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Yes whoops. I should have made that distinction. The parent comment was talking about electricity, and that’s what I meant.

I would argue that the USA as a whole generally has more climate variability than the UK in addition to larger housing to account for the overall energy usage as well.
So, the ChromeOS kernel is being thrown out, probably with it's A/B update mechanism, filesystem layout, secure boot, etc.

The question is will they also throw out the ChromeOS userspace components and replace them with the android userspace?

If so, this is effectively an announcement that ChromeOS is discontinued but those devices will now be migrated to run android.
Well where do you think we would get the wood from? Where I am from, considered the logging capital of the world, it is sustainable. We also have very regulated industry that is managed by environmental bodies separate from the logging owners. People are so emotional about trees being cut down but I believe it is much like those who say oil industry is bad but continue to use products like plastic wrap and buy cheap plastic made fabrics in their clothing just as logging means housing, toilet paper, the boxes your items are shipped in, the paper we write on, the pallets your appliances are shipped on and on and on. Wood is a vital part of society like it or not and being emotional and disagreeing with that point is equal to head in the sand mentality. Perhaps where you are from logging hasn’t traditionally been managed well but where I am from it is vital to the economy and management is absolutely critical that it remains long term viable business. Even after over a hundred years of logging in my area I am still surrounded by endless forests that one could get lost in and never found. That is not by fluke it is by the fact that like any other crop, forests are too a crop.
Yes, almost every day.

I spend approximately 60-70% of my time working with the headset on, connected to my MacBook. It’s actually better for me than my physical display because of the Zeiss inserts - I usually don’t wear glasses, so due to inserts, the desktop is subjectively crisper than the monitor :) I really can’t wait for visionOS 2 improvements in the virtual display feature.

Most of the media content I consume alone, and Vision Pro is perfect for that, especially watching something before sleep - the headset does not light up the entire room (unlike a phone/tablet screen) and thus does not mess up my wife’s sleep.

One thing I surprisingly don’t use it for are “immersive” videos and other experiences like VR or MR games. I’m not quite sure why - I always plan to try something out, but never do it actually.
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The talks that guy and Richard Gabriel did together were pretty good. And of course Richard Gabriel himself.
There was one incident in the 80s? where a US Navy ship shot down an Iranian airliner even though the screen showed it was gaining altitude and was squawking a commercial code, but the sailors fired anyways assuming it was going to fire missiles at them.

I’m very familiar with humans in the loop from my naval experience and agree fully that it’s hard to question the computer.
Ex Siebel here. Got out into ‘real’ engineering at the time of Salesforce’s rise with that as a backup plan.

Now fighting to keep Salesforce out of company. Shiny RFP’s of a horizontal service that doesn’t do much that well but appeals to execs.
>TerraPower’s investors and development partners, including Bechtel, GE Hitachi, PacifiCorp, and Berkshire Hathaway.

For people not familiar, PacifiCorp is majority owned by Berkshire Hathaway (Warren Buffett). They operate many coal-fired power plants in the region including near Kemmerer where the new TerraPower facility is. I see this as a positive sign for the success of the project.
Pretty sure Asimov didn’t consider that when he wrote his three laws of robotics.
AND trying to get out of SAP shark lock in!!!

The future is bright elsewhere
> "Yeah they might have a pseudo-monopoly but their product is good, I think the 30% cut is fine." would be laughed at in most other sectors.

In most other sectors the bar is higher. They've earned their near-monopoly fair and square (unlike Apple, they don't do anything to block competing marketplaces - they're not even preinstalled) by being head and shoulders above their competitors in terms of quality - the fact that that's due to those competitors all sawing their own legs off doesn't change that.
Yes and now that a single hypersonic missile can disarm a carrier group, we can have even more Peace as America is persuaded to stay home /s
> Violations of the new law will bring a penalty of 20 percent of the domestic revenue of the service found to have breached the rules. The fine can increase to 30 percent if the companies do not cease the anticompetitive practices

The delicious irony in forcing Apple to pay a fine identical to the totally normal and "reasonable" fees they charge their developers.
> But that sort of job would be very different from what being a dev has entailed when they chose the career.

I've been through that. I got into web dev when it was just HTML and maybe some JS (CSS didn't exist) and my interview was a half hour where I only had to demonstrate that I could use vi and create a C program that was basically just getenv("QUERY_STRING").

I miss the days of writing vanilla JS without a ton of dependencies.

I'm not a fan of the "framework of the month" nature of JS, and all the complex toolchains these days certainly has made the job less "fun", but the world isn't going to stop for me.

The only thing that doesn't change is incessant change.
> kept firing people randomly

Likewise my downvote of your comment was random, unrelated to what you wrote.

On a more sensible note, do we care that X staff promotions are "delayed"? What emotion am I meant to feel about this news?
I have to admit that I agree with you. The letter gives many reasons for the decisions made but it seems to me like the most salient one is their funding situation.

When funding was plenty, people didn’t need to worry about it too much. In todays market, the situation has changed and they need to make themselves “palatable” to investors. Thus management.

Management is absolutely terrible at improving velocity. While they might occasionally provide leadership, Ive seen a lot more cases where decisions are made for egotistical reasons rather than technical ones. Not that ICs are angels, but most decent ICs will recognize good work and promote it whereas with management who don’t actually build anything its a lot more abstract.
Indeed, although I think in Petsinis' case it was just a moment of inattention (bonus Homer). Given that I read very few XIX autopsy reports, it's completely unclear to me if they're giving a standard report or drawing attention to something. (it's even unclear to me why they should have been paying so much attention to the cranium when the problem clearly lay in the abdomen? early phrenology?)
If it was SAP they would have rubbed their hands.
Isn't this in breach of the contract? Does Tesla commit to honouring access to service, repairs (beyond statutory/safety) and the charge network with the new owner?

(I think the contract not to sell is stupid but I have been belaboured elsewhere about that. So, this is't about if this kind of contract SHOULD be allowed, it's that it does appear to exist)
You can still create your own vec3 though that implements "<vec3> * <double>" through the Trait... It seems at least superficially equivalent to operator overloading.
> On benchmark style tests, LLMs are not improving. GPT-4o is equivalent to GPT-4 and both barely improve on GPT-3.5T.

The understatement of this year.

GPT-4o is 6x cheaper than GPT-4. So if it's actually equivalent to GPT-4, it's great improvmenet.

In fact, calling it "great" is still a crazy understatement. It's a cutting edge technology becoming 6x cheaper in 1.5 year. I'm quite sure that never happened before in the human history.
I didn't know about a waiting time.

>I doubt the people buying trucks at these prices are overly concerned with deal-hunting.

That all rests on the question of what they are actually selling for.
The Software Industry needs to take notes from this. They are the ones who have beaten the fun out of Programming and turned it into a drudgery/chore and have caused many Programmers who loved their craft to quit the field entirely. It is possible to meet customer/business needs and still create/maintain a work environment where the programming activity itself is fun for the developers. The way to do it is to abandon Taylorism Management and approach Software Development as a "Human-first" activity akin to that of a poet/painter/artist. Promote Autonomy, challenges compatible with competence, encourage novelty/learning/training and focus less on schedules, micromanagement and detailed processes.
> ...which is intended to indicate disdain towards people who produce or consume pornographic material.

The only intention was to rejoin OP's "hog cranking" euphemism with some fun ones from the English lexicon. (That it appears to have caused you to make a spectacle of yourself for no reason whatsoever is a bit of a bonus, though.)
$38 million fine for funding paramilitaries for a company that commands a little under $2 billion in revenue a year is a total joke of course. Then again if these US courts were actually worth their salt and not total kangaroo courts, they'd hold the US liable for funding paramilitaries in Latin America as well.
Ah, but how many weeks in a row? ;)
I don’t see that as an interest, as much as a method of achieving their interest (selling more iPhones). While the means are certainly questionable, in some sense the goal does align with that of their users - more people using iPhones will generally result in a better experience for existing users (partially due to the same decisions that generate social angst for others)
I hate that copyleft licensed software should be viable for companies, but they are often too scared to tap into open source as a mistake they might end up forcing companies to open source everything according to faint hearted busy/lazy legal teams.

At Google I was somehow allowed to use Emacs for development, but new copyleft software was immediately dismissed by legal, even if it's source was not getting into /google3 nor leaving my laptop.
I heard this one recently: “All mushrooms are edible. Some only once.”
Great blog post, loved the straightforward explanations and code.
There was a Swiss startup called Morphotonix that made holographic chocolates [1]. The company and its holographic-imprint tech are still around, but they've moved on to other markets. That suggests they just couldn't get prices low enough to make it appealing.

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/06/14/321816570/ho...
Then those books aren't any providing any deep knowledge, just superficial trivia about whatever is fashionable. some people do that as their job, though, so do what you want.
What? That's not what they asked?

> Can AI come up with new novel things?

... still yes. You can use generative AI to general novel text, images, videos, and sounds just as much as you can record or photograph something that has never been captured before with a camera or microphone.

Why did you have such a negative emotional response to such a plain fact?

Edit: wait I said "they" because I thought you clearly misread the comment, but I just realized you posted it yourself. Now I'm really confused.
Are you suggesting Meta or Google - who stand to save billions - won't be able to get top performance from their custom chips because their tooling/hardware won't support CUDA?
The keyword is "arbitrary". Say you have dependencies on reqwest and clap, want to dynamically link against them? Not gonna happen. That's what people talk about most of the time for static vs. dynamic linking, at least in my circles.
Ironic given that lesswrong folks who presented this did so as part of their mission of motivating policy makers to ban open access to models. Hate their ideology but love their research!

Edit: The data format is the same type used for DPO or RLHF style training. “Good” and “bad”, “harmful” vs “harmless”. What’s fun is to test the performance of this technique using your own datasets, to see how good the personalization is.
How Important Are Book Reviews for Success on KDP and How to Get Them?
I've heard that book reviews are crucial for success on KDP, but I'm unsure how to effectively gather them, especially as a new author. What strategies have worked for you to get genuine and positive reviews without violating Amazon's guidelines?
They should not even know when I'm tethering.
Infisical Update – May 2024
This is really interesting and is parallel to some other stuff (like the research on a model that's obsessed with the Golden Gate Bridge and inappropriately thinks of things related to it in otherwise irrelevant contexts).

It's worth mentioning that this technique is usable if you have the model weights (it's a simple way of changing the weights or how to use them):

> 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.

It's not (and doesn't claim to be) a technique for convincing a model to change its behavior through prompts.
I agree, that is a likely scenario in US and other countries.

The time horizon for those issues is not compatible with electoral terms. There is no incentive for any politician to tackle such big issue. Even though it might become existential. We would deal with the externalities until we get swallowed as it becomes unavoidable. The more we wait and the more painful it would be.
The status quo/momentum probably accounts for the majority of these folks. I don't think the HN crowd appreciates how complacent most people are when it comes to work. A lot of these folks are probably just on autopilot and haven't been affected enough to make them want to move on.

The rest are people who can't (i.e. visa holders) and Musk fanboys.
"Hear from I". Man that grates every time I hear it
Why an 89p metro ride is a recipe for ideological conflict
Im not sure if I know what you mean by example. I'm not talking about myself.

I know some old and wise mushroom hunters. Some of the best take informed risks.
Talk to pros, authorities in the field, and major authors, and they all have some crazy stories.

The safest option is always to stay home and watch TV.
I can't imagine Japanese game developers will put up with paying a 30% platform fee to Nintendo. Uh, Apple I mean.
I really wish they would announce the opposite, that crostini would be coming to Android and phones would launch ChromeOS "desktop mode" when attached to a monitor. ChromeOS feature flags have been seriously fun and innovative the past few years.
It's all just car. Goal is provide driving. It doesn't matter whether it's a Ford Model T or a Honda Civid. Goal is driving. Car go drive.

It's all just phonecall. Goal is provide phonecalling. It no matter whether it iPhone or landline phone. Goal is talky talk. Phone go talky talk.
8 instructions seems very solid - guessing AND/PSHUFB for low nibble, SHIFT/AND/PSHUFB for high nibble, OR to combine plus load/store?

If you have AVX-512, GFNI is faster for this task, but obviously many situations where you can't use it.
How have you found Windmill's UI components? Are they enough for what you're building, or are you building/importing your own?
What if I consider the model to be the llm plus whatever extra components it has that allows it to not hallucinate? In that case then the model doesn't hallucinate, because the model is the llm plus the bolt-ons.

Remember llm truthers claim that no bolt-ons can ever fully mitigate an llm's hallucinations. And yet in this case it does. But saying that it doesn't matter because other llms will still hallucinate is moving the goal post, or at least discounting the utility of this incremental progress. I think it's unfair to do this because there are many many domains where things can indeed be reduced to a formal logic amenable to approve engine.

If they don't care about the actual output of a hybrid system that doesn't hallucinate, because it's math and not speech, then do they care about solving the issue at all, or providing human utility? I get the feeling that they only want to be right, not the benefit anyone.

This shows that in cases where we can build good enough verifiers, hallucinations in a component of the system do not have to poison the entire system.

Our own brains work this way - we have sections of our brains that hallucinate, and sections of the brain that verify. When the sections of the brain that verify our sleep, we end up hallucinating dreams. When the sections of the brain that verify are sick, we end up hallucinating while awake.

I agree with you that the current system does not solve the problem for natural language. However it gives an example of a non hallucinating hybrid llm system.

So the problem is reduced from having to make llms not hallucinate at all, to designing some other systems, potentially not an llm at all, that can reduce the number of hallucinations to a useful amount.
Factorio is a good example of a modern game that works this way.
So this seems to be about uncensoring a model that the user is running locally. Is that right, do they expect to limit what someone can do under those circumstances? Kind of like expecting no one to break local copy protection, except copy protection with much less reliable tools.
Yeah just forcefully “sieze” things from people. Great “values” to live under.
That's true, and it justifies why some things are still better done in a university environment (or as part of an academic collaboration) - it's not possible for everything to carve out something useful in the middle.

Executive patience, focus and planning horizon are the immediately next 1-4 quarters, years 2 and 3 and perhaps 5 if you are lucky and that's it, and they might not even be around in five years.

In academia, if you are stubborn and tenured and don't care about your short term success (publications, citations, awards) you can actually decide to implement a very long-term vision, depending on how much additional funding you need (if that is a lot, you will need to also convince funding agencies or philanthropists of your vision).
There are certain crimes that might take place outside the US that the US enforces on US citizens/entities. E.g. war crimes.
You raise good points and I don’t disagree. It’s just that the tone of the letter seemed to me to be, hey, we made a whole series of bad decisions, so now we’re getting rid of the people who weren’t in charge of making decisions. He went on about how great the ex-employees were while explaining how the problems were due to mismanagement.

In a flat company, the CEO must be willing to shoulder the responsibility for making those decisions (or not making them). If they’re not, they’re missing a fundamental job requirement.
Please select a time for your Kindle book to be free to download and post it in r/freebooks and r/freekindle subreddits and ask for a review in exchange for giving your book away free. You can't always control the reviews to be positive though, and Amazon discourages bots from rating books.
Additionally a number of 'junk' files such as Thumb.db and .ds_store are deleted from ZIP files.

That's no longer lossless.
Serious Sam was always a killer LAN party game. Not necessarily because it was the sexiest title of the day, or what anyone had planned. Serious Sam won the LAN party because even when every other game died under some driver issue, thermal issue, update problem, whatever, you’d load Serious Sam and it would just work. This continued through the later series too, hell of someone’s machine was completely dead in the water it would also reliably split screen and handled input well enough for split peripherals. The systemic parts of the game were truly exceptional on the reliability axis.
Yeah, they're literally using that term to describe "cars parked in a parking lot." And those parking aren't unusually large: one is literally an old mall parking lot.
Hand washing?
What might you say about war crimes? When was the last time we had a large scale war within the borders of the U.S.? Should the wars that have taken place since been free of such prosecution since they were overseas?
I think you're asserting your opinion about a strawman situation as fact...

Put another, slightly more concrete way: what is more interesting, a photograph of a newly discovered moon of Jupiter, or a new album by Taylor Swift? Obviously people are interested in different things. Believe it or not, many people would forget about the new moon or new species within seconds or minutes.

If someone used generative AI tools to create a visually impactful image, I could imagine someone hanging it on their wall, and being completely disinterested in a photo of a newly discovered jellyfish.

People simply have different interests.
That’s probably true, at least for the ones good enough to get other jobs. I’d hate living under that sword of Damocles.
There is one thing I wanted out of VR... TO BE TRANSPORTED... That's what all the initial hype was about. You go in VR, and you supposedly get this feeling of presence that blows your mind.

Instead the whole thing seems to have gone in the direction of lofi social stuff - which only the relentlessly computer bound will ever desire. I don't get the argument at all that this is THE mainstream path to mass adoption. Who thinks that if they really succeed in siphoning off a significant portion of REAL world interaction into this simulated lofi hell that this is going to be a great way to live? I mean really.

There is only one VR experience that really blew me away. It was a free demo of Deckard's apartment in blade runner. You could go out on the balcony and see the city with a flying cop car going past on a loop. Vangelis playing in the background... It was breathtaking. I setup my area so I could sit on my couch, on this balcony, with a glass of whiskey in reach, watching that cop car fly past for ages.

Rights holders made the demo maker take it down.
What attack vector does this help to frustrate? Does it help prevent "hollowing out" a compromised process?
Also, the many speaker sound of “aaaaaaaaaaaaah” was delightful
Their Unity Catalog covers lineage and governance. Logging is still pretty bad last time I used it. But that’s more of PySpark issue with only the driver logs being collected.
Other countries are free to levy such fines for offenses they deem worthy and have done so in the past certainly. The US does not have exclusive right to this.
They removed the resale clause late last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38266907
Windows does it just fine.
the more I think about it the more I believe people will, or should at least, return to the OLD internet... things like BBS forums, RSS feeds of people's personal websites or blogs, webrings... things that haven't been completely and totally usurped by ads to turn us into content cows.

I hate that I find myself thinking, it really was better back then
If only Meta had a way to monetize engagement with generative AI content in a way that scales with quantity of generated content.
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Yeah, I thought it was a luxury item either people with too much money buy to be hip, or people with not enough money go into debt for to make it look like they have too much money. It appears those are the only two types of people buying them. I gotta admit it is pretty exciting to such an all-around awful object rocket to popularity, even if it is a niche market everyone is talking about it.