skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is mostly based on different needs at different times - most people play more games when they're younger and have more uncertainty in their life. As you get older there's less uncertainty and less need for things with semi-predictable outcomes. Doesn't mean you underestimated the benefit at the time - just that it's not as useful to you in this stage of your life

There's periods where I want to learn a bunch of new technologies, and other times when I can't. It's all time well spent just in different areas
I fly because I know the stats. I worry because the stats for survival are low (or worse, you actually survive the impact).
It also doesn't help that I live near a major airport and almost on a fortnightly basis we get reports of planes declaring minor emergencies and having to turn around or be diverted. Occasionally it may be bird strike/engine fire.
That those jobs exist and might be automated doesn't negate the existence of all the others. One selfish benefit I see in this will be the hubris of my fellow software developers being taken down a few hundred notches when the market for commodity software development collapses.
Well, during the initial "tech" (broadly interpreted to mean computational processes that somehow involve the internet) revolutions, there were not 100M, nor even 1M users to be gained.

And what is a "user" when it comes to ChatGPT and it's ilk? How does that compare with the definition of a user of, say, the web? Or of SMS ?
And Stable Diffusion is based on Google's Imagen paper.
This is one of those topics where we can only dream of where we could currently be, had these traditions been allowed to continue and the knowledge shared.

Being from the western world, with a deep curiosity in eastern thought and practice, these types of thought experiments are very interesting to me, but also depressing when you look closely at the reality of how things played out.
Whether or not you accept “Aryan migration” it would have occurred at least 1000 years or more before the period under discussion so I don’t see the relevance.
If you say interface there needs to be an implementation; and docker already does that with contexts:

https://docs.docker.com/engine/context/working-with-contexts/

Which allows pushing to AWS, Azure and K8S.

Of course each implementation is opinionated, AWS for example is deploying to ECS with ALBs.

And it is all good for a list of services, but when you add configuration it becomes a mess:

secrets:
foo:
name: "arn:aws:secretsmanager:eu-west-3:1234:secret:foo-ABC123"
x-aws-keys:
- "bar"

So now you can no longer use your neat docker-compose file to deploy locally on your docker as it is referring to an external secret.

So to keep the interface clean you would need to split it up in a Service model and a Deployment model that exposes the needed configuration for the target platform plus the service configuration for the specific environment.

Or something...

Thinking of something generic that works in all cases is hard and complex...and opinionated hence the many platforms, I think.

I posted this a while ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34225669
1. I'd wager AI models will begin to learn via interacting with the world rather than just reading lots of text. That will reduce the need for a huge corpus of training data.
2. More efficient methods of training and running LLMs are emerging at an exponential rate
3. There's already enough data to train an AGI.
4. Transformer architecture isn't that old
Will their lawyers accept BUSD?
I suppose the oddities you mention include T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM
I think there's a fundamental difference between using the data to create a product and using the data to improve people's minds. I get a return on my "investment" in the latter case because my neighbors being educated also improves my own standard of living.

That said, I'm not really on board with these "pay for using my data" arguments. I think they're just trying to work around that the use of people's data for things like gpt troubles them and they wish they could have stopped it.

Or, maybe I think that because the fact that my data was used to help train gpt bothers me greatly. No payout will fix that. So, instead, I've taken down all my public-facing websites and data repositories to prevent being forced to help these efforts in the future.

It's not much, but it's all I can do at this point.
> The next step is multi-modal data. Think videos, sounds, touch, etc.

Remember that the data must be annotated. This puts limits on what can be usefully ingested.
Well yes and no, that 30% was during a high-point of the Mughal empire and before the widespread development of industrial capitalism. Its certainly the case that Indian society may have turned out differently if not for the British, but maybe not for the better, it was a society descending into factionalism and civil strife as that empire collapsed, the British simply stepped in and took over primarily to secure their trade interests, because they couldn't trust the local kings and warlords to do so anymore. In doing so, and then later establishing a government, they introduced modern medicine, education, roads, the rail network, and other critical infrastructure, as well as industrial capitalism.

This is not to excuse the British, but perhaps India would've been better off without them, perhaps not, the alternative, if there wasn't a single government, could've been a patchwork of dysfunctional extractavist states, like what you see in Africa. It may have been possible for a large south asian society to organize itself in an egalitarian fashion, but unless some miracle happened they would've been overrun by foreign capitalists, who had far more power than any other class in history, because South Asia is incredibly labor and resource rich, and at the time the only parts of the world that had even developed industrial capitalism were in the "west", Europe and the US, not to mention the only place that avoided that fate, Japan--the latter being moreso an exception that proves the rule (and which, after all, turned fascist during WW2).
Progress is sigmoidal approaching a limit. If the minimum acceptable performance is into the logarithmic portion of the curve, you'll see progress seem to stall out in that manner. Keep in mind that SoTA self driving AI has a better track record than people outside of rare corner cases, but the liability issue is crippling, so it won't see widespread adoption divorced from autopilot until it's "perfect." Unlike full self driving, I don't think applications of AI have a functional floor that is well into diminishing returns.
Will AI obliterate the rule of law?
That was exactly the anguished complaint of my friend in Australia, who is trying to help his family - and with whom he actually does not see eye to eye on the war situation (they are pro or at least acquiescent, he is adamantly against). But they have no money and he wants to help. Just rereading our thread from last year where he says "yeah, they're Zed patriots, they are also sure that their government is fighting global Nazism and global USA hegemony for the betterment of everyone, but should they go hungry because of their beliefs?". My answer was "yes".
What we really need is something on par with this or Eleven Labs that's open source. Then the real fun will begin. At this point I think it's just a matter of time.
Where is my video rip/mix/burn? Mostly killed by blu-ray's "bag of hurt" but Apple is also to blame with its anti-video-recording DRM and HDCP annoyances.
Wow! Just discovered the Spotlight customization and it is so much faster and more useful when you remove certain locations and turn off definitions and Siri suggestions.
Yes that was what I meant. Lots of RD. probably an army of contractors.

But industry? I really don’t think so. Still curious if others have evidence otherwise
You're right. Sanctions destroyed the credibility of the USD.
Also, cutting Russia from Swift.

If that can happen to Russia, it can happen to any country.

Regarding your point about common interests aligning.

In last few weeks Saudi and Iran relationships are improving.

If that's possible, India and China can surely continue doing business together.
A pattern language for knowledge co-creation
I'll be interested to see how the longevity of e-sports pans out. Most games will be woefully outdated after a decade: will the audience move to the next big game, or stay playing the old games? Or will video games eventually plateau to a point where significant technological advancements are no longer made?

This year saw a time where Chess became the top trending app on the App Store. The strength of traditional sports and games is their timelessness - can e-sports ever match that?
I think you forget what money and connections bring.

Anything that can be provided by a micro or small sized company can be provided by billion dollar corporations too.

Maybe size brings a drawback, in the same way a mega ship finds it difficult to turn around without a day's notice — but these companies can and will.

Microsoft once betted all chips on the internet being fad; look at them now.
Serious answer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greta_Thunberg
The dissonance what people see in it is really gross.. maybe I'm too stupid, but session from simple to more complicated problems have all shown me: It is definitely not reasoning at all, it doesn't understand anything.. it is a different version of stackoverflow that sometimes gets you quicker to target, but for me even more often not.

shrug
History of investing. Goldman is almost all services with a touch of principal investing. Random walk is a book written by an academic.
> If I’m a library author and release something which exports a struct… I can never change any of the struct’s internal data structures?

Stucts in most modern languages are NOT guaranteed to have any particular layout unless you explicitly ask for it--so you don't have that guarantee to begin with. This enables them to rearrange the struct for better packing or AoS/SoA transformations.

If someone grovels in your structs and gets burned, well, that's their own fault. I'll go further, if someone grovels in a library struct, they have failed. I'll go even further, if someone has to grovel in a library struct, the library has failed.

In addition, in embedded contexts I regularly have to grovel in structs to work out some bug. "static" is often the bane of my existence in C because compilers often throw away or hide references to those variables. However, they may be crucial to running down state.
https://archive.is/HkaBM

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adf6434

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/national-museum-of-natur...

https://app.powerbi.com/view?r=eyJrIjoiZTZiMjE3MGItMGRhMS00N...
More so that there's a 5% chance there won't be a human winter in the next 5 years
Well yeah, because we have Popeye's too, and they don't.
Doesn't the recent development (Stable Diffusion, LLaMA) tell us that these things actually run surprisingly well locally and that the models can be compressed much further?

And aren't we finding out that the amount of parameters seems to matter less than we used to believe?
So Go GC just need a api that pauses GC when it wants to run
Example ways I have used it:
-Generate interview questions for a [software engineer, product owner, etc.] candidate
-Come up with names for a program/initiative that represent the essence of that program / are creative and pithy
-Discover the limitations of various optimization algorithms (e.g., COBYLA). Cross-referenced this answer w/other sources but it was a useful start.
Everything I know about business I learned from Ben-Hur.
Yeah you can "own" your hardware until Nvidia and Intel start copying Apple's walled garden business practices.
I love Svelte but I've found myself disappointed by SvelteKit. Yeah it helps with rendering Svelte in the server and client but that's it.

And there are many weird architectural decisions forced on you such as file-based routing which IMO are a deal breaker for anything but trivial projects. Even as a SSG, SvelteKit still lacks fundamental features such as easy to configure permalinks at the page level (which Jekyll had almost 15 years ago).

I've started experimenting with integrating Svelte with Fastify using Vite to get a good backend framework instead of using SvelteKit. It's still a bit ugly but it works:

https://github.com/PierBover/fastify-vite-svelte-template
If Gary is patient we could get there soon enough.

The exciting thing about these debates (insufferable as I think they are because they're kind of a distraction from the real potential and threats of LLM-based systems) is seeing how many people will be forced to eat their words.

As much as its responsible to downplay the hype and focus on the real stuff, this is uncharted territory, and researchers are only just beginning to explore the actual potential we have our hands.

To his point that "text is only a projection", he seems to ignore just how much could be discovered by observing "projections".
This is somewhat true but also somewhat not - we have a lower chance of childhood mortality, but only in some countries. We have a general higher standard of living, but income inequality is worse than it's ever been. We have less people dying in wars, but when we do have them more people die than ever would have in the past. I'd recommend "The better angels of our nature" as a book for more on this - it covers human history of this well and shows the tradeoffs we've been making at the same time. The average person today has more creature comforts than a king a hundred years ago, but at the same time almost no one today has as much vacation time as a medieval peasant did
A little off-topic: are LLMs the death knell for new languages, frameworks, tools, processes, etc? I can see how an LLM is going to be such a huge productivity boost that they’ll be hard to avoid everywhere, but then new stuff won’t have any training data. Will anyone ever go through the effort of everything being 10x - 100x less effective with new tools since there’s no training data?
For your personal life mainly. I guess I'm most curious about whether you're planning on where you're living etc in the context of various forms of climate breakdown.

I'm also curious how many personal changes you've made (flying less, vegetarian) when it seems like we need massive government intervention to move the needle.

Thanks for replying!
There's a sense in which using the cloud isn't SELF hosting either. Although I get what you mean.
There’s another aspect of this, one which has been an issue for centuries and an extreme issue for decades: location.

Many cities formed as a result of useful geography. In the UK, at least, that reason is often water-based transport. These locations meant that large scale transport of goods was practical, as well as the ability to have all of the resources necessary to sustain large populations in those areas.

In the modern day, at least in the UK, cities are much less practical. Getting anywhere in them is a pain - road links are too busy, rail is extortionate and over-subscribed. And why are they so busy and expensive? Because everyone has to do it. Why? Because that’s where the high paying companies are. Why? Because the way it has always been done. Why? Because… the place has links to good waterways?

And what do you do when you get there? The same damn thing you’d do at home, but in a noisier and less comfortable environment. You can speak to the same people you could huddle with in Slack, except there’s no mute button. You’re bombarded with a brightly lit, white, open plan room, which could only ever have been popularised by people who don’t understand what a productive environment actually is.

Like many on here, because we have a certain affinity for the tech sector, I have ADHD. I am extremely productive when I’m in an environment that allows me to shut out everything else and focus on what I need to do. Working from home unleashed a level of productivity I wasn’t aware that I was capable of, and once you’ve got that buzz - you aren’t going to let go of it without resistance.
> By "grounded", I mean the promises of crypto vs the promises of AI.

Ah, I see. By that definition, it seems to me that cryptocurrency was actually more grounded than gpt.
Are you referring to Airdrop password and passkey sharing?[1] That’s the only way I can find other than manual copy/paste.

Also, I very much doubt if I later change the password I shared via Airdrop that it will update on the other person’s device… which is half the point.

[1]: https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/share-passkeys-passwo...
> I'm not epileptic, but I don't like to take chances with things like that.

What are the chances you don't like taking, chance of what?
Yes, until you've scaled enough that it wasn't. If you're deploying a dev or staging server or even prod for your first few thousand users then you can get by with a handful of servers and stuff. But a lot of stuff that works well on one or three servers starts working less well on a dozen servers, and it's around that point that the up-front difficulty of k8s starts to pay off with the lower long-term difficulty
A.I. Is Being Built by People Who Think It Might Destroy Us
I realize that you might not see my reply, as it's been over a week, but I agree with you. Approaching my mid-40s, I learned about computers through Atari 8-bit systems. Even just working with Atari BASIC back then, there was so much you could do compared to high-level languages now. We may be in trouble eventually when the hackers of old have passed on, and we're left with the need to move away from current computer architectures due to limitations, and the number of people able to invent and work with low-level tech are few and far between.
> Heck, go run k3s on Hetzner

The moment Hetzner starts providing managed DBs or managed kubernetes, they will wipe the floor with all the big 3...
>we've proven that frequent express buses from regional centers can work

Who's "we"? Seattle's express busses, at least outside the downtown core, have been a joke for a long time. Every half hour at absolute peak for ST routes like the 545/522 and stopping hours before bars and nightlife close so good luck getting home.

Admittedly they were better than the awful suburban alternatives - for a long time the fastest bus route from my eastside house to Microsoft was to take one express bus 45-60 minutes to downtown Seattle and another one 30-45 minutes east to Redmond because the other north/south connections are that bad. I wouldn't call that proof that they can work.

And of course that's ignoring the current light rail split. If you don't want to go somewhere directly on the light rail line (let's say South Lake Union, since we're commuting) you could previously take an bus from Woodinville, Kirkland, or Redmond into downtown Seattle and with a single transfer get where you want to go.

Post-light rail good luck. The 522 will drop you off in Northgate, where you can walk a few blocks to light rail, ride a few stops, walk a few more blocks, and catch another bus. 1h43min with 2 transfers at peak commuting hours or a 28min drive. If that's success I hope never to see failure.
After having tried VR the "we can't detect aliens because they have merged with/receded into simulations" hypothesis seems very plausible to me:

https://mindmatters.ai/2020/11/the-aliens-exist-but-evolved-...

Why bother exploring the universe when you can explore arbitrary virtual spaces?

The only remaining thing possibly detectable would be a faint thermal glow from their ultra-optimized computers
I was at one meeting with him during the planning the of the NASADQ marketplace.
It was the largest meeting of the whole project that I was a part of. He came in for about 10 minutes and told everyone in the room who wanted to use Sun that the video wall would run on Windows.
That's is why I called it two separate axes and not two ends in a single axis. You need a base level of technical competency to understand what the limitations of your equipment are to leverage it to the fullest extent and avoid doing things that will just plain not work, and the technical features are needed to accomplish specific things, but artistry is till required. Feature films have been captured on iPhone (you can say that is little more than a stunt, but it still exists).

Not everyone is filming Barry Lyndon with f/.95 aperture in candle-lit scenes. Watching older films where both the glass and the film were subpar compared to what's available today, where the grain was high, the focus puller wasn't at the top of their game leaving characters somewhat out of focus (when looking closely, maybe not noticeable at 480p or 720p), but the films are still enjoyable. Parts of The Batman were filmed on a Helios 40-2, an objectively terrible lens when it comes to it's optical characteristics, but it can evoke a look that you can't otherwise get which helps with the mood the cinematographer was trying to capture. You won't be able to capture the vast expanses of night time scenes of Nope (filmed as day for night with infrared cameras) with subpar equipment. You need full sharpness for easier rotoscoping when dealing with VFX. You want the best cameras available to capture miniatures of spaceships like in 2001 or Interstellar to make people believe these are real spaceships. You can leverage a new technology in a new way, like 28 Days Later used new at the time digital cameras (that would nowadays be considered subpar) for easier application of effects like undercranking and lower production costs, or how they used 360 shutters in Collateral. But you can also make a film like The Man From Earth that was shot in a single room, with a bunch of actors and an camera that was average at the time, or Saving Private Ryan simply undercranking and using really short shutterns to ensure that the beach landing scene was crisp through and through. Everything Everywhere All At Once didn't have Marvel-budget level gear, but they still made one of the best movies of the past few years.

I don't fully disagree with what you're saying: better tools expand the envelope of what you can accomplish. But technology is in service of the art, not the other way around (unless you're producing marketing material for the manufacturer, I guess ^_^).

I love combing over features, and learn about the mechanics of these amazing machines, and the theory of the physics of light (even knowing how it works, it is still feels like magic that you can take a full picture of an object that is partially obstructed as long as you can make that foreground element blurred enough). I'm a shit artist, but I trust one with a point and shoot to make something better than I can with my DSLRs. I can't wait to see what new story telling tricks people will come up with new tech, like Nope did.
I just need to understand where personal responsibility fits into this conversation, and I don't really accept "nowhere".