skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ginkgo Bioworks, Berkeley Lights. Although targeting biotech during the bubble was kinda like shooting fish in a barrel. Seems like a lot of barely concealed fraud got VC funding.
Feel free to join here: https://old.reddit.com/r/aishift/
Chinese food is an interesting case too. For one, it's a moving target. Stuff like mala xiang guo (dry hot pot), skewer hot pot, boba, and so on are all modern inventions. And of course, these modern inventions were borne out of experimentation and fun ideas. What if we took hot pot base and made a stir fry out of it? What if we took grilling skewers and dumped them in hot pot? What if we took tea and added tapioca pudding? So why bother with an obsession on authenticity that requires slavish reproduction of how things are done in the old country?

With that said, I do think there's something to be said about keeping the provenance of ingredients and flavor. I don't think you need to make mapo tofu exactly how they make it in Chengdu, but it might be good to understand the core ideas of mala (spicy-tingly flavor) or the importance of doubanjiang (fermented chili bean paste). Likewise there's something to be said about Italian food's focus on fresh, seasonal ingredients.
"CEO does a day of actual work" is great if it helps the CEO better understand quotidian business process and customer needs.

It is a sham when it's used to counter disagreements from employees.
PaLM-E: An Embodied Multimodal Language Model

https://palm-e.github.io/
now add a ?q= url param to chat.openai.com that fills and submits the prompt and I'm changing it to my default browser search provider instantly
Completely agree. I am Indian and grew up in a rural area of a western state and I had never heard of chicken tikka masala or saag paneer or any of the typical Punjabi dishes you get in an Indian restaurant outside of India, until I was in my 20s when we moved to a large city.
You can't really rely on it, but if you ask your bank nicely, they might enforce it and wait to process a postdated check. My credit union says there's a $15 charge for a postdated order per check, so I'd rather save my money and provide the check later.

It's kind of like stale dated checks; the bank doesn't have to pay a check that's more than six months old; but you can't rely on it, the bank can pay that check and if they do, it will come out of your account; the bank has no duty to you to not pay stale dated checks.
One thing to keep in mind with melatonin supplementation is that the doses are like 10x++ higher than what is ideal. An informative read on it: https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/07/10/melatonin-much-more-th...
> The people coexisting with the thing are representative of a new biological groundstate for humanity. You see them as politically undesirable, but like it or not, the damn thing is endemic now.

We had something like that in the 1970s too, with leaded gasoline. There is a theory that neurotoxic effects of lead exposure caused similar behaviour changes in large numbers of people, resulting in a US-wide bump in violent crime until the exposed cohort aged out after leaded gas was banned:

https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/02/lead-exposur...
https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2018/02/an-updated-le...

Added: re politically undesirable: it seems to me that powerful political and similar figures tend to be extravert types who spend a lot of time around other people think they are somehow immune, so they get infected. So Trump, Musk, Boris Johnson, and (not sure) maybe Biden have all been infected. Musk has always been a bit toxic, but at least he used to know how to make money. Lately he has been mismanaging Twitter and Tesla pretty badly. Could that be from Covid?
I used call point-and-click statistical software (like JMP) was the same as giving people who didn't know what they were doing a loaded gun. But democratizing access to advanced statistics...yada yada...who cares about asymptotic theory and identification and what not. Then R and Python and APIs that try to abstract as much as possible, and more loaded guns. But the talk of those loaded guns are really just phd-holders being obnoxious to some degree (but not completely wrong because stats can be misused...). But this really does seem like dumping a bunch of loaded guns all over the place. Nope
The mediocre lager/pilsner dominance is pretty interesting, because it started off as the premium product. Then it got so popular it dominated the market, became the default, and then the older less-premium products ended up specializing into premium/luxury products. A similar thing happened to tequila as opposed to other mezcals.
I was going to say, using alt drag to select vertical columns is usually how I extract useable tables out from pdfs with embedded tables.
Damn it. I hate it when I have to agree with Facebook.
ghci> let x :: Int = 1; s :: String = "foo" in x + _

<interactive>:13:46: error:
• Found hole: _ :: Int
• In the second argument of ‘(+)’, namely ‘_’
In the expression: x + _
In the expression:
let
x :: Int = 1
s :: String = "foo"
in x + _
• Relevant bindings include
x :: Int (bound at <interactive>:13:5)
s :: String (bound at <interactive>:13:19)
it :: Int (bound at <interactive>:13:1)
Valid hole fits include
it :: Int (defined at <interactive>:11:1)
x :: Int (bound at <interactive>:13:5)
maxBound :: forall a. Bounded a => a
with maxBound @Int
(imported from ‘Prelude’ (and originally defined in ‘GHC.Enum’))
minBound :: forall a. Bounded a => a
with minBound @Int
(imported from ‘Prelude’ (and originally defined in ‘GHC.Enum’))
Yeah cuBLAS is definitely not perfect in many cases :-((

Speaking of GEMM fusion that you mentioned, flash attention is basically GEMM fusion with online softmax right? This is something I believe really cool and can be made really easy wit a proper abstraction. Say, you may move a chunk of computation under a certain loop and instruct the compiler to optimize data movement or cache intermediate tiles somewhere on chip
Owner financing rates may be lower than general interest rates, and can be when the seller is family of the buyer or is otherwise related. That will not generally be the case if owner financing becomes the norm though, why would anyone charge lower rates than general rates to some random stranger, especially if it is a borrower who is "less qualified"??? Let's not forget that the previous owner now has to rely on this "less qualified" borrower to honor their commitment for (potentially) several decades. Large financial institutions can amortize this risk over many loans and can afford to have entire departments to assess and manage the risk. Individuals would not be able to do so nearly as well.

If anything, the 2008 financial crisis should have taught us that lending more money to people than they can responsibly bear is not a wise idea, neither for the lenders but also not for the borrowers.
To Framework: please cooperate with Costco/Sam's Club to sell your laptops there. Then I'll have a chance to try it.
It's called ART - Automatic multi-step Reasoning and Tool-use

https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.09014
yes, but the difference between having your biological processes disrupted and being smashed with a rock are pretty significant, and the evolutionary responses are quite different.
I understood it as meaning a social and academic environment that is supporting them in getting into Stanford.
A railway would have created a gov't/corporate monopoly on human transport.

Highways democratized the freedom of transportation.
> thermal throttling issues (that are actually kinda bad and common, and Framework support has been so far unable to address), and so-so battery life, the screen's odd aspect ratio, being a physically larger machine.

That is a strange review to conclude "I'm otherwise happy with it"
Yeah, I agree, many of us have become bots or zombies, though still being basic humans and communicating as humans. If you were a techie who wants to create a new algorithm to which we shall obey, you had to learn the language of computers to do so. Now this has changed as well. The computers have learned to speak our —human— language. That means they will also adapt to our behavior, which means the spiral into the insanity Jaron Lanier was talking about could possibly go faster…

EDIT: So yes, a return to what makes us human, to nature, with an awareness of history and philosophy would be very desirable and quite appropriate in these and future times.
> Then ominously, on the 20th of October of 2020 some people drove there in unmarked cars and removed all the Cameras installed at the tollgate.

They at least capture some photos of the equipment. I wonder if anyone communicated with the individuals.
This is a reasonable summary of mutual funds not beating the market. I think it's maybe a single-digit number of individuals can do it, but the reasonable default should be something like "a number that rounds to 0% of money managers in any format are able to beat the market over a long time frame".

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/02/business/stock-market-ind...
Who's gonna do the rearchitecting work? Are you hiring a whole new team or do you not need to keep the lights on while you're transitioning? Depending on the complexity of your application that rearchitecting is gonna eat up a ton of your cost savings.
Chat-GPT as an user interface for FFmpeg
This is smart. I guess because the common wisdom you see repeated everywhere is "Never memoize unless you're sure of the benefits". Never thought about using them for any other purpose.
I'm in NC and I'm seeing an option to cancel online.
I mean, it's like 8 separate main cousines. Not all of them awesome.
I don't think this is the case. You provide an API spec but you also have to provide the implementation of that API. ChatGPT is basically a concierge between your API and the user.
such a depressingly common trope.

them: "Sorry, there's nothing I can do, I simply can't help you!"

customer: "I'll be really annoying."

them: "I figured out how to help you!"
Was pizza popular in America prior to WW2? I recently read an article [0] from 1949 that was written as if most Americans wouldn't be familiar with it. Maybe it was a regional thing and those soldiers were from an immigrant neighborhood?

[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1949/10/pizza/6...
There are also Intel parts that contain only efficiency cores, like the N200.
But the Luddites didn't… care about that? Like, at all? It wasn't employment they wanted, but wealth: the Industrial Revolution took people with a comfortable and sustainable lifestyle and place in society, and, through the power of smog and metal, turned them into disposable arms of the Machine, extracting the wealth generated thereby and giving it only to a scant few, who became rich enough to practically upend the existing class system.

The Luddites opposed injustice, not machines. They were “totally fine with machines”.

You might like Writings of the Luddites, edited and co-authored by Kevin Binfield.
> Will this fact make us seek out more personal content from sources we can put a face and a name to?

I've been mostly doing this for years now, because of the general decline in the quality of websites that has been going on for a long, long time.

> A personal web of trust that sharpens the line between content made by humans and AIs?

The problem, of course, is what you alluded to -- how can we know what's made by humans and what's made by AI? I think that my already limited use of the web is likely to decline to nearly zero because of that issue.
Usually, in a system with both, the Prime Minister is head of government (which is more powerful) and the President is head of state which typically has ceremonial precedence but less practical power.

There's considerable variations, though, and some starkly exceptional Presidential systems that have an official called a Prime Minister (having both is more typical of a parliamentary republic).
Those rhyme riddles are pretty impressive. It may not truly understand rhymes due to BPEs, but I guess it can go a long way with an immense vocab, perfect recall, and memorization of similar-sounding words to beat ordinary human players who aren't scoring 800 SAT-Vs...
Yeah, the Telco proposal is like if we taxed auto manufacturers to build private roads. There might be some permutation of it that makes sense, but the current polemic is indefensible and reprises that same "anti-net neutrality" position that everyone hates listening to.
You can just read what Dijkstra said about it already 30 years ago, not much has changed, and I would have little to add.
Well it clearly had harmful effects the jobs of Luddites but yeah I guess everyone will just get jobs as prompt engineers and AI specialists, problem solved. Funny though, the point of automation should be to reduce work but when pressed positivists respond that the work will never end. So what’s the point?
Popular YouTube Channel Linus Tech Tips Pulled After Scammer Hack
CSPD’s investigation of Colorado Springs’ leftist community
Really interesting interpretation. What's your take on people that usually dont't dream or can't remember their dreams?
I wonder why Amex plays ball with them? They are normally really firm about their chargebacks
By the way, depending on your state, you may have to officially file to not receive the timeshare and its obligations in your father's estate. And whoever is next in line to inherit has to do the same, on down the line until the state, I suppose.

Would love to see Westgate tell the state of Massachusetts that they are the legal owners of this timeshare, and owe for annual repairs.
useLayoutEffect is called after the render cycle but before the “paint”. useMemo is called during the render cycle (i.e. immediately).

You can confirm this via console.log:

useMemo(() => console.log(1), [])

console.log(2)

… will print 1 then 2.

If you replace useMemo with useLayoutEffect, you’ll get 2 then 1.
Okay, that is super creative. I love it!
That works until it don't.
"There's going to be a lot of superstition and cargo cults."
I'm willing to hedge my bets that an immutable functional language has a much higher tendency to remain legible than something else. But it will be a very interesting experiment in the history of computer languages IMO.
an ortholinear laptop keyboard?????? yes please.
Chloramines are used to disinfect residential water supplies. I believe if you mix chlorine and ammonia, you get cyanogen chloride, which is toxic.
Ironically, LangChain is basically DOA with OpenAI's plugins release. LangChain would still be useful for multi-model applications, but every other sufficiently powerful model will probably just build the same thing.
If someone asks about how to read sheet music faster, and you can't read it, it's ok to just not say anything
Isn't this the basis for some gen-z conspiracy theory?
No, but it can file cases with the courts, and courts can issue arrest warrants for contempt and failure to appear for a summons.
*Welsh student*

"Felly beth bynnag, ar ôl i ni i gyd orffen y pumed peint, David, chwedl llwyr ei fod, penderfynodd roi un o'r defaid yr oeddem wedi'i ddwyn i sedd gefn car y deon. Beth bynnag, arweiniodd un peth at un arall, a nawr ni chaniateir o fewn hanner milltir i'r Amwythig."

*American stares back in monolingual, desperately grasping with one hand for some holy water as they believe they have witnessed Speaking In Tongues*
What are you hoping to get from knowing music theory? It seems like many of the commenters are assuming a specific goal from this (etc being able to more easily understand/memorize what you are supposed to play or being easily able to transpose music). Perhaps that is not your goal. And I would offer that music theory might not be the magic bullet for being able to read music much faster (eg better sight reading).

I taught instrument playing to a number of people, and I would say that associating the written note to a logical note and then associating a logical note to finger movements to play can be done with little to no formal music theory. These two things are orthogonal, and at least for younger learners, I find that the former (going from written notes on a score to which tone it is) is the most difficult part. That is, if I were to simply call out the notes in turn, the student could play at a much faster rate than if they had to read it themselves and decide what note it was. I found that mobile apps and websites that present notes to you and ask you what they are, helps tremendously for making this process faster. That is, speeding up the whole process is nothing more than repetitive practice. Once single notes are easily and quickly decoded in the mind, multiple simultaneously notes actually come faster because you decide one note at first and then can figure out the others by looking at the relative distance. Music theory can help here by providing some heuristic shortcuts but honestly, I don't find it is necessary or that helpful.

Don't worry, the whole process takes time. I would say that if you were already a competent pianist, but one who struggles with reading scores for sight reading, it would probably take months to years to see satisfactory progress, focusing on sight reading alone. That was consistent with my personal experience as well. I would stay away from trying to transpose music, unless you have absolute pitch, in which case transposing music would be easier than reading it in the first place.
There's always Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain :)
I emailed Framework back in 2021 about plans to make a larger laptop / one with a GPU and they said they weren't going to. Funny how that works.
GCE passes through GPU hardware instead of using vGPU. (I believe, but not 100% certain this is universal for all GPU types.)
You could show to your 90s self how you can be outside in the forest and have this magic small battery powered device with access to almost all books, all music, all movies, all news, all porn, instantly in high quality. You can discuss with billions of people on every topic. The device has more processing power than some 90s supercomputers and extremely fast wireless internet.

You can talk to artificial intelligences that actually show signs of intelligent (or are just stochastic parrots if you want).

You take a picture of something and the device tells you what it is.

You can use it as a camera with a better quality than 90s TV shows.

You can watch live TV while moving.

You can compose music.

You can play video games with incredible gameplays and graphics.

You know where you are and you get high quality and detailed maps.

I can continue for a while, I think you get the idea. Modern smartphones are incredible from the 90s point of view.
https://www.consumerfinance.gov/ask-cfpb/how-do-i-stop-autom...
underrated reply :)
LoRA has actually been around for a little while! I first saw it when it became popular in fine-tuning models quantized down to about 8 bits or so. I'm sure it's doing stuff in the 4bit range now! :D

I believe it's a core toolbox piece of tech required to really push the limits of LLMs either in original training or in inference. Similar sort of to how batch norm was for convolutional neural networks. I look forward to seeing how this will be applied in the future.
This just proves the point that you should always know what’s going into your codebase. I feel like the people who copy-paste from stack overflow and wonder why their stuff is broken are the same people who think LLMs can just write their whole codebase. It’s laziness masquerade as productivity.
They talk a lot about the benefits of 3d printing in this Veritasium video from a year or so ago.

https://youtu.be/kz165f1g8-E
Photorealism in CG is a milestone which is there, and can be strived for. It may be a necessary step to get through before interest in more interpretive styles truly takes off.

Analogous to how modern art in painting didn't really take off until photography had made photorealism attainable and no longer interesting for painters.
How long does it take to resume a VM?
the green is basil, it was called the Margherita pizza after Queen Margherita.

but we're talking about simple ingredients and flavors that were already being put together in various ways.
No downsides or fun for yourself, the main use I could see for it would be for something like being able to "talk" to your great great great grandpa one day.

It's like home video on steroids
> unless you want to somehow impose a monoculture on the entire population of planet Earth

Impose? No. Monoculture? No. Encourage greater consideration, yes. And we do that by being open about why we might choose to not do something, and also by being ready for other people that we cannot control who make a different choice.
This is about GPT-4 calling Wolfram Alpha to do the math. Wolfram Alpha is not a language model.
She said it twice, and then a third time only when the speaker asked her to explain what she meant by the phrase. Here's the full context of that second time:

> When I say “Is the juice worth the squeeze?” that's what I'm asking. Is this worth it? And I hope so, and I'll stay for your remarks to see, because I do want to know your perspective. I am not, you know, in the business of wanting to either shut down speech, because I do know that if they come for this group today, they will come for the group that I am part of tomorrow.

Sounds like good-faith to me. That said, by nature I tend to give people the benefit of the doubt. I find most people say what they think.
Managers that fudge numbers are a result of pressure from the people over them. The owner is ultimately responsible for creating a system of incentives where lies are preferable to the truth. See: Russia's Putin

Thinking that something is easy because it can be stated easily, is the most standard of engineering errors. "let's go to the moon." Simple idea, 400,000+ people to implement.

Replace all the managers with AI is similarly a simple idea for which it is easy to think of how it might work, but much harder to think about all the ways it wouldn't and the incredible complexity of doing so.

AI isn't just a black box that complexity goes in and the result you want comes out. Figuring out the result you want is an incredibly complex thing to think about alone.

I think you think being a manager is both more mechanical and less skilled than it is.

That's before even thinking about how dystopian mental laborours plugged into an AI management matrix like system optimizing for "high output" is. You think an owner is going to optimize for well being, or do you think the standard owner would prefer to burn out employees and get a new ones when the current ones are exhausted?

Extreme ownership is a very good book. I think you would get a lot out of reading it.
> In line with our iterative deployment philosophy, we are gradually rolling out plugins in ChatGPT so we can study their real-world use, impact, and safety and alignment challenges—all of which we’ll have to get right in order to achieve our mission.

Who the hell talks like this? Only the most tamed HNer who thinks he's been given a divine task and accordingly crosses all Ts and dots all Is. Which is why software sucks, because you are all pathetically conformant, in a field where the accepted ideas are all terrible.
I mean yeah, you'll have to provide a data model (and data) that other people don't have.
After reading the propaganda campaign it wrote to encourage skepticism about vaccines, I’m much more worried about how this technology will be applied by powerful people, especially when combined with targeted advertising
Most people aren't aware of securities regulation at all.

Note that I didn't propose any alternate system, I just pointed out that the majority of the laws we live under were not a result of our being represented in any way.