skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It prohibits bits from "Open"AI from coming to you in Italy. The same way as it bans drugs been sent from the Netherlands to you in Italy. I am not saying it is right or wrong, but it is not incomprehensible either, actually it is quite common in many countries for different reasons (data compliance, copyrights, political reasons etc). The internet gives us an impression of a unified world, but we still live in a world divided in nation states that fight each other and corporations that exploit people and destroy the planet for making profit.
I am generally on team freedom but right now shitty drivers are a bigger threat to that than the breathing police
An API to do what? They could just offer direct download links like GOG, but most games implement at least Steam's basic DRM.
I get the impulse, but why isn't this viewed as profoundly selfish?
Why is shipping data different? If a certain drug is illegal in the country but not yours do you think you should be allow to sell and ship the drug over?
"We've decided it's ok to have a dependency on a software component that's no longer supported. We believe security bugs won't be an issue because of [XYZ]"

I would not want to be the engineer that has to explain/defend this position.
Why is it not called Vicuña as it should?
Vicuna does not sound the same way
Whose to say that AGI isn't already here but relatively slow? It does seem to me that as more and more outputs of AI are pushed through various systems, that will eventually feed back into various AI.

In 2017 an Anon on 4chan proposed that our society, due to content marketing and AI stock trading, is already run by a sort of emergent intelligence, and he proposed that this is why things seem to be 'getting crazy' lately. I'm inclined to agree with that perspective, and if correct more capable AI systems could really kick this into high gear.
To be fair, we still fly recon missions with the U-2. Spy planes haven't entirely gone the way of the dodo, just the envelope-pushing madness that was the SR-71.
> If the litmus test for intelligence

Moving goal posts around is unhelpful. I think my comment was pretty clear in the context of AGI and calling ChatGPT a "math genius."
I wrote this some time ago about how you can use GPT to write good code: https://sudssm.medium.com/make-chatgpt-your-intern-not-your-...
Wow, we need to do this. After mortgage, food is our largest expense ($2k/month, yikes.)
I've posted this elsewhere, but not only is historical GDP hard to measure, if we are going by consumer spending, societies that developed Capitalism in the 18th and 19th centuries would dwarf the GDP of every other society in the world. One reason that the British were so successful in colonizing other countries is that the scale of production became so vast, crops so cheap, that food prices shot down and population began to boom: they literally had to export people.

And for all that, London, at the height of British power, had pollution so bad that it was unlivable, in the colder months the smog could choke you out it was so dense. Because they had people living in such close conditions, hygiene was non-existent, and only the rich were able to avoid the putrid underbelly of the working-class city. Well, I happen to know of some other cities with booming populations at the beginnings of industrial capitalism that may have the same problems...I don't live in India myself, but I would say most Indians would be happy if the GDP was cut in half, if they could have clean air and drinking water. But if its all about GDP, then I guess the British are in many ways responsible for lowering the overall "GDP" of 18th century South Asian countries (there was no India until the British showed up, and even before partition it was just called "Hindustan"). But the great industries of India today, and the conditions of working people, that has nothing to do with the British, even though it matters far more than how some Raj lived 300 years ago.
Model 3's system is better than other cars I've owned, but not as good as what I think CarPlay can be. The only advantage of my Model 3 vs the rental cars I've used with CarPlay was that Model 3's screen is bigger and nicer and so the maps look nicer and I can have music info/controls on screen at the same time as maps. But both Apple and Google navigation is a lot better than Tesla's navigation. I also use Apple Music and was initially excited about getting integration into Tesla, but I continue to just use it through my phone instead so it ended up not mattering. The one thing I hate about Tesla's system is the semi-frequent UI changes. A moving car with a touch screen is not the place where I want to have to re-learn some aspect of a UI after I get a system update.
The AI can generate your formal models.
Show HN: Cadseer. a parametric solid modeling CAD desktop application
Cadseer is in the same genre as: solidworks, inventor, freecad etc... Cadseer is alpha software, so lots of missing features, bugs, crashes, file incompatibilities etc...

About me: I spent 15 years designing stamping dies on a high end cad system. During that time, I also developed and marketed extensions/plugins toward that cad system. Through that experience, I came disillusioned with 'vendor lock-in' and proprietary software in general. I basically retired, took the vow of poverty and moved all my computing to open source. I have since, and continue to, try and improve the open source cad environment.
GM is chasing the United airlines and Ryan air business model.

United expects customers to be grateful if they get involuntarily rescheduled to arrive a day and a half after the original arrival time, with not so much as a free snack ticket to compensate e even when the flight delay is of their causing, not weather, that made the original connection impossible.
Back in the day we had a phone book. Too bad I haven't seen one in almost twenty years.
There is no description of how these models work, other than mechanically.
After using https://github.com/casey/just in a medium sized project, I wholly recommend anyone even slightly frustrated with Makefiles to switch to this.

C++ : C :: Just : Make

More sensible defaults, fewer footguns, just as expressive (pardon the pun), but still nearly the same syntax and paradigms so you don't have to learn a completely new scripting language.

The biggest downside, however, is that it's not installed by default on many systems and it's not in the official repos of some major distros. If that's a dealbreaker, stick with Make.
> We do believe there are subscription revenue opportunities for us ... aiming for $20 billion to $25

I really, really do not want a subscription. My Teslas' subscription appears to be at cost; I doubt Tesla is making billions off of subscription fees for maps.

But, even though Tesla's infotainment system is a lot more slick than Android Auto, I must admit that at times I'd rather use that. I still use Youtube Music, which my Teslas do not have an app for. I haven't switched to Spotify because I don't want another subscription.

(I also think there is a way to share my phone's internet with the car and avoid the subscription, but I suspect the increased data could cost almost as much as the car's subscription anyway.)
Thanks.
Been always looking for something similar to Dennou Coil, and now this arrives, and by the same author! A very nice surprise
Maybe they are using spot instances? $1/hr is about right for those.
Newer vehicles with adaptive cruise control and lane keeping can get you into trouble w/ dozing off (the vehicle can keep going for a while before veering off the side of the road). My '21 F-150 complains if I take my hands off the wheel while in cruise - which is annoying when I'm just trying to hold the wheel loosely on a long trip. It also politely suggests I take a break after X hours of uninterrupted driving.
Shouldn't the NYPD be in charge of local stuff and leave this to the FBI?
And only about half of the programmers I personally know have LinkedIn accounts in the first place.
I don't see how the forms for visas contradict anything in the story. It's not about what the minimum requirement is to apply.

> Yes unsurprisingly a country wants to do basic background checks on people it is making permanent residents and then citizens.

I would point out that if you're native born, the government generally considers this stuff private and makes an effort to protect it (one exception: biometric information is collected from some government employees).
It's all just supply and demand, it has little to do with worth. Yet another reason not to link your self esteem to your job.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35383488
That may very well be so, but the price assigned to those holdings (from which the $620B figure is derived) is set by the bond market.
Tons of people skipped Vista, but Windows 7 was released just eight years after XP, in 2009.
You're right and so is the OP.

Lithium based batteries of varying chemistries collectively in space that few other battery chemistries overlap.
Also, keep in mind, Groupon was launched in 2008. So it shouldn't be a surprise that, immediately after a huge recession that heavy discounting for consumer goods would be a good business model.
Keep in mind that image transformer models like stable diffusion are generally smaller than language models, so they are easier to fit in wasm space.

Also. you can finetune llama-7b on a 3090 for about $3 using LoRA.
>more realistic than many superficially similar games,

BS, it's about fake difficulty. If it was about "realism" you could hide from a dragon's attack behind a wall, but in Dark Souls 2 at least the dragons fire goes right through it.

Some people crave fake difficulty, as you can see when they were so against adding an "easy" mode, and these games are for them, but making gameplay purposely frustrating is dumb.
Ah, interesting. That does work, thank you. How would you implement the (Ctrl|CMD) + D feature from Sublime?
Other languages manage somehow. Python also could perhaps, if not the cultural dysfunction.
Have you actually tried it?

GPT-4: "The forward mapping M that I created to map positive integers to English sentences is based on a general guideline, where smaller-valued numbers generally correspond to shorter sentences using more common words. However, this mapping is not a perfect bijection, meaning there isn't necessarily a one-to-one correspondence between integers and sentences.

The generation of sentences is influenced by the patterns in the data I was trained on, and there is some degree of creativity involved in generating the sentences. This makes it difficult to establish a precise, invertible mapping. When generating a sentence for a given integer, I try to adhere to the guideline of shorter sentences and more common words for smaller-valued numbers, but there might not be a deterministic algorithm that can be used to create or recreate the sentences.

Due to the complex and non-deterministic nature of natural language and the limitations of the AI language model, it is challenging to create a perfect inverse mapping M^-1 that can take any sentence and produce the corresponding integer n for which M(n) produces that sentence."

More: https://pastebin.com/GcgXhkeP
> Intelligence isn’t magic, hardware today seems more than capable. I think Carmack is probably right, it’s not a hardware constraint at this point - it’s a software intuitive leap.

This is all ass-pulling. The hardware is or is not good enough (it's not). We either have found a software breakthrough or not (we haven't).
> they are finished

You think the US government is gonna go "whoops, our central bank failed, and we aren't willing to pay a fraction of the cost of the F-35 program to bail them out"?
I agree with most of his points, but disagree on some:

- The value of a CI/CD pipeline is the value of its output. Doesn't matter if it took 5 seconds or 5 days. I have worked on pipelines that were shitty and long but delivered enormous value, and quick ones that were noisy and useless.

- The "code is better than yaml" post misunderstands what YAML is, and then says you should use a general purpose programming language for configuration. But if you're programming, you're not configuring, you're programming. My point is, both code and YAML are completely wrong solutions to the problem. Look at configuration file formats for 20+ year old programs as an example of good configuration. (Hint: none of them are either YAML or code)

- "Release early, Release often" only works for certain products/services. It's not a good idea to deploy 10x a day to an airplane in flight. (No, contrarian who's about to reply, it's not a good idea, just shut up.)

- Declarative configuration isn't a thing. It's just configuration. Non-declarative configuration isn't a thing either, that's just instructions. Declarative doesn't mean anything. It's a red herring people repeat because they heard someone describe it and it sounded smart.

- Do not 'set -o pipefail' by default. It will only waste your time when your scripts start failing because some command in the middle of a pipe returned non-zero while still outputting the result you wanted, and you spend 3 hours adding debugging to figure out where the error was coming from and write some extra error handling code. Just check if the result of the pipe looks accurate. Same result, fewer failures.

- If you have to do a simple task more than 3 times, check if (T*N)>A, or if it's a value chain bottleneck. If neither is true, don't automate yet.
Also these are mark to market losses, and banks typically hold bonds to maturity. The only time this is a problem is if the bank is in need of liquidity and a) reserve ratios are pretty conservative post-2008, and b) the Fed is providing vehicles to support short-term liquidity issues (this reducing the need to sell assets and realize losses). As long as banks, their customers, and/or the media aren't freaking out the client base and encouraging a run, this is a non-issue.
LeVar Burton Reads has ads (if you're not subscribed to Stitcher Premium). The episode plays a cerain sound, he reads the ad, then another sound and you're back to the story. It's not great but it's not that bad.

Hm, looks like they added pre-roll ads while I wasn't paying attention. That's worse :(

https://www.stitcher.com/show/levar-burton-reads/episode/fir...
honestly I have to disagree. I use kde for work 8-5 m-f for the past two years. I still prefer windows 10 ui and features over it. kde isn't terrible, and I'd choose it over windows 8, 11, or any osx ui. but windows 7, and 10 just are seamlessly good for me. everything I need is only 2 clicks away, intuitive navigation, and stable.
I wouldn't be surprised if AI research moves towards training models to use bolt-on peripherals like scratchpad memory. Transformers showed us an interface for addressing, so I wouldn't be surprised if someone figures out a way to use a similar addressing scheme and made it read/write.
It's effectively impossible to raise the safety standards for coal to anything like nuclear safety standards.

What I would like to see is an across-the-board change to safety regulation: A technology is deemed safe enough if it's 50% better than the closest *meaningful* competitor. Let's evaluate nuclear by that standard and see what we get:

The closest meaningful competitor is natural gas. (Although you could make an argument for considering gas-backed renewables a source. I have never seen safety numbers for such combos.) Natural gas has a death rate of 2.82/Twh--by my proposal nuke would be deemed adequate at 1.41/Twh even if better were possible. Reality: 0.03/Twh. 47x as safe as needed. (And note that the natural gas numbers do not include any global warming related deaths, the real picture is even more out of whack.)

(As for coal--it's 6.5x as bad as natural gas, and more global warming to boot.)

This is one of these cases where lowering safety standards would actually save lives by making the safer option more attractive. It's why the FAA accepts lap infants on airplanes--they know that a lap infant will fare considerably worse than someone properly strapped in if there's trouble, but said infant is still safer as a lap infant in an airplane than properly strapped in in a car. The lap infant rules shift some people on the edge from driving to flying.
The wild aspect of this is that nothing seems to have come of it.

If you had told me 20 years ago that eventually every single house would have cameras on their front door I'd have guessed that certain types of crime would drastically drop off in response. But in my neighborhood all the cameras mean is that there's video of the package theft or car break-in to post to the neighborhood group so that everybody can complain about it. It doesn't prevent the crime. It doesn't generate more arrests.

It doesn't, as far as I can tell, do much of anything.
It's the usual how difficult can this be to build and operate. But what we've found is it's a pain at scale.

- How do you ensure that one or a set of bad endpoints do not clog the queueing system and delay delivery of other working endpoints?

- How do you provide easy tools for developers across projects to debug and fix webhook delivery problems?

- How do you ensure this container is multi-tenant to serve multiple teams and no two teams can view each other data?

- How do you ensure flexibility if a new team decides to use RabbitMQ instead of Kafka?

Once you start to factor in all this requirements & more, you eventually build your own Convoy. :)

TLDR: Convoy is that container that is flexible and powerful enough to manage all your webhooks needs.
> I wouldn't be surprised if most FAANG and similar tier companies require a linkedin account; mine did.

What?? Companies do this? Such a requirement is so crazy that I would drop the company as a prospect immediately even if I had a LinkedIn account.
>I'm arguing that "war harms trade and has a huge economic cost" is not on its own a strong argument for "war is not going to happen".

What evidence do you have to support this theory? What wars have occurred between large trading partners?

> The cost was huge then but not large enough to prevent war. How do we know it's large enough now?

To be clear my argument is not that war is impossible. If Russian nukes Finland or something, that would likely start a world war. My argument is that globalization creates an interconnected web in which countries are dependent on each other. The stronger those links are between countries the harder it is to severe them which raises the barrier for engaging in war. At a certain point that barrier gets high enough that the only things that clear it are existential threats because severing those trade ties is also an existential threat to maintaining the status quo of society. It is just another flavor of mutually assured destruction. MAD doesn’t make war impossible. It is a disincentive that helps prevent war. It also helps prevent anything that would sever those trade connections such as heavy sanctions. Evidence for this theory includes the last 80 years of world history. As an example, the world can acknowledge that China is committing genocide and yet they receive little punishment for it because no one is willing to put up with even just the self imposed economic harm of heavily sanctioning China. If genocide doesn’t muster any serious response, AI development won’t either.

> For example, in recent months there have been many articles in (even "serious") newspapers speculating about war between US and China in the next decades.

Plenty of people talked about war between NATO countries and the Soviet Union but that notably never happened. Talking about war has slightly less economic downside than actual war.
I'm the lead engineer at one of these and you nailed it. If I catch anyone "innovating" we have a talk about what it is they're working on to make sure it's part of our core business. It very rarely is.

I probably suck to work for in that way, but the reality is this is not a job about pushing the envelope, it's a job about executing as cleanly as possible. You work at one of these if you love to implement simple tech to solve non-tech problems, and I make that clear while hiring.

It's a moderately lucrative job, and can be very rewarding for certain types, but I totally understand if, coming from Google, it would be a system shock as it is decidedly not "tech" as most folks mean it.
If it’s that dominant I wonder if there needs to be some anti-trust action done with Apple?
German police raid DDoS-friendly host FlyHosting
I have one. Although it says I work at a place that shut down in 2017.
No, not at all actually. I picked up several 5%+ 1-year CDs from Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo, and Goldman Sachs myself.
I argued endlessly with my spouse not to buy these deals. There was a lot of FOMO at the time and poor purchase decisions being made. She learned her lesson when we couldn't fit a $200+ Lake Michigan boat ride she purchased into our schedule and we had to eat it. I bet that happened to a lot of people and they significantly reduced their Groupon usage.

Groupon was riding a wave and that wave crashed.
The fact that at some point was almost a $20B company ($30B today) is pretty wild, that's like HP, Spotify or KIA.
AWS certainly isn't the cheapest for this, did they mention using AWS? Lamdba Labs is 12$/hr for 8xA100's, and there's others relatively close to this price on demand, I assume you can get a better deal if you contact them for a large project.

Replicate themselves rent out GPU time so I assume they would definitely know as that's almost certainly the core of their business.
Most highschool students mainly use sin to calculate the lengths of sides of triangles. So it feels very counterintuitive that sin can be greater than 1.

If you define sin as the solution to a particular differential equation, then it's relationship to the hyperbolic functions is much more obvious.
Efficient, Extensible, Expressive: Typed Tagless Final Interpreters in Rust
> Then why does it connect at start at e100.net ?

Because you have not blocked it at the router. Defence in depth saves you from having to trust any single party. Use "trustworthy" software, add blocking at the host level, at the DNS forwarder/resolver level and at the routing level and you're more likely to catch those ugly bottom feeders which tend to slip from the nets.
Someone born in 1885 who lived to be 70 was brought into a world where it took weeks to get from the US to Europe, and died in a world where it took hours. TNT was the hottest in explosives at their birth, and we’d seen the spread of city ending explosives by their death. I personally feel nuclear proliferation is still orders of magnitude more frightening than anything AI has done.

Someone born in 1985 who is now 37-38 was brought into a world where the internet barely existed, and was barely an adult when the iPhone launched. There’s still a lot more that can happen.

Don’t listen to pessimists: the world will look very different, but we apes have a way of adapting.
Lambda labs charges about 11-12/hr for 8xA100.
in 2023, why would it be? we're talking creating something new in a newish language. we're not talking about supporting legacy code on a deprecated OS
The "local fundraiser books" that you get for like $20 are also great; you can usually make that back with two or three coupons. The one near me had 4 $5 off coupons for the local grocery store and so a great deal.
This is a fair response, but in the author's defense, he might be trying to imply that intelligence is something that should be at least "capable" of creating new origin ideas and concepts. Of course, we can then debate what does it mean to be capable of original new ideas? (or what it means to be original)
It's more a reflection of the general trend for middle-class folks in the US to flee to the suburbs, plus the fact that a cop job generally makes one middle-class (in both directions: the weeding process of getting hired tends to exclude the lower classes, and the pay scale tends to make one able to afford a middle-class dwelling arrangement).
I had no idea it was that dire. Wow.