skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The 500E is a retrofit of an ICE, not a ground-up EV. All you can derive from that comparison is that retrofitting is inefficient.

That's all true, but I'm uncertain how much difference it can make. The bulk of the weight difference comes from the batteries, which will be there whether a retrofit or new design. Everything related to the ICE systems was removed, so it's not like there was any leftover weight from the conversion.

Weight distribution can likely be better in a chassis designed solely for EV, but total weight seems likely to be about the same either way.
Most people would prefer not to be killed.
Your post said very explicitly, "There are a lot of very smart experts on that signatory list" and then named Wozniak as an example of one of them. But Woz isn't an AI expert. It's entirely appropriate to point that out!
You can find anything on Twitter.
The AI powered features does not even include amateur pipes. You could really build application chains now even as a total amateur. As in source application (internet browser) with AI commands to code ("get me pictures of spiderman"), pipe them to photoshop ("color grade them to black & white and save them"), then put them in an ouput folder.

The pipes and stream automation, previously reserved to linux devs, could now become a normal user experience, encapsulated by prompts and gui application pipes. But thats not were they want to go. So others will. Once any other OS starts to have that (linux or macos) productivity there will skyrocket, and its the end of days for windows.
The degradation effect paper is authored by among others James Yu, Kate Hsu, Shinder Chen (employees of NK producer) and Ayako Ishii (company involved in NK supply chain). Take it with a grain of salt.
> California is about to spend 800 BILLION dollars giving money to black people even though slavery never existed there.

This isn't actually happening.
Also it has access to people. It could instruct people to carry out stuff in the real world, on its behalf.
CrowdStrike Tracking Active Intrusion Campaign Targeting 3CX Customers
> I don't know, but China is not posing fines up to $1M and threatening 20 years in prison + civil forfeiture to just run a VPN.

Good thing that isn't what is happening here
Ive had this chat with engineers too many times. They're used to systems where we know 99% of everything that matters. They don't believe that we only know 0.001% of biology.
Is Microsoft putting ads in the Windows 11 Start menu?
It is because titles will be duplicated on search if 29.3 is not added
> sadly, most people don’t seem capable of entertaining themselves without work

What are you basing this on? People are very happy in retirement; some may long their former life but in my experience they're not the majority. And an important part of working age people in most countries are in effect not working and doing fine (and not even counted as "unemployed", as one has to be actively looking for work to be counted).

The view that work is needed to keep people from becoming alcoholics or outlaws is patronizing.
For that price tag I would add a couple of hundred dollars and go with the SnapMaker 2. The nice thing is, that it is capable to do also laser engravings and simple CNC milling. Only made good experience so far.

https://eu.snapmaker.com/de
I want AI to advance to the point where it can host my brain, then I'll live forever.. viva la the lawn mower man.
> You have the right to do all that, but you can't do all that and at the same time claim to be a morally superior, free and open society.

Again... in matters of trade and foreign affairs no country (including the US) is completely free and open. I don't think anyone in the US has ever claimed to have completely open international trade policies so not even sure where you are getting that?

Just because this affects an app used by average people doesn't change the facts.
I am very confused on why the US can't stop drugs entering the nation.
Nope. Map() is same speed as for loop.

Benchmarking methodology in the link is not good. Author should use timeit() or cProfiler or so. 0.01s of difference is mostly due to fluctuation. The order of execution also matters. Say you want to test A and B function, you need actually to run A, B, B, A to see if the ordering brings the different.
> I'm confused by this example, Jonathan Blow sounds identical to LANGUAGE EXPERTS here.

No, he doesn't. He lists what problems he's running into, the challenges he faces and what his language is trying to do to mitigate that.

The two presentations I've seen on Verse are: "look at this python-like language and its syntax" and "look at the types in this language!".

We've yet to see anything of any substance that actually describe the whys and the whats of the language beyond "oh yea we use STM to code for multiple servers" (which is a nonsensical statement)
The sorts of studies that proclaim loss of 50% of insects don't check out when looked at closely. As you might guess, counting insects is quite hard, doing so reliably over time is much harder still and then assigning causality harder yet again.
Ironically, in regards to TikTok, one effect (and this may be intended) of this legislation may be to give the Administration more flexibility to unilaterally, without negotiation, impose controls short of a ban or forced divestment than are currently available in US law.
Chalk boards are very visceral, Bringing a chalkboard instead of powerpoint when giving a presentation, makes for a much better presentation, A whiteboard is almost as good but does not have the same impact as a chalkboard.
Playing Minecraft (after watching my 8yo son play it).
The Predator That Makes Great White Sharks Flee in Fear (2019)
The inventor of the troll doll only made a sliver of the proceeds
If a YouTube video I saw whether you can use moonlight to start a fire is to be believed, you cannot achieve higher temperature using lens than the source temperature, so your earth lens will achieve same temperature as 5cm lens from dollar store.
This, and what Microsoft has done to their OS, makes me wonder about the state of their financial situation.
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I think they key with usage based pricing is to have the right units.

I’m in the data space and a company like Snowflake has a model where you pay for compute by the second and storage by the byte. Very simple, transparent and everyone is aligned.

Some other database companies try this though and it feels very opaque. When you get into an enterprise sales cycle and pricing negotiation, they try to build a price based on data ingested with big steps up at each tier. I really hate the opaqueness of that model combined with bespoke pricing.

Some of the ETL companies have tried to charge by number of rows loaded. That just feels too arbitrary to me, more disconnected from value incurred and quite risky.

I see a lot of this from the buyers side and I think the wrong consumption based pricing models holds back a lot of these companies. I know of $millions which would have been transacted on a more flat fee basis even if the net cost was likely higher.
> I struggle with the common narrative that somehow people were healthier and better in some dark forgotten past and we should return to those times for our own well being

I think there's a bit of a slightly saner way to put this viewpoint-- that:

- Humans evolved in a very different environment from which we live now

- Our degree of genetic adaptation to modern living is relatively small, because there's been a blink of an eye for it to happen in

- Even if something newer has a sane rationale for it being "healthier" or "better" despite us not having genetically adapted to it, it may not be so: most of our handwaving rationale about complex systems ends up being wrong after careful trials and measurement, and the rest we may be missing a lot of second-order and third-order effects.

Not that I'm advocating for eating rotten meat. I'm just saying that the system is complicated and has a bunch of set-points learned from very different conditions.
It seems like a good way to mitigate these attacks is to train a separate "supervisor" AI that watches all conversations for things like content policy violations and prompt injections. The supervisor AI wouldn't be a chat-based LLM, it wouldn't ever change its behavior based on prompts. Its job would basically just be to watch the chat and either approve or deny the input or output. If it did block input or output, the user could get a message in the UI explaining that a supervisor blocked the chat. For infractions too severe, it could even terminate the chat.
What sarcasm? American suburbs do exactly that.
I think at some point I'll just stop using the internet. Maybe being a luddite isn't so bad.
There is relevance. You see now in Europe State Institutions and Coorporates are banning use of Tiktok on Official phones precisly because they can not guarantee the Respect of the privacy laws. Offcourse they are not banning private use of it but it beeing a social network, The Network effects will soon become apararent and tiktok will be used only for leisure but people will soon not bother havong another Social network that they cant use for a great part of the day.
(Note that this attitute is not particular to China). On Corporate world we could not use a majority of US tech provided services also because by Euopean law we could not give guarantees that the US government would not access those data)
Do the Anglophone countries want high-skill immigrants who are going to bring huge economic benefits or not? Making it difficult and expensive for them to immigrate and make new homes there is counter-productive. By contrast, Japan makes it really, really easy (and cheap) to immigrate if you have highly-valued skills and a job with a high salary.

Maybe the Anglophone countries' governments are just evil and want to take advantage of the high demand by charging huge fees? But even here, it doesn't make that much sense because a lot of the total costs are for an immigration lawyer to handle the byzantine procedures, not government fees, so this just looks like corruption.
> The difference between them is only one digit (i.e., the last number). Therefore, it's not possible to tell if either value is greater or lesser by just looking at their values without knowing more information about what those numbers represent and how they were obtained in the first place.

That one is especially hilarious.
But the part at the end "how they were obtained" is really strange.
Where in its dataset would it possibly have learned such nonsense?
Doesn't matter where numbers come from to compare them.

It implies that it doesn't understand what numbers even are in general,
and that giving it a calculator (that it can use perfectly) only masks a much deeper problem.

I mean, I'm reading a ton of people say "its not just pattern recognition and token prediction, it has emergent properties!!!!" and from experimentation I believe it.

But if the models can pick up language and its intricacies, and even do simple logic tasks, shouldn't it also be able to pick up on what numbers are and how they work? At least knowing that where a number came from doesn't matter when its just about comparing their value in a pure mathematical sense?

What does that mean for concepts other than numbers? Do those models fake a LOT more than we already believe they do?
"Won't somebody _please_ think of the children?"
Unfortunately, the focal point is in interstellar space, far past the orbit of Pluto.

So even if we'll live to see this project funded, started and launched, there's pretty much no way we'll still be alive once the sensor probe reaches it's duty station.

Also, the telescope will be pretty much purpose build to look at one thing. Swiveling the telescope to look at something different or to track a moving object involves moving the sensor probe millions of kilometers across space.
Climate change was the big thing before COVID. Then we had lockdowns, and a major war. Climate change is already hitting some of us much harder than others (e.g. floods), but that doesn't mean an AI crisis wouldn't emerge in 5 years.

If anything, crises come in bundles. One scenario is that AI takes advantage of these and swoop in to gain political power.
I mean, some people--like myself--are already paying for Google's multi-language speech recognition API, and have been for years, so the idea that there is a new even-better model for it sounds cool to me? My primary annoyance is that this is Google, so of course they aren't going to put in even the minimal effort to just make this a new backend for their existing ridiculously-insane API I had to build a miserable slightly-custom http/2 stack to access :/.

Regardless, I don't want to use the API, but I'm working with public information anyway; and so, while I have considered moving to Whisper now that that's an option, it hasn't been a priority and it isn't clear to me that Whisper is good at random non-English languages anyway.
One of the biggest issues for me is DPI scaling. It is increasingly common for newer laptops to be released with with 2K or 4K screens. However, native resolution is unusable on the comparatively smaller screen size (vs desktop monitors).

Currently, the solution is to render at 1080p and upscale to monitor resolution, but this has several problems:
1. Autodetection of current / optimal dpi is not reliable.
2. Text is scaled, but not icons.
3. Some applications ignore the system wide dpi scaling setting and must be configured individually (--force-device-scale-factor for chromium apps).
4. Upscaling is not intelligent: Ex. in chrome, since the entire UI and content is upscaled, watching youtube videos in 1440p first downscales to 1080p then upscales to 1440p. This degrades the quality and negates the benefit of a HiDPI display.
5. External monitor setups are very difficult to get right: Each display can be scaled differently, but apps must also be configured to match the scaling.

Despite this, I still enjoy the experience in linux and workaround these issues rather than abandon the OS.
Well, if that's the case, there are two options: the photographer git exposure wrong (easy to do in high contrast situations) or you create a HDR photo in post. More often than not so, just changingetering, or the composition by e.g. getting rid of some very bright sky or dark foreground, allows any modern (read: post late 90s) to get exposure right in P-mode. Added benefit of digital photography: you can check your shot on location, including histograms and even live histograms. Takes all of 2 minutes in the field with some practice. Of course, a smartphoe camera won't do any of that.
There is a sick irony in this
I'm aware. But I assume you don't actually want more of that because of your other comment.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35369203
You had the TikTok hearings which wasn’t a good look for US congress.

Plus a few popular US politicians finally deciding against the bill.
How does pest-resistant and herb-resistant tomato might survive in the environments with neither herbicides nor pesticides? Especially if the primary goal for modifying the gene was to make the tomato just yummier. You are talking reasonable things but I'm talking from the position of farmer who knows how easy is to break a useful plant and how hard is to destroy any useless one with decentralized root system and easy-peasy flower which can produce thousands of seeds per one stick in few weeks and nothing more.

You are writing correct things but the experience which is in my hands tells me that you are not right about properties of invasive specie vs properties of typical crop.
Microsoft takes one step forward but two step backwards. Way to go!
This exactly is something that I fear...if state level actors had free access to our data and potentially a machine to shape public opinion, we can't expect them to give up at the first sign of resistance. The balance between privacy and security is hard, but it's also necessary here.
I see several posts where people are claiming 'GPT makes me 50% more productive at coding'.

Is there any guide to how, or some livecoding stream examples? Is it just asking GPT to 'write a function which posts a url to facebook using the API' etc?

Also how to get an OpenAI login/API key from an unsupported country?
Difference being, he worked in his negatives, he did add some shit to them he found on the internet or some database.
You get used to it though. It is the same with development. You put much work into something and are proud of the result and then some 12 year old, that grew up in the swamp and was risen by wolves, comes around and has a faster and more elegant solution.

I believe a large amount of the negative effects is that people take themselves too seriously. Every quote on social media is put on the scale and becoming a pariah is basically random. The haunting is mostly done by people with a lack of self-worth and confidence themselves.

But some values also changed for the worse in my opinion. Confidence is valued much more than humility and seen as leadership material. I don't believe it prudent to encourage people that actually do look for strong figures out of fear.
Which models have a quality of gpt3.5-4?
Started with LAMP, slowly evolved to MERN. In the process, gained experience with several other web stacks. These days when I can choose it's basically Expo, React Native, GraphQL and Postgres. I rarely have the luxury of choosing the whole stack though.
> It's interesting that you list those because none of them were originally designed for games.

And yet, people are using those.

So, an introduction of a "programming language for game programming" should at least have:

- what are the challenges in game programming

- how they are solved or not solved by existing languages, and why people are using them

- what exactly this new language is bringing to the table, and how it solves those problems

What we've seen so far "loom at this amazing language that solves everything! Let's look at syntax and types".

> But I think you're also underselling the expertise of the people involved.

Or people are overselling the expertise and are blinded by the bright names

> Also, my impression is that Verse is mostly intended as a game server language.

See, you only have impressions and don't thinks, because there's really nothing about what the language really does, and what problems it aims to solve. Beyond some poorly executed marketing fluff.
Last time "doing it" involved lots of fire bombing and two nuclear explosions, so I'm not sure.
Show HN: Not ColorGPT – Capture color names from real-world without using AI
how could that be? facebook wasn't even invented yet.
People: I hate my job.

Tech bros: Let's use AI to get rid of jobs!

People: That's not what I meant!

Tech bros: You're welcome.

Also tech bros: Why are there so many layoffs? Is there a recession?
They really hate millennials don’t they? They’re really serious about it. Can’t let them do anything. Need to ‘stop’ what you’re doing LMFAO if something has to shut down it’s privatized ICBM.
I doubt "vibrancy" would be lower. And there are major cultural differences within countries, including countries that have existed for a very long time. I agree that cultures would merge more, but that is not a bad thing. The same thing is going to happen over a longer time scale with closed borders anyway.
Check out explanation by Walter Lewin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhawwXcQsUs
> If the US bans it on national security grounds, there is NO WAY that any of the NATO countries will not ban it immediately.

I'm sorry, but that's not how this works. These other NATO countries are independent countries with their own legislature and parliaments, many of them bound more by EU rules than by current US tendencies or laws. Sure, the US might try to pressure NATO countries to follow suit, and some of them might, but it's far from given.
It's possible he had discussed the event since and realized his memory was unclear.

That's how my "where were you when you heard about 9/11" goes. I confidently had an answer for decades, but a few years ago discussed it with my father who I remembered telling me, and he doesn't remember it the same way. So now I'm not sure whether either of us remember it correctly.
A open letter with bold statements "Contemporary AI systems are now becoming human-competitive at general tasks" based on pre-print unreviewd paper.
I wonder why GraalVM is not more often used for these speed critical cases: https://www.graalvm.org/python/ (Same for ruby https://www.graalvm.org/ruby/)

Is the problem the Oracle involvement? Or is it not that fast as advertised or problems with the ecosystem (C libraries)?
I chose Debian, FWIW.
>It's likely the planet will become hostile to (human) life long before AI will be able to do us any harm.

Sure, because the planet is already hostile. However, AI could potentially do much more harm much more quickly if we're not careful. In the pessimistic scenario we could all be dead in 10 years from now due to AI or experience a modern society ending event literally tomorrow. Climate change never posed such an immediate and complete risk
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Yeah, even the name sounds suspicious... sure, it's a nice and friendly emoji, but remember the facehuggers from Alien? Once they got you, you were screwed - which could also be a metaphor for relying too much on any platform that may be here today and gone (or not affordable anymore) tomorrow...
I mean I think his point there was "there is plenty of room for systems to be far, far more capable than humans in at least some problem domains". But yeah, Eliezer's FOOM take does seem predicated on the bitter lesson[1] not holding.

To the extent I expect doom, I expect it'll look more like this[2].

[1] http://incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html

[2] https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/HBxe6wdjxK239zajf/what-...
EMQX Cloud Serverless empowers IoT developers to develop and test their projects more efficiently than ever before.
Mmmm, I don't buy that.

The EFF's old (March 16) take is also negative but more modest, but I am not sure if they had access to the full text: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/03/government-hasnt-justi...
As a non-programmer: when you say slowest, do you mean most verbose? Or, most runtime overhead? Or, something else?
Also poleswords and poleaxes. Often with a pointy end too.

Many weapons had the ornaments detachable or had a replaceable hilt for war, especially when it comes to jewels. So that ornamental weapon could be used in both conditions, since they were really good weapons oftentimes too.
ChatGPT, Bing, Bard, or Claude: Which AI Chatbot Generates the Best Responses?
> Google has categorically denied that Bard is based on ChatGPT data. “Bard is not trained on any data from ShareGPT or ChatGPT,” Google spokesperson Chris Pappas told The Verge.

Not sure what to believe but the PR battle is not won by Google on these AI tools right now, that's for sure.
Interesting that they enriched the training data by asking people to point out YouTube videos in specific languages for which they needed data

> YT-513-U: We create an additional dataset called YT-513-U to ensure coverage of lower resource languages in our pre-training dataset. We reached out to vendors and native speakers to identify YT videos containing speech in specific long tail languages, collecting a dataset of unlabeled speech in 513 languages. [1]

1. https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.01037
Are you saying Joseph Cox from Vice has been paid to be critical of the act? EFF and ACLU also came out against this, have they been paid too?
It's a good indicator.
I'm just guessing, but snake_case might be inspired by dependently typed programming languages, where there's no strict boundary between terms and types.

PascalCase for variables reminds me of unification-based programming languages like Prolog.