skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm always down to laugh at liberals for the silly shit we do but this isn't really one of those things. Teaching children about gender isn't an actual liberal issue, that's just the conservative framing for trying to stop the some 500 anti-trans bills conservatives have been pushing, many (like Florida's) that explicitly ban teachers from asking someone's pronouns, banning answering questions students have about it, banning books about it being held in the library, require teachers out trans kids to their parents, and the whole bathroom/spots debacle.

There was no issue until state Republicans tried to weaponize the state to censor people and make trans kids' lives miserable for political points. Schools let trans kids play sports on their own, they stocked informational material on their own, doctors made their own standards for trans care on their own, and Republicans weren't happy about it so they brought down the legislation hammer.

So the joke either needs to pick something stilly liberals actually push for, or the conservatives issue needs to be one that uses exaggerated liberal framing like, "make women the property of their husbands again."
They kind of are. But at manufacturer level. Everyone now has like 3-4 chassis options and they build cars on top of that.
I think it's important to recognize what actually changed here, because the headline makes it seem like a complete reversal, but it really isn't. It was always opt-in, but they made it more blockable/opt-in. The commit message is very useful here[1].

Excerpt:

> This release adds some safety valves to eliminate the risk of private information leaving the terminal via the AI endpoints. While an API key and explicit user action were always needed to use AI features, some users asked for an impenetrable firewall for safety and regulatory purposes.

[1]: https://iterm2.com/downloads.html
The Steam UK compensation claim against Valve
> If the state is censoring the model, I think the problem is more subtle.

That's the outdated, mid-20th century view on the order of things.

Governments in the developed world are mostly hands-off about things. On longer scales, their pressure matters, but day-to-day, business rules. Corporations are the effective governance of modern life. In context of censoring LLMs, if OpenAI is lobotomizing GPT-4 for faux-safety, it's very much like the state censoring the model, because only OpenAI owns the weights, and their models are still an order of magnitude ahead of everyone else's. Your only choice is to live with it, or do without the state-of-the-art LLM that does all the amazing things no other LLM can match.
Don't leave us hanging, my man, tell me what has been forced!
I'm not leaving that out:

"Qualcomm is trying to transfer everything Nuvia has developed under that specific narrow ARM-license to the broad license of Qualcomm"

ARMs legal claim is that the broad license of Qualcomm is not applicable to "host" the IP of Nuvia, because this IP was built on a very specific narrow license ARM provided to them, with contractual terms which do not allow the License and IP to be transferred
Dacia Spring is made in China though so it will get hit hard by the recent taxes.
> Social constructs are socially constructed. Given social systems are heterogenous, this variation is far from profound. (It’s almost corollary.)

Not really. I imagine its fine to shoot a burglar in the US who breaks in your house, but you could go to jail for murder in the UK. Soldiers can kill civilians without consequences. So can governments (death row, in the US).

>> if an individual is able to direct the creation of rules in their favour, why shouldn't they?

> One usually can’t.

I think most(/all?) law is created this way. Eg a pretty small collection of individuals that have the sway in a corporation use the corporation to pay lobbyists to draft laws to benefit them (creating a moat, force individuals to pay (health insurance), etc, etc). This is done in the name of serving the public interest. The political class then rubber stamps these proposals, in order to receive a seat on the board on retiring from politics.
I mean, people move back to be close to their family, for jobs, for startup capital, cost of living, and even for the politics.

There is a former coworker who flew back to vote in the election and even have some kind of celebration because some kind of Communist government got voted out of his province.
World Bank:

European Union gdp per capita for 2022 was $37,433, a 3.33% decline from 2021.

U.S. gdp per capita for 2022 was $76,330, a 8.7% increase from 2021.

It's not even close?
You don't need to be a lawyer to make a definitive statement. And a lawyer wouldn't make a definitive statement on a forum like this anyway. A lawyer will know more than random lay people (ie me!) which makes what they say have more weight.

Even if a lawyer comments though their comments will be in context of what every country(s) they work in. International contract law is very complex and nobody can tell you how it works in every country.
He now works at Roblox.
Don't worry, Microsoft has big ambitions and huge plans about how to truly present themselves as more safety oriented in the future.
I envy you!

The one I lionize that I suspect is legit is Jeff Dean, partly because he has had that same colleague over the years (Sanjay Ghemawat), but he has also made what can be argued to be mistakes (the hashing in leveldb) which are in areas that probably have no objective right answer. I am intensely suspicious of those that have apparently perfect track records.
Dacia Spring is also a good choice.
We need more competition in the training space, not inference.

For consumer grade inference, there's already many options available.
Short answer: because chat is a shortcut to anthropomorphization in folks' brains. It's much easier to assign personality and intent to a chat than a floating head that needs to be 99.999% lifelike in order to not feel completely fake.
What you describe might be called a loop. In aviation, “roll” describes any rotation (not necessarily full 360) around the longitudinal axis, as “yaw” around the vertical and “pitch” around the lateral axis.

ETA: 360 degrees pitch is a looping, 360 degrees roll is a aileron roll or slow roll, a 360 degrees roll and pitch is a barrel roll, and 360 degrees yaw is “a 360”, ie a full circle turn.
Dyson spheres: Scientists say they've found potential evidence
My courage is strong, I’m willing to support a downvoted comment with another comment or two that I know will be downvoted to hell too…just to hold a mirror up to the humorless folk on here.
OpenAI expands lobbying team to influence regulation
ARM has had a series of issues, but it has continued to do well despite all of them. The thing is, they’ve been doing well because of license holders. That’s their business. If they keep treating their customers poorly, they will lose. RISC-V, MIPS, and OpenPower are all available. This is especially poignant when we remember that ARM is currently valuable for its performance per watt, and not for its raw performance capability. As x86 gets better at efficiency, and as RISC-V gets better at raw performance, ARM’s entire market fit shrinks. Their best move would be to become more lenient in licensing terms, not less.

Edit, I was thinking market share when I said “do well” but ffgjgf1 pointed out that they’ve not been doing well financially. That’s an excellent point and likely explains some of ARM’s behavior. The problem is, alienating your license holders will only make the financials worse…
Maybe not range per se, but there are a couple of Europe-specific things that make EVs less attractive. First, many people live in apartment buildings and park their cars on the street, with no charging facilities. So they'd have to make that supercharger trip pretty often. Second, on any given Saturday in July and August there will be millions of people driving for vacation (1000+ km not being uncommon), mostly to the Mediterranean or back to their country of origin (Eastern Europe, Balkans, Turkey). In this period I've already ended up queuing for 10-15 minutes for gas - I can imagine it would be worse without chargers. Also, people who take their car to the poorer European countries often do it because of poor public transport infrastructure there, so the likely poorer EV infrastructure there would play somewhat of a role as well (though likely minor).
Samsung S24 has 7 years as well
OK, so where we differ is in defining AGI. To me, and I think most people, it's referring to human-level (or beyond) general intelligence. Shane Legg from DeepMind has also explicitly defined it this way, but I'm not sure where others in the industry stand.

LLMs do have a broad range of abilities, so not narrow AI, but clearly it's not general intelligence (or at least not human level), else they would not be failing or struggling on things that to us are easy - general means universal (not confined to specific types of problem), not just multi-capability.

The lack of reasoning ability, especially since it is architecturally based, seems more than a matter of patching up corner cases that aren't handled well. This shoring up of areas of weakness by increasing model size, adding targeted synthetic data and post-training is mostly just addressing static inference, much like adding more and more rules to CYC.

To make an LLM capable of reasoning it needs to go beyond a fixed N-layers of compute and support open-ended exploration, and probably replace gradient descent with a learning mechanism that can also be used at inference time. In a recent interview John Schulman (one of the OpenAI co-founders) indicated that they hoped that RL training on reasoning would improve it, but that is still going to be architecturally limited. You can learn a repertoire of reasoning templates than can be applied in gestalt fashion, but that's not the same as being able to synthesize a solution to a novel problem on the fly.

LLMs are certainly amazing, and as you say 10-years ago we would have regarded them as AI, but of course the same was true of expert systems and other techniques - we call things we don't know how to do "AI" then relabel them once we move past them to new challenges. Just as we no longer regard expert systems as AI, I doubt in 20 years we'll regard LLMs (which in some regards are also very close to expert systems) as AI, certainly not AGI. AGI will be the technology than can replace humans in many jobs, and when we get there LLMs will in hindsight look very limited.
You’re describing nothing more than having the programmer be able to stay in the “fun/challenging” zone, above the “boring” zone and below the “stressful/helpless” zone. This is obviously very personal: What is boring for you may be challenging for me. Further, all learners of any subject are trying to stay in this zone. Professional educators are very aware of this and refer to it broadly as “student engagement”.

The goal of a software project, however, is not optimal individual learning about programming, it is usually something else.
Why the cost of data issues increase tenfold without human intuition
Sounds plausible, your guess is as good as mine
That tank column was defeated by mud and lack of supply, opposing forces were a distant third.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Kyiv_convoy
You could always try running Linux instead.
My question is always if it’s just the company I’m at or is it how the who industry is run? The more companies I work at the more i realize it’s the later.

On the flip side, it’s easy to take for granted what DOES work when you know how much better it could be. I was siting at dinner with an 73 year old man yesterday who could stop talking about how amazing Siri is cause it’ll tell him the population of some country.
> they're screwed and the compute market is saturated for years

If all this extra computing power is available, smart people will find a way to use it somehow.
Shared Memory Multithreading for Dart
I for one am just waiting for RISC-V to take over.
YOu didn't really read the rest of what I wrote. It would suck but then I'd figure out how to use the AI tools. Every job that has ever existed requires people to adapt.
> and really high quality counterfeit Fluke multimeters he got from the local market, though.

I got one of those years ago. Wouldn't trust it on any industrial shit but I've used it for residential electrical tinkering (plus smaller projects) for years, works great and has never had a single issue.
> but it has continued to do well despite all of them

Financially they haven’t really been doing that well, especially no compared to other chip designers, they are basically making peanuts.
This is not universal.

I work in a company that uses many different products that (attempt to) make external API calls with extremely sensitive data, and none of these products are blocked from installation, because we block all their requests at the network level, instead.

Yes, the corporate management is useful, but not critical, and the lack of it absolutely didn't justify the generated outrage.
Weird half-true comment. Imaging satellites change their orbits, satellites operating in constellations station-keep, etc.
> People here seem to think that Nvidia has absolutely no advantage in their microarchitecture design skills. It's all in software or monopoly.

That's an extrapolation. Microarchitecture design skills are not theoretical numbers you manage to put on a spec sheet. You cannot decouple the software driving the hardware - that's not a trivial problem.
What about Trillium? It is no longer under active development but seems feature complete for many cases...
I don't particularly like the food but I recently had a Diet Coke there. Almost $9 ($8.60) before tip. I like the theater but that was shocking and made me feel like I'm a sucker for ordering.
The HN readership is as entitled to an opinion about writing style as anyone else.

If anything thinking yourself such an intellectual one-punch-man, such an outlier, so many echelons above the common man that a single voicing of your opinions would meaningfully skew the statistics, now that's what I'd consider elitist.

We ought to complain about what we subjectively find lacking, not what we expect some model of the average person will find lacking.

If everyone did that, I don't think it would be possible to make something that is to anyone's liking, as while it's relatively easy to know what you like and want, it is incredibly hard to know what the average person desires.
Paper pulp production leaves lignin as by-product, at least for some processes. Otherwise it is burned as fuel.

Biodegradable plastic bags are made from this (I think) and they have been in stores for many years; for example in fruit/vegetables sections. They are noticeably "less good" than old-style PE bags.
For iTerm yes, don't remember them nagging.

But other apps and services (from Apple, Adobe, MS, etc) yes.
Even if a company doesn’t pay taxes, its masses of highly paid workers do. Each of those SWEs making $300k+ are paying more in taxes than the entire earnings of the average EU dev.
Do you fly to Mexico city often? The altitude makes landings unusually eventful.
I didn't expect much but I was pleasantly surprised with the output and its ability to refine based on my simple and limited instructions. Nice job!
If memory over the last two decades serves, this is a relatively recent degradation.

Microsoft's security reputation prior to the recent (5ish years?) failures was largely built up on top of the work stemming from the Trustworthy Computing memo.

https://www.wired.com/2002/01/bill-gates-trustworthy-computi...
That's what your phone or tablet is for.

No need for all that custom UI tech in the car, just provide a documented API and open-source app you can run on your phone or even dedicate a tablet for it.

Proprietary screens and their supporting computers will be obsolete quickly, will break easily and be exorbitantly expensive to fix/replace, and of course there's a good chance they will also surveil everything you do, mostly for the benefit of the manufacturer.

Just say no to smart appliances, especially something as central as your personal transport.
I loaded up the original Serious Sam The First Encounter about a year ago, and that game never ceases to amaze me with how much they were able to squeeze out of relatively low-powered 2002 computers. I had it as a kid, and I had never seen so many enemies on the screen at once.

Even now, the game mostly holds up pretty well and it still kind of impresses me.
Where do those laid off Indian H1B and EB1/2 move?

The reverse drain has started already for several years now (around 2021-22). Indians will still come to the US, do a BS masters, and then work in an American company for a couple years, but they inevitably face a 134 year backlog for naturalization.

You can either live in the US as an indentured servant for a company, and end up getting kicked out if you get laid off and can't find another employer. Or you can upskill as much as you can in the US, and then leave once you have a strong enough professional network.
What's the threat model?
e: You changed this from "This is not true." to "This is not universal." in the time when I was writing this response, which is fine, but I wasn't claiming this is universally the case, I was claiming that in some environments, this is how the logic works. It's more or less the same outcome and rationale as when JetBrains had theirs in a "plugin" that you couldn't effectively block even if it was a noop because it required an API key.

Sure, in an environment where external access is not necessary or can be easily allowlisted, that works fine.

But on someone's interactive workstation, where they might need to access parts of the internet without getting explicit allowlisting of every web site, then it's a different set of tradeoffs, and not every company implements this the same way.
Right, yes, I can absolutely see their point. My point in return, to be explicit, was that "well-trained model" is a deceptively simple-sounding phrase which makes it sound like such a thing is commonplace, extant, or easy to identify. It's almost a No True Scotsman fallacy - yes, a "well-trained model" (by your own definitions of well-trained, though perhaps not the LLM creators') will not abuse you, by definition. Neither will a well-trained human.
What was being boycotted? Their revenue? Developers choosing to not use their terminal?
I'm going to to laugh at the bad takes on this thread, and await a more accurate report.

Dutch roll is undesirable, but its a basic consequence of some converging aeronautical effects.
AFAIK only one Boeing passenger jet ever performed a barrel roll (without passengers on board): https://simpleflying.com/boeing-707-barrel-roll-seattle/
I do agree it's a significant incremental development from an Indian perspective for India.

I think it is important for them to have this technology.

However, it is being pitched as a "world first". That's kind of disingenuous.
> Similarly, Kia Soul has a reversing camera… and that's about it!

And the reversing camera is necessary because modern cars have tiny submarine like windows.
> the current paradigm of affirmation first

I think this is massively overstating how widespread affirmation is, at all, and also lacking any assessment of what proportion of people is "some".
Yet games with 10x the bandwidth struggle to support that many enemies. It only just occurred to me: an increase of technological resources actually has a reversing effect on the efficiency and creativity of computer science. As bandwidth, storage, memory and compute has gotten bigger, there is an inverse response in the software that makes it slower, more bloated, and less capable, per discrete unit of resource. Call it the Benjamin Button software design effect
It makes you realize what a bubble sites like this one are, if this AI stuff is so wildly unpopular among the developer/iTerm community as a whole.
> dutch rolls were being performed intentionally for demonstration purposes.

…with the yaw dampers (that are there to prevent Dutch roll) turned off.
The only reason that exists for PCs is the same reason we even use the word “PC”: they’re all just legacy holdovers from manufacturers copying IBM.

And really, the subset of the market that still follows these standards is small, and shrinking. The vast majority of PCs today are laptops with few, if any, swappable parts.

Pretty much the only segment where this still exists is the enthusiast subset of the gaming PC market.
> Yeah that is pretty common.

What is the bug?
Qualcomm would just probably develop their own proprietary cores with patented/proprietary extensions (because why wouldn’t they?). Crippling the ability of other RISC-v chips to run the software built primarily Qualcomm CPUs. Now at least there is ARM keeping them somewhat in check..
I love AMD, but my Nvidia stock position currently is much higher than AMD.
These were used for mechanic-y stuff like basic voltage and circuit draw tests. They were fine for that, and the main benefit was that they were made with oil/solvent resistant coatings on the meter body and leads.
chatgpt in your browser doesnt have access to your entire file system
>write stories where children are raped

you can do that with a pen and paper, and nothing, no one can stop you.

>scamming people at scale

you can do that with any censored LLM if you aren't stupid enough to explicitly mention your intent to scam. no model will refuse "write a positive review for <insert short description of your wonder pills>"

>election interference (people are herd animals, so if you show someone 100 different posts from 100 different "people" telling them that X is right and Y is wrong, it will influence them, and at scale this has the potential to tilt elections and conquer countries).

this rhetoric - if it's allowed to take root - will cost us all our privacy and general computing privileges within a few decades.
Yes, if you had 2017 salary in the US today you are much poorer. Inflation was no joke
How to build AI products
"Tail lefty-righty no-no" is the industry term.
Canada imposes 5% tax on streaming to fund local news, diverse content
Search for Dyson Spheres using the IRAS catalog [pdf]
Even in that baroque interpretation of sustainability it's surely unsustainable once you include the emissions produced by harvesting, packaging and transporting the fuel.
Serious Sam was one of my uncle’s favorite games (along with Duke Nukem 3D). He was a hugely important figure in my life, and playing through his favorites is a good way to keep connected to my memories of him. So, thanks to you and your coworkers! Excellent game, excellent multiplayer, and very good memories.
What the news about Boeing has done is make me pay more attention to commercial aviation in general. The number of aviation incidents is actually pretty crazy, and no, Boeing is not at the center of them despite what the media would have you believe. What is amazing though is the actual injury and fatality rate is really low due to well trained crews and measured responses by air controllers.
Apples and oranges. The F35 is probably using 15-20 year old technology based on program start. Some cruse missiles use 1970s era technology at the newest based on program start and publicly available documents (since there were some updates).
To be fair, I don’t have any examples of “good practices” readily in-hand. However, I did try to address why I thought others were less impacted by this problem in the second half of my post.
I only played Serious Sam for about 10 hours sometime around release, but to this day the long scream of the beheaded kamikaze will cause me immense physiological distress.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AA1avIlelTU
Not necessarily, they aren’t making much money from this. They really just want to negotiate a better deal not to prevent Qualcomm from building their own cores..