skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, I don't think so. I think it's not dead yet, but it's definitely stalling.

On the tech side, it seems to be stagnating. Bitcoin is still the most popular one, and it's stopped improving. The capacity is fixed, the use for normal people is not really there, adoption has gone backwards.

Things like NFTs have been a temporary boon, but then didn't quite work.

For the big players, there seem to be daily scandals and bankruptcies. It's becoming clear that many of them were barely hanging by a thread, and many have complete morons in charge. They're also being targeted by law enforcement.

On the public side, I think it's peaked. Crypto got advertised more or less everywhere and nobody really cared. By now pretty much who was going to get into it already has, and there's not much more room to expand into.
A democratized currency sounds kind of neat, but bitcoin was never this. It started out as an oligarchical currency with the halvenings (especially spaced the way they were). It became oligarchical at the transaction verification level (the level of taxation) when ASICs were developed for it.
The entire thesis is that ChatGPT can give better results than Google.

ChatGPT gave me a specific answer with the command line arguments that I specified and allowed me to specify a list of policies and output the result in the format I needed

Google gave me a code snippet that I had to modify for my use case.
Wow. 400A * 440V delivery is 176kW. I didn't know that was already standard for commercial fillups. How long does it take to fill up with that? Is a "3MW charger" of GP a bunch of these at once? Or nominally a bunch of 2x these (350kW delivery) that typically only do 180kW for safety conditions or compatibility? I guess they are already being spec'd for "as fast as gas", now they just need to be as prevalent? (and work at a full 350kW, but that should come with time and improved standards)
The blog post specifically calls out BINs and their limitations and some things they are doing to improve it.
The GM is not a game model of chess. The GM is a human. The GM does not evaluate their world according to the rules of chess at all times or in all things.

The claim is that OthelloGPT is a game model of Othello. The only input it has is a move list, the only output it produces is a resulting move. Actual game models, such as Stockfish for chess, are incapable of producing invalid moves, it is not in their set of possible outputs.

OthelloGPT is not a game model of Othello. It might be a game model of something that is not Othello, but this is hard to tell.

The reliance on what humans can do is not a useful comparison here. Humans are also not game models of Othello. Actual game models, programs that model the rules of Othello, are the useful point of comparison.

Again, claiming to know the rules, "knowledge" of them, and following those rules, acting according to them, are totally different things. The former is outside the scope, "what is uppercase-k Knowledge" is a question of philosophy. Demonstrably following the rules is the world of game models.

If the semantics of putting the word "know" in quotes is what you're hung up on, fine, replace it with whatever pleases you: A model that "follows/encodes/exhibits" the rules will make no errors, a model that makes any errors does not "follow/encode/exhibit" the rules
I imagine you're going to get a very different type of person moderating if they have a monetary incentive to do so. I don't disagree with your argument in the broad sense—the rich get richer at the expense of everyone else, and they shouldn't—but adding money to a relationship that doesn't have it always fundamentally changes the relationship, and the incentive structure, and it doesn't guarantee better outcomes.
"Western countries are kind of a shithole compared to Japan." What about all of their societal problems?

- Extreme loneliness and isolation. Hikikokormi cases are on the rise.

- Lack of sex to the point to be considered a sexless society with one of the highest virginity rate and oldest age for loosing virginity.

- Extremely old population with an inverted social pyramid making it a huge burden to the young population and a huge problem for the country overall.

- High depression and suicide rates.

- Lack of affection between the parents and their kids, the father is never around because he is always working and kids are basically raised by their mother.

- Overworked workforce with low yield and productivity.

I don't know where you live but here in Munich we don't have a lot of "filth", crime or misery.
I wouldn't say this is much of a solution to the problem, though. There's no guarantee that anyone will attempt to use your canary card before they use your actual card. For one-time purchases, a better approach is to generate ephemeral cards that can only be used for a short amount of time, where it doesn't matter if the card gets leaked. And plenty of credit cards do offer this service.
> GP was arguing that frame rate is a choice artists can use to tell their stories, that 24fps is Impressionism and 48fps is realism

Okay, where is 77 FPS movie for surrealism, 12 FPS movie for abstractionism, 174 FPS for cubism?

The whole argument is fictitious
A111 is a frontend for a bunch of things. What really determines performance here is Torch. If you are running it with an AMD GPU are probably Torch compiled with ROCm support which is a somewhat unpopular toolkit. This project seems to rely on Vulkan.
This was way worse during Covid , I know, even though before Covid it was already very bad. People were banned just for asking questions, merely for dissenting from the narrative, which was constantly changing, like about masks.
There are some strains in at least American Protestantism that do so, I suppose. On the other hand, Eerdmans, based in Michigan, publishes https://www.eerdmans.com/Products/7978/eerdmans-commentary-o... .
Betting on the stability of a protocol is a good way to lose your money when that protocol is obsoleted.

Edit: I'm coming right out and saying it; if we even have to talk about L2 chains, you might as well just admit that Bitcoin itself needs an update to be usable.
Podman has ˋgenerate systemdˋ which creates unit files that include the command.
> Freedom of Speech does not give you freedom of Anon Speech.

The Supreme Court largely disagrees.

https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/32/anonymous-sp...
That's a good insight. A bit like unit tests, A-B tests drive the design of the website to make them testable. Not sure that is ultimately the best choice for UX, but here we are. I suppose it makes it a lot easier to justify one's perf rating.
I wish there was a genuine Pro version of Windows I could pay for that didn’t have any of this.
> - like the author mentioned, students in Japan (I taught at a university) were less worldly and less knowledgeable about things going on outside Japan, extending into even their direct professional activities

While university may be different, there is a non-small portion of the US that knows little outside their own community/state/maybe country.
Google would rather ruin its products than pay Sonos, and that's unacceptable
Counterpoint. Refn’s “Copenhagen Cowboy” - which was recently released on Netflix - is a visually stunning masterpiece of Neo Noir aesthetic.

However you feel might about Refn’s work - he is kind of polarizing - bland would be the last word you would use to describe it.

So I think the problem is less about formats and technology mr more about artistic vision, skill, and execution. There is a lot more content being produced now, and thus a dilution of top talent.
Discord does have a revenue share. [1] Elon Musk also recently stated that he planned to add creator monetization to Twitter. [2]

From Discord

> Good news: It's a 90/10 split! This means you, the creator, get to keep 90% of each monthly Server Subscription you sell, minus some small processing fees for legal’s sake.

From Elon Musk

> Followed by creator monetization for all forms of content

[1] https://discord.com/creators/server-subs-101-earning-money-o...

[2] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1589010272341340160
A high-performance speech neuroprosthesis
Children also occasionally make incorrect moves in simple games, and I've seen grown adults who I know understand how knights move still accidentally place them in the wrong spot.
> parents have NO legal rights to any income from their children

not all parents believe that.

Some people raise their kids to be their slaves. The results get ugly.
5.5% unemployment, the Fed target, isn't crushing workers. Its the natural unemployment rate.

Inflation destroys wealth. Nobody will be able to retire with inflation high, it erodes savings, and will force governments to cut benefits as they get too costly.

2009 - 2022 was a wild ride of free money, and we became addicted to it, but its well past time to get back to moderate interest rates, moderate unemployment, and low inflation.
No, it makes it an engine for a game that is not Othello.

An inaccurate engine and a statistical one are indistinguishable. And the authors provide no evidence to prefer the former.

Nothing is ruled out, of course, but there's not strong or compelling evidence either.
Used to walk a neighborhood near where we used to live near downtown. Go down a side street, at the end was a hayfield and a pond! In the middle of town.

And by the pond, an apple tree. With apples the size of cannonballs. Big as your head. Somebody would stack the ones that fell into tripods. It was surreal.

Anyway the place is developed now, the pond gone, the apple tree just a memory.
The 'Best viewed with Internet Explorer'[0] GIF triggers severe nostalgia.

IE was the dominant browser at the time, and these propaganda buttons just reinforced the idea that IE was the only browser you should be using. Still see the odd site saying 'Works best in Chrome' as if Chrome was the new IE.

Personally though, if your site is one of those annoying SPA (Single Page Apps) and doesn't work in Lynx[1], you're doing it wrong IMHO.

Nearly tempted to put a button on my sites saying: 'Best viewed in Lynx'.

[0] https://cyber.dabamos.de/88x31/bestviewed.gif

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser)
Only Amex at the moment.
What makes me very skeptical about this is the Fermi Paradox*

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox
"This" referring to Posner's Alzheimers diagnosis six months after retirement?

<https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/after-posner-retire...>

As the Reuters article notes, Posner himself called for mandatory judicial retirement at age 80.
I've used it for a few years, great app!

Will link it instead. :)

https://getcoldturkey.com/
It could be that a dedicated lunatic was able to get a top level politician with a DIY 17th century grade musket exactly because anticipation of such an event at politician public appearance in Japan is lower than on a regular day in US elementary school.
> > Same way that dropbox can be compromised: your account gets hacked or the provider gets hacked.

>Nope. My account on my vps is protected with a strong ssh key and password-logins disabled. Also fail2ban is set up to forever disallow ips that try failed logins. So not the same at all.

By "account", I don't mean the account in /etc/passwd on your VPS, I mean the account with your hosting provider. That can be hacked/phished just like a dropbox account, not to mention the provider themselves getting hacked or social engineered.
The former always seemed more like gloom than night to me. Which can be compelling, but it isn’t a replacement for night.
There was even an Apple IIgs version. 2.8 mHz yeah. It was totally unplayable without an accelerator card.

https://youtu.be/E3uHip1Qr-4
heres how you fix it:

getfedora.org
What assumptions are you referring to? It doesn’t seem like you understand Copyright Law, so that’s why I keep trying to explain it. Under Copyright Law, you have to acquire material legally, and it’s illegal to distribute copies you made to other people.

If you’re executing a NN algorithm in your mind, or via pen & paper, then you are copying from the training samples, because that’s what the algorithm does. During training you compute errors against the samples, and update your weights to reduce error. During inference or generation, you use the weights (the results you remembered across all your training data) to produce an output. When your training samples are clustered in the latent space, the network will only remember an average of the samples, but samples that are sparse and don’t have close neighbors are sometimes remembered verbatim because there’s nothing nearby to average from. You can legally run the algorithm all you want on your own. Once you run it and then distribute the output, it might be in violation of Copyright Law if you accidentally reproduced one of the samples. Same is true for traditional human learning, you can free copy ideas legally, but reproducing too closely something that someone else made may be against the law, even if it was accidental.
Cold Turkey also works on Mac FYI
Most countries have something like this already.
Well, only as long as Microsoft doesn't remove/break this solution.
The CEO of Morgan Stanley says employees can’t simply choose to work remotely
I think it's called Windows Server
Back in the 80s we had films that were in color. These days, films are all in blue and orange. The blue and orange looks as bad as the 1930s two-strip technicolor, where the palette was green and red.

Case in point: House of the Dragon. The beautiful sets and costumes are all hard to enjoy when it's all drab blue and orange. Take a look at the picture:

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/sep/15/house-o...

This happens in movie after movie after movie.
Which is almost always known at the time of estimation, in my experience. In the cases where it's not, then ok, points could make sense, but only as an interim step towards getting to a real time estimate once you know who is doing it. Having a vague point estimate could then be a useful indicator of "we don't really know yet".
What the Commit
Exactly what I came to say.
> Mastodon is not a single service, but open source software groups/individuals/organisations run

Yes, as I tried to specify by qualifying "the project, not the noun" but I was on my phone so linking to github.com/mastodon/mastodon was more trouble than I thought necessary. Evidently not

> So it's not really accurate to say Mastodon itself had issues with the huge influx of users, but rather some popular instances of Mastodon had issues.

Understood, and the rails server running on some person's droplet is one trending link away from becoming a "popular instance." I believe Kris Nova's situation fell into that category. I'm not saying the mastodon/mastodon should change their deployment model to require Jets, but if Jets is mostly compatible with Rails, and mastodon/mastodon could write their Rails in a way that allows either deployment model, that seems like a win
Discussed in 2021:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27500624 (124 comments)
I only skimmed the article, you are absolutely right. Sorry!
Wouldn't transparency require addressing the problem with the team before firing them?
AI is the use case blockchain didn't know it was looking for.

The exaflod of content and deep fakes, etc. that's coming towards everyone soon will require some sort of trust protocol, blockchain is great for that.

With regards to crypto specifically microscopic payments will be needed to allow for adding cost to a lot of the things that are currently "free" now that AI content creation is going to overwhelm all of us.
Each desktop OS has its downsides. Nothing is clearly the best choice.
High refresh rate makes people feel sick. It's "too real", such that the brain can't synchronize what it's seeing to what it's feeling motion wise. Ultimately a 2d plane is not optimal for a realistic experience. By it's very nature, film is impressionist.
Those are all TV apps.
Have you inspected the systems they developed for marketing and ad targeting?

Have changed the algorithms they used to drive engagement, serve you most interrsting tweets, make sure you are angry and depressed?

What do you think about the system they built to manage political slant, nudity, hatespeech and racism?

Or have youjust looked at their UI, and decided there are no new buttons and thus no worl was done?
And you think they are the same? How much experience do you have with the Japanese job market?
A Global Perspective on the Car Shortage
It’s a common marketing point but people aren’t using blockchains because they cost more, take longer, and have no fraud protection. If someone steals my credit card, I’ll likely lose nothing other than some mild inconvenience updating numbers - and I don’t even need to do that with the modern systems like Apple Pay which use unique per-merchant identifiers.

That makes quite the contrast with the large sums routinely and irrecoverably stolen from blockchain users. If you want people to buy your random hashes, spend your time unbreaking the system instead of marketing it.
“Language model” just means a probabilistic model of a token sequence. I think what we’re seeing with LLMs is that something that we thought was very hard—approximating the true joint probability function of language in this case—might be possible with much higher compression than we expected. (Sure, 170B parameters is a lot, but the structure of Transformers like GPT is so highly redundant that it still seems simpler than I would have expected.)

We started out with very simple probabilistic models by making very strong limiting assumptions. A naive Bayes model assumes every token is independent; a Markov model assumes that a token only depends on the single token before it. But ultimately these are just models for the underlying “real” joint distribution, and in theory we should expect that the simple models are bad because they’re bad estimates of that true distribution. I think my experience with these poor approximates limits what I expected that any language model could do, and the success of LLMs is making me recalibrate my expectations.

But I think it’s important to keep in mind that the model is still just spitting out the most likely next tokens according to its own estimation of the joint distribution. It’s so good because the model of “most likely next token” is very accurate. It’s easy to fall into the trap of looking at how specific the output is and thinking “wow, out of all the possible outputs, how did it know to give this one? It could have said anything and the right thing is a very low probability event, so it must really understand the question in order to answer properly.” But another way to think about it might be “wow, it’s incredible that the model accurately estimates the probability distribution for this kind of token sequence.”

As to your specific example of things like future time stamps, I think I’ve seen folks say in the past that there is some additional input prefix or suffix information in addition to the prompt you send that is passed into the model. So the model is still a static function—it is not learning from experience within an interaction session; it doesn’t experience time or other external contextual factors as part of its execution. The operators update the contextual input to the model as time passes in the world.
Your comment, from the paradoxical longing part on, has a strong vibe of War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning [1]. I think that you might like it.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Force_That_Gives_Us...
No, but if I ask my friends who have been to the restaurant about how it was, then I can glean enough information from their responses to gauge whether I want to go there as well. Even if they feel compelled by social mores to say it was all great, you can observe how they act in addition to the things they say. We decided that while no doubt others love their children very much, it wasn't a lifestyle we were interested in.
This is a good slide presentation, about three compiler papers. from 1980-1982. Date of the presentation is 2015 which should be in the thread title.
Yeah Instagram has some blog posts outlining how they run their python web servers with the GC disabled

Easy enough to restart the processes every once in a while
There's also: https://gifcities.org/

and I can't help but link to this cozy lil' gem https://www.cameronsworld.net/
If crypto is going to be regulated all fees need to come out of taxes from crypto earnings. Otherwise it isn't paying its way. And since it isn't creating general goods for the broader market, the taxes of the broader market shouldn't be expected to cover it.
> is a fairly strong argument against your statement above.

From a quick skim of this paper, they apparently used toy models with a few hundred to a few thousand images in the training set. For the ones with as few as a few thousand training images, they rarely or never saw exact duplicates.

For instance, in their figure 4, they show exact duplicates for the training set with only 300 images (well, duh), and didn't find any exact duplicates for the training set with only 3,000.

I'm not sure I'd call this a "strong argument" when applied to models with millions or billions of images. Quite the contrary. LAION-5B (used in Stable Diffusion) was trained on 5 billion image/caption pairs.
Fair enough. But I did twenty years as a Smalltalk developer, including 6 years being tools/gui lead at one of the commercial vendors.

I’ve played with Ruby, but not enough to get invested. It wasn’t OOP at the level I was used to.

I do Elixir, and it’s the first time I’ve had those “this is so elementarily cool” feelings since my 10 year hiatus from Smalltalk. The thing I like least about Elixir is it’s use ruby-esque do/end and it’s quasi inclusion of new lines as a sometimes relevant syntactic element.
I remember reading about someone whose passion (perhaps obsession) was rescuing stray dogs in a big city.

People would often ask him why he didn't apply that energy to the homeless. His response, roughly: why don't you? Dogs are his passion.

Volunteer for the activities you're passionate about. And stop sniping at people who are making the world a better place just because you think you know better than they do what's worth saving.
PixiJS: Make beautiful media with the fastest, most flexible 2D WebGL renderer
Exactly. While in some ways moderation and censorship are synonymous, the intent is different. Moderation is necessary for healthy communities - online and offline.
GM will make their money back on this many times over.

While I’m an EV enthusiast, they are in no way ready for prime time in the commercial market for trucks. Battery energy density by weight will need to go up several X before You get into competition with diesel engines for heavy or long range towing needs.

Source: I tow. A lot. I carefully evaluated every EV option on the market, none of them are within a factor of 5 of meeting my needs, including the highest end CyberTruck.

It’s really hard to compete with a high flow diesel nozzle.
I wonder if people made similar observations when commodity money or paper money were invented...
Clarification: women who want a deadbeat guy that will pimp them out if he can (but looks like a Final Fantasy character) go to host clubs
LTSC doesn't, but it's not easily available through conventional retail channels. If you're putting a Windows machine in a kiosk, POS, machine, or similar commercial setting, though, LTSC is the way to go.
It's going to look goofy and dated in 10 years.
It’s a good argument. I don’t fully agree we should limit the definition of value to only its (subjectively) productive quality. It’s like gambling - I personally don’t see value in it but, hey, many people love it so they get something from it.
You’re not wrong, but Kubrick famously used some of the fastest lenses available at the time to shoot the candlelight scenes. I believe the folklore is that he had to borrow them from NASA, so it’s probably a stretch to expect that kind of technical availability in general film productions from the period.