skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Chinese companies are not the leaders in the space, so they're salting the earth with insanely powerful SOTA open models to prevent anyone from becoming a runaway success.

While it would be interesting if Chinese companies were releasing their best full models as an intentional strategy to reduce VC funding availability for western AI startups, it would be downright fascinating if the Chinese government was supporting this as a broader geopolitical strategy to slow down the West.

It does make sense but would require a remarkable level of insight, coordination and commitment to a costly yet uncertain strategy.
Refusing an ambiguously-lawful order would, under that source, trigger a prosecution or nonjudicial punishment under UCMJ Article 92 - Failure to obey a lawful order or general order. And it would need to be determined at trial and/or on appeal whether the order was lawful, because Article 92 requires the Government to plead/prove four things:

- That a member of the armed forces issued a certain lawful order;

- That the accused had knowledge of the order; and

- That the accused had a duty to obey the order; and

- That the accused failed to obey the order.

If the order is deemed unlawful by the military judge or appellate court, the case must be dismissed, because the Government has failed to allege an offense.
> virtually nothing

Older kids will only have virtual needs. They'll have a job and health insurance.
what are you even saying
Are you under the illusion that nuclear would have helped, or are you complaining they didn't keep burning coal?
HiQ vs. LinkedIn is the lawsuit that says scraping content behind a login wall is illegal, so with a very big if, you can prove the content scraped was behind a login wall, then you have the starting of grounds for a lawsuit.
Which one is the original? Say we aren't making a computer copy but duplicate of your body. And we might have messed up the labels.

How do you tell which one is the original? Atoms don't have labels. But atom-level copy isn't possible. Say we made the scan at large enough scale that has fidelity but it isn't identical.
> The training pipeline will be: raw video -> Genie 2 -> game engine with rules -> physical robot

One of those arrows is not like the others
> BRICs economic group has been trying to launch their own currency

It's only been Russia (and to a certain extent China).

India and Brazil have both vetoed any attempt at a "BRICS Currency".
> A lot of people are technical just enough to become dangerous. When I explained the problem to a lot of my friends they ran wireshark on the network connection and they saw gibberish. From this they have erroneously concluded they are safe...

To me, that doesn't sound like technical "enough". And that's not more dangerous than non-technical people trusting a website saying "we secure your data with military-grade encryption".
Adding user and permission support shouldn't be hard. What database are you using? We can put it on our next roadmap.
I mostly agree with his write-up. I’ll just modify one part, that about marginal investment, to say a significant amount of resources went into formal methods. From companies in safety-critical to academia, it was tens of millions at the least. The market noticed the results were failure in both adoption and profit.

Another angle is regulation. Companies on their own either refused to do QA or security, or faked it. It wasn’t until the Orange Book regulations forced them to do specific things, like formal methods and side-channel analysis, that they did that. Later, Common Criteria and DO-178B incentivized higher levels of quality. The market rarely invests in real security on their own.

Why do they not invest in real security? What could hamper formal methods adoption? Two reasons.

In the VAX VMM Security Kernel, they noticed that formally-verified, rigorous designs took two to three quarters for a significant change to the product. Competitors not using these things could slap together and sell what worked well enough. Project leader Steve Lipner, who made SDL for Microsoft from these lessons, said his take away was the market prioritizes shipping useful stuff to customers above all else. Others point out any cost or effort not generating revenue is a liability to management.

Roger Schell, one of the founders of INFOSEC, talked to executives about secure kernels long ago. He said they were interested but believed they’d never be sold. The reason? They believed companies intentionally made shoddy software to sell them the fixes as updates over time, thereby assuring long-term revenue. SaaS has only increased tactics like this for most companies. So, this incentive works against us still.

Lightweight, push-button analyzers are about the only worthwhile use of formal methods in the general market. They need to have low, false positives with a low price with integration with existing pipelines. Also, some companies want extra assurance for specific things, like financial protocols or secure updates, that justify some formal methods.

Outside that, I wouldn’t recommend formal methods today since I’ve seen 20 years of people loose uphill battles. Both in formal methods and just trying to spend more onboarding QA tools that slow development velocity. Whatever it is must clearly support, not hamper, management’s goals for the software from their viewpoint on priorities.
No, investing in healthier tires becomes economically viable.
This is exactly it.

In order, from most painful to least, in my story:

- Kicking Bob out of the group

- Getting Bob to do a fair share of the work

- Getting Bob to do ANY work

- Having Bob do no work and have everyone else share the load
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That's weird, because France has a higher rate
of homelessness than the US. The French average, 45/100k pop, is comparable to NYC.

Italy is much lower at 8/100k.
We have had the capacity to produce more stuff than we can consume for almost a century now. Take cars for example. We could easily produce one for every man woman and child. If someone can’t afford a car it isn’t because we can’t make it, it is because we have decided not to make it.

This isn’t a production problem, it is a social problem.
If it's not too personal—why do you not want to like people?
I agree, which is why someone should say "unsafe dosages of ivermectin" or "ivermectin in formulations unsafe for human consumption" instead of speaking of a widely used drug as per itself "unsafe" without qualification. Making over-generalized statements will lead to people rightly reject what you're saying, leaving room for them to be misinformed about the actual reality of the situation.
Thomas Sowell says that equality of opportunity leads to inequality of outcome. And this is the main difference between America and the rest of the world. The articles cites innovation-growth v cost-cutting as sources of increased productivity, and this parallels this dichotomy.

People interested in equality of outcome and a level playing field have to compete on cost. There's a social stigma against sticking out and achieving more, lest you become unequal, and the governments are well aware of that.

Meanwhile, innovation literally desires to reward disproportionately he who comes up with the new product. The entire purpose of the American economic system is to produce inequality.

This, combined with America's relative freedom from prejudice, is an unstoppable juggernaut. It is absolutely insane how easy it is in the United States to be handed money with limited liability to go and do whatever you want with it. This is a true blessing, and we see it not just in venture capital, but in the plethora of small businesses, as well as the plethora of credit (for better or worse).

Yes, there are problems, but I think history will show that this model is ultimately more sustainable. While true that America's productivity growth has only really taken off over the last century or so, even before then, it represented a formidable economic player.
In my experience Gemini has more knowledge but hallucinates lot more. Reasoning ability seems comparable. But for some reason it just doesn't feel good chatting with Gemini as with Claude or ChatGPT.
The "but" is a denial of what preceded it.

I think you misread me there. It wasn't a denial at all.

It was simply saying: whatever the state of the mess -- weird, distorted narratives about the mess don't help us out of the mess. And in fact are a huge part of the mess.

Exactly as you put it.
they do they do… but in a more obvious way :)
I can see the relative difference in speed between the two balls.
Well sure, if you're now sneaking in the qualifier that the costs are marginal. But obviously there is some price at which people do change their behavior.
Healthcare problems are nearly all caused by heavy government involvement in every facet of it.

> seeing your money go to rich people for no good reason

Anyone can buy stocks and get their share. For example, NVDA. If you'd bought some, you'd have made quite a lot of bank, and made your friends unhappy with you because of the money you unfairly made for no good reason.

I know many ordinary schlubs who became multimillionaires by simply buying NVDA, MSFT, AMZN, AAPL, etc.
> So where do we have vaccine mandates today?

https://www.ncsl.org/health/state-non-medical-exemptions-fro...

"All 50 states and Washington D.C. have laws requiring certain vaccines for students to attend school."

Employers, as a result, tend not to have their own requirements, for the same reasons they don't ask you to demonstrate you can count to ten if you have a high school diploma.

(And don't worry, they've got folks from other countries who might not have gone through our school system covered; https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrat...)

> Nobody asks me for my immunizations from the 1980s when I was in k-12.

Because you are virtually guaranteed to have had them. They will also not ask you if you're potty trained.
just look up increase in headcount of administrative staff at hospitals, providers, insurance companies, pharmacy benefit managers, etc.

all their salaries and profits are coming from patient's pocket
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Parse FIX messages directly in the browser and node.js...
Small talk probably doesn't even need to be "talk", a consider the (in/)famous example of asking for a cigarette lighter.
AMD doesn't have the burden of capital expense that a fab is. It did take several years for AMD to capitalize on the freedom this enables though. As far as I know Intel is the only company left that is vertically integrated. This might be the last domino to fall. Arrow Lake uses TSMC heavily. Maybe that's a sign of things to come. Andy Grove said only the paranoid survive. It didn't seem like Intel management was that paranoid. They didn't invent 64bit x86, had to license it from AMD. Spent so much money on stock buy backs, when it should have been funneled back into the fab, getting yields up on the next process node. It's easy for me to be an armchair quarterback though, I'm not aware of everything that happened behind the scenes. I saw D1X being built, and the future seemed bright.
Sam Altman lowers the bar for AGI
Ask HN: Is anyone using RCS (and prefers it)?
Android user here, using SMS only for OTP and all my friends use WhatsApp. While I'd prefer something that's not Facebook owned, it's hard to see RCS ever becoming a better option, especially given it still doesn't to my understanding guarantee E2E encryption.

Am I missing something here? Did anyone actually switch to RCS and prefers it over alternatives like Signal?
> Vehicle tires are a deep, integral part of daily economic and socio-economic activity.

We should be careful not to let perfect be the enemy of good, such as mandates to reduce tire wear[1] and elimination / substitution of the most harmful tire additives.[2][3]

[1] https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/about/news-room/press-releases-...

[2] https://e360.yale.edu/features/tire-pollution-toxic-chemical...

[3] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016041202...
This is childish. I never made value judgements and just pointed out that the reality is not what's sold to the public in official stories (and that holds true everywhere).
Weren't the majority of the reservation for the $40,000 version? Which with inflation, is unlikely to ever see the light of day?
Its so much like my lucid dreams where world sometimes stays consistent for a while when I take its control. It's a strange feeling seeing computer hallucinating a world just like I hallucinate a world in dreams.

This also means that my dreams will keep looking like this iteration of Genie 2, but computer will scale up and the worlds won't look anything like my dreams anymore in next versions (its already more colorful anyway).

I remember image generation use to look like dreams too in the beginning. Now it doesn't look anything like that.
Actually, all you need to do is to apply structured randomness to get diversity from a LLM. For example in TinyStories paper, a precursor of the Phi models:

> We collected a vocabulary consisting of about 1500 basic words, which try to mimic the vocabulary of a typical 3-4 year-old child, separated into nouns, verbs, and adjectives. In each generation, 3 words are chosen randomly (one verb, one noun, and one adjective). The model is instructed to generate a story that somehow combines these random words into the story

You can do the same for generating worlds, just prepare good ingredients and sample at random.
Well, it was someone with a gun, a mask, AND a bicycle. That must cut the list of suspects down quite a bit...
> it's super dismissive to think that wont get better over time

When did we start thinking this way? That things HAVE to get better and in fact to think otherwise is very negative? Is HN under a massive hot hand fallacy delusion?
Yes, COVID made it even worst. But this has been happening since before COVID.
If your lesson from history is that hubris works, then that's very interesting.
I think you'd have to work at it to be a successful grifter. If there's a sucker born every minute, then you really gotta be able to scale.
I agree about cancelling subscriptions, but if they lie to you, how do you know what to stop paying for?
This feels like a huge generalization to me.

The US, UK, EU and realistically most developed countries I would say have fairly similar quality of life within margin of error. I've travelled a fair amount and everywhere is basically the same.

For an individual it's really going to come down to lifestyle and what you prefer. Some people like urban living and walkability, if that's you then you probably want Japan or old world metropolitan European cities. Some people want a house on a few acres and national parks the size of countries, if that's you then you probably want the US.

Working cultures are different but then there is no average on that either. People on HN tend to assume everyone is an office worker or something which is actually a fairly narrow slice of the middle of the spectrum.

Equally though, online (you can see it in this thread) there's sometimes a weird focus on the absolute worst outcomes which I've always found baffling. If you're planning to become a poor fentanyl addict then yeah, don't go to the US, find a country with a safety net, it'll be more fun.
I would go to Tokyo, once or thrice a year. Long trip. I don't really miss it.

We'd usually run into each other at the train station, or in the corridors of the meeting room floor.

Our meets were always quite brief and serendipitous. We were in very different orbits.
Yes, you are missing how browsers without search engines could do fair and non-discriminatory pay for traffic deals with Google in a remedy that follows the spirit and letter of Sherman-Clayton and Robinson-Patman.

Again, the document does not say "no payment of any kind under any terms".

Fair and non-discriminatory (standard rate card, open ad confirmation/reporting tech using least-tracking and first party scripts, no native Chromium tracking crap) search and search ads feed API deals would let 1000 browsers bloom.
crispr variants have not particularly improved treatments.

But DNA sequencing and biologics have revolutionized medicine and changed lives.

Also, the computer as phone took it from 100M's mostly business users buying optical disks to 3+B everyday people getting regular system updates and apps on demand accessing real-time information. That change alone far outweighs the impact of anything produced by advanced physics.

As a result we, as developers, now have the power to deliver both messages and experiences to the entire world.

Ideas are cheap, and progress is virtually guaranteed in intellectual history. But execution is exquisitely easy to get wrong. Genie 2 is just Google's first bite at this apple, and milestones and feedback are key to getting something as general as AI right. Fingers crossed!
I would guess that doctors might find problematic for a patient to regain conciseness mid operation for a patient who can't afford full anesthesia.
The UK costs are due to the previous government not processing asylum seekers and other irregular immigrants in a timely manner and also the fact all the processing, care etc is outsourced to profit making private companies

We’re generally only talking about 50,000 people a year coming in via these routes

Of course Brexit didn’t help with the policing of it all either
Speaking of notions coming from highly dubious places....
I never understood the appeal of NEAT. It's easy to conceive of mutation operators on fully connected layers instead of graphs of neurons and evaluate a lot faster. NEAT also seems to have at least a dozen hyperparameters.
"When people impute special vices to the Christian Church, they seem entirely to forget that the world (which is the only other thing there is) has these vices much more. The Church has been cruel; but the world has been much more cruel. The Church has plotted; but the world has plotted much more. The Church has been superstitious; but it has never been so superstitious as the world is when left to itself." --G.K. Chesterton

The only asterisk I would put on this quote is that individuals are more benign still and why I will not for the foreseeable future join the Church.
"See that? Touch that and you're fucking dead"
I always wonder what would happen if you took these studies and actually broke down the US into units the size of the European countries we're being compared to.

It's easy to make a study that shows that the US has more X than some number of European countries—you just compare the entire US to all European countries and then cherry pick the ones where we do worse. But the US is a big place with a lot of variety in living conditions—even if you just broke down the results by broad geographic region rather than state, you would get dramatically different results than taking the US as a whole. What happens if you compare loneliness in the South with loneliness in Denmark? Or what about loneliness across the entire US with loneliness across the entire EU?
Sometimes it's just about inequality. Believe it or not, a lot of us don't like to see those around us go without.
The Reaction Trap
I'm not promoting the consumption of ivermectin without a good reason. I've never had it myself, nor have I encouraged anyone else to take it for "funsies".

Tylenol overdoses are relatively common and can even be deadly, but it would be a gross over-generalization to classify Tylenol as a "risky" drug. If you want people to take a drug in a proper setting, in proper amounts, to treat the relevant disease you should /just say that/ instead of trying to get people to think a generally safe drug isn't generally safe.

If someone has a serious bacterial infection and thinks they just need Tylenol, I wouldn't tell them that "You shouldn't take Tylenol! It's risky!" instead I'd tell them that Tylenol won't help treat their disease.
Username checks out...? ;-)
Thanks! Is the 6th derivative called a pop? XP

Edit: yes, apparently it is :D

After that it goes drop, lock, slam, thump
Yeah, generative AI can create cool looking pictures and video but so far it hasn't managed to create infinitely engaging stories. The models aren't there yet.
no mention of SMP or lack of SMP support. I am curious if this has SMP support
Runtime startup isn't amortized.
"Those sentences are working against each other. "

Not when the topic is privacy. This is not someone walking in public, those are videos out of private homes. Just because someone uploaded something, does not mean he had

a) the rights to do so (I saw a clip where a women asked a bit angry, are you making a movie?)

B) was aware what he is doing

(Google and co do have a incentive to mislead people about who will be able to access data)

So it might be technical legal. It if is moral, is up to yourself to decide.
Ah I _think_ I ran this on a MacBook that as far as I know has 8 real cores…

But I since found that 4 are “efficiency” cores, so that could be the reason for the poor scaling(?)
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This reminds me of a story my physics professor told me. Couriers were delivering gold between countries at different longitude. At the origin the gold was weighed using balance scales. At the destination the gold was weighed using spring scales. However, due to differences in gravity and the rotation of the earth, there was a significant difference in the weights. (But not the mass!) This made the authorities think the men had shaved the bars somehow. It was a simple way to demonstrate the difference between weight and mass.

Whether the story was true or not, the government is just bad at science. It's how we get stuff like bite mark patterns and facial recognition warrants.
This is akin to navigating a lucid dream, nothing more. Conscious inputs to a visual stream synthesized from long term memory.
I just got a Framework 13 AMD laptop with a 2k display and installed Debian 12.8 on it. So far the experience has been pretty smooth from a hardware compatibility standpoint.

I only discovered the InstallingDebianOn page after reading this article but the laptop is working fine without making any of the changes. Notably the graphics don't freeze and crash, Audio doesn't have static, and palm detection works out of the box. Plus fwupd reports everything with firmware available is using the latest version.

https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/FrameWork/Laptop1...

All of the gripes I have so far result from KDE, fractional scaling, and Wayland. KDE, for whatever reason, doesn't have a configuration panel built in for handling gestures. My usual fusuma + xdotool approach for sending XF86Back/XF86Forward keys when swiping don't work with Wayland. X11 apparently doesn't do partial scaling so Wayland is needed. Wayland leaves all sorts of visual artifacts. When two monitors are involved, one with no scaling and the other with fractional scaling, I get all sorts of visual issues.

Up until now I've been holding out and using 1080p displays. I figured surely in 2024 HiDPI would be a smooth experience on Linux.