skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
LED bulbs that have a similar color as old incandescent bulbs are widely available now for in-home use. It's no longer limited to fancy bulbs like Philips Hue.

That being said, I am not a fan of the white LED streetlights. Streetlight LED's should be orange.
If you use the large_v2 version of whisper, and give it a prompt to indicate what it's transcribing, it can do extremely well. But do use the prompt feature.
If you are a developer, and you don't target iOS nor macOS you're right. Otherwise, for people that must use business or graphical (like Adobe CC) apps linux is not a viable option and between macOS and Windows well, choose your poison, but I like macOS more (at least is unix). This is said as a person that used linux, and even Solaris and freeBSD on his machine for years, when I could do it. Not everyone has the same constraints
If you don't setup an icloud account it shows you ads to sign up for icloud.
This topic really does a number on otherwise reasonably rational minds.
Tailscale is cool, but if we focus on the product that this post discusses, Funnel won't give you the ability to use your own domain name. Cloudflare Tunnels will do that though. I will continue to use Tunnels.
Unless you need software that only runs on Mac / Windows you get a more efficient, faster OS, not stricken with bloatware. Mainstream distros running on compatible machines tend to 'just work', so the myth of having to be a hacker to use Linux just isn't true now.

Open source is also an amazing beautiful thing and it's nice to support that as much as possible. It's a revelation to most people that they don't have to be under the control of Apple and Microsoft.
Chinese computer scientists read sci-fi, play video games, and worry about militarization, just like American computer scientists.

The top Chinese AI researchers work at American companies and go to American universities. Many of them also worry about AI doomsday.

And uncontrolled AI is a threat to the CCP.

A Chinese outreach campaign can succeed.

Let's make the English-language one also succeed.
When Ubuntu has finally killed Gnome 2, I looked at Unity and said, no, I want gnome and booted Gnome 3. ... and after just a few minutes of using it I decided that Unity is actually not that bad!

... and after a few years it kinda grew on me, so it was a pity that Canonical killed it.
seems like the only thing she did wrong was failing to update department policy to be in favor of her activities

in which case they could say drug running was “justified” in a grand press conference
I wouldn't say that democratic societies are resistant to concentration of monopoly on violence in a small group of people. Just look at police militarization in US.

As far as brainwashing - we're pretty good at it, but it still takes considerable time and effort, and you need to control enough mass media first to maintain it for the majority of the population. With an AI, you can train it on a dataset that will firmly embed such notions from the get-go.
Baseball statistics have this concept WAR (Wins Above Replacement), basically if by putting in this player, how much more wins did they bring in than some other player. This is what's really big in salary, but is tied together with another variable, how much money is that win worth?

If I am hiring sandwhich makers and pay them $10 an hour, which brings in $15 an hour of revenue, then some other sandwhich maker is twice as good at making sandwhiches, how much do I pay them? Probably not $20 an hour, since them being faster might still only net $15 of revenue an hour. That increase in revenue is what drives salary. The downside to a bad sandwhich maker is very small, its at most a few messed up sandwhiches.

Tom Cruise makes 1000x another actor for the same movie because the fact that Tom Cruise is in the movie brings in some large multiple of revenue, and Tom Cruise takes a cut of that increase. Sports work in the same way. Software, Finance, and to a point Sales are the "normal" jobs out there that work in a similar way because its largely non-fungible. An amazing trader or dev might make the firm 100x revenue than an average trader. A bad dev or trader brings in Negative value as they make things worse.

This is why teachers don't make more money, a better teacher does not bring in 10x revenue to a district, a worse teacher doesn't create 10x losses. Even though teachers have a large societal effect, there is no direct revenue analysis you can do to show what the replacement value is.
could you please add some screenshots of how it looks
https://preview.redd.it/what-do-we-think-of-the-ads-in-the-s...
“Unchecked increase in military and law enforcement power” and “government abuse of AI” is not a scary potential threat from not so distant future, as media lullabies tell you. It has already become a booming industry. It's a bit too late to wonder whether some law could help.
It is happening. Manhattan is raising the heights of its circumference land.
The Diamond Age by Neil Stephenson.

Nell's book could have been powered by GPT.
For clarity I think EY has made that case well, I think it's the heuristic Cohen and Pinker are relying on that's right most of the time but can still be catastrophically wrong (everything so far has not lead to human extinction, but that was also the case for all animals that went extinct prior to their extinction event).

Some others in this thread have linked to stuff (it's variations/examples on the paperclip maximizer argument).

I'd be curious why John Carmack thinks these risks are unlikely (he thinks fast take off is not something to worry about) - is that because he thinks we'll get some sort of trainable AGI first or something else? There are also some other substantive disagreements here: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/wAczufCpMdaamF9fy/my-objecti...
There are ads for paid iCloud features in the iCloud prefpane. It’s not anything as egregious as Windows ads but it’s disappointing for me whose first experience with macOS was Snow Leopard that felt like magic compared to Windows XP.
The first thing that comes to mind when I see that domain. They're never going to live it down.
> It's a maximum of 4 videos at once

Hmm, what? Do you mean like max 4 participants in Teams calls? No I don't think there's a restriction like that, it should work exactly the same as the Electron version. Our team also has more than 4 people. Maybe you are thinking some restrictions on the free version of Teams? If you or your company is paying for Teams/Office, then you get the same "premium" features on the PWA as you would with the Electron app when you login.

If you go to teams.microsoft.com with Chrome or Edge and login, it should suggest installing the PWA [1].

1: https://www.omglinux.com/microsoft-teams-pwa-now-available-o...
If they kill TikTok now, I think it can easily be patched back up. Assuming something even more powerful doesn't come along.
Debian !stable maybe?
Just to further clarify on the reasons why I think that work into such computational models are badly needed; I think that comprehensible systems fundamentally possess a kind of impedance mismatch with natural forms of expression within von Neumann architecture (as noted elsewhere in the comments). For many years, functional programmers and computer scientists have looked forward to the immense performance potential of automatic parallelisation of pure terms over imperative operations, due to explicit declarations of data dependencies - but despite the passing of decades, it is yet to be fulfilled. Probably no one would consider functional languages for the most performance sensitive of tasks.

As is well known in functional programming circles, mutation and non-referentially transparent operations make systems non-composable and incomprehensible. Pure, composable computation can generally be roughly modelled as terms in lambda calculus. However, elegant as lambda calculus may be as a computational model for computer scientists, to a rough approximation, CPU instructions resemble more of Turing machines. To a very rough approximation, we can take each CPU instruction to cost O(1) time, but on the other hand, lambda reduction takes a much more complex and variable cost depending on your term and reduction strategy, and is highly non-local. The potential of Interaction Nets lies in part, in allowing evaluation of lambda terms in essentially O(1) time.

Of course, Linear Logic reveals that many other facets regarding the efficiency of term evaluation are also deeply intertwined, and besides new solutions to evaluation steps and time-cost, Interaction Nets simultaneously act in a way which is local (allowing embarrassing parallelisation, and thus the whole possibility of HVM's GPU backend for arbitrary computation, albeit I believe, in progress) and also allows automatic erasure of unnecessary terms in large classes of terms (automatic garbage collection).

Together, the problems that Interaction Nets solve seem to altogether make the tradeoff between comprehensibility and efficiency an unnecessary choice.
Have had to do the drug dog walk the last few times I flew out of JFK. It seems to move lines much quicker and allows laptops, etc. to stay in bags going through the scanners. Think it's something we'll see more and more of, which is fine by me but they don't make much allowance for children who have no idea what is going on, in my experience (try telling two young kids that they have to walk side by side at a set pace and not touch the doggy)
Correct.

https://www.navalgazing.net/Nuclear-Weapon-Destructiveness

> To put this another way, each bomb can destroy an area of 34.2 square miles, and the maximum total area destroyed by our nuclear apocalypse is about 137,000 square miles, approximately the size of Montana, Bangladesh or Greece.

(I think that should be Bangladesh and Greece; Montana is larger than the two of them combined.)
> DNF is slow as molasses

Run dnf with -C / --cacheonly unless you need package metadata that is fresher than your coffee. Much speedier. The fastestmirror setting may help, but unfortunately is based on ping time rather than download time, so results there will vary. A new version of DNF is in beta, to be available in Fedora 38, and be the default in Fedora 39, IIRC.
"drug dealer cuts free-samples after customer becomes addict"

that's kind of the point of a sample grace-period, no?
Why not? They charge 8x more for a 32k context than for a 8k context (note that the prices are normally presented per token, here I'm talking about absolute cost). Naive scaling on the self-attention component would suggest 16x compute and 4x memory, while the rest of it (forward layers, embeddings, activation functions etc.) all would go up 4x both compute and memory.
I was responding to the OP who was claiming that "There is an enormous anti-Washington bloc" in reference to BRICS.

Non aligned movement has existed for a long time, but in the context here India is not completely non aligned. They have been the target of aggression by China which has resulted in the deaths of Indian soldiers. And the US has supported them against this aggression[1].

[1]: https://www.usnews.com/news/world-report/articles/2023-03-20...
I imagine every award Stephenson wins allows him more freedom from editors, and now if you don't enjoy his work, society insists its somehow your fault. You must not be smart enough to enjoy fictional histories of cryptography.

And don't get me wrong, the works of his I've read are set in imaginative worlds, amazing yet somehow just a hyperbolic version of today. It's just that the rejected Wikipedia articles that come along don't much serve the world building or narrative.
that's the thing though, I don't believe superintelligence can possibly work like that. I think it's a logical fallacy to treat superintelligences like hypercomputers. they're constrained by existing on classical computers.

like, as a trivial counterexample, I can speak at 500 wpm. let's say that ChatGPT can generate 500 words per second for a single thread of conversation - I think that's a generous overestimate. now that's a 60x speedup over me, not a 1,000,000,000x like you're talking about. do you honestly believe they they can make ChatGPT run 16.6 million times faster, without changing hardware? do you think ChatGPT will just like, hit an inflection point where it realizes how to refactor its inference code to run 16,666,666x faster?

no, I think that's absurd. you're treating these things like black boxes but they are constrained by computational complexity, die area and the speed of light for Christ's sake.
This doesn't make any sense. Empathy itself is qualia; the language is merely a medium to communicate it, and far from the only one (e.g. facial expressions are generally better at it).

As for LLMs "following the structural patterns" of empathetic language - sure, that's exactly what simulating empathy is.
The part in question: https://youtu.be/_gXlauRB1EQ?t=827
Less than that - I don’t blame fathers for the society they live in. Some of that might be attitudes about fatherhood being away from home all the time and mothers are the person at home. But I suspect it’s more society expects fathers to be at work, where work is away from the home, and by in large fathers have little choice. Regardless I don’t blame the fathers for doing enough or not - it appears from the graphs fathers are increasingly spending more time at home which means they’re doing as much as they can - presumably the upper ward pressure is coming at the will of the father. Presumably given the continuous upper pressure there’s some upper limit fathers prefer that’s not been reached. Further it’s likely above where Denmark is, which is much rather than the US. It’s hard to blame someone who seems to be working their way towards a desired state, slowly but surely, for not yet being able to attain their desired level. That’s what I meant - I hope society continues to loosen its grip on parents and let them live the life they prefer. For some it’ll still be working all the time. Others it’ll be working what they need to, where the need to, to give their family the most time. I don’t qualitatively think one is superior to the other, there are ever present parents that are horrible and distant parents that are wonderful. But as long as that slope points upward and is accelerating, we haven’t finished the apparently desired progress to be made.
If there is inbuilt support for crypto and blockchain in DevTools 2.0, I am sold.
They do actually have LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition)https://www.linuxmint.com/download_lmde.php
Prompt: You are an expert python programmer. I will give you some python code below. I want you to describe the code and it’s likely purpose.

The answer will be pretty damn good , especially with gpt 4, but it’s still good with gpt 3.5 turbo. Try it out yourself with whatever code you have.

This english description of code can then be searched against. That’s the primary practical application I’m thinking about doing currently.
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Ft Stafford Beer et al, from the guy behind https://www.the-syllabus.com/ etc.
> the mother and the fetus form a feedback loop, to ensure the baby is as large as possible, while still being able to exit the womb

That's quite different from what you said in the GP comment. This is a more neutral way to put it.

I've turned off the flags on the GP comment now, but I'm leaving the subthread collapsed because it's off topic.
Yes, all of them. But we can go even simpler:

Humans can look at a list of words separated by commas, and call it a "list". We can also call it, "not a CSV file".

Humans can look at a 5, and call it five. We can hold up a hand, and say, "this many".

This behavior is named "semiotics". It's the act of using one thing to represent another.

LLMs are designed to intentionally avoid this approach. Instead of constructing an explicit grammar (like a parser), an LLM takes the opposite approach: inference.

Inference makes it possible to model the ambiguous patterns that natural language is made of. Inference also makes it impossible to define symbols.

Humans use both semiotics and inference. So far, it looks like no one has quite cracked how to do that artificially.
The law is informed by human morality, they both retreated from upholding the law and in my opinion they lose the moral high ground simultaneously. That isn’t conflating, that’s stating what they did legally and then also stating my moral opinion on the matter
And even if you are… I use Wi-Fi smart bulbs that cost less than $10 each, full then as well as a white temperature adjustable from an extreme warm orange to piercing blue. 90+ CRI too.
Dang, kudos to PyPI.
it's already relevant at 1000 members, and why not use it when it is possible?

Also, switch messenger once you hit 1k?

Even it a leak may be possible, it still isn't guaranteed. Instead you guarantee server side access without e2ee
Just helping OP keep up: https://docs.retool.com/docs/retool-database-self-hosted
I had a young relative I chased around to try and get clean for years before he OD'd on opioids in a bay area Air BnB with his girlfriend. He would order laminated 'diving certificates' with drugs encased in them by mail, and other postal deliveries that were clearly really drug shipments. There is little reason for mules when 18 wheelers are bringing in hidden drug shipments from Mexico and the postal service are delivering deadly drugs from India as was the case with the San Jose police union dealer.
Yes, but not at bargain bin prices.
Ok, I’m giving you the killer app idea

A messenger which you type what you want into, and it translates it into friendly-speak before sending it to (your mom/your ex/your coworker)

Just give me 2% of the sale price once you sell out to google or WhatsApp or whatever
Ugh, I'm sorry. Hopefully they won't ever need to mobilize you. I don't know what I'd do if that happened to me.
Makes old computers faster, less marketing, or curiosity.

For me, I switched in 2016 because Microsoft borked my upgrade from Windows 8.1 to 10, and I was mad enough to switch to the only competitor I knew of that would run on my hardware. Start menu stopped working, icons would disappear at random, even ctl+alt+del didn't always work.

Supposedly it happened because I selected the "keep my files and programs" option, but my question is why they offered the option to begin with if it wasn't going to work?

Coincidentally, Linux actually converted me into a techie
A non-free solution would be to have a VPS or a cloud VM act as the public endpoint + wireguard server.
It's correct that Tweets can't be edited after a certain amount of time. But given how incorrect this information is, he should delete this tweet.
It won't altogether surprise me if she fields a defense saying that she was so frustrated by the lack of federal action that she decided to mount her own elaborate sting operation to take down the trafficking network. She's probably going to prison for many years anyway, might as well fleece the rubes on the way out and get free money sent to her commissary account.
Hey there! We are actually working on a video course for Retool that covers more of the breadth of the platform. Definitely more to come. One more substantial example we released recently is this bookstore application, which uses about every part of the platform [1]. It's the app demoed at this virtual event, Retool Developer Day [2].

1: https://github.com/tryretool/bookstore_sample_app

2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmLPdHqC0uQ
Yes, and voiding even more use cases, total deal breaker, leave that to your or remote's githooks if you need it.
> It's not just a tweaked fan curve. The firmwares are entirely different.

Unless they are featuring coreboot, they just tweaked options in say the Insyde bios, so no, not entirely different.

> I could, or I could keep buying hardware that is for Linux, with support. I think my time is worth it.

Personally, I prefer quality.

Should you ever change your mind, get in touch, I'm preparing a sick arch image with absolutely perfect hardware support on wayland!
Not entirely certain about this, but I believe that because Apple M-series GPUs use system memory you could possible run the larger models on accessible (albeit expensive) consumer hardware.

Need 64GB for 30B

And 128GB for the 65B

I'm not sure about the performance, but I think it should be ok? Especially given how much Apple has been investing in what -- I believe they call -- neural cores?

Here's some more context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35105364
It's not really attention, it's 'just' a exponential moving average over time where different channels have different decay rates. This is a simplification, in the actual architecture there are also convolution layers.
As a long-time (but often part-time) Linux user and critic, I find Fedora to be in a pretty sweet spot right now. The last couple of years is the first time since the Snow Leopard MacOS era that I've been pleasantly content with my desktop OS, rarely thinking about it (certainly not considering any significant switch). I just use it.

This won't last, because nothing does. Another distro (or even OS) will eventually cast enough shade to tempt a move, or the Fedora project will make a daft decision.

But for now it's great, and I find it peaceful not to think much about the OS I use.
like this article and your post?

But whatever, I guess I'm the only one that finds discovering new chatgpt uses cases helpful.
Perhaps you should got to Beijing and correct Xi Jingping then[1].

[1]: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/xi-jinping-says...
Genuine question - what’s the moat for such app?
Where does this stat come from? At the border or border checkpoint?

These are very different.
I have an academic background and I feel exactly the same. I find it difficult to take anything not backed by data seriously, unless it's pure opinion (and presented as such).

However these kind of posts are commonplace and often very popular. Sometimes I refrain from writing if I can't find data to back up my point. Maybe I overestimate the importance that people place on these things.
And looks like we're up to 108,702 packages a mere 6 hours later.
> people stuff.

That one's doing a lot of the heavy lifting here. The "people stuff" (working out requirements, managing expectations, explaining things, etc) has been arguably the most important software developer skill for a long time. As it happens, ChatGPT is still pretty bad at it.
Idk. C, am, F and G are as easy, if not easier, and you can play with them a nice I-IV-vi-V instead of this modal interchange shit.
Ok he's from South Africa
Full self driving, all truck drivers and cabbies being jobless, etc. is what immediately came to mind. We are probably closer to another AI winter than we think.
Of course.

But I was talking specifically about China's ability and interest in harming me, personally, directly. I was not talking about China's ability to do societal harm.
Ask HN: Who's got domain names for sale or lease?
This community probably has a large inventory of unused domain names that could be put to better use. If you're like me, you have a bunch of names that you think you might want to use someday but haven't done anything with. You may also have domains from discontinued side-projects. If you'd consider selling or leasing some of your domains, please list them in a comment below along with some contact information.
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