skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's awesome! My company seems to be in death throes right now, though I suspect no one will know for sure until the day of layoffs (which could be tomorrow, who knows?) so maybe I will join you soon!

Good luck on your journey.
The NSA does exactly that.
> The XDG defaults put them all (per category like config/data/cache) inside one 'typically hidden' directory, how is that not better?

Because it puts them in an overengineered, overly cumbersome hierarchy under that. It reminds me of OSI.

> You're also making an assumption that the alternative is $HOME/.appconfig, which it might be, but that's not any particular standard. It might just as well end up $HOME/app.config or $HOME/Library/Application Support/MacOs/Resources/App.app/config/Config/Resources/config.

Either of the first two is easier to work with than the XDG-compliant way, and the last is no harder.
>it's not crazy to think GPUs and GPU tech would be treated as defense equipment some day

They already are. Taiwan failing to take its own defense seriously is completely rational.
I think competing products define their interface in terms of calling a provided C library, and leave the entirely of the system call mechanics as an implementation detail.
That seems an odd claim that no one foresaw the Internet when the Internet existed at the time of the interviews, so why would they be predicting the existence of something which already existed?

Unless you mean the Web? Reading through the forecasts I'm not seeing any that call out something quite exactly like became the Web, but there are a number of network-based predictions, and certainly better than "bigger bandwidth".
Ostensibly the criminal revolt against the rightful authority of the crown was about rights and stuff.

I don't think we should necessarily take traitors at their word.

(Especially when they talk a big talk about freedom and mankind, but keep slaves.)
Your reduction doesn’t cover the real risks of orthogonality, instrumental convergence, the zero margins for failure on the first try, intelligence explosions, and the impossibility of training for alignment.
No reporter has ever run a fake or misleading story with source attributed only to "anonymous sources close to the matter" — right?
I hope so. Well, in my experience these "managers" spend about 40-60% of their time in meetings. I hope they don't replace them in this way, otherwise we're really fucked!
I stand by my position and think it is quite reasonable.

Bad ideas and misinformation are plentiful. They have always been in different media environments, although the speed and fervor may change with time.

If some people think that this puts democracy at risk, the solutions are the same.

Firewalls and limitations to restrict the ability of others to impose their opinions on you. A Lynch Mob is a very democratic event.

The only defense against Lynch Mob Behavior, especially in times of high suggestibility, is maintaining limits and reinforcing norms for what is off limits.
Cloud based AI https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35283852
> This is about control. They baited the openness and needed a scapegoat. Safety was perfect for that. Everyone wants to be safe, right?

The moment they took VC capital was the start of them closing everything and pretending to care about 'AI safety' and using that as an excuse and a scapegoat as you said.

Whenever they release something for free, always assume they have something better but will never open source.
Any examples, for sake of discussion?

Who has been hurt by this in court, where and when?
>What gives a bunch of people way smarter than me permission to gamble with the future of humanity?

To ask the question is to answer it.
Unless you have a way to drip feed chlorine into your pool it absolutely will not have the same chlorine level, unless you are running your sag incorrectly.
If “CC-A” is used (no NC, no ND) then even though commercial use and derivatives (aka LLM training) are allowed the author of the original should still be attributed wherever their work is used.
Note that the most recent commit to this repo is 7 months ago.
They don't need your SSN to hit your credit report. Happens all the time.
This was a dead-end in the history of Western thought. We started an irrelevant definition of knowledge (Cartesian Rationalism where geometry is the paragon of knowing) and arrived at equally irrelevant conclusions about metaphysics (Cartesian Dualism which eventual collapsed into Spinozaist monism (Hegel is correct in his assessment of Leibniz on this point)). Kant is trying to solve a set of non-problems with a highly innovative method that offers some seriously questionable solutions when you really get deep into German Idealism.
The simply reality is that our knowledge and methods of understanding the physical world is more robust than the Rationalists would acknowledge, and our knowledge of our metal world is far more tenuous than we would care to accept. We really don't have access to as much of our minds as we intuitively think we do. The unravelling of this theory starts with Freud but modern psychology and neuroscience present a huge number of examples where it is very clear that we do not have direct access to the thing we call a unified consciousness or the self.
The isn't about physics answering the question as much as the fact that the origin of mind and thinking will have a physical origin. Reductivism is equally played. Trying to reduce this process down to bits and atoms is probably not helpful or interesting. But it is really a moot point as to whether an emergent phenomenon is an ontologically separate thing from it's substrate. It is physical nonetheless in more or less the same way that we would think of the more basic entities. A form of soft-immaterialism might be secured in trying to ascribe existence to this emergent state of matter, but given what we know about people's ability to introspect their own consciousness I doubt that the traditional concept of 'soul' handed down to us from the Scholastic tradition can really be salvaged.
I am from China, the Chinese government has banned access to chatgpt related products and Baidu has launched the 文心一言 which is basically gpt-3.
I have gotten some fraudish autopays canceled by having my lawyer send a certified letter that we'd take action if it happened again. Cost a few $$...worth it.
Busy Being Born (Development History of Lisa/Macintosh)
I'm working on a Substack newsletter with crisp and easy-to-read news summaries for everyone. I'd love to hear what kind of news you'd enjoy reading in a bite-sized format.

Check out my Substack at the provided URL (ignore the Name and Title mix-up) and take a peek at my first article. Your feedback is super welcome!

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“知行合一” a concept in Yangmingism, a philosophy developed by the Chinese philosopher Wang Yangming. It refers to the unity of inner knowledge and action, and is explained as "Nobody can separate the knowledge and the action apart. If one knows, one will act"

fits the article very well
Mozilla Thunderbird and Open Source Podcast: “Thundercast”
The Thunderbird team at Mozilla has started a new podcast, "Thundercast" about Thunderbird - but going forward about open source software more generally.
So route traffic through you so that you can monetize the insights from the data??
I will entirely stop using reddit if they take away old. I already refuse to visit it on my phone because of their annoying popups to download their app literally every single time you load a page.
> How on earth are solo indie devs outperforming entire well-paid teams?!

They have different goals. The solo indie devs are performing horribly on the metrics the internal dev team is judged by, and vice-versa.
I could imagine that happens in many boardrooms too. ;)
And it feels like nobody has worked on it since then
It's not that poorly written. But regardless: it's clearly a poorly written, sarcastic, negative review. Read it a second time and you'll pick out the sarcasm for sure. The reviewer thought this was a dumb film.

The first notable point is that the model caught that (on its first read, FWIW), even though the original human doing the labeling didn't.

And the second is that the researchers discovered this, and presumably discussed it. And yet when they wrote up the paper they not only dropped the content but denied that the analysis had been done.
First, Ireland stole hundreds of billions from the world's working and poor, now El Salvador wants a shot.

https://cthi.taxjustice.net/en/
Diversity and Free Speech Can Coexist at Stanford
Ran into the same issue recently implementing managed AppleIDs. I couldn't believe it.

No way to purchase >5GB of iCloud storage for staff using these IDs

WTF!? Is anyone aware of a workaround for this?
There's a lot of vague terminology in there that would inevitably need to get hammered out in court.
Here's a bookmarklet to take you directly to the algolia page from a thread:

javascript: (() => {
const id = window.location.href.match(/\d+$/g)[0];
window.open(`https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=story:${id}&sort=byDate&type=comment`)
})();
I don't recall unfortunately, but IBM is also doing this: https://research.ibm.com/publications/blueshift-automated-ap...
Lol i noticed this. I can guarantee they're removing old.reddit soon, i can't see why else they'd do blocking on the front end this way.
As I wrote above, no one mentions the economic and cultural impact.

And yes, that was driven mostly by the Web.
I survived the dot com bubble.

Im assuming your in tech, as your posting here on HN.

While your looking for work (1-3 days a week, 8 hours a day) you should also be working. That means helping someone build their small biz web site, or working on an open source project or doing something with your own project. If you have to get another job on top of this (gig, or cashmere at a local shop) do that too.

You have to get off your ass, you have to go go go. Wake up every day and imagine your problems as a bear chasing you (and every one else in your shoes) and that everything your doing is you running away... You want to be the last man standing, you want to be the one someone sees and pulls you out of the crowed.

The more you do, the more contacts you make, this is your network, and your support group (they are keeping you busy).

Make sure you stay heathy as well. Cook for you self (not garbage) and exercise.

Im not going to wish you good luck. There is no luck here, just hard work, work you can do.

Happy hustling tho!
Microsoft Researchers Claim GPT-4 Is Showing “Sparks” of AGI
This trying to salvage time-space as implicit objective reality is tired for reasons I won’t repeat. Saying “mind and thinking is rooted in physical reality” doesn’t make it so. That aside, not trying to discard them as illusions is appreciated.
This is getting ridiculous. In a free country, the people should be able to hold the police accountable. If police officers did their jobs properly, having a video posted should not cause any distress.
you already found a new gig?
I work around this by asking it to find Toyota in <my city>. Then if it finds the dealership, it asks if I want to navigate there, or call them.

I find the worst errors to be when I ask it for information, or to send a text, and it instead places a phone call to someone. It will even call people that I have never called on my phone (a fact it should know), without asking first.
As of yesterday you can train 33B parameter models on a single consumer 24GB VRAM GPU with https://github.com/johnsmith0031/alpaca_lora_4bit.

It's already proven that 13B parameters is enough to beat GPT-3 175B quality. It's likely that 33B parameters is enough for GPT-4.
(1) The coffee assault apparently caused a physical injury.

(2) If you dumped so much as a cup of cold water on someone in a workplace, you'd be out on your ass that day.

I honestly don't understand what we're even debating here. This isn't middle school. These are adults, in one of the most selective institutions on the planet.
I've been pretty happy with 32GB, but the 30B models do push near to the limits. I don't see a big difference between the quality of 65B (running on a 64GB x86 host) and 30B on M1 (although that may be the 4bit quantisation though, so take that with a grain of salt). I'm just glad that I have it on an M1... I have a 3080 in my PC, but when I got that I was thinking more of Stable Diffusion and YOLO tasks rather than LLMs, and it just doesn't have the VRAM for LLMs.

Alpaca seems like it could be significantly improved with better training (some of the old training data was truncated), so I think there's a decent amount of improvement to be had at the current model size.

In the future though... what would really be a meaningful change would be a larger context size - the 8k tokens of GPT-4 was a big improvement for my uses... I would guess a future local llm with larger context would exceed 32GB, but that's speculation beyond my expertise, I don't know how context size and network size scale.

If it was a PC I'd say go for 64GB, but hard to recommend that given how much Apple charge for RAM upgrades. On my next upgrade (2+ years time, hopefully) I'll likely opt for 64GB+ though
I just checked out their website and it looks really cool. Just needs blockchain integration
Time slicing significantly predates computers, and was quite well developed even when Erlang was analyzing it a century ago. What's surprising here isn't that time slicing works, it's that the same mechanism drives both the economics of large systems, and their ability to economically support bursty workloads.

I can understand that may not be a surprise to you. What's surprising to me is that you took the time to come say you aren't surprised, instead of going on with your day.

Clearly, I shouldn't have claimed this casual blog post was original research that had never been seen in any form before. Silly me!
Interesting comparison. But they don't mention that the NDIR sensors have much less drift. I've read that they can go without calibration (outside air) for much longer especially if you turn off auto calibration, without much loss of accuracy.

It's probably also because no photoacoustic-based sensors have a control gas side like most NDIR sensors do have as the article does mentioned. So it's much easier to eliminate environmental factors. Temperature, pressure etc.

Also photoacoustic sensors are pretty new so the tech may improve over time.

If your scenario lets the sensor see outside air every few days both are fine, but I'd still prefer NDIR if space permits, at least for now.

Even photoacoustic sensors aren't yet at the size you can put them in a phone by the way. The VOC/"eCO2" sensors are tiny and would fit in a phone but horribly inaccurate as the article says so their results aren't very useful (unless it's the VOC - Volatile Organic Component part you're interested in). But VOC doesn't really correlate to CO2 in a closed environment. For example, spray just a bit of alcohol in a room and it'll fly up like crazy but the real CO2 level will be unchanged.
Just tried this exact interaction. Siri gave me a list of nearest Toyotas and made the call. Seems to be working just fine.

Starting to think all these Siri complaints are either made up or really outdated.
Someone posted a Jan Morris interview here some time ago, and in it she said "Everything good in the world is kindness."

Anyway, I've been humbled a few times where I thought someone wasn't understanding me, but really I didn't understand them or some piece of the problem outside my experience. On HN I learned about Chesterton's Fence, between that and the thought on kindness, I try to just be nice and assume I'm missing something when reasonable people disagree with me and if I'm not the one missing something, my questions will only help me help them understand my perspective.
Presumably the same as always. They are rich and we are not.
From my above comment:
> I think these conversations would need to be in person, since voice can already be faked.

We are also probably days away from video being trivial to fake.
(my understanding might in incorrect but) is it not how cloudflare prevents DDOS attack?
It’s probably a national security issue for China, but they already banned Facebook.
Don't forget to check "minute ago", for those sneaky 1-minute-old comments.
You know, it is all about the false negatives and false positives.

A lot of science fiction authors foresee a lot. And a lot of what they foresee ends up not happening.

They're much like the soothsayer that predicts 100 things but only remembers the one that happened and forgets all the others.
Your question doesn't make sense. The right question is, "Which open source licenses prohibit a corporation from using their source code as AI training data?" And the answer is none of them.
Absolutely. AFAIK there have been no floods here. I get snow but the underground well room is covered with a heavy concrete cover. My home is much higher than the fields around me. That said I have no idea if there are any volcanic passages that would allow unfiltered ground water to reach the well. The mineral and bacterial tests would suggest that is not occurring.
Still heavily used in gov / enterpries / finance.

Anecdotally after 6 years of React, switching back to Angular it has a huge learning curve. Such a large surface area with zonejs, rxjs, modules. I feel productive with it now and actually prefer services + rxjs to redux. I like how much is included and has established pattern but it feels very heavy handed, just adding a single component involves a stupid amount of boilerplat.
> performance has become increasingly constrained by memory latency, which has grown much slower than processing speeds.

Sounds like they would oddly prefer memory latency to grow as least as fast as processing speeds, which would be terrible. Obviously, memory latency actually decreased, just not enough.

So it seems likely they made a mistake and actually meant that memory latency has decreased slower than processing speeds have increased, in other words, that it is not memory latency but memory random access throughput (which in rough approximation is about proportional to the inverse of memory latency) that has grown much slower than processing speeds.
I got confused about whether the review was positive or negative too. The part of the review where it says "he must have never in his life seen a flick about any small towns" could be classified as sarcastic. The review isn't very clear in terms of prose and conclusion. The reviewer clearly says "you should watch the movie", but after re-reading it a few times, I would consider that as sarcasm too. I can't say for sure whether the reviewer enjoyed it themselves.
Here's one: https://www.wired.com/story/missouri-threatens-sue-reporter-...
They could use a second camera with smaller aperture and combine the images. HDR. But twice as expensive.
The reason we don't do human genetic engineering is the moral hazard of creating people who will suffer their entire lives intentionally (also the round trip time on an experiment is about 100 years).

You can iterate on an AI much faster.
The lack of self awareness by the officers is actually pretty impressive
Related: I really hate the trend of always using @latest. It's like in frontend there's no stable versions with known feature list and known bugs, it's always latest of whatever it is. Why?
dig has the worst output I've ever seen in a CLI tool. Fantastically useful when I've bothered to learn it, but it's just not intuitive. I always forget what everything means. What am I looking at here? The _lack_ of an answer section?
The second example is a nice start, but I'd really like to see invisible files/folders in ~/ done away with altogether.

So starting with that example, I might add a visible ~/Library/ folder, then move ~/.config/ and ~/.local/ in there as ~/Library/Config/ and ~/Library/Local/ as normal visible folders. Same for .bashrc, .profile, etc; put them in ~/Library/Config/ without the dots.
See the original video, it's very entertaining: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oponIfu5L3Y
I wish they would spend just as much time and energy on gameplay, and less on trying to emulate movies or create interactive stories where you watch and click at the right time for elaborate scripted sequences that make it appear as though you aren't playing a choose your own adventure book disguised with tech. Gameplay needs to come first.
Isn't it great that it's optional? I love how Linux is like that. We can all be happy
It sounded jaded and a little sarcastic to me. I don’t think the reviewer liked the movie much, found it all that original or entertaining.
The perfectly obvious use cases Siri overlooks are maddeningly numerous. My go to example was "text this photo to <contact name>" For years I checked each new iOS release to see if that was enabled, and for close to ten years, no. I'm not sure whether it was the most recent, or the one before (I gave up somewhere along the way) but now you can (finally) do it.
Remake it with a clean codebase. Version 2 is always better.
If the U.S. considering a ban on a single Chinese-run app is "sinophobia", what would you call this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_blocked_in_ma... ?
How does it compare to sway?
But that didn't substantiate what you claimed. The journalist didn't just read the HTML (which contained 100,000 SSNs which were publicly exposed by Missouri DESE), he reported the leak, and gave them time to fix it before publishing.

Missouri Governor Mike Parson and Cole County Prosecutor Locke Thompson (an elected prosecutor, in a reelection year [0]) trying to label a bona-fide journalist as a "hacker" were bringing ridiculous charges to try to deflect from the obvious embarrassment, instead of dealing with whatever MI state agency/ies or contractor was responsible, and had never QA'ed their webpages.

Coming back to your comment, the issue was not about reading the HTML(/JS/CSS). Can you provide me a single citation where that was the issue? (Obviously, there's a separate issue about "How do you responsibly make a disclosure when you find a leak of private information in a webpage?")

[0] https://www.newstribune.com/news/2022/feb/23/thompson-files-...
I'd seen a more useful paper on this subject, on how to organize your game servers for a big MMO. The most economical strategy was to own your servers for the base load, and go out for AWS for peaks. Running 24/7 compute bound work on AWS is at least 2x as expensive as owning your own co-located servers.
The article doesn't mention how the police disconnected his security cameras and stole $400 (which they later returned). Also, it seems to fail to link to the source video itself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oponIfu5L3Y

https://www.complex.com/music/afroman-sued-by-ohio-sheriffs-...
I hope the trial includes the footage of LEOs stealing his cash.
> Because there are many services (each with their own readiness criteria), a cold boot takes a long time until all services stabilize (worst case I've seen was over 30 minutes). With hibernation they can resume where they started off within a couple of minutes.

This is exactly what we use hibernation for in conjunction with EC2 Warm Pools -- fast autoscaling of services that have long boot times. There's an argument to be made that fixing slow boots should be the "correct" solution, but in large enough organizations, hibernated instances are a convenient workaround to buy you some time to navigate the organizational dynamics (and technical debt) that lead to the slow boot times in the first place.