skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Paul, can you point at anything at all other than your general vibes that would indicate that anyone from LessWrong intends to literally participate in mass suicide, as your link implies? Did I miss the big group buy of phenobarbital?
This is an inaccurate and ignorant comment that does not engage with the arguments people on LessWrong are making. If you have something smart to say about why these people are wrong in their beliefs, please do. Name calling a group of people a "cult" or "apocalyptic religion" is not an argument that contributes anything interesting to the conversation.

If anyone is actually curious about what these people are saying, here's a list of their arguments for why AI is extremely dangerous and extremely likely to kill us all:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/uMQ3cqWDPHhjtiesc/agi-ruin-a...

If anyone has a coherent counter-argument to any of that, I'd really love to hear it.
Papers.deals: selling signed machine learning papers for charity
So it’s going to be as disappointing as Battlestar Galactica :/
The US initiative to block chips and chip fab tech from getting to China cites preventing China from getting their hands on advanced AI as the main reason.

This report from CSIS (good read) is titled "Choking off China's Access to the future of AI"

https://www.csis.org/analysis/choking-chinas-access-future-a...
“To be able to be good at predicting the next word you need to have an internal model of the reality that produced that next word.”

Now that’s an interesting claim - that I would deeply dispute. It learns from text. Text itself is a model of reality. So chatgtp if anything proves that in order to be good at predicting the next word all you need is a good model of a model of reality. GTP knows nothing of actual reality only the statistics around symbol patterns that occur in text.
Sorry but I didn't know the author either.

And with due respect, none of his work is directly aplicable in the majority of software development roles I have been involved with, directly and indirectly.

And that's fine. There's nothing to be ashamed of nor it is something to shame someone for.

The world is large and specialized.

If we were speaking about Linus or Bill Gates then perhaps it would be a surprise for some tech savy person to not know them.
Yes. Create a comments table, and have a parent_id column on it.
Of course there's no data. How many companies, especially the big ones, have you heard doing surveys for employees and asking whether they prefer in-office or remote work? They don't, because they are afraid to hear the responses.
That nets you revenue, not profit.
Dated March 31st... Mistake?

Oh, tech scrunch dot Com. Hahaha. OK.
>Yeah, aren't there already a lot of CRM products?

Hundreds, if not thousands.
Yes, and no. I think Swift is doing some things that it can't optimize as well yet. I have some guesses about what that is (forced ref-counting, less control over memory layout, generics), but all I know is I'm getting significant performance gains in some graphics/geometry algorithms where I want to be a performance perfectionist and control everything. This is not a common use case. For building a basic app for iOS, Swift would be way easier.

I've also decided to support other platforms, and when you want to build for Linux, Android, Windows... Swift loses appeal.

Swift is quickly gaining on C++'s infamous "complexity". If you get in the deeper with generics, it's rough.

I've seen recent experiments by Herb Sutter and Sean Baxter, giving C++ a new syntax or adding experimental features as compiler extensions. This makes me think C++ is going to continue to evolve. How exactly, nobody's sure. :)
It's possible to run llama.cpp on windows, e.g. see this tutorial:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coIj2CU5LMU

Would this version (ggerganov) work with one of those methods?
We wouldn’t ever expect public transportation to be significantly faster than driving the same trip. If it were, people would switch from driving to the faster option. Decreasing the number of cars would then ease congestion and speed up driving, until a new, faster, equilibrium was reached.[0]

This is how improving public transportation is actually one of the most effective ways to benefit drivers.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downs%E2%80%93Thomson_paradox
I would guess it's an original recipe (with no traditional name) and doesn't change daily.
I do not want to have a piece of undifferentiated infrastructure at my org to be tied to the employment, enthusiasm and attention of a particular engineer.
In my case they are on a SATA SSD.
Just email info@rsync.net.

We have a HN discount and we’ll get you up and running this weekend.

You can even direct transfer from google drive to your new account here - no reason to use your own bandwidth.
I used all of those components in my undergrad less than 5 years ago. I can’t remember what we used a 555 timer for, but we built calculators, EKGs, and AM radios among other things in the labs. At the time I was mad that we were using TTL logic when it seemed so out of date, but when we moved on to FPGAs I was grateful for the physical intuition I gained from building the 74xx projects.
Yann is also known for constantly denigrating the abilities of LLMs and being comically wrong all the time, saying they can't do X only to be proven wrong immediately after. He's pretty much a meme at this point.

He spent all his years at FB building ivory towers of mathematics attempting the analytical route for building AI systems only to be out done by the bitter lesson.

He's perpetually salty about the current state of LLMs, you can sense it from all the negative commentary on the matter if you look at his Twitter feed lol. For shame.
Interesting to compare/contrast with how in the Philippines it's popular to eat spaghetti with ketchup (or a ketchup-y sweet tomato sauce) and chopped up hot dog
> Yours is a good example! I have in a past life actually used the "you wouldn't bolt a new floor onto a building" argument successfully to push against feature creep.

I've seen a few houses built on top of apartment buildings though.
It needs to have better features and better support.
Note: AMD Radeon HD 6950 was released in year 2010 with 2.64 billion transistors. AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT was released in year 2020 with 26.80 billion transistors.

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/radeon-hd-6950.c405 , https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/radeon-rx-6900-xt.c348...
In this tutorial, we will learn how to user Reactjs Custom Hooks to write clean, reusable, and efficient code that is easy to understand.
In the near term, it's more about tax revenue than real estate interests.
I don't know about "verge of collapse", but the city needs to take a long hard look at itself and ask "why do people live in cities", and one reason, other than work, which, no two ways about it, is moving out of the city in various fashions for various reasons (I'm looking at you, prop-C and stripe); one reason people want to live in a city is for the nightlife, where it's a city's density and not the suburbs that's necessary to support it in any meaningful fashion. Why does San Jose not have the same vibrant nightlife? Why does San Francisco make this giant sucking sound for all culture in the bay area? (That's no longer as true as it once was; so much has been pushed into Easy Bay simply due to housing prices in the city.) It's a large collection of suburbia and not actually a city.

This past week, San Francisco took steps to utterly destroy the nightlife scene, by sending subpoenas to all the after-hours venues to cease and desist. Like the Prohibition, this only serves to drive the scene (further) underground, causing it to be more dangerous because the parties aren't going to stop happening, they're going to happen further out from the heart of the city, into being less regulated, and further away from the hospitals which will result in deaths from that whole fentanyl thing.

Without the party scene (which rivals major cities of the world under the metric "can I party from Thursday til Tuesday"), both above and below ground, there's little reason for young adults who enjoy that sort of thing to live in this tiny city now that work remote is viable in many industries.

The industry forced to be in-person is healthcare, and UCSF is a major medical institution in the US and the world, with a major infectious disease center that played an important role in the recent pandemic, so the city has that going for it, but it's only the frontlines of that industry that need to be in the city. Much of that industry is administrators and patient navigators and all that kind of stuff, which happens on the phone, but with VOIP and the Internet, can go fully remote. Genentech (and co), the other major part of that industry, are in South San Francisco, which is technically a different city, despite its name, and far away enough from San Francisco proper that you need a car to get there (or work at Genentech and take their buses).
I'm not claiming that the opposite from the original claim was the truth, I'm doing the same as you and saying be careful not to project your current feelings onto a past that we can never truly know.

No one can say the people of the past felt one way or not, that's my main point. The other point I'm adding on is that people are inherently varied in their mindsets and it's only very recently in history we've had such an equal opportunity to share our feelings and hope to have them heard.

I would add one thing as well: In many societies there's been a great reverence given to animals and their slaughter ritualized or governed by cultural rules. To me this suggests at the very least that people have always had some sense of the gravity of their actions and felt a need to make sense of and tame their feelings by externalizing or controlling them.
The thing that makes the singularity so difficult (edit: to rein or reason about), compared with say development of the nuclear weapons, is that we know it will be a positive feedback system.

So at some point, the point of no return will be passed, and we will have no idea that we passed it.
As another user said, learn and practice methods like STAR or PAR.

More generally, learn a few storytelling methods in the context of coaching and personal branding. Write your own professional career story, then with each iteration make it shorter on the personal introductions, while getting to a few key points that you will throw during the interview when asked for details. Do not write those in the resume, those are your memory aid and cheatsheet to nudge the recruiter if they are interested.

Rambling and going on tangents, and then coming back could be a sign of lack of focus and the ability to stay on topic. If you have ADHD or poor sleep habits, I'd get this in check too. I tend to do this a lot when tired or when I haven't had my morning coffee. It's so bad to the point coworkers tell me "hey, but I asked you Z! Why are you telling me about Y?" And in my mind it makes sense, because I will eventually get to Z by wrapping up the story, but others are neither expecting this nor have patience.

Therefore, practice communicating your ideas more clearly in all contexts, so that when you are caught with your guard down, your muscle memory will at least retrieve a better, more concise answer. Good luck!
One question that’s always top of mind when I hear about the insanity of SF: why on Earth are people with radical, proven ineffective policies voted in time and time again? Whenever I hear from tech people, they think it’s crazy. So if tech has overrun SF, why haven’t the politics become more moderate? At least one of my assumptions must be wrong.
>OpenAI's founding charter commits the company to abandoning research efforts if another project nears AGI development. If this happens, what happens to the profit arm?

I think the definition of AGI is sufficiently vague that this will never happen. And if it did happen, abandoning research efforts could take the form of selling the for-profit arm to Microsoft.
> Tired of copy pasting cURL commands from chrome to your terminal ?

FYI for anyone that does this, MITM Proxy is usually a better option for this type of stuff. Not sure about Chrome, but especially with Firefox, you have no way of getting the full raw request on anything with a request body like POST. You have to Copy Request Headers, then Copy POST Data. With MITM Proxy or similar you can just get the full request at once. Also you can inject headers like X-Forwarded-For into all or specific requests.
I've found that a good happy medium is to put something in the microwave for half the recommended time, then move it to the oven for half the recommended oven time.
Yeah, just wondering. I know another trend, indecipherable sound, is also odd. Because, for example, I had to walk out of "Public Enemy" in a theater...I couldn't hear the dialogue. But it was watchable at home where I could mess with settings until I could hear.
Really? You are going to quote StackOverflow for an expert opinion? Why should anyone care about what that site users have to say? "Concurrent" means that something happens at the same time. It's that easy. The use of the word you refer to is a marketing trick used to bait you and switch the products before you pay. It's used by people who want to justify the existence of a worthless tool by pretending it has something to do with the one you really want. Very similar to "vegan cheese", which is really not a cheese in any way, but it's sold to you labeled as "cheese" because you wanted cheese, not ground cashew nuts.
Curry refers to vegetable originally and dishes made out of that. Curry Koottu means Masala. We have been using this word from time immemorial.
Me neither, but I like it. When you refuse to engage with other people's arguments due to strongly held beliefs you are engaging in a religious activity. Those strongly held beliefs are your religion.
I agree. Half the comments are about that one statement. You might be on to something here..
Perhaps organized religion was a Chesterton’s Fence that we removed at our own peril.
AI can also completely liberate all of us. This fear mongering is irrational. We already live in an extremely advanced reality, with organic life having organic nanomachines performing incredibly complex operations in a universe, in realtime, performing impossibly complex calculations. Even to simulate a square meter of our universe in realtime is outlandishly beyond our compute access. Perhaps AI unleashes the creation of the sort of reality we exist in.

Just because someone has the background and knowledge to build something, does not mean they have the philosophical chops nor the aptitude to understand it, or understand how to properly use it. We should take these doomsday scenarios with a grain of salt. If it happens, there is no stopping it anyway. It is better to try and create the most benevolent AI possible, that is an ally to humanity and invested in our success, than to dwell on our destruction.
I never understood that expression. When I look at a the outline of France, I see a pentagon, with the Pyrenees and the Côte d’Azur forming a single side.

Yes, that’s a side made up of a mountain range and a coast, but to my eye, it fits way better than the hexagon of https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexagone_(France). You can fix that around about any somewhat country whose outline isn’t very elongated such as Germany, Iceland or Poland.

And I’m not the only one. https://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/index2.php?url=https%3A%2F... argues a square or a pentagon are better fits for regular polygons. I would mare the pentagon slightly irregular to get an even better fit.
I'm not renewiltord, who actually talked about public health officials not the CDC, unless he edited that part of his post.

Hardly makes a difference though. CDC advice in March 2020 was that the vast majority don't need to wear one. Then suddenly everyone had to wear one, on pain of fines. Nothing about masks or the virus or "the science" changed. The reliability problem remains.
Yes, they’re the site that introduced me to the concept of the “executive email carpet bomb”
The vacancy rate is pretty similar to 20 years ago after the dot com bust. But there is a layer of crime and lawlessness this time that makes it a lot worse, and harder to recover from.
The silence from Gregory Koberger is typical. The idea that Mozilla has zero malice, that it didn't compromise web standards in favor of social activism, meets the reality that they fired the creator of Javascript and ran his name through the mud.

As usual, we tech workers prioritize group identity over personal integrity.
I’m not Paul, but this here has some serious Jonestown overtones: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/j9Q8bRmwCgXRYAgcJ/miri-annou.... It makes Yudkowski seem (to me) like the leader of a suicide cult more than anything else.

The argument “yeah but what if he’s right?” is pretty much Pascal’s Wager by now, given how way out there the AI Doomers have gotten. I choose not to worry about the God from the Bible (ie I don’t make make Pascal’s Wager) so why should I worry about this new Evil Nerd-God Apocalypse?

Don’t drink the Kool-Aid, kids!
So is ChatGPT worship though.
Xine, mplayer, divx, xvid, etc these things were a lot more temporary than I anticipated, but it does make sense when you take into account the competitive advantage of newer codecs, hardware acceleration, etc. And of course the death of the CD-R and the DVD in the mainstream.
At a previous company the biggest cause of files in a particular context was that "oh my zsh" was installed for each of thousands of engineers by default. It often seems as though "modern framework" just means it is an abusive piece of junk.
Maybe vote differently?
Everything is turned into an existential risk these days. People are prone to believe in apocalyptic predictions because they fear the unknown and rely on flawed mental heuristics. Apocalyptic predictions automatically illicit skepticism from me.
Someone went and collected data going back to 1948.

> Today's outrageous prices are exactly in line with the 6.6% trend that began 60 years ago.

https://experimental-geography.blogspot.com/2016/05/employme...
Well, if there is one bias I've confirmed from Aikido, you don't pick a fight when it's just as simple not to :)
Most bikers are going to be able to average at least 10 mph. Working 60+ miles from where you live is a fairly long commute, even by car.
They had existing momentum which dwindled and was never recharged
> We've had inquisitions historically, I would very much support a global AI inquisition.

You know how inquisition usually goes. "You've been playing starcraft against 'the AI'. What do you have to say in your defense?"

Maybe I'm just weird, but "a tech-based superintelligence emerges and decides to destroy humanity because it was in a bad mood" is something I'm totally fine with. Doom-Cults on the other hand I don't like at all.
> no one bothered to really verify availability of a no longer made chip

They verified availability of the chip. The explanation for why this wasn't effective is one of the interesting parts of this video.
I love it. The media goes from being a source of truth to purely a source of arbitrary images and narratives. It's understandable that the people who own the media would be upset by this.
I'm finding the same with other products too. There are a bunch of Aldi generic foods (like Mac & Cheese, tortillas, salsa, corn chips) that I like the taste of better than the more expensive name brand. Does this mean that the brand name has been reducing quality over time where the generics have been sticking more to their original recipe?
They are asinine. They've become a shibboleth for detecting DEI-types who are unengaged with theory and have hopped on the fad --- the Robin DiAngelists, if you will. You don't have to like, appreciate, or respect DEI in any way to acknowledge that unironically showing slides suggesting that literacy is a white virtue is disqualifying, and that most social justice thinkers, including Okun herself, agree with that.

Okun's website attempts to clarify all of this; for instance, the page expanding on "worship of the written word" explains that it's a reaction to the idea that anything not written down according to formal standards is worthless. That's not a crazy DEI idea, so much so that it's part of the plot of the Terry Gilliam movie Brazil.

But people just want fortune cookies to memorize and repeat, and it is somewhat on people like Okun for providing those fortunes and only 20 years later clarifying them. And, of course, De Anza wasn't at all engaged with Okun's actual thoughts; it was using them to prevent managers from setting agendas for meetings.

Again: everybody involved in this story is a crank.
Sure, that may be the case that they turned it down. It seemed to be a widespread issue though across a lot of reviewers and opinions.

The sound engineer interviews in that article are interesting though, and they seem to be blaming Nolan and the mixing as well.

I also get wanting to turn them down. I've been in theaters so loud that my ears were ringing after the movie, or were actively hurting during certain scenes. The Dark Knight was one of those. It could also just be poor settings at the local cinema in that case as well though.

Given the vast majority of movies are understandable, I just wish Nolan would mix with that goal in mind given I would actually enjoy his movies most of the time if it just weren't for the muffled speech and sound.
This level of pedantry is not conducive to healthy conversation. It’s quite clear from my post what I meant: that there are not necessarily rules to how markets react. Instead, events occur, individuals form opinions on what those events mean for the future of their assets, and make bets against those predictions. This means that fears of further increasing rates driving reduced consumer purchasing can cause a suppression in prices. In fact, even the fear that others might have that fear, whether or not you believe it yourself, can drive action. The GME squeeze was a great example of this.

I believe you also understood precisely what I meant, and are trying to form a gotcha.

In any case, I’ve lost the plot on your point here. That interest rates impact spending and corporate decisions is verifiable fact, using the ever-elusive scientific method which you’ve so helpfully educated me about. If you truly believe in this method, I’d suggest you exercise it and watch how interest rate changes shift economies and markets every time they happen in history. It just so happens to be precisely the exact reason why the Fed moves them in the first place. It was widely discussed when rates began rising that the impact would likely be an increase in unemployment. The Fed specifically addressed this point, and stated that while it was not an explicit goal to increase it in this case, it may happen.
"Things might be fine"? This doesn't seem like a sufficiently convincing take?

It takes 20 years of due diligence and environmental impact studies just to build a single hydroelectric dam, if not 50. Why should our attitude toward AI be to shrug and hope for the best?
Watched the film today, thought it was great. Never really played the game (only once) so don’t know if it was true to the universe or not but throughly enjoyed the film. Definitely had a Marvel vibe to it though (theres even some scenes that could be take for take from the first avengers movie just swapped for a fantasy setting) so if you don’t like the marvel movies then stay away.
Except Queen, where three of the members have real degrees.

<ducks>
It's mature. Seasoned. ;)
I wouldn't be surprised if OpenAI has been running a model in the background that is reinforcing itself. Honestly, it's very possible they've made a lot of progress in that area.

I think GPT-4 will be a baseline for quite some time before the next "ChatGPT moment" is ready. I think they've got some really smart people working at OpenAI who are not just programmers, but genuine hackers who want to hack this world just for the fun of it.
so Salesforce is like SAP but for the talkie-talkie people in a company