skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand what you mean. However, since GenAI brings efficiency to the table, a number of startups are now trying to compete with existing giants (solving real problems) and claiming to make processes more efficient. The problem arises when existing companies adopt GenAI as well and make the same claims.
relatedly: is claude3.5-haiku being delivered above their cost, after they quadrupled the price?
Though it wouldn't ensure profitability since they're spending so much on training. I'm sure with inference-use growing, they're hoping that eventually total_expenses(inference) grows to be much much larger than total_expenses(training)
> Maybe I'll find some time to do a deep dive on common Lie Groups used in computer vision e.g. SO(3), SE(3) and Sim(3) and also the common representations used for those groups.

+1

Also, great article!
> maybe prevent the gotchas with missing equals, hashCode, and toString

There's no actual gotcha to them not existing. It works perfectly fine in haskell or rust for instance.

Although it's not a fundamentally useful change to make objects for which a sensible equals/hashcode is trivial not have it, and still have it for objects for which it's not. So without the ability to reach back and remove those properties being universal I fail to see what the point would be.
Population of the world in 1950 was 2.5 billion. The population of the world has over tripled. This world put a lot of scaling pressure on everything.

I didn't think plastics are used because they are considered the only submittable suitable material, but they are definitely the cheapest and easiest to use. You cannot injection mold wood to be the exact shape and size with a snug fit for something you are packaging.
The final paragraph links and arguably promotes a site which is hosting the data.
I would personally say that "easy" depends a little bit; if your device is listed on https://docs.mrchromebox.tech/docs/supported-devices.html then yeah it's dead easy to reflash the firmware and install any old distro and off you go. Anything not supported by that is a little more annoying because you need a distro that can deal with the default firmware's non-UEFI boot process. I'm very fond of my ARM Chromebook flashed with postmarketos, but it is a little less supported because of the boot process (and in some cases yeah hardware support isn't 100%).
Malort tastes like extremely bitter grapefruit peel to me.

I also love my scotch as peaty as possibly. So most likely my taste buds are broken.

Fernet is dark and very herbally from my recollection.
This is very cool. Thank you for sharing your creativity with this game and its source! I love that it is accessed via ssh and is multiplayer.

A screenshot or animated gif in the README might be helpful. Like others I can’t see the movie. Check out charm’s vhs tool to make these.
A Complete Guide to Lock Convoys
See my comment about regarding adding value.
> If your threat model includes nation states, you are outgunned.

If basic security is not implemented, you have bigger problems.
(backdoors in Cisco, Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks, skipping tests - Cloudstrike)
What is pixel tracking? How to tell when emails are tracking you
Yeah, in this case the lame duck timing is purely coincidental, the government is acting to provide their proposal before a December deadline set by the federal judge.
Just listened to a podcast about Cloud Identity Lifecycle Management, and it was super helpful! I didn’t realize how much goes into managing identities in the cloud. I’m still learning the basics, but this gave me a new perspective. Thought I’d share in case anyone else is curious about how this part of security works!
Even if things are not directly "listening" and then directly serving ads (and I don't even think it's a crackpot theory, we KNOW companies would LOVE to do this), then we can surmise that at least the following happens:

- Ad networks have figured out who my closest circle is and has location tracking non-stop.

- I talk to my friends about something "which is taller, space needle or empire state building?"

- Even just one of them searches this. The ad network ties their search to me and ties "empire state -> NY -> NY trips" to me

- I get ads for trips to New York
I think it has to do with the timing and history of the internet, which carried a bunch of correlated groups (not just those two) forward together.

Both are fairly niche groups with no real geographic concentration. When someone can't cast around for a local club in town, the internet becomes a game-changer for finding the far-flung and diffuse others in the group. Then once you've found those other people (and related furry/security media to consume/publish) computers are again the way to get anything done, as opposed to snail-mail, phone calls or physical travel.
Silicon Valley's Obsession with AI Looks a Lot Like Religion
I first encountered it in Elecia White's book Making Embedded Systems, but the attribution is anonymous and whom it's attributed to may have heard it elsewhere.
Superconducting Qubit Hits 72 GHz, Offering Path to Scalable Quantum Systems
> Many, many people suggested that there must be some special case in gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct that recognizes chess notation and calls out to an external chess engine.

Not that I think there's anything inherently unreasonable about an LLM understanding chess, but I think the author missed a variant hypothesis here:

What if that specific model, when it recognizes chess notation, is trained to silently "tag out" for another, more specialized LLM, that is specifically trained on a majority-chess dataset? (Or — perhaps even more likely — the model is trained to recognize the need to activate a chess-playing LoRA adapter?)

It would still be an LLM, so things like "changing how you prompt it changes how it plays" would still make sense. Yet it would be one that has spent a lot more time modelling chess than other things, and never ran into anything that distracted it enough to catastrophically forget how chess works (i.e. to reallocate some of the latent-space vocabulary on certain layers from modelling chess, to things that matter more to the training function.)

And I could certainly see "playing chess" as a good proving ground for testing the ability of OpenAI's backend to recognize the need to "loop in" a LoRA in the inference of a response. It's something LLM base models suck at; but it's also something you intuitively could train an LLM to do (to at least a proficient-ish level, as seen here) if you had a model focus on just learning that.

Thus, "ability of our [framework-mediated] model to play chess" is easy to keep an eye on, long-term, as a proxy metric for "how well our LoRA-activation system is working", without needing to worry that your next generation of base models might suddenly invalidate the metric by getting good at playing chess without any "help." (At least not any time soon.)
What we know about new hypersonic Oreshnik missile Russia used against Ukraine
Yeah, landing. As was mentioned.

Not necessary for launch.
How to build something people will pay you for, in 5 steps
1. Look at all the problems you experience yourself, pick a painful one.

2. Talk to people who experience the same problem through DMs or surveys.

3. Build MVP that solves problem.

4. Share MVP to the same people you talked to before.

5. Improve MVP based on their feedback.

Now you have a product worth paying for.

This is how I did it for my project Buildpad and it's now at 1800+ users + 50+ paying customers, so don't say it doesn't work.
Chinese phone hackers 'had access to every call in the US'
The problem with all this stuff is that we've heard "Russia's economy is tanking fast" already during the first year of the war, and yet...

As far as "running out of bodies", the more accurate statement would be "running out of volunteers". While much has been made of Russia emptying its prisons, this ignores the fact that the majority of its fighting force are people who come to fight willingly, largely because of pay. Ukraine, on the other hand, has to rely on forced mobilization. At some point, Russia will do the same if needed - and yes, the regime doesn't want to do it because of political cost associated with it, but they absolutely can pull that off if and when they needed.

The notion that you can "just drop bombs after air superiority" hinges on the ability to establish said air superiority. US might be able to pull that off against Russia, but I very much doubt that Europe can. Not to mention that bombs also run out.
React Router 7 is out
Sorry yes, I meant the opponent would point it out. I’ve never played professional chess.
To offer a different perspective, I think this is lazy criticism. There is a fundamental tradeoff between the "sharding strategy" of a social network and user experience. Both bluesky and mastodon are reasonably pareto-optimal given this tradeoff.

Mastodon goes for real "decentralization" with tiny shards of the "content tier", which means:

1. There is a lot of intra-shard bandwidth but relatively limited inter-shard bandwidth. You can create a truly seamless global experience, with global search, recommendations etc.

2. There is no uniformity in user experience (say moderation-wise) as each shard is essentially a personal fiefdom.

Bluesky instead decouples the storage layer from the caching + serving layer. This allows data portability but still allows a truly unified view of the social network.

Users are free to choose between the two approaches and most overwhelmingly choose Bluesky. But it is not very thoughtful to criticize a pareto-optimal design point for compromising one property to gain another.
> Well if you can propel something forward you can propel it backwards as well

Not necessarily - at least with currently known science. Light sails work ok transferring momentum from photons, allowing positive acceleration from a giant laser Earth. Return trip requires a giant laser on the other side.
The App Store era must end, and the Mac is the model
This is a formula that optimizes for trolling. If you insist on using it, expect more downvotes in the future.
In a sudden stop event, assuming the driver does the same tasks (lifts foot off accelerator pedal, moves to brake, then presses brake) - an standard ICE vehicle simply stops accelerating (minimal engine braking). An EV starts decelerating as soon as the foot is lifted from the accelerator.

We're not talking EVs that are double the mass (usually 10% increase over ICE), so a 20% reduction in speed (probably more) on an impact is more important than that 10% weight increase (impact force is roughly equal to mass x speed).
It sounds like the main reason to call him effectively a Republican is that he hasn't chosen to prosecute Trump, which is a lousy argument. Plenty of rational Democrats have been saying all along that prosecuting him would be counterproductive, as it turned out it was in the event. "I'm voting for the felon" was a rallying cry in the Midwest.

At least the fact that he got a state-level conviction means the felony will stick. Had he been convicted of a felony at the federal level he'd have won anyway and just pardoned himself.
Here's a link for the curious: https://buildpad.io
Reminds me of how the since-retracted "Alpha wolf" categorizations were really describing the stress-formed equivalent of a gang in prison, rather than normal socialization in the wild.

Alas, it lives on through pop-culture misunderstandings.
Maybe https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5666750/
No, I I think it’s the opposite.

There is some threshold of financial assets after which there is nothing to do but become a bank.
Do these statistics correspond with what you observe in everyday life? There is a reason why Lego has shifted focus from the child market to the adult market.

But I admit that declining birthrates is probably not the only reason. There are decades of mass produced toys that get inherited/reused, and as the article points out; mass produced goods are cheaper than ever, especially plastic stuff like toys.
To be clear I am not being sarcastic in saying this but the only method I’ve found to work with any consistency is: Try, try again.
A rendering engine is not a browser. Are all the Chrome engine variants really just Chrome in a skin? I don’t think so they all have unique properties that set them apart. As do Orion, Firefox, brave, etc on iOS
I can’t tell if you are saying the distinction between model errors and model-application errors doesn’t exist or doesn’t matter or doesn’t apply here.
The skills necessary to "master using AI" are the same skills necessary to effectively communicate with a human being that does not know what you are talking about. This requires explaining to them the context of one's discussion, and once the context is understood then a complex conversation can follow. This is with people and this is the same with AI. If schools and education in general want to prepare students for careers that will probably require the use of AI enhanced systems that do not even exist yet - they need to teach students effective communications. And surprisingly, effective communications is extremely useful for human to human communications too. It could just be the most important thing a student is taught, because looking around as an adult for far too many decades: effective communication skills are at a poverty state across the board in human civilization.
The different notations in calculus are unfortunately a historical accident and you're going to see all of them if you do anything with it (it's certainly not true that everyone in the field uses the same notation). I agree that it's frustrating but so are irregular verbs in Spanish/French/other languages - you can't really change it.
MAD doesn't have a point, MAD is a fact observed, not an actively sought state (it is, in fact, the result of opponents with sufficiently similar capacity each seeking unilateral overmatch capacity, and neither being willing to sacrifice its own total destruction capability while the other retains it.)
Cybertruck Values Have Cratered and Are Still Dropping
The documentation seems very broken at the moment. Lots of typos all around, some of the migration steps from v6 are just incorrect. Some of the styling disappears if you click a hash link.

The docs are also missing all the pages for individual components and hooks. I hope they bring this back, because right now I have to keep looking at the v6 docs to read up on what things do.
Why are Educational Institutions so resistant to anything that veers from the traditional lecturing from the textbook. You could replace references to ChatGPT with “Internet Search Engines have no place in the classroom” or “computers have no place in the classroom” and the arguments would still be all too familiar.
Was just thinking about some of the docs we have at work, and how most are relatively short ( probably < 10 pages) and some are like... 200+ page government things
Recently I started wondering about the quality of ChatGPT. A couple of instances I was like: "hmm, I’m not impressed at all by this answer, I better google it myself!"

Maybe it’s the same effect over there as well.
Same as the big tech companies, probably make all of their products worse in service to advertising. AI-generated advertising prompted by personal data could be extremely good at getting people to buy things if tuned appropriately.
phones listen to conversations. I can't believe there are people trying to deny that. It's as obvious as the sky is blue. It's a running gag at this point
We must have completely different experiences, then. What years and where were you active in the is area? I’ve been visiting for over a decade doing hiking, fishing, spelunking, etc. Every town had tin hatters, but to paint the whole town like that is certainly extreme.
Linux isn't supported currently, doesn't mean it won't be in the future.
Didn't Israeli students show that you can recover audio from the vibrations of bulb filament with a fast photo diode?

I'd test that with a CCD line sensor plus a wide aperture lens and reading it out with 8kHz. Then you have 128 audio pixels that can cover an entire city.
Superconducting Qubits Above 20 GHz Operating over 200 mK
How Animals Got Butts [video]
While I'm still eager to see where Quantum Computing leads, I've got a new threshold for "breakthrough": Until a quantum computer can factor products of primes larger than a few bits, I'll consider it a work in progress at best.
Study: Yes, tapping on frescoes can reveal defects
Thanks a lot, really appreciate it. Have you tried this link: https://streamable.com/huxiwr ?

I know VHS, only problem is that that demo is a bit involved to properly script it..
Learning in the Forest – By Kent Beck and Beth Andres-Beck
This is not how it works.

First, revenue is irrelevant.

Second, the investment isn't a loan that they need to repay. They are getting equity.

Third, Anthropic is exclusively using AWS to train its models. Which, yes, means if AWS gives them $4B and it costs them $500M/year to pay for AWS services then after 8 years, the cash is a wash. However this ignores the second point.

Fourth, there is brand association for someone who wanted to run their own single tenant instance of Claude whereby you would say "well they train Claude on AWS, so that must be the best place to run it for our <insert Enterprise org>" similar to OpenAI on Azure.

Fifth, raising money is a signaling exercise to larger markets who want to know "will this company exist in 5 years?"

Sixth, AWS doesn't have its own LLM (relative to Meta, MS, etc.). The market will associate Claude with Amazon now.
HN must also respect the principles of the right to be forgotten.

There is no easy way to delete your comments or profile.
"Awoken By A Lamp" vibes, definitely:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Glitch_in_the_Matrix/comments/30t9k...

Thanks for share.
> look at Linux and Firefox!

AI models are more like a programming language or CPU architecture.

OpenAI is Intel and Anthropic is AMD.
Kernel level anti-cheat is not enough, the future is reboot-to-play
I’d assume that evolution in salmon is just not fast enough to catchup with the dam.

EDIT: I don’t mean that as a joke. I think on the timescale of evolution the dam was never there.
The primary threat model is data collected today via mass surveillance that is currently unbreakable will become breakable.

There are already new “quantum-proof” security mechanisms being developed for that reason.
I'm not sure anyone really knows this although there is no shortage of wild speculation.

If you have keys that need to be robust for 20 years you should probably be looking into trying out some of the newly NIST approved standard algorithms.
I think voice mode makes significantly more sense when you consider people commuting by car by themselves every day.

Personally I don't (and I'd never talk to an LLM on public transit or in the office), but almost every time I do drive somewhere, I find myself wishing for a smarter voice-controlled assistant that would allow me to achieve some goal or just look up some trivia without ever having to look at a screen (phone or otherwise).
You'll need to focus on asym and DH stuff. If your symmetric keys are 256 bits you should be fine there.

The hope is that most of this should just be: Update to the latest version of openssl / openssh / golang-crypto / what have you and make sure you have the handshake settings use the latest crypto algorithms. This is all kind of far flung because there is very little consensus around how to change protocols for various human reasons.

At some point you'll need to generate new asym keys as well, which is where I think things will get interesting. HW based solutions just don't exist today and will probably take a long time due to the inevitable cycle of: companies want to meet us fed gov standards due to regulations / selling to fedgov, fedgov is taking their sweet time to standardize protocols and seem to be interested in wanting to add more certified algorithms as well, actually getting something approved for FIPS 140 (the relevant standard) takes over a year at this point just to get your paperwork processed, everyone wants to move faster. Software can move quicker in terms of development, but you have the normal tradeoffs there with keys being easier to exfiltrate and the same issue with formal certification.
Author of this post. I have an undergraduate in Applied Mathematics and my training in the "definition -> proposition -> proof" style of mathematics probably comes through in the article more than I wanted it to.

That being said, I began studying Differential Geometry and Lie Groups as part of my graduate degree in Electrical Engineering. Engineers think about problems very differently than mathematicians and I've benefited a lot from taking a more geometric-based and visual approach to learning in the years following my undergraduate.

So, my prescription would be to play around with math ideas when you see them. Create a script to draw what you are trying to visualize. This was my first time using the `manim` library and I gained a deeper appreciation and intuition for the ideas presented in the article even though I've studied them dozens of times!

Overall, learning math is a slow and deliberate exercise. Don't get down on yourself if you don't understand something at first glance. Feel free to pause, verify an idea (either visually or with a formal proof) and then continue on a more firm base of understanding.
We've always had this sort of stuff. Back in the 70s you had cameras the size of lighters. There's solutions for anyone determined enough. Even with authoritarian states, you'll find counter measures with sufficient demand. It's reed in the wind shit. Hopefully we won't kill ourselves in the process.
one might say air pressure changes constantly as we speak.
I've used [0] to profile WebGPU code w/ Nvidia Nsight, but yes better tools built into Chrome would be very nice.

[0] https://frguthmann.github.io/posts/profiling_webgpu/
Why Is Elon Musk Like That? [video]
If you're talking nominal prices then I think we're agreeing. The ads made it possible to sustain the current price in the face of inflation.
Why am I writing a JavaScript toolchain in Zig?
Oh man, that's sweet! Thank you. I would be at your door by now but I'm located 8000 km away from Oregon :D I just received a tiny M920Q, and 64 GB of RAM should arrive tomorrow. I'll have to make do with it for now :D
It doesn’t enable anything a browser extension couldn’t do as well.
servers are live in oregon and warsaw! within 60 ping of either, there is no ping advantage.

yesterday’s playtest was awesome[1].

not sure yet if projectiles or hitscan is more fun. lots of balancing left to do, but the movement already feels amazing.

who wants to 1v1?

cash bounties coming soon.

sell cpp17 code in the item shop soon after.
I was referring to the portion around thinking people should just eat healthier and giving context, as well as explaining why that thinking is flawed for many people.
Look up acoustic cameras on YouTube, there are some pretty impressive demonstrations of their capability. This is one of the companies I've been watching for a while, but it looks like FLIR and some other big names are getting into it: https://www.youtube.com/@gfaitechgmbh

The one use case that is both creepy and interesting to me is recording a public space and then after the fact 'zooming in' to conversations between individuals.