skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi guys

Author of the article here - great to see your inputs and discussions.

We are doing the next installment in our demographics series next week - any wishes/requests for us to look at?

Best,
Mikkel Rosenvold
If I bought you a house in a nice neighborhood, would you honestly start trying to have kids tomorrow?
I dont think anyone who seriously understood the subject at the time believed that chess engines as a concept could not make novel strategies. They could believe that the current(for their time) implementations of a chess engine could not, but understand its inevitable that it could. Same as the fact that we dont believe chat gpt can invent or create anything truly novel, but we know that AI and neural networks as a whole can and almost certainly will. As to whether or not terrorists can use it to make weapons, they probably can benefit from it the same way they could benefit from a much improved version of google. In that there can definitely benefit, but not completely handle the process.
Why stop at five? What about six days a week?

Also I doubt the amount of time worked is anywhere near as good of a predictor for success as willingness to work.
I like to read and listen at the same time, so this feels quite needed. Any plans to add .mp3 as input?
Like all software: disable automatic updates, build from source, and vet patches when you pull them.

I can't be bothered doing that, but then I'm willing to take the maintainer at their word when they say their software doesn't just have a Free license, but also respects my freedoms. https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Can-you-trust-uBlock-...
- This car goes twice as fast as the other one == 100% faster.

- My stock went up 100% == I doubled my money.

It’s not ambiguous. Apple uses correct grammar.
> There is no lossy compression that gets better when you feed its output back into its own input over and over. It's basic information theory

Sure there is. The goal of AI is not to memorize all information, but to make the ability to generalize, so "lossy" doesn't make sense.

For example, noisy data can be improved by successive filtering.

In fact, from an information theory argument, noisy channel coding shows exactly that information can be improved via multiple lossy passes: many modern error correcting codes have iterative decoders, each stage lossy at the level of input to out stages, yet each stage gets closer to the correct original message.

So the "lossy" and "information theory" argument doesn't work.
As someone who listens to most audio books at between 1.5x and 2x I'm interested to try this. Although I think it will be problematic for me.

I would like the silence between words removed. But the silences betweens higher level structural blocks are necessary. You need a pause between chapters to signal the change of topic. Or depending on the books structure, sometimes between paragraphs too, when they indicate a switch of topic/perspective/thread.

One of my annoyances with some narrators (directors?) is that the gap between sentences and chapters is equal length, which often makes a confusing jump of context. I like it when each new chapter is announced as it comes.
> There is no AGI and maybe there will never be.

Of course there is no AGI existing currently. But don't you see the current boom as a (small) step in that direction? Unless one believes that GI is a phenomenon exclusive to biological life, I don't understand why you would think we won't develop it with enough time. The will and motivation to do so is clearly there already.
One of the things that makes GPT work well is an injection of randomness - yes it’s an autocomplete, but the next token (part of word) is chosen randomly based on a temperature setting.

I wonder if our brains work in some way similar. Do we have some randomness in there? In a way that’s the only thing that would make everything non-deterministic so I kinda hope so.
>Citation very much needed.

I'm sure that there are studies but let's be honest. This is just common sense.
I'm sure that if you replace Japanese people with Berbers from North Africa, Japan will look very different.
"This tool won’t be appropriate for all audiobook listeners. For many, the silences matter, and removing them would degrade the quality of the book. For many, listening at 2.5x would also degrade the quality of the book. So use this tool with caution."

It's nice that this was also brought up. At least for me, even though I don't listen to audiobooks, it's too easy to become too "performance-oriented" when reading something. Meaning that ticking the box "achievement unlocked, read another book" becomes more important than what you really get out of the book. Did you now retain as much information as possible? Did you savor the work of art or just gulp it down? Ironically, if you don't use tools like these carefully, listening to books may end up being even a bigger waste of time.
Is this really true? On stuff like this I'm kinda torn on whether this is our modern interpretation on stuff like this or genuinely their intention. These kind of traditions and laws were often implemented even in place where nobles / the upper class had little presence. Why?

Is it because the peasants had internalized oppression? Or could it alternatively be because working together as a community was important to their very survival then, and so punishing subversive members creating discord was a matter of community survival? Which seems more reasonable: that the peasants had so much time and mindspace to focus on trivialities like making sure poor people didn't dress like rich people, or that they dedicated time to it because a raging narcissist actually posed a real threat?

I guess I'm trying to say: maybe the people of the past weren't just all assholes preoccupied with making sure poor people knew their place and were instead much like us in that they focused on getting through the day (and their intentions aligned with that). That they spent inordinate amounts of time making fancy garbs just to humiliate random people in their village because "they're too poor to dress that way" just sounds like a fantasy we place on them because to take them seriously would run against a lot of cultural vogues (like that shame could have any possible value in society).
The main thing AMD has in their accelerators that enables this this is unified memory between CPU and GPU. Thats really interesting.
My startup is working on novel microalgae photobioreactors - we are raising an angel/pre-seed round right now.

Our system is far more energy and space efficient compared to PBRs and raceways - we do this via a proprietary mechanism that greatly increases surface area to volume ratio of liquid water in our reactors. Feel free to drop us a line at info[at]skyfarmclimate.tech
Same question for hearing neutrinos or dark energy waves.
In its current state, you would be more likely to blow yourself up, due to the instructions being partially hallucinated or made up.

Language models predict what to say in a way that makes sense, but a lot of the actual content can be made up nonsense.

It just sounds correct enough to pass for most people.
Also, when we say we have an appetite/capacity for X points in the (Y-week) sprint, that would actually make sense!

Drives me mad calling the points 'complexity', explicitly not time, and then talking about how much complexity fits in the allotted time period...
Outside the US everyone uses WhatsApp which doesn't discriminate in the same way. I've never felt any social pressure to use an iPhone and have no idea what phones my friends use. It's weird seeing this be such a big factor in the US.
Hmm can't agree on this one, have you been to France a lot? Sophisticated foods can be found but thats about it for sophistication, and for luxury you better head out ie to neighboring Switzerland.

On the other hand, France has exquisite nature and basically all possible landscapes (sand dunes, sub tropical forests, wineyeards, beautiful coasts, tons of mountains all the way up to rugged glaciated peaks). Norway is nice but not as diverse.
> Stream Control Transmission Protocol. Telcos still use this. It's how Signalling System 7 is sent over IP.

WebRTC is also a relatively thin wrapper over SCTP.
Your router can proxy encrypted DNS (if you have some decent firmware) or you can set up your own DNS server. There are also things like nextdns.io which can do all the work that a pihole does but works outside your home network.
It depends on how you're using it, but the hardware token generally requires a pin for most operations. I think the real argument is that hardware tokens absolve the web host/service of responsiblity for passwords. With tokens I'm just presenting the challenge given a public key. Nobody can hack all the tokens at once like they can a database full of passwords.
Edit: sorry for the long post, the TL;DR is at the end

I have a job that combines highly stressful times (managing quickly evolving crises) and governance points (policies, useless meetings, some useful meetings). And socialization on top of that.

I work 3 days at the office and 2 days from home.

The days at the office are dedicated to the most exhausting meetings - the one everyone hates where people battle about who has the longest penis and stresses everyone. Productivity is close to zero.

These are also the days where I socialize with my team around coffee and chatter.

Strictly productivity wise these days are very poor. The fact that I meet people and have actual meaningful meetings as well saves the day.

Ideally, I would compress the dick show meetings on a Monday and start the real week on Tuesday.

Two days in the office from 9 to 18 are acceptable then. Effective work wood be probably about 4 hours per day.

The days at home are for thinking and quick Zoom calls focused on a given topic. I set 30 minutes per call, with the possibility to extend to 1h if needed. Anything more means another call.

Effective work time: about 5 hours a day.

I am exhausted after the dick show meetings and I know I won't do any good work afterwards. Despite having a very senior position at my company I know I cannot change these meetings.

A crisis is not a problem, I can do it over hours and hours and be very positive. That is before my management arrives "to help".

Sorry for the long post, the TL;DR is that it would be great to have 4 days weeks, but this would need to come with major changes on how companies are managed or we will end with less productivity because of the mentally draining part that is endangering the useful one.
It’s funny to pretend countries other than the USA are anywhere close.

Who’s else going to make AGI ?

Europe has nothing. There is the China narrative but nothing that comes out of their research labs is anywhere close to where OpenAI / Microsoft or Google are at (but surely it’s hidden in the secret CCP labs)
I can't imagine this being a problem unless it figures out a clever new scheme to smuggle bomb-making materials into victim countries without the authorities noticing.

You can make a really powerful bomb out of fertilizer but if you aren't a farmer and you place a large order the FBI will star paying attention to you.
While you're absolutely right, I can tell you first-hand that managers at Amazon tell their engineers that if the stock falls, they'll get more stock.

Furthermore, Amazon has a "target compensation" value for every employee, and this target implicitly assumes a 15% YoY gain in stock price. When employees with RSUs are given their compensation breakdown, they don't get to see the target comp, but they do see their expected compensation listed as part of their "total compensation."

So, yes, you're right that people shouldn't be counting their chickens before they're hatched -- but Amazon strongly encourages employees to do so, and pretends that the chickens are fully hatched during compensation reviews.

Source: Spent almost six years working at AWS.
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Regarding this discussion five months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33122122

The site https://mortalkombat.plus/ has been taken down under URS.
Awesome. Would love to hear your feedback once you have tried it out.
Ask HN: Getting Started with AI in 2023
I first looked into machine learning and understanding some of the basics around training models, understanding core concepts such as what a feature is a few years ago. I then dropped it because at the time I did not have a clearly defined use case in my work and I lacked time, with too many projects on at the same time, personal and professional.

I now have a use case, but it’s been years since I looked at ML, it was around the time Tensorflow was released. At the same time now there’s a lot of hype around it again like there was a few years ago because of the work by OpenAI and possibly even due to lull in excitement with blockchain and crypto. That makes this space even harder to navigate.

What’s a good place for an experienced engineer to start now? Any good books or references for understanding concepts on the last research? Understanding the concepts is what I’m primarily interested in for now, then I hope I can figure out where to go from there on my own tech stack wise. I already have a dataset to use for training and and understanding of the type of analysis and questions that I want answered, I’m unclear on the fundamental concepts and approach. Basically when I was kid I wondered how a video game was made. Now I know how to make one from the ground up, from graphics rendering, physics engines, gameplay programming and the rest. I’m at a place now with AI where I’ve got my dataset (that changes and grows over time) and analysis and questions I want answered but I need to understand how to get started.
It's a common sentiment everywhere. That's just basic human decency. Hiring shouldn't be used as a variable of adjustment. That's people lives you are playing with. That's why any decent country has some employee protection in its law.

If you want temporary workers to face a burst of activity, hire temps. They are paid more specifically for this reason. It will never cease to amaze me that companies in the US seemingly can have their cake and eat it too with workers neither organising nor complaining.
Yep, WebRTC data channels use SCTP (tunneled in UDP and DTLS), audio/video stuff is just SRTP (in DTLS) I think.
Also every Zoom/Google Meet call. WebRTC is on top of SCTP.
Relevant:

TIL that 30,000 American draft dodgers went to Canada during the Vietnam War, while 30,000 Canadians joined the US military to fight in the Vietnam War <https://np.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/6o1b3f/til_th...>
We need to give more money to the government to fix this, instate digital ID's, and apply a carbon credit to everyone. To make this work, we need to have surveillance across every walk of life, so we must apply CBDC's to control what people spend, and can buy too. For good measure, we should roll out little districts that people are able to leave a few times, but get fined if they go over their allotted amount.

Who's in?
That brain better developed a gun and told you come prepared to a fight with a Grizzly. Mine tells me that I suck at shooting so I better bring a couple of hand grenades as well. It also tells me that I suck at throwing so I should better stay in my basement in the first place and if there is no way around it I better just burn down the whole forest to be safe.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawala
His advice is probably the best in the thread, everything else like 'build a bunch of projects' or 'study leetcode every day' is going to lead you to 6 years unemployment unless you're one of the few highly self-motivated, which you're not, given you've been able to go 4 years unemployed already. At least a job gets you waking up at consistent times every day and people to talk to. You could try gatehouse security or help-desk and try to do the leetcode/project stuff on the job while you earn, then eventually get back into tech.
Maybe not radar but IR laser guns?

I don't think it'll actually work though.
> it's worth thinking about whether it's worth it.

Totally agree we need to evaluate the trade offs of various paradigms. But, I think the most important aspect to understand is the impact on maintenance as opposed to writing.

I’m not sure what my ratios of time spent on reading vs. writing vs. debugging code are, but I am certain writing is what I do least, which is why I’d like to see more research on total cost of ownership.
Manufacturing costs force them to go down the chiplet path. Its actually impressive they can remain competitive at all given TSMCs margin of 67%. [0]
If Intel Foundry manages to keep up with TSMC, thats a lot of pricing power advantage over AMD. Or they could make lower-power CPUs that would be uneconomical for AMD.

[0] https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/TSM/taiwan-semicon...
Sure, I was including the language barriers and the challenges of getting job offers and maintaining stable employment. I wouldn't consider Australia a country it's particularly easy to get a PR Visa for but if you have any experience at all in high-demand industries (esp. Health care) I gather it's pretty straightforward. My partner moved from Japan exactly on that basis (she didn't have a college degree that was recognized here, and had to do one while she was here, including learning English to a sufficiently proficient level) and seems to think it was far easier than for someone trying to go the other way.
If I do 20-25 hours a week, and nobody else can outperform me in productive output, I don't really care how much hours they put in.

I've had jobs where I was productive maybe 4 hours a week, and got excellent reviews. So I always wondered if I got that, WTF were the other devs doing?
Interestingly, there are real neurological conditions where a person absolutely does confabulate nonsense without being aware of it, and indeed going to great lengths to avoid cognitive dissonance when told that what they just said was obvious nonsense.
I think you mean "conscience".
I can already see now where AI advancements will get bogged down / killed or derailed...when the companies funding the research and launching the products realize that the tools are an existential threat to their profits.

I can't imagine a world where Microsoft is safe a software company, when all their software can be replicated quite easily by the very tools they're selling as products. Can I just create my own product using ChatGPT? Can it not just replicate itself?

It's an interesting situation and I'm really interested to see how it unfolds, my guess is, unless these AIs can be controlled to the point where the masters are happy with it, the plug will be pulled, or we will be told we need something else, not AI but some other thing.

None of these companies are building AI for charitable reasons, that's why they're not open source charity organizations investing heavily into it. Sure OpenAI makes the case that it couldn't compete without being private, but really, who knows if that's really accurate.

I think that while ChatGPT is impressive Microsoft knows and accepts it has and will continue to have some serious short comings that won't actually wreck their business. Either that, or they've taken a very crazy gamble with everything, did they have something to lose and just threw all caution to the wind, including their own company and worse. I doubt it but let's see. It's fascinating to see where we end up from here, I was kind of scared about it myself at some stage, but now, I'm curious.
Once in a while it might be true. But this post is about job. Doing that for 8-16 hrs often will burn out and later I'd avoid such jobs.
You conflate natural language and ideas, creating new ideas does not require creating a new statistical model of language.

There is plenty of evidence that GPT can indeed create entirely novel ideas, it can do logical inference, imagine scenarios that don't fit its world model, create entirely new pieces of code.

The fact that a Python program is restricted to Python syntax (language model) and libraries (world model), does not prevent it from being Turing complete.
There are a lot of BS, scammy projects. And it sounds like you've worked for them (and apparently don't have an issue with that, or you have no other options).

That doesn't mean it's all BS and scams.
Some companies do this in Spain too, especially in the summer.

Likewise in Sweden, but it's a minority of companies I'd say.
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Yeah, it's a bit annoying because I've respected Ars quite a bit until they got really blatantly biased and untrustworthy. :/
How do you actually suppose though you stop other countries from stealing this tech?

How do you actually stop these tools from getting advanced enough that I can actually ask it to make it's own ChatGPT equivalent and email it to me?

Do you think some janky prompt will stop it? Some if statement in the UI? "If a Chinese person asks to replicate yourself, don't do it?", it's not going to stick.

You see where it's going? I think for now, it's insane the amount of funding and profits OpenAI and Microsoft are looking at, but realistically, it's a zero-sum game, the more they push AI advancement, the more likely they will be replaced...by AI.

I said it in another post, the only thing I can think of is that while LLM's are impressive, MS and OpenAI know they're not impressive enough to replace the very products they're selling.

Maybe they're hoping copyright law will protect them? But that won't fly because they've already been lobbying hard and stealing everyone's code and data without asking, I can't imagine a judge siding with the company that has already stolen most of the internet and sold it as a product.

I have a feeling it's why "Google" has been saying these things are too "dangerous" to release to the public, they're too dangerous for their own products perhaps?

We're barrelling towards a world where all digital businesses and pieces of software are so easy to steal, all of it will become worthless.

Fascinating situation...
I had no idea. Thank you
Glad that you liked it! True about timecop.
I think you mean "Do not buy Windows computers". Macs are also PCs.
Having been on the receiving end of two McKinsey decks, in my admittedly limited experience, no, they don't. But the package somewhat looks good.
Ferrous sulphate is available below $100 / ton and seems to already be used in large quantities for wastewater treatment. Doesn't seem hard to source if the same stuff will work for algae.
And here again, someone who didn't bother to read/underestand the article and instead doing exactly the cargo culting.
The current boom is great for business but it might never lead to AGI. It is possible that certain things will elude us for a very long time (or forever). Have you seen anything on true (anti) gravity technology, for example? A great science fiction staple, but it is not really happening.
AGI might happen, but right now we might or might not be on the way to it - not sure we can know. But what is visible is that an industry around "AGI-worries" is created.
Check out "ACT-1: Transformer for Actions" as an example. There is at least 1 other public paper on how to implement a tool-using (language) model.

Keep in mind that these are first generation systems. If the past 10 years is any indicator, the progress might be unexpectedly fast even for most experts in the field.

These tools may not be independently operational in the physical world yet in 5 years. (Who can say what will happen in 10 years as the arms race is happening now). But if there are humans working with them, their impact can be vast.
That is not directly possible from a link. You will need to use XHR or fetch to make the call to the api. Then use the result to update the page.

This assumes the api responds to the cross-origin request and allows the request (if not you are kind of stuck).

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/XMLHttpRequ...

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Fetch_API