skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How do you gain associativity then? At a minimum, you can't throw information away.

That's an interesting perspective that I haven't considered before, thank you.

Now I'm wondering, could we throw away some information in just the right way and still maintain associativity? That is, it doesn't seem like throwing information away is fundamentally what's preventing us from having an associative operation, since we can throw information away and still maintain associativity by, for example, converting each summand to a 0 and adding them, and that operation would be associative. However, we would have thrown all information away, which is not useful, but we would have an associative operation.
The Race for Lambeth Palace
Traditional pensions are fundamentally unsustainable endeavors under modern demographics. You cannot pay decent benefits to a growing retired population while collecting reasonable dues from a shrinking working population. As we've seen, all retirement funds, even the remaining pensions, have largely switched their investments to the stock and bond markets in the vain hope that this fundamental conundrum will be solved through moonshots and financial tricks. The 401(k) is just one piece of a much bigger puzzle.
Value Stream Mapping 101
The sea is a bit wider than the river. And deeper as well. The 32 cm was the rise mentioned in the article.
> CAM16 addresses all of the ideas and complaints that anyone could have...

Here's some complaints that better color scientists than me have had about CAM16:

> Bad numerical behavior, it is not scale invariant and blending does not behave well because of its compression of chroma. Hue uniformity is decent, but other models predict it more accurately.

https://bottosson.github.io/posts/oklab/

Here's more:

> Although CAM16-UCS offers good overall perceptual uniformity it does not preserve hue linearity, particularly in the blue hue region, and is computationally expensive compared with almost all other available models. In addition, none of the above mentioned color spaces were explicitly developed for high dynamic range applications.

https://opg.optica.org/oe/fulltext.cfm?uri=oe-25-13-15131

Color is hard.
Wages are not significantly lower.

For example, Trump's H1B prevailing wages rules are still in place so at most the salary difference is 15-20% (which is basically nil as a hiring manager)

In "lower skilled labor" like manual Construction the average wages tend to be middle of the pack for those states [0]

For white collar jobs, the biggest driver for the slowing hiring market is the fact that companies have shown that they can operate in a global async manner, which means shareholders and board members like my Peers are increasingly pushing for hiring abroad as a way to speed delivery.

[0] - https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes472061.htm
It is better, and yeah for anybody who read the series the ending was especially awful. It's been awhile but I feel like they packed at least one book into the last 2-3 episodes of the last season. The book series still has a weird 30 year jump, but you stay there awhile at least.

For the first few seasons of the show I thought they did a good job, even though (or maybe because?) the show departs from the books in a lot of ways. But they tried to cram way too much into the last season and just made it seem like jibberish.
So should we outlaw stereo systems in cars, then?
I think this is a highly underrated comment. It seems today, people wont create for free any more, just for the joy of creating and distributing some thing you care about. It's always please donate x to y. Or subscribe to get access to premium content.

Sorry for hijacking your comment :)
If you want to know the monthly price of this managed database, you have to first punch this into a calculator:

($0.072 * $number_of_cores + $0.0084 * $ram_in_gb + $0.08 * $storage_in_gb + $0.008 * $potential_backup_storage_in_gb) * 24 * 30

Not my idea of a good pricing page.

Edit: VPS pricing looks much clearer.
This is not Elon’s “alt account” but rather X’s official account. It isn’t even a secret, since it is literally marked as an official account of X (see the golden checkmark). So I am not sure what you’re alleging. Even if it was an alt account, why would it matter - there is no bias in sharing the literal secret orders given or sharing excerpts from Brazilian law.
You can use something like OpenRouter, which lets you access essentially all commercially available models. Including open-source models. There are no rate limits.

You pay a different rate per model (OpenRouter shows the pricing transparently). You load your account with credits. I use it daily (undoubtedly far more than the average user) and loaded 50$ with credits five months ago, but I still have over 1/2 of it left.

I think it is hard to believe that Kagi would be any cheaper and have no rate limits.
For iOS I’ve been using iSH. It’s on GitHub (and the AppStore) and is an Alpine Linux shell for iOS. It provides no creature comforts for managing SSH connections, but does drop you into a pretty standard Linux shell. I believe it’s a stock Alpine install. iSH is an interesting project in and of itself, but in this context, you can also install a standard openssh client. This is usually as much support as I need on my phone or iPad to connect to a remote server.

https://github.com/ish-app/ish
Hmmm

One feature here that I think competitors lack is that the LLM's view of search results can be constrained by Kagi's search "lens" [0] that let you exclude various categories of results.

I use Kagi but haven't dug into lenses, anyone have experience ?

I'm currently trying to write python script interfacing with outlook's mailterm interface (win32com.client) and it's annoying. I wonder if I can restrict search results to a particular domain so it only pulls from microsoft docs...

[0] https://help.kagi.com/kagi/features/lenses.html
Crazy that this is not fair use but ai is.
I still cannot imagine how IA thought that giving unrestricted access to copyrighted books was a good idea. It seemed inevitable that someone would sue them over it.

Honestly, I think that IA's ambivalence towards the use of their website for outright piracy might lead to their collapse, and that's a shame. The Archive can be a really wonderful tool, though I'm not sure that its current management really knows what they're doing.
As cool as Dynamicland is, I still don’t get why they won’t open source it or at least release it in some form.

I’ve heard various people give roundabout excuses, but none of them hold water. They often fall into one of the following categories:

- “People won’t get the core ideas and will use it to make things that go against the core ideas” — People who care about Bret Victor’s work will take the time to learn the ideas. People who don’t might try and make something Bret doesn’t like, but currently the world is full of things Bret doesn’t like, so I don’t get how that would be different than the status quo.

- “It’s actually ‘anti-internet’, reimagining computers as objects in physical space, without the intangible connections provided by the internet” — Cool! I’d like to use it to make an airgapped little lab thing for people in my city to play and experiment in, but I can’t do that unless it’s released to the community.

- “Yeah but remember it’s ‘anti-internet’, releasing it open source on the internet would violate the core principles.” — This feels too cute by half. I don’t consider this a legitimate objection.

- “Just come to Oakland, you’ll understand when you get here and use it.” — That’s way out of many people’s budgets. I also get the feeling that I wouldn’t come around just by seeing it, I think I’d want one in my city even more.

- “You’re not entitled to other people’s work.” — True, but most stuff done in this sort of research space is done with the intent of spreading an idea or increasing the public good. It seems kind of odd that the Dynamicland folks keep talking about what a revolutionary concept it is while preventing 99.9% of people from actually experiencing it.

Overall it just seems like such a weird attitude. I get that they’re worried about the world misunderstanding their ideas, but at this point there are tons of people who have been eating up Bret Victor’s work and have immense respect for his ideas, and would gladly watch, listen to or read whatever instructions would be necessary to help someone who’s already bought in “play by the rules” and get the best possible experience.
> Couldn't it just be argued that free market extremism is as much folly as a pro-central planning position?

The trouble with calling free markets folly is they are enormously successful, in every place and time where they have been tried. The trouble with central economic planning is it always does badly.

BTW, one of the functions of government in a free market is to regulate the externalities - costs of doing business that are not borne by the business. Pollution is the most obvious one of those externalities, so calling a polluting business "extreme free market" is incorrect.
I really like CSS. I find it easy enough to understand. It has grown in complexity over the last 10 years, but now you can do the stuff from 10 years ago a lot more simply. And all the code from 10 years ago still works.
I get a lot more enjoyment out of billionaires spending their money on rockets and super sonic planes than buying land in Hawaii and kicking native people off of it.
Looks like WSJ finally implemented bot protection as
archive.today just has a CAPTCHA archived.
Is that just speculation? I'd believe it shares his viewpoint or is "biased", but how do you know it's an alt account?
The company that builds the best LLM will reap dozens or hundreds of billions in reward. It’s that simple.

It has nothing to do with AGI and everything to do with being the first-party provider for Microsoft and the like.
This is actually really exciting for Kagi. In a lot of situations the underlying model (Claude, GPT4 etc.) isn't that exciting, it's the connection to search to retrieve and summarize recent information that's exciting.

By already having a traditional search engine this puts Kagi at a big advantage compared to someone like Perplexity, or even Claude and OpenAI who I think are all cobbling together solutions on top of Bing's API.
This suggests the author didn't consider existing tools or consult with anyone when building the idea.
Engineering Manager AI Assistant
From a UK perspective, the problem with this comparison is that a) our businesses are also going through this "financialisation", and b) homeownership is very dependent on how much space and political impetus you have to build new homes.
Roller Coaster Database
Prime is a good service. I don’t see why people should have to choose between workers being treated well and not having to deal with the hell that is shopping at a physical store.

Seriously. Drive to the store. Find parking. Walk to the general location where item should be. Item isn’t there. Try to find a clerk (there are 2 in the whole store). Get item or settle for whatever is there. Wait in line. Self checkout (we were told this would reduce wait time). Pay more because store is more expensive. Drive home. The whole thing took an hour of your time and you didn’t even get the exact thing you wanted. Also, good luck if you have kids or are busy or don’t have a car or are disabled.

The solution is labor laws. Voting with your wallet. Doesn’t. Work. It has never worked. Voting with your wallet is the solution companies want you to try because they know actual regulation would actually work.
> Studies have shown

What studies? The only quality meta-analysis I could find showed mixed results, "It was concluded that, in some indicators, listening to music has adverse effects on driving. However, in many indicators, music has a positive impact on improving driving safety." [1]

Personally I find music can help me focus - both when driving and at work.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10790125/
This is silly, because you are imagining that Amazon could disappear with no other change in society.
The thing to learn about Brazil if following news from the outside is that you need to wait 10-15 years to have any idea of what happened. Their current president was in jail for money laundering and other stuff for more than a year before. The law in Brazil is just another tool and its a wild west. I mean, like anywhere, but in Brazil they are more obvious about it compared to other places.
> Also very cute of you to assume that llms are still being trained on websites.

1. There is no such assumption. Not even a mention.

2. Such an assumption would have no relevance here anyway.

Do you always struggle to read, or are you playing dumb for comedic effect?
Show HN: The future of window.ai for the front end
When Chrome released `window.ai` for their local model, Gemini Nano, I got excited! Not for the local model which you can't really do much with but more for the new way of interacting with AI utilities directly from the front end.

I loved the simplicity and the ease of use but not so much the capabilities and limitations.

I wanted to see if we could expand the use of window.ai by combining it with JigsawStack. While you lose the offline first capabilities. You get tons more powerful tools that you can actually use in the front end like translation or text to speech at your finger tips.

The biggest challenge was keeping it simple, easy to use while being secured, since your API key is exposed. Check out the post on we a managed to solve these problems and how you could bring AI to your front end!
I had a USPS mailman with a walking route that used a handsfree headset to work a 2nd job. Not sure what he was selling, but I overheard him close a deal while he had me sign for a package. It never seemed to affect his productivity, and I definitely respect the hustle.
It is ultimately judgment calls by human beings that make the determinations. However, I don't see how you can read this opinion and think that the judges are just making their minds up on the spot. Every single decision point in this opinion goes back to prior cases and either explains why they apply or distinguishes this case from them to explain why they don't.

- It's not like Campbell/Rose-Acuff (2 Live Crew v Roy Orbison, the "Pretty Woman" case) because IA's ebooks are not parodies of the original works. They _are_ the original works.

- It's not like Sony (the Betamax case in which whole-work copying was found fair because it enabled time-shifting), because there's no sufficiently different use that's not supported by the original copy. You read the book, you read the IA scanned copy.

Courts have judgment, but within parameters. The Copyright Act itself spells out four factors for evaluating whether a use is fair, and both courts found that it failed on every factor. The judge can't say, "well, but I still believe that the use should be fair anyway"; that would be an instant reversal and remand, with instructions amounting to "follow what the law says, dummy."

This was never really a close call based on prior cases. Transformative use has almost never been "exactly the same work used exactly the same way, but digital." Cases that have tried to make that argument have failed again and again. The "our enforcement ensures that only one person is using the copy at a time" has been tried before as well, and has consistently failed. Back in 2020, my heart sank when I saw IA's announcement that they were doing this, because I was certain that they would be sued for it, and that they would lose if they were. I can't stress enough how obvious these rulings have been if you expect the courts to do what they ordinarily do-- find similarly in similar cases.

The Supreme Court can discard all that precedent - they've certainly made a habit of that lately - and create new case law, along with an explanation of the way that they evaluate the factors to find that way. They may in fact do so; they've done that a couple of times in recent decades. However, they don't take many cases, and this case is so clearly in line with past cases that it's hard to see why they would take this one.
> him being the majority owner of both SpaceX and Twitter

Musk only owns 40% of SpaceX so he's not the majority shareholder.
Did they march people by millions into gulags or concentration camps?
Yup.

I would really like to write about what you guys are doing, because it seems fascinating. But it feels to me like it's 95% podcasts, videos, and online chats, and I just do not have time for that. (And I'm about 9 timezones away or something.) I try to produce 2 articles a day, and to do that, I read tens of thousands of words of info a day... Speech just isn't fast enough.

If it's not text, I simply can't cover it.
We can already make more land. See Dubai for example. And with AGI, I suspect we could rapidly get to space travel to other planets or more efficient use of our current land.

In fact I would say that one of the things that goes to values near zero would be land if AGI exists.
Grok AI Toy – Curio
Of course nothing on the money supply or the Fed's Balance Sheet. They're not allowed to admit what they've done.
I’m not sure this tracks because you’re not comparing like for like

> Intel is willing to pay for the transistors, and Apple reserves them for the M3 Pro instead.

Apple is also willing to pay for it. You just happen to be comparing the higher tier Intel to the lower tier Apple chip.

Intel just doesn’t have a suitable answer in that tier level yet because they haven’t launched the Core Ultra 3.

If you were to map the Intel levels to Apple, they’d roughly line up like so (ignoring Intels power delineated lines):

Core 3 -> base M series

Core 5 -> M pro

Core 9 -> M Max

The Ultra 9 288V you quote is their highest spec device and has a recommended range of 17-37W.

The Ultra 5 226V is the closest to an M3 at 8-37W but loses a lot of the performance numbers you quote and still consumes more power as a whole.
Are you sure about this?

My understanding is that Infineon cryptolib causes the hardware vulnerability and that their TPMs, for example, internally use this library to implement the crypto parts of the TPM specification.
Fraud lands…
Dare I say "Follow the money"?
Personally I find this paragraph talking to newly arriving people a gem:

“I’m so glad you’re here! I don’t know if they told you in there, but we’re all trying to do something crazy here, which is to build a place where we believe there’s somewhere for everyone. We have never once in our history even come close to doing this. We’re not close now. But the fact that you’re here means we haven’t failed completely, and maybe with your help we’ll succeed.”
Thank you for sharing. The trait of using incorrect synonyms is interesting. Perhaps this shows the limit of their cognitive ability.
To clarify this, I think it's reasonable that token prediction as a training objective could lead to AGI given the underlying model has the correct architecture. The question really is if the underlying architecture is good enough to capitalize on the training objective so as to result in superhuman intelligence.

For example, you'll have little luck achieving AGI with decision trees no matter what's their training objective.
It's a declarative paradigm like that of SQL. From a purely imperative perspective, either does take some time with the spec and some experimentation to grasp as a paradigm, but it's a way of thinking worth the study for more than just being able to use SQL and CSS. (Which are not without worth in their own right!)
Tailscale: Use UFW to lock down an Ubuntu server
That wiki article has nothing to do with AI. The whole AI space attracts BS talk
I think you're paying more attention to the mathematics than the social usage.

The ocean at a tropical beach is often actually cyan but never referred to as green.
> Boom is trying to build their own engine for the full size aircraft. That's tough

It echoes my criticism of Virgin Galactic checks notes ten years ago.

That said, Boom started dancing with the DoD in ‘22. That’s a deep pot of cash, and could help make up for inexperience.
Oh that’s excellent! Thank you
Ideological grounds are a great reason to risk exposure to multiple assets. Musk should use any power at his disposal to resist government censorship. (This is not a statement about Musk's general attitude towards censorship, which is extremely circumstantial)

Musk needs to set expectations around Starlink now regarding censorship and unwarranted, broad-scope data requests. If he doesn't, then one of the most important wins of non-terrestrial, NGO-provided internet will be taken away. The war for a fair and free internet rages on, shareholders be damned.

edit: nvm, I didn't realize he already gave in: https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/3/24235204/starlink-block-x-...

That's pretty sad.
This seems like an overall good thing, since a lot of the effect of these essentially artificially inflated growth numbers has been investors' expectations becoming tied to an unsustainable and unrealistic expectation of growth year over year, and this has a myriad of downstream negative consequences for the actual operation of businesses, which has in turn wreaked havoc on the real economy. Maybe this can trigger a sort of reset of those expectations
Your description of reality made me chuckle. I remember during my degree the professor teaching us about how simple CPUs are made, but saying that the people who engineer the current hardware are like dark magicians. It can only have gotten more complicated since then.
As concerns over artificial intelligence (AI) grow worldwide, both the European Union and California have taken groundbreaking steps to implement comprehensive AI regulation frameworks. These initiatives, which come amid increasing scrutiny over the ethical and safety implications of AI technologies, mark significant milestones in global AI governance.

On August 1, 2024, the EU's Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act) became the world’s first all-encompassing regulatory framework for AI systems. The Act introduces a risk-based approach to AI regulation, classifying AI tools based on the potential risks they pose and setting clear legal obligations depending on their category. General-Purpose AI (GPAI) models, which are capable of performing a wide variety of tasks, face the most stringent regulations. Notable examples of GPAI systems include large-scale models like GPT-4 and image generators such as DALL-E.
Well the second one isn't really their hurdle. Its up to the airlines and governments to squabble with each other on flight routing.
> According to Reddit users that Freight Waves cited, Amazon has begun monitoring mouth movements on its drivers through a camera in the cab of its delivery fans.

This kind of allegation really calls for a better source than "Reddit users are saying". I'm not saying it can't be true, but there's any number of ways that an anonymous commenter's report of what an unspecified person said in their morning briefing could give a false or misleading impression of Amazon policies.
it's not the case in Brazil, most issues requests to take down content are related to the usual nazi, pedo, violence threads and simple and plain lies proven by overwhelming contrary evidence , everything is open to discussion by the involved parties, no secret tribunal exist in brazil, like some us patriot act tribunals
I notice when I get a taxi often the drivers seem to be constantly talking to someone on the phone, like they have long running low intensity conversations going for long periods of time.
Success in a boycott is not necessarily destroying Amazon. Success is making this decision cause enough financial pain to Amazon that they reverse it, and the next time some Frederick Taylor wannabe proposes something terrible along the same lines, everyone else reminds him of how much it hurt when they tried to stop the delivery drivers from singing along to music. Success is this weakening Amazon enough for their low-wage workers to unionize and demand representation on the board of directors and a bigger share of the profits.