skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's an odd feeling to have seen the rapid decline of QoL on the interior, know it was to drive margins back above 30% / $25B/quarter, leave because of it, then profit from it. Feels unethical.
I guess that feeling is just having the dissonance of the nature of business in your face. Though I do hold that the decisions made to squeak out a couple extra % points will be crushing in the long run.

Even just today: reality is Google is 4th place to OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta in AI and its not really close.

Each individual step is arguable, but the cracks are there. And leadership is too MBA-y/trend-following to do anything about it. Ex. through August '22 the line was there was going to be a special pot of increased raises to combat all the talent leaving for Meta. Then once Mark started firing, all that went far away, promos were held, and there's ceremonial cullings weekly.
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That's definitely the plan. Using batch requests would definitely move this closer to $2/1000 pages mark. Which is effectively the AWS pricing.
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The article says that the government plans seven reactors. Who is to build and pay for them? Are Australian power plants generally owned by the government or private companies?
It is more common when it comes to numbers I guess. There are ~5 ancestors in this comment chain, if I would agree roughly 4-6 is acceptable.
RMS has no interest in governing Open Source, so your comment bears no particular relevance.

RMS is an advocate for Free Software. Free Software generally implies Open Source, but not the converse.

RMS considers openness of source to be a separate category from the freeness of software. "Free software is a political movement; open source is a development model."

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html
Area codes are not US-specific, they’re North America-specific. Some area codes are for areas outside of the United States, and may be charged at International rates.
No open weights are the output of a proprietary and secretive process of training. It’s like sharing a pre compiled application instead of what you need to reproduce the compiled application.

AI2’s OLMo is an example of what open source actually looks like for LLMs:

https://blog.allenai.org/hello-olmo-a-truly-open-llm-43f7e73...
There are things that can embed a bit of temporal logic into types, such as a linear type that can statically guarantee a file handler has been closed exactly once, or error.

For the most part, what I think people really want are branded types. F# has a nice example of unit, where a float can be branded Fahrenheit or Celsius or Kelvin, and functions can take one of those types as parameters.

You then have some function that can parse user input into a float and brand it one of those types. The compiler doesn't make any guarantees about the user input, only that the resulting branded value cannot be used where a different one is expected. Other good examples are degrees and radians, or imperial and metric, etc.

Depending on what you are doing, knowing at a type level that some number can never be negative (weight in pounds) can save you a lot of hassle. If one part of the system doesn't brand a value, and it feeds into another part of the system that is branded, you're stuck with extraneous runtime checks all over the place or a lot of manual unit tests. Instead, the compiler can point out exactly, and in every instance, where you assumed you had a validated value but instead did not.
Yeah I don't think I've seen it linked officially, but Meta does this sort of semi-official stuff all the time, leaking models ahead of time for PR, they even have a dedicated Reddit account for releasing unofficial info.

Regardless, it fits the compute used and the claim that they trained from public web data, and was suspiciously published by HF staff shortly after L3 released. It's about as official as the Mistral 7B v0.2 base model. I.e. mostly, but not entirely, probably for some weird legal reasons.
Yes, that's a great question.

We do a lot of things to keep the credentials safe that go beyond just putting everything behind a VPN and setting pods' SECCOMP profiles. That obviously includes encrypting credentials and putting in place tight access controls both to the credentials themselves and the encryption keys.

Also, even though we're not SOC2 compliant (yet) we do run pen tests.
> Yea, the EU really needs to fix the EU-US GDPR issues. It's not like the US will.

And how would the EU "fix" the issues posed by the US's disregard for privacy? They tried several times but Schrems keeps tearing it down by pointing out the basic fact that you don't get a pass for violating civil rights by being the US.
Given a well behaved training setup, you will give an equivalently powerful model, given the same dataset and training scripts, and training settings. At least if you are willing to run it several times, an pick the best one - a process that is commonly used for large models.
It's all fun and games until you need to prove something in court or to the tax office. I don't think that throwing an LLM into this mix helps.
I would guess the headaches caused by new area codes is less than the headaches caused by typos. The one that gets me is fractional addresses, surprising how many sites do not allow 1/2s; most of the restaurants here use the same POS system which does not take 1/2s, makes getting delivery a bit of a crap shoot if my neighbor is drunk when I order, most of the time he redirects delivery driver to my house.
AI2 has released training data in their OLMo model:
https://blog.allenai.org/hello-olmo-a-truly-open-llm-43f7e73...
Weight is the new code.
They want to maximize the time you spend on linkedin, one way is to make it less likely you'll click on a link to take you somewhere else.
In Teslaspeak, "2025" actually means "no earlier than 2029"
Of course, it's not altruism; it's a publicly traded corporation. No one should ever believe in any such claims by these organizations. Non-altruistic organizations can still make positive-impact actions when they align with their goals.
Why call it motor doping? This has nothing to do with doping.
> This was a man who had a radio show about finances in Montreal.

That should've been a red flag.
> over 500, that's a plus

Here I was accepting connections judiciously after lightly researching their connections..
Am I too skeptical or is this the approach taken when they've decided they can't make proprietary work for them.
People would rather die due to their action or inaction than due a botched software update somewhere.
"with the largest increase of 18.9 to 31.8 occurring from 2019 to 2021."

That's gotta be COVID. Could be the virus, could be substandard care due to COVID, but obesity didn't go up that much in two years.
The military industrial complex is extremely good at funnelling money to meets its ever-growing needs.
I imagine they would be unable to sponsor participants in that organization for a time, and their name would be dishonored.
Maybe they only apply it to shared files?
There's OCSP Must-Staple, which makes MITM without stapling impossible. That is, if the client implements it and does not fail open. :)
They have a lot of products.
Elon Musk has spoken on this [1]. It's such a silly argument too because nobody is forcing Elon Musk (or anyone else) to take the subway.

Elon is really unexceptional here in terms of being of the billionaire class. The US billionaire class is relatively unified in trying to collect as much wealth as absolutely possible.

So the likes of Koch fought public transit because of the idea of taxes. Billionaires in general simply want to reduce how many taxes they pay to collect more wealth. They'd rather people pay for their own cars rather than the government building a subway.

Health insurance, high housing costs, cars and high education costs are wealth extraction from the government and ordinary citizens to the ultra-wealthy.

It's exactly the same whenever you hear anyone talking about "small government" or otherwise reducing regulation. It's nothing more than wealth extraction by the ultra-wealthy.

[1]: https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-awkward-dislike-mass-t...
Well if two people say it on the Internet without providing any documentation, evidence or references to larger-scale reports, that sure proves the claim, doesn't it?
Famously difficult to draw a satisfying line between these two things. The history of every sport is a conflict about exactly this, entire modern sports are the relics of people being unsatisfied with how the line was drawn at one particular time.

I'm not saying it's not a good goal to have, just you kind of have to view it as an inherently unsolvable problem to get anything productive out of it.
I would assume it's more due to them not realizing that this isn't just something that periodically happens at the park (like Old Faithful). It might seem unusual, but they don't know how unusual or dangerous it is. It might just be no more unusual than a low road near a body of water that gets a tiny bit flooded in one spot after a heavy rain -- the kind where locals who know about it just drive through because it's only an inch or two deep but visitors might be more hesitant about. In the case of this explosion, the aftermath video shows that it was indeed very unusual and dangerous.
> And of course it's hard, because users are not competent enough to distinguish good software from bad software,

There was a time when Windows had a description for updates. Now the only distinction is between KB3587690 and KB67457770.
I think a pivot to energy infrastructure is inevitable. The EV business can be seen as a stepping stone imo to build a strong cash position with all of the reservations. Sort of like free financing.
Sure graphic designers and artists will do the main stuff but about all the background stuff or user interface stuff?

Why would a major studio have an entire team for something an AI can do very well?

What about the tens and tens of thousands of lines of code that exist only to make other code work correctly, securely, redundantly, efficiently, etc.

What abouta chatGPT powered NPC system?

The "AI Armageddon" is almost more significant to an actual studio than a freelance or small time designer. EA can adopt all the cool stuff Microsoft throws at them from OpenAI - they can afford it.

Smaller studios maybe not.
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Thanks for pointing that out. I will update my post.
Interestingly the very reason why nuclear weapons and the logic of their deployment are so dangerous and unstable, so much that two geopolitical adversaries with lots at stake actually agreed on never using them, led us nowadays to underestimate the danger of nuclear arsenals because in so many years "nothing bad happened". Human psychology is just not very well adapted to stay in perpetual alertness. We tend to normalize situations unfold over long periods of time.
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I'm sure that books can be printed in your language without any need for semantic information in the characters.
Does anyone have a ready to go hosts blocklist for OCSP hostnames? Else, I could make one...
It's called supply/demand and living in reality.

If GOOG stocks drops 30% relative to it's peers, a majority of them will leave ship.

So, you can't reap the benefits of increased stock price and yet complain when companies get efficient
It was a couple months ago, whenever the free trial for everyone was. Bay Area peninsula suburbs. The neighborhoods that Tesla engineers live and drive in frequently.
> which is why PepsiCo, Sysco, UPS and Walmart have all since terminated their agreements.

Do you have a source for this? I googled it and saw nothing about this.
It's not 99% reliable, but even if it was, the issue is lawyers. Who is going to take responsibility when a pedestrian is hit?
While some home users do indeed have 24GB of vram, the fact is a 4090 costs $1700

Such models will never top the number of downloads charts, or the community hype, as there’s just loads more people who can use the smaller models.

And if you can afford one 4090 you can probably afford two.
Yup definitely a play on the name. Also the idea of photocopying a page, since we do pdf => image => markdown.

We're not planning to name a company after it or anything, just the OS tool. And if xerox sues I'm sure we could rename the repo lol.
Musk's ego
I'm curious, is that $15B/year in youtube premium sourced? I've been deeply curious how that worked out, seems like a silent titan
pfSense and OPNsense are great FreeBSD-based options if you want to use pf without needing to craft your own pf.conf.

Also it's possible to extract the certs from some BGW models to use with wpa_supplicant and bypass the BGW completely.
Maybe it's a bit circular but the organizers could disqualify the racers being sponsored which would mean either the banned sponsor doesn't sponsor anyone or it's done under wraps. The latter would defeat the advertising purpose the sponsor would have for the sponsorship.
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Citation? Wikipedia would appreciate your contribution.

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

> Linus Torvalds, Larry Wall, Brian Behlendorf, Eric Allman, Guido van Rossum, Michael Tiemann, Paul Vixie, Jamie Zawinski, and Eric Raymond [...]
> At that meeting, alternatives to the term "free software" were discussed. [...] Raymond argued for "open source. The assembled developers took a vote, and the winner was announced at a press conference the same evening

The original "Open source Definition" was derived from Debian's Social Contract, which did not use the term "open source"

https://web.archive.org/web/20140328095107/http://www.debian...
Congrats to Google employees! I feel the search quality is way down
> Even just today: reality is Google is 4th place to OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta in AI and its not really close.

Source?
This could be outdated info, but don't they have quite a bit of hardware bolted to the car that Tesla doesn't have? Tesla seems to be betting that they can work some software magic with fairly basic hardware, whereas Waymo (I think) has taken an approach that relies on input from quite a few more sensors.
Reusability kind of sucks when it’s hard to test.

With my team, any code we touch, the parent callers need to be regression tested.

It gets to a point where simply copying and pasting code then refactoring is the better way.
I must have missed that feature. I don't see it under Data Source or Integrations. Can you point me to it? Use case is mostly call an API and show one or more property values from the JSON object that comes back, or use it as a tabular data source.

Edit: Maybe I'm misunderstanding the UI and this is something you would do directly through Python?
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I'm curious how the "largest pipe chain" format works when the rules state that the first player to complete the task wins the round.
Waymo's cars have an extensive sensor suite that is missing on Teslas, which rely on cameras only.
I love llamas but how fb can profit from leading this effort is not clear to me.
I dunno — if an open source project required, say, a proprietary compiler, that would diminish its open source-ness. But I agree it's not totally comparable, since the weights are not particularly analogous to machine code. We probably need a new term. Open Weights.
>Now, if an order to launch is given, some rockets may launch, some of those may actually fly, some of those flying actually get somewhere, and perhaps some of THOSE may actually detonate should they reach the target, and maybe if you're lucky at the designed yield. The percentages in that funnel that aren't known.

I think you're likely wrong about that last part. I would be willing to bet that certain US 3-letter agencies know very well what the percentages in that funnel are. It's clearly enough that the west is careful about direct confrontation with Russia.
From the results

- Revenue up 14% from $74.6B -> $84.7B
- Net income up from $18.4B -> $23.6B
- EPS up $1.44 -> $1.89
- Number of employees down from 181.8K -> 179.5K
What was your role? (if you don't mind)
Hey Fernando, thanks for the enthusiastic comment.

Would love to hear more about what you mean regarding the CLI and connectors. Can you give me a few examples of what these would look like?

By the way, I didn't know Calca. Looks neat, I'll definitely have a look.
In case anyone wonders about the why: We have some services where we do updates without dropping a client connection by first spawning an additional server, then moving traffic over to the new server, and then the old server will detect that it's idle and its socket has been removed and terminate itself.

At least, that was the theory. In practice, sometimes freak accidents cause libUSB to hang when the process exits. That leads to the old server keeping its file handles open. That means even if log rotation deletes the log file, the disk space cannot be reclaimed. And that means over time the HDD mysteriously fills with deleted files stuck in zombie processes. Of course, one could use killall to terminate all those servers. But that's difficult to coordinate so that you never accidentally terminate one of the new servers, but instead only the old ones.

That's where bombtag comes in. You first mark all running servers as "should exit in 5 minutes" and then you do the usual hot reload. If any server gets stuck, bombtag will forcibly kill it, first with SIGTERM and then with SIGKILL.

For added fancyness, I also relocate the env vars and overwrite argv[0] so that inside the "ps" output, bombtag can show what PID it's waiting for and the current countdown in seconds, e.g.

user 2239536 0.0 0.0 18316 1792 pts/5 TN 23:00 0:00 cat
user 2239542 0.0 0.0 6092 512 pts/5 SN 23:00 0:00 bombtag -p 2239536 -n cat (29s -> TERM)
I agree, from my perspective as an outside engineer, Google went from a place where it'd have been interesting to work at a few years ago, to not being in the Top 5. Microsoft, OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Apple, NVIDIA, etc are just more compelling stories at the moment. I don't even know what Google is doing at this point.
I moved up to Oregon for a few years during/after the pandemic. I can say from experience that the entire state consistently did not have red clearance times at least up to when I left in late 2023.
I've commented on a few Waymo threads about how I'm a total convert to self-driving cars (or at least to Waymos) so it does seem like it's possible for autonomous cars to work at some level.

On this subject, though, I happened to ride a Waymo to a destination only 1-mile away (hurt my knee last week! Not that lazy! Cost ~$8.00 btw) to meet a friend yesterday and it's the first time I got into the Waymo and didn't even watch the road because I guess I'm over the hump of worrying it's going to do something dumb (probably not sensible to give over so quickly, but just sharing how my behavior has changed over maybe 15-20 rides). The friend I met also happened to have a Model 3 with FSD and he offered to give me a ride home in it with FSD enabled. Aside from this blue prompt on the display that forces the driver to interact with the wheel to say "I'm still here" it didn't have any material difficulties with the route. Very short drive of course. But he did have to intervene because of the prompt at least 3 or 4 times, and even one time when we were stopped at a light FSD started turning the wheel even though we were going straight. You could see the car to the left of us get nervous because it noticed this wheel turn and so they moved over a little fearful that the Model 3 was going to go into their lane either right there at the red light or when it turned green. However, once the light turned green the wheel went straight and FSD just proceeded us through the intersection. An oddity for sure. We couldn't quite figure out why it thought it needed to turn the wheel.

The reason I bring this up is to share a datapoint of 1, but also because it got me thinking about Tesla's rollout of robotaxis. It seems like before they actually let these cars drive without a driver they're going to have to remove that blue, take-the-wheel prompt while drivers are still in the driver's seat. And then they'll have to have a bunch (hundreds of thousands, millions?) of miles under their belt where there's zero/near-zero intervention from the driver to confidently deploy an actual robotaxi. So I guess the point at which you hear that Tesla no longer requires the driver to take the wheel is the point at which the public will know that Tesla now thinks it's getting close to having a robotaxi. That assumes Tesla does the sensible thing of course and takes that intermediate step. Would be odd to skip it for sure while you have a "safety driver" in the driver's seat.
For one, Waymo has more sensor modalities in comparison to Tesla, such as Lidar.
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That story is a nothing burger. CO rebreathing is the technique to monitor hemoglobin mass changes after a period at altitude. It's a test that lasts 3 minutes and has no consequence.

It's like saying "cyclist get better by drawing blood" when they just have their bloodwork done to see how they are doing with training.

They aren't sleeping attached to a car exhaust.
> a pivot to energy infrastructure is inevitable

What is Tesla's edge in energy infrastructure?
Has anyone got a comparison of the performance of Llama 3.1 8B and the recent GPT-4o-mini?
> You have to write all the code needed to do the modifications you are interested in. That is, there is no source code provided that can be used to make the modifications of interest.

Just like open source?

> Training setup and data is completely non trivial for a large language model. To replicate Llama would take hundreds of hours of engineering, at least.

The entire point of having the pre-trained weight released is to *not* have to do this.
You just need to finetune, which can be done with very little data, depending on the task, and many open source toolkits, that work with those weights, exist to make this trivial.
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They don't break out the numbers, but the $15B includes YouTube Premium, YouTube TV and YouTube Music (https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/youtube-q2-2024-ad-rev...).
Lack of Lidar may be a factor
This is not a strong argument. In fact it sounds downright reasonable.
Most people are familiar with "fight or flight", but there's a third response which is "freeze". That's probably what you are seeing in the video.
Has a good ring to it.
Strange take on AWS.
I think this product might be of interest to NitroKey (https://www.nitrokey.com/), a competitor to Yubikey.

Unlike YubiKey they sell a wider range of products, such as secure hardware. It seems if you make it work with NitroKey they might be able to sell it as a bundle.

Probably won't hurt to reach out to them as a potential partner
> No CEO is becoming a billionaire by collecting a paycheque.

Yes, they can and do.

Safra Catz, $2B - CEO Oracle
Sheryl Sandberg, $2B - Meta
Jamie Dimon, $1B+ - CEO Chase

and many more (Andy Jassy, Tim Cook, Satyna Nadella, ...)

https://www.forbes.com/profile/safra-catz/

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/jan/18/how-shery....

https://www.businessinsider.com/jamie-dimon-career
Don't hold your breath for FAANGs crashing spectacularly soon.

I mean, it is possible, however IBM is still limping on and FAANGs are bigger even when adjusted for inflation than IBM was in the 1980s.

So even if they do start dying, realistically their corpses might even limp into the 22nd century.
> not actually sure if Meta does share all that

Meta shares the code for inference but not for training, so even if we say it can be open-source without the training data, Meta's models are not open-source.

I can appreciate Zuck's enthusiasm for open-source but not his willingness to mislead the larger public about how open they actually are.