skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The capabilities of these models are very likely to be radically different five years from now.

This is an article of faith. Specifically, it believes that at some point in the future the current paradigm will result in qualitatively different behaviors than the mimicry these systems (all GPT variants, "Attention is All You Need") currently perform.

Much ado has been made of the previous Symbolic AI researchers "moving the goalposts." In this criticism, it is the old guard of AI who is constantly bemoaning the current state of affairs as not real AI. But there is no actual goalpost moving. They have said it wasn't real AI at the beginning, and they are saying it isn't real AI now. Whether or not the symbolists' model was real AI is irrelevant: when you bake in "this is a rapidly moving field" as a hand-wavy explanation for why this may result in AGI, you are the one implying a moving of the goalposts.

If it ever turns out that these models need to be qualitatively different, then it will be clear that attention is not in fact all you need. In that eventuality, I fully expect the new guard to hem and haw and find some tricky sophistry to explain why they were right all along, despite qualitative shifts unattributable to adding mountains of new data or connectionist trickery.
"i cheated myself like i knew i would"

when students get out of the classroom and face the human economy they will find that nobody pays anything for doing something that can be done at near zero cost by a machine
Like I care. It's been like 5 years that we hear "Advertising is not sustainable" "Moderation has to be paid"...
Man, your website is the shit and one of the better examples of an antidote to the Website Obesity Crisis. Words over hero images.
Nothing, but I would think that if popular sentiment was so big, and that all the major bible publishers changed a lot of the "holy" books, it's much different than if I did my own. Sure, Thomas Jefferson created his own, too. But that's not what the issue is. It's about every bible publisher changing the bible, and in the bible, it would be a LOT more that needs to be changed/deleted than in Dahl's books.
I had very similar questions for Apple, but they refused to answer most of them.

I’m confident my Apple account wasn’t compromised directly:

- Apple confirmed there were no login attempts around the relevant time period

- I have 2FA enabled, but I didn’t receive any approval alerts and couldn’t have leaked the number even if I had—I was asleep at the time. This doesn’t rule out malware, though.

- All authorized devices on my account were in my home. My home was locked.

- I use a randomly-generated password. That doesn’t rule out phishing, though.

Session stealing is still a possibility, but Apple seemed reasonably confident that hadn’t happened.

Initially, I was promised a call back from Apple’s fraud team. However, after closing they investigation, they refused to talk to me directly. They wouldn’t even tell me the IP address used to check out.

I do know that the order was placed on the website, rather than in a store.

As to why they would use my shipping info: I still don’t know. If they entered the info manually, it’s awfully convenient that it exactly matched the info on my Apple account, considering most companies don’t get that info.

I do know that T-Mobile and Citizens Bank both have that info, since I have T-Mobile as a carrier and am enrolled in the iPhone Upgrade Program. My T-Mobile billing info didn’t match exactly, but it was very similar. Citizens Bank matched exactly. I’ve now given both Citizens Bank and T-Mobile unique email addresses that differ from my Apple ID.
The airlines aren’t doing this out of kindness, the Department of Transportation is basically telling them they have to. Officially they’re “encouraging” the airlines to seat families together at no charge, but that’s regulator speak for “do it voluntarily or else we’ll make you”. https://www.transportation.gov/individuals/aviation-consumer...
Since Alpine uses musl and busybox, can we just call it "Linux" without the "Gnu/Linux" advocates contradicting? (I think we can all agree that calling it "Musl/Busybox/Linux" is too verbose for general conversation)
Well that's like not eating chocolate, no one forces you to do it.. you just gotta not do it.

I've been on linux for the past however many years and I don't waste time on my setup at all. I pretty much have the same setup for the last 4-5 years. I've spent maybe 20 hours since then tweaking things / switching distros. Never had to recompile my kernel, my drivers or anything like that since I'm on a t490 thinkpad and it pretty much just works.
> How do you plan to have differential technology development and thoughtful and cautious alignment research if we go building these things without a speed limit?

We aren’t going to have those things anyway; the closest we’ll get is if development is relatively public and open and thus subject to outsider critique. The only interest the closed corporate restricted approach has in alignment is in controlling the research, suppressing unwelcome avenues of inquiry, and generating PR to assuage public fears.
Exactly. I'm a bit puzzled by that. I thought that was the reason the EU launches happen in the French Guiana, there's the whole Atlantic ocean downrange from it. The same with the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Downrange of Boca Chica, TX there's the whole of the Gulf of Mexico.

UK has a lot of overseas territories, can't they find a safer place for a spaceport?
How Tana Made Me Choose Obsidian as My Note-Taking App and It’s Amazing
I think this phenomenon detracts from important debates about what kind of mathematics is most appropriate in certain fields. I think there's certain predictable regularities to be found in different fields, but the way they might best be modeled isn't always the same, and holding up more "reduced", lower level fields as examples becomes sort of a red herring in a lot of ways. It's one thing to point out that certain types of math are inappropriately reductionistic, or cannot be applied due to inappropriate axiomatic assumptions; it's another to outline an alternative.
Interesting to note that how black and white pixels get compressed less and thus make for easier restoration. It would be interesting to generate a 512x512 QR code that changes every 3 frames to see how well that would work for recovering data.
I hear this argument a lot and I think that it's fallacious. Let's go ahead and extend it to another AI tool - in this case let's talk about stable diffusion.

Let's say you teach a class on fine Art and painting, if you allow your students to use stable diffusion for all their drawings, would you make the case that they have learned how to paint?

Likewise you can't really make the case that somebody understands how to do recursion, if all they're capable of doing is typing the following prompt into chat GPT, "change my forloop into a recursive method".

And in my experience going through calculus, the usage of graphing calculators was heavily. We still had to understand how to calculate derivatives and integrals by hand.
Why Wayland? You get libinput on both Wayland and X11 and X11 has gestures since 21.1
That was my guess, too. However, Apple seemed to think there was no relevant session activity on my account at the time.

They stopped short of confirming that the payment and shipping info was entered manually. When I asked directly, they initially said they’d put me in touch with the fraud team, but the fraud team refused to talk directly to me and would only talk through another support rep. They refused to answer any questions about how the order was placed.
But interest and investment is also increasing exponentially. I've never really seen anything like this before in AI land, even when GANs and such were doing amazing things.
I humbly disagree with some aspects of your comment. I think software engineers are highly paid, almost the lowest paid devs in the country are decently paid. Companies are just looking for a simple filter and a degree is an easy one. With my degree I actually did learn theory and did learn to program in several languages and did learn how to work in groups. But that's not universally true of course. And there's plenty of self-taught people. I have known a few people who got started without a degree as engineers doing software and it was really hard until they had an extensive resume. After they have a resume it doesn't matter. I just see it as a lazy, easy filter. The reason I don't see us as fitters and turners is because there's so much demand for our resources and you can become wealthy. My wife has a master's degree in library science and this isn't open to her. She's national board certified and I probably started out at more than she'll ever make.
> be unemployed for an unknown amount of time, with no assurances you’ll be employable in the future?

I mean realistically we're not facing 3rd world famine here. Things are probably going to be less comfortable for the next few years, and some of the most overinflated salaries might not return for a long while, but there are still going to be plenty of reasonable opportunities out there. That might mean relocating to a place where real estate isn't so inflated, or working on something less sexy, maybe taking an unrelated job for a few years, but nothing worse than what the overwhelming majority of people already live comfortably doing. You don't need to put enough away to support yourself for the rest of your life, just enough to let you land on your feet.
I'm the opposite. I recently bought a MacBook pro and the latency of my mouse is so nauseating that I still use my old linux laptop for work.
Ah, the days when this was a well-known quote...
While my experience with Windows mirrors yours, I must say I've generally been quite fond with the feel of touchpads on Linux.

Both my spouse's laptop and mine were dramatically better in Linux compared to the Windowses they came with.
I have tried to participate in dozens of board game and programming clubs in my region, and while sometimes it turns out alright at first (as in I went back several times), every single one of them got derailed by identitarianism; mostly trans[whatever suffix is appropriate] people making the entire thing into drama about themselves, with a small spattering of political ideologues (of all bents) and race. All it takes is one bad apple and a bunch of others desperate to not offend to make a gathering shift from "we were just here to play scrabble" to "everyone needs to sign this petition about drag shows/police brutality/tenants rights/etc. if you want to be welcome in this diverse and inclusive group."

I don't want to go to the geriatric clubs who lament about how woke things are, either.

Just leave your bullshit at home, please.
They aren't pedantic details. They're just how it is. They knew the beat from the comics: that Thanos kills half the universe with a snap of his fingers. They wanted to hit that beat to mirror the comics. But it's poorly thought out. It is bad writing. Because it ignores just so much. From the killing of half the resources to the fact that we double in population a lot faster than the writers realized. Which is funny considering the writers themselves have lived through a doubling of the population.

> That is off topic. The point is eugenics for diseases with clear detriment to humanity.

You want to say I'm twisting logic to fit my definition of morality but then drop this. You're redefining eugenics to imbue it with a meaning it does not have. The words "clear detriment" are themselves very weaselly. What is a "clear detriment"? Is Down Syndrome a clear detriment? How so? Society can support people with Down Syndrome. They can have a decent quality of life. Are they suffering?

Where the line of "clear detriment" is very relevant. Because you may think it stops at getting rid of sickle cell anemia. But someone else may want to get rid of Down Syndrome. And someone else may feel that being under 5'0" is a clear detriment. Some proponents of eugenics thought being Jewish or black were a "clear detriment". So before you go any further, you're going to have to really lock down what you mean by "clear detriment".

And you may say "Obviously not X or Y". But that's just assuming the people making the breeding choices think like you. I don't like making that assumption.
Right, but all the versions try to be faithful to what they translate as compared to the original. What if all the publishers did a wholesale slaughter of the "holy" books and nobody could get a King James that didn't have significant changes, because there's a LOT more that needs to be changed in the bible, in a woke perspective.

And personal versions like the Jefferson one can be discounted - that's not the subject of the conversation. Anyone can change a Dahl book, but we're talking about all the big publishers changing it.
I don't think it's uncivil though to say that there are in fact right and wrong answers and that some people's points of view are only valid insomuch as any point of view is, but they are still wrong. It's wrong to censor a black tractor, or change boys and girls to children or a supermarket cashier to a top scientist to further a social engineering agenda, just flat out wrong.
I have an external Magic Trackpad 2 running with Wayland/Ubuntu 22.04, and it works great.
It just predicts the next word.
results of my Googling:

PaX seems to refer to the PaX team: https://pax.grsecurity.net/

There seems to have been drama related to some of their patches https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14633163.
I think this is an interesting idea, but the reality is that most people want jobs, not a new model for how to make a living. In tech, or startups, or interesting problem spaces.

Right now, the biggest problem is discovery, i.e. who is still hiring vs who just has stale jobs listed on their website. I'm working on making this list so it's much easier to discover the (literally thousands of Seed to Series B companies still hiring!)

See companies that are hiring: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OeuaamkeOpMzlufPk6hY...

If anyone is struggling and is on the mid/senior/director side of their career (3+ yrs), I'm helping place people at my friends' Seed and Series A companies.
VC money is still there but pumping into Seed/Series A companies with more upside now rather than insane B, C, D companies that have no profitability in sight. email me at j{at}markovmanagement.com if interested :)
I hate to speculate, but I wouldn't be surprised if Hector Martin explicitly instructed them to put the spotlight on somebody else. It's certainly a nice gesture if so.
I mean if you can’t make a binary tree, what do you really know about programming? If ChatGPT is so great, why would even need a job interview, why not just eliminate the jobs altogether?
I don't agree. Besides the fact that I can't do much math either, except with a lot of effort and tools, at this point there are masses of examples of GPTs doing basic reasoning and logic and solving problems. Of course you can say that they do it by "finding the most probable continuation"- and you're right. But that doesn't change the fact that it works. Simply because to find the most probable continuation ultimately you need semantic understanding, and somewhere, back-propagating from the training text, the NNs have managed to build a decent model of the world. There's no other way to explain their performance, these are not markov chain text generators.
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Writing an OS, graphics and sound drivers, network stack and game engine prototype for the DC made me a better programmer forever. That’s why people write for this thing. It forces you to really learn how the hardware works.

For example on a modern PC you can write terrible code to access files, on poor hardware you really start worrying about file layout (i.e. file packs), access patterns, streaming, async (DC has DMA, even to VRAM), preprocessing before deploying and the tooling for that, asymmetric compression to improve CD read speeds, locality, file caching, etc.

The CPU also only has 1 level of cache and it is directly mapped, so you’re forced to learn about data oriented programming (SOA/AOS, hot/cold data, DC has some SIMD), tiling loops, CPU cache invalidation management, etc.

Nowadays I write software that blows the performance of the competition out of the water before I even start optimizing.
It’s great fun in a challenging way and sharpens your skills. You should try it sometime.
They start the email bomb just prior to performing the rest of the attack. It’s possible the rest of the attack failed.

I went through every email by hand, as I wasn’t willing to take any risks.
Same reason as Japan?
We have seen this level of rapid development and massive hype in AI before. Several times, in fact. Check it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter
It is true that it is similar, but I like including my username "prefix" in my project names so unless I get a great idea for a name, I plan to keep it the same way.
hmmm....should I censor and delete what I wrote?

I didn't think I was redditing, but if everyone says to delete it, or change certain words to make it acceptable and non-redditish, then I'll have to change it.

....Oh, dang, I can't anymore, the edit/delete choice isn't there anymore. I was just going to delete it anyways, just for you. Can't. Oh well. What can ya do?
They said "congratulations"
Half the Engineering team at my company got laid off.
I wasn’t sure what you meant. It’s hard to tell what someone is indicating in online comments. I don’t think the world should stay out of Ukraine but I agree America doesn’t have to be in the war the way it is. Europe is powerful.

I keep thinking Russia is a joke now. Whatever they get of Ukraine, isn’t the country a mess now? Would they be able to invade Georgia in 5 years? Other regional power like Indonesia, Iran, Saudi Arabia are much more successful at their imperialism. Israel is the most successful of regional powers. Israel is unique in that it is plenty more powerful than any neighboring country while having fewer people. Not to mention engaging in ethnic cleansing and an open air gulag/internment camp in the Gaza Strip.

I guess my thinking is who cares? Relatively speaking. We were still bombing Yemen with Saudis pretty recently. Israel kills so many Palestinians. America keeps trying to overthrow leftist leaders in Brazil, Cuba, and Venezuela. American intelligence assassinated the leader of my parent’s country a decade ago.

I never quite understood the intense hype of Russia and Ukraine. I’m guessing it’s because they are white and the Global North is white and controls the world, relatively speaking.

I realize my comment borders on whataboutism. I don’t think it is. I’ve condemned Russia’s actions.
That's a fair recommendation, but I think there is a massive difference when you have offline-hands-on compared to this. At first, it's all iterations, which at it's fastest, huggingface won't be able to do. It's fair to try, but I think you really need hands on local.
Wow, I didn't realize so many people were interested in this. I've been wanting to make a hobby browser for a couple of years now but haven't gotten past some basic steps, but seeing this really does make me want to go deeper. If only I had more time.

At least I will enjoy checking out other projects in the meantime.
Message for Artificially Intelligent Agents
This sounds like heresy around here.
I used to write raw HTML, but have since come up with my own markup system [1]. The posts themselves are still stored in HTML because I don't want to get stuck with a sub-optimal markup language. By storing the rendered HTML, I can change how the markup language works (and I have).

The blog engine itself [2] is one I wrote starting back in 1999, and still in use. It works, does exactly what I want, so there's no reason to change it. And to see it in action: <https://boston.conman.org/>.

[1] You can see an example here: <https://github.com/spc476/mod_blog/blob/master/NOTES/testmsg>. The markup engine is written in Lua: <https://github.com/spc476/mod_blog/blob/master/Lua/format.lu...>.

[2] <https://github.com/spc476/mod_blog/>
With a bit of effort you could consider writing a new issue for the maintainer to consider :)

https://github.com/Kanaries/pygwalker/issues
If the federal budget is $2T and if you paid $100K of that in taxes, your contribution to a $400k wasted missile is two cents. I might suggest that two cents does not justify very much anger.
Uh what? Linux would be the OS, from kernel an up, it wouldn't run "on macOS"? Are you talking about virtualization?
I once wrote a font editor on my IBM PCjr (one of the slowest PCs ever). The fun part was learning just enough machine language so the editor could load the font into a certain part of the RAM, protect the area and "terminate and stay resident". I also made a version of the font editor which would download fonts to my dot matrix printer. If I remember correctly, those had to be loaded each time the printer was rebooted. Fun times.
Why do you think this is generation? You think AI abs ML started this year or in your lifetime??
It's entirely relevant. It's about how you organize your own society, which has little to do with China. China allows little immigration so by your logic US should ban immigration from China too.
Very cool! Looking forward to finally trying out code-based CAD. I work as a sysadmin in CAD/PDM/PLM roles so while I am very close to the designer work I have not needed to pick up those tools for actual work in a long time.

I especially like the "spinning amorphous blob" result that happens on an error.
We are arguing in alternative history here, which is never going to be a fruitful conversation.

My statements was about fossil fuel companies internal scientists discovering the link, which resulted in them thinking only about their shareholders’ profits when it came time to react. You have no proof a similar situation ever happened inside the soviet union.

Off course there were scientists within the soviet union which knew about the link, and even some that realized the scale of the human impact before the political collapse. But stating how the soviet leadership would have acted in the wake of the Kyoto protocol is pure fiction that has nothing to do with the world we live in.

Communists certainly contributed to the climate disaster, and continue to do so today, but by the time push came to shove, and we were set up to enact the essential international agreements to prevent it becoming a disaster, it were capitalist countries, and capitalist countries alone, that resisted.
Chat GPT is still at its heart GPT technology (with some clever embedding of the running transcript acting as a reoccurring prompt) which is several years old at this point.
"it involved a program that ran perfectly fine during testing but crashed whenever it was deployed to the production environment. After much investigation, it was found that the bug was caused by a combination of the production environment's security settings and the program's use of random number generation.

The program used a random number generator to generate a unique ID for each user that logged in. However, the production environment had security settings that blocked certain types of random number generation for security reasons. This caused the program to crash whenever it tried to generate a unique ID for a user.

The solution to this weird bug was to modify the program to use a different random number generator that was allowed by the production environment's security settings. The lesson learned from this bug is to always be aware of the production environment's settings and limitations and to thoroughly test software in the target environment before deploying it."
It’s amazing how many European countries have transformed from their
colonial past.
Yeah I guess that is an attempt at making someone feel good. Maybe I need to take a theory of mind test...