skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I will still get to experience it

Perhaps, but then none of it has meaning. Personally, I'm not really interested in having meaningless experiences.

> There's plenty of existential dread in death, yet I continue my existence building up to it.

But that's an entirely different thing. I am of the opinion that it's death that helps give life meaning. I have no existential dread about it whatsoever.

A life without meaning, however, seems like a pointless waste of time to me.
`if (sourceUserId.isDefined || sourceUserId.isDefined) Some(true)`

https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/blob/main/timeliner...
US Police aren't required to say anything when a person is arrested. They can just grab you and hustle you into a car without a word.

When a person is charged with a crime, the police expected to supply evidence but they can come up with excuses not to. Once the case goes to trial, all the evidence is supposed to be available to defense attorneys. But since plea bargaining is common, police may not have to come up with the evidence ever.

Overall, US legal procedure is full of things that are absolute rules for civilians but just sloppy average suggestions for cops.
Kudos for open-sourcing this.
Has anyone done any comprehensive analysis on exactly how much quantization affects the quality of model output? I haven't seen any more than people running it and being impressed (or not) by a few sample outputs.

I would be very curious about some contrastive benchmarks between a quantized and non-quantized version of the same model.
Ummm good question. Maybe pop your email into the email sign up form on my website (check my profile)

I write to that list about random things, which is inclusive of more than scooters.

Currently, the next thing I'll be emailing about is about my journey out of evangelicalism, so... Consider yourself warned. ;)
i wasnt referring to him buying twitter, i was referring to him saying he was going to open source the recommendation engine and then doing it.

i agree billionaires owning media companies is huge problem
You mean in contained app? It can already run on a phone. GPU acceleration would be nice at this point, though.
Very Important Tweets, I presume?
until the politicians take the facebook away :)
imagine thinking you need to read every file in a project to understand the architecture and which pieces are important for specific functionality you're looking to understand. Have you ever picked up a bugfix ticket for some code you didn't write?
Tech workers in Bali? Yeah, no doubt. There's lots of tech people there, but I was kinda trying to avoid them/us.
A large chunk got >6 months severance, probably not a bad time to take a few months off and recharge.
Hm, why do you think our lives would have no meaning if we don't qualify for sentience? (Or is it the free will part? Sorry, I set us up for confusion with the initial comment.)

What I think is: Even if we're just automatons that lack free will, it doesn't negate our existence or the role we play in the universe. We can still be the universe calling itself beautiful, we can still have qualia, we can still be individually unique structures of matter and state, we can still make a difference in what is and what isn't in the overall structure. And nothing else in the universe will do it fundamentally better, either. At some point we're subject to the rules of the game, i.e. physics itself.
People have actually ran it on phones.
The very first words of the article are:

"Samuel Langhorne Clemens, aka Mark Twain, .."

Or are you complaining that the HN article should also include that information?
What is lama? What can it do?
Did they not expect people to notice suspicious code like this?

Or did they leave this in just so they could hold its removal up as an example of listening to the community?
The vast majority of self-proclaimed independents vote with one party just as reliably as registered members.
This appears to be the minimum for geothermal. The vast majority of heat pump installs would be air source, and while these can often get 3+ it’s highly dependent on climate and local grid efficiency.

It also depends on local prices. In Madison, WI our implied (not actual) electric grid efficiency based on prices is under 20%.
It’s just a two-pass EM (Elon Maximization) algorithm!
LOL! You got that right! They don't.
I disagree. Companies make way more money of what they offer. Otherwise they would go bankrupt. They are not a charity.

From my experience, from colleagues and friends, equity is worth 100x that of salary, if you know where to "bet" yourself. You can add the option to retire really early with equity as an engineer. One can't with salary before one's 60s.

That other engineering fields might be extremely underpriced is a different topic. But that is not true either. But again I am not seeing the salary data that support that argument.

Companies either pay for an "average web developer" perhaps with some experience, which is maybe what you are hinting? Or they pay for a specialist or strong generalist that will design a system to ensure they don't lose millions to billions if it goes down.

You need to calculate your Shapley value. And that usually in the Bay area says you are vastly underpaid if the stock doesn't pay out. The cash is nothing compared to the value a good engineer could add.

Again depends on the specialty. If you are one of the 10-20 people in the world that can build a particular system in production -- my case say -- you are valued differently.
Coincidentally, one of the UK's remaining three coal plants, West Burton A, apparently ceases operation today (31st March 2023).

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-65127874...
Don't make a God of the gaps type argument, just because we don't know doesn't mean it's unknowable. If one believes in a scientific universe where laws govern reality, then one must accept the fact that brains are biological machines, where removing any part affects the qualia that an organism experiences. Also, I never said that only GPUs are going to create a general intelligence. For example, if we clone a human brain in the future, we'd get the same outcome.

You are again missing my entire point, which is to not say things like something is "never" going to happen if we already observe it happening. I'm not sure how many times I can repeat this point over and over. If you disagree that brains are not biological machines or that they can be replicated by humans through technology, just tell me now and we can stop, that is a fundamental difference that is unreconcilable in just an HN conversation.
Perhaps not exactly what OP expects but AFAIK the oldest book directly dealing with the subject.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golem_XIV
OMG: <https://codeberg.org/ngn/k/src/branch/master/a.c>

My maths notebook from high school looked like that. I'm having flashbacks. (At least in text files you can't cram 4 lines of text into 1.)
There's an assumption there that a neutral AI can exist, but I think a lot of people would challenge that central assumption. No set of training data can be truly neutral or unbiased. It may be well balanced between certain groups, but the choice of which groups to balance, how much to balance them, and the choice to add this balance in the first place are all ideological decisions that stem from certain beliefs and ideas.

The AIs that get built will reflect the ideologies and values of the people who build them. It is therefore better for us ethically to be conscious of the values we are injecting.
> I thought it was interesting how it explicitly doesn't boost independents. So much of the two-party system is self-reinforcing.

Is it boosting? Others are claiming this code is just for metrics collection: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35391896.

But on the topic of Democrats vs. Republican vs. independent; a big factor may be that "Democrat" and "Republican" are much more cohesive groups and therefore much easier to define. No one can honestly define "independent" except in a kind of "none of the above" sense, since they can range anywhere from extreme right, to the center, to the extreme left.
I am happily programming in a for 6 years now, and will not give it up
Mazda may come close. They have the control knob in the center.

I agree no touchscreen for AC/volume knob and some other things, but zero touchscreen at all (even for radio and menu) seems out there. Time to get a 2001 Cherokee.
You're at the low end for heat pump efficiency, but more importantly, you're overlooking the fact that the fossil fuel usage of heat pumps benefits from the ability to use electricity generated by non-fossil fuel sources. In the US that's a significant fraction of electricity generation and in many places it's the majority of electricity. The ability to combine the electricity produced by chemical energy with nuclear, hydro, solar, wind, etc, gives heat pumps an significant advantage over directly burning fossil fuel for heat if what you care about is fossil fuel usage.
I tried to get a heat pump but asinine local regs require five full feet of setback from property line to the edge of the external condenser. I'm not willing to spend $15k upgrading my connection just to get electric resistive heat, so I had to get a new gas furnace instead.

Also, why are heat pumps so hideously expensive? I was quoted $35k, not including the electrical upgrades. A plain AC is half that but it's virtually the same mechanical equipment.
"math genius" not sure about it. I gave it a problem from IMO 2022. In my opinion not a very hard one. It failed even if you give it some hints.

Let R+ denote the set of positive real numbers. Find all functions f : R+ → R+ such that for each x ∈ R+, there is exactly one y ∈ R+ satisfying
xf(y) + yf(x) <= 2.

It just struggeld to reason. So I would be very surprised if the plugin somehow helps here.
Multidisciplinary unmanned lab is taking shape 2.5km under the sea
Not for air source.

Source: your link.

Air source heat pumps are a lot easier, so they are the majority of installs.

I expect the national code doesn't give a minimum COP for air source because the performance changes with air temperature. The bulk of my heating cost occurs when it is 10-20 ⁰F outside, where someone located in a warmer spot might have most of their heating at 35-45 or whatever.
Reading further, only half the people who buy vinyl have a record player.
What I mean, is what happen when the AI don't need you anymore?
I use a Nest thermostat with a 2-stage ground sourced heat pump (a.k.a. geothermal) that also has backup resistive heating. It works perfectly fine. It will run a single stage most of the time, or both stages if it's trying to change the temperature by more than a couple of degrees.

I have mine set to treat the resistive heating as emergency backup, but I believe I could also configure it to treat it as a third stage and run it automatically.
Anytime you see the 'parrot' argument, you can instantly go 'opinion dismissed'

True or not, I find a tone of this sort of fortunate. Please don't come up with catchy ways to stop discussion of points.
If you live near an inexpensive datacenter, you can park it there. Throw in a storage machine or two (TrueNAS MINI R looks like a credible low-effort option). If your workload is to run a year long computation on it and otherwise mostly ignore it, then your operational costs will be quite low.

Most people who rent cloud servers are not doing this type of workload.
I was looking at graph databases/Neo4j a lot early last year and found Neo4j has a lot of good resources.

You can get this book for free through their website. [1]

This have some good documentation[2], including this page "Transition from relational to graph database".[3]

[1] https://neo4j.com/graph-databases-book/

[2] https://neo4j.com/docs/getting-started/current/

[3] https://neo4j.com/docs/getting-started/current/appendix/grap...
I’d probably run that assertion by a lawyer before I lived by it.
Sounds like they did her a favor.

The claims about 'White Supremacy Culture' alone are asinine (sense of urgency?).

Why anybody would want to participate in academia as an administrator is beyond me. It just seems so toxic and petty.
Who does your government and corporate email? In the UK it's all either Gmail (for government) and Outlook (NHS). For compliance reasons they simply want data center certification and location restrictions.

If you think a small corp is going to get a big gov contract outside of a nepo-state you're in for a shock.
>The epoch of earth's history that happens to overlap with your own lifespan isn't inherently more interesting or important than any other time, except to you

Earth's history, sure. Humanity's history though? Living during the Apollo program is clearly more interesting than living in a period of relative stasis. Living during the AGI revolution could be more interesting still, we'll have to see.
Certainly there is some hyperbole there, but not by much: https://screenrant.com/stop-tesla-autopilot-fsd-self-driving...
Congrats! Looks quite good. Will be trying it out. How have you reduced CPU utilization besides moving to Rust? Are you using hardware accelerated encoding?
> the people are free to vote to impose Islamic values upon themselves.

Imposing Islamic values upon themselves is not the issue — or the problem.
It's just way easier for me to edit some existing code than it is for me to write it from scratch. Especially if it's incorrect (a la XKCD 386). For stuff where I'm not sure where to start it's been very helpful. Even though I often keep very little of the GPT generated code by the time I'm done.
50% works cause you'd have an equal chance of eliminating good and bad. While good does good, bad does worse. So, in theory, 50% is a net win.
This is about whether you incorporate outside context or not.

Knowing about train tracks is not that different from knowing about magnetic poles or the common habitats of various bears. All these pieces of data are fairly basic to an educated person. Both the polar bear riddle and my variation of it depend on this body of knowledge.

If you don't incorporate outside context at all, then things start to get confusing quite quickly. What even is a bear? That information wasn't provided! What color is it? Well, what even is color. None were defined. See, it gets ridiculous fast. You clearly need to depend on knowledge that is not presented. Knowing about different colors or different bear habitats is common. Neither needs to be defined in the question.

In the end, both of these bear riddles test whether the answerer considered more than one degree of separation. The ability to consider second order effects and beyond [1] is a sign of an intelligent person. Not every human passes.

--

[1] https://fs.blog/second-order-thinking/
The TechnoCore[0] in the Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons comes to mind.

0: https://hyperioncantos.fandom.com/wiki/TechnoCore
Officers don't run plates any more, it's all done with ALPR. All the various constitution-violating "tools" over the past few years have been successfully combined to create a fully automated, computerized police state.
your "go pro" page is white text on white background in firefox
Facebook guesses your political affiliation as well, you can even look über your settings to see what they guessed.
That was the great thing with the 3rd party client, I could trust that all the people I followed I would get their actual tweets. Every single one of them. There was no also messing with it, no tweet "liked" by someone else, etc. Who I followed is what I saw, nothing less, nothing more.

Of course Elon banned those apps, so now I am on Mastodon where I see 100% of the content that I want. Bonus is that I can even follow many twitter users, through Mastodon bot mirrors. And of course, no ads.
We are talking about people making above >150k/year here right ? At no point does 10-20% inflation mean they are better off growing their own food or some shit like that.

Your point is probably applicable in less developed economies/low paid positions. For highly specialized well paid positions if this was the case you'd probably have a societal collapse.
Sometimes you have to NIH to understand why things the way they are. Granted, it's hard to justify on the company dime. From the perspective that 99% of software is awful and writing more is making things worse, I'm sympathetic to your position.

On the other hand, in my little corner of the world I've seen plenty of damage done by an "invent-nothing" mentality and an approach to software architecture that permits only plugging together popular open source components with fancy websites and corporate backing. For lack of a better term I call it "noun-driven development". You needed a disk reachable through an ssh server and an Apache directory listing, you ended up with Artifactory. You needed a library to replicate data with a Merkle tree, you ended up with someone's Kafka + etcd + memcached + redis + glusterfs Frankenstein monster, etc.

Don't mind me, I'm mostly talking to myself here.
It's the free will part. It seems to me that without free will, nothing anyone does actually matters. Any decisions we make, or any understandings we may develop, can change nothing whatsoever. Which makes it all pointless.

> we can still make a difference in what is and what isn't in the overall structure.

I disagree with this part. We can't possibly make such a difference, because it's all preordained anyway.
Modern Java actually allows `10_000` for that very reason, as does Scala (https://scala-lang.org/files/archive/spec/2.13/01-lexical-sy...)
> I could also make a case in Syria and Libya as well but that would require first convincing you that our CIA/State Dept. were up to their usual tricks

Good news, no convincing needed! I do agree with you that the US government is continually meddling in foreign countries, and I agree that this is a bad thing.

> the coup/revolution that gave Putin his "justification" to annex Crimea.

But here is where you lose me. Even to the extent that the US supported pro-western political movements in Ukraine, it still does not justify overt war by Russia. Russia was surely playing the influence game as well, and ultimately lost. Losing that game doesn't justify escalating to the next level, especially when that next level is full on war of attacking civilian infrastructure and razing cities.
Elon seems embarrassed: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1641908130274525187?s=61...

It’ll be interesting to see what gets cut. Maybe just the Elon flag, but maybe others too.
But that relegates the centralized exchange into the position of being nothing more than a "fiat on-ramp"

That's actually a pretty profitable business. "If you want to interact in any way with crypto, you either have to go through Coinbase or some shady black market crypto dealer," is actually great news for Coinbase.
Track signups and pageviews
Its nearly impossible to get reliable information using search on the internet. I've wasted hours trying to find facts in Google search results. Anything that relies on accurate data from the innertubes is already going down the wrong path.
Did it ever takes many years? I-140 is relatively an "easy" step, pre-covid it was roughly 9 months(Perm certification) + 14 days (Premium processing I-140).

For most of the green card beneficiaries(backlogged country applicants), the wait time to be eligible to file I-485 is the one takes many years.
So this is an anecdote, but…

Last summer Apple said 78% of new car buyers want CarPlay. Not “or Android Auto”. CarPlay. (Note: may be US specific, don’t know)

Someone tried to look it up and ask around. And the basic idea is that new cars are more expensive than ever and going up. And that means if you’re buying a new car (as opposed to used) you have more money. And, at least in the US, that correlates highly with iPhone ownership.

If that’s true, that means that dropping CarPlay (even if you kept Android Auto, which GM isn’t) you’d be heavily annoying the vast majority of your buyers. Not 51%, but 78%.

I don’t think you can remove CarPlay and succeed at this point. Consumer demand is too strong. Now add in Android Auto diehards.
So many blank discs to tape over and save things on in the mailbox. Then the unlimited supply of coasters following.

I knew a guy that had a free trial of AOL for 5 plus years because he's call and threaten to cancel his service - which eventually turned into "listen, Ive been with you folks for 3 plus years now, and I'd really hate to cancel my service now but..."

Bam, another free 6 month window. I still find it hilarious.

Who else rocked qlink ? We're getting there now...
'just' feels slightly de-dignifying, but overall this is not totally wrong.

I'd say there's a lot more to do there than sleep around, but there seemed to be plenty of that. (I'm white-passing, have done the nomad thing in the past, didn't go to sleep around, don't consider myself to be a terrible romantic partner, but am recently divorced, so you shouldn't take only my word on that).

I'm nearly autistic when it comes to land development regimes, and Indonesia is widely regarded as having some of the best land use regimes in the globe, and I wanted to go experience it.

Turns out... It does!

It hurts my soul to return to the USA, where urban planners are the land-use equivalent of flat earthers.
Yes definitely agreed, but most of us are not math model (I hope).

We are able to understand right from wrong, we are able to answers with what is true or what we believe is true. We are able to lie or deny the truth. We are able to say we don't know because we think we don't know and not because we have been programmed not to answer, etc.

Overall I think people saying that, are just saying the difference is that we have a conscience and AI doesn't. Which in a lot of case does matter.
Here's to the next quarter century of removing features and removing speech.
That would be a nonsense argument. Sentience is the ability to have sensory experiences. It's orthogonal to intelligence.
other quick feedback: add a "add node" button, it isn't immediately clear you do this with right clicking
Well, the parliament is part of the government.
> The hardest issue regarding "AI alignment" is human alignment.

Which is partly why the current proposed alignment theory isn't possible. We want to align the AGI by applying human values. Even if we figure out how to get the machine to adopt such values, they are the same values that lead us humans into constant conflict.

I've stated this argument in much more detail here - https://dakara.substack.com/p/ai-singularity-the-hubris-trap
Okay, that makes more sense to me. But those seem like "toy" things to throw ChatGTP at (not dismissing their usefulness or their importance to you, just that they are fairly simple things [and maybe I'm wrong here, I have not written zsh - I googled it just now]).

I think my needs are too specific, and often too nebulous.

Also, just a bit chapped about falling for the hype.
I actually got rid of a chevy truck for this precise reason. GMs design choices in their god-awful infotainment system was so annoying I couldn't stand using it. I got rid of that thing within a year and traded it for a F150, which had a significantly better UI and support for apple carplay (even though it required it to be plugged in).

Its like nobody ever used their vehicles before they shipped it.

Some of my favorite anti-patterns (circa 2015):

- No way to remote start the vehicle with the remote (required a subscription and a phone app to remote start the car)
- No way to enter navigation destinations in head unit (required subscription and phone app to do any GPS)
- If you didn't have a phone, you had to use a phone based service
- Bluetooth connections would randomly stop working
- Bluetooth controls would only work from head unit requiring you to remove your hand from the wheel
- Some faults would require you to turn off the vehicle, open the door and wait 30 seconds for the head unit to reboot

Overall, 0 / 10... would never own another vehicle from them again.