skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These companies do actually own the buildings based on the normal definition of own. The fact there are loans on the buildings does not change that.
These rah rah comments aren't illuminating or helpful. There are immense costs - societal and ecological - to progress that a lot of people seem to be blind to, whether willfully or not.
That’s disappointing to hear, thanks for the info!
If you could, you should have done it 6 months ago.
They make the same game that everyone loves in a hundred different coats of paint.

I hope they bring bloodborn to PC, it's the only palette swap of the genre I'm interested in.

Or maybe they will finally bring back Armored Core.
I thought it'd be something dog-related :(
Other projects can't use waterfall development because they would like to actually produce something useful instead of what was decided at the start of the project.

This isn't the way pharmaceuticals are developed; we don't require the pharma companies to know how they work (and we shouldn't, because we don't know how many common safe drugs work). We validate them by testing them instead.
My understanding is that CarPlay costs nothing other than implementation costs for car makers and head unit makers. Do you hav proof otherwise? This cost delta seems unlikely based just on CarPlay and Android Auto.
This is such a boneheaded decision I can't help but laugh. Everyone I know who has tried CarPlay now avoids cars that do not have it. When I bought my Miata last year, I specifically chose the trim with CarPlay capability. I will not by a car that does not have it.
I do this all the time in Zoom, to share PowerPoint presentations at the correct scale and without exposing my speaker notes, and to share YouTube videos from Firefox without showing the "chrome" portion surrounding the video.

My side monitors are oriented vertically, so if I put those windows in fullscreen and try to share the whole monitor it doesn't come out correctly proportioned. This also provides a smoother experience without the "flicker" of going fullscreen and back (which can happen when you switch focus between windows).

It's a similar use-case to the one bentcorner described above.

The "share region" solution is admittedly a bit of a hack but it works. Love to find an easier solution to this scenario (especially a way to break out speaker notes into a floating window I could position right under my webcam).

BTW apropos to nothing, I always loved the way the old Spy++ tool let you drag a reticle onto a control hWnd (reminiscent of how "Select an Element" works in Chrome DevTools) - that was a neat mechanism to quickly select a perfectly carved out region of an app without having to draw a box, but alas these days with so many going Electron, and other non-standard presentation surfaces, it wouldn't be as useful anymore.
That number seems insanely high, are people really going to pay for the privilege of getting maps when they can get them for free on their phone?

I would think a lot of people would just get a phone holder for their car, or just choose another car.

I mean GPS's charging for map updates hasn't been mainstream for 10ish years?
Link isn't loading for me: https://archive.ph/pCYYf
"good software" is not a goal. My goal, especially if I'm a solo dev, is to make something cool, efficiently. Instagram is built on Django and probably lots of JavaScript too. Maybe their software is a slow, ponderous stack of crappy libraries, but if those languages can function at that scale they're probably good enough for 99% of people.

Besides, code at a large scale in any language is always messy. There are many ways to manage a growing codebase but if your only approach is relying a "good" language with static typing, verbose/explicit syntax, and a better built-in package manager, you are doomed to fail anyways.

Perhaps this is a case of correlation=/=causation? Python is more accessible so less adept programmers are more likely to use it.
How can you speak with such confidence, when Hinton and Ilya Sutskever can not? Hinton even said it is possible in next 5-10 years.

While, you can believe whatever you believe, please don't bash people as laypeople or something as nonsense.
Great point! Here's my updated response, unchallenged:

The article has nothing to do with business users. The team responsible for maintaining the Twitter API is down to zero engineers. This is the product that brought in $400M ARR.
Has any vim-like ever not had the complaint that it was insufficiently vim so as to be impossible to switch to?

I suspect the helix devs knew what they were doing when they deviated from the vim gospel.

One does not convert the users of vim; text editors are like science — it advances one death at a time.
You're not first one I have heard from.
Here’s the (empty, for now) GitHub repo - https://github.com/microsoft/JARVIS
What I can find a bit more 'scary' is do they even need a deep understanding of it? ChatGPT will get it 'pretty close' and probably many times correct (as well as wrong). But if it is 'mostly right' then does it matter? Which is even more philosophical. As long as they can read the code and it does it like 95% right it may be just fine and they can fix it later? Heck they could even ask chatgpt what is wrong with it...
There’s a command line flag that will make it create an actual copy, rather than a symlink.
Groupon was never software or tech or even group buying.

It was crowdfunded small business loans. The owner of a restaurant or service business could decide to take a loan now to increase capital flow in exchange for promising to pay out some multiple of that amount in goods and services over the coming year.

Blows my mind that the investors didn't realize this.
How many different biochemical schemes for life do you suppose the laws of physics support? It's probably a lot. But how many of those are successful enough that we're likely to have found their implementations? I'm thinking it's far fewer. Mostly just because "successful" is a hell of a filter, but also because the ability to eat your competitor is a hell of a benefit--which would create a bias towards compatibility and away from schemes that have to regard the users of competing schemes as unusable matter.

This is supposing that certain parts of the periodic table are more hospitable to biochemistry than others (i.e. that we don't have transition-metal-based life forms that just operate too slowly for us to notice, or some other orthogonal sort of way to be alive).
Kind of like how we could just ban fossil fuels if they ever start to become a problem.
> GM Chief Executive Mary Barra is aiming for $20 billion to $25 billion in annual revenue from subscriptions by 2030.

Well I guess this will be my last GM vehicle!
On what grounds? Because people like it too much?

Apple isn’t forcing anything. They don’t have exclusive contacts. Almost every car with CarPlay supports Android Auto.

Customers are just demanding it.
People tend not to spend too much time analyzing impossible dreams. Most "if I won the lottery" plans are also profoundly selfish.
I don't believe in Basilisk because of the time-travel bullshit, but I do believe that AGI will come soon, because I don't believe in divine soul and see human mind as just a very complex statistics machine and all human learning as just detecting correlation between sensory input through time.
How many Italian companies could actually afford the training?
I do this using OBS + a dummy plug on my GPU (I run Windows).

1. My dummy plug "monitor" is to the top right of my main ultra-wide - I do this so it's impossible to get "real" windows into it.

2. I have a scene in OBS that has the display capture of my main desktop as a source, and top/left align it with the window.

3. I set my output to 1920x1080 (1366x768 works too but it's a little too small).

4. I set the resolution of my dummy plug monitor to 1920x1080.

5. I use PowerToys FancyZones to set a 1920x1080 zone on the top left of my ultrawide main monitor that I can snap windows to if I shift+drag windows.

Workflow:

In a meeting I make sure to start OBS, and do a Fullscreen Projector of that scene to my dummy plug monitor. (You can add another scene + display capture of your dummy plug monitor if you want to ensure everything looks identical). I then snap whatever window I want to the 1920x1080 zone. I then share my dummy plug monitor to the meeting.

That way you can share what looks like just a window in your meeting but also have the capability to move other windows into the "view" for others as discussion continues and you need to pull other things up without any awkwardness of re-sharing.

This whole setup would be a shitload easier if I could use some kind of simple "transparent window" app and then share that app to the meeting. Or if Teams had "share a region" functionality.
Only for images. People want to generate videos next and those models will be likely GPT-sized.
Is there something in particular that leads you to that belief?
lambdalabs will let you do on-demand 8xa100 @ 80GB VRAM/GPU for $12/hr, or reserved @ $10.86/hr

8xA100 @ 40gb for $8/hr

Replicate friend isn't far off.
While I do agree there were problems with Fukushima note that despite how badly things went the expected death toll was zero. That is, until the politicians got involved and killed hundreds in their need to be seen to do something (and their going anti-nuke is going to kill even more down the road.) Beware of safety data that assigns those deaths to nuclear. (The correct number is around .02 or .03 per Twh. When you see stuff around .07/Twh you're looking at contaminated data.)
It's called perspective. If you don't have it, fine. But I wouldn't loudly brag about how small your world is.
According to PR and marketing departments the world over, every company is a tech company.
It's not a new idea, Tachographs have been around in trucking for many decades. Just a paper disk that gets inserted behind (usually the RPM indicator I think) the instrument cluster. The driver writes name/date on one, puts it in and it logs the speed, braking for the driven hours. Sort of like an old-school seismometer scratching out the lines.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tachograph
Yeah, but I don't think I would have to. German bank accounts are guaranteed by the government but still pay a positive interest rate.
Yes I use How Long To Beat! I was amazed to see it’s so popular it’s even integrated into IGN’s page for games.

And wow storing them all as JSON that’s cool. I wish there was something with as much data as IGDB but you could download and access as easily as JSON files. Their API is really good but obviously has rate limits, etc.
I don't think steam is interested in fragmenting their store into many clients via public APIs. Maybe they could but there isn't really a compelling reason for them to support a 2000s era machine.

What I would like from steam is the ability to zoom within their app - I can do it in a browser but in steam you're stuck with whatever desktop zoom you have in windows. It's 2023 and I can't resize the window and zoom the contents?
I do like mozilla foundation in general, but everybody is supposed to work on "responsible AI" while nobody can really say what a "responsible AI" is really supposed to be, at least not in any way that different groups agree. The hardest issue regarding "AI alignment" is human alignment.
Wasn't Nintendo the first to ignore E3 with their Nintendo Direct format?
For some reason, the auto-insert podcast ads have started coming to me in Spanish. I don't speak Spanish, so it's actually great: I can just skip forward until I get back to English.
Bro, GPT-4 can absolutely not understand new information. Try to teach it a grammar. It can't learn a grammar. Anyone can learn a new grammar. Not GPT-4.

GPT-4 does not ask clarifying questions.

It does not understand things.
Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm
> Compared to who - Garcia? Sure, but that's not surprising.

Nope, Adams's closest competitor in the Bronx was Wiley, but he still did about twice as well as she did in the first round. Adams was the first choice candidate for 45% of voters in the Bronx, the highest of any borough.

> It's easy to find anecdotes, but the facts show how people voted, and with the exception of the mayoral race, they consistently and overwhelming voted for candidates who promised to reign in the NYPD.

... which suggests to me that people are capable of voting for different candidates for different things, and that people have different expectations out of each. My district overwhelmingly sent AOC to Congress - and Adams to City Hall, beating out AOC endorsed Wiley 2:1.

> the facts show how people voted, and with the exception of the mayoral race, they consistently and overwhelming voted for candidates who promised to reign in the NYPD.

I don't see it quite the same way. People have different priorities and can pick and choose candidates accordingly. AOC's views on Congressional matters aligns with voters in my district, and they overwhelmingly supported her for Congress. Her views on the NYPD do not align with voters in my district, but they're not under her purview, so it doesn't matter. I can say that in my district when it comes to local matters, public safety is the number one priority, and that they look to the cops for support. At every public town hall meeting I've been to in my neighborhood, there have been demands for increased police presence, not less. I should also point out that a majority of the district is black/hispanic.
bluetooth has latency and it re-encodes audio to a lossy bluetooth audio standard (and yes I know there's at least two and the high-fidelity one isn't bad - it's still lossy) . Unless that is, Apple has "special bluetooth" that avoids this. I wouldn't put that past them. Link me to a doc if they do.
ChatGPT – The Revolutionary Bullshit Parrot
Thank you for that insight. That supports the idea that it's not just the base LLM model, but it's all the pieces together that make ChatGPT such an incredible experience for us to use.
Opportunity for other stores (especially GOG) to continue supporting old versions of Windows.
How to Defeat Scalper Bots?
This morning, my friends and I attempted to buy boygenius tickets at Red Rocks through AXS during the general sale after failing to get them at the presale two days earlier.

With three people on multiple devices in line, one of use was sure to secure tickets right?

Nope — we were stuck waiting in the queue until all the tickets had sold out. Immediately they went on resale on AXS and stubhub.

I know this isn't a new problem, but it is deeply frustrating. And I am curious, what ideas people have to mitigate or fix this at the different levels (individual, artist, ticket seller)?
The fact that people take agi to mean "can invent new math" is a goalpost shift on its own. That was not the original meaning (generally intelligent), that wasn't even the next moved goal (on par with human experts). I guess the next one counts (better than all human experts) but i'm sure we'll move that again too.
If the OS is Windows, I'd suggest anyone struggling with lag make absolutely certain that the project and scratch folders are excluded from Defender real-time scanning. It makes a huge difference.
> I suspect AGI is possible right now with the right "glue" for existing models, and plugins to existing data sources all coordinated in a system.

I think the regulation of the feedback loops required for sustained, deliberate thought, and interaction with the world, will be the most difficult piece of the AGI puzzle, and might not exist today.

New ideas are "hallucinations" of our "existing data", that we eventually get around to proving. An AGI will require these "hallucinations", inhibition and excitation of them. I think it's going to be a tricky balance [1], for sane output.

1. "Creative minds 'mimic schizophrenia", https://www.bbc.com/news/10154775
I am getting super tired of these responses.

Yes, I have tried it. Please converse in good faith.

GPT-4 has never, not once, in dozens of hours of use, asked me a clarifying question.

It cannot understand things.
The lack of accidents given widespread book-cooking here implies that the true level of safety is not where the current laws have been placed. Of course, one must account for additional violation if one were to put the safety limits closer to true safety limits, but perhaps the answer is that we're lying to ourselves about what the safety limits should be.
It is possible to actually revolution the glue layer of computation in a lot of organizations.

GhatGPT is the ultimate and last glue layer we will ever need.
Could you explain a bit more what the CLIP architecture is? Any good links to a short video demoing it? Thank you!
oh didn't know phonebooks had reviews and scheduling back in the day. nice!
Yeah… I honestly think that altho the Tesla infotainment system isn’t perfect, if we’re gonna judge the safety competency of car companies based on how good their in-house infotainment is, Tesla’s would be far and above the best (until the Apple car comes out or something…).
Witness Fukushima. The correct answer was to stay put. No food production in the area but the city was fine. All the Fukushima deaths were due to the evacuation.
Does anyone know how the results from a 7B parameter model with bloomz.cpp (https://github.com/NouamaneTazi/bloomz.cpp) compares to the 7B parameter Alpaca model with llama.cpp (https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp)?

I have the latter working on a M1 Macbook Air with very good results for what it is. Curious if bloomz.cpp is significantly better or just about the same.
The best reason to use k8s is to take advantage of the wide array of open source k8s resources, including helm charts, custom operators, articles and tutorials etc. It's become an open standard.

Like with many other technologies, k8s' advantage is its ecosystem.
Selfish how? Like not contributing to society? Do we really want to have an introspective philosophical debate about the societal impact of working for a tech company?
why would they not use PII? It doesnt send that data to the US anyway
Yes, kind of playing the "gotcha" question game.

I really see it kind of like having a good junior programmer or intern helping me out who has an incredibly broad amount of knowledge. Sometimes they need some coaching or gentle correction, sometimes you say, "I'll take it from here", but inevitably there are those times where you think, "Great job! I'm really impressed!"
So cool it runs on a browser /sarcasm/ i might not even need a computer. Or internet when we are at it.

It either runs locally or it runs on the cloud. Data could come from both locations as well. So it's mostly technically irrelevant if it's displaying in a browser or not.

Except when it comes to usability. I don't get it why people love software running in a browser. I often close important tools i have not saved when it's in a browser. I cant have offline tools which work if i am in a tunnel (living in Switzerland this is an issue) . Or it's incompatible because i am running LibreWolf.

/sorry to be nitpicking on this topic ;-)
Also the setup described in the post is like pairing with someone that can't run the code and is writing in notepad.

More intelligently putting it in a loop & other helpers for it (which we're now seeing worked on more) should massively improve performance.
Not an online lecture series per se, but rather some interesting readings: https://www.ratherlabs.com/blog
I think we might be working something a bit similar and I agree memory is an issue. However it’s not really AGI that will emerge from this. It’s looking very useful but it’s still observable but it’s not a “mind” like an AGI.

To add to your comments, I suggest that local vector store of embedding vectors of local content is how I’m going with memory issue. Langchain like. That way all previous progress is tracked and retrievable. That way the system can retrieve all it’s “memories” itself. The recursive multi agent pattern is big deal in my opinion.
That has to be the tersest language I have ever seen in my life. Code golf but it's actually a real language used heavily in finance.
Please don’t use the f word, this is a mature discussion forum. You’re an adult, you can express your feelings without such vulgarities.
Ah - now I actually have to come to his defense. Because I only quoted the part immediately after this one and thought it was enough:

> Ruiter says he’s continued to talk about data centers because he wants to remind people that “the cloud” they’ve come to rely on isn’t just an ethereal concept—it’s something that has a physical manifestation, here in the farmland of North Holland. He worries that growing demand for data storage from people, and also, increasingly, AI, will just mean more and more hyperscale facilities.
I replaced a 2-DIN unit in our 2005 Scion xB probably ten years ago with a Pioneer. No need to send a link to a ten-year old product, but go to Crutchfield (if in U. S.), search on "pioneer CarPlay", and you'll get head units with CarPlay from $300 on up. Ours is one of the nicer ones (at the time), and even without CarPlay it's still a nice unit.

We've replaced the unit in the Sprinter RV with a JVC (which, from what I can gather, is just a Chinese brand that bought the name) for something like $300. We pretty much only use CarPlay in that vehicle, which is fine because the rest of the unit is pretty low-end, including the UI. But the CarPlay piece gets the job done.
A new era of transparency for Twitter
China Develops Domestic Chiplet Interface
Not sure it's any more selfish than working for giant corporations for a fat paycheck. Both are selfish in their own ways, and both can also help people in their own ways. I wouldn't say there's something inherently wrong with being selfish on its own.
A wonderful thing about software development is that there is so much reserved space for creativity that we have huge gaps between costs and value. Whether the average person could do this for 85k I'm uncertain of - but there is a very significant slice of people that could do it for well under 85k now that the ground work has been done. This leads to the hilarious paradox where a software based business worth millions could be built on top of code valued around 60k to write.
His estimate is that you could train a LLaMA-7B scale model for around $82,432 and then fine-tune it for a total of less than $85K. But when I saw the fine tuned LLaMA-like models they were worse in my opinion even than GPT-3. They were like GPT-2.5 or like that. Not nearly as good as ChatGPT 3.5 and certainly not ChatGPT-beating. Of course, far enough in the future you could certainly run one in the browser for $85K or much less, like even $1 if you go far enough into the future.
Most of the client is just HTML and CSS, the store would (I assume) still be private no matter what. It'd just be nice to be able to make custom launchers that still work with the steamapi.dll stuff
i think they mean that because of the "subscription revenue" potential of forcing people onto their propriety OS GM will be able to sell the car at a discount. Not that carplay costs more in of itself.
1. It’s not zero sum
2. You don’t need to innovate like that to create a successful startup
3. There is a very, very aggressive skill curve for developers and being ex-Google will have an advantage over the pool boy
Book or StackOverflow: this isn't a "tool," and the developer is expected to have sufficient skill to evaluate the information provided. If they can't do this then they're not qualified for that project.

A keyboard would be an example of a source whose output is 100% verified: we assume that you can see what you're typing. A process with 100% verification does not need to be separately qualified or validated.

I'm not sure how monitor errors could factor into this, can you elaborate?