skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've now watched that video, and I'm going to say what I disagree with.

First, he claims that Copilot/GPT only needs more data and more compute to get better. I disagree. It needs both, for sure, but I think it needs more.

Also, it won't get any more data! As LLM's are used more and more, the data fed in will be more and more like what they would generate anyway, which will lead to the models overfitting on things and getting worse.

He claims that bots make mistakes quickly and that allows iteration. This is true, but the iteration will probably be more like bogosort than anything intentional. (Bogosort is famously very expensive.)

Why is it like Bogosort? Because even good "prompt engineers" are more or less creating enchantments on the fly to coax information out of a black box. To me, that seems like a more or less random search. Hence, random search, random sort, it's like Bogosort.

He claims reviewing the code is 100x faster than writing it in his experience. Well, yes, because you don't dive into as much as the original writer did. Reviewers only have so much time, so they spend only as much time as they have. They could spend more and catch more bugs.

He claims that the AI will (eventually) take instructions from you and run them directly. He says they won't generate the code, they are the code.

They can only do this if they are Turing-complete, which if they are the typical neural nets I've seen, they cannot because data can only flow one way. Turing-completeness requires data to be able to flow conditionally, forwards, and backwards, and any combination. These models cannot do that. They would also need recursion.

He claims they have reasoning capabilities. I claim they only have the appearance of reasoning, borrowed from the reasoning capabilities of the humans that wrote the material used in the training sets.

His example of the cards is good, but not that impressive. It didn't tickle any Turing-completeness.

Those are my thoughts as I watched it. It was pretty good though. It was convincing. I know I'm weird in that I just cannot be convinced.
Could stem cells be used to grow neurons on to monkeys' larynxes?
I'm glad this was posted if only for the quote about how some books are more treacherous than others. That and reading the old typeset version of the letter S that looks like an F. It's is among the better material I've encountered on the internet in awhile, thanks.
I installed a fresh copy of windows straight from the official ISO a month or two ago and was bombarded with candy crush, tiktok, CNN, instagram, LinkedIn, etc. It took me a few solid hours to get it out of my way as much as possible.

After that, even on my brand new Ryzen 9, it took 15 seconds to open a web browser. I decided to quit my windows-only games and delete windows in favor of Linux (like usual).

It's not just OEM installs, perhaps you got windows a few versions back and updated it avoiding the new bloatware crap.
Probably by the ethnic distribution of the immigrants. Most of US immigrant are not white so I don’t understand your argument. Maybe only Canada has more diverse immigrants than the US.
so at best you are just inferring
Exactly. Don’t take a belt sander to it, or light it on fire, and you’re fine.

(Also, don't let it hang out with its friends.)
nit: compliment → complement (in this case)
Sure here's one... it's a hotlink, so if it breaks, try google

https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/images/GUID-7F31F314-174E...
Please get a mic for any/all future videos. The mic on the camera is way too far away from your mouth for us to hear what you are saying clearly. Audio is more important than video content in a promotional video.
And induction cooktops, and home charging BEVs overnight…
Cool! Fair enough RE competitive advantages but it does seem like having the manufacturing base to rapidly build a huge amount of shipping capacity (whether for trade or military use) could be critical for the U.S. in case of something like a conflict with China. But maybe that just means that we end up needing a 'Chips Act' for shipbuilding or something to incentivize local development.
Your comment reminds me of Steve Carrel’s character in “The Forty-Year-Old Virgin” when he inadvertently reveals his virginity by opining that women’s breasts feel like bags of sand.

Nobody could ever confuse an antler - with skin, hair, blood, and bone — with a fingernail.

Ha.
Twitter logo is replaced with a DOGE
But, not the “temporarily incapacitated or otherwise unable to login” problem.

Coma, incarceration, etc.
Think of it as assembly, support, well documented public service manuals, the cost of the well integrated operating system, and a good warranty.

Similar to the intel macs and such.

Quality is a little shy of a premium product, but overall not a terrible deal.
I'll never buy a new non-split keyboard
"A" router will probably not satisfy. Even placed in the most ideal spot, there will probably be places with poor coverage. If someone is there, everyone else will likely have a bad time (unless everyone upgrades to only having Wifi 6 devices).

Good coverage is a matter of having more access points. Most off the shelf mesh systems will do fine.

Personally I enjoy systems that actually leave me empowered & knowing what is going on, but A) running OpenWRT & DAWN (to bandsteer clients) is not that easy and B) the available hardware has been absolutely miserable in the past couple of years, with 802.11ax only barely becoming available. My roommates had a second Google Mesh wifi router system & it worked flawlessly, without any of the pain & suffering, & had good visibility. However it lacks the USB NAS capability. Honestly I think most systems would serve you fine & your requirements are unspecial & uninteresting: you'll have a fine time with any vaguely competent mesh system. Especially if it has 3+ nodes.
Interesting, definitely hear a lot about the Jones Act and I've heard horror stories RE labor unions (including on the port side of things with a lot of hesitation to bring in new tech that could streamline/automate processes)
My comment was specifically about the connection to the SEC: if Dogecoin isn't a security, then Musk isn't illegally promoting a security or violating other securities laws. Maybe the CFTC would dislike his promotion, but it's not clearly illegal for someone to use one property they own to promote/advertise their other interests as long as it's disclosed (which, as you note, Musk has done with Dogecoin).
Maybe there is some truth in this. Wisdom and truth can be found in silence.
Wikipedia deleted article on BBS: The Documentary
> Casually querying an S3 bucket with either of those is easily a half day's work for any meaningful size of workload.

Clickhouse and DuckDB you just type: select * from (s3 path and access credentials)

Let's see what it takes on AWS Athena:

1) "Before you run your first query, you need to set up a query result location in Amazon S3."

2) What the fuck is a AwsDataCatalog? Why can't I just point it to a file/path?

3) What the fuck is AWS Glue Crawler? Oh shit another service I have to work with.

4) Oops. Glue can't access my bucket, now I have to create a new IAM role for it.

5) Okay, great I can finally run a query!

6) It wrote my results to a text file on S3. Awesome. I feel so goddamn efficient. I'm so fucking glad you suggested this rube goldberg disaster.

And if I don't have elevated access to our AWS account, it's not even that simple, instead there's slack messages and emails and jira tickets to get DevOps to provision me and/or set it up for me (incorrect the first time of course). A week later I finally got a text file on a fucking S3 bucket. Awesome.
I have reservations about most commercial products. I would build a router using OpenBSD. Then run Cat5e/6 cables to several access points to provide adequate coverage. Keep the smart home stuff on 2.4GHz WiFi and run laptops, tablets on 5GHz WiFi - ideally different SSIDs. I would connect the network drive with wired ethernet.

Your fios connection shouldn't be the problem. But WiFi, being RF, can often be a limiting factor.
Interesting! Doing a little research I see there is a startup in the space so hopefully there'll be some movement there

https://www.businessinsider.com/foldable-shipping-containers...
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I've been using Haskell professionally for 8 years and its ecosystem is laughable compared to Python.
> Like removing sensors because of a supplier/cost issue

There were more than one AOA sensors. Not hooking the other one up to the MCAS system could hardly be a cost issue. Nor is it an issue of software vs hardware. It being implemented in software had nothing to do with MCAS's problems. The software was not buggy, nor was it a workaround. What was wrong was the specification of how the software should work.
Yeah, but at about a cycle a day, that’s 10 years, which is when the warranty in all the other stuff gets dicey.
That is not solving the problem. That is hiding it. Our civilization needs to move beyond the caveman level thinking that burying somethibg in the ground is solving it. Solar panels are highly recyclable. We are figuring out how to recycle the composite materials used for windmill blades. We need to move to a circular economy.
What is the hourly commitment you're looking for out of engineers and leads?
Copyright doesn't have anything to do with determinism. It existed in a pure analogue world before computers and if you had implemented your neural net in a fundamentally non-deterministic way (such as an analog neuromorphic neural net of some sort), it wouldn't make any difference one way or another. A human artist with no computer whatsoever and only their brain and basic writing (or painting) implements can break copyright just fine by writing out (or painting) copyrighted works from memory, then distributing them. It's the PRODUCTION side that is the copyright infringement, not the observing side.
To add some context, this was in 2019. It was before the larger and larger language models started inexplicably unlocking so many capabilities as they scale up.
LiveCode [1] [2] still exists and seems to be actively maintained!

Runtime Revolution was the spiritual successor to SuperCard, and made building color, cross-platform stack-like apps totally possible. The language is still very close to HyperTalk, so it has a much shallower learning curve than many C-style languages.

1. https://livecode.com
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiveCode_(company)
If someone were following the setup steps to execute a query in a serious setting (as opposed to reviewing them just for the sake of writing a sarcastic forum comment), they might find CREATE TABLE .. MSCK REPAIR TABLE quickly becomes finger memory, and the only real usability complaint about Athena is that its interactive query editor only allows 10 tabs to be open at a time
>Ukraine is the only country to have fought off Russia, except Finland, Lithuania, Poland, Germany.

Finland sure but the Winter War ended due as much to the valor of the Fins as to Stalin getting ready to fight Nazi Germany. Also Russia won the rest of your list taking took over Poland, Lithuania, and half of Germany. that was the whole WWII easterrn front/cold war warsaw pact thing.
Good note, Chekov
and yet that bullshit seems to be very valuable and useful, so not sure what is the point you're making?
I don't understand why pharmacies are the target. People that want Xanax and Adderall for recreational use start with doctor shopping for doctors that will write prescriptions for more than needed, for people that don't need it, etc. So, I could sort of understand identifying doctors that write a disproportionate number of prescriptions for these, or a high ratio of prescriptions for high doses versus more common doses. But the pharmacies? Why? What does that accomplish? Doesn't the person just then go to a different pharmacy?
> It implies to me that there's still a little bit of the characters in the dataset, but not very much.

I suspect there are a lot of the characters in the training data, but (postulating) there might be a post-generation adversarial selection step where anything that is recognizable as a someone else's IP gets filtered out of the results, so anything sufficiently Pikachu-like won't be shown, leaving behind the vague yellow monsters.
Same, I know that feeling all too well.
I think some country IDs now have an asymmetric encryption processor like credit cards. That allows for airtight verification.
Another thing to try is NAD+/CoQ10 supplements. I had some brain fog after covid (I'm officially diagnosed) and NAD+ seemed to help a ton.

I had researched the brain fog with covid 19 and found a lot of research pointing to NAD+ / mitochondrial disruptions as source of brain fatigue [eg 1]. NAD+ supplements are well studied for anti-aging too. So it seemed to have a high probability of helping.

1: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9234841/
An example I like to use is medication reminders. For some, you need them to be at absolute time intervals: UTC is likely appropriate, and omitting time offsets could be disastrous. Others are more appropriate at periods of the experienced waking day, and using UTC could be extraordinarily disruptive eg while traveling.
I don't mean "implied license".

My impression, they claim the fair use only because there is no other ground for ML training on GPL code. The license only describes other uses of the code, so the first question is on what grounds Open AI uses the code at all. And the only thing OpenAI comes with is the fair use.

ML training does not fall under free expression or similar basic rights, I think. Only because it looks too restrictive to forbid scanning the code which is publicly available for people to read, and the license itself does not mention such use, the fair use may be considered as some kind of justification.

I, of course, can be mistaken. Especially that I didn't study this subject deeply.

Also, for authors who are against the ML training on their GPL code, it's better to prove it violates even the current GPL version, rather than just introduce a modification to the license. Because new license will only cover new code, while old versions are already available under the old license.

On the other hand, such an amendment to the license will not be harmful, even if later proven to be useless. And it will clearly state the copyright holder's position regarding the ML training, instead of some subtle reasoning we should apply currently.

Some people may want an opposite amendment to their license - ML training does not produce a "work based on the Program" and can be freely performed by anyone.
Why not make it trigger on not logging in for N months, and after ignoring multiple attempts to notify you? This is what Google's inactive account manager does.
Very few lives because of the high standards, loads of luck and extraordinary courage of first responders.

Lets not forget the helicopter crews at Chernobyl knew they were flying to a certain, slow, painful death and did so without a complaint. Absent those heroes nuclear's mortality record would be much worse.
Nah buddy. It's your garbage claim. It's on you to show that they won't go prompt critical, you have a plan for fuel separation that actually works, you have a way of containing the fission products (including the gaseous ones) and you have a solution to corrosion (good luck when the industry can't even get hot water that isn't the direct source of neutrons right).

Otherwise it's just a fantasy. Like claiming 47% PV panels and 1kWh/kg batteries will be everywhere because they happened in a lab once.
Technically they are close enough that you mostly don't care. Many RISC-V core customers say they ended up with using less silicon area / cost / energy usage at the same performance level. Arm proponents say their code size is a little smaller in 32 bit -- RISC-V is definitely significantly smaller code than Arm or x86 in 64 bit.

But we're only talking 10% or 20% difference here.

The big difference is Arm is owned by a single company that can and does change its contract terms and prices, sues its customers, obsoletes old stuff at will etc.

RISC-V is managed by a non-profit that is steering along a path agreed by its hundreds of member companies, but can't and doesn't stop anyone from adding custom stuff as long as they stay compatible with the core ISA. There is a promise to only add capability over time, but keeping compatibility with the core 32 and 64 bit ISAs published in 2015 and ratified in 2019 ... forever.

There are already a dozen or more companies competing to design the best and most competitive and compatible RISC-V cores and chips, and that's only going to increase. If the company you are using falls behind or raises prices or goes out of business then you can just switch to another -- as long as you didn't drink their proprietary extension cool-aid (it can be very tasty).

The current limits of the RISC-V ecosystem are (I currently have one sitting in front of me, and ssh access to the other):

- WCH CH32V003 microcontroller with 2 KB RAM and 16 KB flash in an 8 pin package for 10c each or 20 pin package for $14.6c https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256804850399956.htm

- Sophon SG2042 64x 2.0 GHz OoO cores similar to Arm A72, each core with a 256 bit vector unit, 64K L1 cache, 1M L2 (shared per 4 cores), 4M L3 local to a cluster of 4 cores, with the other 15x 4 MB L3 accessible via NoC at ~half the local bandwidth. 32 lanes of PCIe gen 4. https://www.sophon.ai/product/introduce/sg2042.html
It depends on which behavior is mimicked.

The vast majority of people would say that no unintelligent, or parrot-level-intelligent, entity can explain a joke like this:
https://www.freethink.com/robots-ai/gpt-4-jokes

I also personally asked GPT-4 to solve an easy CodeForces problem dated March 2023 and its solution worked perfectly the first time. (I haven’t yet tested it on a harder Codeforces problem.) Although the problem is relatively easy, it’s still much harder than the Fizz buzz test.

Geoffrey Hinton has updated his AGI timeline significantly in the last 2 years. He is definitely worth listening to:
https://mobile.twitter.com/JMannhart/status/1641764742137016...
> Unreliant on Chrome?

Correct, completely forked from Chromium (not Chrome) and in separate development. Brave continues to roll out superior features while the rest of the Chromium world lags.
Rigorous research on speech and communication in non-humans

https://www.theycantalk.org/research
Copyright is about copying. It is not about observing. Reading a copyrighted book isn't infringement. Writing out copies of it is, even if you don't use a computer or anything.
Check out the open source https://insomnia.rest/
Huh, never would have guessed. I assumed cabling was basically free, and the only difference would be the solar mounts were attached to poles vs a roof.

There was a recent experiment[0] where a company is going to start putting panels directly on the ground without any mounting hardware.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33926683
Disclosure: I am neither a lawyer nor a religious scholar. These are just my own, personal thoughts related to the above comment.

The same concept applies in Islam and has been used to justify copyright for Islamic works, even audio recordings of Qur'an recitation, one of the most common Islamic media outside of books themselves. So, the idea makes sense from an Islamic perspective, but there is plenty of room for interpretation and also for different accommodations and adjustments depending on the situation.

For example, it would be likely that a scholar would rule that strict copyright may be violated if the alternative, e.g., the complete loss of usefulness of an otherwise beneficial software, may be violated because the benefits outweigh the harm.
2023 AI Index Report
Geoffrey Hinton, a father of Deep Learning, updated AGI timeline significantly
300% credit for Cpu being the designation for having a fixed clothing apparel unit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cayce_Pollard#Apparel

It is kind of a pity leaving in-jokes embedded. Personally as web-geek, I love links.
How long were you building your audience before releasing the course? (I ask this with respect, building an audience is hard.)
Nope. It's a pain in the ass and easily the least ergonomic thing I've ever encountered. Parquet has a schema. AWS Athena forces you to provide the schema for your parquet file, or Glue to "discover" it instead.

I'm sure your happy little setup works great for you, but to imply or suggest that it's somehow an easy solution is misleading to the point of outright lies.
> However, if there's a significant non-Mullvad user base using it, it won't do much, as you'll just stand out as the only person using the Mullvad browser without Mullvad VPN.

That should be "unless there's a significant...."
I’m confused. Are you advocating for complexity regardless of need?
if let is such a nice way to express this

if let Some(x) = map.get(foo) {
bob(x)
}

One subtle but noteworthy thing is that the idiom only mentions map by name once, which is nice if you have a very long map name, and prevents copy paste bugs where you only update one of the two mentions.
Managing incremental user state with persistent state machines
>If you are from india, you might have to wait 10 years to get citizenship after fulfilling all requirements.

I read somewhere that the waiting line for Indian people is 180 years, not 10.
Seems oddly secretive. Very strange mission. Could be some kind of front funneling money to a rebel group for as vague as it’s written.

What does any of it have to do with hosting repos? Please, just do the one thing.
If you're interested in an environment similar to HyperCard that runs on modern computers and produces documents that can be shared easily, have a look at Decker: https://beyondloom.com/decker/

The built-in drawing tools are 1-bit, but internally Decker uses paletted color, and there are ways to import and manipulate color images, as well as draw in color programmatically: https://itch.io/post/7387198
> post-fact invented laws

Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations was published in 1776. I suppose you could say that was "post-fact" as it drew on what was happening at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution and the English and Scottish agricultural revolutions among other things, but "invented" would seem a bit of a stretch.

> The law that "in a free market, the best product wins" has been beaten by profit-driven companies with billions at their disposal.

Of course, given that law then the other possibility you appear to have dismissed is that the market is not free.
this is perfect. might be a great way to handle feature flags for me.
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