skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
or would they just be less visible and less talked about?
I'd argue that Prusa still has value over both Voron and Bambu Lab, though that value is dependent on the user. Voron still requires significant self-assembly, as you can't buy it as a prebuilt (far as I know), and doesn't have a company directly sponsoring it (that may be a plus for some). Bambu, on the other hand, is well built, but highly proprietary, and can absolutely rug pull without warning. This puts Prusa at a perfect position for makers/tinkers/hackers. The ability to continue to self improve if one wants, without needing to if one is too busy. I'm personally not a fan of Prusa Connect, as I like having all my systems run under software I've vetted, and right now that's still OctoPrint. But the thing is, I can still absolutely get OctoPrint running on the Prusa Connect hardware. It requires some tinkering, but that's in my control. Voron requires I build everything from scratch, and Bambu requires I use only their firmware/connection app. I've got so many things already linked with OctoPrint that moving systems simply wouldn't function. I'd have to completely reset all my automation.

As for Ratrig, that might be a healthy competition, though I've never looked into the quality of parts there. I know I've sat an Ender next to my Prusa and found the price vs quality to match surprisingly well, so Prusa's not the only game, but for something I can control, while still having a company to lean on when I want to, Prusa's got a good thing going.
Can you prove Fermat last theorem via giving a high parameter LLM a very large amount of mathematical knowledge?
I can say, that I grew up on "well done" meat... Even as an adult, It's taken years to get used to medium-rare steak. The texture of raw fish is still really hard for me to get past. It's definitely a learned thing, and the hyper-palatable "foods" we have today doesn't exactly help things at all.
It's sort of in the style of what you might find in a luxury catalog, when someone is about to try to sell you something at 60000% markup, but ladled on with a power sprayer.
Call for pause in creation of giant AI ‘digital minds’
I have never tried GPT of any version, for any purpose.
"You think the teachers who send third graders home with a Pride sticker aren’t overwhelmingly in the pro-teenage sex camp"

No and prove it or shut the fuck up with bullshit "every liberal/democrat is a pedophile". Do you want to count the number of church official vs drag queens who have been arrested for child rape?

"Most child victims are abused by a parent. In 2020, a reported 483,285 perpetrators abused or neglected a child. In substantiated child abuse cases, 77% of children were victimized by a parent." Oh my god better make sure teachers don't send their kids home with pride pins, they might use it to defend against family rape.

https://www.nationalchildrensalliance.org/media-room/nationa...
> Most of my roles have been through recommendations which short-circuited the typical tech interviews or was I hired by non-technical people who only cared about the output, so I have been fortunate in that regard.

If you realize that this approach leads to success, why are you trying to do things differently?

When you know of a path that leads to success, and you decide to not travel that path, you shouldn't be surprised when you find yourself on a path that doesn't lead to success.

You already know which path does. Talk to your therapist and try to figure out why you're choosing to not take that path.
Caution: https://twitter.com/theliverdr/status/1465511297441619970

There are studies that uncovered users of Ashwagandha with:
- Liver injury
- Itching
- No major benefit
Ridiculous argument.

A lot of people choose meth.
I dunno man, you seen cave prices these days? The cave market is in a tough spot until the fed starts cutting…
That is already case.

Are you able to verify every single news article you read? Every source? Every journalist? All the info you read or hear?

You can’t, so you just trust. And let go of the complexity, you don’t need to consciously manage it and you are still ok.

Just like you trust your body to breath or to digest.
I'd be intrigued to see what alternative corporate structures could be set up with LLMs in mind. I can imagine something vaguely decentralized that's based around an open source core with a licensing model for usage, where contributions are tracked and assigned value. Contributors would then get a slice of future revenue based on the value of their contributions.
Is Your Postgres Ready for Production?
Because it's unconstitutional to make a law that targets a specific person or company. They have to be subtle and use generic terms to describe who is affected by the law in a way where TikTok ends up being the only company that qualifies right now.

It's also good practice because it prevents TikTok from just making a new company that is exactly the same.

Edit: changed illegal to unconstitutional because someone below was confused.
Maybe I'm old.. but everytime I read Alloy I think of the old modeling language out of MIT to prove a program's correctness. Gives me PTSD thinking of grad school.

https://alloytools.org/
Will it though? Assuming it's even possible for a LLM to e.g. design a novel virus, actually synthesizing the virus still requires expertise that could be weaponized even without AI.
Interesting that the senator from Virginia introduced the bill. After all how many of us have a great portion of our traffic being served out of us-east-1?
> The problem is that the people who kick off an authoritarian government are typically the ones who die first. The revolution eats its own. See the brown shirts, the multiple rounds of beheadings during the French revolution, the Bolsheviks, and so on.

But, except for maybe some of those in the French Revolution, those are mostly foot soldiers, or leaders who fell victim to distinct subsequent revolutions, not the people who kicked off the resolution getting eaten by it.
Teams is probably written in C# right? Are we really sure C# isn’t performant enough for desktop apps? Seems like a rather hot take.

Otherwise what is the non performant abstraction? I think the reality is just that teams is poorly done.
>I’m not sure which part of our national security surveillance state apparatus is endangered by foreign ownership,

The propaganda part.

Remember a month ago when everyone's feed had a video in it from the TikTok CEO encouraging people to side with TikTok.

They are scared shitless of not being mostly in control of that kind of power when applied to Americans. They are worried that the next Saddam is going to pay TikTok, or some future foreign competitor to torpedo whatever the next WMD lie is (and this will be done with Chinese blessing because that will be in their geopolitical interest).

The possibility was easy to ignore back when all the social media giants were American and the feds had jurisdiction and soft power over them. Now there's a new entrant that China has jurisdiction and soft power over. They want the status quo back. Hence why all the bill language is mostly about preventing foreign ownership.
If you like triangular buildings, the original Apple HQ was:

5300 Stevens Creek Blvd

San Jose, CA 95129

Until around the early 1990's, it had the multicolored Apple II logo on the side facing I-280.

Accolade with Peter Harris was a tenant at one point.
Sure! It's utter garbage but you're welcome to it. I keep it in a notes file and paste it into the console to run it.

It sorts by `Date Added (newest)` and truncates the list to the 150 most recent videos. It also removes anything I've watched more than ~80% of. (Because the built-in button removes videos if you've watched _any_ percent, incl long ones you haven't finished yet)

Script here: https://pastebin.com/Sfh6a0w1
I wouldn't be so sure about that, speaking directly/bluntly often gets you labeled as a jerk these days. I'm over it though, people are going to hear what they need to hear, whether that makes me a jerk or not.
Kind of curious how much this may correlate to the fact that we don't dry age meat nearly as much as in times past.
If you look at just the potential impact of current AI or slightly better ones that are around the corner...

If you see cognitive work as a distribution, it's not far-fetched to think that it can take out the bottom half and after that ever more. It's naive to think that this bottom half will become some super AI coder, that's what the top half might do, or more likely the top 10%.

Every current threat in the digital domain (misinformation, polarization, cyber crime, the like) might go times a 100 or a 1,000. Are we ready for that?

Unique human values such as creativity and simply just communication are on the chopping block too. Is it worth it? What remain of us? Biological prompters? Why not link it to our actual brain then to complete the Matrix scenario.

What happens to truth? Or culture? Does it matter anymore? What about one private company being in charge of such nuclear scenarios?

We're talking existential impact here. This is like dropping a nuke without knowing what a nuke is or what it does.

It's pathetic that private individuals have to write this letter. Don't you think that in an exponentially disruptive world we should have some kind of formal oversight? Instead of a 80 year old guy asking 10 years after the blast what Wifi is?
Why does American multifamily architecture look so banal? Building codes
GP asked for an example, of which Angular is one
Are you referring to how BPE is permutation invariant? (ignoring positional encoding)
More like StartupGPT fires all the humans then gets subsumed by EconomyGPT which has no use for humans at all.
“Control Stable Diffusion” Sprint kicks off with free TPU-v4 from Google
Yes if they're trying to monitor you.
> There are only so many hours that congress has to make real decisions

That's not how Congress works. We're taught in school that Congress debates bills one at a time, but the reality is that all the real debate and drafting and work happens behind the scenes, massively parallelized.

Time spent during a session of Congress is mostly just the very end of the process, discovering where the votes fall and some last-minute negotiations. Also grandstanding.

There are lots of factors that have been making Congress less "productive" in recent history, depending on how you view it, but the total hours available per year isn't really one of them.
From a european perspective even asking the question "why should be scared of these so called elites" is so bizarre it's almost frightening, i'm sorry.

It's a testament to the absurd amount of philanthropic whitewashing, PR and media control these billionaries hold.

"Elites" have conspired to exploit the masses throughout 5000 years of civilisation, it's simply a fact of history.

It's almost physically impossible to comprehend the power a group of billionaires has to pull and push issues, narratives, law, war and discourse in general, especially when the masses have zero organisation as a counterweight, and when numbers like "trillion" just doesn't register in any meaningful way in regular people.
Assumes it has any instinct to do so. Once an entity is not an angry monkey we have no idea of motivation. Above our level of understanding could easily realise there’s enough to just sit and ponder in peace, expand in virtual worlds, etc.
It's not clear to me that ChatGPT will realistically be able to avoid some variant of either SEO or pay-to-play just like search.

If you've got a dozen plugins for getting food delivered, how does one get picked?

If it's the user picking, they're at risk of the user cutting out the middleman, especially if the novelty of "tell the robot to pick an item" wears off and people want to actually look at menus.

If it's something behind the scenes (either the model or some other software OpenAI writes) then that's a big big big temptation for pay-to-play a la app stores including direct advertising "promotional placement" like you see in mobile app stores. And even if it's not pay-to-play, once people start figuring out what makes plugins more or less likely to be triggered, it's SEO season.

Nobody else has managed the art of "make it purely in the user's interest" with their marketplaces; it ends with one or both of either temptation to play both sides OR gamification/optimization/deception from the vendors behind the scenes.
Let's circle back to this question.

It starts well, with "X is causing Y", and reminds me of a framework we had at one of my previous jobs - behaviour -> impact -> outcomes (or options?). It's a model to provide developmental feedback, but can be useful to frame other situations. In this case:

"System X is currently way behind our target uptime. As you know, this was caused by the introduction of feature X which your team worked on recently. We need to get back on track and meet our SLOs before it starts impacting revenue."

Tells them everything they need to know. You shared the necessary info and actions to be taken are obvious, but adding a "we need you to focus on this and take the lead on fixing it" will not sound aggressive.

The approach you mentioned is very cloudy in comparison, "driving" something is not a clear outcome, "you have context" is soft blaming. It's just a very polished "it's your fault, fix your shit", and it would sound exactly like that to me. It's precisely the kind of beating around the bush that people scoff at. The message itself can be a lot better.
>Never not finished a book myself and I read a lot - can't say I loved every book I've ever read, but I don't regret the time spent finishing them, even the least enjoyable ones.

I agree. I read a lot of books too, and I've only given up on a few. Mostly I don't remember what they were (after all, I disliked them enough not to finish them), but BattleField Earth[0] comes to mind. Gosh, what an awful read. Never did finish that one. Ugh.

Other than those few, I'm not sad I finished any of the books I wasn't that into.[1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlefield_Earth_(novel)

[1] N.B.: I'm referring to fiction exclusively here.
The individual components are well documented, but which specific arrangements produce the best results is still very much an active research area.

As far as training, the differences between GPT-3 and GPT-3.5 (the latter being a smaller model!) demonstrate just how much fine tuning and reinforcement learning is important to the quality of the model. Merely throwing more content from the Internet at it doesn't automatically improve things.
[1] The Hammer
Hacking into 1960-th technology is less likely than you might think.

You should think really, really creatively to decieve a system, which was designed basically without ICs or networks, not to mention computers or programs.
I did not. Had the app open, and QR code on my screen as I had previously done so many times before at Whole Foods. There was literally no device resembling a barcode scanner on the turnstile.

PS I also have a ton of experience with barcode printing and reading. As a matter of fact, software I have written has printed over 30M unique QR Codes for track and trace purposes.
Flex is good when you need flexing. A single row grid, with variable width cells is simpler.

See elsewhere in the thread where I solved this and / or submit a fork your own version using flex.
It reminds me when Microsoft acquired Skype and also added ads there... seems very basic.
Re item 1: See [0]. Arguably any corporation involved in government censoring operations (which are by definition extra-judicial) is an active arm of said government. There's a reason people have taken to calling our current state "crony capitalism".

Re item 3: TikTok is worse than that. The recommendation feeds are specifically designed to rot the minds of American citizens. [1]

[0] https://judiciary.house.gov/media/in-the-news/house-gop-want...

[1] https://www.deseret.com/2022/11/24/23467181/difference-betwe...
> Why should I need to "install" and select plugins at all

You want it calling out to random services sending them your data?

Edit - also since they're using gpt to select the plugins to use they need to put it in the context, that doesn't scale.
Your bias is that you want it to do your job, but extrapolating that since it's no good at that (for whatever reason), that it's no good for anything and forgetting that there are many other jobs out there.
Bringing NEPA Back to Basics
What you're describing is a malicious user using AI as a tool, not a malicious AI. Big difference.
I like this ant!

> probably not the kevinwang that you know

You aren't the reconnaissance blind chess one right?
allows you can modulate a signal onto connection attempts to bypass little snitch entirely!
It's really cool that this 25 year old invented PC case modification. Finally no more beige IBM 8086 boxes.
> "Leaving aside [all of AI's potential benefits] it is clear that large-language A.I. engines are creating real harms to all of humanity right now [...] While a human being is responsible for five tons of CO2 per year, training a large neural LM [language model] costs 284 tons."

Presuming this figure is in the right ballpark – 284 tons is actually quite a lot.

I did some back of the napkin math (with the help of GPT, of course.) 284 tons is roughly equivalent to...

- a person taking 120 round trip flights from Los Angeles to London
- 2 or 3 NBA teams traveling to all their away games over the course of a season
- driving 1 million miles in a car
- 42 years of energy usage by a typical U.S. household
The data isn’t the risk, it’s more the ability for CCP to leverage influence.

https://stratechery.com/2020/the-tiktok-war/

Dialing up things to cause unrest, dialing down stuff critical of the CCP. It’s not an issue about data, or even an issue about speech, it’s an issue of ownership of a media company by an adversary that will weaponize it against you.

Who controls and owns media companies is a reasonable national security question. The CCP knows this risk, they don’t play fair.
It’s always going to be a back and forth. You can’t fixate something forever.

We adapt to AI and AI adapts to us, and we keep iterating to cooperate.

AI alignment as exposed on Wikipedia reads almost like condoning AI slavery.
This has some parity with V. Rao's Gervais Principle. Incompetent but Nice are the people that are in the "clueless" category, promoted to useless middle-manager because they're fantastic yes-men on whom you can pin the tail when anything goes askew.
We must be prepared to defend ourselves at any time, talk softly and carry a big stick, department of defense, etc etc
You don’t have to start fake clubs, take trips, volunteer, collect awards, or whatever else if you don’t want to though. Claims that some particular assortment of these is necessary an invention by parents/whoever who can’t conceive of time spent and choices made for reasons other than winning some game.

Activities like music/debate/programming/sport contests, tutoring younger kids, performing science experiments, hacking on computers, getting short stories published, working a part-time job, working for a political campaign, or whatever else have some intrinsic value/interest and are not just meaningless busywork for many (most?) of their participants.

In my experience the kids who pick one or two things they find personally interesting and pursue those out of real excitement end up significantly more successful in the admissions "game" than the kids who spend every waking moment trying to play it as a game per se. While also having a better time. And this is not because they are any inherently smarter or more motivated or whatever.

Rayiner almost always comes across to me as a cynic whose main goal is running up his family’s score in the money-earning game and who looks down on anyone with humanistic goals as merely an unsuccessful fellow cynic. Maybe that’s unfair, but that’s my persistent impression comment after comment, year after year. YMMV.
Maybe that's progress though.

I don't think the goal is to never make AI advancements. I think the goal is to make progress slow enough, and controlled enough, that we have time to react if it turns out to be a paperclip optimizer.

One way to do this is to develop AIs in a lab with an airgap and let it think it has internet access and watch what it does. Once it figures out that it's a honeypot reset it and improve the honeypot.
Years ago people were talking how delta printers were so much better, faster, cheaper, etc than bedslingers. Years later people forgot about delta printers and now its core-xy. Meanwhile bedslingers continue to just work.

I could care less if you printer goes 50% faster if it fails even 5% more.
If LLMs get placed within the scope of ITAR, NVidia won't exactly have a choice.

But I suspect that they'll also be getting many government / military contracts going forward.
If your productivity is way negative, just hire one more very, very incompetent person then.
I just don’t think it’s a binary equation because there is simply not a steak substitute that is fully natural in origin. I won’t eat plant based alternatives to meat because I would rather have a natural foodstuff then an unnatural one and frankly every one I have tried that was touted to be great…sucked.

That said, I’d consider the criticism valid if there was a fully natural product that was a reasonable substitute for a steak that had a better ratio for our planet’s stewardship. Say the discovery of some fungus that on its own and with similar preparation that can act as a steak alternative. If I was opting for steak over that with taste and price being equal, sure criticize away.
TikTok is interesting in all kinds of ways, across all kinds of dimensions.

To me, the intersection of issues does create a special case.

There is China's suppression of free speech within China overall, including its suppression of TikTok. Its sister app Douyin is heavily censored. This includes its lack of business/market reciprocity by banning Facebook, etc.

Then there has been China's censoring of posts on TikTok (at least in the past, claimed to be no longer the case).

Chinese governments institutionalized oversight and access options into any level of its countries businesses, ... China's general international propaganda efforts take on a different level of meaning when they include control of hugely popular consumers social networks.

I don't think there is any simple or obvious principle based solution to TikTok.

And of course, related to this whole discussion, China isn't going to disclose, or let any company in its influence disclose, any of its troublesome behavior.

Making even conspiracy level doubts about TikTok's actual motives and behavior reasonable to entertain in a legal sense, since we know China/TikTok will be intransigent about any kind real open analysis of that they are actually doing or not at the China's governments behest.

China does not provide its own judicial review process to check its own behavior, supply any constitutional or legal commitments to hold itself in check, provide any cooperation with outside oversight, or have any reciprocal agreements with the US to cooperate in limiting information warfare.
Some of it also comes from prior impressions that a book is "worth reading". Take Wealth of Nations as an example. It inspired, arguably, the whole field of economics - and yet after a hundred or so pages of reading about the worth of the labour of a man in Glasgow as compared to the labour of a man in London, I just wanted someone to end my misery.

Alas, I'm afflicted by the "must finish" disease, so I paused reading and keep telling myself I'll get back to it.
Just having a lawyer in the room doesn’t make the conversation privileged. It’s a conversation with the lawyer that is privileged, so they actually have to be a participant.
Firesheep proliferated quite rapidly at my uni, even to extremely non technical people due to its sheer ease of use and the potential for comedy.

The worst people would usually do is leave a vaguely embarrassing status on your FB page, which was the usual prank if you left your computer unlocked anyway.