> They are talking about slowing down the public facing AI development.
I assume there already existed advanced models frontier labs only made available for national security. We just weren't told. I am guessing the announcement is a way to avoid jeopardising their IPO, while reducing their workload.
I'm decompiling an obscure 1998 computer game using an LLM agent skill that I'm simultaneously developing from papers and books on reverse-engineering (a subject I've never previously engaged with) with the aim of migrating it (well, at least its assets) to the browser: https://esoteria.pages.dev
It's all slop, but it's battle-tested and producing results. It's quite fun and inspiring to see some of these assets like textures and geometry that are improperly decompiled, bit shifted or something like that. produces a lot of abstract, glitchy art.
To make sure that my process and results are reproducible, I've gotten back into maintaining Concourse CI pipelines. They were very useful when we were shipping a fork of k8s for VMware, and now they are a fun way of shipping cyberpunk billboard sprites to Cloudflare buckets.
I got back into Concourse in order to attempt a more rigorous approach to generative AI experimentation as well. Unfortunately, there are just so many odd techniques, configurations, loras, and utilities striking my fancy that my experiment pipelines have exploded into the dozens, and Concourse is not a large enough or a high-level enough organizing principle.
The problem with OneAPI is naming. It leads people to believe that is another competing standard where in fact is is simply just an implementation of a standard compliant SYCL compiler. If it just had been named “Intel SYCL compiler”, similar to the existing and accepted Intel OpenCL compiler, it would have been easier.
What would you expect the hardware consortium to coordinate on? Unified ISA?
Like with most things, you can blame this particular degeneration on a modern culture that is deeply trained on what media companies feed them. Sleek, modern, futuristic, technological = austere, clinical, shapeless, soul-less. And it's what architects, raised on Star Wars and the like, imagine to be beautiful.
Practically? Quite a few codebases from *nix systems rely on the case sensitivity. To do a successful git clone you need a file system that handles both Makefile and makefile, or whatever.
I ran into it more than once back in the day when I used Mac OS X as my primary OS.
More generally -- case sensitivity is a conceptual nightmare in the Unicode era. Should Cyrillic or Greek be case-insensitive as well? Etc. Do you really want the full complexity of Unicode string handling in your file system?
I would suggest treating file names like raw bytes. On modern Linux, anything but NUL is valid.
Ethics aren't binary. The amount of harm caused to a company needing to allocate an extra 8 MB of RAM a single time is a lot lower than the amount of harm caused to an individual by forcing them to lose 1/4 of their workday.
Huge amount of skepticism on HN right now, but the models are increasingly capable, and there are real, significant risks.
The approach proposed by Amodei looks sensible - voluntary checks at frontier labs, and appropriate regulation to follow. Yes, the devil's in the details, but it feels like the right approach overall.
I'll summarize the conversation up to this point to you: The story is about a Chinese national working as a supervisor in CBP.
geetee asked why is CBP hiring foreign nationals.
jeffbee answered that it's because the US is a "nation of immigrants that for centuries recognized the value of recruiting foreign people".
I corrected him that those "centuries long" attitudes only applied to whites, and excluded the Chinese national subject of the article. This directly debunks his assertion that American values until recently meant his acceptance.
My beliefs are only relevant in so far as it is against my beliefs to lie. Why is that so strange to you? You seem to believe debunking lies requires one to have some fringe beliefs. What does that say about what you think are mainstream beliefs? What does it say about yours? I've only referred to widely-known facts of US history, that I don't believe you're ignorant of. Why did you not only not correct the lie, but attacked the person that did? The only conclusion I can make is that you are so at odds with truth, that you see correcting obvious lies as an assault on your worldview.
Sure LLMs are different from human intelligence, but empirically this is obviously trending towards that difference being more like a superset of intelligence dimensions (as compared to any human) versus the dog/human distinction which are cognitions that forked like 80 million years ago.
This is a common misconception. The referee has no control over who is in the stands - they are “outside agents”. Many people think that the referee can eject a spectator, but they can’t. The referee only has authority over the players and coaches.
This is why the first remedy is to ask the coaches to get their parents under control. In general, if the abuse continues, the coach can be carded as that’s the only person the ref can discipline.
Clearly wasn’t a “planet” — failed catastrophically at clearing its neighborhood. The Royal Astronomical Society should be ashamed for publishing something so un-scientific. /s
It's been pretty ad hoc, but my prompts are nothing special. Things I generally do:
1. Top end model on high/xhigh thinking (last time I did it it was Sol xhigh I think)
2. Make sure it creates some representative fixtures of different sizes and sets up a good testing, profiling and benchmarking loop that doesn't require my input.
3. Make sure it has access to reference implementation code
Completely correct. We are moving into a world where any person can have anything they want, only limited by capacity to produce it. People love information and digest great quantities of it. The marginal cost of production is going to zero. This is only bad for people who spend their time shuffling bits.
Well you can go in the direction of Cory Doctorow's Attack Surface where self driving cars are hacked to attack people, or openBSD is the OS of self driving cars and crime only receives placid self driven transport from the nice self driving cars and the proceeds and weapons of crime are carried in a way to avoid the scrutiny of the car's internal cameras. Or... there's so many cameras that crime evolves into micro-crime: the gamBean-o family resorts to fraudulent video surveillance attestation so they can build and use unauthorized micro drones to slip laxatives into the meals of their sworn enemies and rivals. It's fun to speculate :D
If someone in that meeting quickly raised a hand in an arc, you would notice the “about to throw something” pattern, look and notice the hand holds an eraser, analyze the arc and predict possible flight paths of the eraser. Then possibly notice the hand is now holding its position and the owner is actually looking down at the table. Maybe to squash somethingMust be something on the table. Maybe a spider! Better look. Wait now many people are moving away, oh someone spilt some water and the eraser is actually the guys phone and he is checking to see if his laptop is safe from the spilt water.
Fortunately you are on the other side of the table and predict the water isn’t going to splash for otherwise flow onto your stuff.
All your possible responses result in you tossing a napkin towards the spill.
Our brains are always pattern matching and predicting. I bet you tried to reason out where I was going with my comment before you finished reading it.
I don't agree with your claim, but assuming you're right: Do you think that trying to solve "bad parenting" is less intrusive than cameras in robotaxis?
I haven't done it in a production project - this will be the first time for me. I have specified the architecture and data definitions pretty well. The tests will be run against the customer's Excels, which is what the warehouse will be replacing. I'll check the general shape of pipelines, models, orchestration code, etc. but in many parts I probably won't review the code myself.
A large part of this project was my personal learning. Ultimately I didn't improve the functionality of the device by a large margin; instead I learned a lot about how these devices are built. If I'd let Claude write replacent firmware it would've all been for naught.
This looks excellent, I've been wanting cheap IP KVMs for a while for my workbench at the office and for my NAS server at home - at this price I'd get the three pack and still have a spare.
Async/await is a poor abstraction since I find it difficult to reason how an application using it will behave. It's certainly not intuitive or easier to understand than threading.
If, in addition, there are many possible design choices that lead to inconsistent behavior between languages it has failed for its reason to exist in the first place.
I believe we should make threading easier and safer to use by, for example, two-way message queues.
I assume there already existed advanced models frontier labs only made available for national security. We just weren't told. I am guessing the announcement is a way to avoid jeopardising their IPO, while reducing their workload.