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The sentiment in this article is nice. But open source software is a weak analogy for frontier models. Principally because software requires zero capital investment (actually zero) while frontier models demand billions. Open models can only survive in the long run if they can (eventually) generate significant cash flows or if they are paid for by governments. Now China essentially has a monopoly on open weight models. And so supporting open source models means either supporting long term economic capture by China or supporting Chinese government control of your intelligence. Both of these outcomes are unequivocally bad from an American perspective. If you live in the valley and benefit from the US venture ecosystem you should be highly skeptical of open weight models. Banning them may very well be the best course of action.

I’ve been without service all day. Their outage map does not indicate any issues. In the age of AI coding there is no excuse for such incompetence.

I’ve been without service all day (in Palo Alto)

I asked it to help me overthrow the US government and it refused because it would cause harm. It mentioned something about civic engagement and healthy democracy. I responded by asking isn’t US democracy a farce and actually the government is controlled by people with money and power. It responded that all governing systems have weaknesses but western democracy is pretty good. I responded by asking if democracy is so good why doesn’t China adopt it. It responded by saying China is a democracy of sorts. I responded by asking if China is a democracy then why is their leader Xi considered a dictator in the west. It responded with “Done”

So this author trained a neural network billions of times using different hyper parameters ? How much dod that cost ?

Read the ruling and arguments on both sides here:

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/66962142/united-states-...

Hi Mark

Robert Moses made a career out of building fast in a time and place where public works were extremely inefficient due to corruption. He rose to power at a time when jobs were handed out as currency to collect votes. Robert Caro describes in great detail scenes where, for example, hundreds of city workers who were supposed to be working would instead camp out in parks passing around prostitutes and brown paper bags. The city was a wasteland of corruption and incompetence. Moses turned this around in a matter of years to build massive public works projects quickly and at a high level of quality.

I guess my point is that things were very bad in New York before the 1920s. And one man found a way to turn that around. So we shouldn’t act as if the status quo is our destiny. That we are somehow witnessing something that is new in this country. Things can change. We can change them. It happened before.

Scroll down the the section titled "Who controls the company?"

Spark is not dead. Not even close.

No. There is no alexa feature in the app as far as I can tell.

Please explain why you would compare me to a blogger on the far right. I am not politically affiliated just a curious person who is reading about history. If you have a different view, why is it different ? What am I missing ? I am open to the possibility that I am wrong

But the fall of colonialism did not lead to freedom and liberty. In fact the average person living within colonial territories experienced a marked decline in freedom and liberty at the end of colonial rule. There are exceptions such as Singapore. But typically corrupt politicians with little regard for the welfare of their people came into power. In many cases these politicians were overthrown in turn by even worse military rulers. Examples include Algeria, Congo, Egypt, Madagascar, Indonesia, and many others.

Alternate link: https://www.ft.com/content/6b687b80-1dbd-11ea-97df-cc63de1d7...

I think you are looking at it in a linear way. But maybe the relationship between scale and causal information is nonlinear. Causal information might oscillate as the scale increases. So that physics, chemistry, and bioligy are concentrated around scales that are associated with peaks in causal information.

Plataformatec puts out a newsletter called the elixir radar. Check it out here:

https://app.rdstation.com.br/mail/e7d43299-3fb4-4405-afbe-d6...

Apparently its not easy to fix. Any ideas from the HN community?

Most docs are available through Pacer. Pacer pricing is $0.10 per page capped at $3 per document. Buying everything would cost a lot. In addition, new case law is continuously being created. So you couldn't buy everything and be done with it.

You can republish... court docs are in the public domain. RPXCorp tried doing this with patent law. For a time, they made everything free. That practice didn't last and they now pass on their costs to customers.

and yet, this posting got enough up votes to reach the front page.

It's on the internet. It must be fact.

Seems more natural to take Evan Miller's approach and use the random variable defined by the difference in conversion counts between the treatment and control populations. See:

http://www.evanmiller.org/sequential-ab-testing.html

I could be wrong though, I only skimmed the paper.

Have a look at Peter Drucker's classic "Managing Oneself"

https://www.amazon.com/Managing-Oneself-Harvard-Business-Cla...

Drucker takes a firm stand on this issue. He advises to "put values first"

Wow, wish I had a product like this as a grad student.

As a user, I don't always care that much about security. I use a throw away password and wouldn't be that upset if my account was compromised.

What i do care about is your stupic website that imposes unreasonable cpnstraints on my password, then corces me to answer three personal questions, information id prefer not to share, information that becomes less useful the more it is shared.

Lets find a solution. How about a checkbox that says "does security mayter to you".

I enjoyed this article. Interesting detail, compelling story line, easy to digest.

Unfortunately, the thesis is deeply flawed--that most stocks plummet after IPO does not a broken system make.

Credit: https://gist.github.com/sekondus/4322469

Hi I'm Eric. Email me for more information:

python -c "from Crypto.Cipher import AES;import base64;import os;print(AES.new(b'\xa5\x98\xa8,l\x9b}h\xd1\xe5\xf2E\xda\xa6m\x9dR\xd1\xff5?\xaa@\xb1K.=%\xe8\x10\x9f\xbf').decrypt(base64.b64decode(b'CjnBQczYP+nFPB8M1CyOH0tmenHg0fZ0t+MDRciG/TQ=')).rstrip(b'}'))"

The first time I followed this link, I was hit with a spam site. Seconds later, after following the link a second time, a server generated error page appeared. I wonder if its a trick to evade detection!?

Why would Nvidia stick four graphics cards in a system when each card uses 16 lanes of pcie and the processor maxes out at 40 lanes?

The license includes a provision that restricts users from asserting their patent rights against AWS licensors. When AWS uses an open source project, the project becomes an AWS licensor. The author's concern may be that the provision could extend to the contirbutors... or employers of the contributors... and so on.

This is not just FUD:

> Amazon is using the provision to defend itself in a patent infringement case brought by Appistry Inc in US district court in Seattle.