skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The mental gymnastics of Musk haters are next level. If Twitter dies, he is dumb and incompetent. If he saves it, it was all just part of his evil plan. You got all outcomes covered, great.
> Quickly… compared to what? Because I honestly don’t think an average person is going to learn APL faster than any mainstream language.

It's known that non-professional programmers often preferred APL to other languages, it was easier to express their problems in APL than in something else.
Maybe a service; not even an amenity?

A public service in the public good.
I'd also like to mention Slint: https://slint-ui.com It is a modern alternative to QML.
Yup. This is why GPT-4 long context length version is going to be such a god damn gamechanger.

The current memory techniques we have outside of ultra long context lengths are lossy and imperfect. I wish the langchain spammers (yes it's a good tool) would acknowledge this when they keep posting everywhere about the "memory module".
The robots are covered in 360 degree cameras, lidar, and what is effectively signals intelligence equipment fingerprinting every smartphone, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth device near them. People are more likely to punch a police officer than one of these robots.

You would have to have a fairly large EMP to steal one undetected.
I actually like the YC as Ivy League school comparison - it has many parallels. Highly selective, has a set regimen ("world view"), has a somewhat high cost of entry ($500k for 7%, not bad tho), and has a fairly exclusive clique that provides value by association that's difficult for outsiders.

Given that, is it harder to get into Harvard or YC based on admission numbers?
I believe it to be fair to say all societies rely on some form of trust in others and the institutions setup within to function.

Regardless if it is in a Democracy, Republic, Monarchy, etc.

Regardless of it's means of resource distribution such as capitalism, communism, socialism, etc.

America for example, despite at times in the past having slavery being legal, committing genocide, segregation, the stealing of land, etc.

Despite being majority one religion.

Still expanded the vote. Expanded freedoms. Expanded access to education. And has shown an ability to let people that were previously expected to hide to live out in the open and freely.

If we are going to really take one survey result at one moment in time as gospel to say that American voters can't be trusted seems counter to the examples of the past where despite majority of Americans voters feeling one way, opinions were changed and progress was made. Slowly. Painfully. Yet still some positive direction.

Thanks for reading my rant and I'll leave with one last thing:

The public trust is sadly a fragile thing. When that trust is abused and poisoned by the very elected officials that have sworn to protect it the voters faith in the system becomes erroded. It unfortunately then takes longer and more work to rebuild that trust again. To move back to a society where arguments were made in good faith; not to just to troll or wage culture wars.
Surveillance Footage
> suburb ("only" 10 miles away)

This is odd to me. This is not a long distance. Is there zero transport infrastructure where you live?
Advertisers are returning because they're basically getting free stuff, and will cut back on Twitter as soon as that spigot runs out.

My company advertises on Twitter, because they gave us an 80% discount to keep advertising on Twitter after we started shifting more spend to other sites last fall. We haven't actually paid Twitter yet; they keep sending emails but we figured we'd just pull an Elon and wait until they actually got serious about collecting. It helps that our account reps keep getting laid off.

Notably, Elon Musk contradicted that interview a number of times internally, noting that Twitter is still deeply in the red. So he was either lying in that interview or he was lying to his minority investors.
I have not tried the EVO. If you want to save a few dollars due to the lower cost of aluminum metal the EVO looks functionally identical to the fully stainless steel original. Aluminum is a neurotoxin so I have no problem paying more for stainless steel metal.
> They are there to give you access to hundreds of exceptional founders

Is there anything you can't do on your own? Like finding email and writing? Mentioning that you're from YC in the beginning adds less to the conversion than the actual message you're conveying, imo.
The funnel relays do SNI-based routing to the target machine in your tailnet, and that machine does the TLS termination. We use the initial TLS handshake to route the connection, but after that it's just opaque bytes to us. You can verify this in the client's source code, and use CT logs to see that there are no additional issued TLS certs beyond the one your end-machine created.
They were expensive pre-covid, but since covid they have become completely unhinged.

https://www.amazon.com/Philips-Hue-Bluetooth-compatible-Assi...

$45 a bulb! That's probably >$2000 to replace a house's worth.

The white, color-temp only ones are about half the price, which is better, but still not cheap:

https://www.amazon.com/Philips-Ambiance-Hue-Equivalent-Assis...
What is CRC?

Metadata is everywhere... histone modifications, glycosylation, etc..
Where do you look now?
At this point, I’d be happy thrilled if America could at least “get to Canada”, though I’m not optimistic.
> the 50B number doesn't represent the full FDIC coverage for deposits

At some point in the past, sure, there were more deposits being emergency insured by the FDIC, which might reduce that 5,200x figure by up to an order of magnitude. I would also clarify, however, that the emergency insurance kicked in two days after the FDIC put SVB into receivership.

> those withdrawals are counted as part of the 18B cost to the FDIC

No, they’re not. The discount offered on the assets is where the loss comes from.
Yes, currently for the context data it needs to be stored on Baseplate. But we are exploring that direction of tools (a logical next step), where it could do a Google search or custom API call etc..
> Malicious disinformation campaigns

This is a real threat. The authors contention is that it has always been easy to create content, but difficult to distribute it. But that is because, until GPT, created content was poor quality. Simple tools can sniff out that and distribution channels can snub them effectively.

With GPT, it is near impossible to automate detection of bullshit. In fact, it is trivial for a GPT based system to generate an ecosystem of misinformation for very cheap and maintain it.

It unprecedented and, what I suspect will happen is that we will have internet wide identification systems (verified accounts) to battle the onslaught of very good AI based content.

> LLMs will obsolete all jobs

I agree with this. But..

> AI tools exploit labor and shift power to companies

How costly is it, really, to build a chatGPT like model, using AWS / Azure ? One can always start a company with maybe a small capital, build a business and then expand.
Lyft in Trouble
Do they really. I wonder if they're too nerdy to have gotten the saucy double entendre.
Tesla valuation is dropping and years of neglect is catching up to them. SpaceX keeps on raising money, likely because they keep on losing it. And both of them grew a lot during period of cheap money, fueled by huge amount of lies.

Hardly golden examples of how to run business.
2035 is a long way away. If you’d told someone in 13 years ago that in 2022 a decentralised social network started making headway, they’d probably have guessed it was RSS-based. I definitely wouldn’t bet on ActivityPub being The Thing in another 13 years.
Why didn't they put DOTs BETWEEN the frets?!? Arrrrrrgh!
Have been thinking along the same lines and find the absence of official information and discussion of such use absolutely terrifying.

Given that the agencies are often a couple of steps ahead in technology, and infinitely further ahead in wickedness and imagination, and are comprised of people who know very well what makes people tick, and are often tools in the hands of the few against the many...
I've checked in on people who supposedly fled to mastadon, and at least in my network they've basically stopped posting there, and have come back to twitter.

A few people seem to have just logged off completely.
https://archive.ph/VBABO
Modern deep learning from scratch which reads handwritten letters
When you recommend YC, how do you help the people you recommend actually get in to the YC program?
My current company does them. I think they're too often. It's very webinar-like, and there's little-to-no time for Q&A. I would prefer an annual or semi-annual webinar-style all hands, and then have departmental all-hands that are more town hall focused with higher engagement.
Fun! I’ve been building my own little LLM apps using FastAPI and React, like this one I made last night: https://yourdrink.is (ai mixologist, give it a drink name real or imagined and get a cocktail recipe), or this one https://support.rip (llm tool for support professionals. Type what you want to say and convert it to what you should say. Try “read the f*#%ing manual bro. Then open settings and[insert directions to enable developer mode on Android]”

That last one is up on github at https://github.com/rambling-ai/support-rip) if anyone wants to use a similar bare bones starter project for an llm

I’ve definitely thought about how useful a “‘prompt as a startup’ as a service” platform would be, cool to see folks working on it.
Actually, yeah, it did have competitors with money. You ever wonder why IE and specifically IE 6 just got abandoned in stasis forever? Because like a number of other big incumbents circa early 00s, MS really thought the web was a fad. They envisioned an app ecosystem. Maybe XAML, maybe Java, maybe something else. But not these dumb little browsers.
Globalization has skyrocketed in the last 100 years. Also they were making a prediction about the future while I am making an observation of modern history. You're comparing speculation versus analysis.
All I can imagine is some exec reading this and going "See??? We should've just donated nothing because the internet is ungrateful"
The lack of foresight (and/or experience) by Musk here is breathtaking. The Internet collectively learned (I thought) a long time ago that if you don't provide a public API (that you can control/track) you're just going to wind up with end users and bots using your regular web endpoints to perform the same actions which is inefficient and slow; for both the clients and the service itself.

Endpoints meant for web browsers are about to get a whole lot more (fake) traffic which will throw off their metrics and mess with ad algorithms and by extension, ad revenue.
Anecdata: my sister had a additional Facebook account for gaming on this social media platform and adding strangers as friends for related bonuses without running the risk of inviting stalkers.

EDIT: additional, not "duplicate", which would imply any of the personal data was similar - it was of course fictional.
Aren't introns like pieces of code that have been commented out?

But they also change the 3D conformation of the DNA itself, which changes access by transcription factors, etc.
Stilton cheese cannot legally come from Stilton since 1996
Can Americans talk about Hunter Biden's laptop? Is Matt Taibbi being targeted by the IRS because of the Twitter Files? Was it permitted to question COVID? Or the vaccines? Is it allowed to question the Russia-Ukraine war narrative and call it a proxy-war? Is it allowed to say that Zelensky is extremely corrupt and simply pocketing all the money? Is it allowed to talk about the Ukrainian nazis?

Are Americans allowed to vote on whether or not to give endless amounts of money to Ukraine?

And on and on
I concur. Look at what the capabilities are instead of listening to the hype around it.
With wolfram alpha, or another plugin, I hope? You posted insanely detailed statistics and cited an LLM solo
Does it? If I pour some water through a funnel I get the same amount out the other end.
No prob! :)
I build a fully automated 5g reflux still at the outset of the pandemic.

Beyond the initial charge of the boiler, swapping jars and cleanup, everything was automated. I even had a load cell to pause the boiler when either the jar was removed or reached a certain weight so that was ready for a robot arm or belt.

It's an extremely rewarding process to automate a physical plant like that because so many things can go wrong and there are so many edge cases, weird feedback loops and idiosyncracies of equipment that isn't obvious until you try it with another thing. I used nodered on a raspberry pi for all of the brains, mqtt for coordination and a swarm of nodeedu running tasmota for all of the I/O.

The main challenge is not getting too comfortable and starting to take shortcuts with safety. Pressure vessels, high voltage switching, fumes and flammable gases/liquids can ruin your day.
So will this allow me to setup matrix server at home?
I’d love to see a comparison of the average cost to use this with the OpenAI API versus subscribing to chat-gpt plus.

Maybe I’ll have to try this for a month and see if it end up costing more than $20. Thanks for creating it!
Now it's spending $1.3B p.a. on servicing loans alone. Does that sound like an improvement?
Not Google Project Gemini
> People create drugs here and then smuggle it abroad.

That's only valid for some chem-drugs (mostly LSD) and marijuana. The real issue is cocaine imported from South America, it's by far the most important drug in the Dutch trade.
> Already been a problem for a century

Propaganda thrives on scale. It is only recently, as much as around 2014 that SM tools were available to scale propaganda cheaply and by non-state actors.
Yea for sure. I think another major benefit would be that it wouldn't just be available for T1Ds or curious/severe T2Ds or nerds like me. Getting an Rx and paying $200/mo is a huge opt-in hurdle.

If this was on by default in every Apple watch we'd have 20 million fewer T2Ds the next week.

The problem is that the FDA is basically forbidding anything that could even remotely be "accidentally abused" by T1Ds. To even a consumer-focused fitness CGM/watch function would have to comply by the most stringent FDA regulations like medical devices marketed specifically to T1Ds, unless you somehow modify it in a way that would prevent T1Ds from "accidentally using it." I've heard you'd need to e.g. delay the feedback by 24h, which makes it pointless.
> More to the ppint, he has been involved with OpenAI and his reactions might give an indication of the internal politics there surrounding AI safety.

That’s an interesting thought, one that I would give more consideration to in the early days of Musk. However, given Musk’s increasingly intense and emotional public outbursts, I’m more inclined to believe his concern is less about AI safety, than it is about his ego being damaged for not being the one leading OpenAI.
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Yes, my understanding is that some people present with anxiety (and/or depression), and that anxiety will become the focus of treatment by their doctor or psychologist, when in fact the anxiety stems from the undiagnosed ADHD. For these people, treating the anxiety alone isn't very effective, compared to getting an ADHD diagnosis and treatment plan that also has a positive impact on the anxiety symptoms.

Anecdotally I've seen this scenario play out in my own family.
Audio Science Review has a good database of reviews with a ton of measurements

https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php
You're right, it feels contradictive.

On the defense of YC, I would say, they aim to make you think in terms of metrics and $ from day 1, perhaps?
> For example, in C / always means “divide what’s on the left by what’s on the left”, but * is context dependent because it can either be multiplication or pointer dereference.

No, it could mean a start of a comment. Multi-line or single-line - depends on context. Similarly, there are multi-character operators - both in C and J. And while some idioms in APL could be seen as "atomic" (like (+/ % #) in J), they are actually a function composition, so they'd better be seen and understood in context, which is rather small.
Sure. Does that fact mean we're prohibited from expressing concerns about data quality? ShareGPT isn't representative of authentic, quality writing.
The discount was only 16.5B
Right, but training an LLM on the output of another LLM can certainly exacerbate these issues
The founder psychology bit was key for us as well. You may not like hearing what you need to hear. Hiring before product market fit, increases the chance of death
I don't think they are unrelated fields. Computer science is the study of computation. DNA, to me, is clearly a quaternary computation system.

I think there is a lot for both fields to learn by studying knowledge from each. Bioinformatics seems to be on that track.
I agree with your point, just wanted to add that 'implicate' is not even the right term to describe the paper in question. Metaphors and analogies don't prove or even implicate anything, but can provide new perspectives for considering a subject. Looking at the original paper, that seems to be why steam locomotives are discussed.
how long it takes to deploy a trivial app is not representative of the costs required to responsibly maintain a non-trivial app in production

kubernetes is non-controversially more complex than running on bare metal
I think you mean: How much of the US economy is employing Hollywood Accounting.[1]

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting
I've tried non-free KDebian last month. It still booted without wi-fi. But what's most frustrating - it didn't detect any partitions on my drive. The KDE installer I mean. lsblk showed everything just fine. Same with Neon live.

And guess what? It works in KUbuntu. But ubuntu is just SO slow now. ( And I couldn't install it of my current dual-boot anyway because it does NOT have option to NOT TO install new bootloader. :-/ I love Linux (lie).
I have never seen a programmer as excited to tell me about something like, say, Duff's Device as I've seen one excel user hear another ask "what're pivot tables"? and to have the other reply "Let me show you..." That may have to do with the kind of party I end up at, but "helping each other out" is a rather important feature of any community. There are also Excel championships with a prize. https://www.fmworldcup.com/excel-esports/microsoft-excel-wor...

When's the last time you got a prize for programming outside of your paycheck or a signing bonus? Communities definitely have shared events and what better shared event than a competition?
> LLMs are not trained to generate the truth

And after training, they're fine-tuned to generate specific lies.
It’s a nice story to read about rock star engineers but F1 race car aerodynamics is not done on paper.

Sure concepts to try can be sketched out on paper. Things like wing arrangements, rough intuitive ideas about where the clean and dirty air is. But everything in F1 is an iterative loop between a lap time simulation, vehicle dynamics, and aerodynamics.

Vehicle performance is largely a trade off between Cornering dynamics (typically demanding more downforce) and straight light speed (typically demanding less drag) which is why different tracks have different setups.

Basically balanced between cornering sections and straight line sections to figure out the optimal balance of lift/drag and the dynamic behaviour of the rest of the car in response to those aero set up effects.
A senior engineer's guide to the system design interview (2nd half)
A lot of cheap LED retrofits on older halogen headlights do this. The only thing worse than being tailgated by a F-150 with ultra-blaster highbeams is an old junker with cheap flickering LEDs. I've even noticed a lot of DRLs flickering lately as well. We need stricter laws on headlight brightness and intensity in North America, and we need them yesterday.
I just never read twitter links anymore because when I follow them now I get a pop up shaking me down to buy twitter premium or to disable 2FA with no way to view the post. So it's convenient for me that most of the people who used to link interesting content on twitter are now being linked via their mastodon handle instead.
This is so scary, I just had this idea yesterday!

Well done.
> 70 percent a certain VC constantly shaking his fist

> And this is after aggressively curating my feed

If you're "aggressively curating [your] feed", just mute/block them
Yes this is it. I patterned matched on tags to create a simple state machine. Then I extracted values using splitlines on commas and quotes
One thing I haven't seen mentioned elsewhere is that the energy savings of LEDs may not actually be what you expect. We heat our home something like 330 days of the year. If we use LED bulbs instead of incandescents, we just have to run the gas furnace more to make up for the "saved" heat energy.

Add in the fact that LEDs have a much higher embedded energy of manufacture, and the fact that they seem to last a lot less than the 10 years they're specced for, and switching my house to LEDs appears to have increased our carbon footprint. Plus now we're using more heavy metals and such in circuit boards. Aaaaand the light sucks.
EY's arguments aren't really possible to engage with because they don't have much of a causal basis.

Nobody who says AI is likely to kill us all can demonstrate a plausible sequence of events, with logical causality linking the events together, that leads to mass extinction. It's all very handwavy.

Steven Pinker said it pretty well:

> The AI-existential-threat discussions are unmoored from evolutionary biology, cognitive psychology, real AI, sociology, the history of technology and other sources of knowledge outside the theater of the imagination. I think this points to a meta-problem. The AI-ET community shares a bad epistemic habit (not to mention membership) with parts of the Rationality and EA communities, at least since they jumped the shark from preventing malaria in the developing world to seeding the galaxy with supercomputers hosting trillions of consciousnesses from uploaded connectomes. They start with a couple of assumptions, and lay out a chain of abstract reasoning, throwing in one dubious assumption after another, till they end up way beyond the land of experience or plausibility. The whole deduction exponentiates our ignorance with each link in the chain of hypotheticals, and depends on blowing off the countless messy and unanticipatable nuisances of the human and physical world. It’s an occupational hazard of belonging to a “community” that distinguishes itself by raw brainpower. OK, enough for today – hope you find some of it interesting. (https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2023/03/st...)

You know what's most likely to lead to human extinction, and has been for all of our lives? Nuclear war. EY argues that we should bomb "rogue" datacenters and that is obviously and immediately more dangerous than anything he has proven about AI. What does he think would happen if the US bombs a datacenter in China or Israel bombs one in Iran?
Right, I meant why transformers exploded over LSTM-based LMs in 2018 was because of those training issues that transformers solved.

I'm excited about the next iteration of models focusing on inference. RWVK seems promising on this end. Also love the citizen science aspect of RWVK coming out.
What a coincidence, I actually ran across this github repo for LLM fundamentals today:
https://gist.github.com/rain-1/eebd5e5eb2784feecf450324e3341...

gl on your journey
Well, I doubt it can sensibly help OpenAI engineers in their coding yet ... I tried, it can only do the simplest boilerplate code, and even that with bugs ... we'll see how it evolves, but sure as hell not in 6 months.