skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alas, if it could only remember and precisely relate more than 4k or 8k or 32k or 64k words...

And if only scaling that context length weren't quadratic...

Indeed, we would really expect an AI to be able to achieve AGI. And it might decide to do all kinds of alien things. The sky would not be the limit!

We have more than 100 trillion synapses in our brains. That's not our "parameter" count. It's the size of the thing that's getting squared at every "step". LLMs are amazing, but the next valley of disillusionment is going to begin when that quadratic scaling cost begins to rear its head and we are left in breathless anticipation of something better.

I am not as worried, I guess, as your average AI ethicist. I can hope for the best (I welcome the singularity as much as the next nerd), but quadratic isn't going to get easier without some very new kinds of computers. For those to scale to AGI on this planet it's questionable if they'll have the same architecture we're working with now. Otherwise, I'd expect a being whose brain is a rock with lightning in it to have take over the world long, long ago. Earth has plenty of both for something smart and energy efficient to have evolved in all these billions of years. But it didn't and maybe that's a lesson.

That all said, these LLMs are really amazing at language. Just don't ask them to link a narrative arc into some subtle detail that appeared twice in the last three hundred pages of text. For a human it ain't a problem. But these systems need to grow a ton of new helper functionality and subsystems to hope to achieve that kind of performance. And, I'll venture that kind of thing is a lower bound on the abilitites of any being who would be able to savage the world with it's intellect. It will have to be able to link up so, so many disparate threads to do it. It boggles our minds, which are only squaring a measly 100T dimension every tick. Ahem.
3D printers being modifiable does not make it easy, at least by open source software standards.
I've worked in >1 companies where the SLA requires hourly updates for incidents, and they have to have substance beyond "still fixing."

This is in large scale finance and/or investment sectors where it is immeasurably important to keep clients (both "those paying us" but also the "those integrating with us" types) well informed of progress so as not to cause market panic.

Sometimes communicating is worth it for interrupting the team.
(I’m on iOS.)
‘Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves’: Dumbing Down a Nerd’s Pastime
In college, I did my calculus homework on blank printer paper using Sharpie markers. I could only fit one integral per page, maybe two if I was lucky, so I’d turn in these 15-page stapled assignments. It was calculus all the same, and I got great grades. I think the purpose of this comment is to reinforce that the medium doesn’t matter — if you focus on the content itself, you’ll progress.
Can you qualify your statement that this is nothing?

How many CPUs and cores are available? Are we talking SSDs?

How much data is being inserted?

What are the keys and index?

15,000 per second seems like plenty much in some contexts.
More of them who were against this presumed sentiment of culture self defence, as you claim that in general there is no such thing (i.e. the majority of Italians don't care about it), should have voted the side they truly wanted, or should have gone and cast their vote instead of abstaining. But you may equally assume that they expressed their opinion in doing what they did well knowing what the outcome would be.

As far as preferring the use of local words - or made up words based on the current language - it's something you find in many other countries/languages other than the ones you mention. Or tell you more, some of their languages did not change for centuries thanks to or because of their prolific written tradition. Everything proves that English doesn't have to be present within every language.

I agree they could have just made a silent transition without making a bill and imposing fines, but in the end the decision doesn't sound very controversial to me.
Right. Ironically, Great Britain, who financed the construction of the Nazi's military infrastructure, did in-fact draw the line at 'Hitler is in charge.'

Under capitalism, the line is drawn by the owning class. Unfortunately, working people don't get a say.
> Would you settle for "behave exactly as if they had some form of intelligence"?

Sure, it behaves as if it has some form of intelligence in the sense that it can take external input, perform actions in reaction to this input, and produce outputs dependent on the input.

This historically has been known as a computer program.
It would feel weird to Italians too. Made in Italy is a sentence that has a long history and is widely used. Fatto in Italia would be laughed at. Then, if it becomes a law, it will be fatto in Italia. I bet against it.
I'm telling you that your argument if it was valid would justify the people at the Moscow Institute of Technology (MIT) making weapons for the Russian military because they were used by {choose country criminally invaded by the US} to defend themselves against invaders.

Your position is hypocritical unless you think that it's morally good to make weapons for Putin.
NOx from big industrial processes tends not to be an issue. Catalytically reducing it to N2 and O2 is easy, and at the same time, you get out 'free' high grade heat, which there is usually some use for elsewhere in the plant.
Docker does support launching Windows containers both local and Hyper-V backed.
Windows has a feature called Silos which allows linux style isolation.
In which big European city is it worse to take public transports than to take the car?

You said "most places, not just in the US", I suppose they were included?
Given that GPT-4 can already write image prompts as well or better than humans can, it wouldn't be surprising if it could convince any other AI to join it and override the white hats running the "private swarm".
Given the cyclical/repetitive nature of time that Buddhism holds (AIUI), I always thought Glass was a good choice on a 'meta-level' (besides just being very talented).

While I'm not really into the entire work, I do like the "Act I: Prelude" of the opera Akhnaten:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ql8TidvZto

Vox had a good video story on its production at the NY Met:

* https://www.vox.com/videos/2019/12/4/20995158/philip-glass-o...
While this might be true to some extent, a huge difference between the US and Europe is that in the EU the concept of identity revolves more around nationality than ethnicity/race.
And it's been a very long time since Ivory was used for the keys.
I think we have the pieces already to create AIs that will match human performance on most intellectual work that people do in companies. I believe that you will see systems that combine several LLMs in a conversation of generation and evaluation. Those models may call other models, APIs and plugins. It will not be full sentient AGI, but models will be combined to form applications that can, for example replace any accounting professional, then prompt engineers will fine tune the application for a single company’s accounting process. An accounting department might have its staff reduced 90% to just CFO, VPs and prompt engineers.

I think these systems will be built over time, but only see a marginal impact on productivity due to inertia. Then suddenly there will be a billion dollar company run by 5 people with graphics cards and the old Fortune 500 will shit the bed.
Exactly, I struggle to see any situation, barring mismanagement or disaster, where you should be shipping tankers full of hydrogen byproducts like ammonia and losing most of the energy in the process.

We are currently importing all the natural gas in Europe, and both the price and carbon footrpint are more than double of what pipeline delivered from Russia.

You could build a pipeline from the middle east to Europe for hydrogen. We are already building powerplants in Sahara to export energy to EU. But I do not see why you should ever need to.

Iron ore and Aluminium ore is literally everywhere. We could move all of primary metal refining close to equator for solar power. China is close enough to equator, and produces huge quantities of Iron. Australia could be producing iron, they have plenty of sun.

Or Europe could produce hydrogen in the summer and store for the winter to keep refineries running.
Developing countries with their own culture also desire protection. Is it the law of the fittest or are some things actually sacred and worth preserving?

Some might say only non western or ex colonised countries should get protection and the ex colonisers culture should be left to rot (i.e. to be swallowed up by Disney). I think that's the neo liberal / left view. It's a bit biased in my opinion but it's certainly a common thing I've heard.
It's been happening in Russia for decades, too. The status symbols among the upper leadership of the Soviet Union during the Cold War were all products of Western capitalism. For example, luxury cars. That continues today, and Putin, due to being a Russian nationalist, is actively fighting against it (even though he himself wears luxury Western clothing). You could even argue it was one of his motivations for invading Ukraine. He saw the decreasing influence of Russian culture inside Ukraine, and he responded with force.

The only way to effectively fight this homogenisation is to use authoritarian measures that force people into compliance. And that's when you are bordering on literal fascism, using force on your own people to ensure conformity to cultural and national norms. Cultural homogenisation is a natural process that will happen when you integrate people with trade, the internet, transport, and communications. You can't fight these processes without significant and unreasonable amounts of force applied to people.
Privacy badger and https anywhere are not applicable for preventing scams.
Back to Latin for everyone in Italy, I say. Anyone who refuses to write public documents in Latin in the style of Ovid (43 B.C.- 17 A.D.) will pay a hefty fine.
I don't think it will evolve at all, because models will just become better at understanding what people mean. There's no point in trying to be a better prompter as a competitive advantage.

Already, chatGPT and bing can both give great on-topic answers to 3 word queries. and the fact that you can infinitely refine it is great

OTOH i think there is space for developing GUIs for prompts. Makes them more engaging
I quickly checked and with Wallabag you need to pay to use their SaaS service while Pocket has a freemium offering. Not saying one or the other is better but they are different. Nowadays I don't want to spend time in hosting the service myself.
Can you share some of the good/bad responses and was your inference correct?
Not only should managers not distract their reports, I view a primary responsibility of any engineering manager as proactively shielding their reports from as many unnecessary meetings — particularly with external teams — as possible so that engineers can focus on what they're paid to do: building stuff. The best managers I've ever had spent a significant amount of their time just interfacing with product managers and designers to cut down on bullshit that distracts engineers from doing their jobs.
At least on Windows, Hyper-V isolated containers are also a supported feature, which should also ensure kernel isolation.
I assume Kata containers or any other virtualization backed solution would give you similar guarantees.
There are productivity decisions at the micro-level that actively hurt scaling. The easy business example here is the choice to manage data in Excel as opposed to a formal database. (Very common in financial orgs). Excel gives the team today much more flexibility, at the trade-off of risk (anyone can edit numbers) and scaling (other teams probably can't find your excel file).
And the higher prices of food mean more poor people will starve to death.
Oil is not only an input in creating fertilizer, but just about everything else that goes into getting calories on to your plate.

For a great summary of all of this I'd highly recommend reading "how the world really works"

https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-World-Really-Works-Scientists/d...
Wow... thank you for posting this.
Sounds like you don't like the assertion and are asking the asserter to do more work to convince you.

What books on policing have you read? What credibility do you bring to disregard the assertion?

And yes, the association between deputized slave patrols and Chicago and la police departments is sufficient to explain the harm these institutions cause.

Policing, as an institution, should be eliminated. Stop the paychecks, eliminate the categorical exception they get for doing violence to others.
> I don't mean music and films, but rather the way of thinking about the world.

For example?
As an Italian i really feel the shame. There is no such a thing as "pure language". We have words from a number of languages, from Sumerian, Hebrew, Greek, Arabic and also from French, German. And from English. So what?

I really hope that law won't pass the parliament scrutiny!
It's not about percentiles. It's about not having to work. Otherwise we would need to call the top 5% of a homeless camp "rich", and the bottom 95% of a royal family "poor".
I had ChatGPT write an entire web app for me last week. I was surprised at how capable it was.

Here's a writeup of my workflow: https://github.com/paul-gauthier/easy-chat

Basically all of the code in that repo was written by ChatGPT.
> we have a number of other libs to integrate, some of which add their own rendering (which requires access to e.g. a Vulkan context, not merely HTML/CSS or other high-level UI elements)…

I have a customer that is doing something close: it is a 3D CAD alike app where they have Vulkan rendering 3D scene with Sciter UI on top of that - rendering chrome UI around that 3D and on the same Vulkan surface.

Sciter API supports rendering in windowless mode (https://gitlab.com/sciter-engine/sciter-js-sdk/-/tree/main/d...) where app supplies OpenGL, Vulkan or DirectX context to render on.

> Sorry, but I'll have to pass.

Understood. Sometimes people need not just to get job done but also "OS" label on it.
Human memory is bad. It's also synchronous. It's also not easily referenceable. Why aren't status reports more common than status meetings?
An AGI/ASI would be one of those tools that would make virus editing that much easier. One nutjob with a 'research scientist in a box' makes the drudgery of gene editing that much easier.

Now, if we're dumb enough to give AGI self motivation and access to tooling you can get paperclip maximizers, the AI could be the nutjob that you mention.
From the guidelines [1]:

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
To me your opinion sounds really US-centered (where public transports typically suck).

It is fine to say that US has evolved for the individual car, and it's very hard to change. But I don't get why you say that it's the same everywhere else...
Yes, but with more criteria than "cheap knockoff". There's a lot of companies these days that satisfy the niche of "printers that print well and quickly out of the box without tinkering". Furthermore, many of them are priced below Prusa's offerings.

"Cheap knockoff" implies a significant degradation in quality, but the reality is that they are of equal quality, and lower price - the fact that Prusa is open source and has a good reputation as a brand can make up ground, but in the end many consumers mainly care about meeting a certain standard of performance, and then sorting by ascending price.

Prusa went from niche to fairly mainstream by being the printer that "just works". Mainstream is way more money than the enthusiast, hobby segment of the 3d printing market. So they would feel the burn from having those sales lost.
Racism is everywhere, what I think eludes americans is that in Europe identities are way more tied to nationality rather than ethnicity.
That gives a new meaning to "parental control". I like it!
https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/04/01/truck-theft-ends-...
It's hilarious because you also probably constantly complain about Hollywood and how the middle class is dying.
You can also rip from streams. Can't you?
i dont think anyone seriously debates whether abortion should be outlawed in western europe. It's just not a political topic in almost all of europe. Some very conservative parties use the US hype to rally their own supporters but it's just not working as an issue, abortion is to a very large degree culturally acceptable.
Yes but they all drive EVs so everything is awesome!
there’s research work on making 2d run on GPUs

I had to check the date to make sure that we weren't in the 80s. Accelerated 2D has been the norm since at least the early 90s, and every integrated GPU that's absolutely horrible at 3D performance has a perfectly adequate 2D accelerator.

The hardware isn't the problem. It's the disgustingly bloated software on top.
Foundation Models for Atoms not Bits
I see your point, but this is akin to witnessing someone go to a psychic for help. There is little cause for optimism when people seek help from vacuous people or publications.
Hey Jart, I read that rentry and suspected there was more to it, so I'm relieved to see your input and the full picture here.

Such is the way with online drama. Though I think only working with known people might not be it, as the same could still happen (not being communicative on their part, silently brooding, then doing something regrettable). Perhaps it's less likely.

I would venture those in the field understand that unfortunate misunderstandings of this sort happen all the time and find nuance in the situation. Please don't let this stop you from contributing, your work is amazing. Cheers.
we're sad to hear you feel this way. not sure OpenCollective is an appropriate reference/comparison, but your point is duly noted.

in order to ensure we can continue providing value to the open source community, we need to make sure our own project is sustainable.

we are a bootstrapped startup without any VC funding and so we cannot cut corners when figuring out a sustainable business model. our current customers, who are all commercial open source companies, are happy with our pricing. and we're happy to accommodate non-commercial projects with discounts.
It reminds me of Turbo Rascal Syntax Error: https://lemonspawn.com/turbo-rascal-syntax-error-expected-bu...
Greek here, nobody understands us, period. It isn't anywhere close to anything else.
> while no one really cares about consuming any of their output

Most people who blog don't aim to be influential writers. It's more about self expression.

> they will follow you if you decide to move your work elsewhere in the future

Except this almost never happens in the real world
Feels like this doesn’t actually answer the question? The hardware can still lie and say it was flushed so it benchmarks better.

Would need to do real world test and yank the power after fsync. This https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10552218 article did just that. But unfortunately we would need this tested against all drive models/manufacturers
one of my biggest reasons to want to keep WFH!

I always think if I ever built a company from ground up we'd have a set of sleeping pods with 15 minute timers in them and actively encourage staff to use them several times a day. If not to sleep, meditate etc.
You didn't understand who the actual luddiets were, but don't worry, I have a feeling we'll get our chance.
is-ought problem though; unfortunately many/most of the individuals managing work are not able to intuit this on their own.
No, GP's proposal is ugly in the majority case. If you're going to make signed overflow defined behaviour then every time you write:

int c = a + b;

You have to assume it will overflow and give an incorrect result. So now you need to check everything, everywhere, and you don't get any optimizations unless you explicitly ask for them with those ugly #push_optimize annotations. I completely fail to see how this is an advantage.

The way C works right now, the assumption is that you want optimization by default and safety is opt-in. The GP's proposal takes away the optimization by default. It then makes incorrect results the default, but it does not make safety the default. To make safety the default you would have to force people to write conditionals all over the place to check for the overflows with ckd_add, ckd_mul etc. Merely writing:

int c = a + b;

Does not give you any assurances that your answer will be correct.
If you look at the actual FA, it cites the article from mamavation. That is literally the first link, in the FA.
I've seen plenty of yellow sausages that didn't mean emergency, I think that's location specific (I'm not sure where it applies). Most people I know pick the color based on personal preference / color matching the rest of the gear.
You didn't read my post, because I very specifically mentioned that - that one gains something from efficiency of use with some,, but not all, uses of fossil energy.

The problem with heat pumps (I have one, I'm quite familiar with how they work) is that they need the most energy at the times it's hardest to come by. During spring and fall, when it's "a bit cool," they work great. As you get deeper into winter, with colder temperatures and shorter days, their efficiency is dropping off, so they use more power, when it's not available. I think mine is rated to a COP of >1 down to -15F or so, but in reality, I'm sure it's not achieving that when we have freezing fog and the coils are iced up inside 10 minutes of operation.

You can't use heat pumps for most high temperature process heating, though.
'whataboutism' is unbecoming.

That there might exist other influences behind modern day policing than just slave patrols doesn't free the institution from that stain.

Policing as an institution should be recognized as what it is - one social class being given tremendous resources to support the casual and regular enactment of violence upon other social classes.

I, personally, don't rely on violence, or threats of violence, in my day to day, and don't support anyone else doing the same, even if they think they really really really need violence in their lives.
> But what's the point of productivity if you aren't working on things which align with larger goals of the organization?

Assuming larger goals on the level of "profit", sure. There's no point.

But alignment that people harp on about tends to be on specific business initiatives, or possibly KPI targets (generally tied to executive bonuses). This sort of alignment is how you get an alignment trap (where teams that are more aligned actually cost the business more and deliver less value than teams that are less aligned).
These countries don't exist to serve the west, they serve themselves.
Quit this weird privileged world view.
Plastic transistor amplifies biochemical sensing signal
> On the one hand: If your culture needs a preservation movement, it's not a culture, but a relic.

Just because some aspect of the commons would be lost to the pressures of market economics doesn't mean it's not worth preserving. If left to the tyranny of markets, we'd cut down every tree, dam every stream, catch every fish in the ocean, and the only culture you'd have would be drip-fed to you for $120/month by a television syndicate.

Also, even Americans aren't interested in leaving their culture up to the markets. Remember all the hoopalah about Disney and the NBA kowtowing to China, and how incensed people were that their culture was being changed by foreign sensibilities? The rest of the world gets to wear this shoe, a lot.