skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> arguably legal rather than proven

In general, it's probably better if things have to be proven illegal. I'd rather that my life wasn't limited to only doing those things which have been pre-approved. If there's a problem with something, then it should be explicitly prohibited; not the other way around.
Pizza rolls are like a fried dumpling with pizza filling (meat, sauce, cheese) on the inside. Better if you bake in oven, but almost everyone will microwave. As sad as that turns out, they’re actually very good in a high artificial kind of way. I’m surprised they didn’t make it to the UK; it has UK written all over it.
VpnCloud: A high performance peer-to-peer mesh VPN
Yeah but if they released earlier that fact wouldn't have been so embarassing.

As it was, they intially just claimed that releasing a competitor was irresponsible, then they eventually did it anyway (badly).
What people from Canada told me, they just add "B" in front of "Eng" which is a valid claim for someone working in tech with an engineering degree even if they aren't licensed (and what would they even license them for?).
Ha I just commented above at the pattern of people in this camp using “GTP” fairly consistently.

What a curious psychological study, maybe dyslexic people feel more threatened by a large language model so clearly understanding words that they’re more likely to attempt to discredit it?
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I'm just not seeing any real examples, exotic or otherwise, of how to recognize the risks involved in superhuman AI.

Smarter than us does not imply any particular will or agency. Of course the will and agency of the people employing the technology will reveal its immediate impact, likely toward short term profit, and alignment as a control plane employed toward the same.

Chimpanzees have limited control over humans, humans have limited control over their own technology. But of course chimpanzees can recognize the risk of armed people.

The point is not to debunk fanciful end games. Better to prepare for likely effects on the human network. I was promised a list.
I wish it was more like this at existing companies.

Why everyone isn't leaving Adobe, Meta, and Google to found their own AI / generative media startups astounds me. If you work in our incredibly lucrative field, you may be able to afford a few quarters of leaning into risk.

Startups are like a brush fire. Old incumbents have so much legacy code and cruft that nimble upstarts killing them is healthy.

The "SpaceX diaspora" should be the norm everywhere opportunity arises.
I was on Linux for about 10 years without a single issues with Firefox until it was turned into a snap package. Slow as hell startup times and other oddities. Removed that and installed from apt and it was back to perfectly stable. Font rendering was always different but I wouldn't say worse. In fact, now that I'm fully back on Windows, the font rendering on Linux is the only thing I really miss. Windows seems a bit blurry in comparison.
Ah, thought you were talking about Tangents, the Greg Bear short story collection.
I'm not sure if I should elaborate further, but in the last years of Loopt, it actually devolved into a hook-up app servicing the gay community, basically Grindr before Grindr: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=385178

I guess he was ahead of his time, in a way? Still, I've never forgotten that this silly "success" was the first big exit of the most touted YC founder, ever.
Could Stephen Hawking ride a bicycle?
Makes sense. Thanks for the clarification and the advice!
Ha! To be fair though, Isaac Newton is not a bad person to be implicitly compared to. :)
>A shrewd plan considering he's not offering something beyond what another company with a large nvidia cluster could offer.

It's been 4 months, no one has released anything nearly as good as the initial release of ChatGPT. Meanwhile OpenAI has released GPT-4 and is trialing plugins and 32k context.

Either their competition is incompetent or OpenAI is doing something right.
AMD's naming is rough. I upgraded from an FX 6300 to a Ryzen 3600 a few years ago and it still hurts my brain keeping which one is which straight.

Interestingly on paper the two chips look surprisingly similar - they're both 6 cores at ~3.5Ghz. Multi threading and modern IPC make a big difference!
Nice! I miss the used bookstores in Davis, CA. There were a half dozen until Borders came in. Then Borders died.

https://daviswiki.org/Bogey%27s_Books
> The growing wealth inequality leads to all sorts of other dysfunction including increased crime, worsening services, etc. as the govt cannot raise enough taxes.

Hold up. I don’t think the people of San Francisco grew weary of increasing rents and decided to turn to a life of crime.

Most of the “trouble makers” in the Bay Area are recent arrivals to the area and come because of poor policing and the government is generally more tolerant of them.
I agree with the first sentence, I think we only differ in the second one, where you assign more probability to that "click" happening than I do.

But anyway, I can 100% agree with optimism being worth it. Thanks for the discussion!
> The US also has a ton of attractions within its borders.

As does everywhere, which is why people travel.
So what’s natto’s excuse?
> I've seen multiple top people in AGI space say that total annihilation threat from AGI exists.

You've seen them say it, yes. Have you considered how plausible it actually is, or are you just taking their word for it? You better have some damn solid evidence before you start talking about "inquisitions", and I'm only seeing wild speculation. Which, to be fair, is how most historical inquisitions started, for all the good those did.
So with UBI, how do you get your idea out there? How is that any different than music, ebooks, youtube videos or anything else that has basically zero marginal cost?

You still need an “unfair advantage”.
My company immediately sues anyone who leave to join a competitor, and even more viciously attacks I would assume if someone were to actually start a competing business.
The solution for this will be CBDC - electronic programmable money and social credit score. The class of the ultra rich that has developed and controls the governments will use the poor as means of production - since they already own most of the economy, there is no longer any need for markets in the traditional sense, that we know.

At one point if you have 100 billion, it doesn't matter if you have 101 or 200. The capitalism has reached its end and the rich are preparing us for the so called fourth industrial revolution.
You can't fly away from a tiger or a bear, but a human screaming as they are eaten by that one night inspire you to run or hide from something you see as a predator. Your feet are not literally rooted in the ground. Also you have ears capable of hearing the noise created by another human.
Enforcement
I didn't acknowledge that, and it was you who were well over the line. Your comments in the thread were obviously flamewar. That's not allowed here, regardless of how right you are or feel.

People often feel like they're saying "true and important things politely" when in fact they're egregiously flaming. Then when we ban them for flaming, they feel like they got banned for saying true and important things. I don't know the way out of that perception; all I can tell you is that you broke the rules badly and that I'm pretty sure the bulk of this community would agree.

I'd be happy to unban you, but I need a reason to believe that you won't do that again.

Btw there's no email in the HN inbox that references your username and while I found one or two emails from that day that reference being banned, I replied to all of them and none were from you. It's possible your email went to spam, though we look through the spam bin pretty carefully and rescue most emails like that.
I just joined a company with unlimited PTO.
Last week I found out one of my direct reports took less than one vacation week last year.
I told the team they had to spend all vacation within the year (22 days).
We're all spread in Europe. Not taking vacation could be a liability for the company, not to mention that tired and stressed people makes a lot of mistakes and I cannot afford loosing any engineer due to burnouts.
Makes sense, not a lot of space companies to begin with, much less with people that have a startup mentality. Feel like the culture at Boeing or NASA is going to be very different from the one needed for a pioneering startup.

And even then it's only a handful of investements, with how much liquidity is/was in the market not surprising that people got a few million for moonshots given how the potential for a whole new industry.
You should get off mac for the same reasons to get off chrome.
Huh? pretty much every one of the recently successful AI startup employees (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.) have had stints at Google Brain.
Yet another possibility is that it’s an entirely credible, accurate and valid statement based on meaningful data.
“Comments are locked” is always a slap in the face
The intention is that if you're sick for such an extended period of time that you cannot perform your job duties any more, the company no longer has to pay you (i.e. they fire you).
If someone owns a condo and wants to buy a mansion, does it make sense for them to hope all real estate appreciates in price vs depreciates?
I've been considering using tailscale for SSHing into my desktop when I work somewhere else like a coffee shop, etc.

Do folks recommend it for this use case or is there another product people would recommend?
> Surely we can all agree that allowing them to follow their ideas will lead to bad discourse.

I actually think that if someone genuinely thinks someone else is a pissface then it's their right to call the other person that. I also think that excluding such a person from your conversations may be sensible. This applies to pronouns too.
You forgot the leader of Center for Humane Technology, Tristan Harris, who made The Social Dilemma and has been working on ethics in tech for years now.

I'm sure his motives are terrible.
I'm very confused by this comment. Travel within Europe is insanely cheap compared with North America because low cost carriers exist and the distances are way smaller, not to mention you can take buses if you're really on a budget.

You're not finding flights in the US between major cities for less than 3 digits, and buses take several hours. In Europe you take a 2 hour bus ride and end up in a completely different country whichever way you go.

There's a reason your stereotypical university student backpacker goes to Europe.
Some of those folks are locked in golden handcuffs, some are expats on green cards, and some simply enjoy a less complex life of that comes with being a well-paid employee working for a well-known company.
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There is no democracy if most parties have the same policies regarding this and the weaker parties can be easily influenced to drop anything against the status quo.
I think that's the goal but there is a reasonable chance that they completely fail and no serious regulation ever gets passed.

That's the thing with technology, people get used to it and then trying to ban/control it makes you look ridiculous. It's like how now that Tesla has made it normal to have driving assistance (and calling it FSD) there is little appetite outside of contrarian circles for serious regulation. If, however, regulation was proposed before Tesla shipped then it might have passed.
Yes, the 30B model is working for me on Windows 10 / AMD 5600G CPU / 32GB RAM, with llama.cpp release master-3525899 (already one release out of date!), in PowerShell, using the Python 3.10 version that automatically installs when you type "python3".

I did the following:

1. Create a new working directory.

2. git clone https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp

3. Download the latest release from https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/releases (note the CPU requirements in the filename) and unzip directly into the working directory's llama.cpp/ - you'll have the .exe files and .py scripts in the same directory.

4. Open PowerShell, cd to the working directory/llama.cpp, and create a new Python virtual environment: python3 -m venv env and activate the environment: .\env\Scripts\Activate.ps1

5. Obtain the LLaMA model(s) via the magnet torrent link and place them in the models directory. I used 30B and it is slow, but usable, on my system. Not even ChatGPT 3 level especially for programming questions, but impressive.

6. python3 -m pip install torch numpy sentencepiece

7. python3 convert-pth-to-ggml.py models/30B/ 1 (you may delete the original .pth model files after this step to save disk space)

8. .\quantize.exe ./models/30B/ggml-model-f16.bin ./models/30B/ggml-model-q4_0.bin 2

9. I copied the examples/chat-13B.bat to a new chat-30B.bat file, updated the model directory, and changed the last line of the script to: .\main.exe

10. Run using: .\examples\chat-30B.bat

https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp#usage has details, although it assumes 7B and skips a few of the above steps.
GPT3 could do that.
When we realize it’s really only about from the 1970s that we had full enfranchisement and political participation of all citizens, this becomes more obvious. “Coincidentally,” this enfranchisement was followed by the Volker shock and then the Reagan administration, both of which led to the decimation of labor’s political power and share of the economic pie.
> Old incumbents have so much legacy code and cruft that nimble upstarts killing them is healthy.

This is why the company needs patents. They protect everyone. /s
Are the risks equally definable in both cases?
My point is that these people are directly motivated by capitalist incentives.

> spare time

No, not spare. Stopping new construction makes them money, sometimes a lot of money. They are expecting a large, dollar-denominated (or Krona-denominated) return on their investment of time, paid for by future renters and buyers who will not have the additional options they are so diligently trying to torpedo.
Clearly you’ve never actually lived outside a city.

I’ve lived places where the fastest response to a felony in progress was an hour, and the county sheriff’s vehicles (4wd SUV) couldn’t get into at all for 4-5 months out of the year. I imagine if the weather behaved (it often doesn’t) and they were really motivated, they could get a helicopter from another agency out there sooner. But I never saw it happen.

The desert can work a lot faster.
It also ended unit 731, that had very creative plans for the near future at the time.
tl;dr: Nobody is steering the ship because they don't know they're on a ship. Or that the ocean exists.

It's hard without doxxing myself or calling out specific people and organizations which I'd rather not because I'm a nobody and can't afford lawsuits, but for various reasons I ended up political education and marketing for civics advocacy. Ish. To be semi on topic, I know some people who are published in the WSJ (as well as the people who actually wrote the pieces). I'm also a 3rd generation tech nerd in my mid 30s so I'm very comfortable with the digital world - easily the most so outside of the actual software engineering team.

I've spoken with and to a lot of politicians and candidates from across the US - mostly on the local and state level but some nationally. And journalists from publications that are high profile, professors of legal studies, heads of think tanks, etc.

My read of the situation is that our political class is entangled in a snare of perverse disincentives for action while also being so disassociated from the world outside of their bubble that they've functionally no idea what's going on. Our systems (cultural, political, economic, etc.) have grown exponentially more complex in the past 30 years and those of us on HN (myself included) understand this and why this happened. I'm a 3rd generation tech nerd, I can explain pretty easily how we got here and why things are different. The political class, on the other hand, has had enough power to not need to adapt and to force other people to do things their way. If your 8500 year old senator wants payment by check and to send physical mail, you do it. (Politicians and candidates that would not use the internet were enough of a problem in 2020 that we had to account for it in our data + analyses and do specific no tech outreach). Since they didn't know how the world is changing, they also haven't been considering the effects of the changes at all.

Furthermore, even those of them that have some idea still don't know how to problem solve systems instead of relationships. Complex systems thinking is the key skill needed to navigate these waters, and none of them have it. It's fucking terrifying. At best, they can conceive of systems where everything about them is known and their outputs can be precisely predicted. At best. Complex systems are beyond them.

Add to this that we have a system which has slowly ground itself to a deadlocked halt. Congress has functionally abandoned most of its actual legislative duties because it's way better for sitting congresspeople to not pass any bills - if you don't do anything, then you don't piss any of your constituents off. Or make mistakes. And you can spend more time campaigning.

I left and became a hedonist with a drug problem after a very frank conversation with a colleague who was my political opposite at the time. I'm always open to being wrong, and hearing that they didn't have any answer either was a very 'welp, we're fucked' moment. I'm getting better.
+10 Very well-said (and to-the-point).
> The distinction between violent and non-violent crime is a meaningful one

Consider someone who knowingly brokered a sale of baby formula that they knew was tainted with rat poison and killed dozens of children, would you consider that a non-violent crime that deserves leniency in sentencing?
Twitter bug bounty: “Recommendation Manipulation”: the “Ask Nicely” attack
Do you really think that they aren't already letting the bottom quartile rot? It's hard to see how things could be worse.

In my career in public schools, I never noticed any efforts by the teachers to grow the top quartile. Or anyone else, for that matter. I attended 4 public schools in different locales. I was pretty much ignored by all the teachers.

I remember first grade. The teacher would set us up in a circle, each student reading one sentence. I found this very dull, and so read the rest of the book while the other students would grind out the sentences. The teacher then asked what the students guessed the next chapter was about. I of course piped up and dumped a summary of the rest of the book. The teacher was not amused, and curtly told me I was not allowed to read ahead of the class.

Nurtured, my adze.

Things have probably gotten worse since. For example, Seattle got rid of all their gifted tracks.
Do you have information that it's not spent effectively?
American garment workers paid as little as 1.58 dollars per hour
If you invest your money on anything that gives , say, 5% yearly returns on your money, instead of paying off your mortgage, which used to be at less than 2% (but is not getting beyone 4%), you're just better off.

Say you start with a 10,000 mortgage, and your payment per year is 500, not including interest. By the end of the year, you'll have a 9,500 mortgage left.
If you just invested the 500 and only paid interest on the mortgage (which was common in Sweden until a few years ago), you'll still have a 10,000 mortgage, but you have 525 in your pocket. You could now go and pay off some mortgage, resulting in you having now only 9,475 left (i.e. you're better off)... but why would you do that? Just keep investing that money!
> take 4-5 weeks off per year

how do you come up with this number though. If its a set number like that then why not make that official PTO.
Your country doesn't allow you to file taxes on a "cash collected" basis rather than an "invoiced but not collected" basis?
Learn languages (Duolingo), change countries depending on your income type, ask ChatGPT, set up companies for yourself. There are lots of ways to do it, and many average people are doing it already in different ways.

For example for me just moving to Switzerland made both my tax percentage lower and more legal, salary much higher, and cleaner streets from those lower taxes than anywhere else I lived before. Somehow the government was able to afford professional cleaning machines from those lower taxes.
30B model now needs only 5.8GB of RAM? How?
The primary idea is terrible, the good ideas are only there to cover up the primary purpose, kill tracker blocking. Terrible idea, terrible execution.
What changes do you want to see reflected in Twitter's recommendation algorithm?
Sneak Peek of Rayven
Is it not enormously more likely that Microsoft decided to invest a small amount (to them) in a technology which is clearly core to their future business plans?
The thing about running out of inodes is that the format command scales them with the size of the drive, and the default is 1 inode per 16KB. So for a standard google account at 2TB or maybe 5TB you'd have 125 million or 312 million inodes.

They've basically gone and set it up like "largefile" mode, 1 inode per 1MB, forced upon all users. That's a bad default and an even worse mandate.
> he and they deserve immense respect and credit for bringing in this new AI age.

Why? Who asked for it? I think that if openAI's breakthroughs never happened, we would not be any worse off (actually, we'd probably be better off).
> don't require people to understand the solution in order to create a program. For example, it may be possible for people to create spellcheckers without understanding the rules of spelling

Lol, no. How would you validate the output of that program if you didn't understand the rules?
Turbines kill fewer birds per kWh than a coal plant.
You'd probably find HR require taking the legal minimum, 20 days, but the rest could be ignored if the employee refuses to take the time off.

They can be stricter (forcing all time to be taken) in finance.