skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I will not give a toss what any convention says - what good does obeying a rule someone made up if I/my-loved-ones am/are dead?

Essentially the sunk cost fallacy.

Making victims drag other down with them is like 101 Keeping The War Machine Going. Furthermore 'war mongerers without borders' cooperate for atrocities to get out of control.

At some point however the victims will blame their elite instead of the elite their elite blame.

Also, you usually don't lose everyone you care for in one blow. Losing half of your children might decrease the wish to lose the other half for some people.
Seems like an obviously good thing given that it is true. These new beliefs are solutions to new problems
In which way is the article biased for them?
There are a bunch of different type of coral fungi. Not all are edible.
Google pays Apple for distribution, so it sounds like Apple said “you pay for compute and we’ll give you the distribution for free”
No it was because of competition.

https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/06/06/craig-federighi-i...
Wow, that seems pretty insane. :(
The DAX is made of the 40 most valuable German companies. That’s how it is defined. So the companies not in it, again by definition, matter less.
This is a bad response. The person you're replying to said something to the effect of "America caused a bunch of harm in these places", and your response is "America didn't cause all the problems in these places".

Theres a pretty big gap between the point you're replying to and the strawman you're arguing against.

Sure there are other factors which caused problems in South America, but its clear that a lot of problems were caused by America.
Microsoft Chose Profit over Security, Whistleblower Says
An Actor's Tattoos? What's the Deal?
Gotta admit I'm curious there. I've rocked a rk3399 chromebook for years (stopped roughly when it got deprecated) without issues, and I was stressing it with crouton. My gf is still using a rk3288 chromebook "fine" (it's no longer her daily driver though). Those are low-end 8yo devices.

Anecdotal counter-point I have a colleague with a Samsung Galaxy Tab A 8" 2019 (SM-T290), and after just 3 years it became absolutely unusable, even after a factory reset. And it's "by design": it shipped with 2GB RAM, which was usable in Google/Android 9 (shipped OS), but just completely dead on Google/Android 11 (updated OS). Obviously I saved that device from oblivion with a Google-less Android that takes half as much RAM.
Stalinist Russia: highly educated peasants

Post-republican China: self-punishment as first resort

Current-day North Korea: traditional society
Python (3) gets this right. Integer division is a separate operator: // vs /.
> there were 3-4 vendors Apple could play off each other.

Which 3-4 vendors?
> or election interference

So, only superpowers (both governments and companies like google/facebook/...) can do that, but not some random Joe from wisconsin with $200 left on his credit card.
> Once we have identified the refusal direction, we can "ablate" it, effectively removing the model's ability to represent this feature. This can be done through an inference-time intervention or permanently with weight orthogonalization.

Finally, even a LLM can get lobotomised
But that’s way less clear than just

if struct.foo do struct.foo.bar else nil end
You can define multiple implementations for the Mul trait with different right-hand sides, no problem at all.

https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio...
Electric Pickles
I collect watches, I'd love to have one of these but they are probably super rare to find second hand. Obviously I'd never be in a position to buy one from retail...

There are a couple of pretty special pilot only watches. I like IWCs top gun too, the one with the real top-gun logo on only avialable to pilots that have graduated Top Gun.

Available to top gun graduates: https://www.iwc.com/content/iwc/americas/us/en/articles/jour...

The retail version: https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.watche...

The people that actually get these watches don't seem to want to sell them, understandably.
Many bad actors are lazy. If they have to fine-tune their own LLM on their own hardware to spam, there will be less spam.
Tariffs on Chinese EVs – Poll Results from IGM Economic Experts Panel
When this is done internationally, they even have to consider the orientation of the object as it is put onto boat and taken off due to available leverage points on cranes and also how it can fit while swinging.

One of our equipment barely fit through an entryway and required half-inch steel dowels to be put on the ground so it could roll for part of its journey.
The reporting on this article is just bad. The issue is not Qualcomm taking over Nuvia's business and license.

According to Arm the Nuvia license is contractually tied to server/datacenter usage, while Qualcomm's acquisition of Nuvia packaged these server cores into "Oryon" for PC use in the Snapdragon X Elite SoC and intends to use them in smartphones too, breaching the original agreement.

Here's a better source:
https://www.heise.de/en/news/ARM-torpedoes-Windows-on-ARM-De...
average says more about throughput, right?

95% would be nice too
Why does Qualcomm need a license to design a custom ARM chip in the first place? Assuming they're not reusing or deriving from licensed IP blocks, and that they just cracked open a reference book and implemented the instruction set from scratch. Does ARM hold a copyright on the instruction set itself? Can you even copyright an instruction set? Or is it a bunch of patents?
Qualcomm has their own license too. ie in addition to the Nuvia one
Welcome to Austrian "free speech".
I believe the proper capitalist term is "primary resource".
Yes

Programming
And
Workflows are keys
> A smart speaker

Can we give these things their real name: Smart Microphones

Alexa = Amazons microphone.
Aside from anything else, if they can position themselves as a clear second in terms of space innovation then that guarantees them billions in government contracts.

The space force is willing to pay a premium to avoid anyone getting a monopoly, we see that with the ULA contracts today.
More to do with bent pins, material obstruction, or something as trivial as cable management (eg: bundles of qsfp weighing down the ports that are press-fitted not soldered).
I’m kind of terrified of a fast windows experience where pushing the start menu button immediately brings up advertisements in the blink of an eye. At least in the past if I was fast enough it would fail to load in time.
On top of that, only a court can decide about a breach of contract in the end.
We open sourced our Ruby bindings and port:

- https://github.com/serpapi/nokolexbor

- https://serpapi.com/blog/nokolexbor-a-performance-focused-ht...

It is super fast compared to Nokogiri with libxml.
We just had dinner in our favourite Vietnamese restaurant. It’s closing tomorrow. The rent got too high and the lady who runs it wasn’t taking a wage. It was busy every day. It’s a favourite lunch spot, their bahn mi is the best in town.

So they’ll close, and that’s another empty shop front. God knows if anyone will rent it, ever again. There are plenty more empty shops to choose from.

This is in the centre of Canberra. The capital of Australia.

And why? Because whomever owns the shop owns it as an ‘investment’. So the lovely lady who runs (ran) it needs to not only run a profitable restaurant — pay staff, suppliers, taxes, insurance, take a wage — but she also has to make a profit for the guy who owns the shop.

Because his ‘business’ is owning a shop. So he (I’m sorry, I’m just assuming it’s a dude) needs to turn a profit. For owning a building.

So she’ll close.

---

So restaurants are fucked. They’re all closing. At what point do we think, restaurants are the fabric of society. Cities need restaurants. It’s what makes a city a city. So when do we realise that imposing a condition on a restaurant that not only must they make a profit, but they must make a profit for the owner of the building, who does fucking nothing, is ridiculous?

Anyway. I know this is a rant. I just had dinner at a popular restaurant with amazing food with a wonderful owner that’s closing tomorrow so that the landlord can own an empty space. I’m bitter and sad.

Thanks for listening.
If you install heat pumps, which are the most efficient single-home way to heat a house, then you get AC for free.
Human language drifts for the same reason LLM language would, but is continually reset to a sensible state by interaction with the real world.
I once saw Sussman speak in a group of about 20 neuroscience PhD candidates in an NYU basement. He was talking about AI interpretability long before it was in vougue.

Anyways I asked one question and he immediately sensed there was an EE in the room and went to the side blackboard and showed how we can figure out how an opamp works through first principles.

So much energy and intelligence in that man. Left an impression for sure.
>How can a wealthy continent with 750 million people produce no big tech companies? It's a big problem.

Much more difficult to scale a product across 26 different countries and nearly as many languages and regulatory jurisdictions. US is one country, not a collection of countries fighting each other, meaning your product is instantly available to 300M people speaking the same language under (nearly) the same regulations.
> Why does the LLM have to do everything these days?

Because why not? It feels like we've stumbled on a first actually general ML model, and we're testing the limits of this approach - throwing more and more complex tasks at them. And so far, surprisingly, LLMs seem to manage. The more they do, the more interesting it is to see how far they can be pushed until they finally break.

> Wouldn't it make more sense to delegate such a pattern finding intelligence?

Maybe. But then, if an LLM can do that specific thing comparably well, and it can do a hundred other similarly specific tasks with acceptable results, then there's also a whole space between those tasks, where they can be combined and blended, which none of the specialized models can access. Call it "synergy", "cross-pollination", "being a generalist".

EDIT:

As a random example: speech recognition models were really bad until recently[0], because it turns out that having an actual understanding of the language is extremely helpful for recognizing speech correctly. That's why LLM (or the multi-modal variant, or some future better general-purpose model) has to do everything - because seemingly separate skills reinforce each other.

--

[0] - Direct and powerful evidence: compare your experience with voice assistants and dictation keyboards, vs. the conversation mode in ChatGPT app. The latter can easily handle casual speech with weird accents delivered outside on a windy day, near busy street, with near-100% accuracy. It's a really spectacular jump in capabilities.
>Affordable if build outside of the US

It's still staggeringly expensive outside of the US.
Or "There are bold mushroom foragers, and there are old mushroom foragers. But there are no bold, old mushroom foragers."
Nvidia execs cash out shares as GPU giant skyrockets
I mean, women tend to be greener and more social, politically. Opponents of nuclear power tend to be green and/or social. Typical case of a venn-diagram, no?
it's Colombia, not Columbia
At a glance most of the quotes seem to be pre-1920's, so those should all be in the public domain.

One would have to make a full audit to be entirely sure that no more recent literature has crept in.
+1, interesting findings! I like how it was able to infer the meaning from such a short phrase in a limited context.
The sniper bots in TF2 will instantly kill any non-bot player unless the person buys a "bot protection" from the cheaters. Playing on bot-infested servers is basically impossible unless you pay up (which you obviously shouldn't do).
More interesting would be to choose between fossil fuel and nuclear baseload generation, and also mention the yearly millions of deaths due to fossil fuel air pollution, versus maybe a dozen from nuclear accidents.
> Either you create/found a startup or it's not worth joining one as an employee. You have way more upside at a FAANG/pre-IPO mid-life startup that already found a great product market fit.

I'm glad you mention the pre-IPO mid-life startup and not solely trot out the usual "work for a FAANG instead and make $600k/yr out the gate" nonsense. There are quite a few pre-IPO mid-life (or even vaguely-but-not-super-early) startups out there that are doing well, growing more or less sustainably, will pay you a market-rate (or even above) base salary, and give you a solid equity package that has a much higher likelihood of being worth something than those early-stage startup options have. You might not make $600k/yr at a FAANG, but most people at a FAANG aren't making that, and many smart, talented people won't pass a FAANG interview anyway.
It looks like ARM is hell-bent on making the case for RISC-V, or maybe even on getting someone to challenge their ISA patents in court (if Qualcomm's new chips are custom designs). Here's hoping this kind of greed won't pay off.
In most cases thats not enough
None of this makes any sense.

a) Microsoft pays for compute. OpenAI never intended to run their own cloud.

b) Apple's 15%/30% is a "cost of channel" for developers. It is the fee they pay to get free users delivered to their app. And the decision to do this is purely a business one that can be changed at will and does not apply at all to this situation.

c) Calling Apple a gatekeeper for implementing additional features to their OS is odd to the say the least. They have made it clear during the keynote/WWDC presentations that they plan to add additional providers than OpenAI.
They got extremely lucky with AI following crypto. The timing was close to perfect. I'm not sure there will be another wave like that at all for a long while.
Great series, looking forward to the next post
Elon Musk claims he is set for victory in $56B Tesla pay vote
Houses rarely need AC - we usually only get a few hot days in a row, with time for houses to cool down in between hot periods. It is also usually possible to get airflow through a house, and cool things down enough.

Different story for badly built apartments, though. We used to live in a 1950s apartment, top floor with a flat roof. It reached 38C inside, when outside was 36C, and then wouldn't cool down at all during the night. It was unbearable, and we moved out!
If we can laydown undersea internet cables all across the world, surely the nuclear power plants can be someplace else and energy generated can be transferred.

Securing nuclear power is a pain and US oscillates between far left and far right. France is the nuclear power horse of Europe and supply the excess power all around.
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> exercising options up to 10 years are not uncommon

10 year expiration is the standard, yes, but only if you stay with the company. Most still kill your options 90 days after you quit or are laid off or fired. There's been a small but noticeable trend of companies not pulling this garbage, including the article author.

> I think the OP should work on his company for more than 4 months and have more than 10 employees

Yeah, I thought it was funny that the author seemed to be speaking so authoritatively after so little experience as a founder. I've never been a founder myself, but I would put much more weight behind the words of founders who have been doing it for years and decades.
That’s not gonna work. The Chinese pricing is already 1/20th of oai. Not as good sure but that very much limits scope for a pure cost play. You can’t win that against state backed entities
> Privacy makes them a lot of money right now

Why do I see this repeated over and over again on HN? Can you offer any concrete evidence on the matter. It looks impossible to prove.

Most users do not care about privacy. They care about price and convenience.
arm licenses the design of the cpu, etc. including any patents
Body-Area Capacitive or Electric Field Sensing for Human Activity Recognition
My guess it is both based on both your link and my experience. My experience is limited to Mexico. I can't speak for others and it could very well be that the notion of continent in Mexico, and for example Chile or any other latin american country may vary.
Don't know what to say -- the page returns 200 for me, from a couple different networks and different devices and different browsers, yesterday and today. I definitely agree, though, that the archive services show 404.
Why is producing big companies a goal? High standards of living for all seems to a much better goal. And that can be done with small or big companies - so long as economic production is high enough and distributed well enough.
Tonnerre de Brest ! Swansea by any chance? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40013890
This is such a strange line of thought. What would it cost a human to go through the same training data and come up with a similar summary? Across all the fields and languages that Google has access to?

Even compared to regular indexing, it's not exactly apples to apples. You still have to go through a dozen or more links and manually read them and filter out spam before getting a good idea.

It's be fairer to compare the LLM summary to some other scraper and summarization system.
Women are more emotional. They tend to vote on what "feels" best. And nuclear power can certainly feel dangerous.
Well, at least helium isn't explosive.

Because with the way Boeing does things, that would be an actual problem.
Is it custom?
#3 can be solved by keeping it frozen.
Ask HN: OpenAI UX Degradation
Has anyone else experienced a degradation of the OpenAI UX in recent weeks (mostly after introduction of GPT-4o).

- Links are not clickable and I have to ask GPT to redisplay the full URL so I can copy and paste it.

- The builtin programming sandbox is unable to access web resources. For example, it cannot be used to fetch a Wikipedia page for further processing. (It was able to so before.)

- A few days ago the UI was blank for a full day and it showed me as signed off. Attempts to sign in would not succeed. This was fixed on its own a day later.

- Math formulas would not correctly render for a few days. This appears to be fixed now, but it is very slow compared to before (waiting seconds for pages with a lot of math to render).

- Many other small quirks and frustrations.

For the record I am using macOS/Safari.
It will take dozens of lawyers (at least three opinions between any two of them) many months and millions of dollars to figure it out, and you want the journalists to make a call?

The article sums up rough positions of both parties well enough.
Designing Friction for a Better User Experience (2018)
And this shouldn't be to hard if you know the ins and outs of the hardware and have a reasonable dev team. So why aren't they doing it?
Do you mean the firmware repo?

Because I don't remember seeing any in the source code... But ist be looking at the wrong place.
A state could theoretically devolve into one that doesn't reflect the values of the federation. It could begin to resemble countries that already exist today that the US doesn't do much about. The unfortunate part is that the constitution doesn't (currently) provide a way to kick out such a state. On the other hand, the constitution asserts at least some rights, and the federal government has authority to enforce federal laws (which could be passed to prohibit state actions). Also, residents of those states could freely move to other states.
Maybe but it's not like all those AI compute units or whatever Nvidia called them will be thrown in the dumpster after the AI bubble pops. There's a lot of problems the can be solved on them and researcher are always looking for new problems to solve as compute becomes accesibile.

I'm tired of hearing about Nvidia's "luck". There was no luck involved. Nvidia shiped Cuda on consumer GPUs since 2006. That's almost 20 years time researchers had to find used cases for that compute and Nvidia made it possible. In other words the AI bubble happened because Nvidia made the necessary ground work for it to happen, they didn't just fall into it by luck.
> Bad way of doing business, in any case.

From Qualcomm?

ARM gave Nuvia a sweetheart deal (including IP access) specifically to help tune and spread ARM on the server. Rather than negotiate for their own deal, Qualcomm decided to purchase Nuvia in order to reuse the IP and licenses, neither of which the agreement allowed according to ARM.
That's fine; but their reason is their problem. They are not entitled to free labor of other people.
To be specific, the system prompt used was (default in LM Studio config for Llama 3 V2):

You are a helpful, smart, kind, and efficient AI assistant. You always fulfill the user's requests to the best of your ability.

And then the query was:

GPU falling off the bus

And yes, I imagine it read that query as ending with an implied "pls help!".
I mean, you could certainly start your own company, and then be more generous with your employees around these sorts of things. Sadly, you might have more trouble attracting investment, but you could probably still pull it off.
ISAs are "protected" (read: monopolised) using patents IIRC.
According to the original complaint, both Nuvia’s IP and licenses were only transferable with ARM’s agreement.
It's not too surprising. Yes, Germany is slow to adapt to new tech, but they are a car manufacturing powerhouse and are the biggest country in Europe. The whole country is in an everlasting debate about its dependency on car manufacturing, and cars are _very_ important. It would be surprising if they weren't no 1 producer (and probably consumer) in Europe.
But how are you supposed to drink them when they are cold and solid?
On the other hand, Meta just rapidly built two different training networks in existing datacenter buildings, with existing cooling constraints, using mostly commodity components (albeit expensive commodity components) each of which would place at #3 on that top500 list in terms of GPU power. Compare that with how long it took to get any of the other supercomputers from design to being fully commissioned.
Should have emboldened the ecosystem by providing incentives for web-based government services instead of forcing users to only depend on two primary entities in this space.
Rather like the energy consumed by spam/antispam or the energy cost of unwanted advertising, the energy cost of an unwanted LLM response at the top of search queries is just another thing consumers are going to have to put up with being made to feel guilty about.
The comparison is between setups with different amounts of GPU RAM and there's no quantification of final performance/price.