skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not willing to adopt CUDA if the cost is having to babysit kernel upgrades and roll back when the GPU stops working.

> I can't say I've ever had a problem with NVidia breaking on kernel upgrades…

It’s definitely happened within the past two years—if I were motivated, I could dig up the specific kernel version ranges and Nvidia driver version ranges. Maybe your kernel version was pinned or something. The experience of using Nvidia on Linux is just beyond terrible, and it’s just such a high price to pay for CUDA when I just want to get work done. I suppose if I were doing lots of ML projects at home, maybe the pain would be justified, but I’m not doing ML at home.

I just want the computer to work, and Nvidia makes it difficult. I had originally purchased an Nvidia card because I had bad experiences with AMD on Linux in the early 2010s, and the situation seems to have flipped—I can just use an AMD GPU + Mesa and it will work well enough. I can get work done instead of playing sysadmin.

I do use Nvidia GPUs through cloud services when I want to run CUDA workloads (ML), and it’s a lot more tolerable because the problems don’t interfere with my desktop. For some reason, CUDA doesn’t work sometimes and I have to reinstall Nvidia drivers or reboot or something like that. This is apparently a known problem.
They just copied Digital Ocean.
Yep, I totally agree. These commenters weren't commenting so much on the specifics of the case, but in generalities of prosecuting these types of crimes (i.e. where the underlying act, paying hush money, is not a crime, but the record keeping/campaign finance violations are).

But yes, 100%, folks should calm down until the contents of the indictment are made public.
With self-driving cars, you also need to consider the kind of people who might be driving them manually. Drunk, sleepy, prone to road rage, distracted by noisy kids in the car, thinking about their financial or relationship problems... there's a terrible amount of death and shattered lives to consider there.

If I remember right, during the height of the most recent Iraq war, a U.S. soldier had a higher probability of being killed in a traffic accident while in the United States than being killed while actively deployed in Iraq.

If a (so-called) self-driving car screws up and kills some people, it's headline news everywhere. If Joe Blow downs five shots of scotch after being chewed out by his boss and crashes into a carload of kids, it barely makes the local news.
https://archive.ph/siHvI
A v2 controller would be AMAZING

Since no-one else is listing the differences, here's what the v1 lacks in controls compared to the steam deck:

- Two joysticks (probably the main shortcoming of v1)
- D-pad
- Four rear buttons (the controller only has two)
- build quality (as others have mentioned)
- Touch sensitive joysticks (benefits motion control usage)
- USB C
Does GPT-4 have common sense? Consequences for AI (mis)alignment
I would say it's equally hard to sympathize with the cops that pushed down an elderly man, then left him bleeding from the head on the street, marching over his unmoving body towards protestors, in broad daylight.

It's important to remember that it's the cops with the deadly weapons, its the cops with the chemical weapons, and its the cops depriving access to medicine when they hurt protestors.
When you say “avoid jailing political enemies just to take them off the ballot”, do actually mean “avoid prosecuting criminals just to avoid accusations that you are politically motivated”?

In my view, the only reason to jail anybody is because they violated the law. If somebody that violated the law is subsequently jailed, it feels pretty dishonest to say that it was done “just to take them off the ballot”. Not only that, it is inaccurate. Jailing somebody does not take them off the ballot. However, not prosecuting them DOES put them above the law.

Perhaps we have different ideas about the real problems described above.
I am pretty sure a lot of these positions are lucrative outside of the salary. It might be because some political force wants to have their representative in this position. Or because the person may count on future profits after they leave the position. And there is of course possibility of some nefarious deals that we of course don't know anything about but we know stuff like this happens more frequently that we get to know.
Can someone explain 'immutability' (in this context) more clearly?

The article doesn't really explain anything. The filesystem is read-only (from the perspective of the user) in all linux distributions. How is this different?
Rarity is one aspect that can summon that talismanic belief, but not the only one. There are lots of guitarists who have an abiding love of Stratocasters despite them being the Wonder Bread of guitars. What they have instead is a connection to history and other shamanic players: many famous guitarists have played strats, so even though your strat isn't the one Stevie Ray Vaughan played, it is sort of the same species in the underlying animistic magical thinking.

With tubes, I think would hold even if the tubes themselves became cheap as chips.

Time is another one: simply using the same piece of gear for years can imbue it with the power of ritual. Many writers use the same kind of paper and pen, and sit at the same sea, and the repetition alone is enough to summon the write mental state.
I see a big opportunity for KaiOS to be the "detox phone OS", the one you chose when you want to give your brain a bit of a break from the dopamine hits that fullblown smartphones bring with them
I've seen this in Seattle. My friend took me to some famous ice cream shop. As we are walking in, firefighters nonchalantly come out with their ice creams, get into their truck and start blasting the siren for people to make way.
CEO's don't care about employees, but they do care about their CEO buddies who own engine parts manufacturers, and supply chain companies that they are heavily invested in.
> dont you think there are many objects that are "micro hubbles"

you reply to a comment about the size of the mirror, and then ask if there are "micro hubbles". no, there literally cannot be a micro hubble, because the mirror is enormous.

the mirror in hubble alone is larger than a starlink satellite

https://lilibots.blogspot.com/2020/04/starlink-satellite-dim...

https://www.nasa.gov/content/about-facts-hubble-fast-facts
Thanks, I think my request was unclear, but I'm specifically trying to understand the documentation linked, not the Remex algorithm itself. I'm trying to reconcile my knowledge of it with the language used in the documentation.

I have a pretty comfortable understanding of the Remez algorithm and generalizations and have written my own implementations for a research project
I will restate it. The agenda here is not complicated.

A federal LE agency wants to pad their budget. That's it. That's the agenda.

A state or municipality forbids their own LEOs from employing civil forfeiture. The Feds see an opportunity and collude with the local LEOs to convert local civil forfeiture seizures to Federal seizures thus bypassing the wishes of the locals.

This is an example of the Federal government using law enforcement for their own agenda. I don't know if that's the kind of thing that GP meant, but that was an example that came to my mind.
Not to mention, isn’t CarPlay just an interface for the phone to be able to connect to so the screen can display the software operating on the phone?

Near zero cost to GM, tons of convenience for GM’s customers. I can only imagine GM wants customers’ data or subscription fees, and Apple will not allow that. And this is a business that got bailed out by US taxpayers, and is explicitly too big to fail.
Style insensitivity does not really come up once you start using the language.
This essay is literally just Isildur looking at the ring he cut from Sauron and saying "I kind of like it tho".

-> Aaronson admits Yudkowsky's position is consistent
-> Main disagreement is that he can imagine other outcomes
-> Some soft analogism against other historical technologies (radios, etc)
-> "Should I, tho?" segue to the comments.

Yes, Aaronson, you should have signed that letter. You know you should have. Snap out of it.
https://archive.ph/RfYsM
It’s the former. “Verified” guidelines are based on using a controller for everything, text being readable, button prompts being correct, and so on. Elden Ring is Verified, and meets all of this! Even character name entry! And runs at 3fps.
The author isn't saying that long-running tests aren't valuable, though. They're asking the question: how much more valuable would they be if they ran in minutes instead of days?

Slow CI/CD and slow releases are a big problem because they change your entire workflow. Critical bugfix that needs to be shipped? If your CI/CD takes minutes, not a problem: fix it, test it, ship it and have a 5 whys. If it takes days, well, you either have a side-channel process where all your senior engineers have to gather around and speculate about the impact of the change, then you have them sign off, and get the VP to sign off to approve the hotfix, then hope for the best. Or you just wait for days while your customers complain on Twitter.

Tests should, ideally, run really quickly. Not at the expense of correctness or completeness, of course, but in most cases I've seen, slow tests happen because nobody bothers optimizing test code, not because they're inherently slow.

Sometimes CI/CD is slow for even dumber reasons. At one place I was at (1000+ SV-funded hot startup in the mid-10s), tests got relatively slow enough (~40 min) that VPs got involved and a "test speed task force" with a mandate of reducing CI/CD time to less than 20 minutes. This was announced at a company all-hands with a ton of fanfare. In the first week, one of the engineers did some quick glancing at the logs and noticed that the very old build scripts were still hardcoded to deploy to two servers which no longer existed... and the DNS resolution for those hosts was taking 10 minutes to time out. Needless to say, the task force accomplished its goal, though in a bit of a hollow victory.
That is pretty much the definition of moving the goal posts?
But to only prosecute Trump

The article referred to in the parent asserts that Clinton was also prosecuted (albeit for a different, and lesser charge). As many others have been. So the argument you're making here seems rather weak.
It does! And it seems that CRI is simply not a useful way to characterize LED light sources, as (i assume) it was established when incandescent and other non-semiconductor light sources were the only option.

To expand your metaphor: it's like judging a dish solely on the balance of flavors while not noticing that the restaurants have started changing the smell of the air, the firmness of the seats, the relative humidity and temperature individually.
If you haven't tried it out, I recommend you do. I've been blown away with how much it will just get right. I started out giving it small tasks, but, I have continually been in a loop of "oh, I could have just asked it to do this larger task that contained the subtask I asked for, and it would have done it", because I keep thinking "surely it wont be able to do the whole thing", and each iteration I am asking it for more and more.

As far as debugging, I find that I can just say "are there any bugs in that code?" and it does a great job at finding them if they're there (even though it's what it just gave me)
https://archive.ph/24bza
That's a huge mistake. I shit you not when I say CarPlay was the main thing I looked when I bought my last car.
Every tool can be misused and Make has a ton of common pitfalls for novices to fall into. Properly written Makefiles do feel like magic (in a good way) when they run.
bottles 99 of beer on the wall? That's not the lyrics or am I just not understanding janet?
You can. Just write a descriptive comment, enter a newline, and it will attempt to autocomplete the code for you.
this would also fix the issue of treating truckers as free storage by making them wait (unpaid) excessively long amounts of time to drop their load off
https://archive.ph/FoNuM
Yea agree so much with this. I just want a car with physical knobs and buttons bluetooth to connect to my phone's audio. Have to buy ~10 year old cars to get this.
Asians and Hispanics create two problems for critical race theory, one pretty easily fixable another less so.

1) CRT, originally developed in the 1970s, generally assumes a black-white dichotomy. Insofar as it addresses Hispanics and Asians, it does so by putting them in the “black” column—victims of oppression in a system of “white supremacy.” But that’s plainly not true. If you look at the statistics, the closest comparison to the experience of poor Latino and Asian immigrants is poor white immigrants like Italians. They are achieving economic parity with whites within a couple of generations. They don’t face persistent multi-generational gaps like black and indigenous people do.

2) Asians (and to a lesser extent Latinos) broadly do not share the political premise of CRT: that our economic and political systems are tainted by “white supremacy” and must be fundamentally changed. That flows partly from culture. Animosity between different ethnic and cultural groups is widespread in Asia and Latin America. Generally speaking, it’s perceived as bad manners, not an existential threat to prosperity. My parents never talked to me about racism growing up, and I suspect that’s pretty typical in Asian and Latino families. By contrast, I think such conversations is very common among black Americans. That attitude is reinforced by the economics. The experience of the overwhelming majority of the kids of Asian and Latino immigrants is closing the gap with whites as compared to their parents. The notion, fundamental to CRT, that non-whites can only make progress through coordinated changes to the system isn’t compatible with their lives experience.
Of course more expertise is better when all else is equal, I thought the quote stood on its own to not be interpreted as asking for less expertise. Rather that the source of the problems is a disregard for people's rights and other more basic failures, than not understanding how an LLM works.
All the big named signatories to this were transparently self interested, as well as not real "practitioners" - mostly adjacent folks upset to be out of the limelight. I know it's a blurry line, but people like Andrew Ng and Yann LeCunn who are actually building ML stuff have dismissed this outright. It's almost like a bunch of sore losers got together and took an irrelevant stand. Like Neil Young and Joni Mitchell vs Spotify.
Troll comments like that person has been doing in this page make for bad conversation.
I feel like this is a situation where the issues are both technical and political. If the system were technically designed correctly, they would need to put down verifiable details for who the other driver who allegedly drove the truck. This would be easily detectable, as a driver can't be in two places at once etc. The other solution as one of the other commenters mentioned is essentially a physical tamper evident key that gets inserted into the recorder. Without a second key, there would be no way to operate the truck.

The other issue here is that it seems that the truck companies are given too much latitude to run their own monitoring systems. The monitoring should be done by/through an entity that is incentivised to detect violations rather than cover them up.
https://archive.ph/tUAGS
> I wish there were better options for that.

There is, it's Apple CarPlay and Google Carwhatever. The whole point of these are that it basically replaces the entire car infotainment setup.
Horse Company CEO in 1903 declares "THERE MAY NOT BE ENOUGH GASOLINE TO GASIFY THE GLOBE"
Big fan of Faiss - I've tried using several others (milvus, weaviate, opensearch, etc) but none struck the usability and configurability chord as much as Faiss did.

I especially like their index-factory models. Once you figure out how to build it properly, you can easily push beyond 100M vectors (512-dim) on a single reasonably beefy node. Memory-mapping, sub-20ms latencies on 10M+ vectors, bring-your-own training sampling strategies, configurable memory-usage, PQ, the list goes on. Once you have this, distributing it across nodes becomes trivial and allows you to keep scaling horizontally.

Not sure if others have used their GPU bindings, but being able to train about 10x faster on your data is a game-changer for rapid-experimentation and evaluation, especially when you need to aggressively quantize at this scale. Also, the fact that you have an extremely portable GPU-trained index that you can run on a lightweight-CPU (potentially even a lambda) is very compelling to me.

That said, I'd love to see Faiss ported to the browser (using WASM) - if any of this sounded useful or intriguing, DM me, would love to share notes and learn more about how folks are using Faiss today.
That’s like saying one could imagine a modern U.S. rail infrastructure that allows pleasant passenger rail travel everywhere you want to go.

Of course it’s possible with enough time and money, but from all accounts Adobe could not have achieved it.
I suspect that the people who are saying "nothing can be done" are people who want nothing to be done.
It has at least 3 meanings:

1. DevOps: A dev who can do ops and will do ops (because their employer won't hire actual operations experts)

2. DevOps: Using more development concepts and tools in operations (i.e., an operator who can do dev, but often in more of a support/deployment than product development capacity)

3. DevOps (original): A way of working that promotes collaboration, rather than separation, between development and operations (among other things).
And think of it on the positive side, at least they didn't cancel the product in this announcement! Yet!
CarPlay is a borderline need-to-have for me if I were to buy a car. Hope Google's version is just as good...
> Aaronson admits Yudkowsky’s position is consistent

A position can be both consistent and false, because it is based on false premises; its frequently the case when people attempt to derive conclusions about the material universe from pure a priori reasoning from abstract axioms and assumptions without empirical grounding.
ASCII isn't that much better to begin with:

5B [

5D ]

7B {

7D }

but:

28 (

29 )
"So what finally did it score overall? Estimated on the basis of five subtests, the Verbal IQ of the ChatGPT was 155, superior to 99.9 percent of the test takers who make up the American WAIS III standardization sample of 2,450 people."

"Despite its high IQ, ChatGPT is known to fail tasks that require real humanlike reasoning or an understanding of the physical and social world. ChatGPT easily fails at obvious riddles, such as “What is the first name of the father of Sebastian’s children?”"

-----

To confirm the above, I asked GPT-4 "What is the first name of the father of Tyler’s children?" and it failed to answer.

However, when I rephrase the question to "Please solve this riddle: What is the first name of the father of Tyler’s children?", it answered correctly.
So do certain other people around them…
You could also require the per-mile payments to match what the electronic logs show, so that driving off the clock means that they’re driving for free.
The problem is that we do not know "How" to engineer those principles. And that's what the entire field of AI alignment is working on. We know what we want the AI to do; the problem is we don't know how to make certain it does that. Because if we only get it 99% right then we're probably all dead in the end.
No way are smartphones more powerful in hardware, and streaming adds latency to controls, regardless of the quality of the network connection.
I'm guessing GM made the calculation that the money they were getting from Google to do this was greater than the money they would lose in car sales to iPhone owners.
"This is an incredibly lame and sucky decision for a number of different reasons."

The state of "journalism" in 2023.
The optimal solution is to avoid react+hooks, which is too confusing for humans anyway :) Mithril.js has been plain javascript for years, and unsurprisingly enough this is easier for chatGPT / copilot to deal with.
Well done Italy. Firmly closing the stable door several years after the horse bolted.
> use your system Python.

Maybe you are an accidental accelerationist? Using the system Python is fastest way to a broken system and a broken Python.
What a great metaphor.

Did you recall that your planet is currently in a sixth extinction event, brought about, yes, through the repeated overuse of fire?

Zeus was right. Prometheus belonged on that rock.
they're coming for the public defenders too.

https://ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics/supreme-court-gideo...
Did Google pay for this?
Praise Moloch!
My Hyundai Ioniq hybrid has a 12v section of the Li-ion battery that can be charged off of the hybrid battery while the car is off with the press of a button so that the car never needs to be jump-started unless the entire hybrid battery is dead.
The open letter is so foolish it invalidates itself. For one thing, it's
pouring fuel on the fire. The obvious reaction to such a letter is to
accelerate and hide one's own progress, eh?

Yudkowsky's fear-mongering about sci-fi Skynet is also unmoving to me
(for metaphysical reasons I won't go into here) however, his position is
at least logically consistent, as Aaronson points out.

These machines can already talk and think better than many humans, and
the ratio (of mentally sub-computer to super-computer humans) will only go up.
Ergo, the only intellectual problem left is how to use them.

I've been banging on about this for a couple of weeks now, so apologies to
those who've seen it before, please read "Augmenting Human
Intellect: A Conceptual Framework" SRI Summary Report AFOSR-3223 by
Douglas C. Engelbart, October 1962
https://dougengelbart.org/pubs/augment-3906.html

And then at least skim "An Introduction to Cybernetics" by W. Ross Ashby. http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/books/IntroCyb.pdf
The thing you're looking for is "intelligence amplifier". Engelbart
references it, the book explains all the math you need to understand and
build one.

The next piece of the puzzle is something called "Neurolinguistic
Programming" (you may have heard of it, some people will tell you it's
pseudoscience, ignore those people, they mean well but they just don't
know what they're talking about.) It turns out there's a rigorous
repeatable psychology that more-or-less works. It's been under
development for about half a century.

The particular thing to look at is a specific algorithm called "Core
Transformation Process" ( https://www.coretransformation.org/ ) which is
kind of like the "Five Why's" technique but for the mind. It functions to reduce yak-shaving and harmonize intent.

Anyway, the upshot of it all is that these machines can be made into
automatic perfect therapists, using off-the-shelf technology.
Um… banning a random subset of hardware for a PC game may be a rational decision for them, but it’s a fucking disgusting one and they should rightly be pilloried for such a shameful decision.

Not supporting Linux is fine, but banning Windows users because they have hardware you’re opposed to is absolutely awful. Any company that does that, even if acting rationally, should be subject to withering criticism and should suffer in the marketplace.
Cool hack. It's no longer a README though. More of an INSPECTME.
don't you have to claim a copyright to hold it? I guess whoever claims it first.
The only thing missing from Helix is Sublime-like multiple carets.
Sleep mode is working so well; i use it as a pause button for Elden Ring (offline mode) - a game where pausing was omitted by design.

(I believe they designed it that way due to the multiplayer features, which i don't care about.)