skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because that famous EU welfare is funded via taxes. Having well performing companies funds your welfare system.

Currently EU welfare systems are under massive strain and huge waiting lists due to ageing population and economy that hasn't kept up to fund it.

There's no free lunch here. You need big companies with scale that pay huge wages as those mean a lot more tax revenue. Saying no to that kind money out of some made up idealism is just silly copium.

The EU income taxes paid by a single FANG salary employee would be the equivalent of the taxes paid by ~10 average workers. Pretty sure Germany and every other EU country would like to have such taxpayers contributing into the welfare system and not say no to it.

Europe's share of global GDP gas been on a constant decline at the expense of US and Chinese growth. Yeah it's nice to have a better welfare system than China or the US, but how will you fund it in the future if you keep having less money? Political idealism doesn't pay your food and rent.
Actual cause was the chrome vs android turf war.

There was a time when the chrome team were walking around telling everyone native android development was a dead end and chrome would take over everything. Then Google had some reorgs, certain people ascended to control both android and chrome, and suddenly android was a good thing.
Lava: I assume it's more than just a LotR meme.

PS: just the cute pun thanks to you, whale-(as in cryptowhale, nested pun for hidden whale)-like, ergo, leviathanically centripetal though inconspicuous references.

I (think I?) caught the vexillary tilt but the contemporaneus Gold=freedom=(republican/nonmonarchist/patriotic but not patriarchist)Luetzower origin story of the current-day teutonic colors seemed more salient. Blonde-- more yellow than white, hence clearly not kaiserlich, but even maybe an aspersion-- misappellating gold gelb was historically such. So, irrealis: "Stendhal was too yellow to go either full republican Or (heheh) full legitimist, the liminal shade of psychologically legitimist/emotionally republican was as far as he could permit himself."

The genetics paper.. wasn't it in collaboration with a well-known American CS person on sabbatical in France?

Finnic practices: under investigation.
Windows 9x and classic Mac OS are extremely fragile compared to Windows NT, Darwin, or Linux. Doing anything non-trivial without breaking those systems required some skill.
Are you in EU?
The only thing missing from raycast clipboard is ability to paste previous 'copy's with a keyboard shortcut.
Sure, and I can only judge from what I'm hearing, but the internet does make it sounds like it's very hard to find programming jobs as a graduate or junior. I don't know what the truth is. Maybe it's just a minority crying out loud because they don't get hired at FAANG.
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The CDAX index has about 360 companies and appears to have a market cap of around 2 trillion EUR vs 1.7 trillion for the DAX 40.
That is a perfectly reasonable approach. On the other side, working in the tech on the US salary, if not blown on luxurious lifestyle, gives one a good chance of quickly reaching financial semi-independence (say, 3 years of full living expenses in the bank), which can be a powerful feature. My 2c.
To be fair, most startups fail, and the founders of these companies can end up with similar or worse compensation than their employees. Maybe they've volunteered to take a lower salary than their early employee. Maybe because by the time they've started hiring employees, they've been working without any salary at all, burning through their savings and credit cards for a year or more before getting any meaningful funding.
Maybe its the "romance" and "excitement" of it? I worked for a startup in Seattle, 20+ yrs ago. It had a fun exciting buzz, and... something special about it... the possibility of being part of something big... and having interesting, excitingly intelligent coworkers, that you can learn a lot from, but then of course , it all went to s** (less customers due to market bust). Ultimately we were all laid off, the options I'd bought at 5c each were worth nothing. I didn't expect any riches, it was just an adventure. And importantly, 30 mins drive to the ski hill which was open at night after work.. so.. not a bad time ;). Some of the early employees were bitter. Some had tried being early employees several times in a row, tried to make it big. To me, they were intelligent people so why they didn't they see it as just a gamble which is largely out of their control? Maybe people like to kid themselves? Its the dream of America to make your fortune out of something new and exciting. Why am I even reading this discussion and commenting here? ;) Becos' there's something intangible but exciting about it all. But a lot of it is fantasy. Maybe people like to work for startups for the same reason they like a good book or movie, you can suspend your disbelief and escape from the boring hum-drum where you do a 9-5 that can be similar year after year?
Why Does Every AI Cycle Start with Chat?
There could be other "AI" waves after LLM. And we have still not hit the self-diving car wave, that could happen the next 20 years (or 40). And neither general-purpose robots, that couuuuld also happen. Personalized medicine has also not happened yet. Nor virtual reality, which might take off one day (or not). There are still many industries that could go big in terms of computational demands.
> What says the theoretical engineer?

You'll have to tell me?

(...and the noonday demon just lost her powers! See you later)
This specific rhetoric aside, I really don't have any problem with people censoring their models. If I, as an individual, had the choice between handing out instructions on how to make sarin gas on the street corner or not doing it, I'd choose the latter. I don't think the mere information is itself harmful, but I can see that it might have some bad effects in the future. That seems to be all it comes down to. People making models have decided they want the models to behave a certain way. They paid to create them and you don't have a right to have a model that will make racist jokes or whatever. So unless the state is censoring models, I don't see what complaint you could possibly have.

If the state is censoring the model, I think the problem is more subtle.
Do you have a source not behind a "cookie wall"?

I remember Qualcomm making phone SoCs with custom cores some years back. Why is it suddenly an issue now? Or were those just rebrands of tweaked Cortex designs?

EDIT: From reading the Reuters article [0] it seems that Arm's argument is that since Nuvia's
cores were developed under a now-terminated licence, Qualcomm doesn't have a right to use them, their other licences notwithstanding.

[0]: https://www.usnews.com/news/technology/articles/2024-06-10/a...
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I'd wager 95% of it is #1.
`The 10 taboo conclusions were as follows:

1.
“The tendency to engage in sexually coercive behavior likely evolved because it conferred some evolutionary advantages on men who engaged in such behavior.”

2.
“Gender biases are not the most important drivers of the under-representation of women in STEM fields.”

3.
“Academia discriminates against Black people (e.g., in hiring, promotion, grants, invitations to participate in colloquia/symposia).”

4.
“Biological sex is binary for the vast majority of people.”

5.
“The social sciences (in the United States) discriminate against conservatives (e.g., in hiring, promotion, grants, invitations to participate in colloquia/symposia).”

6.
“Racial biases are not the most important drivers of higher crime rates among Black Americans relative to White Americans.”

7.
“Men and women have different psychological characteristics because of evolution.”

8.
“Genetic differences explain non-trivial (10% or more) variance in race differences in intelligence test scores.”

9.
“Transgender identity is sometimes the product of social influence.”

10.
“Demographic diversity (race, gender) in the workplace often leads to worse performance.”`
Good point. Since LLM isn't a person, this leaves only the vendor and the user as liable parties. That's one less legal person than in regular search, where you have the user, the search engine vendor, and the author/publisher of the content involved in a harm scenario.

What is the consensus on liability in case of regular web search? Your comment made me realize that I never thought much about it in 20+ years of using the Internet; I kind of always assumed it's all on the user.
There is no recurring revenue on them though. So NVIDIA needs to continue selling obscene amount of new chips.
When you use Elixir you have to go into it knowing you might have to end up maintaining any library you are using because the vast majority of Elixir libraries are abandoned.

You have to search through libraries to find out which one is being maintained.

For example if you want to use an OpenAI API client, you wouldn't want to use the most starred one because that hasn't been maintained in 7 months.

If you just use Python you get to use the one maintained by OpenAI. Using a language like Python, JS, Go ect. you almost never run into this problem because libraries are usually maintained and aren't abandoned and if they are there are usually enough users that a fork appears.

So yeah Elixir has great uses, but is it worth the possible future headaches of having to maintain a bunch of libraries to get your app going? Instead of using Go, Python, JS ect where you can rely on a massive community

Very very few companies build and maintain SDKs for Elixir.
Of course not, those are proprietary technologies specific to ARM.

If anything, they implement RISC-V debug and trace specs, or earlier vendor-specific, as these specs are relatively new.
> what the tolerance on something like this is?

They are pretty wide. You can find the answer by looking at some online antenna calculators. Bear in mind that it also depends on the orientation of the rod relative to the incoming wave, and to the polarization of the wave.

Modern stealth aircraft tend to reflect the signal away from the transmitting radar or absorb it. The windows tend to have thin conductive gold layers on them to stop radio waves getting into the cockpit and finding a resonator. Similarly joints on the fuselage are sealed.

However, the design of stealth is limited to a frequency band, normally X-Band (8 to 12GHz, a few inches in wavelength). At a lower frequency, like 1GHz they are not stealthy, which was one reason why an F-117 Stealth fighter was shot down in the late 1990's.
lol, you picked out my "Killing is wrong unless X is true" quote but ignored my follow up which acknowledges that prime directives are insufficiently flexible. I'm not even suggesting starting off a legal system from scratch. I'm saying that it would be good to begin by encoding our current system into a purpose-built language and compiler, and of course one should start with the basics and build upon it, using the language and compiler to find inconsistencies, clashes etc.

I think your point may be that laws currently do have nuance (eg murder vs manslaughter vs...) which is all fine. By all means load those rules into the system too, but the point of the language and compiler is that while you're doing this you pay attention to compiler errors along the way and at least be aware when a change (to a rule, or the meaning of a term or type) caused some other change that you didn't expect. Eg: changing the meaning of a word here makes one law ambiguous and causes these two to clash.

Using it in law school is a great idea. It's where it should begin.
According to ARM’s complaint, they gave Nuvia exclusive licensing rights and IP access for specific purpose. Rather than work with arm to negotiate their own deal (or even access Nuvia’s derived IP in good faith) Qualcomm:

- tried to discretely transfer the licenses to a brand new entity

- worked directly with Nuvia’s cores, which Qualcomm’s own license did not permit

- kept at it after nuvia’s own license was terminated

- kept using the Arm trademark in their copy despite that also being linked to the licensing agreement

So from ARM’s point of view, Qualcomm are the greedy ones, and lazy to boot.
Developing an LLM: Building, Training, Finetuning
Why is quantum mechanics weird? The bomb experiment [video]
My guess is that more lives would be lost from accidental or inappropriate activation than would be saved (even if you ignore all the reasons why it would be impractical anyway).
I wonder if VCs will be the ones left holding the bag at the end of this AI cycle.

You have hyperscalers "investing" in AI startups with compute credits, Nvidia "investing" in AI startups (who spend most of it on buying/renting their GPUs) and now this Apple deal.
I agree with this.

From a technical perspective, how would one structure a program like this? Where the main developers also use the same 'engine' to develop the product itself, while also exposing the same engine to the third parties?

The first such case I have seen was Maya (the 3d software) when it first came out use a custom scripting language called MEL(Maya Embedded Language) to develop the entire user interface and corresponding actual entity manipulations. Third party plugin developers also use the same MEL.

I thought wow, and that is still impressive today.
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Very interesting study. I guess putting things in orbit is absolutely going to cost us but I hope we will have this under control before it gets out of hand.

Unfortunately, just like green house gases, it requires the very people who benefit from ignoring these kind of problems to pay attention and well...
I think a part of the problem is that if you've chosen a market where VCs do want to invest, and you decide not to take their money, someone else is going to take it, build and grow faster than you, and out-compete you into the ground.

Sure, maybe their longer-term trajectory is unsustainable growth and disappointing surprises for founders and employees, but by that point your bootstrapped company has already shut down.

But, by all means, find a market where there's scant VC money to be found, and you can probably bootstrap for quite some time without funding. And maybe you will eventually decide to take on funding, but instead of giving 60% of your company away to get it, you only have to give away 30%. Or you decide that giving away 60% is fine, in return for 10x as much investment as you might otherwise get at an earlier stage.

I know a non-zero number of people who have gone that route, and it's worked for them. If I were to start a company, I'd aim for this model myself. But I would have to be very careful choosing my product and market.
With comments like this you should be prefixing it with:

"I am a Patent Attorney with 20+ years experience in complex IT contracts"

Or not posting at all.
All the virtual possibilities in the world doesn't reduce our burden to care for a growing number of old people. Nor does it reduce our need for food or other natural resources.

These will continue to be the bottleneck especially as we move to a deglobalised world, ageing and shrinking workforces in the developed world with population growth happening in EMs and FMs.
There will be a massive drive to do LLM inference cheaper at lower power. Also there is a huge gold rush in AI now. Who knows what will survive? Who will need GPUs?

Finally there are advantages of scale to centralizing resources that will create high degree of incentive and specialization to drive down cost and power consumption at these data centers.

It’s just gonna be insane until the near term uncertainty is ironed out.
For the big things, yes. But for matters of community, or trivialities of daily lives, the words of the clergy might as well have been words of god. You can still see this today, for example in countrysides of various Christian countries, where the local priests are given authority and respect by default, and when they e.g. start hinting that one political option is good and the other is evil, people end up voting just like the priests hinted.
I don't need no stinkin' god (State)!
Sure, this snippet is a trivial example and doesn't sufficiently motivate get_in and family, which can be much more powerful when needs aren't so simple.

It's also very hard to be as concise with more vanilla syntax when competing with put_in/update_in instead. The pattern and ability to generalize it is valuable IME.
Er... that is essentially the entire premise of the article, so I'm not sure how you can make that assertion.

To be a little more generous, the author is perhaps not saying it's sketchy, but is at least saying it's odd and unnecessary to keep this knowledge from employees.
I'm pretty sure Apple publicly said that they're also considering Google Gemini.

It's possible that Apple sees it as a future app store-like revenue. You can use any AI model you want, and if you want to subscribe to Gemini Pro or ChatGPT Plus, Apple takes 30%.

I was certain that Apple wants to create their own cutting edge LLM to compete with GPT4 or Gemini or Claude or Mixtral. But they've decided to instead, open up all their platforms to 3rd party models.

I suppose Apple may still want to create an Apple Intelligence Pro in the future but their models aren't leading at the moment.
>So does that mean that all "US persons" (citizens, green card holders, residents, etc.) who travel (or live) outside the US and have sex with someone they're not married to are now criminals?

If we're keeping with consistency... yes.
Since LLMs spit out lies and misinformation as often as truth, getting them to spit out less harmful lies is probably good. However, the whole technology is just a giant bullshit generator. It's only viable because no one actually checks facts and facts are rapidly being replaced with LLM-generated bullshit.

So I'm not sure how much it matters if the LLM masters prevent it from repeating things that are overtly racist, or quoting how to make thermite from the Jolly Roger. (I wouldn't trust GPT-4's recipe for thermite even if it would give one). At the end of the day, the degradation of truth and fidelity of the world's knowledge is the ultimate harm that's unavoidable in a technology that is purported to be intelligent but is in fact a black box autocomplete system spewing endless garbage into our infosphere.
They said 1.0 means “we aren’t going to break the disk format backwards compatibility anymore” other than that, it’s just a number and doesn’t have any power to make the software more reliable. It really depends on their priorities how much they’ll actually stabilize my use-case. I’ll probably check back in a year and see if things improved.
Yes, but a single example of this doesn't make it common.
The Indians can probably do it cheaper due to lower manpower costs, SpaceX has a hard limit on how low they can go no matter how much automation they throw at it.
Including the initialization prompt and your history if you have one?
I use ChatGPT for a very simple task, to map chat messages to one of 5 supported function calls, and the function definitions alone already take up 200 tokens I think
Wreck of explorer Shackleton's last ship has been found off the coast of Canada
> and are the biggest country in Europe

Err, what? #6 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_countries_by_...
>Arms-length, third-party, paper-trail-negative contractors

Sounds lucrative.
Sometimes I feel like I'm being caught in a pincer maneuver by contemporary US society where the far right is wielding increasingly concerning amounts of governmental power to force conservative changes, and the far left is wielding social power to force overly liberal changes. Not only is this very difficult to navigate at an emotional level, it's also just generally concerning that both legally and socially, radicalism is taking a stronger and stronger hold.
Alfred is cool, but I didn't find a way to resize the clipboard history window, so I can see more content in the preview panel. Same issue (for me) in Raycast. No way to make the clipboard history window bigger.

Maybe it's just me and there's a way to enable window resizing in Alfred/Raycast?
Because tech innovation requires tons of R&D and you can't afford to do that otherwise. Europeans use American laptops running an American operating system to watch American movies in an American browser.

European economic production is nowhere near high enough and now Europe is struggling to provide for its aging population and doesn't have enough good jobs for younger people. I support redistribution generally, but the wealth has to be created first or there won't be anything to redistribute.
Was expecting a little more analysis of or at least information about the content of the paper itself.
This only goes so far, trying to use your own head as a simulation or approximation of user experience. Some of us will be building software for people who we will never be in our lifetime.
>Okay, so you are saying I should move to america

Please stop breaking HN rules. I never said that. HN rules state you need to reply to the strongest interpretation of someone's argument, not the weakest that's easiest to criticize.

I just pointed out once country's economics performance for comparison, if you're want to extrapolate from that that you should move there, that's your issues to deal with, but not my argument.
I personally find such comparisons unfair. A good comparison should optimize for each device configuration, which means use a model within the VRAM limit and quantize to 8 bits where it boosts performance etc and avoid shortcomings of both devices unless necessary.
'All Fungi are edible. Some fungi are only edible once.' — Terry Pratchett
This is cool. I wonder how you ensure that your mould is made from food-safe materials. Presumably gratings are usually just cut glass, so that should be okay? They are not part of the usual food-safe supply chain, though. I guess to would be tricky to obtain the proper assurances if you wanted to do this commercially.
There's also vaultwarden

https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden
> When the algae perform photosynthesis, they release tiny particles called electrons.

Really, Newsweek? Are we doing this now?
It is possible to run a Linux distro through Termux afaik. For example: https://github.com/phoenixbyrd/Termux_XFCE

There are also tools available like Andronix.

I personally haven't tried them, just figured I'd leave the information here for people interested in it who want to explore the options.
See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33534018 (tldr https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33542614)

And: The strange case of VMs on telephones, https://apenwarr.ca/log/20100826
5 tons doesn't seem to be enough.

> Amazon Kuiper is positioning to compete with SpaceX’s Starlink broadband constellation but it would not rule out seeking launch services from its competitor given the tight deadline, Limp said. “We are open to talking to SpaceX. You’d be crazy not to, given their track record.”

> The Falcon 9 [22.8 tons to LEO], however, is not as large as Amazon would like it to be in order to get maximum bang for its launch buck, as Kuiper satellites are larger than Starlink’s.

> “I would say Falcon 9 is probably at the low end of the capacity that we need,” Limp said. Perhaps a better option would be Falcon Heavy or the much larger Starship, which is still in development. As Starship transitions to production readiness, “that becomes a very viable candidate for us as well.”

https://spacenews.com/as-clock-ticks-on-amazons-constellatio...