skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean it is amazing if they do it well. If we don’t have a financial crisis soon, it would be a wonderful sign of responsible governance, effective regulation, and international cooperation.

So many doubt the ability of the US government to govern responsibly. It IS amazing when they demonstrate responsibility!
This is absolutely true, and the required subsidies for those places with mass exoduses will presumably drop over time (though will like increase per remaining person for those few necessary remaining people).
Are you referring to fears that AI will make decisions for us that take away our control of our lives? Because that is happening as a consequence of the drive to lower the costs of making those decisions. Right now that drive is pushed by capitalism.

You are right to say that in theory other economic systems could result in a similar drive - thus I wouldn’t suggest we just dump capitalism for communism with the vague hope it will solve this issue. Rather, we have to intentionally design our incentives to ensure small tactical decisions (eg automating decision making processes) don’t have macro consequences (eg AI magnifies humanity’s decision making flaws).
Considering <picture> and image() exists and should be seen as a best practice, adding and removing image formats/codecs should have a few less problems than some other libraries, no?
I think it won’t take AI long to do anything humans can do and more. The next frontier is reshaping the physical world. Technology’s ability to move atoms has always been a limiter of progress. Manufacturing physical objects is always the bottleneck. Once that bottleneck is removed (probably by AI), AI becomes limitless.
Not even close to as big as the one that pretends to be the authority on other people's use cases and willingness to interact with technology.
> We are all just gullible.

That’s true generally, and especially true when a celebrity is involved. Humans are great liars and terrible lie detectors.
I've already quite a long time ago noticed that in particle physics we usually do stuff that quantum-computing people will call an "entaglement". We just don't phrase it like that, because we are used to it and we aren't much "in awe" about it.
https://physics.stackexchange.com/a/40872/386
Applications are infrastructure's value - without produce to transport (or other applications), what value roads? Infrastructure is means to application ends.

So yes, given benefiting applications, infrastructure improvements derive value.

Their value is entirely derived. They have no intrinsic value. They are, in themselves, worthless.

Just semantics.

I tend to agree with your take on public infrastructure, but I haven't thought about it enough to form a definite opinion.

\tangentially related: arguing metabolism pathways need to exist before genes can improve them https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-biochemists-view-of-lifes-o...
His publications were inconvenient for one party, and then they were inconvenient for the other. He exposed all parties which helped us all become a little more independently minded, but the partisans were in power and exacted revenge.
I'd suggest it's not typically thought of as including local government. It is a peculiarly overloaded term though, particularly if you live in a country where "state" is a key governmental/administrative division!
In the usage here - "nanny state" - I'd agree it can include local government and indeed even organisations operating below that level (it might just be a single school board making "nanny state" decisions).
I'm impressed too, but only in the sense that I'm surprised that transformers can reach any level of success at all.

But it seems mostly like a weird statistical quirk of chess that somehow tactical sequences are the most common move sequences in chess(except for openings), and so they're very likely to pop out from a model predicting the most likely tokens. But there doesn't seem like there's a reasonable path from doing that to being able to determine whether a likely tactical sequence is actually a good idea. I've been thinking a lot about ways to use a transformer model in combination with search to accomplish this for a few days now. So far I have a few ideas, most of them are a lot less revolutionary than I was hoping for.

You could take a (narrowly trained) transformer model, give it the game so far and have it predict a sequence of moves. Then use those moves as a move ordering heuristic in a good old stockfish like architecture. Essentially do the normal Alphabeta search but look at the suggested moves first at each node, indexed by ply. I could imagine if the suggestions get really good, this might prune a decent amount of nodes. But nothing earth-shattering, maybe 50 elo gains at most is my intuition there. I have other non-transformer ideas that I think are more worthwhile to work on for now.

The other is to instead invoke it at every node asking for one move only, and guide a search that way. But this somehow just feels like a reinvention of LCZero.

There's a third more speculative idea which would involve a novel minimax search algorithm inspired by how humans think in terms of tactical sequences, but this idea is still so vague in my head I'm not even sure how to coherently describe it, let alone implement it, or whether it makes sense at all.

I still need to think about this more deeply, break out my whiteboard and play with some minimax trees to flesh it out. It is intriguing though. I'd also have to train my own transformer; I see no reason to actually end up using GPT for this. Seems to be no sense including the entire internet in your data if all you're doing is predicting sequences of algebraic notation.
Why do we call people expats and not rich migrants or something like that?
What are “bog-standard UNIX drivers” and what other GPU vendors supply such a driver that can be installed on a Mac?
<blink> was never supported by all “in-fashion” browsers though.
It doesn't leave a trace if you don't look for it!
This video is 1 month old
I think it's very likely to be worse (certainly drastically more risky). The Fed has a history of hard landings.

There was a level at which more modest rates would have gradually bent inflation downward over time, and it would have taken a while (a year or two longer, say). IMO the Fed was too aggressive in trying to stop it asap. They went too far too fast and we'll see a rolling fallout from it for several years yet. Lower rates with elevated inflation for a bit longer, would have been the more prudent choice, than cranking the volume fast and risking a financial crisis.
Thankfully, in these cases other people who are not into Moloch’s worship unite, forget their differences, and purge him out of existence. The history is full with examples.
You're off by about a decade, Zuckerberg was there from the start.
People in rich countries work at much more fulfilling and enjoyable jobs. Most of my white collar friends, both in it and outside are passionate about what they do.
Huh? What are you saying?

Each film industry profession has a powerful guild to maximize the value they can extract. I think it's reasonable to understand why this cartel-like behavior doesn't apply to restricting the supply of autographs?

This is not doing one or two autographs for an actual fan. This is giving away hundreds of autographs to charismatic middle-men.

Seems like an opportunity for a more organized group (eg, Screen Actors Guild) to corner the supply that underpins the autograph market and better compensate the actors themselves based on the market value of their autographs.
I'd be curious to know how much of the "overage" is from businesses that would be fine with narrow banking at the Fed.

The obvious downside is that you still need regular banks and financial institutions for loans, but for large operating accounts for many companies you just want something you can spend and won't disappear. And presumably this is why the Fed doesn't permit narrow banking: major deposits would dry up, loan rates would have to be much higher, and so on.
It's a technically oriented, open source, Linux conference and he's talking about basically his home stereo.

Well ok, I guess he can do whatever he wants. There's expectations from the context though.

That speech was the first time I understood how people can become too famous for their own good.

I saw him the day before (and I've got the photos to prove it) and he made a bunch of factual mistakes. Nobody cared enough to push back. I only did a little when he claimed raspberry pi prices have been stable and plentiful throughout the pandemic. But even I quickly gave up and I'm usually an asshole about things being right. (2019: 1gb pi4 was $35.00 and now it's $132.95 for the record. Buying 1000 cheap computers to sit on them 4 years and then just resell would have made you about $100,000)

He can basically say whatever and do whatever and people just politely murmur in approval because he's computer royalty. There's no real feedback loop or anything to keep him in check.

It'd be like if Beyonce held a concert and then instead of singing, talked about composting and gardening. I mean sure, whatever.

High status gives people a pass
If Corporations weren't people you wouldn't be able to sue them. Read more.
There might not be a hard separation in theory, but there certainly is one in practice
I would also consider this to be memory unsafe. If you have an "array", you should not be able to index (or slice) beyond its bounds. If you are allowed to do so, you may have unpredictable junk in your array.
> Implemented <memory_resource> header from C++17

Looks like they implemented it. Not sure about if they added all of the specialized containers though.
It just means the app is not signed+notarized.

They don’t necessarily need to be from the App Store, but they do need to be notarized.

If they’re not, the warning can be bypassed.
I remember when my kids were younger they always had difficulty climbing onto the cooler play structures. Somehow the first few steps of the entrance are the most difficult. So I just had to help them get on and they would be fine. At first this annoyed me a bit, but later I realized that this must be intentional; if the kid manages to get in/on the play structure in the first place, they'll probably be fine. If they fall when trying to get on it, they fall in the sand so also no problem. Only the kids with some physical ability are able to reach some height, the smallest have to stay on the ground
since chip-shortage, which price is it now?
> for large operating accounts for many companies you just want something you can spend and won't disappear

Every corporate treasurer worth their salt manages a portfolio of short-dated bills, commercial paper and repos for this purpose. Maybe now this knowledge is obsolete. But it’s always been there, at small sizes, via Treasury Direct.
What I find ironic is that as businesses leave China, they move into the exact same type of culture in Vietnam and India. Vietnam is basically a mini China and India is trending towards the same authoritarian regime that most people find distasteful.

The entire western world is so addicted to cheap labor I don't know what would happen when there is no more cheap labor to be found. There will be a huge social disruption when everyone everywhere in the world demands 100k salary a year with social benefits. That or AGIs come out and we get a disruption on the same scale.

Fun fact, Vietnam is moving from 5 days work week to 6 days work week while the rest of us are demanding 4 days work week here in the US.
You can have a lasting impact without doing something that makes you also look like you don't give a shit about your employees. If I see my employer purposefully try to make me feel for a moment that he was demanding I resign, my opinion of him would immediately shift to "he's either immoral or has a more concrete psychological issue." I think most people probably would feel that way, but there are social politics at play in this case causing people to be unwilling or unable to make an honest attempt to put themselves in the situation.
pioneer != inventor
Offloading that pain of learning as the pain of using.
It does seem a little hypocritical to follow up 'should aim for zero children dead from being ran over by vehicles' with 'but 16 is fine'
Yes, they are acquiring a whale of a company at a low price with a lot of government support behind the deal. Imagine how it must feel to acquire your biggest rival in these circumstances.
At least one person has already done this. Check out this Twitter thread where ChatGPT designs and builds a website to sell eco-friendly household products:

I gave GPT-4 a budget of $100 and told it to make as much money as possible. I'm acting as its human liaison, buying anything it says to. Do you think it'll be able to make smart investments and build an online business?

https://twitter.com/jacksonfall/status/1636107218859745286
The training data for GPT-3/4 cuts off in 2021, blog post is from 2023.
Helmets in particular have tremendous specificity, which is fascinating. Bicycle, ski, and motorcycle helmets have MIPS. Motorcycle helmets have chin guards. Bicycle helmets have side impact protection. Climbing helmets have puncture resistance and top impact protection. Ski helmets have puncture resistance and coverage close to a motorcycle helmet, but less cushion. I’m sure the list is long for hard hats as well.

Kids helmets have started to show up with breakaway neck straps- the strap only need be so strong to prevent the helmet from slipping off in a crash.
yoo thank you so much!

appreciate you checking it out :)
> If you need to formally specify behavior, at any point in the pipeline, then we're back to square one: you just invented a programming language, and a very bad one at that.

But what if the "programming language" is not a general-purpose language, but a context/business domain specific language? One that is trained on the core business at hand? What if that "language" had access to all the same vocabulary, project history (both successful and unsuccessful), industry regulations, code bases from previous (perhaps similar) solutions, QC reports, etc.? What if the "business savvy" consumer of this AI can phrase things succinctly in a fashion that the AI can translate into working code?

I don't see it as a stretch "down the road." Is it possible today? Probably not. Is it possible in 5-10 years time, I definitely think so.
I know at least two in Berlin that are pretty high even for adults. One is at John-Foster-Dulless-Allee in the Tiergarten the other next to Fritz-Schloß-Park in Moabit.
"thus solving the problem once and for all"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SYpUSjSgFg
I'm pretty sure that comes up only if you disable vault timeout entirely, not if you enable a timeout but allow unlock with PIN.
Uh SMS on your phone works for most people? Or one of the 70-odd SMS replacement messengers if you or your friends have carriers that can't manage a decent SMS service.
- Basketball players are athletes
- Not all athletes are basketball players
And all is right in the world :)
So what happens to the Archegos bags CS was holding? Why would UBS willingly take on such deep exposure?

We're in a weird timeline when the investors on /r/SuperStonk begin accurately predicting the future.
> We're not really programming the AI to do anything. It's essentially programming itself.

I hear this a lot - it’s just not true. The corpus of data we provide an algorithm programs it. It may do some clever self-modification to get to the desired result faster, but at the end of the day humans pick what goes in and what should come out. Note that we may not be aware of what we’re training it to do, due to our own blind spots.
The world will adapt when labor becomes scarce, it will have no other choice. The more scarce labor is, the more pricing power it has.

Arguing over “what if AGI” is like arguing about nuclear war and winter. It might happen, but no plans you form for it will survive contact with reality, so there is very little value in spending cycles on optimizing for it.
The trick is that the plane flies while still going absurdly slow. 37 kt vs >120 kt for similar planes.

So less momentum on landing to dispose of, or to generate while taking off.
Empty slices also serialize to `null` instead of `[]` when using the default json encoder.
That's not what it says though. How would you phrase it? I don't think they do a great job but this is pretty hard to explain in two sentences if you're targeting a non-technical person.
Thanks for the suggestion, great listening to this during cooking.
> The failure of WL is that rather than focus on doing journalistic work, it became the Julian Assange show with Julian Assange about Julian Assange.

This not a failure of WL, this is the American establishment and elites who were doing everything possible to smear Assange, even to the point of nothing-burger stories about how he was a bad house guest and didn't clean his cat's liter box enough. They were really grasping at straws.
Tried that years ago and couldn’t get it to recognize much, very noisy
> By most measures, productivity growth in the education sector over the last several decades has been low or even negative;[40][41] the average student-teacher ratio in American universities, for instance, was sixteen to one in 2011, just as it was in 1981.[37] Yet, over this period, tuition costs have risen substantially.

I'm just a layman, but this method of measuring "productivity" in education is absolutely bonkers and seems to treat the actual education received by each student as a fungible commodity. Thus a student in a "Rock Music History" class is roughly equivalent to a student in Quantum Physics 401.

Is this how economists actually think of education?
But if you are going to say that - why describe it as a “split”, as opposed to two separate universes which happen to identical in contents up to some point, non-identical thereafter?

Also, what you say about dollars is true because they have certain properties - effectively they have two different criteria of identity, one economic, the other physical. What is the criterion of identity for universes/branches?
how do you think Allianz got so big? ;)
I agree with the sentiment.

But on the other hand, I think CS brand and culture is more toxic than its balance sheet.

I would like to be in the paratroopers squad cleaning the CS.
Phase Change
Like I said: it's too wide and Signal can't rarely be discussed on HN without matrix fanboys ruining the conversation.
It's true that you need explicit access to the GPT-4 to use the API, but again, it's not a different key. I'm using the same API key for accessing `gpt-3.5-turbo` as I use for `gpt-4`.
I think human programming is not untapped at all. This is describing every line of business application in existence. A great example of both the power and limitations of this is phone trees for customer support.

A product team and dev team encode business knowledge and flows into code and leverage a human to make judgement calls when necessary. The outcome is a program that can either be used by skilled workers to multiply their output or allow unskilled workers to perform tasks that would have formerly required a skilled worker to accomplish.

There are already (arguably) optimized flows and design patterns for application UX. Companies have already spent years trying to build and optimize this "human programming". Dev teams have developed many DSLs to make it easier to encode business logic into their applications more quickly.

I am not saying line of business applications are good or near some optimal final form, but to call "human programming" untapped is taking a very narrow view of the definition.
Robot nurses, huh?

How do you measure (and compensate workers for) compassion? Making ethical decisions? Maintaining confidentiality? Acting on a combination of training and instinct? I mean, okay, we can conceive of robot nurses who do the latter, but how does a robot nurse demonstrate compassion and empathy for patients? I think that stuff is priceless.
Nobel Prize in science is typically awarded several years or decades after the discovery to make sure it sticks, specially if the scientist is young like Wu was. See Frank Wilczek's Nobel prize in physics awarded in 2004 for the work he did when he was 22 in 1974.
Bring back ostracism? It was a key part of Athenian democracy…
I fully agree, no question about the risk. I would honestly have the investors lose it than depositors.

The thing i am unhappy about, to reiterate myself, is bundling CS to UBS. I am invested in UBS as well, and guess what, i will lose way more on that investment due to this forced merger.

If the govt. just unwound the assets slowly, it won't affect a relatively healthy bank, which was saved in 2008.

I hope i am wrong, but i feel like ubs prices are gonna fall like a knife at the opening tomorrow, unless the SNB starts buying it.
It's not as much about "cheap work" but about "cheaper work" and there will always be cheaper work somewhere.
One could argue that there is great value on being able to operate in different countries rather than centralize operations or manufacture in a single country.
Yes but your argument was efficiency.
The history of online-left public opinion on WL is proof that your argument is not true.

> Suggesting that people started thinking negatively about wikileaks once it came for “their side” is painfully revisionist

This is 100% true, though. Trying to say it isn't without any substance doesn't really help your case at all.
I have a cynical view (sorry) that labor will always be cheap somewhere. It's part of the globalization machine, there will always be a decline somewhere, and if there isn't, one will be created.
There’s a survival selection process. The ceo founders who did not believe it in their bones failed very early on. Because honestly you have to be a little bit insane to take on that much risk and uncertainty (not to say it’s a good thing, the other 999/1000 who also believed don’t go anywhere)
Should depositors really be responsible for risk evaluation?

How much do you know about the balance sheet of your bank? For any banks that are not publicly traded, shouldn't they be forced to then share their financials and transactions with depositors?
as just confirmed in the press conference, the overall liquidity safety net is actually 200B CHF from SNB. Then 9B of guarantees from the Swiss government to UBS for potential risks
As a 2000s/2010s kid, I would word it the same way you did: “there was always one or two kids in a cast.” If your wording is accurate to your experience then I don’t think much has changed. If you don’t physically work in a school then it’s a tough pattern to monitor.
Methylmercury in thawing permafrost
Club-Wielding Ancestors: Myth or Reality?
Definitely. Connected palm pilots / PDAs existed for years before.
Not initially, drip water is a modern invention.
This round of rate rises seem so political. They know they were slow out of the gate so now seem to want to compensate, appear strong and even actively cause some damage to prove their commitment.

And all of this with the context that most of the inflation is supply side so interest rate rises are anaemic anyway.

I don’t see a pivot unfortunately even though it seems they are playing with fire here.
If your life is writing meaningless click bait, sure.

For the rest of us, not so much.
Actually they use reclaimed gray water. They don't waste any water in Israel.

They also desalinate a lot of water and are actually refilling the Jordan River with desalinated water.