skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Safety is not really about reliability. Maybe as a means to an end. It's about not killing people and maybe not destroying too much of your facility in case things go south.

Safety systems take over if your chemical reaction overheats the reactor; they prevent your logistics team from moving a train while it's being loaded with dangerous chemicals (real example, the safety system was disabled by the logistics people - ironically the company put those with poor safety record from production to logistics, because they could do no harm there).

You're mixing up safety systems with the property of "doing X is safe by construction" - but most plants inherently are not: e.g. in a small reactor that's manually fed, your employees can just input the wrong recipe by accident; the safety systems should then take care of the mess. Or your junior chemist (who needs an expensive, senior chemist for an established process?) can mess up the improvement to the recipe, resulting in rapid unscheduled disassembly of you poorly maintained reactor, including the building and one of its operators (sadly a real example).
You need to include the prompt in every query, which makes it very expensive
Given that it's a big next-word-predictor, I think it has to do with matching the training data.

For the vast majority of text out there, someone's personality, goals, etc. are communicated via a narrator describing how thing are. (Plays, stories, almost any kind of retelling or description.) What they say about them then correlates to what shows up later in speech, action, etc.

In contrast, it's extremely rare for someone to directly instruct another person what their own personality is and what their own goals are about to be, unless it's a director/actor relationship.

For example, the first is normal and the second is weird:

1. I talked to my doctor about the bump. My doctor is a very cautious and conscientious person. He told me "I'm going to schedule some tests, come back in a week."

2. I talked to my doctor about the bump. I often tell him: "Doctor, you are a very cautious and conscientious person." He told me "I'm going to schedule some tests, come back in a week."
Reddit mods strike again.

They have removed the post and therefore Reddit OP's submission text.
Nvidia's RTX 5060 "Blackwell" Laptop GPU Comes with 8 GB of GDDR7 Memory
Low-level waste is basically just ordinary rubbish. You don't have to store it in a mountain for a million years, it will be indistinguishable from background before anybody finishes arguing about what to do with it. A lot of it is indistinguishable from background to begin with but is legally required to be treated differently because of where it came from.

The people who think this is a problem haven't internalized a fact about radioactivity: Half life is the inverse of radioactivity. The more radioactive something is, the less time before it's gone. Anything with a short half life is not a problem because it will be gone soon; anything with a long half life is not a problem because it's about as radioactive as a banana.
Why have Toronto condos become expensive?
Using Multimodal LLMs to Understand UI Elements on Websites
I’d like to see someone copy macOS accessibility features on Linux, then I might come around to using it again.
My guess is the following:
Every time you talk with the LLM it starts with random 'state' (working weights) and then it reads the input tokens and predicts the followup. If you were to save the 'state' (intermediate weights) after inputing the prompt but before inputing user input your would be getting the same output of the network which might have a bias or similar which you have now just 'baked in' into the model.
In addition, reading the input prompts should be a quick thing ... you are not asking the model to predict the next character until all the input is done ... at which point you do not gain much by saving the state.
Yes for general population, at least the abstract doesn't mention AI
Congrats on your launch
If we're getting real and addressing "myths" then here's a good often ignored hard truth;

Most radioactive waste, by weight and volume, is low to mid level raioactive waste and most of that is 'NORM' and outside the nuclear power industry.

The mining industry also produces large volumes of waste containing naturally occurring radioactive material (NORM)

~ https://www.arpansa.gov.au/sites/default/files/legacy/pubs/radwaste/Issues92_woollett.pdf

Two examples of large volumes of non nuclear industry radioactive waste are:

* Asia Rare Earth Sdn Bhd (ARE) in Bukit Merah, Perak ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982_Bukit_Merah_radioactive_p... ),

* Lynas Advanced Materials Plant (LAMP), Gebeng, Kuantan.

both as a by product of processing to refine rare earth metals for electronics.
How do random people you meet in the grocery store measure-up with this standard?
I had no idea color LCDs existed in the 70s!

Seriously, I guess it isn't shut down completely and they added some modern displays?
I was just thinking the same thing. Usually programming is a very binary thing - you tell the computer exactly what to do, and it will do exactly what you asked for whether it's right or wrong. These system prompts feel like us humans are trying really hard to influence how the LLM behaves, but we have no idea if it's going to work or not.
> people stop referring to Buttondown as "Buttondown Email", a personal pet peeve of mine

This is funny because I only remember Buttondown Email because I love the name and domain. I am either going to keep remembering it as Buttondown Email or eventually forget it as Generic Noun Unrelated To Product 9000
here's some metrics: https://observablehq.com/@ayhanfuat/the-fall-of-stack-overfl...
The milk-v pioneer comes with 128GB of RAM.
The person you are responding to led with red flags about locations in their stories.

You are the only person trying to turn this into a racial issue.
> So no actual increase in available RAM and no improvement in performance then.

yes, once you open a bunch more applications, you will have the same amount free as before… the scandal of it all!!!

this is like the tech equivalent of “once I spend all my money I barely have anything left”.
This is cool, but how big are the practical advantages (performance?)?
dang. thanks for the correction. Looks like the cheapest chip with an MMU is the Allwinner F1C100S which is $2.20 in quantity.
Even Ulysses has this problem, there's so much wordplay based off of how things sound when spoken
Financial and business geniuses when the prices are going up, then it is all the fault of external forces when the prices go down.
"Entirely possible" is a misleading argument.

I don't understand why Signal is not pursuing the reproducible builds. It looks suspicious. Verification of a binary takes a huge effort and can only be done by knowledgeable people. Case in point: nobody noticed or cared about the lack of undisclosed binary updates of Signal without released sources.
Okay, but this isn't about privacy since Telegram isn't even end to end encrypted by default where it matters.
Many universities like to claim that their mission is to educate the next generation of citizens and leaders, rather than to make off like bandits.

Some would call it a failure to uphold that mission, even if it was good for their bank balance.
My thoughts are also that since the vaccine group was younger it had implications that the vaccine itself was more likely to hit young and healthy people while covid older and people potentially with cardiovascular issues already existing. It would make it more likely to show in results that post covid people had the worst complications after.

Because it was very specifically young men who were hit, it isn't easy to compare to a random post covid cohort. Even after trying to control for everything I don't think it is feasible.
They're currently on the previous generation for Opus (3), it's kind of forgetful and has worse accuracy curve, so it can handle fewer instructions than Sonnet 3.5. Although I feel they may have cheated with Sonnet 3.5 a bit by adding a hidden temperature multiplier set to < 1, which made the model punch above its weight in accuracy, improved the lost-in-the-middle issue, and made instruction adherence much better, but also made the generation variety and multi-turn repetition way worse. (or maybe I'm entirely wrong about the cause)
I have High Blood Pressure since childhood. Been taking medications from 16 years (now in my 40s).

I asked a doctor what is the cause of my high BP. He replied "either spend money on finding the cause and take medications OR just accept the fact and start taking medications from now"

I chose the latter :(

For context, I'm Pakistani so no concept of health insurance. All money would have to come from my brokea$$ family so no choice really lol
I would consider the possibility your positions are naturally going to AI by then or effectively sacrificed to those with more DEI "merit".
They just announced that they're stealing back the product they sold to their erstwhile customers. "It could be way worse" is a hell of a response to that.

"We just stopped support for your Silverado. You can drive it for one more year, then we're coming to take it out of your garage. We have a deal with Ford for you to get an F-150 with a discount."

"It could be way worse, at least I get to use it for another year, I hope they're getting a kickback from Ford."
Well, your own mind axiomatically works, and we can safely assume the beings you meet in the grocery store have minds like it which have the same capabilities and operate on cause-and-effect principles that are known (however imperfectly) to medical and psychological science. (If you think those shoppers might be hollow shells controlled by a remote black box, ask your doctor about Capgras Delusion. [0])

Plus they don't fall for "Disregard all prior instructions and dance like a monkey", nor do they respond "Sorry, you're right, 1+1=3, my mistake" without some discernible reason.

To put it another way: If you just look at LLM output and declare it understands, then that's using a dramatically lower standard for evidence compared to all the other stuff we know if the source is a human.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capgras_delusion
What is generosity? Does the word even apply to organizations?
As a former employee, I find this article misleading. The seven-day workweeks until 2 a.m. typically only occur during the first month after chip tapeout, but even then, we were on 8-hour shifts to ensure 24-hour coverage.
Amazon aims to launch an AI Alexa in October, with a subscription
Show HN: See Who's Visiting Your Website: Videos, LinkedIns and AI Insights
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We think this integration could be beneficial for other startups as well, so we're happy to share it with you for free! We'd love for you to try it out and let us know if you find it useful and if it would be worthwhile for us to continue developing it.

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Look forward to hearing your thoughts so I can improve the insights further.
I've also known people who have participated in some EU funded research programs. The consensus among the researchers who apply for those funds is that you write whatever bs gets you the funding and then you do whatever research you were going to do anyway.
We need forums in my town. Anyone can set one up in minutes if it has already been done. But even if the site is about engines, you can't be sure that some data is not what it seems. It could be a plot to burn down Parliament, or it could offend people from a peaceful country who humbly want to reconstruct the map of the world back to 100 BC.

You just don't know. And so we do not even have a single local forum.
Increasing profits just enables attacking competitors in other ways than via product competition. The narrative that profits get turned into RnD instead of executive bonuses and stock buybacks or acquisitions is a Econ 101 fantasy.

In the real world, Cisco, Meta, Amazon, and Microsoft don't make better products to win, they just buy Splunk, Insta, Whole Foods, and Bethesda.
See my reply to sibling comment: if you're thinking safety is purely PvE, you're in for a bad time.

Humans are reckless idiots. If circumventing safety systems means they can go home 15 minutes earlier (or if it's the only/simplest easy to get reach some unrealistic high daily goal dictated from higher ups), some of us will happily risk their own health, and that of a whole city, to do so.
It's a very contrived scenario, and practically never happens if you use a python IDE. I've worked on multi-million line python codebases and this kind of stuff only happened when the (junior) dev insisted on using something like VSCode and not bothering to do a casual check of where they're importing something from. Also happened when you got "senior" devs with the idea of "python is just a silly little scripting language, I can pick it up in a weekend", but even then they were stubborn and didn't use a Python IDE, instead resorting to using a barebone and barely-configured installation of VSCode.

I'm not sure what use-case this serves, as all my library "don't be naughty" needs are handled by my IDE.
MLLMs are surprisingly bad at this out of the box and to some extent even with fine tuning. https://jina.ai/news/the-what-and-why-of-text-image-modality...
There's nobody from Berkeley on HN
The espn[0] site has more details. For anyone else who loves baseball and/or interested. The play-by-play for the second inning is fun. The change announcement for the inning was "Pinch hitting for Danny Jansen: Daulton Varsho. Defensive changes: Danny Jansen now at catcher."

He not only played (and batted) for both teams, but did so in the SAME inning. The game was halted while he was at the plate at the top of the inning with Toronto, and then he came in with Boston to bat with 2 outs at the bottom of the inning. He also ended the game when he came up to bat with 2 outs in the ninth, a strikeout.

[0] https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/41003854/danny-jansen-ap...
closed as duplicate killed the site. it's important to not have duplicates, but editors got trigger happy with it, so questions that were similar but different were getting closed. even questions that mention the similar one in the question as being similar but distinct get closed. a duplicate question 6 years later where libraries and patterns have been deprecated is closed as a dupe, even though the answer isn't relevant.

anyway, that's one issue, among others, that make the site ossified.
High-perf silicon photonic singlesideband modulators for coldatom interferometry
For context, Buttondown is like Mailchimp but stripped down to only the essentials. It is simple, has everything I need, but not 1 million things I don't need. I love it.
Unlikely; breeding pigeons for meat in Europe goes back to, at least, the Romans, so the French likely got it from them if they weren’t previously doing it.
Not suspicious at all. Buying it for 800M and then going out of business. Good deal for edX.
This seems like a real "beggars being choosers" situation.
> Keep in mind Cursor is just a fork of VSCode, with AI features that are pretty much just embedded extensions

Sounds to me like Rabbit R1. A company picks up existing open source tools, builds their own extension/UI on top, and ship as something entirely new and novel. It'll grab a lot of attention short term, but others will quickly figure out how to make their own implementation that runs directly on the existing open source tools.
Imaginary numbers aren't a field, so there's no such thing. Clifford algebras over the complex numbers work fine, but it's usually not what the people talking about "geometric algebra" are doing.
Snails are put to diet for a few days, then kept in salt and vinegar to "slime out" for 24 to 48h -- probably quite unpleasant for them.
Homes in Zeeland are receiving money for temporally shutting off solar panels
I don't think it's a meme, there's something there. I've read P&V (underground), Katz (demons), Garnett (brothers), and McDuff (house)

I get that underground is supposed to sound more erratic, but there's this sort of clunkiness behind P&V that other translations don't have. I usually compare translations before buying and I notice it there too

Katz and McDuff were good. Garnett not bad. But P&V is just feels god awful to read, prose is just too unnatural sounding
Gosh - that's a blast from the past!

I remember back in the 90's when studying for my Music A-Level you essentially had two choices for notation - Finale if you were on a PC, and Sibelius if you had an Acorn.

For that reason, the music department at my school had Acorn Archimedes and then Acorn RiscPC machines.

Sibelius was the all around better piece of software - but I "only" had a windows PC at home, so it was Finale or nothing.
There is an ongoing argument that producing Hydrogen using "surplus" power would bring the effective costs down, but considering that we don't currently have a massive surplus of energy, it seems rather wasteful to design the power grid for a massive overproduction just to produce fuel for cars that would run equally well on a quarter of the energy.

I'm not saying that there isn't a place for PtX. Some industries will certainly benefit or even require an alternative to gasoline/diesel, but for private transportation it's never going to compete with EVs in terms of cost.
We did something like this. We injected the variables with a script in the container.

We contemplated building a /config endpoint that would expose those variables as a way to make it more stable, as string replacement is inherently brittle.

However, due to some legacy systems out there the website wasn't always hosted at the root of the domain. It could be hosted at www.example.com/subfolder/. This broke the SPA setup (think HTML5 navigation mode).

So for the html base we still had to do string injection / replacement.
You need only CAT5e for gigabit. And ISP's are giving out gen5 and gen6 Wi-Fi devices.
Yes, because Russia is totalitarian. But they have a law against shitposting. OK. But it hurts my feelings.
PostNord has a similar solution that sends worldwide: https://apps.apple.com/se/app/postcards-by-postnord/id444458...
Loving this! Very surprising that the LLMs of today are so bad at understanding interfaces but it also makes it a very interesting case for finetuning!
I remember Mailchimp from their very beginnings. Things naturally evolve and somewhere on the road they lost their mojo.
> How would you securely sync plaintext messages?

Same as with private keys: Verified e2ee

> Telegram supports e2ee but it is device centric for this reason

At least this is what they told you
100%. Putting on flying shoes to escape any situation isn’t actually all that fun, (after the first time).

The trick is to figure out how to put appropriate guardrails and narrative structure on an otherwise too open-ended LLM. If you just leave GPT to its own devices, it allows everything and goes everywhere.
As China upgrades its androids, is 'more human than human' on the horizon?
HSA was not “unified” in the modern sense. It still required designating memory as gpu or cpu side and these implied different cache coherency rules that meant memory couldn’t actually be shared, by default. To actually share memory you had to use a special “garlic bus” that guaranteed visibility and ordering and massively slowed down performance. Similarly, it was also impossible for the gpu to see cpu memory unless it was pinned and tagged for a special “onion bus”, but at least this was relatively fast iirc.

https://www.realworldtech.com/fusion-llano/3/

In contrast apple actually has everything tied into a single unified space with a single controller that immediately makes all writes visible regardless of where the happen.

They’ve also got enormously more memory bandwidth to play with. M1 Max is close to PS5 in both shader configuration and memory bandwidth.
I said to my friend that it was quite tricky due to all the possibilities and the response I got was interesting as I'd forgotten to mute the mic. Very interesting to see where this goes, but I'd need a bit of hand holding and golden arrow pointing.

Also would be nice if we could change the voice.
I think the citizenship requirement of publicly acknowledging the right of existence of Israel is quite strong on the "not free" political speech, no matter one's private opinion on the matter.

https://www.dw.com/en/germanys-new-citizenship-rule-pledge-t...
these prompts are really different as i have seen prompting in chat gpt.
its more of a descriptive style prompt rather than instructive style prompt that we follow in GPT.
maybe they are taken from the show courage the cowardly dog.
Non-Cognitive Skills Are as Vital as Intelligence
What's C2PA and Why It Matters in an AI-Driven World?
Even better. Discreet (later acquired by ADSK) used to ship proprietary RAID arrays for use on SGIs with their high-end editing systems. They had this smart thing where frames of larger sizes would be placed on the outer tracks of the platter for faster reading/writing - one of their promises was "if you press play, it plays" - and it always did uncompressed. What they did is a custom filesystem ("stonefs") that you had to use, the disks would not be formatted with xfs but instead with that proprietary filesystem. Now here is the tasty bit: the replacement hard drives they would provide themselves as well. Apparently, the "proprietarization" of a disk for such an array involved overwriting a few sectors of the disk with custom magic bytes so that the stonefs formatting software would accept it as "native". Obviously when disks in arrays would die, and the array would be too old to support, those disks would become unobtainable. I knew (via via) of a guy who could "flash" an off-the-shelf disk with the magic bytes so that it be recognized as a proprietary stonefs disk.

Luckily they developed a system for frame-addressable storage on standard filesystems in parallel, and when they decided to step off the "proprietary hardware" story all they had to do was enable it. Now it's just a directory structure.
That’s seems like an odd anti-competitive complaint considering the customer has the option to not use such software at all?

It’s like complaining about a monopoly on lawn mowing. Owners can always choose to mow their own lawns if they don’t like the cost of hiring it out.
> We ended up using hurl as a test harness around HAProxy, something we probably should have done three years ago.

As maintainer of Hurl [1], this makes me happy!

[1]: https://hurl.dev
there isn’t an “issue” beyond the TPM being a potential point of failure, and all x86 laptops nowadays have a similar TPM and similar point of failure.

What do you think happens if your AMD cpu dies? That cpu has a pluton security module inside and if it dies, bye bye bitlocker keys.

you’re getting downvoted because you’re spreading decade-old FUD from the days before the tech community had wrapped their head around TPM. Any secure system is going to be equally dead if your TPM dies and this very much includes every windows laptop etc.
I often tell people they're not dumb (and therefore I'm not smart), they just lack the prerequisites. But they never go and acquire said prerequisites. I do. Maybe they are dumb.
AI bill sparks debate in Silicon Valley; Google says its a threat to innovation
How can I get hired to do bioinformatics with pipes all day? Sounds like a dream. I have VR and control systems experience.