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Crypto Faces Legal Reckoning as SEC Prepares Action Against Coinbase
This is exciting! The open source LLM space is about a year behind OpenAI's SOTA, so any step towards closing that gap is welcome

It's still a bit of a shame Meta hasn't considered a more permissive license for LLaMA
> Many of the products we use everyday would no longer be viable.

I think this is a bullshit myth the industry uses to justify itself. People are capable of paying for things, and to the extent they don't want to then maybe we really don't need whatever it was the ads were supporting.

I mean, a lot of the "content" exists purely as clickbait with a tiny bit of entertainment or information attached so it can product place or sell ads. Fuck it, we don't need it as a society.

>The economy is driven by hustle, sales, and ads.

Allowing jobs that make society worse for profit because "economy" is just the broken window fallacy. We are better off skipping the job part and just giving them money directly.

> We'd be less productive: less employed, less eager to buy, less eager to work.

We'd be doing bullshit jobs less. How is that a bad thing? Lets redirect what productivity we do feel like engaging in on making the world better instead of making the people at the top of the economic food chain wealthier and playing on people's insecurities to get them to pay for shit they don't need.

In my idea world, if I am interested in buying some new product or service I consult a catalog. Opt-in marketing, not bullshit carrot and stick marketing, and certainly not the kind of completely unsolicited bullshit that keeps us from having unfiltered email, answering our phones, or using the internet without an ad blocker.
I have no argument other than your comment was silly and pointless. This is you realizing that without realizing that.
In any spot in the country, you can look up and see aircraft, or contrails, every day, all day. Unless near an airport, you generally do not hear them at all. Even with boom reduction technology, booms would be heard by everyone, everyday. This is _not cool_. The author makes a valid point that the restriction should be on the noise generated, not the speed, but even the mitigated booms would not pass a reasonable test.
> But if Ilograph goes down, all I have is useless YAML.

Depends. If you're using Ilograph Desktop [0], an outage won't affect you. And both with Ilograph Desktop and paid versions of the web app, you can export your diagrams to standalone HTML files. These artifacts will live forever.

[0] https://www.ilograph.com/desktop/index.html
Back of napkin math suggests that the water in the lake would sustain drinking, hygiene, and daily bathing for all current MI residents for over 10,000 years, so probably fine.
what inspires people to build software like this? there are so many good solutions already and the problem with "getting organized" is usually a lack of motivation, not a lack of available tools.
This morning I asked GPT-4 to play duck chess with me. Duck chess is a very simple variant of chess with a duck piece (that acts like an impassable brick) that each player moves to an empty square after their normal move. [I gave GPT-4 a more thorough and formal explanation of the rules of course.]

To a human, board state in chess and in duck chess is very simple. It’s chess, but with one square that’s blocked off. Similarly, even a beginner human chess player can understand the basics of duck chess strategy (block your opponent’s development in the beginning, block your opponent’s attacks with the duck to free up your other pieces, etc.).

GPT-4 fell apart, often failing to make legal moves, and never once making a strategically coherent duck placement. To me this suggests that it does not have an internal representation of the 64 squares of the board at all. Even if you set aside the strategic aspect, the only requirement for a duck move to be legal is that you place it on an empty square, which it cannot consistently do, even at the very beginning of the game (it like to place the duck on d7 as black after 1. …e5, even when its own pawn is there).
Statement should read no civil service government employee should talk to the media about their work or workplace unless the authority to speak on the topic on which they are speaking is in their formal job description, or they have been approved to speak to the media by someone who’s formal job description gives them authority to approve that they do so.

I am all for radical transparency in the public sector, but part of that transparency requires that the individuals communicating have a precise understanding of technical communication. I’ve seen inaccurate communication cause very similar issues to those caused by a lack of communication.
I know how to treat water and have the supplies I'd need to do it.
Not sure if this answers your question, but the lack of (real) threads in Python is a big blocker if you are running any kind of performance-related code, e.g. a back-end. Yes, you can kinda emulate threads with processes, but suddenly, your code becomes much more complicated and all the readability benefits of using Python disappear.

For a very long time, OCaml had the same problem. Now that OCaml has finally entered the multicore era, I will see if I can get back in touch with the OCaml magic :)
I'm facing this dilemma now with the Dogma metalanguage [1]. On the one hand, I want it to be small so that it can be picked up quickly and mastered easily (very important since its primary use case is documentation). On the other hand, it needs enough power to actually be useful in the real world.

In the end I opted to avoid most conveniences since they can easily be built using a few common macros such as `u16(v) = ordered(uint(16,v))` and the like, except for cases where it would be just silly not to (like strings as syntactic sugar for concatenated codepoints, and regex-style repetition chars ? * + instead of {0|1} {0~} {1~}).

But even then the spec is over 2000 lines long (admittedly the examples take up a fair bit of room, though).

[1] https://github.com/kstenerud/dogma/blob/master/v1/dogma_v1.m...
I can only assume you’re being downvoted because folks are thinking that you can’t go supersonic without making a boom. While this may be true, it doesn’t change the fact that you make a good point - regulation should be made as close to externalities as possible. If it makes the upstream thing impossible, then fine, but let’s actually regulate what we want to regulate.
Someone will be able to run something like this locally one day. That same person may go to great lengths to ignite those sparks.

As a developer, I can already imagine taking this thing and putting some logic around it to go into loops and give it ways to get the information it needs to move forward. This seems very inevitable now.
I’m not sure if it’s still there, but if you walked into the cafeteria the remote ops center for the CMS detector and the LHC was on your left hand side through a glass wall and door.

My leadership chain was…interesting but it was incredibly cool in my mid 20s to lunch with high energy physicists and others in this space.

https://cms.fnal.gov/remote-operations-center/

(worked on CMS data taking for a year in the mid 00s)
Funnily enough the SR71 at Mach 3.5 had a better mpg than a Boeing 747 below Mach 1. It’s kind of hard to compare apples to apples here - but at supersonic speed, different engine technology can be used with better fuel efficiency…
Personality engineering a team of NPCs as an audience for reading and encouraging me to write my fiction, helping to build an IDE for writing, deploying website CI/CD pipelines writing Dockerfiles, APIs, etc.
> He was briefly startled but went back to fishing in under one second.

This was laugh-out-loud funny to me, something a character on the Silicon Valley show would say.
Hi, author here. An API can be a concrete thing (created, deleted, etc.) in cloud environments (e.g. AWS API Gateway APIs).
The fact that you must trust programs to do the right thing is the root cause of the problem. There exist operating systems and security models that stop this type of attack dead in its tracts.

This is fallout from the failure of Multics, and the rise of Unix.
Agreed, C# was too verbose and its way less now.
All those behaviors are more simply explained by looking at the original designed behavior: Generate the most likely next word based on the human-sourced language in the training set. There's no understanding in there, no intention, no perception. It sounds like a human because humans said those things before. This is more like a search engine that synthesizes content instead of just locating a page.

To say it has "instinct" of its own is merely begging the question. No, it has echoes of ours.
I think of Python as being a pretty big language.

At a feature level there are things like descriptors and metaclasses, which are complex and rarely-used.

There's a huge number of obscure magic methods/attributes: __origin__, __orig_bases__, __prepare__, __mro_entries__, etc.

It's full of gotchas: methods are looked up on the instance, except magic methods which are looked up on the class, except except __getattr__ and __dir__ on module types. There are both __getattr__ and __getattribute__ and they do different things. Most `typing.Foo` (and also modern `list[int]`) aren't `isinstance`-able. The use of += with tuples. The lack of any coherent numeric tower. Etc. etc.

I think it's very clear that Python has grown organically, and is now struggling under the weight of all its bolted-on extra bits, or sheer unnecessary complexity. I would love to throw it all out and start again.
Docker have a different salary range per country for the same remote role
Particularly curious since they also provide a Web3 gateway. While not copyright related does hosting/deploying a smart contract make them liable for possible illegal activity such as securities and state dept regs?

Guess I could just try deploying tornado-cash..
With other people, you can give an accurate picture by describing specific accomplishments you've achieved.

For example, with the piano, you might be able to say that you can consistently play a certain song from memory with occasional mistakes, while having trouble learning new pieces quickly (if you might have difficulty sight-reading).

For a language, you might be able to say that you can have a half-hour conversation without using English/your native language without too much difficulty, but you can't speak about technical or philosophical topics, and you might still be working on understanding how to use certain grammatical tenses.

Then, there's less reason for doubt from other people or yourself, as your skill level is communicated more objectively and less subjectively. The framing also gives you a nice clear path for what to work on next (for example, learning how to talk about a specific topic and understand a new grammar tense).
Non sonic boom noise from the airplanes > 0, ban them all?
Per passenger?
Oh, dear ... as much as I like my readers to suffer bleeding eyes, I would not have written this

Prompt: Poem in the style of Rik Roots

In fields of green, a man I saw

A hat upon his head, in awe

He smiled at me, his eyes aglow

And then, he turned and ceased to show.
What would be the fine difference between hoarding and collecting?
One alternative CPU model were the various Lisp machines.

A really amazing example, though, was Intel's first 32 bit CPU, the iAPX 432 [1] -- it was actually object oriented. And it supported garbage collection (like Lisp machines).

It was kind of beautiful from one point of view, but it was absurdly impractical and complicated and slow. It was an extreme example of CISC, and the (simple and fast) RISC revolution killed off such things. Well, the iAPX killed itself, but...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_iAPX_432
It also only carried 2...
Possibly.

However, the times are changing. There is an energy and components crisis and there are plenty of reasons to believe that it's going to grow much worse / more global. I suspect that at some point in the very near future, we'll need to relearn to code for a finite set of resources instead of just assuming that "the cloud" will solve it for a few more dollars.
So you just accused another person of being a Hindutva Fascist just because I presented facts? Hardly meets the standard of discussion on HN.
If you run a server farm, you absolutely know these things. And you are using ECC based RAM.
The screenshots weren't of Weka's UI, but of Minio's after you manually extract those binaries. I'm not familiar with Weka, but it would be easy enough to stand up the Minio server and communicate internally over the S3 protocol, and never show any native Minio screens.
Funnily, these folks at MSR also don't know what's in the black box. They just got early access and permission from OpenAI to poke it with a stick.
"if the customer tolerated it during the pandemic, then they'll tolerate it afterwards" must be painted on the wall somewhere at McKinsey.
Now they could do 360 noscopes on russian submarines
I listed some of my concerns here[1]. It is mostly based on principles, but also on the fact that we don't know what these models will be used for in the future. We can trust OpenAI to do the right thing today, but even if they're not involved in the data broker market, your data is only a bug, breach or subpoena away from 3rd party hands.

Also, OpenAI is not the only company in this market anymore. Google, Facebook and Microsoft have competing products, and we know the privacy track record of these companies.

I have an extreme take on this, since for me this applies to all "free" proprietary services, which I avoid as much as possible. The difference with AI tools is that they ask for a much deeper insight into your mind, so the profile they build can be far more accurate. This is the same reason I've never used traditional voice assistant tools either. I don't find them more helpful than doing web searches or home automation tasks manually, and I can at least be somewhat in control of my privacy. I might be deluding myself and making my life more difficult for no reason, but I can at least not give them my data voluntarily. This is why I'll always prefer self-hosting open source tools, over using a proprietary service.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35304261
Not sure how I feel about this. One part of me is like “this is cool, now AI can control my k8s” while another part of me is like “here comes the AI malware apocalypse”.
This article looks like written by ChatGPT...
The big question ... Did you actually get the space cadet keyboard to match your nick?
Cloudflare is in the doghouse with me in recent weeks, because they started blocking my Firefox ESR from important Web sites (even when I disable uBlock Origin, FF Advanced Tracking Protection, and DoNotTrack).

Cloudflare is fine with Chromium from the same residential IP address, however, but I don't want to use Chromium for those Web sites.

I also don't want to have to try to debug the obnoxious behavior of some third-party company that perhaps doesn't care whether it's blocking legit users from its customers.

The Kafkaesque Cloudflare "prove you're a human" infinite loop is hopefully not a foreshadowing of an imminent Internet dystopia, with Cloudflare the vanguard of it.
That's where the temperature requirements come in. Afaik, they're the prime driver of intermittent-tolerance.
> I only know we have to be careful not to anthropomorphize GPT engines.

I agree! I don't think LLMs are at the point where they're ready to be properly anthropomorphised, but it seems that the tech industry is working hard to move in this direction. I just hope we have the ethics worked out first.
This is awesome and fun, but I was expecting something totally different.

One of the hardest problems with containers is proper bin packing, so that you get services that should be "near" each other on the same physical host, but also making sure you have enough redundancy across hosts to handle an outage of a physical machine.

I thought this was an AI to solve this optimization problem.
> I'd never do web dev in C++, but Rust seems like a mixed bag. It is a bit notorious for having a steep learning curve. But once people are productive, it's arguably a higher level language than python.

Having done back-end in Python, TS and Rust, my experience confirms this: Rust is a very high language once you're past the steep learning curve.
in my opinion that is adding AI for the sake of AI. If you're making homemade lasagna it takes a minute to add the ingredients you used to get a very accurate calorie count. There's really no way AI can do it better and more accurate.
Yeah, I'm highly suspicious too. Even the arxiv article from the MS researchers doesn't have specifics about the # of parameters in GPT-4.
Still a pianist, no?
There’s a balance. And the Concorde had to have weird stuff to get that high but yes - you can get better performance higher to a point.
I moved from Notion because of too many bugs, outage is just one of many scenarios where you'd want to bail, and not a primary one because it's not like a diagram service is in the customer path.

The HTML files are also not enough for me. It's like a bricked artifact. I can't modify my diagrams anymore. Like if I adopted a company's programming language and they assured me my assembly code artifacts will live forever.
Kudos for the kids for putting in the effort. However, without seeing any details (and no experts were cited in the article!) I would assume what was done was rather trivial. I suppose if you define the trigonometric functions using power series you could probably arrive to the result rather easily. I didn't work out the details, but that would seem like an alternative way to get a handle to these functions without using any geometric ideas.

Edit: so they refer to a book by a math PhD for the claim that there is no trigonometric proof. The book is rather old, so maybe the information is outdated, but it does suggest it's maybe not entirely trivial.

Edit2: wait, wouldn't this just boil down to showing that sin^2 x + cos^2 x = (isin x + cos x)(-isin x + cos x) = e^(ix)e^(-ix)=1?

Surely you'd have to do a bit of work with the series to be able to write that, but looks like standard calculus.

Edit3: ok, so I dug a bit deeper and found that the book that is cited claims as a fact that you cannot prove Pythagorean theorem using trigonometric functions, since to use trig. functions you need Pyth. theorem. This is not true, if you start with series expansions. So I wonder if the story is that the kids relied on the book as a fact, did some calculus and proved their theorem. The teachers, not being mathematicians, took the book as face value as well (and here's where the mistake happened) didn't consult an actual expert before speaking to the press. Still, I'd say pretty nice job from the kids to actively pursue a mathematical problem, hopefully next time with a proper supervisor.
You also have to compare getting to that speed. And, of course, the comparison is dead when done per passenger. Might as well compare a missile in there, or a drone.
Reminds me of the classic aerospace joke.

Q: In the age of Pentium, how do you pronounce IEEE-754? -- A: AAAAAAIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEE!
This is so lovely one of my main reasons to main Common Lisp is to have an excuse to use it. Not even kidding.
Do you have any links? Would love to learn more.
You don't need TikTok to speak freely. If a platform violates US law (or adequately threatens domestic security) then it makes sense that our government would clap back as hard as it has.
Even in death Ringo will be in Paul McCartney's shadow haha.

A huge one for me is Mel Brooks, it is pretty rare for a celebrity death to have an impact on me but that one will.
I wonder if this

https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/20/petals-is-creating-a-free-...

could be modified to create a system that's trained.
man I use C++ on personal projects for opencv (and python perfomance is pretty bad for my use case) but oh god, I don't I could ever get a C++ job, there is a universe of features I won't dare to touch anytime soon. I just use the "modern" and simple stuff and code look pretty good (imo), don't have to deal with gibberish compiler errors (except when std::format goes crazy). std::move is cool though, rvalue and lvalue is bit too much but the performance, clear "giving up" resource and dont having to use pointers is worth it (I just use it for rvalue passing, prob there is more to it).
This is how Skynet happens.
www.impostorsguides.com. Any feedback is appreciated.

Note that it is currently very much a work-in-progress, and you’ll have to wade through the unedited word salad of my stream-of-consciousness as I narrate the entire codebase of a certain Ruby version manager called RBENV. Which is why I currently have a “noindex nofollow” meta tag on it. But if that doesn’t dissuade you, help yourself!

Rest assured that my arrogant rants about the current state of technical documentation in our industry, as well as the frequent dead-ends in my thought process, will be edited out before I release the beta version.

I also plan on adding an entire section on using Github to learn about a repo’s history and the design decisions / trade-offs that were made. I’m basically writing this in the 1-2 spare hours per day that I have before work starts, so it’s slow going as you can probably imagine.
> Bugs bunny is funny because the writing staff were funny; bugs himself doesnt exist.

Excellent analogy, and I appreciate analogies (perhaps even a bit too much). Will be using this one. Thank you!
Not twice as much I think, but it's definitly more efficent to fly higher if it's in the efficent envelope of these engines , just alone cause winds up there are way way faster which can be very favorable, because of the Coriolis
Effect
The OP's words were 'independent contractor'. Someone switched the words to 'gig economy' and started beating on the straw man.

The OP is actually right - contractors have much better treatment than employees. Not only in law, where you can't be told your hours - etc, but also just by the nature of your employment where you have to sell yourself and they desire to work with you or they wouldn't have paid your fee. This isn't the case in industries where they have fake contracting - employment in all but name, but as an actual independent developer or whatever you make more and get treated better.

> you dont want to do overtime making those car models? No problem. We have contact to 10 other people just waiting to do it in your place.

This isn't how contracting works. They give you a deadline for the work and you accept it. They don't know if you're fast or slow as long as you meet the deadline. They don't demand you do more, they offer it.

As an employee you're a machine for them to use? Have you heard the phrase "Drive it like you're renting it"?

> And we will pay them less than we pay you, and then we will pay even less to those who will replace them.

Then they aren't in that first artists range anymore so they take other work.

At some point the work is "Click on all transparent segments of the SpongeBob character, applying to correct color for that body part from this design document." Why would that employ the same artists who, from an empty page, designed those characters and their looks?
As an EE, I’m shocked computers work at all, and so reliably. If you knew how the sausage was made you would be horrified.
Malham Cove and Tarn are pretty amazing in their own right. Before the river sank (~12,000 years ago) this would have been a 250ft tall 1000ft wide waterfall. For reference this is about 1/3 as wide as Niagara falls, but 100' taller.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malham_Cove