skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A free and easy to use [Morse code Generator]. Effortlessly Generator Morse code to text and text to Morse code, play and download the sound of Morse code.

Simply input letters, numbers, and punctuation into the top box, and the corresponding Morse code will display in the bottom box. If a character cannot be translated, '#' will be shown.
In case anyone was confused, this has nothing to do with Hashicorp / Terraform, it's a crypto company.
While I still think presenting LLMs as "intelligent" is nonsense, I think this issue is interesting given the goal of these LLMs is just to produce a statistically plausible stream of text, it's always just a matter of constructing queries where the inappropriate output is statistically plausible given the model.

Similarly I think the concerns about bad output are overblown: an LLM may tell you how to make an X, where X is bad, but so will google, an LLM may produce biased output but so will google, the real issue is the people making these systems have managed to convince people that there is some kind of actual intelligence, so people accept the output as "a computer created it so it must be true" rather than "glorified output of google". People understand if you google "why is race X terrible" you'll get racist BS, but don't understand that if you ask an LLM to "explain why race X is terrible" you're just getting automatically rewritten version of the google output. (Though maybe google's "AI" search results will actually fix this misunderstanding more effectively than any explanatory blog post :D )

Anyway back to the problem, I really don't think there's a solution that is anything other then "run the output through a separate system that is just giving a 'is this text allowed given our rules'" before transmitting it to the requestor. You could combine this with training in future as well (you will eventually build up a large test set of queries producing inappropriate output that the generative model produces, and you can use that as the basis for adversarial training of the LLM). I know there's the desire to wrap in the content restrictions into the basic query handling because it's negligible more work to add those tokens to the stream, but mechanisms for filtering/identifying type of content are vastly cheaper than LLMs level "AI".
There are few news about Rust. Are we in the Trough of disillusionment (Gartner hype cycle) in the life time of Rust
I’ve been poking at this on and off! Got to the point where you can use a CLI command to turn any URL into a podcast episode. Even describes images and embedded code snippets so you can get the full experience.

Got distracted by other priorities so I haven’t done the RSS bits yet. In large part because that’s just boring old engineering stuff instead of playing with new toys. But I intend to get back and finish this thing by the time I start training for my next marathon. Need lots of listening material when that happens :)

Until then, hope this helps: https://github.com/Swizec/rss-to-podcast
Funny there was no mention of why this societal obsession mostly faded away in the 1980s and 1990s: Every single experiment into tele-whatever and psychic whichever under suitably controlled conditions revealed no result or outright fraud. No exceptions.

And the person responsible for defining suitably controlled conditions was magician James Randi. As a magician he recognized the tricks that con artists like Uri Geller were using. The scientists of that era like Puthoff and Targ had no understanding of perception hacking (which is what stage magicians do) so they were easily fooled by con artists who did know perception hacking.

James Randi put a stop to all that with several investigations of his own that made public fools of such scientists, and he funded a 1 million dollar prize for anyone who could prove they had psychic abilities under controlled conditions. The prize was never claimed.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Randi
> This is like saying $popularApp will fail because they buy expensive hosting at AWS.

For any given mobile app startup, AWS is effectively infinite. The more money you throw at it the more doodads you get back. Nvidia's supply chain is not infinite and is the bottle neck for all the non-Google players to fight over.
You realise that you can't fetch a new isbn without altering the archive, while this is not the case for every new prompt that you come up with?
Is decoding limited then?

That link above talks about only 1x nvdec task. What does this mean in practice? Clearly it doesn't mean just decoding a single h264 stream??
No.

I don't support spitting categorically incorrect statements because it fits "with my cause". That is the definition of unethical. People deserve to know the truth and make informed decisions.

Thats how we got here; that's how the players want things to remain: confusing. Truth leads to true change.
Media is lashing out at Perplexity for good reason
> It’s a statute that made sense in 1789 when it was enacted by a bunch of people that thought God made universal law applicable to the whole world.

Yet the same people who are likely to be responsible if this law does get thrown out are totally fine with plenty of other laws that make a lot less sense today than in 1789. Let's not pretend that the same court who ruled that all firearm regulations need to be interpreted in the context of what people would have thought in the 18th century[1] would rule differently on a case covering the law we're discussing because of legitimate legal reasoning; they're happy throw out precedents from the most recent couple of centuries in favor of regressing to some ancient historical standard when it ends up with the result they want.

[1]: https://apnews.com/article/politics-mississippi-state-govern...
https://www.engadget.com/samsung-pledges-seven-years-of-upda...

Samsung offers 7 years of major version upgrades on their flagship lineup starting with the S24. It is not retraoctive, although their 5 year policy has been in place for 2021 devices.

It's unlikely that they will offer security patches beyond that point and the mid-range segment still only gets 4/5 years.

Chinese OEMs offer "major" upgrades for longer, however they achieve this by backporting both Android mainline and proprietary features to older versions of Android, along with security patches.
I don't know him yet. Are there some talks you can recommend that would be a good starting point?
I found this disappointing too. I know they don’t have the resources to build their own equivalent of Nanite and such, but… On top of the performance issues, there were a number of things that actually looked so much better in the 2014 game. For example, the forcefields and water ripples.
How good is the LSP? In another like-Rust-but-better language (Kotlin), that part is just abysmal.
Discovering Preference Optimization Algorithms with Large Language Models
There are many hacks to uncensor LLMs, the surprising thing is that this is fairly simple but works really well.
Don’t forget Apple’s Private Compute Cloud - built on top of Apple Silicon.
It may actually be true, some patch-specific varieties apparently can trigger severe allergic responses in some individuals, and not others.

It was one of those weird stories I never could find much information about. =)
> What are inventions other than combinations of existing patterns?

Well criticized combinations of existing patterns

> What is the human mind if not a computer

A computer with important modules installed

> What is the universe if not repeated regurgitations of the four fundamental forces and 12 particles

Repeated regurgitations which have already produced working structures
> But they only publish the successful thing, not the process.

Learning from other people's failures is a really productive use of time (compared to failing on your own) - really wish this were easier to do for most things in life.
What I find funny about this document is how obvious it is that Samsung's prime directive, at the time, was to do whatever Apple was doing. Even when that didn't make sense for Samsung to do, like suggesting that they add streaming radio functionality to their synchronization application because iTunes had that feature (page 80).
Of course, but that's not the issue that's being described here. The issue is 1st party APIs that only Apple or Google have access to, that 3rd party apps can't use, regardless of whether the use would like to grant them permission.
There's a difference between being wrong on a few things, and being consistently wrong and so far up your own ass that you have Slavoj Žižek and Sam Harris calling you out and the only response you have is "He's just posturing", He is a coward, he is the spinless person in the situation 99% of the time, the only thing he does is provide FUD for far-left ideology, attacking him for things he's done in the past is well deserved.

https://www.openculture.com/2013/07/slavoj-zizek-responds-to...
Revolutionary!
They have something called microdroid which is a special VM which runs special android apps: https://source.android.com/docs/core/virtualization/writeavf...

Of course, running a custom VM image like crostini would require system level support but that doesn't seem like it would be a problem or outside the scope of the avf architecture.
There's one big obvious one. Git and SyncThing.

If the user could benefit from either of those, atomically updated plain files are great. Otherwise, SQLite is perfect.

Of course there's always workarounds to use SQLite in memory and dump to SQL code and such.
Not really, the U.K. has some of the oldest housing stock in the world. For e.g. my house is pretty typical, built in 1912, it has a double skin wall of bricks but with no cavity. It has three original fireplaces which are all very draughty. I have timber sash windows, and though I recently got double glazing my neighbours on either side do not have it.
You can just go read the paper here:

https://columbialawreview.org/content/toward-nakba-as-a-lega...
I think that is untrue. It was harder (but not impossible) to push propaganda to uniformist societies because:

1. they were already brainwashed to some degree. In the sense that someone made them believe things that were objectively either not true or arbitrary ("our rabbit god against their duck god")

2. these societies did have no mass media. Reaching many people of the society was only possible through elaborate structures and later the printing press, hence the influence of the back then most elaborate brainwashing structure there was: the catholic church. And even they had a lot of work to make this count as many people could not read the books they were printing.

The bible is a perfect example for how those societies in fact were very unprepared for being brainwashed. The fact that mass media didn't exist just meant the whole thing was much more time- and labor-intensive than a similar thing would have been today. Although I argue today the challenge would be to get as broad of a movement — because people were more isolated back in the day and therefore more scared to deviate from the perceived norms.

Hence why today's brainwashing movements, cults etc. always strive to isolate their followers from the rest of society.
> but it’s also not the case that they’re portrayed as entirely positive and complete.

This I agree with. A big part of the fun of the series is that Asimov constantly plays with these laws.

Thanks for the clarification.

(I still completely disagree that "parody of rationalists who are so uncreative they expect a ruleset can actually impose control" was the intent. I believe not only the word "parody" is to throw away, but the whole sentence with it too. I understand better your stance now though)
They are building racks of 4090s. Nobody can get H100s in any reasonable volume.

Hell, Microsoft is renting GPUs from Oracle Cloud to get enough capacity to run Bing.
Tesla shareholders re-approve Elon Musk's 2018 pay package
No. I’m suggesting they won’t because IP like the mellanox treasure chest they acquired is ridiculously difficult to develop and Nvidia has aggressively exploited it, along with their other already advanced IP in the space of their -core business-.

I understand, especially amongst googlers, there’s a belief there are no others smarter than a googler. But it’s simply not the case. Nvidia is excellent at their core competencies and business, which is making absurdly parallel compute platforms with absurdly powerful interconnects. I’m saying google or meta won’t beat Nvidia at hardware. I’d also point to the fact Nvidias ability to raise capital is the best on earth now, so even money isn’t a barrier.

The advantage CUDA gives is in the tool chains, libraries, research, and all that that tens of thousands of people are contributing to as part of their jobs, research, and hobbies. This is almost -more valuable- than getting top performance. Getting top techniques, top software, top everything by having everyone everywhere working to make the ecosystem of your stuff is invaluable. Google won’t have that. They will just have the hubris of googlers who believe they’re smarter.

I would also note that at this phase of a cycle in tech trying to save billions takes your eye off the prize. Cost optimization comes much later after the market has been fully explored and directions are clean and diminishing returns on R&D kick in. Any company that doesn’t recognize that is run by CPA and deserves the ignominy they’ll face.
Sure, I have nothing to hide
Aside note: Have any of you used elixir-desktop [1]? It is a wxWidgets + LiveView bundle, pretty much like a Electron app.

In [2], Wojtek Mach explains how the team behind Elixir build Livebook Desktop. He explains how the project started, some subtle bugs found when building the app for MacOS, some limitations of wxWidgets in Windows, and many other implementation details.

It would be awesome if the Elixir team releases something like elixir-desktop based on Livebook. That is, forking the Livebook repo and release an official template project for generating desktop applications based on LiveView. Right now, Livebook is distributed as an executable for Windows and Mac. Why not follow the same approach to allow developers to publish self-contained executables pretty much like Electron?

I am aware of LiveView Native [3] but I think they follow a different direction.

[1] https://github.com/elixir-desktop/desktop-example-app

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kiw6eWKcQbg

[3] https://native.live/
Well, feel good justice isnt even just one part here because justice isnt the primary goal of a legal system. Your premise is wrong.

Its about punishment to enforce the civil contract and once you exclude bodies, eg drug trafficing CIA officials or sociopathical CEOs, you start to loose credibility.

> But I don't see how that behaviour at all should allow civil action by random families from Mexico who were harmed (indirectly) by the same Cartel to make a case in the US

So then only attorneys are left to lead the charge, right? How can you still trust a system that prosecutes journalists that uncover war crimes that get covered up by the same cartel?
While true it wasn't as large as folks seem to imply.
C# has been decent on Mac since the early 2010s (MonoDevelop, Unity3d), and mobile .NET has been pretty robust on iOS and Android for about a decade, with plenty of NuGet libraries available.

Meanwhile, Swift has a long way to go to reach at least the state of Kotlin Multiplatform, which is still mostly in beta and lacks libraries that can work outside of Android.
This is really useful, but this example is curiously missing things like veggies, fruits, meat, or bread. I believe they think that those items are not hard to find.
Can you run in a tight loop and still be well-behaved?
Can you get your site to score 100 not only in SEO but also in best practices, accessibility and performance to convince developers of the quality of InstaWebAI?

https://pagespeed.web.dev/analysis/https-www-instawebai-com/...
> It took me an embarassingly long time to figure it out

Granted it was 2013, don't sweat yourself.

The code reads correct, compiles just fine, and it runs! No clear error to hone in on.

These are some of the most difficult bugs with the "omg that's so dumb" response out the otherside. When everything appears correct, stepping through the data can take a long time because we know something is wrong but don't know which layer it's at.
Perhaps then, the crux of your and my disagreement is that I do not think you are successfully optimizing for kindness. I believe that you intend to optimize for kindness, but you're not, you're optimizing for politeness.

You'll note that increasingly my posts here are on homelessness. There are nearly 600,000 homeless in the US alone, many of whom will die from homelessness-related problems. Many posts on this site both spread misinformation about that problem, and argue against any and all real solutions to that problem. That isn't kind, but it isn't moderated. And treating those comments as if they are not reprehensible, might be kind to the poster, but it's unkind to the 600,000 homeless in the country where a lot of HN users live.

Kindness isn't a simple thing: sometimes kindness to one person needs to be balanced with kindness to other people.
I’m pretty sure they’ll be fine. I can’t imagine a CRUD agency being like “VR? No transferable skills! To the breadline with you!” Realtime state management is a highly sought after skill.
> why would you pay attention to any "rules" that might limit your murderous psychopathy

The theory is, that as war is just a continuation of peace "by other means", one should not start wars without having an idea of the various ways in which one might end them, and (as the NSDP discovered in 1945) it's a whole lot easier to end them if you haven't been doing war crimes (or "war crimes"; if you intend to end a war short of genocide*, de jure or de facto doesn't really matter) during them.

(yes, I think we both agree that it'd be better to have a period instead of "without" after "one should not start wars", but if one allows for the existence of hawks, is it not better that they have some limits?)

Which part do you consider sheer ego? The distinction between combatants and non-combatants, or the inclusion of medical personnel among the non-combatants?

* compare Goebbels' Freudian slip in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sportpalast_speech
Congrats on launch! Brilliant.
YouTube's next move might make it virtually impossible to block ads
In my university we worked on VR on cheap PC Hardware, and Amadeus, our Windows VR viewer for Hyper-G (the precursor of the WWW) used BSP trees for its scenes, long before DOOM. Implemented by my former boss. It was not considered genius level then, just good old compgeom. We had a lot of very good compgeom researchers back then in Graz.
There's so much work just like this coming out simultaneously.

Steering Vectors, Control Vectors, PyReft, PeFT improvements, Obliteration. It's a great time to be doing representation engineering.
Fair points. AES_GCM_SIV [1] is my choice where it's supported, personally, which is nonce-reuse-safe (wrt to key material leaks). Plus at least the primitive is hardware-accrlerated more often than not.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AES-GCM-SIV?wprov=sfla1
That's overlooking the fact that Apple does not release the full featureset of new iOS versions on older devices and as years pass the number of feature omissions increases.
> Elon and his sycophants

His sycophants ARE the shareholders!

All these people (Gerber etc) were Elon Fanboys, they promoted him and polished him off. They went to news channels and youtube videos promoting him, and they earnt massively.

See, if they were like the Nordic investment fund, who refused to approve the package last time, then I respect them for their honesty.

But to go "oh boohoo, these poor shareholders didn't know, the board tricked them" They bloody knew, every one from these big Investors down to the small retail youtube influencers, they knew precisely what was in store.

They were all in on this greed.

I don't care about Elon winning, I want these hypocrites to pay up.

It makes every sense to make the shareholders pay up, they were complicit.

I hope Elon wins, and these Gerber and co lose, and then they put the money where their mouth is and start actually influencing the board.

Oh you don't like Elon's influence? Well you guys have big holdings, start forming the board as a properly independent board. Oh, you don't like Elon's decisions? Be a grown up and vote him out.

These shareholders want all the benefits of Elon's cult without paying for it, they can't have it both ways.

They can either start voting to correct what they claim is wrong, or they can sell the shares and leave. I hate shareholders who talk one way but vote another way.
Uncensoring Llama 3 is a violation of the Llama 3 acceptable use policy.

https://llama.meta.com/llama3/use-policy/

> You agree you will not use, or allow others to use, Meta Llama 3 to: <list of bad things>...

That terminates your Llama 3 license forcing you to delete all the "materials" from your system.
Movie makers shouldn't own cinemas.

Car makers shouldn't own dealerships.

Hardware makers of general computing devices (non-appliances) shouldn't make Apps.

This game has played out a few times. Lets see how this one goes.
More JVM. Just what we needed
It's going to be a lot less performant, but yes Python has a lot of library support as well and you can create a web basic web server with relatively little code. Go's HTTP stack though is part of the standard library while flask is not (there might be some standard library equivalent though).

Some people move to Go from Python for performance reasons (and other reasons).
you don't have to. I lived in south bay with $30-40k in total annual expenses for years. that said, i was single and made sacrifices to save.
The word is 'ablation'. Do not butcher it
What's interesting was how with GGC the model would spit out things relating to the enhanced feature vector, but would then in-context end up self-correcting and attempt to correct for the bias.

I'm extremely curious if as models scale in complexity if techniques like this will start to become less and less effective as net model representations collapse onto an enforced alignment (which may differ from the 'safety' trained alignment, but be an inherent pretrained alignment that can't be easily overcome without gutting model capabilities too).

I have a sneaking suspicion this will be the case.
which is why education, to nudge people in the right direction is the only way to achieve lasting change
Waiting for Postgres 17: Streaming I/O for sequential scans and ANALYZE
> This is one of those very rare cases with potentially huge negative effect to make it into a mandatory feature.

The only thing you would need to make mandatory is a direct login to any storage service.

> Which still suffers from inefficient incremental updates. Curious whether those other managers deal with that (do they split your vault into parts)?

If it's a megabyte, who cares? You could have a way to split things or upload an update log, but it's not worth it.

If you need big attachments, then keep them outside the core vault file.

> Whatever documents you want to securely share with others

Sharing is where a dedicated service is useful.

But if a feature like that needs a paid service, it should be an optional upgrade.
Interesting. Have definitely come across this phenomena in technology.

I never considered that a new social phenomena would emerge from a BDSM blog.
Quoted from the article:

> To me, it looks like Elon is sending money from Tesla, which is publicly owned and under his control with little to no board oversight, to his privately owned venture, The Boring Company.