwhelming reason for varlink adoption is early boot, where dbus isn't up yet. That's a crucial fact here.
Related:

Nukemap - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30645223 - March 2022 (114 comments)

Nukemap Is Down - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30516807 - March 2022 (4 comments)

10 Years of Nukemap - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30282649 - Feb 2022 (56 comments)

Nukemap - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29193948 - Nov 2021 (83 comments)

Nukemap - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23365823 - May 2020 (74 comments)

Why Nukemap Isn't on Google Maps Anymore - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21782101 - Dec 2019 (289 comments)

Missilemap - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15113962 - Aug 2017 (50 comments)

Nuke Map: Interactive Nuclear Bomb Map - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14975863 - Aug 2017 (87 comments)

Nuclear detonation visualizer - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14243187 - May 2017 (2 comments)

Mapping the US nuclear war plan for 1956 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11704241 - May 2016 (45 comments)

Nuclear Effects Calculator - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3624714 - Feb 2012 (34 comments)
Now that GPTs are free, I believe this GPT can be extremely useful since you can iterate almost infinitely at no cost (subject to OpenAI's prompt limits, of course). I appreciate any feedback or suggestions for improvement.
I don't use Java often, but when I do, I have to look up again how the heap settings work.
> there simply isn't a universally true notion of rights

Yet there is. People can temporarily override human nature, but it always reasserts itself. Universal rights are based on human nature.

You can socially declare that what's yours is mine, but be both know how that will end up.

You can also pay people to be poor, but then you'll wonder why poverty increases.
It's interesting to see Sam Altman on the record claiming this was a complete accident the same week that it came out that he got fired from OpenAI last year for having a pattern of handwaving "misunderstandings" when he got caught on the wrong side of the truth.

Nobody believes that you gave a feminine voice to an AI and nobody involved considered the similarities to the most famous feminine AI character, especially when you started out by trying to hire the same actress to do the voice.
Gemini might not be as cool as GPT, but it already runs on TPUs. So the "G" in FAANG is not as dependent on Nvidia as the others.
AI is ubiquitously bad across borders though.

And here the EU is mandating bad AI like Facewatcher. Do any of these regulations do a single thing to defend against or prevent these kinds of AI-based-governance legal assaults? I highly doubt it.
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For the first part, you're forgetting the "her" tweet, and the attempts of getting SJ to sell them her voice as recently as two days before they launched her sound-alike. And we know they thought it's a soundalike because they immediately changed it once the scandal started.

For the second part, you're assuming that they just didn't offer enough money. It's very likely instead that SJ didn't want to associate her brand with this business.
In the short run, the market is a voting machine but in the long run, it is a weighing machine. - Warren Buffett
This is cool! I guess it's kind of like nomadlist but specifically for cafes? It'd be nice if the locations could be browsed by map, or sorted by distance from an address. It also probably makes sense to group them by city somehow. I'm not sure if it's intentional but it looks like there's a typo in "Annymous user".
I'm active on it in brief spurts when I'm looking for contract work or a new job, like now. Then I hardly log in for months or years.

It's perfectly possible not to use it, but it's been pretty helpful for me over the years.

Most notifications from LinkedIn never reach my inbox, though.
If you impersonate another actor for profit claiming to be him/her you may be facing legal action. There is a difference in selling yourself as "Scarlett Johansson" vs. "A Scarlett Johansson impersonator" vs. your own name/stage name. If it's covert and deceiving, you are in trouble, if it is overt, you are fine and that's why they world has so many Elvis impersonators. Although I see a new market opening for Kate Moss impersonators https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40498668

When it comes to works of art, if you tell the buyers/viewers it's yours you are fine, but if you paint a copy of a famous painting and claim it to be the original one, you are a criminal.
they're basically already that good in my opinion, except for a few subsets of realtime+hyperlocalized information. i feel confident that is addressable
Show HN: KeyPush: Mix of Bing/ChatGPT
Hi Hacker News,

My name is Sam and I made a search engine that uses either Bing or ChatGPT, based on whichever is more suitable for your search. You can also type "b " or "c " before your search to force it to use either one.

I will be obtaining keypush.com as well, but I just wanted to share my initial version with you all. Would love to hear any feedback that you have.
Yeah, in most situations I'd rather kill processes with excessive mem usage (possibly due to memleak) than have the machine grind to a halt by swapping. Sometimes my headless lab machines would become practically inaccessible over SSH if I didn't swapoff before running something that accidentally chews up mem.

I'll let my personal laptop swap, though. Especially if my wife is also logged in and has tons of idle stuff open.
Same reason people try to compete in sports without using PEDs, or prepare for standardized tests without a good nootropic stack.

There's some large contingent of the population who believes being "natural" places them on a moral high horse.
https://github.com/duckdb/duckdb_delta

Extension available (read only, apparently)
You could provide the quote in full("In addition to providing rigorous mathematical comparisons,") so that the author's work in proving their point is not hidden by your effortless snark.
> Like before there was doubts he was technical. Now it's clear he is not and was acting (at least regarding software) ... He lies, he gets caught up, that's it

Says you, random HN poster. Here's the assessment of a NASA astronaut who spent time on the ISS and who has a PhD in mechanical engineering and a degree in applied mechanics:

"[Musk is] able to have conversations with our top engineers about software, and the most arcane aspects of that and then he'll turn to our manufacturing engineers and have discussions about some really esoteric welding process for some crazy alloy"

But sure, him and the software engineers at NASA are all dumbasses who are fooled by an actor. Happens all the time.

Again - do you guys really think this will work? You are saying what you want to be true, not what actually is true. It's really not necessary. You can loathe the guy for political reasons and still accept that he is in fact an engineer, and does in fact know how to write software. These things are not mutually exclusive.

As for "he lies, he gets caught up". Really. Nobody making this claim is in in any position to attack someone else for getting caught up in a lie, given how brazen this claim is, how many people with direct experience have lined up to say the exact opposite, and how obvious it is that it can't be true given his achievements.

Please, stop claiming Musk isn't technical or that Gwynne Shotwell is the real leader of SpaceX. It doesn't work and makes all criticism of Musk look like ideologically motivated reasoning. There are plenty of genuine ways to criticize Musk! Attack him for being way too over-optimistic about FSD in Tesla cars if you want. Attack him for requiring logins to Twitter. But don't spread obvious lies about him - it lowers the credibility of all criticism.
For comparison, in the first dotcom boom, Sun and Cisco did extremely well as infrastructure providers, and subsequently suffered disproportionately.
You don’t know much but you know enough. Options is all about timing. And nobody knows the time to short for sure. The market is not rational.
My take on this: AI is real, and AI products are adding significant value, but this will not show up as revenue gains for companies. Companies have no choice but to invest in AI to remain competitive in terms of costs. Consumers will realize a lot of this value as reduced prices.
can't get anything for free these days.. an emphasis on efficiency seems to drive up efficiency to the point where they're disposable after 5yrs
I missed this yesterday.

So basically Altman is a dishonest pos. Will fit right in with much of Silicon Valley then.

…power and greed seems to get into all of their heads. Next thing they are part of an NSA Prism program so they can feel like spies too.
The Citroen Ami is available today for $11,000. Although it's not really a car by most people's expectations.
An alternative approach I am working on is simply doing the encryption outside of the phone. Yes this requires a second device, but it allows you to do true E2E hardware encryption and still use twitter or whatsapp or whatever platform. With this appraoch Apple, Google or the EU government cant really stop you.

[edit-to-add] obvious downside to this model is that your friends then need to have the same type of device as well, so it's kinda apple-to-oranges comparison...
My first thought was: I would surely die! But I didn't imagine how many would die.
It’s not just that. Embeddings aren’t magic. If you’re going to be creating embeddings for similarity search, the first thing you need to ask yourself is what makes two vectors similar such that two embeddings should even be close together?

There are a lot of related sources of similarity, but they’re slightly different. And I have no idea what Cohere is doing. Additionally, it’s not clear to me how queries can and should be embedded. Queries are typically much shorter than their associated documents, so they typically need to be trained jointly.

Selling “embeddings as a service” is a bit like selling hashing as a service. There are a lot of different hash functions. Cryptographic hashes, locality sensitive hashes, hashes for checksum, etc.
Should probably include (1981) in the title.
Might be a bit of a problem wrt GDPR or doctor or lawyer confidentiality, or possibly even just working under NDA. It would preclude using those chat apps.
> If one of the twins purported to be the other, yes, why wouldn't the other twin have a claim?

I agree that attribution is key.

Since identical twins are often confused, the issue resolves itself with credit. But absent some attribution or credit, it seems like there would be a similar problem in the case of twins. This seems like why credits in works of entertainment are particularly important.

I'm just left wondering if OpenAI discloses who provided the voice and that person isn't prohibited from entering the marketplace of "voice work" (which would seem unfair?) then it seems like this would fizzle out?
Unfortunately that's what I figured was likely to be the case.
Police raid EU Parliament offices in 'Russiagate' probe
I think folks mistake genuine concern for Gazans and Palestinians with “Bots”.

I also don’t blame normal folks with this when Nancy Pelosi also made the same baseless accusation.

It turns out some people really hate genocide and will spend hours doing what they can to prevent it.
"When you sell a business at TinyPilot’s scale, there’s no deposit. You can invest hundreds of hours into preparing reports for due diligence, reveal all your confidential business secrets, and spend thousands of dollars negotiating legal documents and still walk away with nothing if the buyer backs out."

Great write up overall but as someone who has bought a couple of businesses, it is not just the seller who loses out if a buyer backs out. The buyer can also spend lot of time/money vetting the business including legal fee etc during due diligence. On a recent deal, I spent over 10k as a buyer until we finalized the APA. If the deal fell through after that (possible), I would have lost that money and the months of time of course.
If you don't mind a PWA, I like this:

https://qoomon.github.io/time-timer-webapp/
How do people even think of these things? You're not a computer. You have the ability to intuit when people are not talking about some stupid edge case that literally never happens.
This is complete false. If you duck and cover and stay inside to avoid fallout you stand an excellent chance of survival. Many hospitals are thick concrete buildings with high blast survivability.
If they are selling puts they are actually signalling the price they are ok to buy at. What you described is selling a call. Or to be annoying selling a right to buy.
> Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive. —not President Merkin Muffley

See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybSzoLCCX-Y&t=105s

Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTck2RnpPy4
I feel like FlashAttention is the relevant baseline here.
Then they go and pay $1500 a month for 6 years.
Isn't that how cows got infected with bird flu?
> The Transformer models, used in this experiment, all have a single attention layer with model dimension and context length 32.

I think we are going to need to see more experiments here, especially because the theoretical motivations here are weak
I have been quoted 500$ to fix a stuck gascap cover, because apparently the spring is inside and attached to the rear body panel, and would require a major part replacement.

Although im starting to suspect my mechanic is taking me for a ride
This is painting by broadest brush imaginable.

Boards routinely hold back the success of organizations, and ousting those boards can be in the best interests of the company. This is pure idealism. Some companies are better with passive or active boards; however, activist boards and passive-reactive boards can cause all kinds of harm leading to the death of the company.

The board member here does not appear knowledgeable in the technology while also expressing a motive be deeply involved in its development. This was a recipe for disaster.
This week might be the bit flip on his reputation. Starting to see defense comments getting downvoted, when earlier critical comments would get downvoted. Once you pass that 50% opinion it's pretty hard to reverse.
Yeah, I don't get this at all. I don't have a donkey in this fight, but it seems to me that
1. They wanted to build the experience from the movie Her.
2. They wanted to use Johansson's voice because that would be a cool tie-in.
3. Johansson said no, so they went with somebody else.
4. End of story.
What makes total cost of ownership complex? It seems like modern EVs require little maintenance and are really reliable, even the brakes last almost forever. I leased a new VW E-golf for a while- with incentives it was some crazy cheap amount, I think it was like $29/month to lease a brand new car because VW had to sell a quota of them and wasn't meeting it and this one was almost 2 years old and still new/unsold because it couldn't fast charge. That was really all it cost besides insurance- my work had free charging, and it needed zero maintenance. Great car, I regret not buying out the lease.
Probably be an EMP attack before nukes land on the airport so using a bike is smart.
Any industry preference? You've an advantage in healthcare. If you're trying to get out, then pretty much apply to any industry (even big tech, though it will be extremely competitive). AI skills are in very high demand so keep learning it and make projects. Try contributing to open source might help you stand out. Getting really good in a specific area will help you stand out for that area. So you might decide if full stack is for you or prefer a specialization, like front end guru, backend or ML engineering expert.
They have yet to actually enter the western market at all. There is no market competition happening that would explain why automakers feel the need to pre-emptively reduce prices for this hypothetical competition. Every article headlines with "BYD plans to... or "BYD targets to overtake Tesla by 20xx...", Let alone in the US, where you can't even hope to buy one given the tariffs.
This seems more like "PostgreSQL using remote storage for the database" rather than "Serverless"?

It seems like it still needs memory/cpu resources locally (sized properly) to handle the returned data.

It also seems like an incredibly bad idea to use with any remote data store that charges for network traffic. ie Amazon AWS

You could easily give yourself a many thousand dollar bill for a month if you start using that backend data store in a serious way. :( :( :(

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That being said, it's a nifty idea conceptually. Just be aware of likely operational costs if you try using it. (!)
I think that most people do not understand that when a bomb or multiple bombs go off, that 99% of the people will survive in a specific area or country. The only problem is that total chaos got unleashed. Lawless period starts where food and water are scarse. Within 6 months 50% of the population is starved to death, murdered or enslaved by tribes of violent people.
Substack: The $19M/year content LVMH
This is mostly about supply chain attacks, where transitive dependencies are at play. Those are mostly just already built jar files, that can still contain annotation processors, but not build scripts.
Giant sunspot that supercharged auroras on Earth it's back
> a few years back the language creator announced that the language is basically "completed"

And then began adding an entire static type system to the language
Film Finder – A film recommendation app
They don’t have Blackwell, no one does yet. They have h200 and h100.
Except that at some point one story was twice as tall as they are now.
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> If so it is in all DBs I would think but it is a bit too manual for my taste, still a big hurdle and opt-in...vs just writing code (including SQL code) and tests like normal and opt-out on getting errors if you get poor plans.

The problem with that is what is considered a "poor plan" largely comes down to the indexes used, and suitability of an index is totally dependent on how it is used in the application.

Who sees the error? The DBA? The application developer? What's the cutoff for "poor".

The stats of the query allow those that know/care to make decisions. That's the one size fits all, simple, tool.
Never heard it in any context in tech other than Apple.
This looks cool but the line about “show don’t tell” is followed by a LOT of telling.
It isn't at all as it's classed as a moped or micro vehicle in most countries in the EU (max 45km/h, no access to 80kph+ roads.) edit: category AM for drivers license rules.
I think it's a lot to do with how it's designed too.. I kept an old hatchback bmw made in 2000 and that thing already have bit of plastic parts in the engine bay (coolant pipes no less) which are just time bombs. parts and labour costs are usually why people decided to go newer cars. good job on the old porsche though, just don't get the one with starter motor in the transmission case.. some of them are maintenance nightmares
And your insurance won't pay out for nuclear war or fallout.
The infinite headed hydra of politicians using Save The Children to slaughter privacy is such a downer. There's seemingly no governance against bad governance; the war never ends, no progress is made to enshrine privacy ever.

SOPA and PIPA in the USA took massive internet mobilization & blackouts to shut down but wait a couple years & FOSTA gets passed. There's always another head to the hydra, always more assholes.
The illustration is modern, by an artist.
FlashAttention is completely orthogonal to this. This work is about speeding up the computation of Q, K and V vectors while FlashAttention is about speeding up the attention algorithm itself.

You could combine the two.
Encourages me to get out and not come back. I don't return to noisy places.