skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd love to read an article. OpenAI's Whisper seems to solve this problem, and I'm amazed there isn't a youtube-to-text yet.

"Just listen to it in the background" isn't really workable for everybody. I barely listened to my own podcast episode. Text is just better for some people, which happen to be a majority on HN.

It's better for HN too. Note that we can't get any interesting comments until submission plus two hours, since it's two hours long.
https://archive.is/vwGkV
Siri is still pants tho
I find this kinda amusing..

They trained their model on everyone's data, if you can scrap people, expect people to scrap you ;)
I’ve always said if you want to get a developer to do something, just question their intelligence. This works on way too may otherwise smart people.

It somewhat makes sense, many devs grew up smart and were told they were smart from a young age. You need to be to do the job. It becomes part of their identity and is a glaring blind spot for many.

I’ve worked with way too many devs that were so afraid of being wrong or had to prove they were right and were taken advantage of because of it.
You are too hard on yourself, just like me and many others in our industry. I don't know what gives but the IT industry is plagued with impostor syndrome and other kinds of mental health related issues.

Be well and please, try to forgive yourself a little bit.
Apologies for hijacking your comment, but who or what flagged imperio59's relatively benign comment? I can't respond directly to that.

Kind of weird that this was shut down so quickly.
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RF transmission and reception have been bumping smack up against physics limits for a long time. Regardless of whether or not Moore's Law is Dead, it is an extremely good bet that there is more juice left in compute than in RF. For instance, even the "specialized" ML hardware of today has a comfortable factor of 10 in further possible optimization and probably considerably more. Also, due to the fact that these innovations tend to compound, there isn't just more juice, there is e to the power of more juice left.

"Moore's Law is Dead" is a bit of a joke in the hardware space because a staggering number of smart people have made staggeringly wrong predictions of this nature (well, typically correct in a narrow sense and wrong in a broad sense). Jim Keller frequently talks about this and has a convincing theory as to why it happens: the industry is full of specialists who are all chasing one particular S-curve and fully understand to the point of conservatively believing in another S-curve or two. Inevitably, this gives them the impression that Moore's Law has just a few years of gas left -- however, it's actually a consequence of limits on human communication, curiosity, and cognition that determines the number of promising S-curves a typical engineer is thinking about. It's not a true evaluation of the supply of additional S-curves waiting in the wings. There's a limit somewhere out there but it's not really "in sight."
GPT-4 didn't say there's a 1 out of 5 chance of a bank run happening. On a 5 point scale from very low likelihood (1) to very high likelihood (5) GPT-4 gave a 1. GPT-4 gave the lowest score possible for how likely a bank run was to occur.

Of the six options GPT-4 evaluated, GPT-4 gave the lowest risk assessment code (combination of the probability of the event occurring and how bad it would be if it were to occur) to a bank run.
Did you even bother to read the article? They are saying that these impacts will be felt as soon as 2030.
You're asking how taxes and fees are different from criminal penalties? I guess the simplest way to put it would be that you go to prison for not paying enough of the one, whereas you'd go to prison for paying too much of the other.
Thanks for the video. I'll watch in full later. But it is interesting that he opens with The Big Dig in Boston. There have been several counts, including prosecutions, of fraud in that project. It wasn't just because it was complex. There was rampant fraud and corruption. After some skimming, it didn't appear that that video covers that.

I have also read anecdotes about that project. For example, stories of contractors tricking out their personal trucks and tools and booking it to the protect.
For how long does the spray protect you? Is this something you'd use on a daily basis?
More meta but thats all conversations. You never know how "vulnerable" someone is being no matter the medium, so again, it's up to you to understand that and gather the information that is there.
I use wikidata a lot for movie stuff. Ideally I imagine the wiki foundation itself will be looking into using LLMs to help parse their own data and convert it into wikidata content (or confirm it, or keep it up to date, etc.)

Wikidata is incredibly useful for things that I would considered valuable (e.g. the tMDb link for a movie) but due to the curation imposed upon Wikipedia itself isn't typically available for very many pages. An LLM won't help with that but another bit of information like where films are set would be a perfect candidate for an LLM to try and determine and fill in automatically with a flag for manual confirmation.
I found this webpage[0] (and those it links to) to be a good bit of context on what this all means. (And then ran off to do a bunch more searching!)

tl;dr: CMS (Compact Muon Solenoid) is one of two major detectors of the Large Hadron collider. Fermilab was intimately involved in designing CMS. Fermilab is also a "tier 1" computation center for processing LHC data (possibly restricted to CMS data?). Per this factsheet[1], there is one other "tier 1" compute farm in the US, though it isn't named in particular. I'd guess Lawrence Livermore, but I have nothing more than a hunch.

[0] https://cms.fnal.gov/

[1] https://www.fnal.gov/gridfest/pdfs/uscomputing_factsheet.pdf
I'm not convinced of that, there's lots of people who are diligent but quiet about it. Passion works great in some job contexts, in others it can lead to exploitation, cult-like behavior, groupthink that results in a terrible product etc.

Obviously you want staff that like their work enough to be fully engaged with it, but fake passion is bullshit that's often foisted on us by marketing/HR drones. Think of how people who work at Subway stores are called 'sandwich artists' when the reality is that they'd probably be fired if they deviate even slightly from the approved recipe.

I don't want to work with people who are primarily driven by passion tbh, because they're likely to either burn out or be intransigent when there's a difference of opinion. I just want people to be friendly and not robots.
Infinity is a social construct in mathematics. Mathematics values terseness over case analysis, because humans have to manipulate the formulas. By introducing infinities, formulas have fewer cases to analyze.

You can have math without infinity and without undecidability, but there's much more case analysis and things get ugly. Look at how SAT solvers with rational arithmetic work.
Sure, there are exceptions. When I wrote ‘normally’ to cover them, I was more thinking of things where it is hard to set good metrics for the thing one wants controlled, or cases where avoiding the spirit of the rule would be too likely.

Nevertheless, I think those are exceptions. I think first order effects tend to matter more than second order effects (that’s why they’re called first order) and not doing good first-order things because of potentially bad second-order things is often wrong.
I had a pastor who would ask the congregation, "If it were illegal to be a Christian and you were on trial, would there be enough evidence to convict you?" Very thought provoking. Now replace that with a job title:

"If it were illegal to be a <DevOps Engineer> and you were on trial, would there be enough evidence to convict you?"
Pentagon official suggests alien mothership could be lurking in our solar system
"And they will build Outer Heaven. Creating a nation for soldiers, free from the control of any government or ideology."
Inactive silicon isn't inefficient.

And it's not even particularly wasteful to produce. While there are lots of devices the amount of materials in each chip is incredibly small.

In terms of financial cost the material cost is so low that most chip vendors include features in low end chips that are disabled but shipped anyway.
Why mix regulation of two effects (sound and emissions)?

It's smarter to write regulation for each uniquely and directly.

Eg.

- Sound from air traffic shall meet <sound regulations> and when violated will incur automatic fees of <formula> amount.

- Air traffic emissions are required to meet <emission regulations> and will be taxed at <formula> amount (which should be used to offset pollution).
Yea I have that running. Looking specifically for a 65B instruction-tuned model. I just found a way to get alpaca 30B going though.
Which features of C# would you remove then?
> When is loyalty meaningfully rewarded?

At the risk of being overly obvious, a company might do things like increase your compensation (especially backward looking discretionary comp), give you more opportunities suited to your interests, or consider others for layoffs before you.

Of course, none of these things are guarantees, and it's entirely rational to assume they will never happen and go about your professional life accordingly. But that doesn't mean they don't happen at some companies for some people.
AI chatbot company Replika restores erotic roleplay for some users
Parameters here are just like object attributes, correct?
I recall back in the 90s that Fermilab had a public telnet page one could connect at to get current beam line stats/info.
Show HN: ChatGPT Twitch streamer plays a text adventure
I thought it would be fun to have a fully AI twitch streamer that could interact with chat while playing a game. Since Colossal Cave Adventure is simple to parse on the console, I hooked it up over the last week.

This was pretty interesting to set up! My main takeaways are:

1) ChatGPT (3.5-turbo) is very bad at the game, and it makes the same mistakes over and over, even when it has an example of the same mistake (and correction) in its recent context. The illusion of this type of AI feeling "human" fell apart pretty quickly for me.

2) At the same time, being able to give instructions to something in natural language and get arbitrary working JSON back is awesome, and really opens up a lot of possibilities for quick-and-dirty solutions (albeit via an expensive API). Even if you get malformed JSON back, you can literally just say "this didn't parse, fix it," and 9 times out of 10 it does. It's also impressive that it can do two things at once - talk to chat and play the game (usually - sometimes it decides to write its chat responses into the game).

3) I think a big issue for chatbots is that ChatGPT seems to learn from its own bad behavior. It's easy to get long streams of nearly identical responses from it, since if you feed its own responses back to it in the chatlog, it seems to use them as examples of how to act in the future. But if you omit its own responses, it doesn't have any context for what it has already tried. Maybe someone else has found away to get around that?

I'm not sure how much further I could take this, but hopefully it's interesting to someone. I don't think it has much of a chance of beating the game without a lot of handholding from chat. It's maybe one step up from Twitch plays Pokemon, honestly. When I get access to GPT-4 I'll run it again and see if it improves at the game.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/21/kylie-je...
You can try vouching it by clicking on its timestamp and then "vouch". Both mods and the community have the power to flag comments; mod decisions can't be overridden, but community decisions can. The fact that it's [flagged][dead] instead of [flagged] implies that the community flagged it, though it being collapsed seems like a new change that might indicate moderator intervention.
Seems to me that plumbing would be one job that will very difficult to automate. Might be possible some day but it's going to be very tough to do. So if you want a job that probably won't be automated in your lifetime that would be one to consider.
Your salary is still on a contract for a certain number of hours per week.

Any hours past that are unpaid in that regard and effectively reduce your salary.
Pretty soon all developers basically have avatars that they manage that perform their jobs.
I second almost 100% of this feedback. Especially where you started: OP’s comment is much more illuminating than anything on the site. My only quibble is this:

> I would probably leave out the fact that you are "husband and wife."

If that were the language I’d probably agree, and probably wouldn’t have given it much more thought than that! But I think “husband and wife team” swayed me from that instinct. It’s a good balance between humanizing and establishing a shared interest in using the thing they’ve built. I don’t know how representative my reaction is, but “we created [thing] because [actual human experience and need it satisfies]” tends to be a persuasive way to get me interested, and actual human stuff feels more pertinent to me in that framing than stuff about the humans detached from the thing.
>consumers preferring comfort to speed

And mainstream consumers preferring the lowest price to both.

But, yeah, if you're going to be any significant premium over lie-flat seating that's a tough sell for anyone for whom a small number of hours != losing money. (i.e. almost everyone.). Saving a few hours coast to coast for NY to London is not worth thousands of dollars to most people.
> psilocybin (magic mushrooms), do not inspire creativity

Hard disagree. Psilocybin unleashes tremendous creative output if you originally set out to become inspired by it and didn't just do it for a giddy high.
Namespaces allow for logical grouping

How would you group things without namespaces?

by their physical location?
We do not have carbon taxes, we have carbon credits. Carbon credits are at best green political theater. At worst they're an effective means for the carbon economy (coal, oil, gas) to deflect efforts to get a carbon tax on the table, as evidenced by comments like this one.

Carbon taxes, on the other hand, are an effective solution to global warming.
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which transcends
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and which
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climbing
to see the world aright

Forgive me
whereof one cannot speak
one must pass over
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I think you could even make this into a unified kernel image [1] and boot a single image directly from EFI.

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Unified_kernel_image
Which sprays specifically?
SCHED_IDLE is problematic. There is no priority inheritance with SCHED_OTHER threads. SCHED_OTHER threads block for prolonged periods of time when they contend for a mutex in the kernel with a SCHED_IDLE thread. The SCHED_IDLE thread holds the mutex, but it is unable to complete its critical section because it keeps getting preempted.
You might want to listen to what they say instead of listening to what media says about them. Perhaps you have one in your family.

Anyway, so no I don’t care about injections, I care that the same people who obviously lied to us 6 times, are the people who tell us “This time, we’re right, we know what we’re doing.”

The show Chernobyl is excellent in demonstrating how each type of personality deals with news in a regime where everything is false, some of them not even having recognized that the communist regime’s output were systematic lies.

So what happened to Facebook censoring doctors because they said the virus would behave in waves, and at that time, the theory of waves was a conspiracy, so we shouldn’t have known about it?
I’d rather someone fix regular air travel—ban dynamic pricing and dangerously cramped seats first.
Thank you so much for the feedback!

1) Yes these are HIGHLY scenario specific, but doing benchmarking and detailing is a great point, and we want to do it.
2) We have lots of thoughts about security - but it's all about just use your existing security profile FOR NOW. E.g. if you want to run data on something in private, and the machine would have access, then you can reuse that. You can also use things like env variable, endpoints, etc to provide credentials. We have LOTS of things planned, but I'd love to hear what you'd like first!

For running on the PUBLIC web, it is not for private workloads right now. You could encrypt everything you'd like, but even then, you'll still possibly run on an untrusted node, so not recommended. Instead, choose a trusted provider (e.g. GCP, AWS, etc) to provide the compute, and provision your nodes, and you're good.

3) We have tons of thoughts there too - basically anywhere you have more than 10 devices with/generating data and 100GB, you're PROBABLY running into a compute over data problem. This is many fold! Security, web serving, financial services, IoT, Edge, Fog, multi-cloud, etc etc. We are in the midst of narrowing down to some brain dead ones and providing scenarios and templates - expect lots of this to land in the next few weeks/months.

If you have some that you'd like us to work on, please let us know!

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR FEEDBACK. You can also find/chat with the whole team in the #bacalhau channel in Slack [1]

Disclosure: I co-founded the Bacalhau project.

[1] filecoin.io/slack
I don’t think that schools are really for learning. They are for watching and controlling kids, socializing kids, and introducing kids to educational materials all while parents go to work.

Learning happens at home. Parents or guardians are the answer (or origination) to this problem.

I might be out on a limb, but if you are posting on this site, you were likely reading before you started kindergarten or soon thereafter. Your parents most likely taught you to read.

Research shows that kids that aren’t reading by third grade are not likely to ever really learn to read.
Aren't programmers predominantly salaried positions?

I haven't met many hourly programmers that do a lot of overtime for free.
Like Harvard? Which was founded in 1636. It's no Oxford, but the buildings are historic in the context of the USA, which is the context that matters for purposes of this discussion.

And no, they cannot simply create a new campus several miles away. Because even if most of the real estate within that radius wasn't ruinously expensive (though less so than Cambridge), transporting people between those two campuses would be a logistical nightmare. Traffic sucks, and public transportation is, on a good day, adequate[0].

Getting between the new science center in Allston and Harvard Square is about a 20 minute walk (hustling). Driving might shave 10 minutes off of that. Or it could add that much and more, depending on the time of day.

Harvard's med school is in Longwood, which presumably only works because the med students live off campus anyway and don't have to get to the main campus on a regular basis.

[0] See https://universalhub.com for examples. You're unlikely to have to look back more than a week.
+1 for interest there
You can run large language models locally using it: https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/neural-engine-tra...

I know the Swift version of Stable Diffusion from Hugging Face uses this too.
>Describe what you consider as "highly regulated".

The United States economy. We have trade regulations, license regulations,import and export regulations, we have standards regulations. You know, lots of restrictions on trade.

>You brought up Medicare and Social Security.

Neither of those programs are 'wealth transfer' programs.

>What I read are history books.

Oh really, what are some of your favorites?
There were no doubt quite a few nail makers pre-industrial revolution that took pride in making consistent, quality nails. That work was utterly and completely obliterated by the industrial revolution. There may be a few remaining nail makers, producing nails with an extremely niche design, but not many. So goes those jobs our lifetime as well
He does talk about corruption a bit but he focuses on other factors more.
Finally a political platform with some legs.
This isn't a vaccine, but there are nasal vaccines in clinical trial (I think you can already them in India). I suspect that most anivaxxers wouldn't have a problem with this nasal spray because it isn't a vaccine... but I also suspect that most of them will have objections to nasal vaccines because... they're vaccines.
> Sometimes you wonder, is all the ridiculousness of their protest because they're just afraid of needles and injections?

Obviously not, because the vast majority were fully up to date with all the usual established jabs.
I didn't... But to make it crystal clear.

If you get an incremental 40k raise over someone else, every year for 5 years, you end up making 200 more than them PER YEAR after year 5.
I can see how that could happen. But AI presumably knows how to output well written text because it's trained on well written text. If it's fed it's own output, I imagine that quality could degrade over time.
If you're talking about the nitric oxide spray, my friend used it at a conference and got COVID anyway, so where n=1, it didn't work. But then again, almost all of us got COVID. I was masked the whole time, he used the spray, others took no preventative measures, and it didn't seem to matter much.
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> The people who want to abolish private property are interested in removing the ability for you to exercise power over others because you are holding a public good in private. For instance, by purchasing land and renting it to others, or by using private water rights and making a profit from them.

I declare your house a public good, it is now mine.

> This is always the response of someone who doesn't understand the difference between "private property" and "personal property".

This is the response of someone who does not make a distinction between these because there is no distinction. Only to people who think there is a distinction believe that there is a meaningful difference. No one is obligated to believe in your belief, nor are they going to on purpose dumb themselves down to your level so that people can argue on your field. You are trying to force your definition of words so that you can appear as if you have something meaningful to say, but you don't.

My property is my property. Not yours.

> If we can talk about this stuff without resorting to strawmen, I think there's an interesting and useful exchange of perspectives that can happen.

Of course you do, you're a commie. You absolutely believe in this despite how many holes your ideology has, because if you don't you won't be able to win. Every single bad aspect is nothing compared to the defects in your opponent's world view.

You're not here for discussion.
> GPT-4 is (as far as I know) vulnerable to the Billy Tables attack

GTP4 can't take all the blame for this. If you want a system where GTP can't drop tables, then give it an account that doesn't have permission to drop tables. Build a middleware layer as needed for more complicated situations.