skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolutely, I think one guy got deported for joining an "outlaw" motorcycle club.
Absolutely, you can say the same for a bunch of different companies. Some did really well (GitHub) while others did less well (Docker). I don't think looking at Docker is representative of the entire "FOSS Hosting" angle, and won't predict the future of huggingface.
My biggest requirements are around dimensions: I need it to fit in my narrow garage, and I need it to have a certain amount of ground clearance. I also need 4WD or AWD just to get off my property in the winter. Price is also a factor, up to a point.
> Yep! The world is your HTTP header oyster.

So basically it does not address anything. I begin to wonder what’s the point of this RFC.

Was it the case “oh, we use this inside of Akamai but some of our clients require some form of a standard so can we please push this one through”?

I mean, surely if you’re going to propose a standard that suppose to address some shortcomings of HTTP, you’d do it so that it can be used by anybody without any dependency other than HTTP itself. No?
Yes the original commented-out title in the tex code of https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.12712 was "First Contact With an AGI System" but they toned it down before publication lol.
This should not happen if you use Odin and its serializer, a dropdown allowing you to create a new instance of type Foo will show up in the editor.
> I don't lose much besides the right to vote.

I think you mean the obligation to vote. :) Aren't you paying more in taxes and/or losing out on social benefits if ever desired? Say you want to buy a house, larger stamp duty? Have kids, less/no subsidy? Something something medicare benefits?
(not an american citizen or resident) Open borders is not a serious public policy position for a western nation.

Western culture is difficult to bootstrap, and requires effort to maintain. In the US, civics are taught to all of your children through the education system. People have shared mythologies about freedom and duty and senses of right and wrong. Even with this, there are strong frictions between traditions.

If you resettled a city of people from Sudan or Afghanistan to a western city, those people would not suddenly become western by virtue of their new geography. In Sweden in the last twenty years, inadequately managed immigration has created a gang and gun crime culture.

I am astonished when I see westerners advocate for open borders. I think it comes from a mistaken assumption that live and let live is the default order in the world. It is not. Live and let live is a hard won cultural achievement, and needs to be tended.
I've been thinking about making a DIY record lathe.

If anybody here is big into DIY 3D printer hacking, do you see any big blockers with using a 1-D Prusa system to host a record cutting head?
If the EU considers America an adversary (perhaps they should), they would be wise to ban all American social media.
I think what OP means is that the tokenization is throwing away encoded information.

That is 11 should be two tokens representing 1 and 10. That way the relationship can be more easily learned.

Otherwise it needs to memorize the relationship between every pair of numbers. Which is exponentially more difficult.
And the UK's belief an entire street address always fits into a single short line is a bane for many foreigners. Every country seems to think they're the norm.
>patrol cop gets given a computer and told to 'find the suspect'?

No, just one that got promoted to detective
Good point. As always, it's always the good guys who follow the rules and the bad guys who don't. This pause would just allow the bad guys to catch up.

The solution is to allow as many different entities as possible to develop their own AIs so that they end up competing with each other and providing alternatives. What we don't want is a single AI which dominates our entire belief system.
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That view is shared by only about 1 in 3 American voters, which is why we have a system like this to balance the genuine personal interests of US citizens who marry non-citizens against the desires of the majority to have at least some level of immigration and naturalization controls.
> Tao used this weighting technique to prove that almost all Collatz starting values — 99% or more — eventually reach a value that is quite close to 1. This allowed him to draw conclusions along the lines of 99% of starting values greater than 1 quadrillion eventually reach a value below 200.

If they reach a value below 200 then they surely will reach 1 (since all sub 200 sequences have been brute forced). What am I missing?
It's naive to think the danger is in self-aware evil AI. AI is a tool, and can be used as a weapon.

There's a functional power difference between a knife, an assault rifle, and a nuke. Everyone owns knives--they're in your kitchen--they can't cause much trouble. Access to assault rifles has turned out to be a dangerous problem to society, and is a contentious issue as such. Nukes are obviously too dangerous for people to own willy-nilly.

The issue is where along that spectrum AI will fall into in 6mo, 1yr, 5yrs, etc.

It's troubling to think anyone, especially on a technical forum like HN, believes GPT-4 doesn't have arms or legs (anyone can hook it up to any machinery/robotics) or can't think very fast. Its training set is a good chunk of human knowledge, and it outperforms most humans already.

Even if you assume AI won't be very clever (which seems unwise given its development pace), consider just its ability to perform thoughts and actions at the speed of a computer compared to a human. There are quite a few examples of modern military engagements where a larger, weaker, and less-well-trained force overcame better-equipped opponents, like Mogadishu, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc.
None of this has anything to do with the government of the US but nice try.
How does food fortification compare between the two countries? Because I know in the US they fortify the shit out of almost every form of cheap grain foods with atleast iron and commonly with other vitamins and minerals.
> The United States does not have a strong democracy. Half (more or less) of the population believes the election was rigged.

From various recent polls, it looks like somewhere between 30-40%, somewhere under 2/3 of Republicans and Republican-leaners and basically no one else.
> Is 'best' affordable?

Yes. Exactly as what we are having, no extra keys or extra something, we are talking about different placing of same keys so I surprised to see this question.

> Is 'best' compatible with what I learned without invested more time in learning something new?

Well, why (in ideal world) the kbd supplier has to consider the needs of not wise people? If you really have learned Qwerty you will not even noticed a different paint on the keys.

> Is 'best' something that's going to live far beyond it's usefulness based on it's cost?

It is best in the sense that the best side of knife for cutting bread is the sharp one but it is one of the worst ones for holding the knife.

> Is 'best' something you can't hand to someone else and have them use it?

Any idea may be shared among minds.
284 tons is a lot until you divide by the number of end users. You could say the CPU compute usage for Netflix encoding its video library is comparable, probably more when you consider the permutation of output formats across the size of their library. But the per user emissions is still negligible.
Ignoring the distaste I hold for precautionary principle arguments, the impracticality of the recommended solutions is laughable.

The genie is out of the bottle regarding LLMs thanks to the public availability of Llama and the related support data necessary for any individual to run them on sub-$5K hardware. The computing costs of engaging in training and modifying is within the realm of a modestly wealthy individual or group now, no longer requiring the budgets of large commercial or public institutions/government. The "undo" button is disabled.

If you wish to have some organized response I'd suggest taking the time and effort to educate the public on the realities of what these technologies can, and more importantly cannot, do. As it stands now you have all manner of media and commentators breathlessly announcing that LLMs are smarter than people and can completely replace human workers because they can carry on coherent sentences... but can't reliably do basic arithmetic.

Spend your energy on trying to provide useful explanations of how these technologies work, what is the current state of the art, what the strengths and weaknesses are, and dispel the hyperventilated fantasizing and bullshit currently polluting the public discourse on the subject.

I'm much less worried about LLMs than I am the people who will be rushing to deploy them because they're the new hotness without any clue regarding the appropriateness of the tech for particular problems and then being shocked at the consequences.
My torts professor’s head just exploded, in case you were wondering what that sound was.
I don't think that's the issue. The Collatz conjecture has a non-branching form in binary (using weird operations), but that doesn't really help anything because the operations are hard to analyze as mathematical operators.

Here is the non-branching form:

0. Start with an odd number n

1. Apply n = 3n + 1

2. Count trailing zeroes of n

3. Right shift n by the trailing zero count

4. Return to (1), stopping at n = 1
This is explicitly something Google has been found having done, and been told it won't work. Generally speaking, if the lawyer's input is not requested, and the lawyer does not respond, the attempt to claim it's privileged will be thrown out.

Here is the DOJ accusing Google of that exactly, a year ago, related to the same case: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/03/google-routinely...
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It's impossible to read old iMessages and they take up tons of storage [2021]
> I'm not sure why a direct communication style is inappropriate.

Think of politeness as a social technology that allows large groups of people to live and work in close proximity. It's not that politeness is more efficient - it's clearly less efficient. It's that most people can't psychologically handle too much direct communication.
I was looking for an old post where someone managed to reverse engineer one of Apple's more recent implementations of iMessage but stumbled on this instead.

It seems relevant today given the Microsoft Teams performance discussions.
I don’t think that’s true at all. There are real differences between how we treat men and women. And the actual effect we’re seeing isn’t even addressed — if it’s because college campuses won’t tolerate dissent, why wouldn’t that affect men?
I can't get certain benefits like for unemployment, but can sign up to Medicare (and the age pension, in future.) Well, I can always turn to crime if I run out of money, right? Resident non-citizens can buy houses, but pay an extra tax, but there's an exemption for New Zealanders. The Australian citizen partner can help with the stamp duty reduction for first-home buyers.
The author's central takeaway that beauty must feature ornamentation is, to me, a very inept observation about the elements of art/design.
> I still wonder if there is something else going on. But feel like instead of a survey of 200 countries it would be more interesting to just focus on one country with a more homogenous genetic population and measure lots of different possibel variables

I think the point is that looking at 200 countries makes the possibility of confounding factors much lower
Very useful perspective
Americans prefer to breed our own gangs rather than import them.
You're taking my statement out of context. I was refuting the claim that China's restrictive social media policy is a justification for a similar US policy.

If the UK justified their actions solely on the basis that because the Germans did it it must be ok that'd be unreasonable. (This isn't the right forum to get into it, but the ethics of civilian saturation bombings are much more complicated and I'm not saying either was in the right, though of course in total Germany was far far worse).
I think about it in the same terms. We make better and better abstractions which makes it easier and easier to code. Usually with some performance loss that better hardware can cover.

The implication of that is this will have a similar impact as previous abstractions.

But two questions:

1. Does this scale?

2. Is the type of difference between Python and Assembly the same as between Python and AI Codegen?
To be honest, you're realistically taking a lot of risk. The second the Australian government decided to change/rework how the visa works, you could be in a bit of trouble. I would personally move towards getting something more stable. Multiple citizenships are usually quite nice to have anyway.
We currently hold all the agency. We have the potential to fix those. They’re not binary. We can slow/reverse climate impact and you can have a small nuclear war. Creating AI is a one-way function and once it exists, climate change or nuclear war or biological impact or survival become an outcome of what the AI does. We hand it our agency, for good or ill.
> A strong democracy doesn't need to fight "fake news" legally and doesn't need their own propaganda

your argument to me sounded like :
> Brave people don't fear heights, you are brave and hence you should jump from empire state building. And you don't need protection, remember you are brave.
How about not spreading around false information if you don't know wtf you're talking about?
Oh god this is a flashback. One of my earlier jobs (circa 2010 or so) was working as a defence contractor doing operations for a system using an IBM/Weblogic/J2EE SOA stack. Part of this stack involved the XI50/XI52 and eventually an XG45. I inherited these devices from someone leaving the program and it became my niche.

Administering the thing was a giant PITA. Lots of GUIs, clicking, and (shocker) more XML.

I recall some sort of pipeline interface where you could manage all the various steps a requests could pass through with various components for doing SAML auth XSLTs and similar operations.

Since leaving that roll, I've seen absolutely nothing about these devices or anybody else who'd ever used them.
n-days. you mean "known and disclosed issues which we choose not to make fixes available to 80% of our clients so we can sell more disposable pocket computers."
Cities*
> In our 2018 book The Coddling of the American Mind, Greg Lukianoff and I presented evidence that the same trends were happening in Canada and the United Kingdom—not just the rise in depression and anxiety, but also the overprotection of children, the rise of “safetyism,” and the shouting down of speakers on university campuses when students deemed the speaker to be “harmful.” It seemed that all the Anglo nations were setting up their children for failure in the same ways at the same time.

And there was exactly zero evidence of this having anything to do with it, and none of it really fits the bill of having "switched on" around 2010 or a little before (hint: facebook).
> Absolutely. Pick any city of your choice. New York, Los Angeles, London, Joburg, Bangalore, Hong Kong, Lima... Are the ethnic demographics of the city not substantially different from those of its rural surroundings?

Yes, but are they all ethnically skewed in the same way? If the concern is genetic factors, it doesn't really matter if cities have different ethnic demographics than rural areas in all two hundred countries as long as the rural/urban racial skew is different in the different countries.

For example, in the US rural areas may tend to be whiter than urban areas, but in countries that aren't predominantly caucasian, the opposite may be true.
I have never found this to be the case. It is almost always a combination of low ability to learn anything, needing to be told exactly what to do frequently, and eating up lots of other people's time, and none of this improves over time. The other situation I've seen is people who basically do little to no work and make no attempt to really hide it. I've never seen either of these situations resolved successfully, no matter how many times they are moved around, or coached, or allowed to eat up the time of those who get things done.
Generative AI for websites (waitlist opened 25.03)
Hey HN!
We're Dan, Amiran, and Ibragim - co-founders of Essai - no-code platform that allows to create websites 10x faster using AI.

So, basically as Web/AI developers we had never touched no-code website builders in our lives until one day I (Dan) needed to create a landing page for another project and decided to use no-code for it. It turned out to be waaaay harder than expected. Endless toolbars, css properties put into some random places. Ugh... So many times caught myself thinking that one more minute and I'll switch back to my sweet pretty React and finally feel like home. Later on, Ibragim and Amiran also tried to build a couple of websites and experienced the same pain.

This is where the idea came - why don't we make website building feel like home... for everyone?
In about the same period of time youtube started to fill with videos where web designers turn beautiful Midjourney designs into actual web pages, but with a price of manual work that was required for it. We thought - why won't we automate that with AI and use it as one of our core technologies?
Luckily, that all three of us (Amiran, Ibragim, Dan) have worked as AI (architect/engineer/researcher) in Samsung and Huawei, so we "know something" about building AI systems :P

So, a little bit about the product:

Our key features are:

- Generate a landing page based on text description

- Edit design/content of any element (or whole section) using text prompt.

What we're generating:

- Content

- Brand-specific design

- Contact form

What we're not generating (yet):

- Additional pages

- Blogs or any other website type except landing pages

- Red-lipped batfish (don't google)

Here's our twitter if you want to be the first to know when we launch: https://twitter.com/essai_team
Sounds like fuel for a revolution. I know some governments will go to war with their own people, but all of them?

There will be some countries that go the way you've described and crush any discontent with force. But some will try to navigate an outcome that socializes the benefits of automation.
It's also worth noting the rise of authoritarism in so many countries simultaneously.
No. I trust distribution maintainers a lot more than I trust other developers.
What you're missing is that "99% or more" is not 100%. Tao's technique does not preclude the existence of a small cycle of large numbers that never get below 200 (or rather, below 2^64, since we have tried all of those).
I think we shouldn't. We should encourage as many organizations build AIs as possible. Then they will spam the web to extinction (dead internet theory will be real) and we will all be better for it.

Then we can rebuild the internet properly and in a decentralized way with blockchain-based authentication.
It's a bit tedious to even try it in my experience: you have to use Unreal Engine for Fortnite and interact with the code through that (no publicly available compiler/VM afaik). They have some docs at least on setting it up but still depends on having UEFN which is a little unfortunate: https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/uefn/verse-api, https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/uefn/starting-...
In europe, excluding scam countries like malta, you don't have to pay such high fees to get processing.
Used past tense cause I quit (not cause of that), also cause after a while people got used to it and found workarounds.
everyone is incompetent but me!
> A friend of mine felt it was finger pointing when her coworker said "could you take a look at your commit `abc0123`? because it broke the test `Xyz`". I thought it was direct but professional.

IMO, it was appropriately finger pointing. The person who breaks the build should be the one to fix it - they're the one with the most context.

But also - require tests to pass before a commit is allowed. It makes development so much better.
I like the approach. I think we will need a lot of tests like these in the near future, comparing AI performance on its actual edge cases rather than on the standard stuff we test it for right now.

Hallucinations are a big one. “Obedience” is the next one that comes to my mind (how willing or unwilling the model is to comply with requests).
Open borders always gets framed as crazy, unrealistic and extreme when I advocate it. I think it's really that way because of where the overton window is right now. Bryan Kaplan does a fabulous job in his book Open Borders to address all concerns about open borders from all angles: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42867903
This is like trying to get people to call Linux "GNU Linux".

While it might be a more accurate name, no one but a tiny minority is going to care, and even fewer will actually change the way they refer to it.
this is not from pzero
> Nobody is stopping you from living in a cave!

A bunch of tights wearing twats manufactured this idea of "private land" and now violence is waged against those seeking cave life.

Also caves don't stop the Shoggoth from finding you.
> But if by “a priori” you mean something innate in humans or mathematical, I think you’ll be hard pressed to find that. Or what that really even means.

A priori = Beforehand, or before analysis performed. Standard phrasing in research, defines reasonable hypotheses to test.
It's not just about the make-up of the supreme court; it's about the people and politics of the people who appointed them.
The Lampoon Takes on AI
Use the moment to replace ubuntu-server with Debian and you'll be glad you did when Canonical decides on its next move to ensnare users. Even when I used Ubuntu - back in the early brown-desktop days when they sent out free CD-ROMs to anyone who wanted one - I never felt tempted to use it on a server since it was never clear to me what it offered that Debian could not deliver while it was clear that keeping Debian up to date was (and is) far easier than doing the same with Ubuntu.

Ubuntu had its place in popularising Linux but they jumped the shark a long time ago, now they are just another player jostling for their own niche.
I want cryptocurrency exchanges regulated. Not cryptocurrencies themselves. They are distinct. Cryptocurrencies are perfectly good technology, exchanges are fractional reserve banks in disguise.
It's a clone, but you can't directly compare one social network to another like that. There are differences in the culture and community that won't necessarily survive being transplanted.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_block_device
Say you can afford to donate $x. If it's tax deductible, you can then afford to donate $x / (1-T) where T is your effective tax rate.
Hey, I wrote this! Happy to answer Qs about stuff I've learned for operating and being responsible for ETOOMANY Postgres, MySQL, Redis, Kafka, Cassandra and OpenSearch installs over the years.