skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some good some bad here; it looks like you can in general get better descriptions out of LLama-3+Llava-1.5 than random crappy / short / possibly wrong human captions.

The image generation models they train using the new caption system have better coherence and look a lot better / less weird. (I don’t know if they showed training detail differences between their comparisons, but let’s assume they’re not hiding the ball here).

The bad: Those captions don’t always perform better on all tests using existing infra - some of their tests perform worse against existing benchmarks.

Why they perform worse is an open question; the answer might be that the existing test data expects short / human answers, or it might be that the models are more verbose but less accurate (although that seems unlikely looking at the examples they show).

Also troubling to me is a toss-off note in Table 3 showing that the “concat” data, one in which they use original caption concatenated to the generated caption, has really bad CLIP outcomes. That … surprises me based on the rest of the results.

That said, their baseline comparison numbers in Table 1 are pretty compelling — this would definitely go into the ‘try it’ category based on the paper. But, it also goes into the ‘might fail in really surprising ways, so proceed carefully’ category for me.

EDIT: Another way to think of this model is to say “can we exfiltrate multi-model training data from open weights / closed training models?” And I think there the answer is yes.
I feel for the developers who work for free on an open source project but got a lot of criticism and hate thrown at them for introducing an optional feature. It’s not a feature I would use, but not using it was an simple as not entering an LLM API token.
That’s a good catch. I also wondered because there are vast amount of people want just personal vehicle to move from A to B.
Wouldn't electric car conversions count as low tech? Like those VW or 2CV conversions.
At source. Taxes on the sale of LNG, taxes on the production of GHG by power plants, fuel duty, potentially on activities like mining, etc.

Setting the rate is more complex, but anything at all would be a start.
It's a really dumb move from Arm, regardless of what the actual contracts say.
"Can I eat this mushroom?" is a question I hope AIs refuse to answer unless they have been specifically validated and tested for accuracy on that question. A wrong answer can literally kill you.
The Problem with "Gimp"
I thought copy in excel only copied the range and it was during paste that data was copied. This is why you can’t make changes to your sheet between copy and paste.
It's not "sharing" if it's forced.
Gas isn't easily shippable like oil. Most of Russia's gas is in Siberia, inaccessible for purposes of shipping to Europe. Ukraine holds the only other gas reserves in Europe other than Russia. Gas supply is inelastic, meaning that even minor competition can lead to a big drop in prices. So yes, Russia "needs" to keep Ukraine out of the European gas market.
Yes, you mentioned pornography. If you don't think that's safe for work, then why are you complaining about people talking about NSFW material?
I often wonder how biased we are here. After all, HN is a rather "raw-looking" news aggregator without any of the addictive and suggestive bells & whistles that define the modern internet, and it is therefore reasonable to assume that those who read and post here (aka "us") also converse in ways unlike the population average.

You could also claim I'm saying we're basking in our own elitism to the degree that we're offended by stupidity like that. I'd admit to that feeling. Alas, even if it sounds arrogant, it fits my observation that "most people" would find nothing at all wrong with this sort of meaningless overchildish belittlement of scientific facts.
I wonder what sort of unfathomable idiocy it takes for someone to call Chomsky an idiot.

Disagree with him or not about US foreign policy, the man was a genius.

But oh wait you're probably just a propaganda bot yourself.
What is your reason for believing the closed source nature of nVidia's graphics drivers played a role in their success? AMD's and Intels Windows drivers are also closed source and so were AMD's Linux drivers when nVidia managed to secure the lead.

nVidia is also finally moving to an open source kernel module so a closed source one doesn't seem important to them for keeping their moat.
I wouldn't read too much into it yet; 2023's numbers look like they're abberantly high, which is probably the airlines catching up after the little economic hiccup we all had in 2020.
Dutch roll was particularly pernicious with trijets. It has to do with thrust vs lift vectors having different offsets (origins) relative to the cg. Sometimes they would add stabilizers to the tail to correct for this, but eventually manufacturers gave up on the design.
Isn’t that something that should happen between the unhappy person and their psychologist/psychiatrist/medical doctor though, rather than the rest of us?
> Ozempic / Wegovy… seemingly started as a “designer” drug for celebrities and rich folks to lose weight

The term “designer drug” means something else. Ozempic has been in use in humans for over 15 years as a treatment for diabetes.

> Nearly 2/3rds of patients who stopped taking Wegovy gained back the weight they had previously lost, less than 1 year after stopping the usage of the drug. <source>. What does this sound like? Dependence.

No, this is not what is meant by a drug dependence.

> I’m not here to claim to be an expert on any of this — because I certainly am not. In fact, I am probably the exact opposite of that in this space… I am not a medical professional...

Oh, got it.

One could write an interesting article about adoption curves (people have for phone vs VCR vs TV…) but this isn’t it. It’s just wild speculation.

I am not a “medical professional” but I am a former pharmaceutical designer and founded and ran a pharmaceutical startup.

Sorry to be so harsh; we should be encouraging more blogging. But this post is terrible.
Waymo updates software after robotaxi drives into telephone pole
"The 6.2-meter-tall vehicle is made of carbon composite, which gives it a liftoff mass of 1,268 lb; at its heart is the 3D-printed semi-cryogenic engine that Agnikul manufactured in-house, each of which provides 6.2 kN of thrust."

This is like they clubbed together processes which Russia seems to use for manufacturing of some of its Novator cruise missiles. That technology must have transferred over somehow and they are just adapting it for space. It's great they adapted a military technology for something else (though I expect it will stay military), but it's nothing novel.
I work with a CRM that allows users to add additional functionality by uploading definitions in XML "spec" files.

The XML specs are a combo of metadata and code and define all functionality in the system including SQL tables, forms for adding/editing data, query nodes for the internal query system, arbitrary business processes etc. They can include SQL stored procedures to run or call out to bundled C# code, and they can be accompanied by HTML templates that generate UI elements where appropriate (e.g. user facing forms).

There are a lot of moving parts and the documentation is a bit patchy but it's a really ingenious system for adding modular functionality, particularly in a CRM setting. Pretty much all of the "official" functionality is built using this spec system.
> The Taylorism didn't exist until "Agile" came along around the year 2000.

There was plenty of that before 2000, but it was more in the mainframe world. "Data processing". Government contracts. Business applications. "Software analysts" who broke the problem down into small chunks, and gave those to programmers.

I have been in the industry for 39 years, and I avoided almost all of that, but it was there...
There are also 100% tariffs on Chinese cars in the US. so doubling the price. Chinese EV manufacturers will likely set up final assembly plants in Mexico and ship them 90% finished, and then they will be able to circumvent that tariff. That's how Chinese steel manufacturers get into the US market.
An LLM, however, is not your friend. It's not a friend, it's a tool. Friends can keep one another, ehm, hingedness in check, and should; LLMs shouldn't. At some point I would likely question your friend's sanity.

How you use an LLM, though, is going to tell tons more about yourself than it would tell about the LLM, but I would like my tools not to second-guess my intentions, thank you very much. Especially if "safety" is mostly interpreted not so much as "prevent people from actually dying or getting serious trauma", but "avoid topics that would prevent us from putting Coca Cola ads next to the chatgpt thing, or from putting the thing into Disney cartoons". I can tell that it's the latter by the fact an LLM will still happily advise you to put glue in your pizza and eat rocks.
The PCU in this context is the part that moves the rudder. PCU issues were common on the 737 in the 90s[0] although that's... probably?... not relevant here.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737_rudder_issues
That’s not true. It’s not that the average American reads at a 4th grade level, it’s that enough of people read at less than a 5th grade level (about 20%) that you have to take them into account when targeting a general audience.
I'm no chemist but I noticed this other researcher wanted to dump literal tons of another oxide into the atmosphere to counteract global warming.

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aae98d/...
The big reason screens matter for electric cars is planning long range trips with stops at a battery charge location. Without the map/screen in-car you can’t integrate battery level with routing. Maybe you’re fine doing this manually, but range anxiety is the big reason consumers who can afford electric don’t buy electric, so it seems self defeating to remove features that help with that. The screens and stuff aren’t that much extra, often it helps save more on tooling/logistics for plastic buttons and dials.

Additionally, CarPlay/Android Auto is a hard requirement for me and many other consumers these days. I wouldn’t consider a car - gas or electric - without it. I opted for a Mercedes gas car in part because there was no overall good electric car with wireless CarPlay in my price range.
Well unless you're an air launched cruise missile operator.
Maybe the ice skaters took it from ships, also an old Dutch tradition I suppose.
> I bet you could cut about 25% of the price off by removing goofy crap you don't need.

Most of those things are low cost, high margin extras. Removing them wouldn't really decrease the cost of the car for the manufacturer. A lot of the time, if you don't pay for the extra's, they are included in the car anyway because it's not worth the effort of customizing the build. They are just disabled in software.
What is the meaning of "tech" in this context? "Software"? I mean, if Nvidia isn't a technology company...
I totally agree, I really want a Caterham 7 with 4 electric hub motors and the battery where the engine used to go. It seems like it should be actually pretty cheap to build.

I do think the reason we havn't seen this class yet is that EV's are yuppie cars. They are sold at a premium for people who think this is the thing that will solve CC. When really taking busses, even petrol ones would probably do more.
The Nissan Leaf has been available for many years now , and it is a very basic car (not sure you would qualify it as low tech):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Leaf

Still much more expensive than the equivalent cars with a combustion engine though.
Could be related to high interest rates and investments being more expensive. Also, I believe that Airbus has a 10 year backlog on their newest planes, so no point in shelling out a lot of cash right now for 10 years down the line.
This sounds to me like standard CYA / perhaps good-natured complaining from the tech team.

The last tech team to have no budget and time constraints to pursue their vision? I don’t know, the Xanadu team? Romero’s original Daikatana team?
Very few of Hyundai recalls have been particularly serious. Fire hazards, but not major component redesigns.

It’s trendy to rip in Hyundai/Kia.

By contrast, certain f-150’s have a recall because the rear axle bolts can completely sheer off. The current fix is to entirely replace the axle
I think this was not the case here they weren't nagging about anything. And it wasn't working unless you did set up a token.
But it is always the right move to refactor code like that into optional plugins especially for enterprise users where you want to be sure nothing could leak if a user had their personal token.
The version that was up before you commented claimed the U.S. tried to build Skynet.
The Witch in Left 4 Dead. Whoever cooked up the audio for that deserves an Oscar.

https://youtu.be/C71U4CxD_J8?si=dvaDyhYCKtb5f069
I knew that good morals and modesty would save us someday. It is clear now that human artists will remain gainfully employed by producing high quality erotic art. /s.
> That technology must have transferred over somehow

Nope. Russia and Israel attempted that for India in the 1990s but were threatened by US sanctions for breaking MCTR.

Idk why you're so surprised that these kinds of domestic capabilities exist in India now.

India is fairly poor, but R&D capabilities have been strong, and there is an actual reverse brain drain going on from the US now that GC backlogs are multi-decade in length.

> it's nothing novel

It's a significant incremental development, as it drastically reduces the upfront cost for ballistic missiles or sub-orbital launches (eg. satellites), because you can manufacture much more faster. Plus, it is actually indigenous, which is a significant change.
The license belonged to the acquired not the acquirer.

A more apt analogy would be if Microsoft gave the source code of Office to a research center and IBM then tried to resell their version of the office suite after buying the research center.

To me out feels very similar to how a spyware company might want to buy a VPN just for their personal data. Except that here there is an actual contract forbidding this.

My uninformed opinion is that Qualcomm is perfectly allowed to keep all the assets and artifacts that Nuvia produced, but is not allowed to create chips based on them
Citroën Ami is about as low tech as you can get.

If you want something more car-shaped, the Renault Zoe has very few tech feature.

Similarly, Kia Soul has a reversing camera… and that's about it! No radar, lane assist, carplay or anything like that.

Cstomers only want 3 things. A comfortable ride, a safe journey, and $thing. The problem is, everyone's one more thing is different. I want DAB radio, you want cruise control, she wants lane assist, he wants automatic parking.

Creating a dozen different SKUs for all those things is complicated. Getting regulatory approval for every variation is expensive.

So most manufacturers sell only a few variations of their models.
Key trends for payment processors in Q1 2024: Insights from earnings
I think it says its a catalyst, for some chlorine reaction. So its not out of the question 300 tons (per year) could effect ozone concentrations.
I agree with your firs point and I think that is the crux of the matter, but I goes a bit farther than only developed under a specific licence from Arm.

Arm seems to also have given Nuvia access to the technology behind their own cortex cores.

Arm sees anything that nuvia developed as a derivate of their IP and therefore subject to the agreed upon licencing term.

I think that removes some of the weird feeling around the idea of just sharing patents and entering a licensing agreement, but even if arm only gave patent(licences) rights, it would still mean that all of the products of nuvia would be based on that ip.

I don't think your example is applicable, in your situation the product is not a derivate of visual studio, but visual studio is just a tool.

I think this fits the situation better:

You want to write a custom video decoder and because you are small and new a bigger company allows you to use their super fast video decoder and some of their patents if you only sell your software for ios smartphones for a good price.

If you breach any of this, your licence to use their encoder as a base for your products expires and you can't use any of their patents.
Because marketing departments like to have lots of features to advertise. There's a lot of money in selling people things they don't need or even want.
I don't know enough to say whether it started from a single point or not. But if it did, then every point in the current universe is where that single point expanded to. So, yeah, I can regard the point I am at as being the point that the universe started expanding from.
I aggressively flag these comments, and I encourage you to do the same. We may be able to reverse the trend, at least temporarily.
This is going nowhere, and all you do in your free time is argue with studies according to your own post history (or do I need to cite a study on this very obvious fact?). In any case I'm assuming you don't believe in sports reporters now out of paranoia as I've asked twice now, otherwise you do believe in it because it doesn't challenge your zero-trust society politics.
> but I think it's one that's mostly about Nvidia's platform dominance and profit margins more

Profit margins and dominance are result from performance, not the other way around.

It does not matter if Nvidia tools are better when you deploy large number of chips for inference and it does more flops per watt or second. It's seller market and if AMD can't ask high price, their chip do not perform.

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Question:

People here seem to think that Nvidia has absolutely no advantage in their microarchitecture design skills. It's all in software or monopoly.

Is this right?
I just want to say thank you to the maintainers and developers of iTerm. It’s one of the tools I use most on my Mac, alongside Emacs, VS Code (heresy!), Obsidian, and Keyboard Maestro. So, thank you!
This is a good point. It's possible to use Go this way too, but it gets tricky. You can lock the main goroutine to its O/S thread with runtime.LockOSThread and then do the heavy lifting on other goroutines, sending messages back to the main goroutine typically using channels. Given Swift's lineage, this is probably more ergonomic there than in Go.
I can't read that article, but I'm assuming (hoping?) that even if the software is flawed, there's still clarity about which source code / build configuration is installed on a given plane.

Contrast that to the allegedly faked test results, and known defects, of the planes' physical characteristics.
MG Motors in India introduced Comet: https://www.mgmotor.co.in/vehicles/comet-ev-electric-car-in-...

It still has a big screen though.
> 1) Even if the max had hiccups, plenty of them, it is an absolutely safe airplane by any measure.

Except fatalities.
Yes, money is everything.

Why would we care about people from poorer countries, or from countries that aren't close to us?
I believe that Qualcomm, like Apple has a perpetual license that could be hard for Arm to terminate
Could be.

I'll keep an eye out for a firmware update which addresses this.
They say the student "was caught behaving suspiciously" but don't offer any detail. I would guess it's because of the earpiece, and am wondering whether the student would have gotten away with it if they had the AI's output go through vibrations or some other haptics directly in the shoe component (I assume these are multiple choice questions).
The tech is still immature and can't compete with similarly priced vehicles except at the top end of the market. Tesla is the only seems to be getting the scale required to push the price down.
Do you mean Citroen Ami?
I once took a tour through the VW HQ's manufacturing plant in Wolfsburg.

Those buildings are incredible, some packed full with robots all squeezed into the smallest possible space. Videos on YouTube [0] give you an impression of what it looks like, but being there, seeing and hearing all those machines, is yaw-dropping.

For those who have the opportunity to go, go! People like to go to museums to look at paintings and the like, this is no different, but you get to see what modern production can look like at its peak.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FD-ibWKi2J8&t=205
Understanding Medical Research (YaleCourses, 2020) [video]
how does this compare to going on a forum and being trolled to eat one? or a blog post incorrectly written (whether in bad spirit or by accident) fwiw, i don't have a strong answer myself for this one, but at some point it seems like we need core skills around how to parse information on the internet properly
The 737 rudder PCU also had a defect in the 90s that caused a series of major incidents, although obviously that's been fixed since:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737_rudder_issues
Person dies and finds themselves in front of the pearly gates.

A voice booms out, "Who's there?"

Person says, "It is I."

The voice says, "Go away. We already have enough English teachers."
I hate touch screens too. And I hate when my car yells at me. My view is, until they release a car where self-driving actually works, there's no basis for my car telling me—30 years of driving in the city, zero accidents—how to drive.

But, there's a bound to how low tech a car can be, especially for companies who are looking ahead to increasingly prescriptive safety regulations in the future. Cars sold in the U.S. need a lot of sensors, computers, and mechanisms to take control of the vehicle away from you when it thinks it's necessary. It's just the law. The idea of a simple box with four wheels and some number of motors is pretty much not a viable option, legally speaking.
As someone put it in: we are in the 3D glasses phase of AI. Remember when all TVs came with one?
It's about customizable vs off the shelf in the article, not newer / older.

This article, although a year old, seemingly does a better job of explaining each company's position:

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/arm-qualcomm-lawsu...
Fancy screens are essentially low-tech now though, they've been commodified, Apple and Google will hook up car companies with that and it's not gonna cost them much. Bespoke buttons with soft touch is what is exotic.
Even though I hate Brendan for JavaScript and his gay hate, I think Brave is kinda doing ok. This article is mainly propaganda.
The downside of Zoe is Renault. For its tech price should be much less.
They work on people without the resources to sustain operations without income. Sadly, the people that most need boycotting have effectively unlimited resources.
If starlink thinks it may have 40,000 satellites at full capacity[1] .. and we expect at least 1 if not 2 competitors..

With a 5-year lifespan for an LEO sat, that's potentially 120,000 deorbits every 5 years...

That will add up quickly... I don't know the science of aluminum oxide increase to ozone depletion.. but this can certainly warrants more research and consideration

1: https://starwalk.space/en/news/spacex-starlink-satellites-ni...
Is this release supposed to be a joke? [SD3-2B]
I believe that Arm's argument is more in the other direction, that is that Qualcomm license does not cover IP developed by Nuvia.
> how does this compare to going on a forum and being trolled to eat one?

Exactly as harmful.

> or a blog post incorrectly written (whether in bad spirit or by accident)

Exactly as harmful.

I believe in content moderation for all public information platforms. HN is a good example.