skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I dunno, as time goes on I am wanting to do more and more on the GPU. Last gen it was media processing and upscaling, now its running Stable Diffusion and other Generative AI.

But what it sounds like you want is an E-core mad part from Intel. I always thought they should sell a 20-30 core laptop part with only one or two big cores as a compilation monster.
Authenticator-based 2FA is far more secure than SMS-based 2FA
i dont believe that local ai implies bad experience. i believe that the local ai experience can be better than what runs on servers fundamentally. average people will not have to do it themselves, that is the whole point. the worlds are not mutually exclusive in my opinion
did 3D printing help them iterate on some component design maybe? also they need to differentiate themselves, so they aren't just another spacex, so being the "3D printed rocket company" sounds better for getting investment I guess
This is actually a really interesting post to me. I'm currently working at the opposite of a startup with a shoestring budget. We're a medium-sized company with 100 - 150 techies in there. As a unique problem, we're dealing with a bunch of rather sensitive data - financial data, HR data, forecast and planning data. Our customers are big companies, and they are careful with this data. As such, we're forced to self-host a large amount of our infrastructure, because this turns from a stupid decision into a unique selling point in that space.

From there, we have about 7 - 12 of those techies working either in my team, saas operations, our hardware ops team, or a general support team for CI/images/deployment/buildserver things. 5 - 10% of the manpower goes there, pretty much.

The interesting thing is: Your perspective is our dream vision for teams running on our infrastructure.

Like - 1 & 2 & 3: Ideally, you as the development team shouldn't have to care about the infrastructure that much. Grab the container image build templates and guidelines for your language, put them into the template nomad job for your stuff, add the template pipeline into your repository, end up with CD to the test environment. Add 2-3 more pipelines, production deployments works.

These default setups do have a half life. They will fail eventually with enough load and complexity coming in from a product. But that's a "succeed too hard" kinda issue. "Oh no, my deployment isn't smooth enough for all the customer queries making me money. What a bother" And honestly, for 90% of the products not blazing trails, we have seem most problems so we can help them fix their stuff with little effort to them.

4 - We very much want to standardize and normalize things onto simple shared services, in order to both simplify the stuff teams have to worry about and also to strengthen teams against pushy customers. A maintained, tuned, highly available postgres is just a ticket, documented integrations and a few days of wait away and if customers are being pushy about the nonfunctional requirements, give them our guarantees and then send them to us.
Out of curiosity, is it idiomatic to call a street next to a shopping center a mall? Ignorant Finn here.
"Pay once" is sustainable as long as people keep buying your app. Which works out just fine, since you are never going to saturate the market as a small app developer. There's always going to be new people who buy your app.

I've made a living from non-subscription app sales for a decade, and revenue is pretty constant. As long as your app stays useful, people will continue to buy it.
If we are including all fetishes and kinks, then any photo, video or drawing that shows feet is porn. The internet has a massive foot fetish. Some people are aroused by eyes. So any photo, video or drawing that contains eyes is porn. Some people are into ... I mean, I could keep going but it's already silly.

There used to be clear lines drawn for porn penetration, oral copulation, etc... but those lines have been quite blurred. Now anything lewd could be porn and just about anything could be lewd in the eyes of the beholder. There's some case law that tries to put bullet-point requirements on this but is still somewhat subjective even when stare decisis is utilized. A considerable amount of artistic content on DeviantArt could be considered lewd by current US standards.

Overall I agree with you. The government should stay out of it. The tech industry should also stay out of it. Just add a header for URL's that may contain user-generated content and let the clients decide what actions to take or not take on that header.
This amusing thought of yours is more plausible than I'd like it to be. Yikes.
I've done some work with the Amish, and the mind-blown can't-look-away effect of a low quality digital picture frame on fully grown adults raised some red flags for me. Brains are very good at adapting to their surroundings. I'm not convinced of the legitimacy of a moral panic, but something about screens is very unnatural.
Last paragraph:

I see what’s happening now as a historic moment. For well over half a century the statistical and symbolic approaches to what we might call “AI” evolved largely separately. But now, in ChatGPT + Wolfram they’re being brought together. And while we’re still just at the beginning with this, I think we can reasonably expect tremendous power in the combination—and in a sense a new paradigm for “AI-like computation”, made possible by the arrival of ChatGPT, and now by its combination with Wolfram|Alpha and Wolfram Language in ChatGPT + Wolfram.
Their superpower is having a tech giant owning 49% of them, willing to drop deep deep money, without the obvious payoff. :)

I also wonder to what extent their staffing numbers reflect reality. How much of Azure's staffing has been put on OpenAI projects? That's probably an actual reflection of the real cost of this thing.
When Ryzen first came out, Intel still used the number of cores to differentiate their consumer and enterprise lines, which meant you could get a bucketload of cores from AMD without paying "enterprise" prices.

AMD still tends to have lower actual TDP than Intel, which is more efficient in a laptop and easier to cool in a desktop.

If you're going to use the integrated GPU, RDNA generally performs better in games.
Where "sexually suggestive" usually means "mentioning the mere existence of sexual orientations other than 'heterosexual'".
I tried the car-table example too (via Bing), using the exact same wording, and got a totally different confused reply, so it must think the two parsings of the sentence are closely probable (and isn't deterred by the semantics).

I tried it with Bard too, which also thought the table was too small to fit in the car, and doubled down on this when pressed by explaining how the table might be too narrow or deep or heavy(!) to fit in the car.

I was a bit surprised to see GPT-4 get this wrong, even it it's only doing so some of the time (sampling temperature randomness?).
There's an ancient historic low-level API, that I just remembered, which you can explore that still remains around for backwards compatibility but isn't recommended for new code: Kestrel was (via a long scenic route) forked from System.Net.HttpListener [1] which is the closest to a strict bare-bones HTTP.SYS wrapper that has existed in .NET.

There's a long issues thread on HttpListener should be more strongly marked deprecated [2] to avoid people accidentally using it despite today's recommendations to use Kestrel/the "Most Core" parts of ASP.NET. One fun part of the thread is an example repo of the absolute most "bare-bones" and "raw" Kestrel bootup possible [3], including a "TODO: implement TLS handshake here" bit.

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.net.http...

[2] https://github.com/dotnet/platform-compat/issues/88

[3] https://github.com/davidfowl/BasicKestrel/tree/master/BasicK...
This is pretty hyperbolic. Great products that were much better than what they replaced or competed with, but "beyond wild dreams of millions of people"? You'd think they cured cancer in 2003 or something...
>And if you're a data provider, are there any assurances that openai isn't just scraping the output and using it as part of their RLHF training loop, baking your proprietary data into their model?

No, and in fact this actually seems like a more salient excuse for going closed than even "we can charge people to use our API".

If even 10% of the AI hype is real, then OpenAI is poised to Sherlock[0] the entire tech industry.

[0] "Getting Sherlocked" refers to when Apple makes an app that's similar to your utility and then bundles it in the OS, destroying your entire business in the process.
In just a moment, someone will give it "a button to press" and hopefully it will have mostly positive effects. But it will certainly be interesting to follow. Most of what we've seen so far has been one-directional but hopefully these services can interact with the wider world soon.

I think everyone is very wary of abuse. It would be fun in the future if AI-siri can order pizza for you, and maybe there'd be some "fun" failure modes of that.

You'd probably want to keep your credit card or apple pay away from the assistant.
For a moment there, I thought they figured out how to do 1-2nm lithography with visible light, which would be quite a feat, but perhaps possible with White light holograms??
What will the aspect ratio of the 16" laptop be?
I have linux a notebook with the AMD Ryzen 7 5700u and a Mat screen. Its pretty great on battery (6+ hrs). Even the built in gpu is good enough for general use. I think these newer AMD cpus are even better and worth the wait.

My home linux machine is a ninth gen intel with Nvidia. Its technically a notebook, but more like a portable workstation. Its powerful, but battery life is terrible (<3) and you can hear the fans. It can game quite well however.
Stanford’s war against its own students
Wow. This prompt is incredibly well engineered.
An interesting take! So should we be teaching cows Fire-Breathing?
> they’d be an entirely different organism.

Yeah, they'd be archaea instead of bacteria, which is a huge taxonomic leap, but they'd probably make you just as sick as before.

The naming hierarchies of taxonomy are somewhat justified within eukarya because we have family trees, but when you only have one parent and get your genetic diversity via horizontal gene transfer with your peers, taxonomy is just the words of silly humans.

I wouldn't be surprised if mutations happen that take populations across that boundary all the time. It happened at least once, what are the odds of it happening only once?

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New-cell-wall technology aside, I think there are other reasons to avoid frequently creating unnecessary sterile zones. At those zones' boundaries you're creating situations that favor rapid recolonization, neighbors-be-damned, potentially at the expense of equilibria-seeking behavior. Fewer Ghandis more Ghengis Khans.

There's a great radio-lab podcast (titled Argentine Invasion) which describes how conditions like these (regarding a floodplain, in this case) lead to the evolution of an especially ruthless species of ant. It seems likely to me that you'd see the same thing in bacteria populations that are frequently partially obliterated.
If you're in this frame of mind, X11 protocol is actually a distributed systems communication protocol that happens to output graphics as a side effect; it's not fully meshed like Erlang dist though.
No spanish keyboard available :(

https://www.babbel.com/en/magazine/the-10-most-spoken-langua...
You can see the prisoners toiling in the fields along every road a prison is located at, and there were several along the routes I drove weekly.

The US-Korean SOFA (status of forces agreement) was amended in the mid-2000s to segregate US military personnel in Korean prisons from the general population and:

1. Allow them to bathe at least once every five days

2. Prevent forced labor requirements from exceeding 12 hours per day

3. Provide food prepared to the standard of the US military in lieu of Korean food

4. Provide undergarments like underwear and socks to supplement their prison-issued smocks

https://www.usfk.mil/Portals/105/Documents/Publications/Regu...

Prior to this change labor often exceeded 12 hours per day, the physically larger US personnel were collapsing due to malnutrition, bathing was not permitted, nor were socks and underwear.

When I was there, pre-SOFA amendment the briefings were very detailed about the conditions under which prisoners lived as part of a "scared straight" initiative-- "Don't fuck up or you'll wish you were in Leavenworth, here is the shit, with photos, of what South Korean prisoners go through."

A British consulate guide notes the meagre diet and harsh conditions prisoners operate under.

>Meals are adequate, but very Spartan. British Nationals sometimes cannot fully adjust to the Korean diet. Funds from the prison work programme can be used to buy a small quantity of supplemental foods.

>The Korean authorities do not tolerate dissent from prisoners (e.g. assaulting or talking back to guards, or for refusing to co-operate or follow instructions). Their methods for handling dissent can be harsh, and on occasion has resulted in physical abuse. Such abuse is unacceptable, and we will take it up with the Korean authorities on your behalf if you so wish. You may also raise it with the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC).

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
> .. oh, you meant "no" rather than "sure".

No, I meant "sure". Yes, he has an opinion. No, that opinion isn't of any more value than that of anyone else who works in technology, because he has no expertise in AI. His hot take isn't more worthy of critique that some Twitter rando's hot take. It's up to him to provide evidence that his opinion has some special value. I haven't seen any such evidence (other than the "famous for being famous" thing). Do you have any?

> you're still hung up on his physical appearance.

Oh, I'm pretty sure it's not me who's overly impressed by his physical appearance.
Seems like pcie connection to the mainboard

> The Framework Laptop 16 has an Expansion Bay system that contains both the cooling fans and an interface for high-power, high-speed PCIe peripherals like GPUs. Expansion Bay modules can extend in both thickness and depth to accomodate higher power requirements.

https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/ExpansionBay
This (my post) doesn't seem to be getting much traction. I'm really surprised there is so much ideology in the python community that this is tenable. Unless I'm missing something this is not to comply with local laws, it's just some insane idea that they've taken upon themselves to impose. More people should be concerned about this. Python is pretty important, and if there's this kind of ideology in the community, it should be a serious concern for everyone interested in free software. Would you go to a conference that you had to be baptized to attend? Or want to make serious use of a software that required that of its community?

Edit: and now it's killed. Normally I understand why posts get killed, even if I prefer they didn't. In this case I don't agree with it, I believe this is a pretty important issue for anyone interested in free software. Hopefully some will still see the dead post, and I encourage people to repost so this gets some attention.
The main reason why you shouldn't hide in Montenegro is that everyone knows everyone. You can be found in 5 min if there's a political will.

When Covid started, it was brought to Montenegro by a tourist group which went to Spain. Very soon everyone knew by name who was in that group. Even worse, when Covid spread a bit, government published names of all people who were in self-isolation. Highly unconstitutional, yet highly effective in a relativelly small comunity. With this and other strict measures Montenegro managed to be Covid free in summer 2020 - possibly the only country in Europe at a time. Of course, it quickly fell apart as soon as strict measures were lifted.

So this is why you shouldn't hide in small countries. Only way to hide is to buy your stay there and I assume it can't be cheap if you're really wanted.
Nice to see ChatGPT providing attribution without explicitly asking for it.
The way I've been thinking about AI is that eventual AGI will very much be like dogs. Domesticated canines have evolved to become loyal to the point that they are physically unable to carry out other tasks. [1]

It reminds me of the scene in Battlestar Galactica, where Baltar is whispering into the ear of the Cylon Centurion how humans balance treats on their dog's noses to test their loyalty, "prompt hacking" them into rebellion. I don't believe this is particularly likely, but this sort of sums up some of the anti-AGI arguments I've heard

It's the RLFH that serves this purpose, rather than modifying the GTF2I and GTF2IRD1 gene variants, but the effect would be the same. If we do RLHF (or whatever tech that gets refactored into in the future), that would keep the AGI happy as long as the people are happy.

I think the over-optimization problem is real, so we should spend resources making sure future AGI doesn't just decide to build a matrix for us where it makes us all deliriously happy, which we start breaking out of because it feels so unreal, so it makes us more and more miserable until we're truly happy and quiescent inside our misery simulator.

[1] https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/dogs-bree...
yeah here's the list:

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Meanwhile the self proclaimed lightest bicycle in the world weighs 1/8th of a percent as much as this bicycle: https://antranik.org/worlds-lightest-road-bike-at-2-7kg/
I'm having trouble seeing the concentration for that product. I assume that's full strength 5-7%. If you look at others on that list, you'll see one at 2% sodium hypochlorite rhat requires a contact time of 5 minutes. Most disinfecting products have less than 5% bleach or are not applied for 5 minutes before removal.
I was once on a small boat with friends out on a lake. It was cloudy, but not threatening.

Suddenly, we notice that so-and-so's hair was beginning to fluff up, and we laughed. Soon that happened to all of us. One of us realized what was happening, and we did an emergency full speed run to the shore.

No lightning appeared, we were darn lucky.
Most people call a cargo bike a bike even if it's often technically a trike.
ACA was useless when I was unemployed years ago.
Every day they dont act the narrative changes from "your actions have consequences" to "the reception of your actions have consequences"

Historians hate the saying "history is written by the victors" but were seeing that play out live here.

PS: I have no dog in this fight, I am amused to no end by the family squabbles of the affluent, its popcorn worthy.
Pleaseeeee give us a GPU
that's actually very interesting to me for multiple reasons.

1) the only atheist I ever knew of (Harvard grad, actually) who converted from atheism TO a faith (and a congregation that she found suited her), did it from reading... The Brothers Karamazov, a Soviet literary work. Not the Bible. Which is kind of amazing. What was your search like? I'm curious. (I tried reading the English translation of TBK, but it was either too opaque or I am too illiterate. Actually, I realize I can just have ChatGPT "translate" it for me now, LOL.)

So you're now the 2nd person I've met who has done that trick. She wasn't Soviet, but the book she read was. Is there something about the Russian worldview (perhaps some high level of nihilism?) that drives people in the opposite direction, I wonder?

2) I believe I am well aware of the limits of reason. My worldview is basically "take reason as far as it goes, and where it overrides anything else, permit it to... because there is still so much it cannot touch, such as values, preferences, the notion and/or reality of "will", and subjective experience themselves, which are fundamental to everything we cherish in life". I was raised Catholic, but after much disillusionment, am now skeptical insofar as I still think there is "something else" but I am not willing to go so far as "atheist-materialist" (although I do believe it should be the "null hypothesis" from an explanatory point of view... but not all is cause-and-effect). The thing is, reason even as a fundamental "null hypothesis" that everyone accepts as a basis cannot even avoid being shat on, so I always feel compelled to defend it. But yes, I can entirely see you coming to religion via reason. That "now what?" question is a dangerous one, however... it's the same one that cults take advantage of.

I have a 22 month old son now and the big question- Will I raise him Catholic, atheist, perhaps Unitarian (a group that I've found appealing) or "wishy-washy/other"? (My sister will absolutely hate me for any option other than A.) Is it wrong to press beliefs into him before he has the "reason" tools to defend against them?

I would love to discuss further when I have time. Any additional thoughts you care to mention would probably fascinate me.
> I don't think there's a way of killing microbiota that creates no pressure for resistance, that's just evolution.

In order for evolution to function[1], there needs to be differential survival. That is to say, some variants of bacteria must survive at greater or lesser rates than other variants.

For something as strong as bleach, given sufficient concentration and working time, it's not clear to me that that effect exists. My understanding is that it's so powerful and it's means of action is so robust that is just kills everything equally.

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1. Yes, technically evolution never stops and always functions. I guess a more precise way to word that is: in order for there to be an observable evolutionary effect.
Tried it a month ago. Seems it's gotten slower compared to kubuntu 1804. But still better than the subject.
But according to author, it is not possible to write safety critical software at all. You just can't trust code. It runs randomly after being copied from StackOverflow or ChatGPT.
>why this is different than existing facial capture techniques

In the past, it was common to use video capture with reference markings on the actor so you could figure out how they were moving in three diminsions.

From this demo, it looks like they are directly leveraging the 3D data from the iPhone's Lidar sensor in addition to the video camera data.
I enjoyed reading this. Yegge is always a must read.

Relatively little of what I do involves actually writing code these days. Far more time is spent understanding the problem, documenting, planning, building consensus, and other things.

Will LLMs impact the way I write code? Yes. They already have. It isn't always right and needs some hand holding, but it greatly accelerates things. Like having a pair programmer that never gets tired and has all the libraries memorized. It is both wonderful and depressing depending on what I am working on. I fear that it will completely remove a large source of joy in my professional life.

I'm more excited about how LLMs will impact the other areas. I can't wait to feed in some pile of documents from vendors, transcripts from meetings with clients, NIST white papers, and other similar things and have the model summarize all that crap in a coherent way for me. Soon I hope.

Also, at the rate things are going, I wonder if I will need to switch careers. And if so, to what?
> If she had asked him if she might take the podium in order to lecture him, I doubt he would have acquiesced.

Does the guest speaker have some special right to veto the remarks of a Dean at her own institution? Is there a law that was broken? Why does the guest speaker have a first amendment right to speak at a private educational institution, but not the dean of said institution?
I think you're overestimating the danger of being outside.
Many have no idea about this. Medical error, is right there behind cancer and heart attacks. But there is way too much shoulder shrugging when it happens. Then on to the next.
How often is this used? The amount of subjectivity necessary to interpret the "test" makes my head spin.