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You could call it the "Compose a symphony fallacy", after the scene in I, Robot (2004) where Spooner asks Sonny if he can compose a symphony, to which Sonny replies "Can you?"
No, I think microsoft's future is encyclopedia software
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By ‘find an article’ you mean find ~10 real citations including the resolution of an authority a long time ago and to tell the reader it is not clear or definitive?

Better to be careful and let any individuals or communities tell you what they want. I have Roma connections in my family and at one point the word we’d use is ‘gypsy’. But, because I’m not Roma myself, if I came across some other group I wouldn’t assume I’m just allowed to say it to them.
It's been delayed so many times after getting very close to launch that it makes sense that everyone just lost interest.

On top of that Boeing's launch coverage is nowhere near as fancy as SpaceX (or new space in general, RocketLab and Blue Origin also tend to have pretty decent coverage, although neither of them are doing crewed orbital spaceflight yet). No views of the non-flight-control employees enjoying seeing their work fly, very little live telemetry, low resolution for when they do have live video, mostly CGI views once down to the second stage, no live views from the capsule in space either.

Finally, on top of that, Starliner is kind of just a dead end in its current state. Boeing only built the two it needs for this one contract, and it only flies on Atlas V, which are fully sold out now. So it can only do the 6 contracted ISS missions and then it's done until someone is willing to pay to have Starliner+Vulcan Centaur crew rated.
Do we have any indication that TXSE is arguing against the purpose or usefulness of the fence, or that they won't make thoughtful decisions about which pickets to remove? This article just calls the diversity rules, which have (afaict) no bearing on the integrity of the market.
Sure, but some are informed.by current sociological research and others are movie scenatios'
> Take for example the Danish CPR number. That's perfectly fine as a natural key; its definition is the first CPR number assigned.

This is a horrible idea. You now have two different pieces of information that are identical in form and indistinguishable in the majority of cases: "first CPR number" and "current CPR number. Every place you enter, or use a CPR number, you now must track which piece of information you have. If you make a mistake doing this, it will be hard to catch. Now you've decided that first piece of information is a natural key and will be every single place the record is used, even if that spot doesn't do anything specific to the CPR number. Every single time a CPR number is ingested from an exterior source, you need to do a lookup to make sure it is the original CPR number and then track it. Ever place you don't do this lookup is a place where an error can creep in if something changes in your pipeline our source.

Even in an context where external sources are using something like a CPR number as an key, I would still use a different key internally since I see only downsides to using a "natural key".

> URLs are another good natural key: they are defined to be unique (otherwise your webserver won't work), they make for very easy lookups when you're fetching from a web request, and if they change, they break the web

URLs are also horrible natural keys. They are not defined to be unique and provide no guarantee that the content has not changed or even that the same content is sent to different users.

If the location for content changes, you may or may not get a redirect. If you do get a redirect, you'd have to now go update every single place that uses the key to the new value. It is much better to map URLs to an artificial key and update that mapping in a single place.
> They shouldn't be allowed to do that and still prevent me from pirating the content

This is the only part I partially disagree with - privacy is a thing, and privacy of personal information is (or should be) a thing as well. This is the whole concept behind GDPR...

In case you don't think this is an actual problem, go look up Hunter Moore and the ethical issues with unfettered dissemination of information.

Of course its completely backwards that "movies" are given better protection than medical or other sensitive information....

The solution is not rampant piracy, for media concerns, all media/games/etc should be archived by e.g. the Library of Congress and available for purchase, unless determined by due process e.g. that the content is harmful (revenge porn, e.g.). This doesn't need to be a convenient process, obtaining e.g. such media can be a matter of requesting/buying/shipping encrypted usb drives around, perhaps (or purchasing a key for encrypted files online), licensing to distributors such as Netflix should still be the norm and more economically/ergonomically viable option.

But I do at least agree that piracy itself is not the problem, it is a symptom of a larger socio-economic issue.
> What is their proposed future then?

Whatever IBM and Oracle do to stay solvent in spite of being irrelevant to most people and even most software people.
Much of Chinese society revolves around WeChat. Chat/phone/payments. I'm told WeChat is pretty much required for one to function in China.
In my experience most of the point of VR seems to be giving the user a big headache
> MS delivered a locally encrypted database with RAG, and that’s … as good as it gets for this feature set right now.

I don't think that's true, at the very least they could have separately encrypted the db with a locking timeout the way that password managers do. That alone would eliminate a number of people's concerns.

Beyond that there are a ton of ways they could make the feature safer. They could have a setting where anytime the DB is unlocked the system uses Windows Hello periodically to confirm that the user that typed the password is still in front of the machine. They could proactively prompt the user to update rules or pause Recall in cases where recall is capturing snapshots the user might not want stored (and I question the overall utility of an AI that can't do that reasonably well for the common cases).

But all those things would be active reminders to the user of how creepy and dangerous the feature is, so instead they have to pretend that they've thought of everything and that there's no reason to be concerned.
Three years sounds like a reasonably good return on investment. At that point the teams either big enough to justify paying $$ for a hosted solution, or still cheaper to buy dedicated hardware.
I don’t understand why LLM’s aren’t already set up to do what you describe automatically behind the curtain. Extract a math equation from text (LLMs are good at translating between languages right?) and immediately evaluate it on the host CPU.

LLM is the equivalent of recalling your times tables. Computer arithmetic is the equivalent of re-computing your times tables.
> minutes are stupid cheap

At smaller scales, as long as your builds aren't stupud-slow, cloud providers should be cheaper just because they can utilize their hardware more (10x?) efficiently.
"The breakdown is dramatic, as models also express strong overconfidence in their wrong solutions, while providing often non-sensical "reasoning"-like explanations akin to confabulations to justify and backup the validity of their clearly failed responses, making them sound plausible."

It's fascinating how much they anthropomorphize the systems and credit them with emotional, possibly deceitful behaviour, in a paper trying to explain how unintelligent they are.
> Zuck's backstory

It is curious that Zuck tolerated holocaust denial on Meta's platforms for an uncomfortably long time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24754553.
> Recall doesn't particularly feel like an "AI" feature to me.

The word "AI" is becoming a pure marketing checkbox. You can't release any new product in 2024 without somehow attaching the word "AI" to it. It doesn't matter whether it actually uses AI or an LLM.
I shudder thinking about what would happen if a touch action on the touchscreen would get stuck
Uncrewed, yes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_Orbital_Flight_Test_2
+1 for Porkbun. Have been happy there for many years. Though they don't have some country TLDs like .de.
What requirements? Agile is a way for managers to daily and publicly whip devs falling behind their sprint estimates.
Start from scratch. It was a basic c like syntax with sane typing syntax.
True, but you have to add previous attempts going back several years. Wasn't Atlas+Starliner actually rolled out to the pad last time only to be scrubbed and brought back for another 6 month delay?
I'm sure anything I might be able to find on this billionaire's backstory has been carefully curated over the year. What are you referring to?
Given how long arm64 took them, my guess is "3 years after major cloud vendors start offering risc-v VMs".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Move_fast_and_break_things worked well for Facebook. MS is just trying to follow that strategy, too.
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This is why I hire students. I have to teach them my way before some other company ruins them forever.
The really tried to conquer the living room with the Xbox One, making it more about media than games, and the gamers revolted while the non-gamers shrugged. I think that's when the rest of Microsoft wrote it off.
What we need are large, mandatory, fines for every data breach that happens. Say $10k to every person whose address gets leaked. Then we'll see companies start treating consumer data as a risk, not just a low -cost asset.
Yeah, but I wonder why? Sure, a Extron DMP with 128 bit DSp processing and 8 channels of balanced in and 12 channels of balanced out would qualify as professional conference equipment. But at a cost of approx 2.8 grand it is cheaper per channel than most audiophile equipment you can find.

The truth is that we sound engineers who use that stuff for work often do not have the luxury of caring for things that don't matter to the process or the outcome.

Professional AV equipment is expensive because it needs to be reliable on top of sounding as if it wasn't there, one of those units described above was running without fault for 15 years 24/7 in a room that was 30°C each summer (and it still works). Meanwhile my brother bought a silver RCA connector that broke off after a year of use — tip stuck in the amp, guess who had to fix it..
So kind of like the stereotypical communist meetings where they spend all their time in meetings debating each other and obsessively discuss the finer points of socialism instead of ever accomplishing anything.
It does. It can (and will) land on land instead of water.
- "not even True" headline

- grand assertions about complex subjects, which aren't justified in any way

- wildly incoherent terms and nonsense thought experiments

- basic errors in science, which are so fundamentally confused that you instantly know the author is completely clueless about the subject

- "some in X group believe" while either zero percent or a hundred percent of group X believes in that statement

Yep, it is grade A nonsense pop science.
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Well, I believe LLMs are general purpose AI. And, for the record, so does Peter Norvig. He coauthored the most popular textbook on Artificial Intelligence, so this belief can be considered a somewhat mainstream perspective. His article, “Artificial General Intelligence Is Already Here“ [1] is really worth reading.

https://www.noemamag.com/artificial-general-intelligence-is-...
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We have had a lot of users evaluate multiple tools including ubicloud but chose us. Typically, they've mentioned our runners being faster, our caching is very useful, and queueing delays being lower.

However, my last anecdata was from a few weeks ago. You can try us out and take a call for yourself.

Our focus is on CI runners and efficiency and I think that gives us an edge on the devex. Ubicloud is definitely cheaper though.
Are there third party providers for Gitlab runners? I’d love windows and mac runners for my self hosted gitlab.
Yes -- because the highly regulated CA electrical grid functions so seamlessly?
> allowing some other company to use "Big Mac" for a chicken sandwich seems like a bad call

Right? Imagine someone asks you what you'd like to eat. You say "I'll have a Big Mac." Would one assume you meant a chicken sandwich? Or a salad? No, people would think you're talking a burger, a specific kind of burger.
I think you’re using “inner monologue” too literally. It could be a progression of pictures, emotions, etc.
The falcon with dragon is only partially reusable too (second stage discarded). The space shuttle reused more but is more of an antique so that's not a great determiner of antiqueness.
This is reminiscent of the ARC challenge and how deep learning struggles at it. I don't know how much progress deep learning and LLMs have made on this kind of challenge. Keen to hear thoughts and pointers.
But there’s no natural key for a person, not even the SSN. This article also starts off by showing an example where no natural key exists (Restaurants) and acknowledges it.
My personal experience has been that vtables:

(1) occasionally show up in learning materials regarding virtual methods, virtual inheritance, static vs. dynamic types, and RTTI, and

(2) sometimes understanding them is very helpful when debugging gnarly problems, especially with objects that have been wrongly typecast. I.e., you can inspect vtables in gdb.

Maybe the takeaway here is that C++ is a huge topic, and different people have had to learn different details.
You need this complexity anyway - if you had surrogate keys, the primary key would be an opaque identifier, and to do anything involving the CPR, you'd need to join against your CPR table (which, again, needs to be 1:many because CPRs themselves are not a 1:1 relationship).

The first CPR in this case becomes identical to your surrogate key - it's an opaque ID that you use to reference other tables in the DB - but with the added benefit that for the common case, you don't need any additional lookups. You only need to lookup CPR changes if you don't find the CPR that the user gave you. And then it has other added benefits in that you have a record of CPR changes, you can understand how common a case this is, the CPR change table itself has semantic meaning and you can query a wide variety of properties without joining your primary user table, etc.
There's manim [1] from YouTuber 3blue1brown. And while it doesn't work on the web, there is a port [2] that does, which runs on p5.js. If you want a bit more control, you can use a canvas animation library directly. A few popular ones are p5, GreenSock, and PixiJS--but there are so many others. For simpler animations and for the most control over the result, it's pretty rewarding to just use the built-in Canvas API [3] directly.

[1] https://github.com/3b1b/manim

[2] https://github.com/JazonJiao/Manim.js/

[3] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Canvas_API/...
they've had long running security issues and performance edge cases that make relying on them a bit of a time bomb.
What a relief for NASA and Boeing and a welcome sight for me personally as a space enthusiast - hopefully this will inspire the folks at SpaceX to get StarShip working.
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If you really think about what an LLM is you would think there is no way that leads to general purpose AI. At the same time though they are already doing way more than we thought they could.

Maybe people were surprised by what OpenAI achieved so now they are all just praying that with enough compute and the right model AGI will emerge.
Chicago has always been fought over between speculative interests who want parts of the city to remain poor for cheap development, and more “citizen focused” groups that want the resource to be taxed for the betterment of all.

Most of Ken Griffin’s work has been buying his family name on things and repeating anxieties about crime and (lack of) policing without actually providing solutions or even calling out root causes. But again, he’s not really a citizen of Chicago, nor the US. People at his level of control (his admitted price fixing, or moving trades to dark pools) have inherited and expanded on wealth to the point where they don’t need friends or social programs or infrastructure to live out 90 years on the planet.
We'd be more likely to see Apple apply their infamous restrictions here, as opposed to opening things up more and lettings developers go hog wild. Bartender exists because it's a solution to a problem.
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The issue is with werecreatures on a full moon. Most humans exposed to Western culture (likely all NetHack players) have heard of werewolves. I think it’s safe to say that everyone who has heard of werewolves knows they are most dangerous on a full moon. Even if you are a total NetHack beginner you know to avoid these monsters on the full moon. The game even helpfully reminds you of this information both by telling you about the full moon and by having a werewolf howl incessantly when it’s on the same level. However the game does not explicitly fill in the gap for you. It expects culture to do that.

The advantage of human common sense over machine learning models — at least when it comes to role-playing games — is that we carry around a ton of this cultural information. A model trained only on NetHack — not on broader culture or folklore/fairytales/mythology/fantasy — is simply not going to be aware of this link between full moons and specific monsters becoming more dangerous. So if it’s developed a fairly naïve strategy of just fighting or avoiding everything in its path based on a model of relative strength then it’s going to be tripped up when an outside event (the phase of the moon) upends that model.
Copyright shouldn't be what I have on my personal information. That's the wrong model to use. I'm not selling my own personal information and I'm not miffed by the idea of losing out on customers. In fact, I don't even want customers. My information is already being sold without my consent or involvement, and that's fucked up. I don't want them to come to me, I want them to go to jail.

The correct model is indeed privacy, which is that people should have the right to their PII not being sold or distributed without their express, informed consent. This has nothing to do with piracy or copyright. I'd say people should have the right to their PII not even being recorded in the first place, but consent to recording is often implied when you voluntarily provide it in exchange for a service, so we still need additional protections on top.

I'd still appreciate not being recorded without my express consent, though. I appreciate countries that have laws against it.

I do appreciate GDPR and its effects on data storage, retrieval and deletion. But it's only one piece of a complete set of privacy-preserving regulations, IMHO.
Rather than being "under maintenance," it was purportedly taken down due to some controversy. Can anyone with first-hand knowledge of the matter shed more light on it?
It’s commonly conjectured that the emergence of human-level reasoning wouldn’t have been possible without the development of language. Personally, I’m able to suppress “word thoughts” in my head (for a short time), but then I lose almost all of my reasoning ability. I could imagine that reasoning is language-based even when it’s not conscious for some people. An internal process being there, and being conscious of it, are two separate things. We would be happy with an AI using an internal monologue without it being conscious of that monologue.
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Generally, HN has an anti-tracking sentiment, which can dominate the comments on any story.

The personal experience of building / getting started, especially with open hardware, can do well. Tell your builder's story, as a blog post, don't do promotion of any kind in the post. Interested people will click a navbar link
This is exciting because it is an architecture that had so much promise, but we could never solve the gradient/parallelization problems better than transformers.

This code will allow people yo experiment and see if it is a viable architecture at foundation/frontier model scale.
This is a mystery. My guess is that the Chinese censorship system (The Great Firewall) knows my account is not associated to a Chinese National, so they don't care. Or, there could be legal restrictions/complications because I'm a US citizen. Who knows? I wouldn't be surprised if my little fuuck up didn't land me (or my WeChat account) on some sort of list, though.
Weather forecasts are plenty precise, and improving all the time. Just turns out that anecdotal evaluation of their precision is unreliable.
So, there was a single critical path, that for 2 hours per week was overwritten with the v2 code.

This is pretty common. They wanted to test v2 in the regular environment, so they can see how it reacts to real user traffic. If it reacted well, they would replace v1 with v2 completely under the hood! See, they didn’t want v1 and v2, they wanted the existing endpoint updated while maintaining backwards compatibility!!
Their system was too old or had poor test coverage, so in order to minimize risk of disruption to the service, they came up with the idea to try it out for 2 off-peak hours.

Why do that vs better test coverage? They were confident enough, or the risk of breaking things for a little but was understood and justified, maybe they had some super old machines or configs they cannot accurately model and really wanted to get proper user traffic in.

This is how many a/b tests happen too. Turn on feature for a segment, and then turn it back off. Or rolling deployments - have code run on 5% of servers then increase the percentage. Rollback if problem.

This is that just except time based. Kinda hacky but everything in the story sounds reasonable to me
Does the same for me on desktop Firefox. Loads fine in Chrome though.
> I feel that CFGs more naturally represent how we think

Author could have replaced the “we” with “I” and made it into a mildly interesting diary entry.
Less red tape -> garbage stocks -> hilarity
Agreed, I was hoping for more depth, but it's the same tired old progression of Xerox -> Macintosh -> Windows
I 100% feel you on the google trust. I think it'll end up being central to a lot of their other efforts so I'm expecting it to stick around, but hybrid cloud solutions are just a smart bet anyhow.
sure but if we all agree that corruption is widespread , how can we discern what is effective? We're making our assignments based on corrupt testimony -- that of the corrupt vendors & doctors.

How much we trust the drugs rests entirely on how much we trust the industry