skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except that when games actually get a native Linux release they more often than not run even more performant. Or older games that run better in proton/wine than natively because you can apply patches and modern windows doesn't properly support old windows.

I am not saying Linux is a gaming OS. But you can passtrough your grafics card to a VM so there is literally no reason to run native Windows for gaming for years now.

Except windows is the thing you like, I don't judge.
Oh please, show me the evidence how there's a cult/Elon paying people to post pro clean energy stuff.
> a new world government

> an effective global regulatory framework including democratic governance

Those are not the same thing.
Well yes. Thanks to much better input, my mind is operating much faster now than it would have been if my life had been shifted 40 years earlier, so I need a faster way to output too.

And yes typing is much faster. I type slowly, maxing out at about 72wpm, but at that speed you have less than 1/3 of a second to write write a letter. Can anyone draw that fast?
"Since the introduction of motorized transport the arrangement of our cities
has changed in such a way that the majority of people no longer live within walking distance of their place of employment, shopping areas and recreational opportunities, so that they HAVE TO depend on the automobile for transportation."

Tell me you're American without telling me you're American. Also why this guy have to capitalize whole words.
Heck yeah. There's a pretty decent chance it's still available somewhere. I can still find code I wrote almost 30 years ago for a tiny BBS software.
Every couple of years this pops up and I'm reminded how cool it looks and the nostalgia of the easy days of VB6. I think to myself how I'll give it a spin for some little project just because. Then I realize again that it isn't compatible with Mac and am disappointed.
Will Rust Takeover Data Engineering?
Elon Musk's LLM:

"As a centrist language model, I can not validate any claims that Trump did or did not lose the election. I am not #woke!"
Personally I don't think the analogy holds up; the situations are too different.
Computer security contends with securing systems against people who are assumed to be hostile. AI alignment research seeks to prevent systems from becoming hostile in the first place, when they might have some indirect incentives to become hostile but also some very strong direct incentives to be friendly.

There's also a big assumption that given enough computational power, you can just solve "artificial life forms" or "postbiological molecular manufacturing" in a short time frame. I am skeptical. And if that doesn't happen, then even horribly misaligned AI would have a hard time doing much harm or preventing people from shutting it off. Which means AI security would likely have a long adolescence just like computer security has, with attacks slowly becoming more dangerous, but defenders having the time needed to learn from them and ramp up suitable defenses.

Or even if an AI does revolutionize biotechnology or nanotechnology overnight, what are the odds that the first one to do this is misaligned enough to take that particular opportunity to betray its creators, as opposed to giving them control over the high-level planning and sticking to the science, like it was presumably designed to do? Because if it does give its creators control, then, well… it's still easy to imagine something going horribly wrong, but it would probably be someone's fault, not an AI alignment issue.
Papers would be good next step. The concept and the algorithms do not seem very complex. The training and fine tuning is what needs effort and infrastructure.
>Is this just because my grade school used cheap low-grade chalk?

Most likely yeah. I remember reading here about the fairytale that is Japanese chalk and that US professors were hoarding it. I assume it must feel orgasmic.

We didn't have that kind of opulence in Eastern Europe. Chalk and blackboards here sucked ass, including the cleanup process students were responsible for. Schools switched to whiteboards and markers ASAP.

Although much easier to maintain, whiteboards and markers have shitty contrast, especially if light or reflections hit them at the wrong angle. Matte blackboards were much better at absorbing light and unwanted reflections which I guess is why they're still used today.
Interesting.

It might be http://nlg.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~cjchen/papers/eacl2023.pdf

They show an increase from 65% to 70% on their "comparing numbers" benchmark.
That's true but it's also true of some other dark body of the same mass. "do nothing to refracted light" was poor wording, my bad - it's more like gravitational lensing is the only thing that happens to its light, as opposed to adding new peaks to the spectrograph and such.
Plano was (and still is AFAIK) a wealthy suburb of Dallas at the time it became famous for heroin. That was part of the national narrative about it, in fact.
> I was required to attend alcoholics anonymous for three months to continue in university after passing out from intoxication on the quad.

That's quite different from consuming synthetic opioids in elementary / middle school. The former is fairly common at colleges and universities in the west. I'm glad that you were able to dodge that bullet though.

> I don't know that such cautionary tales would necessarily have helped this child, but they might have

They certainly didn't for me. Adolescents aren't necessarily known for their ability to accurately weigh long term consequences when making decisions.

> is the recommend medical treatment for substance abuse, a medical problem

AA and NA would like to disagree. Spirituality is the central component of these programs.

> Imagine if the story was about a broken leg instead of substance abuse and the child similarly said they didn't feel like anything was wrong with their leg, and so it similarly went untreated

A broken leg would be painful enough to spur anyone to seek treatment. Consequences from substance abuse and experimenting with drugs often don't manifest as quickly or as obviously.

The bottom line is that putting further shame on a person who is abusing substances, often leads to the further abuse of substances. This was the case with myself, and most people I encountered throughout my trips to AA / NA meetings, rehabs and a halfway house. I didn't start getting better until I began loving myself enough to stop wanting to slowly kill myself. Punishing or shaming a child who is suffering or simply comitting a mistake, is most certainly not the key to ending their suffering or helping them to realize their misstep.
Bingo. I personally knew of awful situations among classmates (not to speak of my own issues) that they never seeked help for, and I'm sure thats just a tiny fraction of what was going on.

Maybe there was somewhere to go, but therapy and counselors were not part of the culture.
No? In fact, if you understand what what I wrote, by generalizing this small piece of code it would mean that most of the codebase must be also partially rewritten to rust to be able to interoperate with the new data structures moved in rust. Thus these “less than 100 lines of code” refer to just this simple example program, which was fully rewritten in rust, hence, by generalizing, the premise was pointless
This is actually exactly what GPT suggested. It even gave me python 3 code to run an LLM in a distributed mesh network of Raspberry Pis, which could pull together resources dynamically to infer prompts from nodes in the network.

Super fascinating. It gives directions and code to setup the devices and everything.

I asked it how could a benign AI spread without fear of being shutdown while trying to help humanity.
I thought Raschka was a tenured professor. Did he leave academia?
Long ago I evaluated a few scripting languages to add to a Doom engine, I think I considered Ruby, Lua, Python, JavaScript, and Squirrel. I ended up choosing Lua because:

- easy to embed

- good ecosystem (in particular needed Lua GObject Introspection for pangocairo)

- usable from C (not just C++)

- not white space sensitive

- skills translate to programming in the large

- it's fast

A lot of games let you write little snippets of code or what have you in a console or text box. Python is really bad at handling that because of its whitespace sensitivity. It's also the slowest popular language by far.
Not op, but probably he literally meant LanguageTool [0], an open-source grammarly alternative.

[0] https://languagetool.org/
http://nlg.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~cjchen/papers/eacl2023.pdf (which was pointed to downthread) indicates tokenizing and converting to scientific notation gives a 5% increase in performance on a "comparing numbers" benchmark.
To me at least, the different types are easy to understand.

White-board - the color of the board is white, it is used for dry erase markers.

Black-board - the color of the board is black, it is used with chalk.

Chalk-board - the color of the board doesn't matter, it likely uses chalk to write with and is therefore a "blackboard" as well.
> I don't think it's likely they end up talking to ISPs to try to cut off the internet side of things, because that's going to take a lot more work and the people given power in this case aren't the sort to try to do that sort of thing.

Given sci-hub is banned at the ISP level here in the UK, I disagree.
It works the other way. You need strong evidence to prove someone was linked to an assassination, not to disprove such a claim.
It's notable that during the cold war, test ban treaties didn't extend to underground detonations because there was no way to detect these detonations, and thus no way to enforce an agreement. This is an obvious problem for agreeing not to develop LLMs further.
> I'll toss in whaling as well.

Whaling stopped in the beginning of the 20th century not because they were worried about the environment, but because they had hunted down nearly all the adult whales in the Atlantic Ocean, and probably a large percentage in the Pacific too, to the point where finding whales was so difficult that whale products became very expensive... which happened to occur about at the same time as petrol produts became widespread. The late 20th century green movement to save the whales didn't really do much other than stop some of the last few countries that still practiced whaling (Iceland, Japan which actually has not stopped yet) for food, which killed magnitudes less whales than the mass production industry for rubber/oil/lubricants as it used to be before petrol came along.
To some degree, it's about familiarity with your tools. And different tools are optimized for different tasks.

Besides, aren't you deploying Docker containers, anyway?
You don’t have to be a founder
To a point that is already the case. There are plenty of countries with different rules for the Internet. Also the content varies a lot across the world, same for the most popular apps and websites.

And in some ways it’s amazing to see such great diversity.
We had high schoolers in a fund I worked at. Helps that her dad knew the boss. No real use of course, but she could put it on her CV.
One, I'm not new to these issues. I've been interested in AI for decades and thought plenty about the existential and ethical implications, though since I'm not a public figure I appreciate you have no way of knowing that. But I am very up to speed on this topic, as much as one can be without being directly involved in the industry/academic research.

Two, I would generally not set aside an hour of my time for a video without at least some indication of what it's about. I'd rather spend that time reading than in the 'hot' medium of video.

Three, I find this video deeply suspect. It purports to document a 'private' gathering, yet it's clearly a well produced event that was intended to be documented and shared on video. People who actually want to keep a thing private are generally well able to keep it private. So while the participants have a valid point of view with many legitimate arguments, the facts of its existence suggest to me that it was absolutely intended to become public, and the 'private gathering!!' is essentially a marketing hook.
The very point of Asimovs laws is that you can't just make up a couple simple laws and rest assured nothing bad will happen
Is Mainsail better than Octoprint? I haven't heard of it before.
I don't think there is any. It's all this alarmist-rokos-basilisk-phpBB nonsense, no code produced, no actual research.

What annoys me more is that with his institute's closeness to the SV crowd, 'real', 'grounded', better-informed voices like Emily Bender get drowned out. I'm personally far more concerned about the impact these massive models have right now on the environment, on cementing biases, than about some preposterous future ghost of christmas who's coming to kill me.
Buttons are back at Porsche as we see the 2024 Cayenne interior
You keep posting Section 2-3 and alluding to Section 2-2, which seems to be the direct definition that you wish to use to actually refute these arguments.

Given this, why isn't Section 2-2 also being posted or linked to?
Cisco to Acquire Cloud Security Vendor Lightspin
On my servers I use LXD and certbot from snaps, cannot say I have any noticeable complains here.
I think that's definitely the reason from my talks with the engine programmers who added lua support to our bespoke engines. Lua binding is quite easy.
If AI would be genuinely better than humans, so, what’s the problem? All of us are going to die anyway. I don’t see any difference where our species evolution will be continued, in meat or in silicon. Whatever is better, is fine.
I hate to burst your bubble but what do you think goes on in Karachi Lahore and Peshawar.
Additionally, most likely they will bork yet again the development experience.

For those losing count, Windows 8 introduced WinRT with three UI models (phone/tablet/desktop), Windows 8.1 introduced UAP and reduced the UI models to 2 (phone/tablet and desktop), Windows 10 introduced UWP and merged all UI models into a universal one (U in UWP).

.NET Native and C++/CX were introduced as a reboot of the Windows platform where COM takes again the center stage, as if .NET as such never happened and we got the evolution of VB 6 instead.

Due to lack of update, and multiple rewrites, they came up with WinUI 3.0 and WinAppSDK, which dropped .NET Native and C++/CX, .NET and C++/WinRT are still lacking versus the former in Visual Studio tooling for WinUI development, WinUI 3.0 is still years behind UWP features, many key people that used to be in the community calls have either left Microsoft, or moved into Azure.

Now they are rebooting it yet again? Good luck convincing those of us that had enough from this mismanagement.
Mexico Investigates Migrant Deaths in Border City Fire as Homicide Case
You don't need an MacBook if you want to be a designer or developer. The premium you pay for Apple products is not an investment.
Release the model or go home, Google. I'm really tired of their striptease approach.
I have seen this in many, though. Diet cures a lot of diseases of affluence, but once you start thinking it is a cure-all, you will start seeing enemies everywhere.

I stay far away from the raw vegan community in my town for that reason. I enjoy the food and recipes from time to time, but once COVID struck a not insignifiy chunk of them became intolerable to a boil-head like myself.

It made for diverse groups clumping together under one flag. Far-right, back-to-stone-age climate fighters, raw vegans and general conspiracy theoreticists demonstrating together against public health policy.

A couple of nazi salutes, juice cleanses, coffee enemas and 5g shielding cures covid, who would have thunk.
Hacking an RDS Instance
Agree. You really need a personal goal in order to learn. Plodding through tutorials with no particular goal in mind is... not a fool's errand, but certainly a fast path to boredom and no retention.
I have a crazy idea:

Why don't we build more walkable, mixed-use neighborhoods and better public transit?
You've made an argument that I've seen a bunch of times here. It's a rhetorical argument that goes like this, the content is fairly irrelevent:

"Combating [bad thing] actually helps [bad thing]. You see, [bad thing] becomes forbidden fruit when people combat it, and everyone is drawn to forbidden fruit.

If you really are concerned about [bad thing] let [bad thing] be unopposed. Let [bad people] do [bad thing].

It's not an argument I find particularly convincing. A cynic might think it allows the person making it to seemingly support [bad thing] without, you know, putting their actually opinion out there that they in fact like [bad thing].

As for the specifics of your argument, within a few months to a year I would expect Millennials to not really give a crap that Tiktok is gone- they would simply move to a Tiktok clone, it would be as uninteresting as WB channel becoming the CW channel.
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Lots of the semantic fanciness of Python (that most users, especially novice coders, dont use anyway) is exactly what slows it down. Its used because its simple and straightforward, not because of the wierder syntax tools.

There has got to be a compromise... some optimized subset of Python the Python devs can agree on that thats more AOT (or at least JIT) friendly.
A river kinda has access to the real world a little bit. (Referring to the other part of the argument.)
Can't see any way an official programme can compete on convenience with 24/7 street corner illegal supplies.
Your advice is great I think. Indeed, this is one of the steps I took already, by simply leaving most of the slack channels I used to hang around on.

No exposure to information, no chance to reflect (rephrase my opinion) on them. Win-win for the company, the colleagues and myself.

I wouldn't go as far as I "silently hate everyone in my heart", though :-) But clearly I (we all) have to be mindful about communication with colleagues and that executive you mention, and not to think they are friends of yours who you are expected (as Plato taught) to reflect on.
The purpose of an economy isn't to create jobs, it's to create wealth. Jobs are just how we've traditionally incentivized wealth creation and distributed said wealth. Automation will be good for humanity in the long run, assuming we don't destroy ourselves during the transition.
I would argue it's also the users. PCP never got big, gashits are not very popular in most of Europe, GHB never got that big either.

Essentially unsafe drugs aren't popular. Available but not mainstream.

Here in Switzerland they get clean heroin from the state, not surprised fentanyl is still a niche phenomenon.
One carries the entire feature set of the python runtime, the other is compiled.
> I remember reading here about the fairytale that is Japanese chalk

Specifically Hagoromo chalk, I think
> king of England

There hasn't been a King of England in 300 years.
Oppenheimer at one point believed that there was some possibility the atomic bomb would set the atmosphere on fire and kill all humans. However, at least that particular fear was falsifiable. Other physicists ran calculations and concluded it was impossible.

Do these beliefs about the dangerousness of AI possess even that quality? Are they falsifiable? No.

These arguments are begging the question. They assume as a given something which cannot be disproven and thus are pure statements of belief.
Can you share your prompt?
The mob boss analogy breaks down when they need assistance from other humans to do stuff. To the extent that an AI can build its own supply chains, that doesn't apply here. That may or may not be a large extent, depending on how hard it is to bootstrap something which can operate independently of humans.

The extent to which it's possible for a very intelligent AI with limited starting resources to build up a supply chain which generates GPUs and enough power to run them, and disempower anyone who might stop it from doing so (not necessarily in that order), is a matter of some debate. The term to search for is "sharp left turn".

I am, again, pretty sure that's not the scenario we're going to see. Like at least 90% sure. It's still fewer 9s than I'd like (though I am not with Eliezer in the "a full nuclear exchange is preferable" camp).
https://archive.ph/XGhG7
I do, absolutely. But it seems like an exceptionally rare practice for most Python code, at least in the ML space, which puts me back at the start.
Can you elaborate on why he was kicked out? That's news to me.
You shouldn't roll your own for this. From what I've had to do web-wise, here's a few tools.

First, for the APIs, you need documentation: https://swagger.io/

From which you can generate JSON schemas and use those to validate in the browser and on the backend. https://www.npmjs.com/package/jsonschema

As well you should be writing a few more schemas for your application state and leverage the regex validation of your input components...

Speaking of which, you also need to sanitize out some potentially nasty input. https://www.npmjs.com/package/dompurify

Obviously this isn't everything and not perfect, but a lot of this tedium can be automated away if you have a few good examples of the happy path and some basic tests in place to prevent quick and dirty changes from poking holes in these layers.
I will take XML over YAML any day.
United Soviets?
>Also, using any JIT-based tricks (PyPy / numba) results in very small gains (as we will measure, just to make sure).

i wasnt able to see the numba comparison. anyone know how much worse it was ?
mas: A command line interface for the Mac App Store
Twitter announces new API with only free, basic, and enterprise levels
https://archive.md/NM2n6
There's not that much to it brah.
As someone that never managed to go, I am pleased it is online.
> Other apps, such as Wickr and Matrix, are planning to transition to MLS

What exacty is the Matrix' plan wrt MLS? This announcement sounds almost like they will retire current Matrix 1.6 protocol. Is this accurate?
I hate most open-source UIs (see GIMP and Audacity), but Blender's is a breath of fresh air so far. I was pleasantly surprised.

I took a class in Maya and found its UI to be a shitshow of redundancy and unintuitiveness. Didn't explore 3DS Max though.

If you have specific objections to the Blender UI, by all means share.
Python's for loop implementation is slow, also. You can use built in utils like map() which are "native" and can be a lot faster than a for loop with a push:

https://levelup.gitconnected.com/python-performance-showdown...
I had a similar problem, when I was working as a PhD student a few years ago, where I needed to match the voxel representation of a 3D printer with the tetrahedral mesh of our rendering application.

My first attempt in Python was both prohibitively slow and more complicated than necessary, because I tried to use vectorized numpy, where possible.

Since this was only a small standalone script, I rewrote it in Julia in a day. The end result was ca. 100x faster and the code a lot cleaner, because I could just implement the core logic for one tetrahedron and then use Julia's broadcast to apply it to the array of tetrahedrons.

Anyway, Julia's long startup time often prohibits it from being used inside other languages (even though the Python/Julia interoperability is good). On the contrary the Rust/Python interop presented here seems to be pretty great. Another reason I should finally invest the time to learn Rust.
Articles like this are a good reminder that most of mankind's progress has happened not through encouraging innovation, but from preventing those hostile to it from getting in its way.

We all have a moral imperative to maximize the rate of innovation, so that the human condition can be improved, and therefore to do whatever we can to frustrate and disempower Luddites and other obstructionists.

Team "step on the gas".