skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is interesting is the contrast to Apple’s AI announcements.

Apple’s announcements were accompanied by an acknowledgment of the risk of privacy and a thorough analysis of the threat model and detailed design and specific steps taken to mitigate them. You can tell people with deep expertise spent time looking at the problem and coming up with solutions.

Microsoft Recall on the hand had the feeling of - Oh my, this has privacy implications, we never would have guessed???

That approach my Microsoft erodes trust. Apples’s approach builds trust.
Not necessarily radar, these days. My car (2023 Civic) does it entirely with the camera at the top of the windshield. Very well, too, in the daytime (it can get confused and brake spuriously in oncoming headlight glare at night).
If the founders intended that, they had the opportunity to make that explicit in the constitution. They even reference “due process” so it’s clear they had something in mind. It’s just not what you’re claiming.
> [commoditizing] their complements

That's exactly what this would be.

> compete with its customers businesses

I suspect most of their business comes from a few massive corporate spenders, not a "long tail" of smaller businesses, so it seems like a questionable goal to disrupt those customers without a clear path to new customers. Then again, few have the resources to run this model, so I guess this just ensures that their big customers are all working with some floor in model size? Probably won't impact anything realistically.
Yes, these existing products are generally called RATs or spousal stalkerware.
Well I guess got scared because people will install Linux?
I heard property tax in Texas is the big one.
Eh who needs more than 90 minutes of battery life anyway?
I think you hit the nail on the head. The feature itself can be benign and useful if Microsoft valued being respectful of user agency. Using Windows feels increasingly like a battle against against someone who can't accept "no" and tries to sneak around your intentions.
That's also my issue with dark kitchens. Apps list actual, physical restaurants, next to what is just people making food in their own homes. And I've found instances of the name changes you mentioned.

There's this "premium" burger place I like has alternative "delivery first" menu with lower cost offerings and a whole different name and branding. You can also order from this menu in person but you need to ask for it. I find this to be an interesting strategy.
But with hardware acceleration for both encoding and decoding of HEVC it feels like less of a problem IMO.
It's convenient for corporations to have this as an excuse, but they should be assessed as singular entities. They enjoy corporate personhood also.

As the size and influence of an entity increases, it has more power in the economy and therefore should have more responsibility, not less, to act according to high standards.

A gargantuan company that is 7% of the S&P 500 getting whoopsie-daisy passes because it is so large and nobody knows what it's doing is a dystopian situation that we should have incentives in place to discourage
Vercel did well to support to open source projects so far but I guess it's time for the work on their bottom line.

This is why I am vary of free credits.
> they don't hire a DBRE/DBOps person until it's too late

My pet theory for the explosion of jobs in this space is that during ZIRP, tons of companies underwent huge growth (generally without a DB team, as you said), and managed by just upsizing instance classes. Eventually, you can’t solve your problem by throwing money at a vendor.
Guess the sh!t they thought they could force down everyone's throat (like the Windows 11 bar) has a recoil effect.
It's exactly this.

Development of a feature like this surely started during the WFH craze, where managers could no longer casually walk behind people who had to have their monitors facing outwards. A market opened up, and this is not the only tool for this sort of corporate surveillance.

Certain Software Engineers will probably get some time without it by claiming they need Admin rights and that the system messes up their graphics or slows down their system or what have you.
The false provenance was discovered by an Italian company, and then Spirit did their own investigation and found they had titanium from the same supplier with the same issue of false provenance. Spirit notified both Boeing and Airbus. Spirit produces parts for both Boeing and Airbus. This isn't about the FAA helping Boeing cover their asses, this is a real issue that impacts both Boeing and Airbus since the titanium ended up in planes from both companies.
As described in the article, all that happened were subpoenas for documents. That's the very first step in any investigation. Those documents have shed significant light on the relationship between the SIO and government agencies [0]:

> Led by former CIA fellow Renee DiResta, the Virality Project functioned as an intermediary for government censorship. Ties between the US government and the academic research center were extremely close. DHS had “fellows” embedded at the Stanford Internet Observatory, while SIO had interns embedded at CISA, and former DHS staff contributed to the Virality Project’s final report.

> The Virality Project also had contact with the White House and the Office of the Surgeon General, described the CDC as a “partner” in its design documents, and the California Department of Public Health had a login to access the Jira content flagging system, as did CISA personnel.

It sure seems like SIO was acting as a government contractor/agent here, if it was providing services to the government in exchange for funding.

[0] - https://brownstone.org/articles/the-virality-projects-censor...
I sense a new bullshit-based detox industry coming.
Yea, I'm gonna tell my boss's boss's boss's boss to "shut it or leave." That's a bold strategy, Cotton, lets see if it pays off...
How would a server/workstation like this be setup?

I thought you could only use the vram on the GPU, so for 700GB you would need 8-9 A100 nodes as 2 only gives 160GB.

I've been trying to figure out how to build a local system to run inference and train on top of LLM models, I thought there was no way to add vram to a system outside of adding more and more GPU's or use system ram (DDR5) even though that would be considerably slower.
Because the whole point is to collect massive amounts of data to "train" their AI.

AI is the new Big Data, but instead of just wanting your basic information, where you moved your mouse, and how long you stayed on a page, they want all of it.
The fastest supercomputer is actually running AMD chips: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontier_(supercomputer)
I wonder if the open-source LLM community understands what just happened here - we finally got a truly large LLM (a whopping 340B!) but it costs ... $15K per A100 x 16 GPUs = a minimum of $240K to just get started. Probably closer to $500K or half a million dollars once you factor in space, power, cooling, infrastructure etc.
In a similar fashion, you'll see that JAX has frontend code being open-sourced, while device-related code is distributed as binaries. For example, if you're on Google's TPU, you'll see libtpu.so, and on macOS, you'll see pjrt_plugin_metal_1.x.dylib.

The main optimizations (scheduler, vectorizer, etc.) are hidden behind these shared libraries. If open-sourced, they might reveal hints about proprietary algorithms and provide clues to various hardware components, which could potentially be exploited.
This makes sense. Gas taxes in almost all states pay for a lot of programs related to DMV activities and what not, so DMVs are having to figure out other ways to recoup the costs of EVs.
Investors want their 10x returns. It's worse than you expect. They know nothing and reject scientific papers that discuss problems with LLMs. They were told by marketers that all problems with LLMs can be solved by feeding them good data... which is a sneaky way for LLM operators to obtain access to data they should never be allowed anywhere near. People with the collective brain of a Handforth Parish Council are working on strategies for using AI on PII data. Imagine the cretins from the Office discussing AI and you get the picture.
I don't know how people live in the bay area on that salary. I'm making way more than the median in a normal col city.

I wouldn't be demotivated. I have a feeling layoffs are more common in that area since it's all startups.
It is actually Effect-specific, because Effect modifies control flow in JS. For instance, if you pipe 3 functions in Effect, you'll have to step through the pipe function to get from the execution of the first to the execution of the next. Working around this adds overhead every time you debug your application. In vanilla JS, `a = foo(); b = bar(a); c = baz(b)` might not be as pretty, but it is trivial to step through.
> What's Taichi's take on NVIDIA's Warp?

> Overall the biggest distinction as of now is that Taichi operates at a slightly higher level. E.g. implict loop parallelization, high level spatial data structures, direct
interops with torch, etc.

> We are trying to implement support for lower level programming styles to accommodate such things as native intrinsics, but we do think of those as more advanced optimization techniques, and at the same time we strive for easier entry and usage for beginners or people not so used to CUDA's programming model

– https://github.com/taichi-dev/taichi/discussions/8184
This is not the first time they've done this—have you forgotten the "Xbox One-Eighty," when they initially announced the Xbox One as having mandatory Kinect functionality, only to similarly realize they boiled the proverbial frog too quickly and renege?
This definitely left a sour taste in my mouth.
I can tell you don't work with these cards. The MI300x is bug-ridden junk at the moment. As are all AMD cards. You cannot use them for serious compute.
ChromiumOS, ChromeOS Flex,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36998964 :

> Students can't run `git --help`, `python`, or even `adb` on Chromebooks.

> (Students can't run `git` on a Chromebook without transpiling to WASM (on a different machine) and running all apps as the same user account without SELinux or `ls -Z` on the host).

> Students can run `bash`, `git`, and `python` on Linux / Mac / or Windows computers.

> There should be a "Computers for STEM" spec.

Docker containers can be run on Android with root with termux:

- https://gist.github.com/FreddieOliveira/efe850df7ff3951cb62d...

Podman and podman-desktop run rootless containers (without having root).

containers/container-selinux: https://github.com/containers/container-selinux/tree/main .spec:
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/container-selinux/blob/ra...

"The best WebAssembly runtime may be no runtime"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38609105 : google/minijail, SyscallFilter=,

E.g. https://vscode.dev/ runs in a browser tab on a Chromebook and supports Pyodide and IIUC hopefully more native Python in WASM support soon?

Hopefully Bash, Git, and e.g. Python will work offline on the kids' Chromebooks someday.
Really cool tech!
They closed $250M in funding about a month ago. Feels more like new investors want a healthier balance sheet for possible IPO or just redirect cash flow - probably with the goal to dump more resources into AI (which they likely promised to do while fundraising).
How is this extortion? 6 months is plenty of time to sort out an alternative if you need to (assuming an alternative is available).
This doesn't make sense. Screen recording is trivial. Why go to this much trouble? I don't buy the "Trojan Horse" argument in this case.

Occam's Razor, folks.
I think the main value of the first two slides is: if you’ve done a lot of presentations it can be difficult to keep them straight.

The first slide is really for you, to make sure you opened the right file.
Ah, thanks! It's been a long time since I've built or bought an Asus machine.
The second sentence is however :

> The practice of self-hosting web services became more feasible with the development of cloud computing and virtualization technologies, which enabled users to run their own servers on remote hardware or virtual machines. The first public cloud service, Amazon Web Services (AWS), was launched in 2006, offering Simple Storage Service (S3) and Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) as its initial products.[3]

The mystery deepens
> Well, right now your examples just sound like lots of people are forced to rent by current systems which are designed to maintain rental properties as investments.

Rather, right now your arguments seem to be based on some idealized utopia with fancy assumptions - perfect liquidity in housing market without any friction of transaction costs, perfect society with ideal treatment of prison population, perfectly rich grad students who can buy housing etc. If such things were possible, other initiatives based on ideal human nature would have succeeded as well (eg. communism).

I will flip your argument back to you - show me a place where the system is NOT designed to maintain real properties as investments.
There's nothing inherently wrong with the disaggregation of kitchen and dining rooms, so certainly you can get good food out of a commissary kitchen. In my area there's an amazing korean katsu place that's run out of one.

But restaurants like that are fighting against the incentive structure, and the incentives always win.
Yeah, dissolved a startup I was working on as a co-founders since we ran out of capital a few months ago.

The industry is NOT looking good - not feeling good about the next six months and getting back into product / SWE.
When would this be useful? Microsoft's best examples are that the user forgot the location of a chinese food place your friend told you once.
first i've heard of them but it sounds like it was a great tool. the exact kind that another company would love to bury via SOP shenanigans.
I disagree that they are individual problems. This isn’t Sparta. Many of the negative mental health externalities were created either inadvertently or deliberately to maximize shareholder (read: wealthy, mostly older people) money. It’s irresponsible.

And notice I didn’t say value. Profiting off of making another person doesn’t add value. It extracts it from them, like the scream extractor in Monsters Inc.
Yeah, that'd be cool. I'd love to feed it my fitness, health, etc. data.

I feel like it was always a missed opportunity with Google... they had all my Google Fit, Google Health, 23andme, Gmail (and thus order confirmations, healthcare appointments), text messages, Google Maps locations, etc. data that I expressly opted-in for, hoping that one day they'd be able to use that to provide actionable insights. But nope, it was all just ads and spam :(
> Yes, the US export around 3.6M bbl/d in 2022. But, it imported around 6.3M bbl/day in the same year

You’re wrong, as the other comment points out. But these numbers are so wildly wrong that I’m curious for your source.

(8.5mm b/d in vs 10.15mm b.d out [1] in 2023. If we limit ourselves to crude oil, it's 4.1mm b/d out [2] vs hundreds of thousands in [3]. A literal order of magnitude.)

[1] https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=727

[2] https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=61584

[3] https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=pet&s=m...
Rights must be negated, not affirmed
I'm impressed that Microsoft seems to be listening to the tech community - now if only they would address telemetry I'm back in!
causality0 was making statements about his credentials and expertise, not his personal characteristics. I think ad hominem definitionally has to be irrelevant. “x knows nothing about topic y” is not ad hominem even if it is a false statement.
Your post could've been written in 2004, when Microsoft was pinky swearing it was gonna refocus on security-first development, starting with XP SP2
What you're saying makes sense, though "cargo culting" is not the right term here
If you have the entire video file downloaded locally they can't stop you from seeking.
Stupid. Just give the Cloudflare’s public IPFS gateway domains to the IPFS Foundation. Don't break the links.
I agonize over this decision a lot. I normally figure the tipping point is about 8 hours of me looking into the data, or planning to revisit it 3 or more times in the future. Whichever way I choose, I normally later decide I made the wrong choice.
> DJ OT is in prison for a parole violation.

What?
I cant fathom someone writing this and not doing so in bad faith.
this is not what I consider self hosting but ok

I would like to compare the costs vs hardware on prem, so this helps with one side of the equation
Wait how do we know that they’ve reached their limits?
Autonomous Waypoint Guidance with an Amateur Rocket [video]
Was "gamer-rabble" the word of the day?
I think the only reason to do a custom IC, for now, is if you can't achieve your performance, power, area or price targets with FPGAs, microcontrollers, or other discrete components. It's still impractically expensive unless your volumes are enormous or your margins are very high. Even with a reasonable complex feature set, I think you can do better with individual components. You can get relatively cheap ARM cores, FPGAs, DSPs, microcontrollers, etc. I don't often see companies doing custom ICs for internal use.

That being said, I think the economies are changing. If you don't need a cutting edge process, the tapeout costs continue to come down. The problem that remains, though, is licensing cost of EDA tooling. There is a little bit of competition in that space, but not much. It is growing though, so hopefully that brings prices down.
Yea, for any hobbyist, indie developer, etc. I think it'd be ridiculous to not first try running one of these smaller (but decently powerful) open source models on your own hardware at home.

Ollama makes it dead simple just to try it out. I was pleasantly surprised by the tokens/sec I could get with Llama 3 8B on a 2021 M1 MBP. Now need to try on my gaming PC I never use. Would be super cool to just have a LLM server on my local network for me and the fam. Exciting times.
There was a post on HN not too long ago about a random 3rd party/open source tool that does exactly this, no? When I first heard about Recall AI, I immediately thought back to that HN article, but can't find it.
Hey there, I work at Vercel. Our sponsorship program has not ended. Some sponsorships have expired like this quoted email, but hopefully 6 months give them time to either re-apply or explore other options.

We haven’t been accepting new sponsorships while we update the existing program, but it’s still running and will accept sponsorships again, soon.
I'm from a small European town. And I did say "where other options are available", so I don't get where your hostility is coming from.
Military troop transports frequently utilise rear-facing seats, and I suspect there's enough incident data to arrive at useful conclusions.
Socratic questioning is quite amazing, I created my own prompting for this and found it to be invaluable in exploring my beliefs.
Jeff Bezos has a vision to colonize space with a trillion people
The UX is actually terrible IMHO because all the links are redirects, presumably for tracking purposes, and they're all currently broken.
The program still exists: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40684147
On what basis was Tesla ever the #1 AI company in the world?
Your figures are nowhere near correct according to the US Energy Information Administration, but then again, neither were mine.

https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/oil-and-petroleum-produc...

Looking at these figures, it appears the US is importing nearly 42% of the oil it needs to satisfy domestic demand and exporting nearly 50% of the oil it produces.

The important takeaway still stands - the US is nowhere close to being energy independent.
I’m not from the USA nor am I going to be hoodwinked by American double think of ‘defense’. Batter in though.

Yes, opinions are like arsehole’s… everyone has one. However, for lack of logical opinions like mine in a sub thread relating to thoughts of conspiracy, I personally feel that mine does have the ability to spark a second thought about a situation. If you don’t agree, that’s your opinion.

And thanks for your tips on emphasism - highly interesting and informing.
To be a bit fair, Windows security has gone from a laughing stock in 2004, to having Windows Defender in the 2020s. I ain't no city slickin' infosec guy, but Defender appears to be state of the art end point protection today.

They can figure this stuff out sometimes, right?

How did they get from Windows/AVG/ESET to Windows Defender, and how can they make that happen on Azure?
There is no emergency situation going on aboard the International Space Station
> Every major power broker wants something like Recall to become the norm - bosses to spy on their employees...

Isn't that already the norm, or at least very very common? It's just a 3rd party package totally focused on surveillance, not built into the OS and used for some user-accessible features.

> ...governments to spy on their citizens/enemies, and tech CEO's to collect training data for AI and target more ads at end users.

These applications would be novel, at least on a widespread basis in Western liberal democracies.
This should be seen in light of the Great Differentiable Convergence™:

NERFs backpropagating pixels colors into the volume, but also semantic information from the image label, embedded from an LLM reading a multimedia document.

Or something like this. Anyway, wanna buy an NVIDIA GPU ;)?
Let me rephrase that -- is it good enough to use 100% of the time you're in a terminal? Cause that's what I do with tmux and it works phenomenally. Haven't had a similarly good experience with screen before, but I'm open to being wrong.
Vanguard just tracks indexes. Indexes that include all publicly traded auto manufacturers in the world. E.g. Toyota: https://www.morningstar.com/funds/xnas/vtiax/portfolio

Most of Vanguard is a large bureaucracy with two goals: accurately track an underlying index and keep the cost low. They do have some actively managed funds but those are insignificant compared to their passive funds.
source for vercel series E which AFAIK they have not announced https://x.com/ilyasu/status/1791182579837829199?s=46&t=90xQ8...
The same way as .NET FOSS, MS <3 Linux and such happened, by having a captain on the bridge that actually cares to make it happen, not sure if that is still Satya though.
> and how much more open natural space there must have been across the country.

That depends on the country/area a lot though. UK is a bit of an exception because it's population increased much more than almost anywhere else in Medieval Europe but in much of France and other places some rural areas were possibly more densely populated even back in the 1200s (populations are much more concentrated these days while they were more spread out before the industrial revolution).

Even in England there are probably more forested areas these days than at any point since the 1400s or so.
SGI Internal Memo: IRIX 5.1 40% slower than 4.0 (1993)
> Sideloading, being able to just build your app and run it immediately (or put it on your own GitHub page for everybody to get) without asking Apple or any other store - this is the real game-changer.

This would be awesome to have!