skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a tangential relation but it's a relation. I don't think i would say it has nothing to do with it. Goal posts shifting in the field of machine learning isn't just about the posts for defining intelligence. It's broader and deeper than that.

I brought it up because i thought it fit the point i was driving at.
Humans/people don't see subjective experience. I don't know that you're actually having some subjective experience. I'm working on what i see and results, same as you.

If you have two unknown equations but one condition - these 2 equations return the same output with the same input. well, then any mathematician would tell you the obvious - the 2 equations are equal or equivalent. it doesn't actually matter what they look like.

This is just an illustration. The point i'm driving at here is that true distinction shows in results. It's a concept that's pretty easy to understand. Yet turn to artificial intelligence and it just seems to break down. People making weird assertions all over the place not because they have been warranted in any empirical, qualitative or quantitative manner but because there seems to be this inability to engage with results...like we do with each other.

when i show the output that clearly demonstrates reasoning and understand, the arguments quickly shift to "it's not real understanding!" and it's honestly very bizarre. What kind of meaningful distinction can't show itself, can't be tested for ? If it does exist then it's not meaningful.

I think that the same reason people shift posts for intelligence is the same reason people fear the philosophical zombie.

idk maybe i'm rambling at this point but just my thoughts.
My NYC co-op is going through this now. All of your guesses are basically right. We're having separate systems installed for replacing in-unit hot water and in-unit heating and cooling. I believe the new electric hot water system is being installed in the basement and the condensers for the in-unit control panels are being installed on the roof and routed through the pipes used by our old radiator system.

Pros: units can control their own heat and will no longer need in-window A/C units. Cons: it's really expensive, even for a building with good finances and access to reasonable financing options.

We're only doing this because our boiler is probably a few years away from failing already (it's well over 50 years old), and we're super close to the building size threshold where we would be fined for not complying with the law (so any adjustments to how they calculate building size or dropping the law's fine floor would certainly push us over).
Natural Gas heating is surprisingly good in practice, especially in the days where we only had fossil fuels on our electricity grid.

If you go fossil fuel, you have only 40% efficiency for Fossil Fuel -> Electricity, then Electricity -> Traditional heat is only 100% efficient. So 100W of chemical energy turns into 40W of electricity, and then turns into 40W of heating.

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Today, a Heat Pump can be like 200% efficient, so you 100W of chemical energy turns into 40W of electricity, then turns into 80W of heating from the heat pump.

Alas, a Gas Furnace is like 90% efficient (10% of the heat escapes in the steam / waste products that needs to be pushed out the chimney, but everything else turns into home heating). So your 100W of chemical energy turns into 90W of heating, and you're done. And that's why our infrastructure in the USA is so much around gas heating, because its better. Especially since we are very rich in domestic natural gas production.

Yeah, we're getting to the point where Heat Pumps + Solar Electricity are coming. But... we're not there yet. On today's grid, Natural Gas heating is likely the most efficient option.

EDIT: Got my units wrong. It should be 100J of energy, not 100W of energy. Watts are power. Though in USA, we don't use Joules for energy, but instead "BTUs". Whatevs.... I think my point is still clear :-)
*in the US

Bittrex Global continues, along with the other 600+ centralised exchanges [0] unfortunately excluded in American-centric reality.

[0] https://blockspot.io/exchange/
We <3 CoScreen!
This is why you should only break one law at a time.
I don't get it. The author wants the Internet Archive to stop? What's the harm they're suffering, versus the benefit to society?
I thought the memory limit (in V8 at least) was 2GB due to the GC not wanting to pass 64 bit pointers around, and using the high bit of a 32-bit offset for .. something I now forget ..?

Do you have a source showing a JS runtime with a 1GB limit?
The real concern is that code will become too incomprehensible to be debugged by most humans before we solve hallucinations etc (if they even are solvable) leading to bugs.
You could try to get creative and go with 'Gee Pete', or something like that ;)
I still hear reverse-FUD about nvidia supposedly fully open-sourcing their Linux driver, when in reality they opened a tiny kernel portion of it that allows the main proprietary blob to connect to necessary kernel interfaces. You have to call out this bullshit when you see it.
It was some years ago but I think you're spot on, it was exactly like that!
The human mind is likely a bullshit parrot as well. Those who are at the cutting edge of ideas can claim a bit of non-parrot-ness for a while but most of the time it's just parroting within a curated "elite" subgroup.

What makes a "human" different could be that we live in the physical world with environmental and social consistency. Each time we sleep the mind "dies" and is "reborn", like GPT-4 starting a new conversation with new context.

The physical environment and social interactions (and cues from long term and short term memory) make up the preamble for the day.

If the environment and interactions fall into easily compressible patterns, it can feel like the movie Groundhog Day, a constant loop. However changing relationships (breakup, dating) or changing environment (traveling, moving) changes the preamble where "I" feel like someone different. A harder reset vs the soft reset of sleep.
It is really nice to see how bazel is used in the wild. It looks so clean. Why we are not using it for everything?
It will be interesting to see if there is a way to release the weights / embeddings without exposing the private preferences of every user on Twitter. Any theories on how you could do this without making a privacy nightmare?
WASM is specified to have 32-bit pointers, which is 4GB. AFAIK browser implementations respect that (when I did some nominal testing a couple years ago)
Sounds pretty great to me. Might be because I'm not a drug addict though.
This isn't actually a problem because Gen-Z can't afford a GM vehicle anyway. The domestic manufacturers have abandoned the affordable vehicle segment to all fight over the high margin luxury business. Even basic pickup trucks are $60k and rotting on dealer lots because the luxury vehicle market just isn't big enough for all of the people who want to be there.
They already have that, it's called a cult, or some might say religion (I would, but that'll offend others).. I used to be religious (Mormon), now agnostic but still somewhat spiritual, I don't believe in a God, just that the universe could itself be one big consciousness, or even part of a bigger organism, etc... and I'm still inspired by people, my kids, the universe, technological accomplishments, etc... Same feels I got in religion, I get from watching a meteor shower now.
Intuit is not the owner of the IRS filing process.
The funny thing is that angle owes itself to Elon coming through on his promise to open source this.

This is a great thing.
There are a lot of tools dedicated to this. My past favorite is vimv [1].

However, for me this operation is so rare that having a separate command just for mass-renaming files does not seem to be justified.

[1]: https://github.com/thameera/vimv
No(llama.cpp is cpu-only) and no(you need to requantize the model).
> ... no matter what he does there will always be haters.

Yes. Why? Because he's an jerk that deserves it. He's done and said enough dumb shit that people should take him with an ocean's worth of salt.
“God created men, Col. Colt made them equal,”
I find this piece to be guilty of conflating big business publisher profits with those of individual authors.

> Incidentally, there are 149 people in the Toronto Public Library system alone earning six-figure salaries. I’m pretty sure there aren’t that many earning that much in all of Canadian book publishing.

Why don't you just come out and admit that publishers are reaping massive profits that do not flow to individual authors. Pardon me while I don't shed a tear for these profiteers. You did a disservice by framing this on the backs of authors.
Stasi had like 200 000 informants and we're drowning in the shear weight of their paper archives. There was a practical limit on how much they could surveil even with total commitment.

Which is relevant to my point that the police should have some work to gather data to keep down the scale.

Obviously, Stasi did persecute people in far worse way than Google et al. do right now.
This is a good point, that also works well when managing people. Telling it that it is expected to ask questions really helps, but in my experience it usually will do so anyway, or at least mention what information it is missing and try to reason as well as it can without it.

If it couldn't do this, the whole concept here would be moot... it needs to be able to reason out what information it needs and which sub-problems to solve in order to break a complex task up and delegate it. And it is very good at this!
Domain Awareness System
We're good friends with the Jitsi guys, and I have worked with Jitsi for many years now.

Here is a interview I did of Emil Ivov, the founder of the Jitsi project:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nODpF8JjHE
I think you give most people too much credit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtkX3OyPF4Q

"recent polls have shown 1/5 of Americans can't locate the US on a world map why do you think this is"

"I personally believe that us Americans are unable to do so because some people out there in our nation don't have maps and I believe that our education like such as in South Africa and the Iraq everywhere like such as and I believe that they should our education over here in the US should help the US or should help South Africa and should help the Iraq in the Asian countries so we will be able to build up our future"

I believe a majority of people provide answers like this.
According to https://mobile.twitter.com/JustineTunney/status/164190201019... you can probably use the conversion tools from the repo on Alpaca and get the same result.

If you want to run larger Alpaca models on a low VRAM GPU, try FlexGen. I think https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui/ is one of the easier ways to get that going.
Why are you fine with strong armed, authoritarian policies that target vulnerable populations while leaving the architects of death unharmed?

The problem with poisoned drugs was created by doctors, corporations, the police, and politicians. Cartel king pins, plus smaller "mom & pop shops" (~$10ks-millions operations) play their role, but the vast majority of people caught will be stupid and/or desperate smucks, who have done practically nothing.

These will be the people doing life sentences. The cartels leaders almost always get away (until maybe they die). The "mom & pop" shops I mentioned, often quite large in their own respect do get busted from time to time... however the majority of time in prison will be done by pawns, especially from these types of busts.

Then the government spikes the ball and does a victory dance, while most of society is "fine" with it... yet things consistently get worse. More violence, more dirty money, corruption, overdoses, etc.
What makes you think he needs to work on his social networking?
Right. Like the questions the OP poses that it got wrong make perfect sense to get wrong.

Knowing facts and being able to present them in conversational English is not the same as being able to solve linguistically presented puzzles... Even if it sometimes actually is capable of that by some miracle of the algorithm.

I think the tool might be so amazing people are fooled into thinking it is more than it is and therefore perceived as not amazing. Very strange psychology play there.
My household has 3 EV Chevy cars - Volt, Bolt, Spark. Buying another Chevy EV at some point was certainly a possibility.

I even use Android, and don't personally care that much about Apple support, and I'm still unhappy about this and it's making me less interested in Chevy for the next car.
Sergey Brin, Other Billionaires Issued Subpoenas in JPMorgan Epstein Suit
Good call,

The article is effectively saying "(accepting as a given that police charge and arrest people on entirely ad-hoc, hence lawless grounds...), Mr. Reid’s wrongful arrest appears to be the result of a cascade of technologies". But naturally we shouldn't let that just go by.
Not very realistic example, you need to be requesting some actual fields across nodes and doing some filtering on at least strings and dates, maybe geo areas as well.
CDC team studying East Palestine train derailment fell ill during investigation
It's going to be really easy for them to weasel out by claiming the match was like "99% confidence" or something, so not actually false per se. This is supported by the facts: "one of the alleged fraudsters looked like Mr. Reid"

They can also claim their technology does not make an accusation, it provides a similarity score that LEO can use in their investigations. This is also supported by the facts: sheriff’s officer insisted it was a "positive match".

The sheriff's officer actually gives up the game here, revealing they improperly relied on the similarity score to deduce a suspects guilt, but an actually competent prosecutor would know better. The fault lies with the LEO in this case. Good luck suing them.
> CA taxes get you the privilege to say you're progressive, and that you're not like that other guy. For everything else, use your Mastercard.

:)
I'd love to replace Zoom, but as a trainer/coach, I use it only on a weekly basis with multiple people, I guess you'd call them "strangers" (though they might be "regulars"). I'm unclear about how the pricing works in this situation, i.e., what does CoScreen consider a "user"?
There's no need, you can do it today from within any country by living with cash.
SVG also supports <script> tags, which is even wilder
https://www.platformer.news/p/yes-elon-musk-created-a-specia...
Generative image models don't use transformers, they're diffusion models. LLMs are transformers.
I genuinely can't tell if this comment is meant to be satirical, well done either way.
I dont think the general public wants to do the work. centralized systems leverage that to win in the long run.
Connecting with 2 users would work. I would still need to resize the window I'm sharing (the reason I have that big ass monitor is to use VS maximized and have everything open), but it's easier than resizing all windows.
isn't that the author replying to a reply on their tweet? so its promoting positive discussion, hence pushing the engagement higher?
For a number in the X00s the stuff after the period i.e. .xxx% is not significant
If we are willing to not assume some borderline "it's what they want you to think" conspiracy play, obviously there was always going to be a lot of highly interested and qualified people taking a very close look at this and, at some point, there was always going to be very definitive conclusion of what's the deal with what they released.

If your play was "it's some source code, hence people will think we are open, and that should be really good for us", that would make you a very special kind of idiot in this space.
> I'm glad to see that I'm not alone in that being an absolute requirement for a car purchase.

My issue is that my #1 requirement (no functionality that requires a touchscreen to use) basically pre-empts me from having any other requirements.
good point! "interesting insight" might have been a better phrase. i am just skimming twitter to get some scoops on the algo release
Well, they didn’t
Isn’t this basically just saying “the way we’ve always done things here is optimal”? That is very rarely the case. Improvements, optimizations (even of a radical nature) are almost always possible. But yes it sounds like a lot of folks here would not like to work with someone so set in their ways.
Twitter also has a chronological timeline nowadays?
I pay taxes in the US and I am not allowed to vote, so the phrase applies specially to me and 25% of the California population.
Suggested in the Mega Thread (a few times): https://github.com/nim-lang/RFCs/issues/456#issuecomment-111... https://github.com/nim-lang/RFCs/issues/456#issuecomment-111... etc.
I smell 3rd-party business opportunity.

Never mind we can also enable the heated seats for you without your having to pay a subscription.
It's not that uncommon to filter analytics based on how much money a user has spent on the platform.
Reading more doesn’t make you smarter, it just makes you more knowledgeable

There are signs from GPT family progress indicating otherwise.
Funny, you recognize sometimes that they took tracks from Youtube: https://classical.music.apple.com/de/album/1553740049
Here, look at "J.S. Bach: Cellosuite Nr. 1 in G-Dur, BWV1007: I. Prelude (Transc. for Guitar), which is recorded by Ana Vidovic. At 1:28, she is making a small error, which she is also making at this YT video at 1:40: https://youtu.be/zBdK-ailioA
My experience is that it does much better with specific things than general. It does better in statically typed languages than dynamic, and it does better with functions that do a specific small thing than something more fuzzy.

I.e. it does well at writing the body of a function that retrieves data from SQL and returns a particular type, and it does poorly at parsing strings of varying formats.

I'm not super surprised it does well at reducers and poorly at form buttons.
I am not american.
Meeting and learning from others is a great way to start. Being curious and asking the right questions.
By open sourcing the algorithm? Or what?
ChatGPT-4 answered correctly when I entered your prompt.

---

Prompt: What is the third word in this sentence?

GPT-4: In the question you provided, "What is the third word in this sentence?", the third word is "the".
Bayes' theorem is ruthless. Even if your AI is 99.99% accurate, if you have one true positive and scan everybody the vast majority of the people you flag will be perfectly innocent. The people deploying the system and police are ignorant of the statistics and base rates, thinks that it's only 0.001% likely you are innocent, and chuck you in jail because of it.
+ transparency would be realising the decisions behind the boosted accounts.
SpaceX’s first three launches were failures. I think the world is probably better for them not folding after the first.
It has been my personal experience, over 25 years in the industry, that often times the bigger the company the worse the code.

It's not an absolute rule, I've certainly inherited projects in a consulting capacity that were written by small teams and were atrocious. But more often than not, a small team working for a small company has fewer of the internal "forces" that incur "technical debt."

Those forces are things like

- Silo'd teams working on a common code base in parallel but never talking to each other, thus duplicating code and having wildly different conventions

- Layers of middle management each with different management styles, leading to inconsistency and product-wide short-cuts

- Dealing with sudden success-induced scalability disasters that result in bandaid solutions

- More employee churn which means that the way we did things yesterday is not the way we're doing things today because someone new is in charge ... more inconsistency in code and software decisions

- More "old code." Companies very rarely do rewrites and when they do they're often failures. So the bigger the company, the more "legacy" spaghetti code typically because you don't fix what isn't broken (especially when the entire system is broken because it's one big giant mess that no one understands and yet somehow it actually works ... as long as we don't breathe on it or get a sudden surge of new account sign-ups).
Oh yeah,I should specify - if you ask some educated person that is well versed in riddles and geography the question.

Because true, plenty of people wouldn't have a clue what you're on about.
Those are seriously niche use cases. They exist but can they fund gpt5 level development?
So if it’s generally accepted that the world is flat, we shouldn’t listen to anyone claiming otherwise?
There is clearly a lot of information to share. It's worth considering this could be step 1 of n as opposed to assuming the worst possible intention.
The idea that any police group (experienced, inexperienced, etc) "are often only dealing with hardened criminals for the first 5 years on-the-job" seems absurd on it's face. Police drive around an area and deal with the people and situations that arise in the area, which is to say they will inherent encounter average people most often. Violent crimes are less common than other crimes virtually anywhere.

Edit: wow, OK, things beyond even me.
Not necessarily. What if the media company was bad for the health of democracy, and the billionaire's incompetence destroys the company's social standing and thus its ability to do more damage (even in the billionaire's own interests)?
I will be most interested when this gets easier, in particular if it works with sqlite and the unzip libraries. Those libraries are the major snags. I could not get it running on windows (the repo in question[1]).

1: https://github.com/djhaskin987/zic
> Unfortunately, the term “tech” has become diluted to the point of worthlessness.

Indeed. Nearly every so-called "tech" company is not actually in the business of selling technology products, so they aren't really tech companies.

Of course they create technology (sometimes very nice ones) internally in support of their actual business, but tech isn't the business the company board cares about.

Netflix is a movie production and distribution company. Google and Facebook are advertising companies. At least Apple is an actual tech company.
>Today, a Heat Pump can be like 200% efficient, so you 100W of chemical energy turns into 40W of electricity, then turns into 80W of heating from the heat pump.

This isn't true today. The absolute minimum COP is 3.1 in the US.

https://www.pickhvac.com/heat-pump/basics/cop/
Thank you!

> I cannot edit tweets after it has replies (apparently by design).

I think this is to counter a situation of people posting something adorable to get lots of likes/retweets leading to plenty of fan-out to millions of people's feeds, then replacing the content with something inflammatory.
> will get less bullshitty

What we seek is "reliable".

> Most humans are

What we sought is to shrink them in number and power.
Or Elon was the addition, the other 3 are in alpha order.
So... noone should exercise this freedom, because doing it is selfish? Then what are you paying forward for? Freedom noone should ever exercise? It feels like a prison with transparent bars.
I know that dismissive short comments are frowned upon. But seriously, what were they thinking? This is just an ugly little hit piece.
I am comparing HLS with other HTTP-based streaming formats - DASH and SmoothStreaming. They definitely have their issues (DASH in particular is the epitome of the second system syndrome) but they fix the two most glaring issues with HLS: separate manifests and non-aligned segments.

Source: I write an HTTP streaming client library for a living.