Cool to see some innovation from HP, this is actually unique and fills a niche of going from desk to desk (home->office), without needing mobile. Much better than ripping off the latest aluminum MacBook designs.
If this is better than a laptop for mobile work why include the keyboard? Why not just make it a tiny box with a single USB C connector to plug into the dock on your home and work desks? Since you already must have monitors and mice at those locations (or bring them with you) I'm failing to see the point of including the keyboard in this package (except of course to be able to advertise the "copilot key")
The battery + thermals give you either a large cube (like a Beelink++) or cigarette carton. It's wise to go with a cigarette carton and include a keyboard.
Especially since remote work took off, offices are full of vacant workstations. Why drag a small monitor around when you can hook into a 32'' monitor at the office?
I don't see how you get around LLMs scraping data without also stopping humans from retrieving valid data.
If you are NYTimes and publish poisoned data to scrapers, the only thing the scraper needs is one valid human subscription where they run a VM + automated Chrome, OCR and tokenize the valid data then compare that to the scraped results. It's pretty much trivial to do. At Anthropic/Google/OpenAI scale they can easily buy VMs in data centers spread all over the world with IP shuffling. There is no way to tell who is accessing the data.
I don't see how you can stop the LLMs ingesting any poison either, because they're filling up the internet with low-value crap as fast as they possibly can. All that junk is poisonous to training new models. The wellspring of value once provided by sites like StackoverFlow is now all but dried up. AI culture is devaluing at an incredible rate as it churns out copied and copies and copies and more copies of the same worthless junk.
The big labs spend a ton of effort on dataset curation, precisely to prevent them from ingesting poison as you put it.
It goes further than that—they do lots of testing on the dataset to find the incremental data that produces best improvements on model performance, and even train proxy models that predict whether data will improve performance or not.
“Data Quality” is usually a huge division with a big budget.
Just look at the domains. Obviously social media will get harder to do this with, maybe that's okay though. I think a simple criterion can be used: could the pre-trained LLM have come up with this itself? If so it probably doesn't have training value.
>I don't see how you get around LLMs scraping data without also stopping humans from retrieving valid data.
I do a lot of online research. I find that many information sources have a prominent copyright notice on their pages. Since the LLM's can read, that ought to be a stopper.
I'm getting tired of running into all of these "verifying if you're human" checks ... which often fail miserably and keep me from reading (not copying) the pages they're paid to 'protect'.
(It's not as though using the web wasn't already much harder in recent years.)
And most of the big players now have some kind of browser or bowser agent that they could just leverage to gather training data from locked down sources.
> I don't see how you get around LLMs scraping data without also stopping humans from retrieving valid data
Well LLM scrapers love to scrape All The Pages, so just have some disallowed pages in your robots.txt that aren't for humans to see and watch LLM scrapers consume them
Just look at real people. They can get the valid data from sources with a good reputation. Instead they rather want to believe what they get from a random telegram channel. Having valid data doesn't stop the existence of idiots.
Is it really true that nothing would change if the Sun's mass was suddenly compacted by several orders of magnitude (into a point mass or black hole)?
This seems unintuitive to me. The sun is a million miles in diameter, so surely shrinking that to zero would lower the amount of gravitational force infinitesimally since the gravity is 1/distance^2 not linear. I would think the planets would sort of drift ever so slightly farther.
For Newtonian gravity at least, the gravitational force everywhere outside a sphere or spherical shell is exactly the same as if it was a point mass (and everywhere inside a spherical shell it is zero). Not sure if it holds exactly for general relativity.
The dude works for GitHub. I don’t doubt there is some rotten code on there, but what you’re saying seems like a stretch and exactly what he’s describing.
Microsoft is currently a target of BDS, which calls it "perhaps the most complicit tech company in Israel’s illegal apartheid regime and ongoing genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza." This isn't about some hobbyist's wonky code. https://bdsmovement.net/microsoft
Just because it uses the className attribute doesn't really mean it is "like tailwind"... SQL is not anything like CSS classes and cannot be composed in the same manner. It's basically just using className as a data attribute. You might as well just stick raw SQL in there and parse it... what is the point of the weird hyphenated pseudo dialect?
This feels like a nascent form of what Nick Land describes as "hyperstition" ... feedback loops where the presence of it's idea within peoples mind brings it into realization.
I mean... in what world would you send a customers private root key to a web browsing client. Like even if the user was authenticated why would they need this? This sort of secret shouldn't even be in an environment variable or database but stored with encryption at rest. There could easily have been a proxy service between client and box if the purpose is to search or download files. It's very bad, even for a prototype... this researcher deserves a bounty!
They didn't even mention MessagePack. Also there is a huge amount of developer over-head for using things like ProtoBuf. You can always validate your API responses with Zod or JSONSchema so that is a bit of a moot point!
