skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's probably not something that the law in most countries has considered before.

The idea of being able to work remotely (especially across international borders) wasn't around when the basics of immigration law and visas were introduced in most places.
https://archive.ph/lHjfO
If they don't pan out we won't even reach 500 billion dollars actually invested and tbe bubble will pop. And it'll take many many many trillions before AI is even close to the biggest reason climate change is killing people.

People tend to take different pieces of mutually exclusive end states. Like my comment is speaking to a fantasy like outcome where again, we have AI that puts all researchers out of jobs.

If it can do that (which I don't think it will, but if we're dreaming it), let it boil oceans, let them abuse it, you can become unfathomably wealthy by solving world hunger.

Let them force countries to take out loans that practically put then in OpenAI's permanent debt to access the advancements they come up with.

It's still better than the alternative, and it still allows room for them to be as evil as they want.

I mean either way countries are going to become indebted to companies eventually if we keep down the current path. I don't see how the ultra wealthy can't use mass upheaval and desperation to secure extremely cheap labor and solidfy their power even without AI.

At least now, even if it's for their own personal gain and amusement, they can trivially solve

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It's like we're talking about someone potentially developing a cure for all cancer, but everyone is worried because the company behind it is evil and will hoard it for themselves while charging $1B per dose: let's still get to that cure if it can be developed.

It'll be a truly miserable and awful world watching people we know die while there's a cure, and watching them die because they're not able to pay this villain... but today there's no cure, no proof one can exist, no hints on how to get one.

It's better to have the cure and no clue how to fix the broken situation that it creates, than to have no cure and no clue how to fix cancer, because one is a problem of people/power/ethics and the other is a problem of unknown proportions and guaranteed ongoing suffering not more damaging than having a cure, no matter how inequitable access to it is.
Multi modal doesnt mean anything, you can put a good multimodal model to parse the images like pixtral and pass the results to the main model
What could be the reason? Do they selectively skip tokens to make it appear they support the full context?
It isn't surprise. It is continued vigilance and calling to attention a very bad behavior.
True how, though? Does Big Tech have too much power because it's disproportionately irresponsible, or because nobody else innovates like technology does? Did we get here through natural competition or abusing the undeniable de-facto control that OEMs wield?

America's problem is that we refuse to regulate our own industries. We create social medias that promote suicidal video challenges and then deny responsibility. We create phones that dis-empower the user and promote advertising and data collection, then refuse to moderate the impact. Between the App Store and ChatGPT, America's primary export is bullshit. And with the advent of TikTok, we're starting to discover that America's domestic bullshit industry is rather weak too.

So, what was the solution? Are we ready to admit that Apple, Microsoft and Google cannot be left to their own devices without betraying the market they insist on serving?
> an SDR is that a sound card takes real-valued samples, and an SDR takes complex-valued samples

Coming from a DAW background this concept was incredibly interesting. I am curious if stereo audio has ever been represented in this way, or if it is generally just used for the half sample rate?

Actually thinking on this now I guess that doesn't really make sense. But still really interested in this alternate view of sampling waveforms.
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I tried to let (API) of AI "access" to Internet through pre-web-scraping from some news websites and AI will start the talk first.
> I _strongly_ disagree with a fully cynical response of working only to contract, leveraging job offers for raises, etc.

Early in my career I watched a coworker get denied a promotion to management and make a hard turn toward cynicism. To be honest, he was not ready for a management promotion and the company made the right call. However, he was so insulted that he immediately started looking for new jobs and stopped doing more than a couple hours of work per week.

I thought his cynicism was going to backfire, but over the next several years he job hopped almost every year, getting bigger titles at every move. For a long time I was jealous that his cynicism and mercenary-style approach to employment was paying off so well.

Years later I went to a fun networking lunch. His name came up and many of us, from different local companies, said we had worked with him. The conversation quickly turned to how he had kind of screwed everyone over by doing Resume Driven Development, starting ambitious projects, and then leaving before he had to deal with consequences of, well, anything.

He hit a wall mid-career where he was having a very hard time getting hired because his resume was full of job hopping. He was requesting reference letters from past bosses multiple times a month because he was always trying to job hop. One admitted that he eventually just stopped responding, because he'd write a lot of reference letters every job-hop cycle only to have him bail on the company with a lot of technical debt later.

He eventually moved away, I suspect partially because the local market had become saturated with people who knew his game. He interviewed extremely well (because he did it so much) but he'd fail out as soon as someone recognized his name or talked to an old coworker.

The last I talked to him, he felt like a really cynical person all around. Like his personality was based on being a mercenary who extracted "TC" from companies by playing all the games. He was out of work, but asked me if I had any leads (no thanks!).

I'm no longer jealous of his mercenary, job-hopping adventure.
It does, but proving that it can be done with cheaper (and more importantly for NVidia), lower margin chips breaks the spell that NVidia will just be eating everybody's lunch until the end of time.
Restrict access how? To imports?
The evidence shows that Facebook is blocking Linux related posts, while the initial "policy makers decided" claim is significantly stronger and is not supported by anything. Much more obvious explanation is that some buggy ML classifier has added the distrowatch website to the spam list which triggers automated enforcement without any policy maker involvement.
Step 1, abandon the concept of "first principles." First principles don't exist for most areas of study outside of pure mathematics, and for newer fields like AI they haven't been established yet so you'd just be hamstringing yourself.

Step 2: The steps above are a good plan for learning about traditional AI, and the traditional approaches, which were based on an attempt to model human thought processes. Machine learning was what the industry turned to in the early 2000s because we didn't have the hardware capabilities then to meaningfully model neural networks. We do now, but machine learning has taken over so there's very little research into modeling neural networks...about the same as there was when I was an undergrad.
I think there is some confusion around what is "first class" in Prolog. Any syntactically valid construct in (ISO-conforming) Prolog is "first class", including the symbols that are the names of predicates. The fact that Prolog is a homoiconic language makes any valid Prolog code "first class".

"First class" meaning, can be the arguments to a predicate or processed as data.

Predicates (and only predicates) can be called with `call/N` -- although you could write a meta-interpreter with different properties. You could pass in the number `1` and call a randomly determined predicate, as an absurd example.

Perhaps you mean, "the head and body of a predicate are not first class" ? This again is false. They are valid data and can be processed as such -- please see [4] for clarification.

Perhaps you mean "they cannot be looked up dynamically at runtime" -- this is also false, please see [3].

Are there other eligibility requirements for "first class" that we should discuss?
What other rules have you collected?
Yeah, in the way I can invest in a new GPU for my gaming computer.

Paying military subcontractors is not putting resources into improving the military, it's spending. Be it bombing a country for no profit (like Afghanistan), for resources (like Irak), or geopolitics gain (like Syria/Ukraine), it's an expense, not an inversion. The military will not get ROI from oil or geopolitics.
They used NVIDIA GPUs, just less of them
You should try FoxNews.ai, it does not do propaganda.
Pretty funny they waited for WFH to be eliminated at most of the large tech companies. Guessing that is not a coincidence.
I've been doing both for the last decade+

I have a daily cron job that shows me the entries for this day in past years (i.e. all Jan 27 entries).

Yes, videos are more fun to look at.

But people don't have the patience to watch more than a minute or two at a time. They can quickly scan 20-30 images and focus on the interesting one(s). But if they see 10 videos, they'll start a few, and after a number of seconds start "seeking" forward to see if there is something interesting.

Or they'll watch the first 1-2 videos completely, and skip the rest.

So take both types!
It's a huge difference. Incentives are one thing, being able to force or take money directly is a whole different level.

Right now you need someone in the government administration + a court + a bank to do anything like this. With a digital dollar, you lose the last two.
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I don't think anyone uses MTP for inference right now. Even if you use MTP for drafting, you need to batching in the next round to "verify" it is the right token, if that happens you need to activate more experts.

DELETED: If you don't use MTP for drafting, and use MTP to skip generations, sure. But you also need to evaluate your use case to make sure you don't get penalized for doing that. Their evaluation in the paper don't use MTP for generation.

EDIT: Actually, you cannot use MTP other than drafting because you need to fill in these KV caches. So, during generation, you cannot save your compute with MTP (you save memory bandwidth, but this is more complicated for MoE model due to more activated experts).
Three claims are there:

- Facebook is censoring this content

- They decided Linux is malware

- They label groups associated with Linux as "cybersecurity threats"

The first one they seem to give evidence for the second two seem to be assumptions.
India had https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHAKTI_(microprocessor) as of a few years ago but I haven't followed it. The main website and blog seem to have had not much activity since 2021.
Out-of-the-box Elixir telemetry with Phoenix
The word moat was first used in english in the 15th century
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/moat
OK ty I guess I got it wrong. I thought it was way more common than for my scrappy bank.
No, I'm not having any of the problems you're describing. I'm moving windows between monitors with no visible issues.
I was expecting that too. :(
> Similarly, I noticed Signal is on Flathub for installing via Flatpak, but the developer account is ‘unverified’. It’s always put me off installing via this method.

It's unverified because it's not explicitly authorized by the Signal developers, Flathub's build files for signal are here: https://github.com/flathub/org.signal.Signal
But the option is there. It matters.
Thanks! I'll keep that in mind as I create the rec system. Are there any other issues you've found with using Pocket? Do you still use it at all or is it just a repository of things you've saved but never access (like me until recently)?
The espressif ESP-IDF sdk that is using FreeRTOS underneath has rust + std support for quite some time now.
>serious temporal hazard

Wow, you're not wrong. "I'll read just a little bit," I said. 2 hours later...
Yes, categories and sub-categories are important things to standardize if you have multiple people contributing to one cost reporting tool. My analogy was with the Dewey decimal system: a standard set of categories agreed upon by librarians so that they all agree how to organize their bookshelves!
Bader was also a chief proponent of the Big Wing, essentially flying a shitload of planes together in formation. The Big Wing which is usually considered [1] to have been a worse strategy than the more dynamic, targeted and integrated Dowding System [2] with which it competed.

He might have been a good pilot and a determined escapee, but I don't think history has much else to say in his favour.

[1] https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/battle-of-britain-big-wing-wa...

[2] https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/what-was-the-dowding-system
Reference checks happen a lot. You just don't see them.

Most companies stopped asking for references because everyone just games the system. Managers are afraid of giving anything but glowing references because they want to keep their own network opportunities strong. Giving positive references is basically a networking game these days.

So that's not how people reference check. Now, they go on LinkedIn and look for mutual connections they trust. They check for people they know whose work history overlapped with the candidate's time at a different company. They go ask that person without the candidate ever knowing.

I get probably 10X as many backchannel reference requests as I do formal reference check requests.
Racism is a bad enough problem in our society as it is. We dont need AI to help propogate that with the excuse that bad input(ie society) isnt their fault
Eh, if they're so low power that they're not stepping on their neighbor's reception I'd personally say it's fine. Tree falling in the woods situation and all. That definitely varies based on where one is playing around with such things, and it's always important to understand how far your transmissions are actually going (which can be surprising if you don't have much experience with it!).

Someone in a shed on a few acres playing around with an SDR? Go ahead, I don't care. Playing around in an amateur anechoic chamber, have fun if you're sure you're containing things. On a desk in a random apartment in Manhattan? What an asshole, call the FCC.

Is it potentially against the law to do this? Yeah, probably. How bad is it? Somewhere around jaywalking on an absolutely empty street and dumping waste in a park, greatly depending on multiple factors.
Ye I mean, you don't have to do it, just that you can, can be enough.
Paypal is never needed, not in the EU nor in the US but that misses the point.

Pretty much every single online shop/website ever allows paying with PayPal (and Credit Card). And you pretty much have to use it as not allowing paying with PayPal will reduce your sales noticeable, especially for international orders. This is something people funnily frequently rediscover, again and again.

Also I don't thing many people do use PayPal to send money between each other tbh. when I mean competing I mean for paying online not for p2p money transfer. Like sending other private people money always had been trivial, through slightly annoying, in the EU, even before smartphones where a thing.
Don't worry, Trump is friends with Tim Cook. Nobody who's friends with Apple can be a bad person, that's what you've told me so many times on this website.
Laws have to change when technology changes. AI will benefit all of humanity, so I'm someone who believes AI should be allowed to train on copyrighted materials, because it's better for society.

However, like you're getting at, there are people who would say personal rights always outweigh society's rights. I think we can get rid of copyright law and still remain a free market capitalist economy, with limited government and maximal personal freedoms.
No, it has not been audited, and it has strong incentives to lie about its costs as if it announced costs anywhere near OpenAI it would be admitting to violating US Law.
any notable historical events or uses involving this?
If you're talking about the mobile app I turned those off as soon as they showed up in the settings (click on your profile picture) under [messaging -> show predictions].
Actually I wish these models had Chinese alignment without the western one..
This obviously depends on a million other factors too (implementation, language, architecture, etc) but I've benchmarked this a few times and, at least for naive implementations in 2D/3D, rejection sampling was often faster.
"Does anyone expect meaningful insight to come from a study like this?"
This isn't really meant to be a retro UI theme list. It's just a list of CSS stylesheets with a tight theme that's a specific reference to some sort of UI

Not to be confused with design systems or UI libraries. Just CSS stylesheets
Usually the expectation is that this someone knows what they're doing, and it was weird how in this particular video that just didn't apply, at all. It was like watching him do chemistry video without having any idea what amounts of base chemicals to use or what steps to follow and just making it up in order to conclude "this doesn't work, the base chemicals are clearly bad" at the end of it =)
If demand for AI chips will increase due to Jevon’s paradox, why would Nvidia’s chips become cheaper?

In the long run, yes, they will be cheaper due to more competition and better tech. But next month? It will be more expensive.
Rust has some very competent RTOSes already like Tock / OxidOS and PikeOS. It's great to see support for NuttX, but it's Rust isn't completely lacking for options here.
Man, I saw a presentation on Iridium when I was at Motorola in the early 90s, maybe 92? Not a marketing presentation - one where an engineer was talking, and had done their own slides.

What I recall is that it was at a time when Internet folks had made enormous advances in understanding congestion behavior in computer networks, and other folks (e.g. my division of Motorola) had put a lot of time into understanding the limited burstiness you get with silence suppression for packetized voice, and these folks knew nothing about it.
AI is reliant upon training data that prior to recent years was generated by humans. If going forward, humans are no longer part of the training data and humans are no longer capable of verifying the results and output of AI, the quality and value of AI output would be degraded and not sustainable especially regarding recent research.

The end result given the scenario is that humans become less capable and the AI becomes less capable. So where is the capability come from then?
Amazing. My 2017 Ford Focus EV (a dreaded "compliance car") had literally zero problems other than replaceable items (wipers, 12v, tires, keyfob, etc). Plus since it was based on a high-volume platform, fixing it after a fender bender was very cheap.
Yeah, until you have a 5 year old (probably me in this case in the 80s) that plays with random knobs on the dash when they get in the car. Is it volume? Is it the tuner? We’ll know once the car turns on!
Or another way to look at it is it's just (at most!) 5% off an already large bill, and it might cost more than that elsewhere.

And I can buy 225 TB of bandwidth for less than $2k, I assume Microsoft can get better than some HN idiot buying Linode.
I often like to sum it up as: "Thinking gangs observed in prison represent human households."

This goes along with an imagined mockumentary, narrated by a David Attenborough figure, ex: "In the living room, a confrontation is brewing. The Big Boss has informed the bottom-tier Henchmen Homies that it is time for lights-out, but they are not ready to leave the television and they resent the privileges of the older Made Man, who is permitted to remain. This is a problem for the Big Boss, since directly punishing them might undermine his claim to control the group as a whole. Fortunately for him, his Enforcer is arriving from the kitchen, attracted by the noise..."
The web didn't go from streaming 480p straight to 4k. There were a couple of intermediate jumps in pixel count that were enabled in large part by better compression. Notably, there was a time period where it was important to ensure your computer had hardware support for H.264 decode, because it was taxing on low-power CPUs to do at 1080p and you weren't going to get streamed 1080p content in any simpler, less efficient codec.
A digital dollar is not down some rabbit hole of hypotheticals. The fed (amongst others) debate/study it. Published this a couple years ago:

https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/files/money-and-...
I wasn't clear. Model weights aren't changing at inference time. I meant at inference time the model will output a sequence of thoughts and actions to perform tasks given to it by the user. For instance, to answer a question it will search the web, navigate through some sites, scroll, summarize, etc. You can model this as a game played by emitting a sequence of actions in a browser. RL is the technique you want to train this component. To scale this up you need to have a massive amount of examples of sequences of actions taken in the browser, the outcome it led to, and a label for if that outcome was desirable or not. I am saying that by recording users googling stuff and emailing each other for decades Google has this massive dataset to train their RL powered browser using agent. Deepseek proving that simple RL ca be cheaply applied to a frontier LLM and have reasoning organically emerge makes this approach more obviously viable.
the "free speech" was a promise to promote right wing speech. do not mistake it for ideology.

banning left wing activism, either acknowledging the genocide in Gaza or apparently now promoting free (less surveilled) software is against what the authoritarians want so it is banned.

this is all consistent if you see it through that lens
In both the EU and US PayPal is very widely used to pay in online shops. To a point that disabling PayPal temporary can show noticeable decrease in sales for most online shops, especially if international orders are involved.

When I sayed "competing with PayPal" I meant for paying online, i.e. alternatives to both PayPal and Credit Cards. Not p2p money sending.
> hash a .tar file, not a .tar.gz file

For security reasons, it's usually better to hash the compressed file, since it reduces the attack surface: the decompressor is not exposed to unverified data. There have already been vulnerabilities in decompressor implementations which can be exploited through malformed compressed data (and this includes IIRC at least one vulnerability in zlib, which is the standard decompressor for .gz).
For what it's worth (which isn't much), all of that hinges upon the FCC's motivation and capacity to enforce its rules.

If amateur and citizens band radio shenanigans over the last few decades have proved anything, it's that you have to be an absolutely massive pain in the radio-wave-receiving public's ass to really get their attention.

If you had this device on 14.300, 7.200, or channel 6? Meh. No one's gonna care.
I agree.

This is not an LLM problem.

This is a people using LLMs when they should use authoritative resources problem.

If an LLM were to tell you that your slab's rebar layout should match a certain configuration and you believe it, well, don't be surprised when the cranks are all in the wrong places and your cantilevers collapse.

The idea that anyone would use an LLM to determine something as important as a building's specifications seems like patent lunacy. It's the same for any other endeavor where accuracy is valued.