skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having worked in the space on-and-off since my PhD, the pace is not "overwhelming". You just started paying attention to it.

ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion are good, but they're incremental gains over what came before, which were incremental gains over what came before that, and so on...this has been happening for a long time now. If you ask me, the "amazing" part of ChatGPT isn't the output, it's the query understanding. The output is still (very pretty) garbage >10% of the time, and that's the danger zone...the Level 4 of autonomous thinking.

At the risk of saying something that makes me look dumb in ten years, this moment feels a lot like the "Level 5 self-driving will make driving obsolete by 2020!" panic we had circa 2015. Lots of investors and tech enthusiasts told me how stupid and shortsighted I was back then, when I said that we hadn't made as much progress as they thought we made, and how steep that remaining curve would be.

Newsflash: it's 2023. We still drive.
> Do you know if that hardware is capable of running LLM or is that optimized for something else?

I do! Checkout llama.cpp [0] and related projects. The game changer with this was Gerganov's ggml format that makes inference on CPUs realistic. I'm currently running alpaca.cpp and llama.cpp, using 7B models 4-bit quantized (so they're the lowest powered, lightest weight models) on an M1 Pro with 16gig RAM. You could run same on an M1 Macbook Air with 8gig RAM.

Gerganov shows the Whisper model running on an Android phone.

[0]https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp
Llama by FB is under a non-commercial license not a GPL license, so I assume you are using a different base model, what model is that?
True, but we have regulations so that corporate actors can't just jerk people around and engage in fraudulent behavior of their own.
SWer is sexworker for anyone interested.
But it could also be SoftWare Engineer.

Funny how that works.
I've tried to report fraud, but amazon does not have any sort of way to report fraud on their site.

It's more like "amazon would never call you and ask your credit card number" types of stuff.

I think it's all on purpose. I remember having a missing package and not being able to say "package missing but says delivered". The site would take you to a non-helpful page that would say "have you looked in your bushes?" "have you asked your neighbors?" but no way to resolve it through amazon. on purpose.
Notice in all the articles you linked to none of the leaders are referred to as "far left leader" but in one of the articles (last one) "far right leader" is used. Same with the article it linked to with Bolsonaro and Lulu.

Sometimes NYT and other mainstream news will say leader of far-left party, but very very rarely will they say the leader is far left. It seems they use "far right leader" more than 10x they use "far left leader"

Far right leader: https://www.nytimes.com/search?dropmab=false&query=%22far%20...

Far left leader:https://www.nytimes.com/search?dropmab=false&query=%22far%20...

Not sure why you are concluding Lula's politics can't be accurately described as far-left, just because NYT won't print that. Not saying its correct or not but NYT isn't 'gospel'

(As yes I do realize the original article doesn't use specifically use "far-right leader" Meloni. The point is many reporters love to tag people they don't like as far right)
As a non-Rust person, mind explaining the comment to a layperson?
Last I checked, my carrier (T-Mobile) charges like 10% more than Apple for the same device. They're just baking the interest into the price, it's not really "no interest". Maybe the others don't do that, though, I dunno.
You are correct - PPP is how many Big Macs you can buy (the Big Mac Index) in a country, Nominal GDP is how many nuclear submarines you can buy
I've seen it being a problem maybe 10 years ago but i'm happy if it is fully a thing of the past.
> why does PayPal know who it's being sent to? They just need to know you and the webshop, don't they? Who the webshop sends it to is between you and the webshop.

No, it's not, because the buyer has chosen to use PayPal's services for protection, and in order for the merchant to fulfill their end of the deal and also receive PayPal's protection (against chargebacks, disputes, etc) the merchant is required to ship to the address on the order (which PayPal has a record of for verification).

If you offer PayPal as a checkout option, you are required to follow their rules for fulfillment, otherwise you risk losing a PayPal dispute if filed later on.
Indeed you can.

https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/11iei34/buildi...
I remember reading about a guy who set up a fake hitman for hire site and got people all the time contacting him to whack their spouses or whatever, and would provide all the needed details. If the people persisted, he'd pass them onto the police.

Edit: found it: RentAHitman.com

https://boingboing.net/2022/01/11/how-rentahitman-com-went-f...

https://www.reddit.com/r/AMA/comments/v5422p/i_operate_a_fak...
LLaMA is non-commercial
Check out roon + quboz and/or tidal -- that's the audiophile route.

Roon is just meta-data and presentation. Quboz/Tidal hold the content. Roon's content and interface is fantastic compared to spotify and apple music. It uses third party content (wikipedia, reviews from tivo, maybe others) seemlessly. And it elevates the use of the album art. Also, it allows for album-centric approach to viewing/organizing/listening which I vastly prefer. Roon also allows deep linking. Like every album/track has a list of the people on it and you can see everything each of them has done. Same for composers/etc. Also, from each track, you can get to all the other recordings across all artists. Using this for the last month has really pointed out to me how crap apple and spotify are for discovery/learning/investigation.

Technically, this route is also superior because, as I understand it, roon tells the streamer + DAC, which may be way higher quality than the DAC in any apple device, to stream directly from TIDAL or QUBOZ. This yields higher quality because you skip the apple DAC and airplay, both of which lessen quality compared to what's possible with the other route. I'm sure the apple DACs are fine for what they are, but I'm also sure they're full of compromises. You can spend like 5K on a DAC alone.

I know audiophiles can really overdo it, but I have been using this combination for a month or so now and I think it's sooo much better. Music is way more like I remember it. It was confusing to me because spotify/apple music have everything and yet I found them very frustrating to use. My instinct was right -- they're crap products compared to what's possible. Your mileage may vary.
I believe Eliezer uses this as a definition of intelligence, but it also works as a definition of agency: to paraphrase, a system that acts to attain or impose a pattern, criterion or constraint on future states of the world.

A crucial metric, IMO, is the degree to which paths of action to these criteria extend from the agent. For instance, a Spot robot acts to maintain the criterion of upright position on its future stance by action of leg movement. This only affects the robot directly through short plans and so is relatively harmless. In comparison, an ASI running on an AWS datacenter may impose the criterion that the datacenter continue to exist, through long chains of action involving the eventual death of all humans intending or posing a chance to destroy it. That would obviously be quite a lot worse, but I think the example illustrates how "imposing a criterion onto the future" captures the essence of agentic behavior at various levels of power and danger, without pulling in any unnecessary detritus such as "consciousness", "will" or "emotion".
I've got the full extended meanings of my first, middle, and last names memorized. I'd post them but I don't want to dox myself. You can call me "Glorificus" for short though :) .
So will objdump (or llvm-objdump) with -dS, for that matter (hint: -Mintel or, on older llvm-objdump versions, --x86-asm-syntax=intel), except the line numbers in both GCC and Clang’s debug info suck in optimized builds. (Not the fault of the debug info, arguably, it’s just that the optimizer rearranges the code to the extent that the notion of line numbers makes little sense.)
I already made my comment about insane takes for the day. I'm (optimistically) hoping this is a joke?
That's ridiculous. If I sell someone a framed photograph of Moscow am I violating sanctions against Russia? Of course not.
Recumbents are noticeably more efficient than uprights. In fact any tech or method that's been banned by UCI should make bikes even more efficient.
Well if I know what the class requires and I study the material a year ahead before I take the class then aren't I really just waisting time going to lectures/lab just to get the credit?

At that point Universities should just offer tests for credit in every class so students can skip wasting time attending a pointless lecture since learning is no longer the goal here.

i.e. if college is $6k a semester, then just to get tested should be like $3k and let more serious/prepared students to graduate faster.
Because at the end of the day you're just paying for accreditation.

Otherwise it's just a giant circle jerk (we all know that it is already though).
Blind-sided how?

50% of software engineers unemployed in 2 years, 5 years, 10 years?

Or something like 50% of the US/world population using a chat-gpt style assistant to perform a complicated mental task (aka not "Alexa, set a 2 minute timer.") once a day/week in 2 years, 5, 10?

Don't get me wrong, chatGPT's emergent intelligence is impressive and I'm playing with Alpaca 13B and other models locally, but I'm not sure it's going to be as transformative and as quickly as many here seem to think. Humans and society are inherently resistant to and slow to change.
The right literally elected several of these people into congress, and they are actively getting their way so that McCarthy could have his speaker seat.
I would add one more thing to the list: Superconscious

Superconscious is when a general intelligence has direct access, understanding and control of its most basic operations.

I.e. it does not have an inaccessible fixed-algorithm subconscious.

Superconscious intelligence will not only be more experientially conscious than us, but will have the natural ability to rewrite its algorithms, and redesign its hardware. As a normal feature of its existence.
What would that look like? Most modern UI frameworks on other platforms look an awful lot like CSS to me. These new frameworks have no baggage and they still choose to be very CSS-like.
Yes, but these sites target morons; the sort of people who buy DDoS attacks using identifiable details and IP addresses and pay with traceable payment methods.
The Streisand effect?

TikTok is sketchy AF, but you don’t ban it. Just have your buddies at Raytheon or Teledyne snatch up the old Vine assets and get cheugy with it.
For Long-Term Influence, Pick a Side
I always loved the scene in HBO's Deadwood when the first bicycle comes to town and everyone gathers to watch someone try and ride it.
"India and China are enemies, they keep having border skirmishes."

Border skirmishes with sticks and fists actually - commanders on both sides firmly respect the "no firearms" rule. The only deaths were in the 2020 flare up. Since then, the recent encounters have been quite literally "body checking" the border with muscle.

Yet the current skirmishes and any future skirmishes have not and will not affect ongoing trade and investment.

India still has $119 billion trade with China. China is India's top trading partner in 2023. There is also significant Chinese investment in India - Oppo, Vivo, Fosun, etc.

Meanwhile Russia continues to be the single largest supplier of crude oil for India, which is converted into petrol and diesel at refineries, for a fifth straight month by supplying more than one-third of all oil India imported.

India is ambivalent/negative to Ukraine and generally abstains from all US proposals that are anti-Russian. Ukraine had voted against India several times in the UNSC and also armed Pakistan and this is remembered by the Indian government.

Some Americans appear to mistake BRICS as some sort of political/military alliance. It is not - its a trade/economy focused alliance whose founding impetus was the 2008 economic crisis where the world paid the price for bad US economic policies.

There is also a movement away from the US dollar to other national currencies in BRICS nations - though India is not a part of this movement - the US is India's second largest trading partner after all.
It's due to the March 2023 Google core update. Basically, they do these updates periodically, which can cause swings in organic search traffic.

Not a great article, but explains a core update: https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-rolls-out-march-2...
Well, you wouldn't really be buying stuff at that point...
I read a few weeks ago here on HN about one large SAAS grinding to a halt because of a greedy selector in one line of regex. Not sure how people find old stories, it's lost to me now. But it was an excellent example of why regex is dangerous and requires a lot of care to write. I wouldn't trust an AI to write my regex unless I saw that people were finding it to be consistently better than they were are writing what they need.
How would that activity allow one to purchase ever greater quantities of energy imports?
check out velomobile, recumbent bicycles with a fiberglass shell that can go crazy fast (60km/h is not unheard of).
I prefer to implement ideas "from scratch" (using Keras and Tensorflow) as much as possible, and quite rarely use pre-trained networks. But as pre-trained networks are getting more and more powerful, this isn't an ideal strategy :D Well I have deep-dived to Stable Diffusion.

I feel like if I only use pre-trained stuff and copy paste code, I couldn't solve novel problems, apply domain knowledge to the problem etc. But I mostly work on computer vision / image tasks, and at work we just use LightGBM for a regression problem on tabular data. I don't have much experience on NLP.
Wonderful work! While I was reading, the HN points went up 500% and my battery fell by 50%.
So a window manager with metrics? Looks interesting
As an aside, I don't want anyone sick preparing my food or drink. There's a public health reason for actual sick leave right there.

Aside from that, if they can't afford to treat their employees with dignity, they shouldn't be in business. They can, though.
> It takes substantial technical expertise to train very large models on GPUs. In the recently released GPT-4 Technical Report, OpenAI credits over thirty contributors just for compute infrastructure and scaling.

This is called a silver lining for some (in case you were worried about gpt taking your job). Privacy requirements alone will in the near term force major companies to run their own inference (if not training). The expertise required are nearly identical to that of running large scale distributed computational graphs.

This is an interesting diveragence from what happened with web. The backends started out simple before map-reduce and before deconstructing databases and processing distributed logs. With ML, we'll jump right into the complex backends in tandem with easy-picking early stage edge applications (which we see daily on HN).
Categories on Amazon are basically meaningless. There are probably more miscategorized products on Amazon than ones in the correct category.

Most users just type into the search field, so they don't end up interacting with categories.
I was sold when you said "direct flights from Vancouver". One of the biggest pain points for me is having to get connecting flights in the east coast for most destinations we plan to go to.
Best Buy isn't perfect, but in general they're much lighter on the 'advice' they try to give you. Their commission is in selling useless warranties, if a clerk does a good job I'll buy one as a tip.
Correct, and it's sad as to how few people, especially within the ML research community, ever considered how blatently easy it is to embody agents.

Literally go open ChatGPT now and ask it give you a time between X and Y where it will respond if not prompted again. Ask chatGPT to Write some kind of code that parses the tidbit at the end indicating when it will next respond, and have it blank prompt it if it is not responded to within the time limit. Boom, embodied agent with a few prompts and a tiny bit of extra code.
> This experience left me convinced that Namecheap is holding onto domains to make a profit. I'm curious if anyone else has had similar issues with Namecheap and if there are other trustworthy registrars to consider. If you have any recommendations, please let me know. I'm in search of a reliable and safe option for domain registration.

'Make a profit'. God forbid a business does something to 'make a profit'.

Entirely unclear why people seem to believe that domain names are something of a public trust and should go by different rules than any other object or item a private company can profit from. I've noted this attitude literally since the 1990's with public comments about domain names or registrars.

There is nothing at all wrong, illegal or unscrupulous with a domain name registrar - if a domain is not paid for by their customer - with the registrar holding that domain to auction it or sell to another party.

And in fact many if not most registrars do a version of this (Godaddy as only one example). ICANN allows this as long as the contract that the customer signed or says has this possibility pointed out. ICANN does require domains that are not paid for deleted but doesn't prevent a registrar from deleting the domain from the customer account and then taking possession of the domain in order to resell it. (Prior info refers to .com .net .org .info and other common tld's).
I did say "primary mandate". I don't think that is controversial.

>then we can raise taxes

I totally agree that raising taxes is the right thing to do (as do my smart friends and most economists ;) ). But that's not the lever the Fed has. And of course it's politically untenable.

> Make everyone who was speculating on housing sell their investment homes.
Agree there too. But that's not the lever the Fed has.
Can the LLaMA weights be used for commercial products?
IntelliJ Idea 2023.1
You can still listen to classical in the regular music app, all of these tracks and albums are in the main app. But if you find a recording you really like and want to check out more stuff by that composer or the conductor, or the performers... Well conventional streaming app UI and search kind of sucks for that.

For example one of my most played artists on Apple music is "Various Artists" ;p
Countersteering is convenient, but not required. A bicycle and rider are not a single rigid body. You can simply lean to one side and you'll have to steer in that direction to keep your bike under you -- no countersteer necessary.

I am not saying people don't countersteer, only that it isn't necessary to make a turn.

Also, bicycles aren't motorcycles where the weight ratio between rider and vehicle is swapped.

If you don't feel like clamping your handlebars so they only turn one direction, try this: coast along a straight line (and outdoor basketball court is great). Then pick a direction and just lean that way. You can absolutely keep your wheels on the line until you turn in the direction you picked, with no countersteering necessary.

This "fact" came about with a video of low skill riders who can't manipulate a bike very well, or don't know what it is they're doing when they do it.
I have never had an issue with EasyDNS. I also do not have tremendous requirements.
The modern "fat bike" would be (is!) quite good at traversing a variety of natural terrains where humans live, without roads or paths/trails.
Why should I switch to SQLMesh if I am already on DBT? DBT works fine for my use case today.
Ignoring that nation states are have organized efforts to degrade other countries over time by these mediums doesn't make it any less true. It just means your head is in the sand.
> AGI used to mean artificial and generally intelligent ( which we have passed)

Which AI is generally intelligent ?
Walmart has suppliers RFID tag with UPC + Unique ID. It would work perfectly for amazon. They would be able to track Who sent in what and in which shipment it came in.
None of the examples you give refer to their subjects as <year> phaseout, and none list a year at all in their titles. All of them go out of their way to clarify that the dates they give are referring to the beginning of the process, which wouldn't be necessary if that were the default interpretation.
Are we reinventing Usenet?
Maybe the clerk was just a bad apple?
I want to cry... why distributed programming in Python?

I mean, I understand that a lot of people want Pandas to run faster, and distributing computation would help... but come on! There needs to be a line in the sand that a sane person would not cross. It doesn't matter how much effort you put into making Python distributed, it's not going to work unless you have the power to control the language itself.

You know, I just thought of a metaphor for this. Maybe not 100%, but you'll get the idea. Suppose you live in a small country, something close to 10M population. And you want to buy pants. Well, you want to buy them from an offline store, so you don't get all the choices you have by shopping online. You don't care about the price, you can afford to buy one pair of pants for a price of ten. You just want a specific kind. Let's say, you want JNCO jeans.

Tough luck. You go to every store that sells pants, but JNCO is just too niche for a small country to make sense for the retailers to import. So, every store that wants to make profits buys the same exact model of jeans that was advertised in the last year fashion catalogue. You can pay a little more or a little less for better or worse material, but all the pants on the offer have the same trashy design. You just cannot stand them.

This is what's happening with Python. It's trash. But it's the model from the last year fashion catalogue. So any program you write, any problem you solve must be in Python, or else you lose the competition before you even enter into the contest.
Considering that AI is just "taking off" now, I'd say we're still pretty early in the growth curve (the alternate hypothesis, that people have been oblivious for a while, seems unlikely). Regardless, I think even if we were well into the linear portion of the curve, we could still do a lot with layers of tooling on top of marginal improvements on current models and technology.
Do the apple sales people get commission?

It's been widely reported on the internet that Apple salespeople are not on commission, which is what makes the OP's story so curious.

Maybe it's changed since the pandemic.
GPT is not general intelligence. It cannot reliably follow instructions. It cannot reliably do math. It cannot reliably do anything. It can do things well enough to trick people like the author into thinking it has general intelligence.
I'm glad to have an answer to the question I asked you 7 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32472443 (What's Neon's point of view about transient state in nodes? Is there a world where serverless client connections are stateless, or is the set up overhead not expected to be worth the cost?).

This is a good analysis of network time and optimization. I'd love to see a followup exploring the impact on the server side; Considering how Postgres was historically not very efficient at setting up new connections but has been steadily getting better with each major release. It would also be great to see what portion of the request is taken up by the setup versus the query itself, to have some idea of cost.
If you use it occasionally you didn't notice:
- not working notifications
- broken feeds
- random delays in loading the page
On a long enough time line, we probably all don't know our own birthday, if still alive....