skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m curious why you are so confident in your assertion. It seems to me that an advanced statistical model of the world is an essential component of AGI. How do you know that we aren’t a few breakthroughs away from AGI?

Some recent papers have shown significant performance improvements when these models are allowed to respond to their own outputs.

How do you know that putting an LLM in a fancy loop with access to external memory and tools isn’t AGI?
Who knows. It's completely uncharted territory. It's not hard to imagine how malevolent AGI could end us.

The illusion of control over something that may well have incomprehensible intelligence is a joke. Tell me, what control does the farm animal have over its own fate?
I was a latchkey kid at an age where I wouldn't have been allowed to use the stove or oven, let alone whip up a meal.

I could have made a salad, but not many 8 year olds would choose those over bagel bites.
Author here. Pleasantly surprised to see the article here.

Some context behind the article. I studied CRDTs for a few months, and noticed that different CRDT designs use logical clocks in different and clever ways. And I haven't seen anyone narrate all those ways of use in one article. My attempt with this article was to dredge up those flavors of logical clocks into one article and give them names for future reference.

(To respond to a couple of other comments, I ignored atomic (and gps-based) clocks in this discussion, as indicated in my footnote 3).
Buddy I don't even know how to code.
We're talking about file systems.
I can see LastPass source code (e.g. code comments)
In this case, “hexa” (meaning “6”) is the number of stages of this trail. A bit arbitrary though but I guess it hints at the fact that it’s a French trail, France being referred to as “l’Hexagone” like you said, even when talking about only part of it.
Strictly speaking, atomic clocks by themselves wouldn’t fully solve the problem either, because they tick at slightly different rates in different locations, due to variations in the gravitational field.
That doesn't mean it's the best model. Successful in the sense of the career ladder, then maybe you're right. Successful as in productive or good for the organization or society, probably not. They are responsible for many of the biggest organizational failures.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35402539

mind viruses.
Apple password sharing is definitely annoying. I mainly use Apple stuff including iCloud for password management. Surprisingly, it even works well enough on chrome for windows. It doesn’t work for the 10 game launchers I’m forced to use, but it’s not a huge inconvenience, I can just grab those from my iPhone. But I cannot grab wifi passwords from my iPhone, that can only done in keychain in MacOS.
Honestly, the way the public acted during COVID is half the reason I default to trusting the CDC.

It's a far sight better than trusting the voices that tried to replace the CDC with their own "expertise."
Software is still eating the world, but a large part of it are being done by traditional companies transforming themselves.
'sudo pip install <something huge with a ton of deps>' could potentially make system packages go wonky. Working inside a venv is perfectly safe.
if you don't want to reverse engineer the javascript
Mayor says Twitter is moving to Miami
It’s a GC tuned for imperative languages that prefer mutation over allocation, which is the exact inverse of what BEAM needs.
Is it interesting or relevant? I have similar symptoms right now; it's called "what you get when you have a cold."

No causality, nothing to report.
It's really interesting to note how much they kneecapped 64-bit performance on consumer cards to stop people from using them to run simulations.

This was a very funny piece!
That's a great point! We have found this for more formal teams at big companies where things move slow. The standard is "email me back by end of week, schedule something this week or next."

Hyperactive teams need their main people (3-8 core people, and everyone has a different set of core people) to be a push of a button away. And this changes from week to week depending on the project and priorities.

Mind if I ask, are you on a team which tends towards longer sprint cycles and more waterfall, slower product development? Maybe your company values quality and stability instead of speed?
>many non-tech incumbents finally woke-up to the need to improve their technology game

And when this started to happen, most of the "disruptors" looking to eat the lunch of these established companies instantly lost their moat, or the illusion of a moat.
Thanks! I'll check that out and see if it gives any insights.
> Likewise, their approach to food - they are suction feeders and consume tiny crustaceans, of which there are many in trenches.

I remember James Cameron’s dive and the main life pictured was crustaceans. I’ve also read they are a significant amount of life in underground aquifers [1] was crustaceans, which also had blind reptiles which also fed on crustaceans and had transparent skin similar to those snailfish. I’m curious what makes them so unique to flourish in these sorts of places.

[1] https://www.americanscientist.org/article/creatures-of-the-d...
> If it happens, there is no stopping it anyway.

Hopefully this isn't the case - AI development requires a lot of data/compute - societally we could block access to these things and prevent further development in that direction.

There are only a few places in existence capable of producing HW required or in possession of it. I'm fine with stopping compute progress for however long it takes to deal with safety issues. Society isn't perfect now but the level of compute we've had available for years is sufficient for generating a lot more value - we can afford to put AI research on ice.

I just don't get it - so much attention is given to things like climate change - this is a mild inconvenience compared to AGI threat.
Show HN: Hnsqlite: hnswlib and SQLite integrated for text embedding search
Hnswlib is a simple, performant vector search library that is a great choice in many of the same set of scenarios where sqlite is a great choice for other data.

With hnsqlite I integrate these two powerhouses and add support for filtering metadata at embedding search time. While working through several LLM projects I found this to be very useful for self-hosted projects up to a reasonably large size (at least 5-10 million embeddings).
If you ever wondered how they survive the pressure, from wikipedia:

TMAO (Trimethylamine N-oxide) is found in the tissues of marine crustaceans and marine fish, where it prevents water pressure from distorting proteins and thus killing the animal. The concentration of TMAO increases with the depth at which the animal lives; TMAO is found in high concentrations in the deepest-living described fish species, Pseudoliparis swirei, which was found in the Mariana Trench, at a recorded depth of 8,076 m (26,496 ft).
My friend sent it to me via WhatsApp and I called it as a prank immediately based on merits (before even realizing it was April 1 today), but the pathos of knowing that something like this is probably inevitable kept me clicking through. Even after suspecting I was gonna get rickrolled
> It's also programming, and coding, and developing. They're all synonyms.

The way I see it, these three all refer to the same things, but "coding" is hobbyist and "developing" is professional. "Programming" is somewhere in between / for both.
“Exactly the same time” isn’t even physically well-defined, due to relativity.
On the technical level it should be totally doable. Whether that's something Valve is interested into, I don't have any privileged information.

I know people use CrossOver with Steam on macOS, though that requires a rather intricate setup I don't know much about. I guess what you'd like to have is the kind of seamless integration that Proton has with Steam on Linux.
We have found that if flowy is used for you and your core team, and only your core team, then it's a place where you remove the death by thousand cuts, trying to get to someone (pinging to go to a huddle, scheduling for a sync meeting) you already know is your core teammate.

Thoughts?
A potential avenue would be for self-learners to act as mentor to other self-learners. With a reputation system à la stackoverflow, mentoring tasks could be made appealing.
Time is not real, it is a measurement. Space is real. Einstein's times is a quantum model of change over space, but really only proves that where you stand is relative to where I stand, and our relativity changes if we move through space.

As I have just proven, Einstein's relativity is really a confabulation of what is obvious, resulting in people getting lost in that model universe. It is only useful for taking measurements within that model, everything else is worshiping light, the speed of.
This is true and false. Google services, including GCP, run on its internal cloud. GCP is just a product on top.
There's a web site that maps the digits onto musical notes (in a minor-key scale). I actually have that melody in my head for the first six digits.

"Three one four one five nine..."
I agree, perhaps they can call it something like HipChat. Has a nice ring to it.
> Nothing about masks or the virus or "the science" changed.

Are you sure? Because I'm pretty sure they refined the transmission model after understanding the virus better, looked at the cost / benefit ratios on mitigation options, and concluded that masks were better than nothing given that quarantining everyone wasn't an option.

In that sense, "the science changed" in that we understood the situation better. There is also, of course, the gap between policy and science; the science can say X is true, whether we do Y in response to X being true is a cost / benefit calculus, and that calculus was changing continuously as policymakers updated economic impact estimates and saw how people responded to different approaches.
why can’t they sell the buildings/get out of the leases/let them expire/don’t renew them/lease them out to somebody else?
this is a beautiful story, thank you for writing it.

Curry is much like India - you believe in it, thats why it exists. And you will curry controversy no matter what you write ;)

also, in case you didnt know - Ras Behari Bose and Subhash Chandra Bose are the most mysterious of Indian freedom fighters. With the exact history unknown to this day. Ras Behari Bose created the INA and adopted the resolution that made Subhash Chandra Bose as the leader, while he was living in Japan.

Even today, the Indian parliament is rocked with demands that the "secret files" be opened. The Netaji papers were recently declassified - https://nationalarchives.nic.in/content/netaji-papers - but the papers are not complete.

Japan has consistently REFUSED to declassify some of the Bose files (https://thewire.in/history/japan-netaji-death-files)

So you see, the Japanese curry is far far more mysterious than you think !
> doesn't rule out adding renewables

I never was against adding renewables. I'm simply pointing out rough estimates on our electricity usage throughout the year, and throughout the day.

Peaker plants, unfortunately, seem like the best solution. Natural gas is the best peaker plant for a variety of reasons. But then natural gas piped to a house for near 100% conversion efficiency is even better (rather than taking rather dramatic hits on conversion inefficiencies). Therefore, Natural Gas in homes is surprisingly useful, and will remain so for the foreseeable future.

We absolutely should be building renewables for the near and moderate terms. We don't have enough renewables for baseload yet.

> You've switched from talking about heating (presumably in climate that needs a significant amount), to talking about cooling California.

California has public electricity usage patterns. For better or worse, its the best data that we've got. I assume its somewhat representative of the energy requirements across the country.

Other parts of the country its way more complex because there's natural gas flowing everywhere. So its harder to convert Natural Gas heating vs electricity prices. Nonetheless, the concept of "This differs based on the weather" and "The weather changes dramatically every week" is universally true.
Pizza is an interesting thing. What they had in southern Italy before the war was very different and didn’t have tomato sauce, etc on it. It was a street food for peasants. There are accounts of Italian-American GIs working their way through Italy and surprised that the pizza they were used to back in America did not exist in Italy.

A lot of food we think of as being from a small place and then globalized is sort of marketing. A lot of stuff was created after WW2, associated with a country, and globalized.

Not to pick Italy but carbonara is an example of this. Invented by Italian Americans. The first accounts of it existing are in cook books published in America. Old Italians have no recollection of it pre-war.

But it was characterized as “authentic Italian” and it soon became the national dish of Rome, and modified to its current state today. Before recent times people were not killing enough pigs to make pork jowl universally accepted as the “authentic” protein in the dish.
Xine, w32codecs, XawTV, AleVT, TVTime, NXTvEPG.. good times. Now allmost all of these are dead.

I think no one updated TVTime for DVB. It was a supreme TV tuner and viewer.
Name Constrain't on Chrome
ahh yes that makes sense. More usable and powerful with starting with human natural language.

Thank you!!
1. I was born in "flyover country", I know what the great plains looks like and understand their economic struggles.

2. Again, huggingface open source meetup was the OPPOSITE of authoritarian tech bros. It's literally the people trying to democratize and keep this stuff available to the masses.

This post here is the resentment I'm talking about. The reality is that the average HF event attendee has done far more to help "flyover states" than most SF tech workers. They should be treated as such, not scorned like they're part of a "techno authoritarian future". The techno authoritarians are OpenAI and their cronies.

If nuance isn't possible from non tech bros who resent tech bros, maybe there is a reason why the world is leaving them behind.
These days I just ask ChatGPT: “What is the best way to do X in Python?”
I had this same thought. The downside would probably be that you have a much much smaller set of open codebases to crib from and (for me) inevitable bugs will be way harder to spot.
You reminded me one of my favourite quotes:

"There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists"

~ Quote by a forest ranger at Yosemite National Park, on why it is hard to design the perfect garbage bin to keep bears from breaking into it.
I actually know next to nothing about critical role other than that it's some kind of D&D webserial and VM is based on it ;)

FWIW, I love boardgames (especially those with 10s of pages of manual) and hate console games ;)
They should pair with openai: gpt4, text<->voice, image generation and plugin to track player attributes is all you need, no?
> Far simpler to reason about than Java.

Strong disagreement. Explicit types make reasoning about Java much easier, especially when you are in an unfamiliar codebase.

Python is not quite the 'write-only' language of Perl, but it is a lot easier to write it than it is to read it.
> Salesforce literally set sales free from the office back in the late 90s

According to Wikipedia they only existed for 10 months in the 90s. I don’t remember hearing about them until like 2005. Were they really that well known that early?
I think nuke analogy is very tempting since US banned A100 export to China. One could assume that AI race of 21st century ~ nuke race in 20th. Note that Nvidia circumvented ban, so race is on..
Kaffeine for easy TV channel seeking.
Huh, TIL. And a link from there to explain why:

https://books.google.com/books?id=BjoEAAAAMBAJ&dq=hard+disk+...
pro-tip: wear ear plugs to theaters. makes the experience ten times more pleasant for me and eliminates all of the sudden-surprise-audio volume explosions that hurt your ears. it's never impeded my ability to hear dialog in theaters.
I Am Nothing
> They keep just missing the demographic of the lucrative rich middle aged adult looking for escape.

I'm curious. What is this group more interested in? Exotic vacations?
I used to live above a very conventional Indian restaurant in New York, and once in conversation the owner mentioned to me that he was from Bangladesh. I asked him if were any interesting special dishes from Bangladesh that we don't normally see on Indian restaurant menus in America, and he just shrugged and said something to the effect of "meh, it's all the same anyway." I thought that was kind of interesting. The food also wasn't particularly good, so maybe he just isn't really a food guy and came into owning the business somehow other than a passion for the culinary arts.
Original or Ps4 Pro?
Seems AI won't need robot armies to take over, they will just convince us to kill ourselves and we will comply.
I did try looking it up fwiw. That was my guess but I was wondering if you meant something else and didn’t want to jump to conclusions.

I was surprised by the suggestion that kdb+ was used for this because a matching engine doesn’t really sound like the kind of case that APL-family languages would be well suited to – they tend to work well on large batches of data but for a matching engine, you have messages that come in over time and you want to process each message with reliable low latency (if you have higher latencies you will get wider spreads which is a competitive risk and leads to collecting less in fees), which means not operating on batches.

Do you have a source for the claim that kdb+ is used for the matching engine?
Duh duh duh, duh duh da-nuh, duh duh duh, duh duh
You can also have ChatGPT write an article just like this. You don’t even need to be a Professor of the public understanding of technology.

Granted, in both cases it takes review to be useful. Review by an expert will still, at least for a time, be more valuable than that of a novice.

John’s job is safe for a while.
We have live transcription and power search on the roadmap.

Speech to text is pretty good these days, and it's 2023, we shouldn't be typing to talk in our opinion.

Search: "Play (or let me read) what Johnny told me about databases last month or so"
Sounds like they really planted a deeply rooted money tree there.

There’s a formula for this it seems: get deep lock in in an area that is very boring and very essential.
your benchmarks use O_DIRECT, which bypasses the fs cache

the fs cache does most/all of the optimizations you're doing manually

bypassing the fs cache is highly atypical for user-space code
Everybody knows we need to throw billionaires into the volcano to make it stop.
Both can be true at the same time. I see it likely that:

1. Superintelligent AGI seems inevitable, even if it takes thousands of years. So fighting against it requires destroying all progress and freedom.

2. But if it comes we are no longer the dominant species; we'll have as much control as big animals do now. If that isn't essentially being destroyed, it's close enough.
Paul Buchheit Revolutionized Email with Gmail
> We don't have the same techniques and same facilities to memorize the Iliad verse for verse, epithet for epithet as the ancients did.

it's rhymes and metric, and I'm pretty sure in ancient time people got repetitions wrong too, which is why we have stories with variations everywhere in the world.
What we miss is dedication, time and a facility with the language.

There's plenty of Italian people who have memorized Dante's Divine Comedy, for example.
What’s the Point of Reading Writing by Humans?
> Of course, with a physical disk there are also things you can do to get around those limitations, like switch to a different filesystem or use multiple filesystems on one disk.

So, use another Google account? If someone's workflow depends on one Google account, sounds like they need to understand the concept of sharding.
Wow, this is seriously impressive.

The author makes a very bold claim: "Get ready for a revolutionary leap in sound synthesis technology that will render all existing synthesizers obsolete." I have to admit, when I heard that I was really skeptical. "With the power of SynthGPT, you can now create any sound imaginable, simply by typing a description." But, how do you even describe a sound? (Well, look at the descriptions in the video...)

I've done a bit of music production myself, and I always wanted to create the sound of wind chimes on a synthesizer. The really "delicate", airy wind chimes. But no synth could produce something light enough, even physical modeling synths like https://www.applied-acoustics.com/chromaphone-3/ which are supposedly designed for this. And these synths are very expensive.

I typed in the prompt in SynthGPT "Emulate a delicate, airy wind-chime on a quiet summer day." and I have to say the output was perfect. I have no idea how it got my computer to make that sound when every other "Wind Chimes Demo" couldn't.

I also tried getting SynthGPT to emulate various real synthesizers, and compared to live recordings on YouTube: the comparison is strikingly similar. To the point where I don't know why someone would spend money on a real synth anymore when they have SynthGPT.

Most GPT products, even when impressive, are simply not ready for real-world or commercial use. But I seriously believe SynthGPT could be used for a real song and I wouldn't even notice.
Having a bad day? I hope it gets better.
The obvious retort here is that network effects modify just what bullshit means. And that the technological difference is qualitatively different. We've all heard that back and forth (it's all been done vs. technological modifications in scope / scale) so many times that I'm not sure it bears repeating. Do you have a take on this general topic?
> what i'm saying is >90% true so i don't care if anyone nitpicks this

Can't argue with that logic :-P You've obviously spent years writing nim and know what you're talking about /s

But in all seriousness, as the author of the sugar.collect macro, I am fond of it. I understand that not everyone likes how fp is done nim but it's ok.
Neat, the wiki for that fish:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudoliparis_swirei

> Compared to shallow-water snailfish, Pseudoliparis swirei has several unusual adaptions for its dark and high pressure habitat, including transparent skin that lacks pigment, certain organs and eggs that are enlarged, the muscles are thinner, the ossification of its bones (notably the skull) is incomplete, it appears to have little or no ability to see, there are mechanisms that allow proteins in its body to still function, and differences in the cell membranes for maintaining their flexibility.
> Leadership at Google ought to recognize this

They're fully aware of how bad it is. They do not care. The Ad gravy train is still here, and they'll milk it until they can't anymore and then retire to their multiple homes (or go off and do it again to some other company).

I don't know why people expect leadership to do anything about a shitty company. They have literally no incentive to change. They'll always be hired somewhere else. Business as usual.
Weird part is that the state has big surpluses...

https://www.google.com/search?q=california+budget+surplus+20...

I wonder if it'll end like NYC where the state takes permanent control of various municipal services, e.g. NYC subway it's controlled by the state.
Looks like they can also be used as a normal hosting company...?