skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> innovation of the architecture was making it computation efficient to train.

and

> researchers demonstrated that simply scaling up training with more data yielded better models

and

> The fact that hardware was then optimized for these for these architectures only reinforces this point.

and

> All the papers discussing scaling laws point to the same thing, simply using more compute and data yields better results.

is what I am saying as well. I read the majority of those papers so this is all very known to me but I am perhaps writing it down in a more condensed format so that other readers that are light on the topic can pick the idea easier.

> A majority of the improvement from GPT-2 and GPT-4 was simply training on a much larger scale. That was enabled by better hardware and lots of it.

Ok, I see your point and the conclusion here is what we disagree with. You say that the innovation was simply enabled by the better hardware whereas I say that that better hardware wouldn't have its place if there hadn't been a great innovation in the algorithm itself. I don't think it's fair to say that the innovation is driven by the NVidia chips.

I guess my point, simplistically saying, is if we had a lousy algorithm, new hardware wouldn't mean anything without rethinking or rewriting the algorithm. And with the transformers, this definitely hadn't been the case. There had been plenty of optimizations throughout the years in order to better utilize the HW (e.g. flash-attention) but the architecture of transformers remained more or less the same.
I think using the term backdoor is completely wrong in this case.

You're not at risk for using LLM other than the content producer being able to tell that the LLM trained on their data; maybe, potentially... It's a stretch even.

Your queries are not being relayed to them, they don't have a backdoor into the LLM content, algos or queries. They merely have a tainted marker, potentially showing, in the output.

LLM providers can always make the claim that they didn't get the tainted data from the source, but got it from another source and that's the ones you should go after; good luck proving the misdirection. I bet it's probably even hard for them to know exactly where this exact output came from, since it's probably been re-ingurgitated 250,000 times.
Could be, but it does not change the fact that we do not understand them as of now.
If I were to become a drug addict, I would also choose opium and heroin. I do see interviews on YouTube with folks who seek out fentanyl. But as other commenters mention, this may be a minority, and likely more so if safe and pure opium and heroin were accessible.
Yes, you could do that. But some filaments come wet out of the box. Its better to dry it first after unpacking it and then putting them in a storage box.
It's the Uber model. Grow first and figure out licensing, compliance, and lobbying second.
I’ve read it and the author doesn’t address them. Unless they have access to additional data, such as their claims about the standard errors in Table 5 (only the Finals result has large enough errors to possibly discount). The original paper is pretty clear.
> At this point the web is a de facto standard platform.

Yes, the web is a standard platform, Blink is not. Google can’t just spit out any old privacy-violating, insecure garbage specification and call it a web standard just because it’s what they want to build. Google don’t unilaterally decide what the web is.

> there are plenty of features that they have endorsed that browser vendors didn't bother with.

Something can’t become a web standard unless there are two independent implementations. It’s part of the standardisation process. It also disqualifies things like Web NFC and WebUSB from being web standards because Google couldn’t convince anybody outside of Google to implement them.
> I grow most of my own produce, with RO water

Do you really grow enough food to make up most of your diet on RO water? And is this specifically to avoid microplastic exposure, or what?
Sorry, they did not go much out of their way, to simply claim “solutions exist”. Sure, you could invent other ways of protecting your traffic but what CF offers in the free tier always includes SSL termination with their own certificates (if you enable ssl), and always includes caching.
Ist reading faster then listening for everyone?
White House registers DEI.gov and Waste.gov amid federal workforce purge
https://archive.is/evLAL
Google stole from the well of knowledge and sold it back to us as search. Or rather, accessing a database efficiently is a problem of its own.

Why are all these articles always so fraught with these excessively fearful terms? It’s not real, man. Humanity invented a new tool.

And yeah, people freaked out about search engines too. And it was the same breathless terror. Get a grip.
Is it this? https://cyberb.space/notes/2024/how-i-added-maps-to-my-trave...
OCR software like ABBY can spit out something called a "searchable PDF", which has a text layer underneath a picture of a scan.
Otherwise, PDF has 'dictionaries' with arbitrary key-value pairs in them. The "Info" dictionary has some specific metadata fields like Author, and a "Font" dictionary embeds fonts, but you're free to use those dictionaries for whatever. There's also a standard to embed 'dublin core', rights management and custom metadata called XMP. Files can be embedded. You can also use comments, as PDF is a subset of postscript.
When a PDF gets converted to PDF/A (by archiving software) or flattened/optimized, most of these are likely to be lost.
What is the point? Literally Google could have any subset of high achieving population and still meet any targets.

It could be a fully black, fully female, fully gay, fully Christian company and still the performance bar would not fall. They afford to select the cream of the crop out of any population set.
Some vendors are just weird... I'm always getting blocked by Etsy with Firefox after the first navigation on their site. It shows me a puzzle to solve and then, after solving the puzzle correctly (read "Success"), redirects me to "You have been blocked". It works with Chrome-based browsers though, but that doesn't make me want to use the website at all.

No VPN, just good privacy settings in my case.
But there's no legal precedent for any of this yet. Microsoft etc will offer to pay your legal fees etc if you are sued for what their service produces, but aiui that only kicks in after you've potentially been wiped out in court.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Agency_for_Inter... - the general pattern for the US-backed coups is propaganda->protests->revolt. USAID seems to be providing the funding for the early phase, if not the entire pipeline to a colour revolution.
I still find value in some of these but just focused to a specific use case for each

Reddit - hobbies

Instagram - catching up with friends

LinkedIn - Job Search
I believe their point was that they have no desire to fix the issue if they can just look elsewhere, making it detrimental to the vendor more so than the end-user.
https://imapsync.lamiral.info

Bought it to transfer mail from SMTP to Office365. Worth every penny.
He won the popular vote. Afaics majority of America prefer to be ruled by the rich. Honest even DEM won, it can be seen as ruled by rich too. To not to be ruled by the rich, so much legislation change is required, I don’t think that’s feasible democratically/peacefully.
Sounds like methodological error. Like your black spatulas. Somewhere they’ve divided by zero, clamped, and averaged or something dumb like that.
How does a company make an "effort" to interview a diverse set of candidates? There's an applicant queue not under their control, and a filtering phase at every step of the interview process.

What you're suggesting is that companies favor candidates who have a different appearance or background than existing employees, which is the definition of bias and discrimination. This is based on ignorant beliefs that people who look the same, have the same gender, ethnicity or background, will inevitably think the same way.

These programs are judging people by superficial traits, while claiming they somehow make the hiring process fair. It's ludicrous.
We "evolved" dog breeds in microseconds in evolutionary terms. As long as the selective pressure is high change can come fast.
Lawyers are yet to test this.
They are illegally accessing information for who knows what, and fire everyone who attempt to stop them and make them respect the law, for starter.

They aren't "calling for retraction" of fundings (which is normal in democracy, but then this call have to be listened by Congress for the retraction to happen), then are cutting funds on their own, without a democratic mandate and are doing so in spite of the laws and the constitution. That's unprecedented in any Western democracy.
Unfortunately, the best GUI in existence atm is a proprietary middleware and the language for it is XAML.

NoesisGUI: https://www.noesisengine.com/xamltoy/0e2a866b60bc2b9a724b4c6...

And it even has a studio for paying clients which makes designing a GUI trivial. https://www.noesisengine.com/studio/

The studio is made using their own GUI library and its sleek af. Not even QT holds a candle to it. Would have been nice to have such a project in the open source world.
Except that a prescriptive formatter with zero configurability is causing this conversation.
Data Engineering Startup Datazip Bags Funding from Equirus InnovateX Fund
In the book though she doesn’t talk about discovery weekly being tainted by these low budget tracks. It’s only the curated playlists
> It has _a lot_ of mosquitoes

Can mosquitoes transmit prions?
Digging up a tiny, poorly funded left-wing publication as a whipping post doesn't support the point you are making.
Equirus InnovateX Fund leads $1M round in data engineering startup Datazip
https://web.archive.org/web/20210120110125/https://www.pando...

lol, karma is a bi*ch
"Given a long enough time horizon, you'll deeply regret building on Serverless Functions"

Let's just apply "Hitchens's razor" to this kind of none sense:

What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence
This would break the WEB. JS DOM bindings are a backwards-compatible public API.
"social" implies that relationships between users are a core part of the platform. I can't follow another user or mark them as a "friend" on HN.

HN users put a lot less emphasis on who says something and we focus more on what they say. There are exceptions of course, because we have our own share of renowned experts posting here. But for the most part, people don't take note of what username writes a post.
I’m watching the horror show of US politics unfold from Western Europe, where I know every outrageous step that Trump takes, unchallenged, will only empower and encourage those would-be dictators who are attempting to take over and possibly dismantle our political systems too. But to call this “important news” isn’t really a fair description. It’s an opinion piece, which at surface level (hopefully) echoes the opinions of many readers who are recoiling in horror about the apparent destruction of democracy before their very eyes; however it is also a propaganda piece from one extremist celebrity leader against another, probably just as selective in its facts as all the guff that comes from the “other side”. The solution to right-extremism is not left-extremism, the real question is how can we talk reasonable people at both ends of the spectrum back from the ledge and attempt to form a new era of collaborative politics that aims for balance and fairness?
Of course we're trusting CloudFlare to be a good citizen. If they were not, they would be banned - unless they sold their business to a sovereign wealth fund.
this is really interesting

but as much as i want to agree with the author’s stance:

> [..] no matter how hard these companies try to sell us on AGI or “research” models, you can just laugh until you cry that they really thought they could steal from the well of knowledge and turn around and sell it back to us through SaaS

i feel like at the end, these companies will still win
Yes, or the psychos that were in control before were very happy with how the money machine was running for them, so they didn't need to change anything.

Now that some other psychos are taking over, the people that got used to the previous psychos are uneasy because change it not easy, especially rigorous change.

But maybe this will make people actually realize that the system was always flawed. The current administration just exposes that.
I don't think there's really a meaningful "they" as a single entity there.

It might sound weird, but I believe Musk is genuinely on some kind of a megalomaniac mad scientist superproject that requires taking power of the largest world economy to realize, quite possibly involving Mars. The guy is narcissistic to the extreme, and I think he really wants to end up in the textbooks as some kind of messiah figure on a planetary scale.

Trump's political desires are much too primitive and gut-driven to classify as "fascism"; really any authoritarian arrangement will serve him just fine, but if his inner circle arranges full-on fascism for him, he'll take it.

Then you have the Christian nationalists, who have very specific plans about, well, everything, but are also very sure that what they are doing is in accordance with God's plan and desires and therefore by definition great and cannot fail.

Then there's all the big biz tagging along for the sake of deregulation and lower taxes mostly, but also to try to be there to slow things down wrt stuff that hurts them directly like tariffs.
I don’t understand how the watermarking is supposed to affect the LLMs being trained. Isn’t the watermarking some hidden data in the PDF file itself and the text contained in the PDF is the same for everyone? And aren’t the LLMs trained with the extracted plain text, not the PDF itself? How would the LLM training be different if there’s a watermark?
They've outcompeted by improving their designs faster, by being willing to take risks and do stuff that might work, rather than requiring 9000 levels of process for everything. To my mind that's completely consistent with the kind of company that might lose track of some invoices and not pay until a supplier kicks up enough of a fuss.
Here probably routing would be dominating, but in general, unless I missed all the vendors ditching GPUs and switching to ASICs optimized for fixed precision math, floating points are still non-commutative therefore results are non-deterministic wrt. randomness introduced by parallelising the calculations.
Who said that it is not problematic for Biden to pardon his son?

However, if you put them on a scale blanket pardoning the mob who stormed the capitol, attacked and injured police officers, threatened congress members, planted bombs and were looking to hang the Vice president because he would not overturn the election results where do you think it will lean towards?

The one is bad optics the other is literally giving blank checks to convicted enemies of the State.
I didn't know that so many people did that so formatters have an option for this. On the other hand, I'm doing this for so long across so many languages, I never thought about it. It consumes no effort on my part.

Also, gofmt not removing the breaking lines and handling groups inside themselves tell me that gofmt is aware of these choices already and accommodates this without being fussy or needing configuration about it, and it's an elegant approach.
> In my experience there is no need to kill a chook after 3 years

I assume you don't have ISA Browns? We just had 3, gorgeous girls, but they all started laying lash eggs at about 2yo.

The ISAs are bred to lay, and -- turns out! -- 300 eggs/year isn't sustainable for a poor little chook's insides.

Don't get ISA Browns. It's heartbreaking and, if you decide to treat it vs. letting them die (we did), expensive.

We loved our girls to death. Chickens are amazing pets.
I cannot speak for the community, I don't have a very broad contact list for this sort of thing. Among the few people I know this has definitely drummed up some interest though (there are not nearly as many people who study asteroids as the public would think). Where JWST points is a complicated process that I only have a vague understanding of, this would likely require some kind of director discretionary time (I dont even know if JWST does that).
Some years ago I worked for a company creating streaming platforms for media companies, aka the clunky shit you complain about:-) My experience the clunkyness comes primarily from two things.

1: Every customer wants their own twist. It is not enough to create an awesome video player app and reskin it, no they all want to be special.

2: Getting the last 5% takes twice as much work as the first 95%. Probably even more.

It's quite doable for 'normal' engineers to make a steaming platform. You need to get the video files out there on some CDN, you need some service for the DRM keys (which needs to scale, and handle the different access packages), and you probably want some history and profile stuff. Easy enough. But for the best experience you want every video to start playing in less than a second. That means getting those starting video segments as close as possible to the customer, it means optimizing that DRM key delivery, and optimizing the player so it just gets that video pushed to the screen ASAP.
A Short Course on How Transfomer LLMs Work, Jay Alammar and Maarten Grootendorst
Perhaps the password is used as part of the cache Key so that a password update implicitly invalidates the cache?
Well, Vonnegut was right. It's just a dog's breakfast.
They just fixed it by now. It was different when the story was new.
When you are a solo dev, everything is acceptable. When you're in a group, this can cause friction and cause real problems if people are "so insistent" about their style.

Go is a programming language developed for teams. From its syntax to core library to language server to tooling, Go is made for teams, and to minimize thinking. It's opposite of Rust. It's devilishly simple, so you can't make mistakes most of the time.

Even the logo's expression is an homage to this.

So yes, Go's formatter should be this prescriptive. The other thing is, you can continue this conversation till the end of time, but you can't argue with the formatter. It'll always do its thing.

In other words, "computer says no".
I've been very pleased with my own results by disconnecting from social media and anything with a short (eg 24 hours) news cycle. Weeklies (eg the economist) are still generally worth reading and filter to more important topics. On (geo)politics when I want more information I go to websites of the major think tanks of the relevant country. The bias is explicit and the authors are always deeply knowledgeable, writing for an educated and equally knowledgeable audience. For the Americans, I would recommend the council on foreign relations and RAND for a republican perspective, and center for strategic and international studies and Brookings for the Democrat side.

Hope this helps someone out there.
Ah, the tale I could tell you about "encrypted ZIP codes".
Women being swamped on dating apps has absolutely no relevance to saying hi in real life.

Women who are swamped on dating apps are not swamped with attention from men in real life.

They see this discrepancy, and instinctively interpret that as the dating site being a space where all the world's desperate losers have gathered.

You don't need to stand out, just not stand in that same place.
Thank you very much!

I'm glad you picked up on those - I don't like reading long terms of service (hey apple!) and I think those kinds of subscriptions are downright predatory. I've cancelled my bank card twice now because I'm scared theres a subscription that'll take out a chunk of my next pay check.
To people who support all this, public jobs are basically welfare.
Developer successfully runs 'Doom' on Apple's Lightning to HDMI adapter
One lesser known DEI policies that I think aligns with current conservative thinking:

- Parental Leave & Caregiving Support: Providing paid maternity and paternity leave, flexible work arrangements, and childcare support
Wow, 8 months to achieve this animation reflects a sheer amount of perseverance.
the rust library exposes a handful of "non_truncating_*" functions that enable error handling. i would expect this to be for drop-in compatibility with old code.

amusingly, the python "library" is just a thin wrapper around the same rust library.

protip: a lot of cryptography primitives actually aren't that complicated in terms of the code itself (and often can be quite elegant, compact and pleasing to the eye). if it's important, probably worth just reading it.

it's what people wrap them with or the systems they build that get messy!
Pretty much the same. Both Vulkan and WebGL can use GLSL directly (well, GLSL -> SPIR-V for Vulkan). WebGPU technically can't if you run it in a browser, but native WebGPU implementations can take GLSL, you can transpile, and finally you could just write WGSL as it's basically the same as GLSL, just with more Rust-inspired syntax rather than C-inspired.
Nanoplastics can be so small that they can get inside most cells even blood cell so could pass through gut lining and blood brain barrier and sometimes are shaped like the key/lock our body already uses for certain intracellular chemical interactions and interferes with the correct molecules doing work, so they can be both inert for the most part and harmful because our cells just don’t just eject them automatically - though there also appears to be some max amount based on exposure level. The vast majority we might eat is excreted in bowel movements and urine and it still accumulates in tissue due to ubiquity.
article for laypeople
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2024/12/18/nx...
It is a very old idea: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memex>
Well, probably not literally "everything".
Kind of yes. This was what it was attempting to do.

Now I must say, in practice. In over 12 years of working in two large multinationals as a "tech interviewer" (That is, once someone went through the management interview and HR interview), I never interviewed a black person or a woman. Anicdotal? Yes. But 12 years is a loooooong time.

Anyway, just literally look around an office, or look at a leadership tree, and you can see for yourself. This isn't hard to demonstrate.
I did that and it works great.

Specifically, I use fail2ban to count the 404s and ban the IP temporarily when certain threshold is exceeded in a given time frame. Every time I check fail2ban stats it has hundreds of IPs blocked.
Exactly. This wasn't a game of one-on-one. It was two guys standing at foul lines taking shots, and one was sinking most of them.
The misclick limit is really annoying on mobile where it's hard to precisely hit things.
Love the idea, folks! Congrats on open-sourcing.

Just tried your macOS desktop app download link, but only see an x64 option - do you have a version for ARM (i.e. Apple Silicon) ?
I always do in fact do that. SHELL:=/usr/bin/bash or whatever

The problem is that bash isn't there on windows and not even on all Linuxes so if I supply you with a makefile there's no way to be sure you can use it.

If make included a language then I don't need to worry about your dependencies - not even which version of bash you have. This would cause a makefile to be FAR more useful.