skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's interesting, I just tried twice and it worked very well until the winning move where it lost track of everything. Please note that I am using vanilla chat.openai.com. (Mar 23 version) I asked for an ascii representation in each response to keep the current state in "mind."

> Do you know the rules to the game tic-tac-toe?

>> Yes, I do! Tic-tac-toe is a two-player game played on a 3x3 grid. The players take turns marking either an "X" or an "O" in an empty square on the grid until one player gets three of their marks in a row, either horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. The first player to get three in a row wins the game. If all squares on the grid are filled and no player has three in a row, the game ends in a draw.

> can you play the game with me displaying the game as ascii in each response?

I am curious what prompts you used.
> This isn't a fight we can win

The right doesn't even believe that climate change is real, they aren't participating in any fight.
That's a good example. I found it handy when I was new to the subreddit and it's easily ignored at the bottom of the thread.
I'm sure there would be a way to edit the artifacts... otherwise this would be a constant exercise in frustration!
BCPL is actually the abbreviation of Bootstrapping CPL.

Originally BCPL wasn't going to be used for anything beyond bootstraping the CPL compiler, eventually it took a life of its own.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPL_(programming_language)

There is some irony that for UNIX workloads we are stuck with the evolution of a language whose main purpose was only to bootstrap a compiler and be done with it.
This "next step" is really on the vendor/manufacturer instead of simulator developers. It won't be addressed, either, because it's extra development and cost for the vendor to bare when a lot of low cost/generic applications won't benefit from having simulation files. Additionally, it's a lot more work for the vendor to characterize and also guarantee that their products are close in value after years of production. Some datasheets are very sparse not by mistake - they promise you exactly as much as the datasheet, no more no less (for reputable vendors anyway).

The Micro-Cap simulator has the smoke test feature, for example. It's now abandoned and free for download.
I used to joke that the government should have a celebration of centenarians and see how many of them actually show up.

IIRC a version of this happened a while back in Japan; the mayor of a town decided to visit some of the oldest residents, only to find that none of them were still alive.
I understand that pointing out problems in complex systems without proposing a solution is ultimately indifferent from eloquent bitching, which I can certainly be fairly accused of.

That said, what the west is currently doing to address climate change - analogous to cheering for the people trying to push a derailed 130-ton freight car back onto the rail tracks with unassisted manpower alone - is not a solution either.

The first step towards a real solution is recognizing that what we are currently doing is a categorically pointless waste of time, so we can stop wasting energy and thought on that and start diverting it to actual solutions.
cool, though it hallucinate a bunch of details

also it's way too expensive for my use case sadly

do you use a modified CLIP model or something else entirely?
Can it produce projects which are longer than the context length of the LLM? (8k for us plebs)
Why an Open Source GPU and PCI-E Controller
Sometime ago, I set out to create an open source GPU(currently using Clash-Haskell -> Verilog -> FPGA) that supports Linux Mesa as well as an accompanying PCI-e controller.

Needless to say, this is quite a challenging task to do in one's spare time after work. I'm wondering if there is value in such an implementation beyond doing it for the sake of doing it.
This is not too hard if you have collateral (e.g. a house). Otherwise... yeah that would be pretty surprising.
LangChain is bad at documentation. I hate it.
Not that they're not, but I've been seeing automated blogspam for several years now. I'm Greek, and it often happens that when I'm searching for some specialised subject on the Greek-language web, I will sometimes stumble on pages that are clearly automatically translated aggregations of blog posts in some original language other than Greek (which is usually English, but not always).

So it's unclear to me, at this moment, how much the automated spam threat will increase because of GPT-4 and friends. We've already had plenty of that before we had publicly available LLMs.

Anyway I'm not convinced yet of the coming chatpocalypse. I think I'll just wait this one out and not try to make any predictions when there's so little to go on.

Edit: I'm more worried about scammers, scamming, than spammers, spamming, to be honest. There are plenty of people that don't have a clear understanding of how difficult it is to tell that one is having a conversation with a bot over the internet these days. People were already falling for bride scams over the 'net for a long time before LLMs. A scammer could automate that. And probably increase their revenue to boot (because they can target more people now).

Bride scam:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bride_scam
Thing of beauty:)
Corporations aren't people.
@OPs comment: Keyboard has not been replaced by nothing.

OP says he uses nothing.

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@the topic: physical keyboard has not been replaced by some random character generator. The on-display keyboard does at least the same job as the physical one. This new camera thing not only does less, it does it much worse.
For me one of the strongest bit against this is that her daughter would have had to pull the wool over everyone in their towns eyes, or they would have had to have been in on it too.
Yes I understand that, but if you are saying some area is a "blue zone" where people tend to live longer, you'd expect an outsized number of 90-99 (and 100-109) for the same reasons that there are 110+, if those reasons are related to the geography (which is the claim with blue zones).
AI could go away, go paid, get deleted, or mangle the information.

It's just easier to write notes in some form.

I'm increasingly weary of integrating technology, especially for-profit corporate technology, intimately. And yeah, as another commenter mentioned, talking to a "ghost" of me would be weird.
To feel must be designed and trained for.

Its quite obvious that systems can be inferred from reading strings of words… people do it all the time. It's not obvious at all that “wants” will materialize from learning. Machines have no incentives or desires by default… but you could definitely build a training process that encourages that.

We’ll see how it all pans out in the end, but wading through so many illogical takes on AI is frustrating. The “predicting next token” one is absolutely the worst
I mean what do you propose western nations do? Nothing? Yeah stupid measures like removing straws from restaurants make 0 difference, but pushing for more fuel efficient vehicles and cleaner sources of electricity seems like a worthwhile effort without much QoL sacrifice. Green infrastructure (i.e. reducing car dependence) also seems to improve quality of life in many places, so I would argue we should be trying to do that regardless. Also don't dismiss that doing these things puts international pressure on developing nations to clean up their energy as demand increases. Western nations can't demand that the rest of the world reduce emissions until they do first. Reducing carbon domestically is necessary to try to reduce it abroad.
Maybe a lot of old equipment that used CFCs are now collectively leaking at the same time?
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Your example of South Korea, a country with a good record on nuclear power, and a new government with a pro nuclear stance is still aiming to add 2 or 3 times more renewable power than nuclear between now and 2036.

They also intend to make 10% of their power from hydrogen/ammonia which is presumably going to be generated from some combination of nuclear and renewables when demand isn't peaking.
We have really good insight into week-ahead curves for wind and solar, and high quality prediction for day-ahead production, so it wouldn't need to be ready "at any time" like its usage would be a surprise. And you incentivize it like anything else, providing either a $/kwh figure that makes it economical for them to capture their costs or subsidize the construction and standby nature of them like we currently do with black start generators (https://www.kut.org/energy-environment/2021-08-05/if-the-tex...).

It's hard to make a reliable cost prediction comparing nuclear vs. wind/solar + batteries since we don't know how to build nuclear any more.

Vogtle 3/4 are going to cost maybe $40 billion when all's said and done? With OpEx, you get to something like $0.18/kwh. That's more than 5x the cost of unsubsidized wind or solar installations which would buy you a bunch of storage.
Declaring your own countrymen an enemy in a war that countries five times our size is winning is not going to convince them to join your side.
One thing I would highlight, because this is what I've seen the French experts in this situation do, is look at each piece of evidence in isolation and say "Ha, this alone doesn't prove it."

And, to that point, I agree, it doesn't prove it (and, to clarify, I don't think the controversy is proven one way or the other). But I think it's wrong to look at each piece of evidence by itself - it's the totality of all the evidence that makes me extremely skeptical of the overall claim. E.g. if the age gap was the only piece of evidence, it wouldn't alone lead me to believe there was a swap, but all the evidence that Novoselov and Zak present together have convinced me of their theory.
"OpenAI" does not believe that it will be AGI. There is an interview farther down in the thread in which Altman states that A) GPT-5 will not be AGI and B) the GPT paradigm likely has some fundamental problems which will not get it to AGI, and that if a GPT becomes AGI it is far off.

Later down, Siqi clarifies several things:

1. That he believes AGI is a continuum, and encompasses most stuff that isn't a narrow system. So what he is ACTUALLY saying is "GPT-5 is not a narrow system, and is near the bottom of the AGI continuum".

2. That this is NOT a consensus belief within OpenAI, but rather one only shared by a "non-zero number". This should be a BIG RED WARNING SIGN, because it likely means that the number is very low and he is puffing it up/twisting words.

3. Seeing as he went on to actively deny that it was from someone making it up, that means that it's likely this is just his opinion and maybe a few of his friends.

4. He went on to answer the "agency" question by stating that one could attach a goal loop to it. So a prototype paperclip maximizer. Greeeeeeat.

And regarding ASI ... seeing the destruction and stupidity that an overgrown autocomplete can cause, maybe, just maybe, it's a good thing if we aren't on track for that right now.
There's plenty of toy arms for programming on every electronics site, including amazon. They're basically just a series of exposed hobby servos mounted together in a plastic skeleton. The motors are pretty much standard. You can even buy them with or without an control board.

Buy an Arduino Mega or something. That way you'll have way more pins that you'll need, and shouldn't hit up against the memory limits. Arduinos have a huge community, and the free IDE has all libraries and everything you need. I bought one and an MP3 shield from AdaFruit last year and successfully made a GNK droid. complete with flashing lights and multiple modes of tranquil gonks.
Microsoft: Reassign the people responsible for Windows and start over, hiring people who grew up in the 90s/00s and task them with first restoring the product experience to the XP era, then extrapolating from there to evolve it. No more forced login, no more built-in advertisements or pre-installed spamware, reintroduce proper customization options.

Apple: Make the iPhone fatter (more battery, less camera bump). Also go back to the team that made Stage Manager on macOS and have them try again. The desktop window experience hasn't evolved much in 20 years and we can do better, so let's keep trying. Also: why do I need a third party tool for a proper clipboard?

Google: Leave "Google" search engine as-is (or with Bard or whatever) and introduce a Google Web search engine. No fancy answer machine, no embedded info. Just search websites like you used to. Allow the old operators that work at best half the time now (putting things in quotes). Aggressively fight blog spam (hire thousands of people to do this if necessary). Allow users to filter results themselves. Pay $1/mo for it. Mission statement: be good denizens of the web and help reignite the spirit of the indie web.

Amazon: Ban seller spam and try to return to a time when the seller actually mattered. I'm tired of sifting through bullshit companies like "Stouchi", "iBirdie", "DGHUMEN" that are all selling the same product just rebranded. Amazon should be an agent of the buyer, aggressively filtering out these blatant abuses and helping me find what I want, and have confidence in it.

Spotify: Stop. Forcing. Podcasts. I'm so tired of the UI filling with trash I don't want to see (and now they're doing audiobooks too?) and giving me no recourse at all to ignore it. Also: suck it up and place nice with Apple. You're not going to win that one and you're just making me dislike your service more.

Software in general: more customization options for the user, stop being afraid of complexity and asking your users to think for a minute when using your tools, more information density, less tracking/telemetry.
In fact gluons have a QCD charge, they just don't have a QED (electric) charge. That QCD charge is basically one color and one anticolor, minus the trace. So there are 8 different basis vectors that define the space for what the charge of a gluon is.
kind of amazing that something that is haphazardly slapped together was able to pull a business plan together to get funding.
Is there a link to the full results somewhere?
I mean from what I understand, they did peek at the “real data”, it’s just that it was convincingly fabricated.
Yes, we all know Nazi Germany was only fighting against the Soviets between '40-'45. Truly, the use of U.S. and U.K. bombers that incapacitated Berlin's war machinery production never happened. The western side of the war was dealt with promptly, leaving only in the east, the Soviets to repent the Nazis.

It was the pure will of the Soviets which led them to their, and only their victory.

I don't even know what to say. It must have been a lack of will, surely. /s

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Look, I know what you're trying to say. But if we put it that way, we're implying that they could've surpassed the will of the Finns in some way, if they wanted to. And I firmly believe that to not have been the case.
> When we communicate scientific concepts to lay-persons we have to be EXTRA careful. We had to language revise and rename the vitamin as niacin to prevent misunderstanding.

If you're cultivating a herd of uneducated emotion-driven stressed-out people by destroying education, getting everyone hooked on addictive social media and killing the economy every couple years, then yeah, you got to be careful. Better put that "do not eat" sticker on a box of moth balls.

But I think we'd be better off teaching people how to think properly, than trying to dumb down everything to a level of a toddler.
Might be more useful to link to the blog post: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/04/03/introducing-trurl/
abebooks too?

<drops into depression>
... aggregate outcomes will be the sum of random individual outcomes?
My middle school enrollment number was 286. The number was significant because it was etched/embroidered/painted all over my belongings. A few years later they renumbered us all. I was a bit disappointed losing this number until I saw my new number - 640!
Do the difficult thing. Stop buying from China. As consumers, buy things with a transparent supply chain. Look for ESG reports on the companies you buy from.

The hard part of this is it requires consumers to be educated and act. This almost never happens unless the costs for not acting are built into the prices of goods. Doing that requires political will. It's going to make a lot of people very angry; and we're not talking indulgences in the form of cap & trade, either.
Conspiracy-theorist goggles on... this is also fraud?! (I have no evidence, just pointing out the possibility)
Seems like their new criteria of entrance might strike the quality :(

>52% had nothing more than an idea.

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1642566043053826048?s=52&t=...
Speech and language are two different things.

> Is mimicking human behaviour a necessary, or even sufficient, criteria for demonstrating cognition and intelligence?

Depends on how you define them. We love to anthropomorphize everything. If an animal shows language comprehension, that's bigger than speech.
Doesn't really change anything. Current 4TB SSD is about $200. And that is close to selling at cost or lost. Even if they achieve it the price per TB will likely be the same just offering them better margins.
Ask HN: Are you still doing intermittent fasting?
Have you been doing this for a long time? Do you change your schedule for the weekends?

For me its easy for me to avoid eating during the week, much more than controlling my eating habits and eating like an adult... but then weekend comes and it becomes 10X harder, especially if others are eating around me. And then a sunny day comes and you "have" go have some barbecue and beer, an hamburguer at night, etc.
All true, it is also the reason why POSIX takes the role of the "C standard library" that didn't fit into ISO C.
This is not what I am advocating for. To be unequivocally clear, I absolutely do believe in man-made climate change, and that the solution to it cannot be found down the path of ignoring it.
> I don't understand why Westerners are so keen to make major sacrifices to quality of life in the name of fighting climate change when nothing we do will make a statistically significant impact in the long run with major population centers like China, India, and Nigeria continuing to grow more wealthy with rapidly increasing demand for reliable, 24/7 energy production, cheap air conditioning, etc.

Can't convince the others to do it if you don't do it.
The larger red flag is the language typical of marketers combined with zero specificity. "Bootstrap microbusinesses, no monetary investment" followed by "success". All very unlikely, especially in plural. If true, he wouldn't have to reveal an exact business model. But detailing the type of business (ie: service or product) and / or sector would have lent credibility.

I can't think of a truly successful business, for an adult, that didn't require money to start. Money being a bare minimum.
But can you even do that in Gleam? It's statically-typed after all, so what would the types look like? I guess there is gleam/dynamic with its Dynamic type and from() and decodeN() for coercions but...
That mix up must be the human touch you’ve spoken so highly of.
Good to know! Now I just got to keep grinding to be competitive against more experienced devs applying for the same position. Seems like its gonna be really difficult when theres gonna be at least a few hundreds of them applying for the same position.

Not sure what would motivate an employer to hire early career vs someone with 5 years of experience. Maybe paying new hires less than experienced ones?
Of course, I was just kidding, the buildup would be easily spotted and it would be an, uh, unpleasant environment their boats I think.
Money != polish, money means they now need to find a way of earning money from it. This is sometimes how FOSS goes to die.
Oh, this is really interesting, he goes into detail on how difficult it can be to print them, too, based on the fact that you have to make the parts moveable and a lot of them are somewhat small, too. Thank you!
If you think the data for humans is marginal, just imagine what it is for dogs. I absolutely don't think some "list of oldest dogs" is in any way exhaustive given that the vast, vast majority of dogs worldwide don't have accurate records.
Do you intend to refute any part of what I actually said, or just to engage in unproductive name-calling?
And what strategy was that, exactly?
I wonder why the Data Science Professor isn't named/charged as an accomplice. Maybe they are acting as a witness for the prosecution?
The title contains an arithmetic error. What the article describes is a combination of 20 strategies (and explicitly advises to combine them!), each of which would have produced a -10x engineer. The result, therefore, is a -200x engineer.
I asked the author of the comment to give me an example of the many "intellectual" tasks that can be done by "systems" that are "internally simple" (what does "simple" mean?) but "large" (with or without human intervention?). I then pointed to the known (and serious) issue of hallucinations; how does this all fit with the author's "reductionist" model of much human thought being "just autocomplete"?

I don't feel threatened as my previous comment suggests; I just think that human thought is not "just autocomplete".
>The collective annual warming effect of these five chemicals on the planet is equivalent to the emissions produced by a small country like Switzerland.

Why is warming effect what matters here? During the original CFC crisis, it was the hole in the ozone layer we were more worried about.
Changed to that from https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9508932. Thanks both!
Why are you surprised? OpenAI is Sam Altman's (YC's last leader) pet project. Of course, YC is highly incentivized to produce more customers for OpenAI
Anyone still claiming google is free is just spreading propaganda. Each and every one of us pays with our privacy, and data, and attention.
Javice interfered in due diligence in a very sophisticated way. JPMC tried to verify user data but Javice claimed they couldn't provide user personal information "due to privacy concerns". In the end Javice was able to convince due diligence team by engaging in multiple layers of fraud. Sure due diligence team could've done a better job, but Javice was a sophisticated adversary. It's not like due diligence team didn't have any concerns. But they wanted to balance their concerns against possibility of passing a good deal due to formality.
Vancouver for years and years under a half way "decriminalization" did still confiscate drugs and all the while everything became worse.

Only now as of January 31, 2023 are police in Vancouver supposed to stop confiscating drugs. we're only 3 months into this new era.